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Friday, 17 February 2023

9 Clever (and EASY!) ideas for using Backgrounds or Patterned Paper

Today I'm sharing 9 quick and easy ideas for using up those backgrounds you have on hand. And if you're a person who doesn't make backgrounds, these ideas work with patterned paper, too!

Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Happy Valentine's Day

My son's valentine was inspired by the art of Alexandra Squire. I love the use of simple shapes and colour!

And for a clever little trick, I used the frames that my Essential Squares dies cut to create the heat embossed gold stripes on each shape!

Thursday, 9 February 2023

Spring Tulips Tutorial

A number of you asked me to make a full tutorial for this card, and today's the day! (Today's also the day to be able to sign up for the next Card Maker Success Summit - get your free ticket here!)

Thursday, 12 January 2023

After a short hiatus, Mary is returning to Craft Roulette this week and we're so happy - we missed her! If you want to join in the fun, share a card, using 4 wheel parameters of your choice and upload to the Facebook group!

I chose

Project #5: z-fold card

Colours #24: pink plus 2 (green and blue)

Element #12: bouquet (EH tulips)

Random #8: old product (EH tulips)

Sunday, 7 August 2022

Chevron Happy Birthday

Congratulations to this week's Featured Stamper, Lisa!

I chose this card as my inspiration:

LIST: Colours (white, black, red, yellow, blue) Techniques (inkblending, die cutting, stamping) Elements (birthday, balloons, chevrons,slimline, stamped sentiment, twine, black mat/frame)

INCLUDE: rainbow created with red, yellow, blue, ink blending, die cutting, birthday theme, chevrons, circle

MODIFY: 1 white circle sentiment mat instead of 3 coloured balloons, die cut sentiment instead of stamped, black frame around sentiment, A2 format, technique for building chevrons

EXCLUDE: balloons, twine, stamping

SPIN: added gold gems

TIPS FOR INKBLENDING:

If you struggle with inkblending, the best thing to do is to keep practicing.

start with smooth paper and juicy inks
whichever tool you choose (I prefer brushes, but others prefer foam!), start with a light hand
take your time, build up layers of colour - the paper will actually feel wet
go back and forth between the colours to allow for blending
use colours that are close together on the colour wheel - if you're blending yellow and red, don't be afraid to use an orange in the middle to help smooth the blend
add splatter (water or white/gold/coloured) to distract from your less-than-perfect areas
if all else fails, cut it down and just use the 'good' parts! lol!

For this card, I ink blended a panel with blue, yellow and red ink (and put a big blue fingerprint in the yellow area!) and then spritzed it with water and gold watercolour and let it dry. Then I cut it with a strips die before building a herringbone pattern with the coloured strips and white strips cut with the same die.

I finished it with one white circle, instead of 3 colourful balloons, and a die cut birthday sentiment, instead of a stamped sentiment.

Sunday, 22 May 2022

Stained Glass Happy Birthday

Congratulations to this week's Featured Stamper, berlycece.

I chose this card as my inspiration:

LIST: Colours (rainbow, black, white), Techniques (watercolor, stamping), Elements (rainbow panel, black sentiment, encouragement theme)

INCLUDE: rainbow colours spread on panel,

MODIFY: inlaid die cut technique with ink blending, die cut sentiment

EXCLUDE: black/stamping, white frame

SPIN: added circles

I cut the coverplate die from chrome mirror cardstock and also from white, and blended rainbow colours onto all the triangles. I inlaid the triangles into the chrome frame, and then used circle dies with frames to cut circles from the panel, and from the chrome cardstock and again from white. I inlaid ink-blended circles inside their chrome frames to get this fun look.

I stacked up my sentiment with 2 layers of white cardstock behind the chrome cardstock.

Tuesday, 17 August 2021

Hello Abstract!

I've been on 'video-vacation' for about a week now, and have really enjoyed having a chance to just play with the new goodies that I've purchased over the summer.

EBE Organic Elements was one of the sets - the simple shapes and lines make it easy to create organic, geometric abstract designs! And these big solid stamps reminded me of one of the reasons I love Catherine Pooler's inks so much - perfect first-time coverage (and vibrant fun summer colours are just another reason...)

I stamped a little off-centre grid, leaving one place empty for my sentiment, which came from Mondo Tulip.

I finished my simply-stamped card with 3 little silver pearls.

Saturday, 24 July 2021

Keeping Cardmaking Simple!

Good morning! Today's video is part of a short, 4-person hop packed with ideas for keeping our card making simple. I am focusing on using simple shapes (circles, squares and triangles) in Christmas cards. Start with my video here:

Friday, 11 June 2021

Rainbow Limes! (5K Together Video Hop)

Today my video combines two of my favourite things - LIMES and rainbows!

I've been invited to celebrate with Erica and Maria as part of a video hop so be sure to watch how I was inspired by each of them and how I used two of my favourite direct-to-paper ink techniques.

Then hop and comment for a chance to win! (details below)

Hop Details:

Comments must be left (on YouTube, not here) by June 23rd at 11:59 PM Pacific time. Winners will be announced on June 25th on both Erica’s and Maria’s YouTube channels.

Sunday, 2 May 2021

Hello

Congratulations to this week's Featured Stamper, Elizabeth (beadsonthebrain).

I chose this project as my inspiration:

LIST: Colours (dark brown, pinks, green), circle, dry embossing, 'pie' shape,

INCLUDE: colours,

MODIFY: circle becomes wreath,

EXCLUDE: pie pieces, embossing

SPIN: 3D project to card, added gold

I was attracted by the rich brown background and the pops of pinks and green. I immediately thought of making a wreath, and this new Studio Light wreath has lots of leaves for me to add colour.

I cut it from gold satin cardstock, and inlaid it into a brown panel. Then I cut it again from white cardstock, coloured the leaves with Copic markers and inlaid them into the wreath.

For my sentiment, I cut Hello from Ellen Hutson's Block Words die set from the inlaid panel, and also from white (and the E from gold). I coloured the white letters and inlaid them into the panel.

I used Essential Squares dies to create my negative frame.

Thursday, 29 April 2021

You Should Know (Throwback Thursday!)

It's Throwback Thursday and I'm looking back on one of my all-time favourite floral stamp sets, from Ellen Hutson - You Should Know.

These flowers are big, happy and easy to colour with your medium of choice, or you can leave them black and white and add a pop of colour with a sentiment.

For more details, click on the links below:

Friday, 12 March 2021

Stamped Backgrounds for Personalized Birthday Cards

Today, I have a new video with a fun background technique for using any stamp to create a personalized background.

And there's more - I'm joining some friends to give you 'back-to-back background' techniques in a little video hop!

Start here:

Thursday, 4 March 2021

Finding Patterns in Patterns

You know I love to get more out of my stamps and one way to do this is to find a pattern within a pattern. This Peacock Patter background from MFT Stamps is classic and beautiful, and I found tulips!

I started by stamping the background with copic-friendly ink onto a white panel. I used a MISTI and left the stamp on the door.

I isolated and coloured the row of tulips with Copic markers and then cut masks before blending ink over the rest of the panel.

Finally, I put the panel back into the MISTI and restamped with embossing ink before heat embossing with gold powder.

I trimmed the panel with two Essential Squares dies which cut frames around them - I popped the two squares up on a black panel and then added a heat embossed sentiment.