Make a Photography box!

A gal from Oriental Stamp Art asked me how I photograph my cards and artwork, she was curious about the handmade setup I had. Well I thought I would share it with everyone here on my blog. To kill a couple of birds with one stone I decided to use the card I made with [...]

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Just popping in quickly to wish you all a merry Christmas. this is my last Christmas card this year and it used stamps from About Art Accents:
Have a wonderful day and till next time happy crafting!

Feeling a bit Challenged today…

…but in a good way! I had a chance to play in my studio this morning with my new pile of “rubbah” from About Art Accents (I so needed to get inky) and I got 2 challenges done! The first is this weeks sketch over at 2s4u:
I know the simple sketch would showcase the beauty [...]

Elegant {and easy}Christmas Cards

Have you ever used your water based markers to stamp? It is easy, quick and fun and look how elegant:
I used stamps from About Art Accents for both of these cards. The Deer image is from this plate and I simply colored the rubber with my Tombow markers, breathed on the rubber to moisten the [...]

Fun With Flocking!

I love to use flocking and my favorite way to adhere it is by using double-sided adhesive, On this card I stamped the Santa twice, colored the face on one and pressed the other onto a sheet of Scor-Tape. I cut apart the hat, fluff and beard then pulled the backing off the tape and [...]

Easy Paper Marblizing {and OSA challenge #41}

Here is a fun technique! Paper marblizing! All you need is a pan of water and some oil based paint. Look what you can make
I used the sketch over at Oriental stamp art and Geisha stamps from About Art Accents to make this simple card, it only took a few minutes (that rarely happens folks, [...]

OSA Theme Challenge: Haiku

I was thrilled to find out that the Oriental Art Stamp Challenge was Haiku this week, I looked at websites trying to find a poem to use and none fit the bill so I wrote my own. I’m not a poet but I do like the way my card turned out:
I used leftover plastic packaging [...]

OSA layout #39

Just a quick post today. Here is a card I made using the sketch over at Oriental Stamp Art. The stamps are by About Art Accents.
Thanks for stopping by, till next time happy crafting!

Feeling Sketchy!

Each week the folks over at Oriental stamp Art post a sketch and challenge their members to complete it. I don’t always get it done but today I found some time to make these:
On this card I flipped the sketch:
On this card I rotated the sketch:
And I made this from the scraps!
I used lovely Asian [...]

Madame Butterfly (and a freebie!)

This week over ar Oriental Stamp art they challenged us to make a geisha themed card, as soon as I read the challenge I wanted to make this:
I spotted some pretty holographic tissue paper at the dollar tree and it reminded me that I bout some a year ago(and never used it, oh the shame!) [...]