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, [...]

Hey Girlfriend!

ser⋅en⋅dip⋅i⋅ty: (noun) an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
That explains this project. I was lucky enough to get published agin last month in Vamp Stamp News, I was extra lucky to be the winner of 10 back issues of VSN and I was even more lucky to pick the April 2000 issue that had [...]

Back to school and a spooky freebie!

My son went back to school yesterday, I snapped this pic as the bus pulled up:
You can find the Library Card and the printable sheet of School Bingo Cards in the Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff Shop for $1, you can’t go wrong! Here is a peek at the jornaling tag:
And a card made from the scraps:
and [...]

It’s Blog Hop Time!!!

I am so excited to be a part of another Creative Cuts and More blog hop! They are releasing some brand new die cut card kits with a  birthday theme and they are too cute for words! They were put together by our own talented designer Pam Smerker and you can see several projects from [...]

Sweet free images to color!

I was searching for coloring pages for my kids online and found a website buy a children’s book author, Elizabeth O. Dulemba, with the most adorable coloring pages. So I printed out some of her images and colored them with my kids, I made mine small first in PSP so they would work for a [...]

Oriental Stamp Art Bunny Challenge

I just joined a fantastic stamp community call Oriental Stamp Art and you guessed it, it is all about creating with Asian themed stamps. I decided I would jump (or Hop as the case may be) right into this challenge to make some Asian inspired art with a rabbit as the theme. Well, I did [...]

Let’s Recycle!

OK I had fun today with this challenge…As part of the Rubber Cafe Design Team I was challenged to create a card using the color teal, something recycled, dimensional foam tape and of course their stamps. Easy Peasy! I usually tend to work with “warmer” colors like orange and pink so teal would be fun [...]

Yee-Haw!

I’m loving this cowboy paper from Cosmo Cricket! Here is what I made from some scraps left over from the “giddyup” cards a few days ago:
I ordered the “cowboy” stamps from a good friend of mine who is an SU demo a couple of months ago and I’m finally getting around to using them! I [...]