This Manhattan Flower Impressions Die is wonderful! I love the crisp embossed image it places on cardstock. I’m HOPING that Stampin’ Up! comes out with a whole line of Impressions that coordinate with our stamps…would that be great? One of my Blog friends, Patty Bennett, reminded me of a technique I used to do with brass… [Read More]
Card Techniques
Sympathy card – Watercolor resist
It always seems like we have a sad period during the holidays. We found out that our best friends lost their cousin to a freak farm accident right before the holidays. Very sad. She had only become a grandmother a couple weeks earlier, she was 48 years old. But I made up this card to… [Read More]
Brocade Basics – Watercolor Resist
This is a technique from the latest issue of Technique Junkies Newsletter called Watercolor Resist. I used the stamp set, Brocade Basics…one of the sets that will be retiring. Bummer because it is a great one to use with technique backgrounds. Since this technique is in the Newsletter, I can’t tell you how it is done…however, if you… [Read More]
Winter Post – Burnished Embossing
My technique classes did this card at their classes this past month. A pretty simple background technique with lots of wow! I think it looks best when done with more of an open type stamp…something that allows the darker color to pop through…like on this lacy snowflake from Winter Post Stamp Set! I used White embossing… [Read More]
Inspired by Nature
Sorry I didn’t post earlier…I’ve been fighting a headache all day. It comes and goes. Probably weather related as it is supposed to get COLD this weekend…they are saying the "S" word. NOOOOOOOOOOOO! I’m not ready! I made this card a couple weeks ago and was going to use it for one of my Technique… [Read More]
Eastern Blooms
Sorry I’ve been MIA for a couple days. Monday and Tuesday I spent all my free time prepping for my Technique Class last night. It went well…I think they enjoyed the techniques and cards we did. The techniques must have been easier last night, because most were done within a couple hours! I’ll have to… [Read More]
Inspired by Nature
I’ve been busy pulling things together of our Demo Roundup meeting today. Several of us that went to Convention are hosting the meeting for our downline to show what we learned. We will be doing several Make & Takes. I was really happy with how mine turned out. You’ll see it in a couple… [Read More]
Window Dressing Faux Brick
Here is my cat, Bleach, sitting in the window! Really! It does look like her! When I saw this set, I thought it would be perfect for the Faux Brick technique from Technique Junkies Newsletter’s last issue, June/July 2008. So I tried to replicate how a house would look…the bottom is brick and the top… [Read More]
