#basic gray

This recycled kit was originally a valentines card with all kinds of little die cuts and stamping.  Real big difference and I am totally in love with it.  It is so sweet, and I came across a stamping technique that it going to be used again and again.  It isn’t new I am sure, but new to me, so it counts. I love this particular balloon stamp set.  The outline images and then the fill stamp to give…

Thanks For Always Building Me Up

I love tiny things, also terribly over sized things, but tiny things are my favorite.  Die cutting these tiny tools, painting them, and placing them in a tiny jar really made me giggle. Making a masculine card usually doesn’t elicit giggles, but this one sure did. The tools were stamped on water color paper, painted and then die cut.  I tried to keep the tools in color scheme similar to real ones…

Crazy About You at First Sight

Today has started no differently than many other Saturday’s, but I was not going to let another one go by without sharing a project.  I have let my weekends get carried away and it just bugs me that I don’t keep this blog current daily.  Sharing creative projects is my favorite thing and it really keeps me balanced.  So here we go! I get to attend a bridal shower today, how fun right?  Well, I…

Botanical Gardens Home Decor

Today’s project is CASED from UK Demonstrator Lea Denton’s project she posted on February 9, 2016.  This type of project is  very different for me, but I saw it and I had to do one also.    Everything just kind of worked out.  I had a frame that I had painted a few years ago, well a couple months ago while moving things around in the studio I knocked the frame off and broke the glass so it’s been…

Beautiful Ride for My Nali Bug

This card has been in the planning part of my brain since the spring catalog came out.  I waited to get the set because I thought it would be one more for me than anything else.  I just might turn out to be wrong on that one, but we will see.  I made this one for my oldest daughter, Denali.  Some of my pet names for her are Nali, Bug, and the coziest is My Nali Bug.  That is just what this card…

Turning 16 can be exciting, or overrated, take your pick.  I know a young lady who is excited for lots of reasons, but hesitant as well.  She worries a bit much sometimes.  She loves gray and it is so beautiful on her.  Just like 16 will be.  This card is for her. I masked a piece of cold press water color paper and did a wet wash using smokey slate and basic gray.  I just kept adding color until…

I keep getting drawn into playing with water colors.  Maybe that is just my thing for right now, and I love it.  The effect is just so soft and subtle.  And it isn’t even very tricky. I do have a hard time putting embellishments on top of this kind of card front.  So I settled for a short strand of basic pearls and a hint of Wink of Stella.  I drew a few hearts and hi-lighted my stamped flourish…