Splashes of Watercolor

I wanted to play along with the technique challenge at Splitcoaststampers this week.  I’ve never tried the Van Gogh technique before, but it sure was fun and I can’t wait to experiment some more! I chose Fairy Dust is a Must from Our Craft Lounge to work with and decided to try it on kraft [...]

~ My card today is for the Featured Stamper challenge at Splitcoaststampers.  The artist featured this week is mitchygitchygoomy, and her gallery is amazing! Here is her card that I chose to CASE:  Hugs & Kisses & Bella Birthday Wishes And here is my card: ~ ~ I’ve kept the general layout, but flipped it [...]

Hey, everyone!  Today is day 2 of the Valentine release sneak peeks for Our Craft Lounge.  I’m showing you a peek at Granny’s Truffles.  Everybody loves Granny! I’ve used the MOJO113 sketch, which worked perfectly for Granny and her chocolate heart sentiment.  And this also fits the Splitcoast Monday TLC247 for cutting “Outside the Box” [...]

Our Craft Lounge is celebrating it’s FIRST BIRTHDAY this month!  If you go on over to The Lounge  or The Forum and you can join in on the fun scavenger hunt they are hosting! In honor of the birthday party, I decided that Granny from the Shop ’til Ya Flop set needed to go shopping!  [...]

Oh my goodness!  How sweet is this little doll??? I have a funny story to tell you.  I created this on Monday evening and was saving it to post today.  Well, on Tuesday I visited Sherry’s blog and was astounded at what I found.  A card using a Crafty Secrets image of a cute little [...]

Today’s Ways to Use It challenge at Splitcoaststampers is to use red.   I can do that! This card was made as a birthday card for a child who loves balloons, but I don’t see why an adult wouldn’t love it too!   Using the Everyday Button Bits stamp set from Papertrey Ink, I created [...]

~ I was honored that Sharon asked me to make a sample for her Dare to Get Dirty challenge today.  Of course I said yes right away!  It’s a color challenge: use black and white and just a touch of red. I had no idea where this card was going to end up when I started, but [...]

I got some new toys!!  A full set of Tombow markers…and I couldn’t wait to play! Lucky for me, the Featured Stamper at Splitcoaststampers this week is (Sandra McLean (B-gin-r) who is a super-talented watercolorer. I chose to use THIS CARD as my inspiration.  Of course mine is the little girl version of it!!   [...]

Yay!  It’s time for yet another Blog Stroll with the Rubbernecker Red Hot Mommas!!  Are you ready?  And if the Blog Stroll isn’t enough excitement, this time we also have the designers at Charisma Cardz joining us!  Please be sure to check out their creations as well! Well, Rubbernecker Stamps is just HOT, HOT, HOT!  [...]

It’s been a long time since I’ve had a chance to play along with the Featured Stamper challenge at Splitcoaststampers, so when the opportunity arose this morning I jumped right on it! Today’s featured artist is Christy S.  She’s got a great gallery!  This is the card I chose to CASE.  I used the same [...]