Papa's little helper

Here's Lily helping me prepare for my hand painted card class on Saturday April 13 at Stampin' From The Heart in Los Angeles. She is painting background paper for the cards we will make. I'll make my samples from her paintings. Notice she is holding a little doll made by my friend Hetty Sanders. I was lucky enough to spend a week in Holland with hetty and her husband Raymond going to a stamp show in Zeist and touring around the country. Lily has named the little doll Taffy.

More Splash Ink Cards

 

Splash Ink is fun!

 

 

 

 

 

 

My friend Karen Thomas has developed a great new product called Splash Ink. I taught several classes using it last week. In additional to its great watercolor-like properties which gives you beautiful detailed coloring abilities, you can also use it like this:

Drip the Splash Ink randomly onto regular white cardstock using all four colors in the set or just the ones you want. Place a plastic lunch bag on top of the wet ink and squish it around. Peel off the plastic bag and squish it again on a new sheet of cardstock for a more subtle effect. The ink dries quickly so you can emboss right on top and make some super pretty and colorful cards. Use the left over bits to punch out a few flowers as shown in the finished card. Fun and addictive!

Cruising with Els & Mike!

Els Van de Burgt  of Elizabeth Craft Designs and I will be hosting a paper crafting cruise aboard the Norwegian Jewel in September. We would love to have you come aboard with us! Just print out the information and send me your deposit to reserve your cabin. Cheers!

 

 

New Digital Stamps - Black & White Grid Panels

 

 

I'm doing a card class in black & white. Here's one of the cards and the grid panels I designed for it. I added a few punched out flowers and Viva Decor Pearl Pen dots in black and white to relieve the severity of the grids. Just print out the panels and give B&W a try.

Happy March!

 

January 2013 card challenge winners!

Hi everybody,

Here are the cards chosen in the January card making challenge "Gatefold Cards". Congratulations to Laura Holm, Leo Thompson and Carla van der Mei-Stolk for submitting these wonderful cards.