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Black and White

Hey! Welcome back! I have a whole bunch of cards today. Unity's Show & Tell Facebook page (sorry, have no clue how to link to a Facebook page) has a black and white challenge and since I love a challenge, I just had to play along. The challenge was to use black and white! I was lucky enough to win their sketch challenge with this card, and I just received a whole batch of Unity! However, for this challenge I pulled out one of my oldest Unity sets and I had so much fun, I ended up with 5 cards!... Read more →

Meowy Christmas

Meet George. George is my fur baby and he comes bearing gifts and Christmas wishes complete with a festive elf hat. This is as close as he will ever get to festive. The stamp set is by Simon Says called Christmas Cats. I coloured him with comics and used the Viva la Verve November sketch. The sentiment was stamped in Versafine onyx black and embossed in clear to help it pop. I used Frosted Lace stickles on his hat to mimic fur then added snowflakes, ribbon and silver cord to finish it off. George is just plain temperamental. He's one... Read more →

Stencilled Inspiration

I had my featured stamper card complete, but I had to forego photographing it so I wouldn't miss any of The Walking Dead. Anyone else Walking Dead fans? I can't miss it. It's the only show I watch first run, commercials and all! It's been a while since I did any intense colouring with my Copic markers and it was quite relaxing to just colour. This is a beautiful image from Flourishes called Spring Bouquet. It fit perfectly with this card I chose to case of Jennifran's. I was attracted by the way she used the stencil in a non-distressed... Read more →

Wrong Way girl!

More of my favourite flower! This time I stamped it on one of my old Basic Grey papers, Out of Print. So sad they decided to stop printing designer paper. I combined this flower from Unity's Blow Your Mind set with another Unity set, Don't Look Back. I sponged, sprayed and stamped the background and used some scrap designer paper to bring it all together. It really sparkles! I used a little bit of ribbon and a strip of my only washi tape to accent the top then stamped the sentiment on a tag and used a clip from my... Read more →

Laugh Often

I've got another card with Punch Potpourri. This all began with the triple flower stamp and seeing if I could make a background, and I think it worked pretty handily in crumbcake on crumbcake. The design is a case from a Pinterest card here, that used washi tape, which currently I don't have (currently ;). I used strips of designer paper and the butterfly image stamped in sage shadow and rose red. I finished it with some pearls and a sentiment from Whimsical Words. This card is so simple I don't want to tell you how long I struggled with... Read more →

Blow Your Own Mind

I am going to switch back and forth showing you my designs from my stamping marathon. Today my card uses stamps from Blow Your Mind by Unity. I will confess right now, I am in love with this flower! It's so big and beautiful and open to so many techniques. I started by stamping and embossing the flower in the top corner. Then I cut a piece of eclipse masking to card size and stamped the flower in the same place and cut it out. After the flower was cut out of the mask, the remaining portion of the mask... Read more →

Punch Potpourri play

I love stamping. More than I can tell you. So let me tell you I have been stamping and I have plenty to share. As much as I love to share, when I'm on a roll, it's hard to take the time out to photograph and blog, I just want to keep stamping! So tonight it's Halloween and stamping while handing out candy would be difficult since my studio is in the basement so I finally took some pictures and here I am sharing the first card I made in my stamping marathon and it's pretty clean and simple. I... Read more →

Christmas music

I have two cards to share. The first is a Christmas card and the second a music card. You gave a peek at the Christmas card so I'll start with the music card. My Favorite Things has weekly challenges so I decided to combine them and play along. They have a colour challenge and a sketch challenge so I combined them for this card. This little girl sits in a bean bag chair with an ipod. I cut her out of the chair so she could sit an the card panel! She looks like my daughter when I ask her... Read more →

Mailers!

I have been happily stamping away and I have a few more cards to share. You know I rarely send cards and the biggest reason is because most require a trip to the post office to have weighed a tested for bulk and $2-$3 just to send them off. So I figured I needed to put my cards on a diet so they can slim down! These are all mailers and I was really surprised how quickly they came together. Of course If you included "study time" aka the amount of time spent on Splitcoaststampers and Pinterest well there's probably... Read more →

Unity, purple and featured stamper

Oh my, I have so much to share. I've got 3 now, but if you're back later, I'll have a couple more. First up is a card for 2 challenges. I used Unity's challenge sketch on their Facebook challenge page and I made it purple for the Hop to Stop domestic violence challenge. It's an awareness campaign to bring to light that this is an frightening and ongoing issue in our world and so many suffer from it. I hope that by opening the door to conversation, to choices and support services we can begin to help. This is such... Read more →