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I am getting a few last minute Christmas cards done.  For this one, I used the Global Design Project Challenge for inspiration - O Christmas Tree (#GDP219)  along with THIS picture from LTD Commodities (Splitcoaststampers.com Inpiration Challenge this weekend).  I used the trees in SU! Wonderland and inked them in various shades of green and a few in a little black.  The sentiment is from DRS Designs because I couldn't find my SU! sentiment like this.  Sponged the bg before stamping.  The gems are CTMH.  A super quick card. Hope you are all doing well. Hugz, Nancy

I just love the Global Design Project Sketch this week (#GDP218).   I posted a card using it earlier, and here is the scrapbook page I did.  I used the SU! Good Morning Magnolia set (colored with watercolors and stamped with Versafine Black Onyx.  This is the fun sketch: Hugz and thanks for stopping by!

Hello crafty friends. I am popping in my blog to post a fun card inspired by THIS fun Mackennzie-Child's Christmas tree (IC Challenge on Splitcoaststampers.com) and the Global Design Project #GDP218 . I used a fun plaid Close to My Heart paper as the base, scraps from my stash for the other papers.  The images are the Pinecone with Bow image from DRS Designs and the sentiment is the  Deco Peace and Joy Christmas Greeting also from DRS also from DRS.  I water-colored the images and then added Snowtex and Stickles for texture.   I love this sketch!  I did a scrapbook page using it too that I will post soon. Hugz and thanks for looking!

Hello crafty friends.  I am still around!  With work super busy, it has been hard for me to keep up my blogging and card-making, BAJ, and scrapbooking....the blogging fell off but the crafting has been going well.  In the last week and a half, I have made two fun projects using napkins.  This card was really fun to make, I played with a new set of Tim Holtz dies that I received for my birthday (Merry Moose).  I have loved every card I have seen with this set, and I am so glad my daughter bought it off my Amazon wish list. I started my card by spraying watercolor paper with water and then sprinkling on some Brushos powder.  Next, I sprayed more water until the powders all blended.  Don't you love how Brushos change and move and turn into something wonderful? The trees are cut from eight layers of a folded napkin.  I watched a  Splitcoaststampers . com  video this week by Dave Brethauer (Graphic Designer for Memory box) on using di...

Last night, I had a little time so I played in the Splitcoaststampers.com technique challenge. The challenge is coloring an image with your acrylic block.  You actually place your acrylic block on top of an acrylic block with your image and color over it. Then you mist it lightly and then stamp it over your previously stamped image. I struggled with it because I was too lazy to get my watercolor markers.  After I finished up, I swiped my acrylic block with ink, splashed on some water and then pressed it onto the paper as well.  I did that with three colors.  I covered up most of my issues.  Fun! The image is from the To a Wild Rose SU! set and the sentiment is from IO and designed by Dina Kowal.  I love that sentiment. I had another Dina sentiment and the SU! leaves out so I made another card by just stamping all around an ink, spray, smash bg. I used this same sentiment on a card this weekend for the SCS Inspiration Challenge: I sponged the ...

A few weeks ago, I started a new scrapbook.  It is a cross between a mixed media journal, an experiment, a scrapbook, and a journal journal.  It probably has a trendy name - please let me know if you know it.  I have been basically taking a thought or Bible verse out of my head, matching it with a picture, and doing a mixed media background.  It has been so fun! Here are a few of my pages: On the page above, I am celebrating a few answered prayers (I have a bunch more since then and plan to do another page).  I did and ink/spray/smash bg with a lot of stenciling and doodling and then covered it all up with my super large journaling panel - lol.  I sponged the journal panel and then stamped on the tree ring from DRS Designs . On the page above, I did an ink/spray/smash bg followed by some stamping, and then some stenciling.  I used SU! ink, Distress ink and Dina Wakley scribble sticks.  The lady stamp is also from Dina Wakley.  The ...

Fun stuff to show you today my friends. I made a card this past weekend using a fun new technique (to me) to celebrate my first bottle of pumpkin spice creamer for the season (I bought two - one for home and one for work - lol).  I took a piece of kraft paper, squirted on some acrylic paint and then scraped the paint across the surface using a piece of cardboard.  After it dried, I stamped the DRS Designs' Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice greeting (multiple times with a Misti since the paint added a lot of texture).  Next I stamped the Paper Coffee Cup and Fall Leaf with Acorn images on the leftover kraft paper.  I fussy cut them and then sponged the leaf with some Distress Inks.  It still needed some color so I splattered on some orange water color paint.  I also stamped the coffee cup on some white and paper pieced the cup.  I had it all assembled and sitting on my counter when my Grandkids dropped by to visit.  My card making Grandson, Lew...