Distress Inks

This is a card I made with two of the new spring color distress inks.  The background was made with the gel printing pad and the image is a stamp from LaBlanche.  This is a card I learned how to make at Stamping on the Plateau in Crossville.

I can't believe it has been so long since my last post!  

Several years ago I found a great stamp store about 100 miles from me.  It is a really pleasant drive over so it doesn't seem that far.  She had Fred Mullett there in April and I was able to take a couple of his classes.  He is such a delightful person and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.  Here are a couple of examples of cards I made using his techniques.    I love all the different texture and masking techniques he uses.

Crackle technique

I have always loved the crackle technique but never could get the crackle paints to behave properly!  This technique was done using Elmer's glue and acrylic paint.  I used a Martha Stewart edge punch and added flowers and leaves from Punch Bunch.  The sentiment is one I got years ago at Michael's.

Increasing my stash

 This is a card I made with a Me and Carrie Lou stamp and watercolored using Tombows.  This is my favorite way to color.

When I was at Stampfest in Clearwater I learned this technique using dies and glitter.  The lady die is from Marianne Designs and the butterfly is from Spellbinders.  Last night I was playing around and wanted to see how many dies I could use on one card and managed to use 6 on one.

 This digi is from Meljen's Designs.  It is colored with copics and the punched leave were added over leaves in the design.

More Recycling

I have spent the last three weeks getting ahead on my swap cards so I can have some breathing room.  Now I am working on building up my stash of cards for general use.  Once again I am recycling old greeting cards people have given me.  These images are so lovely I have just added a little something to make them mine.  These three have sentiments from Scrap-a-licious Times .  This is a really cool blog and all her sentiments are free.  

 This one has a stamp and punch from Stampin Up added after I embossed the image with a Cuttlebug folder.

Long time no post!

My daughters and I opened up a booth at the Public market here in town in Sept and just closed this past weekend.  It has been one of the most fun things I have ever done, but was very tiring.  We have decided to maybe do something with some others a couple of weekends a month and then in the spring start going to some various craft shows.  This is the website if you are interested.  We don't have many photos up yet, but it will give you an idea of what we have been doing.  http://setinstonesisters.biz/

Now today I have been making Christmas cards.  You would think I would be tired of that, huh?  I always enjoy recycling Christmas cards, but this year I am trying out reusing tissue paper, ribbon and the clear paper that goes around a basket.  I made  a couple of cards for winter and then one Christmas card for next year.

Happy New Year.  It is good to be back.

Beautiful Saturday

I am entering two challenges this weekend and hope to add a third, but don't want to press my luck timewise!    The first is the weekly image from Designed2Delight and is called Autumn Harvest.  I added a couple of other images also.  Faith is the only designer I know who makes the white filled PNG images and includes them with each image.  I always loved combining images and this makes it so easy!

Next is a card I made using one of the Cheery Lynn dies.  The current challenge at Cheery Lynn Designs blog is Anything Goes.  I only have a few of their dies, but really love using them.  The detail is just amazing!!  The paper and ribbon are from Stampin Up.