Nature’s Harvest Birthday

There is always a lot of fall birthdays to celebrate so I made two cards using the Nature’s Harvest stamp set and featuring two different coloring methods. Here let me show you. Nature’s Harvest Card #1 Use watercolor paper, and heat embossing to start by stamping the Nature’s Harvest flower…

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Hand Penned Feel Better Card

Sometimes a lot of layers on a card can be daunting, but other times, it adds just the right amount of interest and background to the focal feature. My Hand Penned card today is a CASe (copy and share everything or Creatively and selectively edit) of my leader Brian King.…

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Flowers of Friendship

flowers of friendship

Flowers of Friendship was one of the first stamp sets I picked up from the new catalog. I loved the simplicity of the stamp set and the so many options for coloring it. I’m using the new Soft Pastel chalks today and I’ll show you how. New techniques are what…

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Joseph’s Coat with Art Gallery

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I’m always on the lookout for fun techniques to try with my paper crafting, and there are a lot of techniques out there. I know one Stampin’ UP! demo who did a year-long series on techniques posting a different one each week. It would be impossible to have tried them…

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Fun with Stenciling

Technically I have another February Paper Pumpkin alternative card but only because I used one of the included die cut pieces as a stencil. Almost any die cut piece could be used as a stencil so this isn’t just about what you can do with the Paper Pumpkin but it…

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Ridiculously Awesome

Ever have a need for some happy? Something bright and cheery? Today is one of those days. Ridiculously Awesome seems to be a good goal to have on a day like this. I cased this card from Paula Reid at Yellowbearstamping.com I was browsing her site because of another card…

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Coloring Peony Garden

Lots of folks are getting into the coloring craze and paper crafters are no different. Many of us, myself included, are not able to draw a stick figure but boy can we color one that is drawn for us. I’m sharing an easy backgrouond coloring technique with the Peony Garden…

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