Sand, Salt and Memories

Hello friends,   

I can't believe that we are approaching the end of June.   If you follow me at all, you know that I LOVE mermaids.  I was so excited to get this distressed mermaid scale background.  It pairs so well with all the mermaid stamps that are already in stash.  

I used shimmering bliss from Technique Junkies to create a background full of sparkle.  If you haven't used these sprays... they are AMAZING.  They add sparkle and vivid color to a project.   When my background was dry a stamped the mermaid scales on top.   Die cut a circle and added the porthole (so sorry, I have no idea who makes this die).   I stamped the sentiments and mermaid to the inside of the card.   

I hope this inspires you to create!

Chris

Materials:

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Sea Scales

Sentiments

By the Sea

Vivid Volt

Dolphin Cove

Paper:

paper from Stampin Up

Other:

Bearly Art Glue:(detail glue)

Tacky Glue

no copics today

Friends are Flowers

 Hello, 

Today if the first day of SUMMER!  It is my favorite season.  I love swimming, playing outside with the kids,  the warm and long days that end in beautiful sunsets.   I hope I can capture the magic of summer in my cards.  

We have been having a drought and the flowers are not growing really well in Upstate NY,  so I decided to create my own garden.   I used an OLD set from Spellbinders to die cut all the flowers.  

Materials:

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Friends are Flowers

Paper:

paper from Stampin Up

Other:

Bearly Art Glue:(detail glue)

Tacky Glue

No copics today

I have a Hero

Hi!

I hope you all had a wonderful Father's Day weekend! We spent the day at the lake. Ryan had made his dad a very heartfelt card. I helped Declan make his own version. I also made special cards for my Dad and father-in-law. Hopefully they all know how much they mean to all of us.

Below is a card we made in class. I love these sweet bears sitting on a log. I colored them up using my copic markers (color listed below). I purposefully did not blend the browns well to get a "fuzzy" look to the bears.

Materials:

Papa Bear Set

Ink:

Memento Ink: Amazon or Scrapbook

White gel pen:  Scrapbook or Amazon

Paper:

Neenah: solar white card stock

watercolor wash paper from Hobby Lobby

Glue:

Bearly Art Glue- Amazon or Taylored Expressions--best glue ever! especially for small places!

Tacky Glue (for big spaces)-

Copics: click here for the best prices on copics

Copics used:

Brown: E37, E35, E33, E31

Wood: E47, E44, E43, E41, 

Green: YG67, YG63, YG61

Grey C3, C1

Sky: B01

Dk. Blue: B12, B14

White gel pen:  Scrapbook or Amazon

 

Hats off to you!

 Hello all, 

It is graduation season!  I've been seeing social media posts asking for ideas for graduation cards.  This is so fun and EASY that I wanted to share it all with you.    In the video I will even show you how to make these mini tassels (again I promise.. not hard)! 

Click here to see the video 

Materials:

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Sky's the limit

Paper:

paper from Stampin Up

Other:

Bearly Art Glue:(detail glue)

Tacky Glue

used DMC floss to make tassels

No copics needed today

Ain't Yer Pasture

Hello all!

I love the way white colored pencil looks on kraft cardstock.  It looks so bright it almost glows.   I wanted the focus to be on this silly cow, so I kept the cards pretty simple.  I finished each one a little differently.  Do you have a favorite?   I had a really hard time picking between the gingham and green ribbon. 

 Materials:

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Ain't Yer Pasture

Paper:

paper from Stampin Up

Other: Bearly Art Glue:(detail glue)

Tacky Glue
Colored pencils

Colored pencils

Flower Frame

Hello!

Today is release day at Technique Junkies.   This release is awesome!  There are so so many fun stamps.  The mermaid stuff if my favorite!  I've saved some of those cards to share with you later this month.  Today I'm sharing the cards I made with the Flower frame.   This stamp has so much detail.  I really wanted showcase the detail.  I chose to do that with an old technique called "Pulling Pastels".  

I covered an entire piece of cardstock with chalk.  Then stamped the image in versamark.  The versamark is sticky and pulls the chalk off the paper.  Showing all the detail in this beautiful stamp. I hope you love it.  Stop by and see what the other team members created. 

Materials:

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Flower Friends

Flower Frame

Paper:

Neenah: -white

black paper from Stampin Up

Other: Bearly Art Glue:(detail glue) Tacky Glue

This one I used delicata ink to stamp the flowers.  Delicata ink has a sparkle to it.  I wish the camera could pick up that detail. 

Check out all the cards made by other members of the design team:

Debra

Jeanette

Shalana

Pam

Pat 

Michael

Darlene

Here is the entire release: