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You’ve Got This (or you will, soon)
Watermelon Wonder is one hot color! I’m not sure this photo really captures it correctly — that lovely lacy ribbon should be pinker. It is not orange. (Sometimes by the time I get done with my photo...
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Wonderful Watercolor class — new date!
Stampin’ Up! offers so many images that beg to be watercolored. But maybe you resist those line images because you’re unsure of how to get the “look” you want. Maybe you don’t like coloring using water...
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HB-DIL
This weekend we’ll celebrate our daughter-in-law’s birthday. Or rather, she and my stepson will celebrate and we’ll have Peter overnight on Saturday. (Watch for bleary eyes at camp Sunday!) Making...
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A touch of black
This wheelbarrow image was used on one of the practice pieces we did at last night’s Wonderful Watercolor class. Participants received this stamp set as part of the registration, so there’s plenty of...
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Toadally awesome!
That phrase pretty much sums up how I feel after the past few days finishing out the Stampin’ Up! fiscal year! As recently as Saturday night, I didn’t think there was a chance I’d have enough sales to...
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Snappy Day to you!
I think just about everything about this card — CASEd from Amy O’Neill — is genius (I only changed it a bit). I never would have thought to use that bit of So Saffron or to include that little banner!...
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Happy birthday, Watermelon!
This was the card that I rejected for the August stamp camps, although it was the perfect “Black and White plus Bright” example! I did use it as a swap card at convention (a month ago already!) and...
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TBT: Yellowware bowl
Needing to send a friend from church my recipe for Mom’s Coconut Bars, I was pawing through my stash of all-time favorite cards and ran across this one — posted six years ago! I still remember the day...
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Birthday Blooms Trio
One of my stampin’ buddies asked me about creating a “trio” card using this image from Birthday Blooms — specifically, what colors might work. I love working with these three shades of yellow...
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A watermelon anniversary
Thankfully, Watermelon Wonder is not one of the retiring In Colors (at least, not retiring this year), and I’m happy about that. I love to use it with a bit of black, and even though it may not appear...
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Poppy power!
What a weekend! If I just reported on the weather swings, that would be enough (today the high temp is supposed to be 35 degrees colder than yesterday!), but our activities were also varied and took...
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Moo cow
It wasn’t intentional, but every camp card this month has an animal on it — including this one. As I’ve told everyone, I bought this stamp set when it was introduced in last year’s catalog because...
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Smiling on your birthday, friend!
Everyone’s doing it — at least lots of stampers, it seems — this “faux water coloring” technique. Actually, the water coloring is real, except that you use the ink from the freshly stamped image to...
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This little piggy …
Our second card at Saturday’s Host Appreciation Event was a coloring project, using both ink refills with Aqua Painters and Watercolor Pencils. I love them both! See that embossing on the black panel?...
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Thankful Thursdays #1
Welcome to Thankful Thursdays! First, I need to tell you that there is no order to my list. It’s random, it’s sometimes week-specific, and sometimes it might be a little silly. This week has been a...
View ArticleBlossoming Basket Bundle
Did you get a chance to look at the new Sale-A-Bration offerings? I love the Blossoming Basket Bundle (we’ll use it for March stamp camps and the 3/20 Let’s Color! class), especially after seeing this...
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For Amazing You
When Elizabeth and I were planning the Inkspiration Saturday projects, there was something about the Window Box on page 16 of the Sale-A-Bration brochure that we just couldn’t get out of our minds: Try...
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Tea Together for an anniversary
Last weekend was an anniversary in our family. Planning ahead, I designed this February camp card for the event: I didn’t realize my photo was so poor, but the card went in the mail days ago so of...
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Wonderful Romance with gingham
I’m so excited for tonight’s Love It, Chop It class featuring the Floral Romance Specialty Designer Series Paper. Kylie Bertucci, a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator from Australia, popularized the notion of...
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C.O.D. #1: Create a card with water
Oh, the plans! I recorded a YouTube video yesterday morning showing how I create a watercolor wash, but it’s only processed 57% of it. So that will be my project today, to figure out what went wrong....
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