Happy Christmas

December is here... it seems like it gets here faster every year. Must be age on my part. The stamps are from Outlines Rubber Stamps and unknown for the background swirls.

Being Thankful

What are we thankful for? On any given day we should be thankful for so many things. May you have a great Thanksgiving and remember to be thankful of all the wonderful things around us.

November is upon us...

Brisk air, clear skies, sun is shining...

Fall stalks... image was stamped with versacolor ink --sepia, then chalked image to give a rustic look. Image is layered onto dark brown cardstock.

Happy Halloween

Here it is Halloween night...Hopefully everyone is having a fun and safe evening...for me-- no trick or treating...no candy... just some tv, popcorn and ice cream.


This project is stamped in black, colored with markers, glitter glue on the moon (although it doesn't show up on the scanned image) and layered onto black then yellow cardstock.

Fun Pumpkin

Fun pumpkins... I have never been good at carving pumpkins, but enjoy seeing them... Here is a fun little pumpkin that has different colors of lights... Also a weaved background with pumpkin.

Colorful trees and Pumpkins...

This time of the year is such a colorful time of year.

Here is a trio of pumpkins for the season.

Pear and Simple

I was going for simple with this project. I stamped the pear stamp using kaleidacolor cappuccino then again with kaleidacolor fruitcake. It is layered onto the plaid background with foam to raise it up.

Dom's

These little ditty's were made using tiles from a placement. Images were stamped then colored with markers. Crystal lacquer was then applied.

Dragonfly Charm Tile

This little tile is 2x2" in size. I first did the background (a combination of decorative napkin and stamping). Gold leafed the 4 sides. Inked the leaf charm and placed on tile. Coated entire tile and charm with 2 coats of diamond glaze. After that was dry I put a blob of diamond glaze down and set the dragonfly charm in it.

Summertime Muses

or lack thereof. It is summer time and on vacation, during this time I find my creative muse flows. It hasn't been so "musey" so far. I have managed to play with a new old stamp. Here are 2 different projects using the same color on the stamped image.

Floral Mode

With spring supposedly in the air and summer on the way, I felt the need for some color. I was playing around with a couple stamps that I hadn't used in quite some time.

ATC Duo

I was playing at the stamp table... the first time in a couple months. I decided to try something different, a opposites of sort type of project. I went with "Land and Water" using Asia as my inpsiration.

Paper scrap cards

Everyone always has that over flowing bin of paper scraps. Mine is no different. A while back, I decided to use as many of my paper scraps as I could on the next batch of cards I made. Here were some of my results. Some better than others.

L--Batik Rooster ............. R--Lantern

L--Joy Pocket .............. R--Koi Pocket

Koki resist

Waterfall cards

I had seen these before, but never tried them. I went searching for directions and found some at Splitcoast stampers site: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/waterfallcard.php Here are two that I did.
Oriental Waterfall card



Coffee Waterfall card

Color Wash projects

I was so amazed at what Zana did with these at a convention. I have one of her samples by my work table. I have never quite been able to completely re-create what she did, but I have adapted my own style with the sprays.

Daisy overlay then sprayed with washes.
Geisha stamped in purple with lightly sprayed color wash behind.
Musicians with color wash.

Lillies on color wash, then clear embossed over the top.

Puzzle pieces

Sharing some of the puzzle pieces that I have created over the last couple of years. They are a fun medium to work with. Thanks to Jane for showing them to me.

Africa and Women's Words of Wisdom

Father Christmas and Asian


Rustic Moose

Nancy Curry's Texture Effects Chapter 4

My chapter 4 projects
Botanic- Nancy's directions called for chalk pads, mine were worthless so I improvised with a different type of ink pad. Stamp is from Innovative Stamp Creations

Moose Trio- I didn't have a mesh brayer so I used magic mesh, a mesh brayer I know would have been easier. Stamp is from Embossing Arts
Daisy Creation- Daisy stamp from Stacy's Stamps, words from Lasting Impressions

Fern Diamonds- This one majorly challenged me as I don't have any bold stamps, so I used a shadow stamp instead. For added sparkle, I sprinkled gold ep on the spray webbing while wet and heated real quick. Stamp from Hero Arts.

Nancy Curry's Texture Effect Chapter 3

Chapter 3 is a bit sparse as I can't find my scans.
Two fish- shaving cream
Fish Acetate- using inks

Nancy Curry's Texture Effects Book Chapter 2

Chapter 2... Nancy's projects are fun to re-create. Here are my projects from chapter 2 of her book.

Happy Birthday Swirls-Stamps: both swirl stamps were from Arte Rojo. Birthstone Kaleidacolor ink pad. HB tag from Bits N Pieces. Texture tags- Left tag -stamp: Texture by Magenta and Sprigs by Ink N Rubberstamps. Right tag -stamp: Oriental bg Magenta and Lanterns by InkaStamps. I used Metallic Copper, Real Burgandy and True Teal acrylic paints on both tags just in varying amounts. I love the almost leather like feel they have.
Perfectly Maps-World Map Stamp by Sunday International
Textured parallels- Stamp is by embossing arts. I used Kaleidacolor Autumn.

Celebration- Magenta stamp on shrink plastic using gold brillance ink.

Kimono- Kimono stamp: Danalen BG stamp: Rubber Stamp Plantation

Nancy Curry's Texture Effects Book Chapter 1

Here are some of the projects I made using Nancy Curry's book as inspiration. These were made many moons ago.

Oriental village- Kaliedacolor ink palette Autumn and Caribbean. Stamp from Another Stamp Co. I am not happy with the top of this one...might just rip it off and try again.
Kite fish- Used Kaliedacolor ink palette Caribbean. Stamps: fish kites from Inka Stamps, words from Stamp Studio.

Strawberries-- This was my 3rd attempt that did not go in the trash bin. The spectra tissue doesn't show up well as I used red then like an idiot, used red ink. Stamp: Wood Cellar Graphics.

Sprigs 1- I love this technique...I have been doing it for a while using chalks, never thought about using inks...duh! (I used distress inks for this project) Sprig stamp: Rubber Stampede, Inspiration stamp: Lost Coast Stamps.

Sprigs--Same stamp as previous, just different ink colors and cream organza added....I did this card for my step-daughter's wedding shower.

Music--I used Kaliedacolor Birthday for this one. Music is a gift stamp: Stamps Happen, Music notes: Stampendous, Kokopelli: ArteRojo.

Oriental Lillies-I used a photo that I had taken from my flower garden for this one. Was given to my mom for Mother's Day.