One fish, two fish

Same stamped image, same ink, same chalk... different colored bubble paper, background paper and eyelets.... Gives a little different look.

Java anyone?

It was a cold dreary day (we had a lot of them this winter) and hot cocoa sounded good. So I dug out this stamp from Inkadinkado... What to do with it??? I stamped it on clear vellum, embossed and then colored on reverse side. Layered onto patterned paper.

Playing with Kaleidacolor Inks

I have several Kaleidacolor ink pads and love playing with them... Here is my day of experimentation.

Sunflower with sewing machine stitching around the edge. Stamped with Cappuccino Delight
Land of the Free stamped with Blue Breeze and fireworks done with Calypso.

Two separate flowers using Autumn Leaves

Bubbly Butterfly Series

Caribbean Sea and Fruitcake
Calypso and Birthstone

Bouquet and Blue Breeze

Moose quilt block

As per the norm, I try to find one craft project to complete during our winter break. This year, I did a moose quilt block with the encouragement from a quilting co-worker. It took me all day to complete this 13x13" quilt block.

Happy New Year

I hope that everyone had the best of holidays.... We had quite the saga.... that's another blog. To start thew new year, I created a fun little snowman card.

Stamp is by Provocraft. Colored with pencils, added glitter to snow line and cheeks of snowmen.

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.