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