Finally! A crafting date for the three of us!
My goal last night and today has been to create a matching necklace and bracelet set to coordinate with a swatch of fabric from a dress I made a few years back. I love the Sonysree Creations…
Masking unleashed
Next up is a class on masking. Svitlana Shayevich is the instructor for the class, Masking Unleashed, and she gives a comprehensive overview of different types of materials and techniques for masking. Starting with basic, plain computer…
Color Your Day…..
The Color Your Day class offered by the Altenew Academy is awesome! Theresa Calvird, the instructor, offers so many tips and ideas! I have several take-aways from this class, from finding inspiration, to balancing color, and more…
Beautiful details
Beautiful Details is a class that focuses on adding your own details to a card. I created one (well, three) back in May using the first technique taught in the class, and then one just recently using…
Coloring and Mama Elephant
In my stash, I own Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and Prismacolor Premier Pencils….neither of which I have used extensively. I recently decided it was time to work with those a little more, given that it…
Traveling Notepad Holder
This week Art Impressions challenge was to come up with something for the desktop. Not sure if my item really qualifies but we make post it note pads with mini pens. My sister and I make these…
Embossing techniques
I love the magic of heating embossing powder…..watching a powder melt into shiny, shimmery goodness! The first time I tried heat embossing, I fell in love with this process. So I was excited to take an embossing…
Shaped Card and Sister Time
This weekend I was hanging out with my other crafting angels for some girl time. I decided to pull out my Pazzles electronic cutter and work on a shaped card for the Art Impressions Challenge this week.…
Scene building
My final class for the level 1 certification was Seasonal Scene Building. This class was focused on building a scene from the stamps you have on hand. The classes focused on masking, oversized scenes, background building, windows…
All about layering (stamps….)2!
So the second class on layering stamps was equally helpful in assisting me in lining up the layers of the different stamps. For this project I used the painted rose stamp set. I have always struggled with…