Hey friends! How are your new year’s resolutions going? Me? I’ve been keeping up with my resolution to play with BIG brushes — yay! I’ve got quite the stack of watercolor backgrounds over here and I’m slowly turning ’em into cards. I made this one for J today: I used the Abstract Sunset die to […]
Author: Lisa
3 painterly thank you cards!
Hi, friends! Santa brought me some new brushes for Christmas and I couldn’t wait to give them a try! I also needed some thank you cards, stat! So I decided to play with the brushes and make some backgrounds, then turn them into cards. I used a full sheet of 9×12″ watercolor paper and lightly […]
12 Tags: Let It Snow!
Random fact about me: I’m from Northeast Ohio (Youngstown area!) and I LOVE snow! My family all thinks I’m nuts lol! So when we were planning the Ellen Hutson 12 Tags of Christmas this year I HAD to pick “Let It Snow” as my carol! Cue Ella Fitzgerald and join me over there for more! […]
Clean & Simple Holiday
Looking for a clean and simple holiday card that’s easy to mass produce, yet you’ll still have fun making? I got you! Enter the Mondo Amaryllis stamp along with the Essential Rectangles dies and watercolors! I just watercolored the background on a scrap of watercolor paper using Daniel Smith quinacridone rose + new gamboge, then […]
Second Generation Stamping
Do you use the second generation stamping technique? I use it alllll the time, it’s a great way to get more from your supplies! It’s like having two ink pads in one. For those who’ve never heard the term, second generation stamping is when you ink up a stamp, stamp it off on scratch paper, […]
Card-in-a-card!
I was giggling the whole time I made this card! Here’s how it came about: as soon as I saw this snarky sentiment from the Sending Holiday Cheer set an idea popped into my head to make a card-in-a-card using the Mini Note die and it had to be done! HAD to! I decorated the […]