Sunday, August 9, 2026

Water-Colored Flowers


I felt like doing some painting, so I pulled out this old set from Gina K. The flower and each leaf are separate, so I had to do some masking. I used black embossing powder for the images, and the sentiment, also. I used Zig Clean Color Real brush markers on this first one. Then I added some black sequins.


For this one, I used metallic water color paints. It's very shimmery in real life.

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Friday, August 7, 2026

Another Strawberry Card


I had this left-over piece of embossed paper and decided to make it into this card. I also had the die-cut, embossed and stenciled strawberry piece that I added on top. Everything is from Gina K.

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Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Patterned Paper Embossed and Sanded



Gina K did a video on this older technique a while back and I made these four cards. They all use the same embossing folder. They are mostly embossed on patterned paper, except the one that I messed up. :-) For this one, I embossed, sanded, added white ink lightly, and then gold ink on top of that. The sentiment is gold embossed, also.


These next two Just have the white ink on top of the sanded image.



This one is patterned paper on the back. LOL! I used an ink pad to lightly go over the whole panel. I made this one into a gate-fold card.

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Monday, August 3, 2026

Wedding for Our Nephew



My nephew got married out in Oregon at the end of July. We weren't able to attend the wedding, but we wish them well!! Here is the card that I made for them. It's a book-binder card with a surprise inside. The sentiment doesn't show up very well, but it's die cut (and many-layered!) from gold textured foil. The patterned paper had plain flowers (which you can see on the inside) but I colored the front ones with Copic markers.

The left side is blank for me to add our message to them.

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Saturday, August 1, 2026

August Calendar Page


Simple calendar page for August. This stamp is from Repeat Impressions.

Happy August!!!

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Grayscale Wax Paper Technique Anniversary


One last card using a wax paper resist panel. I don't think I've ever done a gray-scale card before. I think they are pretty cool. The stencils are from Gina K. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Monday, July 27, 2026

Strawberry Birthday and Anniversary



Two more cards made with Gina K's strawberries folder, stencils and dies. This sentiment is die-cut from gold.


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Saturday, July 25, 2026

Wax Paper Technique Gate-Fold


Another wax paper resist gate-fold card. First I made the wax paper panel. Then I ink-blended the background. Then I embossed the panel and used the stencils to color the embossed flowers. Everything is from Gina k.

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Thursday, July 23, 2026

More Wax Paper Technique


These cards are made with panels that I had created using the wax paper resist technique and then stencils. This first one is a gate-fold card. If you look at them closely, you can see the pattern from the wax paper.


This one is embossed and stenciled.


This one is also embossed and stenciled.


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Tuesday, July 21, 2026

"Double Vision" Cards


Two cards that I made using the "Double VIsion" technique. You emboss a white panel and then cut it into 1/2 inch strips and pop every other one of them up. This first one uses a Gina K folder, dies and stencils. The sentiment is also from Gina K.


The folder for this one is from Altenew. The sentiment is from Gina K.

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