My husband and I aren’t big celebrators of arbitrary holidays. Valentine’s Day is especially low on our list. Now that I make cards, however, I have a lot more fun celebrating whatever occasions come up! All the V-Day cards I’d seen around Facebook and Instagram were all pinks, super cutesy, and just not really us.Read More
Crafting
Shell Yeah, Beaches!
Months ago, I stamped out all the mermaids from Ink Road’s Shell Yeah set. I never managed to do anything more than half-heartedly start coloring them before moving on to other projects. Recently, I was reminded that my patterned paper stash was both large and collecting dust. After flipping through my stash, I found aRead More
Crafting-
Mildly Offensive Paper Crafting
Fuck Yeah!
When I got the Wavy Stripes stencil by Taylored Expressions, all I wanted to do was ink blend all day long! That’s basically what I did, honestly. I ended up with a butt-ton of cute backgrounds and literally zero ideas for what to do with them. Onto the shelf they went! And then Ink RoadRead More
Crafting
Always There for You
Recently, I acquired Kindred Stamps’ Childhood Friends stamp set. I’d had my eyes on it for a while, so I jumped at the opportunity to own it when it was made available! Upon receipt of the set, I promptly stamped out 4 sheets containing each of the characters, and spent the next week and aRead More
Crafting
Birthday in Grey
I had a lot of fun with Taylored Expressions’ Gifted stencil and background stamp. These products are designed to work together perfectly, and they definitely did the trick! Every now and then, you get the chance to bulk create cards that you really like. I rocked the stencil for 4 matching backgrounds by ink blendingRead More
Crafting
Cards for Colleagues
As the resident card maker at my school, it often comes down to me when there’s a birthday, illness, or someone leaves for a new job. This first card is for a colleague who was doing just that – abandoning us! As a coffee mug hoarder, it was easy to pull out Ink Road’s MugRead More
Crafting-
Mildly Offensive Paper Crafting
Speaking of Watercoloring…
I mentioned in my previous post that I’m working on my watercoloring. I recently busted out the Bella Flora stamps by Ink Road as a base to practice with. You can see my first attempt below. I kind of like it, but couldn’t figure out how to approach learning watercoloring, so I did what anyoneRead More
Crafting
Look for the Rainbows
I’ve been wanting to improve my watercoloring for a while, so I thought I’d start simple with just a basic blended swath of rainbow colors. The watercolors are Altenew’s Spring Garden Watercolor Brush Markers. I put a few drops of each color I wanted onto my glass media mat, then used a regular watercolor brushRead More
Crafting
Mawage!
Some friends of mine got married last summer and I had the best time making this rainbow-rific, nerdy card for them! The background uses Gina K’s wreath builder template and Altenew’s Feeling Dotty stencil. I can’t for the life of me remember what inks I used, but suffice to say they made pretty rainbow colors.Read More
Crafting-
Mildly Offensive Paper Crafting
Be Majestic AF
I’m super excited to share with you all one of my very favorite cards I’ve ever made! First of all, the background is the Majestic AF Background stamp from Ink Road Stamps. I stamped it out in Copic-friendly ink and colored it painstakingly for nearly 3 hours before it was finally done! A little WinkRead More