Hello Everyone, I getting all geared up for my trip next month to California for the Art & Soul Retreat my sister and I  will be attending.  I’m so very excited!  I’ll be taking a 2 day class on making Nature Journals and a one day class to learn how to color black and white [...]

The sun was actually shining here in Ohio yesterday and it makes me long for warm summer days.  Here is a little piece of a beach scene to warm you this morning.  Let’s get started on today’s tutorial. Supplies:  Stamps: Stampin’ Up Stipple Shells and Short & Sweet Paper: Whisper White, Creamy Caramel, River Rock [...]

I’m still working on my Sympathy card stash.  So here is a tutorial on one of them. Supplies: Stamps: Stampin Up Summer by the Sea, Hand Painted Petites, Small Sayings and Itty Bitty Backgrounds Paper: Stampin’ Up Whisper White & Elegant Eggplant Ink: Stampin’ Up Pale Plum, Elegant Eggplan, Going Gray & Basic Black, Distress [...]

I used my Rubber Stampede Mirror Image Stamp, Item 247F in a tutorial and received e-mail/comments from a few of you looking for this stamp.  I got mine at Micheael’s 5 years ago, I have not seen one there for sometime.  A few of you have also done Internet searches and so have I looking for [...]

Thought I would share a couple of photos I took at 8:00 a.m. this morning.  These shots are from the deck at the back of my house toward the green space behind us.   Like I said we are in a bit of a fog. We only have a half an acre, but there is a 4 acre [...]

Ah, a view of my wall of shame, lol.  I’m a stamp junkie, I confess!   I have around 250 Stampin’ Up sets at this time.  I have sold over 100 sets just last month.  Sets that were wonderful, but were definitely not my style.  That’s right I have a style now.  How liberating it is [...]

I felt like coloring this morning, so this is the project I came up with.  Supplies: Stamps: Stampin’ Up Touch of Nature and Antique Background Paper: Very Vanilla, River Rock, Baroque Burgundy Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Inks Brushed Corduroy & Old Paper Accessories: Black Marker, White Gel Pen, Sponge, Ribbon, Ticket Corner Punch, Prismacolor Pencils [...]