How about smearing a little ink today.   This tutorial is all about the technique of “Direct to Paper”.   Direct to Paper, aka “DTP” is the art of smearing the ink pad directly onto the card stock.   I use the short end of my ink pad throughout this piece and leave a bit of the Whisper [...]

Hey Everyone, Happy Tuesday!  I just returned home last night at midnight from Boise, Idaho and have to hit the road running this morning to prep for my workshops that will be in Riverside, California this coming weekend.    I’m always very excited to return to California to teach my brayer techniques since it was the very [...]

Tags: Brayer, brayering, card making, Michelle Zindorf, rubber stamping, Stamped Art, Stampin' Up, Zindorf

Are you ready for some new blog candy!  This week as blog candy I have the Stampin’ Up! set, Spring Song to give away.  All you need to do to enter the drawing for this set is leave me a comment telling me what you love, love, love about Spring.  If you are receiving this blog [...]

Well yesterday completely got away from me.  Ever have one of those days where you start something, see something else that needs done, start doing that, see something else that needs done, start doing that.  BUT YOU ARE NEVER GETTING ANYTHING ACCOMPLISHED!  That was my day yesterday, lol.  I am just sorry I did not [...]

Tags: Brayer, brayering, card making, Michelle Zindorf, rubber stamping, Stamped Art, Stampin' Up, Zindorf

Meet Lucas (German Short Haired Pointer/Great Dane Mix) and Abby (Black Lab).   These are my precious pups that are each over 100 lbs, opps!   Abby doesn’t like for me to talk about her weight, sorry girl, lol. I picked these two up at a local no kill shelter (Sisca) about 5 years ago.  Russ has band [...]

This morning I was in the mood to create something a little different and this is what I came up with.  I found myself pulling out set after set of stamps and combined them to create this little cologe.  Before I start the tutorial I need to announce the lucky blog candy winner who won the Stampin’ Up [...]

Times up, the winner has been announced! Hi there!  I haven’t given away any blog candy in a couple of weeks and I have this sweet, sweet set of Stampin’ Up Forest Friends stamps that are looking for a wonderful new place to live.  Can you help out with that?  If so, please leave a [...]