Apr
15
2010
I am so very much in the garden mode that all I can think about is gardening. So I guess you are just stuck with me creating pieces with flowers and trees for a while. At least until the heat of summer kicks in and I get tired of pulling weeds, watering etc., lol. I [...]
Apr
13
2010
I’m a bit late posting today. I just arrived home yesterday evening from Colorado Springs where I had the best time teaching and this afternoon I spent some quality time with my oldest son, Jesse, who is 29. No matter how old my sons get I still love spending time with them one on one. [...]
Tags: Michelle Zindorf, Prismacolor Pencils, rubber stamping, Stamped Art, Stampin' Up
Apr
08
2010
After taking a good look at my calendar, I thought to myself “Mickey, you better get a move on and make a Mother’s Day card before you forget or run out of time.” So, today’s card is a card I made for my Mom for this coming Mother’s Day. I am safe to post it [...]
Tags: card making, Masking, Michelle Zindorf, rubber stamping, Stamped Art, Stampin' Up
Apr
06
2010
My totally terrific Stampin’ Up Down Line, the Ink to Art Team, has started a technique swap among ourselves. This months technique is “Monochromatic”. Today’s tutorial features my swap card. If you don’t know what Monochromatic is, it is using the same color in different tones. Hope you enjoy this one. Let’s get started. . [...]
Apr
05
2010
On occassion I will stamp things for personal use, lol. I know, sounds weird, but I rarely stamp things to actually mail. Most of my creations are put in albums and then I will haul the albums around to my brayer workshop. With that being said, today was a bit different. I needed to create and [...]
Apr
02
2010
I woke this morning feeling a little uninspired, still feeling under the weather. It must have taken me over an hour just to pick out a stamp to use. But once I picked up this Stampin’ Up! set “Abundant Hope” things started to fall into place. Especially, since this set just screams SPRING! So, with [...]
Tags: Brayer, brayering, card making, Michelle Zindorf, rubber stamping, Stamped Art, Stampin' Up
Apr
01
2010
Occasionally, we all need to step outside of the box and shake things up a bit or our creative side might just get a bit stagnate. Today’s tutorial shows me stepping outside of my normal creations and trying something a bit different. I have water-colored before and really love the process, but I haven’t done [...]
Tags: card making, Michelle Zindorf, rubber stamping, Stamped Art, Stampin' Up, Watercolor