Somebody pinch me…

It is so thrilling when you set a goal, and achieve it piece-by-piece.   As an instructor, I’m a technique, tool and surface girl.  And so with my teaching hiatus coming up, I decided to seek out opportunities and try to expand my relationship with my favorite surfaces and tool manufacturers – and unbelievably I’ve been honored to be chosen to design with, instruct for and … [Read more...]

Grace

Today I was inspired by Josie to think about grace and being gracious.  Sometimes when we get so deep into a situation and start pulling apart all of the threads, we lose the pattern -- or in this case discover one.  So I reached for the Prima Artsy Stamp set #2 (850012) by Christina Renee, and began to color that little cherub, reaching.  And I took a hint from the way it was … [Read more...]

Relax – you (yes you!) can color with Copics

Coming from a formerly coloring-adverse stamper - let me tell you...the right tools make the difference.    Making a card with this lovely image by Lockhart Stamps would typically have me sent into background mode and stamping it OVER something else more randomly colored.  Or monochromatic land - where coloring is so simple and sometimes unneccessary.   But no more, … [Read more...]