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...]
