I first heard the word “aperture” used in crafting many many many years ago, when I first started coming from the States to the UK to teach and do television. In the US, we just call it a “window” but…
Tag: stamping
I love my Distress Stains. I usually use them for making quick backgrounds on my art journaling pages, which are matte paper. This week I decided to see how they work on glossy cardstock. The stain is not as vivid,…
I do have a lot of stamps. Not as many as I used to, before we moved from Portland to Amsterdam—I went through all my stamps and gave away or put into storage the stamps I rarely or never used….
Today I made cards! I had a lot of cards to make to restock my stash at The New Label Project here in Amsterdam, so today I had the assembly-line process in use. Although the cards are all slightly different,…
Oh, you might be thinking…will she ever stop banging on about Ranger U?!! 🙂 Well, my head is still full with stuff I learned…and a few things stood out for me, and I wanted to share them with you. So…
Ranger U…wowie. What an experience. Three days of non-stop education, hands-on techniques and learning from some of the industry’s best: Tim Holtz, Claudine Hellmuth and Dyan Reaveley. We sprayed, inked, stamped, embossed, made melt art, painted and alcohol inked. We…
Looking for a little creativity break this summer? Art Workshops by the Sea offers classes on the lovely Oregon coast, and I’m so pleased to be invited there to teach this summer. There’s something just magical about the Oregon coast,…
Hope you had a lovely Valentine’s Day—perhaps one that was a bit more romantic than mine…Keith is working on a massive project with a deadline presentation on Thursday, and Anna is on Day Four of her pink eye. I’m doing…