Welcome to Tic Tac Toe Thursday. I had the pleasure of creating this week’s challenge board. And here’s what I came up with. I chose to go left diagonally: Harvest, Embossing, Metallic Once again, I delved into my stash to come up with this card. The patterned paper is from a DCWV pad. I just love those pheasants! The sentiment is from SU’s Country Home retired stamp set and is heat embossed. The inside sentiment…
Welcome to the October installment of CASEing Coast to Coast with Karen Hallam in CA and myself here in PA. This month Karen chose our inspiration theme, which came from this seasonal photo… As with each month on our cross-country stamping adventure, our theme is the jumping off point. From there, Karen and I each create a project. It’s fun to see each of our interpretations. Here’s Karen’s card. You can read all details HERE.…
I’m back today sharing another favorite technique…paper piecing. I’m always on the look out for dies that would work well with this technique. I’ve recently discovered a new to me stamp company…Jaded Blossoms. The die is called Fancy Pumpkins and works perfectly for this technique. I’m playing along with the Tic Tac Toe Challenge here… I chose to follow the 3rd row down: Embossing, Patterned Paper, Fall/Halloween Theme I used Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Mossy…
Today I’m sharing a card that includes one on of my favorite techniques: heat resist embossing. I created this pretty pumpkin background by randomly stamping the pumpkin image from Stampin’ Up!’s Pretty Pumpkin stamp set with Versa Mark ink and heat embossing it with white embossing powder. Then easily sponging Pumpkin Pie ink onto each pumpkin. The stem was inked with Old Olive ink. I matted the stamped panel on a piece of gold foil…
