Letting the Season Unfold For Week 5 of my weekly card challenge, I chose the theme “Let Autumn Unfold.” I created dimensional leaf tiles by stacking die-cut layers, activating pigment powder with water, and adding lighter watercolor leaves on top. Each tile has a gold-edged, glossy finish. As autumn leaves change through the season, they […]
Hello, crafty friends! Today I’m sharing a softly watercolored floral card featuring Altenew’s Build-A-Garden: Softly Sketched Blooms Stamp Set. This beautiful arrangement has a wonderfully loose, hand-sketched quality that seemed perfect for watercoloring. I chose a combination of golden yellow, deep violet, soft gray and natural green, allowing the colors to move beyond the outlines
Hello, crafty friends! Today I’m sharing a colorful thank-you card featuring Altenew’s Build-A-Garden: Harvest Bouquet from the September 2026 subscription. Although the set includes coordinating coloring stencils, I chose to color the beautiful floral image with Copic markers and paired it with a loose, painterly background. Creating the Background I scribbled Faber-Castell pigment sticks onto
A Special STAMPtember Release Every September, Simon Says Stamp brings excitement to the crafting community with its exclusive STAMPtember event. This year, one of the delightful releases colaborated with Memory Box featured a whimsical snowman stamp, which instantly stole my heart. I knew I wanted to create a magical winter scene around it, perfect for
Creating cards that pack a punch with both color and texture is always an exciting adventure, and the Beveled Sentiments Collection from Spellbinders offers just that. Today, I’m sharing three cards that showcase bold, embossed sentiments and colorful, layered backgrounds, making them perfect for any occasion. Creating Layered Backgrounds with Distress Oxides For the backgrounds,