Red Card

Just playing around

4x4

Altered Design Challenge using the ticket in the lower right corner...

Dru's Artwork

My daughter, Dru's artwork. This is a photo of her that she painted .

Current work

Masking

Rubber Stamper Magazine is looking for some masking ideas....these are my first attempts....I haven't done masking for a zillion years....I forgot how much fun it was....some of these are regular masking and the pear on is mortise masking - where you cut the center of the image out then mask the area and stamp something inside...

Christmas Card Testing

I am working on some potential Christmas card designs today...the trees are actually shimmery...done by using on of the new pens that has fine sparkle....these are the results so far....

Magenta class

When I was San Diego in Aug. I took a class at Stamping Designs that was conducted by Nathalie of Magenta Rubber Stamps....here are the results...

Chalk & Water Technique

While searching my techniques folder I came across this Chalk & Water background technique so I thought I would share it with you...when I was in high school, Crayola contacted our art class and had us do an experiment using chalked soaked in water....fun but according to Crayola our samples that we sent to them were far better than their researchers did....this is a variation of that technique....not as messy for one...play around with this and let us know how it was...it is fun to play with...

Chalk and Water Background -

For this technique I recommend watercolor paper but it is not necessary. Mix the chalk with water in a 2 oz spritzer bottle using 1/4t chalk per ounce of water. If you wish to achieve a darker color simply use more chalk. Spritz on paper as desired. Decorate your card or scrapbook page using your favorite stamps or embellishments.

The first example is a tag spritzed with lime green, pink and yellow palette chalk (pulverized in water)....I punched out a leaf several times and placed it on the tag then spritzed....the second example is the completed piece...

New work Aug 2007

These are for Kersten! Click on them for a better view...


Finally got these download...don't have an idea what is going on with the computer and my images....