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Check out these Quirky Turkeys and Funky Punkins Does that ever happen to you? You run out of hours in the day before you run out of things to do?!?! Seriously! LOL I feel like I have been sprinting since July! I have lots of things to catch up on with you - my dear friends! But I will try and do it a little at the time! First of all…HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Here is just a quick OVERVIEW…and I will be back to fill in the details soon! I have some new tutorials up on YouTube with some Christmas projects…I will put the links here… I am working on creating a classroom here on the blog - and sharing my first on-line class called All That Glitters ! It is going to be fun…and pretty economical…like $15! I've also started a new series over on YouTube… Trending Techniques . The first one focuses on the Inlaid Die Cuts….such a hot trend…and super easy to accomplish….check out this video to learn how. This will be kind of a RANDOM series…as I find trends...

Working on my Christmas Cards and creating some goodies to sell at a couple of Fall Craft Fairs. I hope to have some new videos to share soon...but thought I would put a few pictures of some of the cards and card sets I have been working on. I love these blueprint stamps by Tim Holtz. They are perfect for doing the Faux Chalkboard Stamping technique. I have a video that demos that technique - you can watch it here :  These next few sets were a lot of fun to make! I started by embossing watercolor paper...and then used various sprays (Lindy's Starburst stains, Heidi Swapp Colorshine, Dylusion Sprays) to create these colorful splats. I love how bright and fresh these cards turned out. Those Dylusion Sprays are just so fun to work with...and get great results every time! When they had dried - I just did I direct to paper technique with Distress Inks to highlight the embossing. Fun and Fresh...great for any occasion. These next two cards, I have crea...

 I have been a baaaa-ad blogger!  I actually have TWO projects to share with you...so hang on to your hats! The first is a fun "folk art" style card. And the technique I wanted to share with you involves using your "colorless blender" Copic market to add texture to images that you color. The stamped image is from Papertrey Ink's "Autumn Hills" set.  I love all the little bits and pieces that you get in the stamp set...I used two of the companion stamps to "spiff up" the inside. Don't you just love that "peek-a-boo" die cut strip down the right side of the card?  That is a fun Memory Box die called Piestra Tile.  The detail it adds really means that you don't have to do much embellishing  to your card...it does all the work for you! I did add just a touch of Chestnut Liquid Pearls in the centers of some of the lacey cuts. You will want to watch the video either here or on YouTube because it explains how to use your co...

I am SO EXCITED to share this project with you! I had so much fun playing and experimenting...and I am pretty sure I am not quite done with the "creative play" that started with this layout. As I told you in my last post, I have been enjoying the art of Louise Nelson...a designer who lives in Australia. She does some SERIOUS - outside the box creating.  You can check out her blog here.  Her projects have such a wonderful sense of movement and feel very organic.  I have been wanting to try and apply some of the things that she uses on her layouts, and this fall layout seemed the perfect time. See what I mean? She creates backgrounds that I would describe more as "back drops" for her overall design...I love it! I couldn't wait to try to create my own take on the inspiration that I find when I look at her projects. Source Louise uses "gray board" (raw chipboard) for her base and often uses gesso in a sprayable form to create her subt...

If you are here in the US - today is Labor Day...unofficially a day for the last BBQ of the summer, a signal that fall is coming (not soon enough for me) and the last day we can officially wear WHITE (yes, I know that dates me...but growing up my Grandmother always told us we could only wear white after EASTER and before LABOR DAY...and I always listen to my grandmother). It was also a good day to catch up on a few projects, get the house straightened up and do a bit more decorating for fall. And I was excited to get to put together the little tablescape that I envisioned when I saw this cute filigree pumpkin at Hobby Lobby.  It needed a few more elements...and I wanted to bring in some of the colors of fall....so I picked up a variety of wooden acorns to go with it - knowing that I could find a way to add color to them (I forgot to take a "before" picture...but they were all brown like their tops - I didn't do anything to those). I did do a little video to show y...