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Here is a card I made in a Jennifer McGuire class. Love the colors achieved by using markers directly on the stamp and then misting lightly with water. The torn edge, big ribbon and soft pearls are the perfect finish.



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Joy

Holiday Thinking Inking Week 4

Hope you are having a great weekend! I'm taking Monday off so it is a three-day weekend for me. Yay!

Here are the cards I made for Week 4 of Jennifer McGuire's Holiday Thinking Inking class at twopeasinabucket.com. This week was all about paint dabbers. Lots of fun.

 

 

The letterpress technique hasn't worked very well yet. I'll keep trying.

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Joy

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Here is a card I made in a Jennifer McGuire class:



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Joy

Happy Halloween

Here are some fun goodies I made a few weeks ago in the Halloween Workshop at Archiver's. I will post each of these in my Flickr photostream in case you want to see close-ups.



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Joy

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Fun with Fabric Week 4

Welcome to Week 4 (ATCs) of Donna Downey's Fun with Fabric class!

These ATCs started as a blank canvas and then we painted everything with watercolors (more on that later). Here are the fabric ATCs once painted, embellished and sewn together (see close-ups on Flickr).



I had purchased two sets of watercolors to get a variety of colors. One was $5 and one was about $30 - 50% coupon = $15. Wouldn't you know it, the $5 set worked the best and gave the best colors! Oh well. I really liked the watercolor painting.

This next set is similar but made on paper. I like how the lady (from Donna's She Said set) turned out on paper. I colored her with Prismacolor pencils and gamsol on this set.



In other news, hubby just purchased a domain name for me... http://www.dustypenny.com/. Cool! I love having a techie hubby.

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October Card Chain Challenge

Deborah hosted another fun Card Chain Challenge in October. Deborah is celebrating the challenge's one year anniversary. It is a lot of fun to participate and receive a handmade card each month.

This is the card I sent to Jan in California. I used Deborah's sketch and Halloween theme. The stamps are by Hero Arts and Papertrey Ink.



Elise sent me this card from Ohio. The purple and kraft look so nice together. I never would have thought to stamp the holly leaves in purple, but it looks lovely. Thanks so much, Elise!



Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Hubby is going to watch football while I go craft.

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Holiday Thinking Inking Week 3

Here are the cards I made for Week 3 of Jennifer McGuire's Holiday Thinking Inking class at twopeasinabucket.com:

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10 Little Tags Workshop

Here are the tags I made a few weeks ago in the 10 Little Tags Workshop at Archiver's. I will post each tag in my Flickr photostream in case you want to see close-ups.



Have a great Wednesday!

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Fluffles

Here are a few Fluffles (Stampendous) cards:







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Fun with Fabric Week 3

Welcome to Week 3 (Messenger Bag) of Donna Downey's Fun with Fabric class!

This messenger bag started as a blank canvas and we painted it with Carbon Black Golden fluid acrylic paint. I may go over a couple areas again, but it has some nice variations in shade.



Close-up of the flowers handmade with rolled muslin, Quinacridone Magenta Golden fluid acrylic paint, and seed beads:



Close-up of the Prima Say it in Studs and Prima Flowers:



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Holiday Thinking Inking Week 2

Here are the cards I made for Week 2 of Jennifer McGuire's Holiday Thinking Inking class at twopeasinabucket.com:







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Holidays by Hero Arts Card Workshop

Here are the cards I made a few weeks ago in the Holidays by Hero Arts Card Workshop at Archiver's. The cards look prettier in real life. It was hard to capture all the shine and shimmer in photos.









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Vintage Holiday Card Workshop

Hope you are having a great weekend. I've been up to lots of crafting and fun with fabric. Tomorrow I will be going to two classes HERE. Can't wait!

Here are the cards I made a couple weeks ago in the Vintage Holiday Card Workshop at Archiver's. We used lots of Tim Holtz and Ranger goodies.









And here is the bonus tag we made:

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Fun with Fabric Week 2

Welcome to Week 2 (Fabric Scrapbook Page) of Donna Downey's Fun with Fabric class!

Page 1:

Bird Close-Up (colored with acrylic paint; Donna Downey stamp):

Journaling (ignore my mess up, I tried to "hide" it by underlining some more words):

 

Page 2 (I had been hoarding this Donna Downey canvas; the leaves are stamped with paint):

Heart Close-Up (Hero Arts stamp):

Photos Close-Up (aren't they cute?):

It is currently week 3 and we will be decorating a canvas messenger bag. Stay tuned!

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Hugs,