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Today I wanted to share with you all a beautiful vintage wall hanging I created for my daughter. The picture on the wall hanging is one I had taken at a portrait studio when my daughter was 3 months old. You can click on the main picture for a larger view. To create the actal …
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Today I wanted to share with you another of my mixed-media canvases that is part of the same series I’ve shared with you over the last few weeks. You can see the first on HERE, and the second one HERE. You can click on any of the pictures to get a close-up. Of all three …
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For months now, my just-turned-8 year old daughter Julia has been begging and pleading with me to teach her how I create my Mixed Media pieces. Now don’t get me wrong – Julia has pretty free access to many of the supplies in my studio and already really enjoys making cards. In fact she’s been …
On yesterday’s post on the Sunny Stampin’ Blog – I showed a card that featured a technique which I came up with called Faux Marbled and Stained Glassine. In that post I mentioned that the Faux Marbled and Stained Glassine technique actually evolved from a simple Faux Glassine technique I created. The two techniques are …
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Well I admit that this is not the best picture which I have ever taken, but unfortunately my shots don’t work half as well at night! So for today I decided to do a simple card using this awsome stamp from Stamping Bella. I just love their images! The image was colored in with Copic …
A few years ago I was selling a few kits that included Stampin’ Up!’s Accents and Elements felt flowers. As a result of selling SO many kits, I ended up with a ton of the empty tins. Of course, being the kind of person that likes to save everything that can possibly be used in …
As I reflect on my life, I can’t help but notice how often I’ve let my fears stand in the way of me doing or trying something that deep down inside I’m longing to do. It’s not so much that I’m actually afraid, as in feeling scared, but rather, I think, feelings of inadequacy. For …
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One of my favorite stories as a child was Alice in Wonderland, so when I saw the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party Rubber Stamp Collection at the Oshawa Scrapfest in the fall being sold by Bizzy B (a local stamping and scrapping store), I just HAD to buy it! There’s actually three stamp sets that are a …
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I absolutely love butterflies – both in real life and in stamped images. The Hero Arts butterfly set I used, called Antique Engravings is probably my favorite butterfly stamp set ever. It has such a wonderful selection of butterfly images and they look so real! Today’s card is a 5 1/4″ x 5 1/4″ card …
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I’ve been trying to figure out what the best approach is to introduce the art of mixed media to those of you that want to learn about it. After all, as I mentioned in my post on “She Found Her Inner Artist“, for me it’s been a 2 year process – reading, taking classes, practicing, …