Technique Tuesday: May Greenhouse Society

It's Greenhouse Society time on the Technique Tuesday blog. Greenhouse Society is a monthly club featuring botanical-themed stamps. This set features five stamps in a 3" x 4" sheet. I love that the sentiments are so varied. And the rose is neutral enough that you can mix and match with any other sentiment stamps that you like.

For this card, I stamped the rose with Versamark and embossed it with some clear powder. Then I used Technique Tuesday's watercolor crayons to apply a multi-colored wash. I like to mix the crayon with water before I apply it. But you could draw directly onto the card, and then add water. Saves a whole step and some clean up.

I finished the card by stamping one of the sentiments on some twill and adding some matching bling (Doodlebug). Other than the drying time of the painted cardstock, it's an easy-to-make card. Which pretty much describes all of my projects. Ha!

For more project ideas and info about Greenhouse Society, click here. Thanks so much for dropping by today!

Technique Tuesday: Happyville Collection

Happy Monday, friends! I had such an awesome Mother's Day. It's so nice to be spoiled. But I did miss spending it with my mom, who is in China right now. She really is my hero. She is brave and true. Plus she's an amazing cook! Win-win.

My dad took this photo of us last November, at my brother's wedding in San Francisco. Please ignore my gross wrinkly hands. 

So back to my regular routine!

My dear friend Teri Anderson designed the adorable Happyville Collection for Technique Tuesday. It's 7 sets that can be mixed and matched to your heart's content.

I created this layout here about my love of traveling, and a bigger love for coming home. You know how they say distance makes the heart grow fonder? True! Distance, and my super comfy bed. For this layout, I used the airplane and a sentiment from the Travel set and a few words off the Home set. It's hard to tell in the pic, but the airplane and the little lines behind them are stamped in gold. The lines are from the (super useful!) In Stitches set. The patterned paper is super old Basic Grey. I've been hoarding and (yay) finally used it. I'm kinda wishing I had more of it.

Thank you for coming by today. Don't hold me to it. But I might venture and do a Project Life post this week...

Yay! I finally get to share about this. My fearless friend Elizabeth Dillow has organized a group of phoneographers to bring you photo challenges, daily inspiration, app reviews, tips and tricks! I'm so excited to be a part of this! Check out this cute video about the class.

Here's a little more detail:

The Phone Photography Project

32 days of Android + iPhone photo challenges, daily inspiration, and app reviews

Need summer photo ideas or help improving your iPhone photography? Spend this July taking amazing photos with your iPhone or Android camera in The Phone Photography Project.

In this month-long workshop, you'll learn to take better photos with the camera you always have with you as you document your summer adventures—with help from 32 incredible instructors. 

On top of daily smartphone photography challenges, you'll also enjoy:

• dozens of tips and tricks from the pros for taking better photos with your mobile-phone camera
• a handbook of 60+ photography app reviews for iPhone and Android, so you know which are worth your time and money*
• dozens of project ideas for getting photos off your device and into your world
• interaction with 32 experienced iPhoneographers and Androidographers, and hundreds of fellow students in a private classroom and on Instagram
• giveaways, contests, discounts, bonus downloads, and fun fun fun!

*Note: Many of the reviewed apps are available free in the App Store and Google Play, while the rest average about $1.99 each. App purchases are not required for participation in the class.

This class, brought to you by Big Picture Classes, is being offered at the introductory price of $39. It'll eventually go back to its regular price of $49. Please come join me! I have a super fun challenge set up, and a little collab project with my dear friend Melanie Louette.  Click here to sign up.

ps: I'm being paid for this class via the affiliate links above. Full disclosure is always a good thing, right?

Lawn Fawn: May Inspiration Week

Hello there! I can't believe it's been over a month since I last posted. I've been sick and busy. Then busy and sick. Happy to be back.

Lawn Fawn is holding its monthly Inspiration Week. Which can only mean one awesome thing: tons of inspiration and lots of prizes.

Here are the two projects I contributed.

This one is clean and simple and quick. Totally my kind of scrapbooking! I used the cloud, the arrow, and the sentiment stamps from the Blue Skies set. The journaling is stamped with Sharp Backgrounds in a light grey color.

I have been waiting to scrap the photos in this other layout for a long time. It's my youngest Luke, when he was 3. He really wanted a dog. More specifically, he wanted our next door neighbor's dog Lady. Lady was an old, old retriever. Such a sweet dog. Luke would call her: "Lay-tee!" and she would run over and let him pet her through the fence. Never mind Luke would get super shy when we went over to their house. Probably because she was a very large dog. Large, but always gentle. It's quite possible that we were the only people in our little town in Pennsylvania without a pet. Or at least my kids said we were.

This layout uses stamps from Critters In The Dog Park stamp set, Daphne's Closet papers, and Narrators letter stickers. The pups were cut out using the new matching dies! How do I love those! Makes everything easier. And I'm all about the easier.

All the new stamps and dies will be available tomorrow. (But you should go by Lawn Fawn's blog today and comment to win!)

Thanks for stopping!

Lawn Fawn: March Inspiration Week

It's seriously Spring-y here. Beautiful light, warmer weather, flowers popping up everywhere, and uh, allergies. Allergy meds aside, Lawn Fawn is having its Inspiration Week right now. That means prizes and lots of inspiration. So run over there!

Here are my two contributions for this week, featuring Dahpne's Closet.

This first layout also features Say Cheese polaroid shaped die. So good!

Thanks so much for dropping by! Don't forget to stop by Lawn Fawn's blog for more!

Technique Tuesday: Studio AE February

I cannot believe it's the last day of February. Nuts! On this last day, I'm sharing one final project using Technique Tuesday's Studio AE February stamp set. Tomorrow, Technique Tuesday will debut the March set.

stamps: Technique Tuesday / ink: Tsukineko Versamark + Clearsnap Colorbox Pigment Ink / card base: Jillibean Soup / marker: Sharpie Poster Paint

This card is simple and quick to do. I was thinking that a whole set could be made with these stamps and given out as a gift. Or, really, they would be fab to keep around as good-for-every-occasion cards. We all need those!

To make this card, I used kraft paper card base, and then stamped it again and again with the same stamp using Versamark. Then I stamped it once using white ink. My favorite white ink being Clearsnap's Colorbox Pigment ink in Frost White. For those little spots that weren't quite bold enough, I filled them in with Sharpie Poster Paint in White. But the card still looked like it needed a little something-something. So I used the heart from the Totally My Type set to add one teeny, red detail. I love adding little bits like that to a project.

Thanks so much for coming by today. Don't forget to drop by the Technique Tuesday blog tomorrow to see the new set.

Technique Tuesday: CHA layouts

Happy Monday!

Long weekend for me. Nope, no hanging out at the beach this time. My middle child and his buddies participated in the LA County Science Olympiad. Lots of parental participation is required, but it's so worth it because his school team is going to the State Science Olympiad. I'm so happy, excited and proud of him. I'm far from being a tiger mom, but the Chinese in me can't help but think he'd make a great doctor? Hahahah.

I also worked on my taxes... That was not a happy inducing experience though. Sigh.

On a happier note, here are the layouts I created for Technique Tuesday using the new stamps (which are available at their online store and everywhere else.) These were at CHA, and they are all 6" x 6". This is my first time creating layouts this size, and I really like it!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great day.

Lawn Fawn: February Inspiration Week

Hello hello!

Lawn Fawn is doing its monthly Inspiration Week right now, meaning, lots of prizes and ideas for projects.

I created a quick and simple layout using the new Pink Lemonade paper line. The colors are so vibrant and fun. Lots of citrus with some pink thrown in. It's the perfect foil for all the blue in my photos.

And of course this is a layout about going to the beach. Hahahah! I know, I know, I have a tough life. If you follow me on Instagram, you'll remember these from the beginning of the year. During our holiday break, I took my kids and friends to the beach just to hang out. It's so fun to see what they do when there are no video games, TVs, or toys around. They actually get creative!

To make this layout, I printed all the photos on one sheet of matte photo paper. I've really been into the matte paper lately. I use it for my Project Life, and it's super easy to stamp on. No need for alcohol inks. I also added the journaling directly to the big photo. I adhered the whole sheet of photos onto the stripey patterned paper, and then used the extra side strip of paper to make the banner in the middle. You know, those extra bits of patterned paper? One side has the name and UPC, the other is a pattern? I took three of those, glued them to a strip of cardstock, trimmed it, and attached it to my layout with some handstitching. On the top left, I tucked in a bit of another strip. On the bottom right, there's a label from the Element Stickers. The title is from the Grapefruit Pink Narrator Stickers. The date stamp is from Staples. The font is p22 Typewriter (my default typewriter font.)

Super simple!

Don't forget to drop by the Lawn Fawn blog to see more projects and to win some goodies. Thanks for coming by!

Technique Tuesday: February Studio AE Blog Hop

Hi there! Welcome to Technique Tuesday's Studio AE Blog Hop. This month's Studio AE stamp set is Super Fantastic. I've created one project already with this set, which you can see here. (I just realized that both layouts are about the beach. Ha!)

In this layout, I masked some of the typewriter font words, and used only Ali's handwritten words. Perfect for those polaroid-esque frames, which I cut using a Silhouette. The photos are just glued to the back of the cardstock frames.

And of course, there's a prize involved! It's a $25 gift certificate for you to get what you want from Technique Tuesday! Woohoo! Here's what you do: leave me a comment here, and make sure to stop by all the other blogs in the hop, and leave comments there too. The winner will be announced Feb 15th on the Technique Tuesday blog. 

Here's the blog hop list:

Kim Garner

you are here -- >   Linda Barber  < -- you are here

Ashley Harris

Daniela Dobson

Nichol Magouirk

Ali Edwards

Laura O'Donnell

Sharyn Tormanen

Teri Anderson

Thanks for coming by today!

Technique Tuesday: Valentine's Day cards

I can't believe Valentine's Day is almost here. It's one of my favorite holidays, but it always catch me by surprise. I guess I'm usually still decompressing from the big holiday that is Groundhog Day...

But anyway...

Let's talk V-Day cards. Here are two Valentine's Day cards I created for Technique Tuesday.

The arrows in this one are from Teri Anderson's Awesome set. Which is: awesome. I stamped them on wood veneer (yes, again with veneer, sorry) and the love circle is from Ali Edwards' Adored set. The Adored set is one of Technique Tuesday's all time best sellers. The folks at TT get regular calls about this set. So they brought it back. Woohoo! I stamped it with Clearsnap Colorbox pigment ink, punched it out, and used a pop up dot to adhere it. The polka dot paper is Canvas Corp.

This card also uses Teri's stamps: the Puffy Hearts set. It's really the perfect Valentine's set. It has six heart designs, a handful of sentiments, and those cute buttons! Ink is by Clearsnap, and the twine is from The Twinery. The cardstock is Bazzill (they have this awesome super smooth one for cardmakers and stampers). Embossing powder is from American Crafts.

Thanks for stopping by today! Please come back on February 10th for our Studio AE blog hop. Did I mention prizes? Prizes = good things.