Viewing: water painters
May 26, 2022
The Wild & Sweet Stamp Set is Sweet
The Wild & Sweet stamp set is indeed a sweet set! It had me at the koala bear, and pandas are popular, but … a raccoon? They seem to have a reputation as pesky critters, although I’ve never personally had any run-ins with them. So, unless you have a friend named Rocky, what are you going to do with a raccoon card? And then I colored one for a sample card, and he has such a sweet face!
I’ve made several cards with this new stamp set, and I’ve used Stampin’ Blends, Watercolor Pencils, and watercolor with inks. They all work great, so if you like to color, you may need the Wild & Sweet stamp set.
Posted in Creativity | By Paula Cannon
November 14, 2020
Create a Vintage Style Card With Embossing Folders
Even though I make cards in all kinds of styles (one of the things I love about rubber stamping) vintage style cards are my favorites. Today I want to show you a way to create a vintage style background using embossing folders.
First, let me show you my finished card.
For this background, I used the beautiful Parisian Flourish 3D embossing folder with Very Vanilla card stock. This technique works best with bolder embossing and with the 3D folders.
Posted in Creativity | By Paula Cannon
September 12, 2020
An Old Fashioned Card Using Whiskey Business
As you can see from the card photo, my blog title is a play on words as the card sentiment is “sending you an old-fashioned birthday card.” But I think the design of this card, using the Whiskey Business stamp set, is rather old-fashioned.
There was a time when everyone used black mats for all their images. I didn’t do that a lot because it often struck me as being too heavy for a lot of images. However, I think it works perfectly for this card. It helps with the linear design and works with the dark background and over all tone.
Actually, this card just evokes an old-fashioned sensibility to me. I love historical fiction (books and movies) and I can imagine the men withdrawing from dinner to have cigars and whiskey. Then again, maybe its just the wood paneled background!
Posted in Creativity | By Paula Cannon