Gnome rocking motorcycle

Hello there, and welcome!

Boy, time flies! I thought I would take the opportunity to work in the garden while I had a stretch of good weather. The weather and the yard work s-t-r-e-c-h-e-d on for several days. I lost track of time and my endurance level. Getting old is the pits!

Anyway, I finally took photos of the last KLM Designs cards I made. This first one reminds me of my younger days, not that long ago when hubby and I used to ride around our beautiful state on a Gold Wing, leaning into those corners. 

-The background is a smooshed Distress Ink background cut with a Stitched Rectangle STAX Die-namics Die.

-The cloud in the foreground is a piece of vellum colored with Copic marker and alcohol, cut with a stitched cloud die. (Marker colors B45 and C7)

- I followed the directions from one of the many online videos for interactive swing cards. 

-The sentiment was created on my ScanNCut.

- I printed the pre-colored image onto medium-weight card stock using my Epson Printer and cut it out with ScanNCut.

I hope you are having beautiful weather and find time to enjoy nature as well as create.

350 Cards & Gifts and some fun . . .

 

   OMGoodness! This is LOADED with inspiration. And there are many free templates to download from the magazine site for some of the projects.

RUN don’t  walk to the nearest store or computer to get a copy!

I have a project hiding in here somewhere. Think you can find it? Let me know if you do. I will randomly select a winner from those entered on  April 10.

That should give you some time to get it in your hot little hands!

Winner will receive a KLM clear stamp and some goodies to play with.

 

 

 

So Special

This is how I feel about some of the wonderful designers out there that I draw inspiration from all the time. This card is a clear CASE of Dawn McVey's card seen here. I didn't have the same stamps, my version is with the KLM set Decorative Circles. Visit Dawn's blog . You can spend hours there and be so inspired!


You’re So Special – Paper: (New Leaf) PTI; (Wild Wasabi, Confetti White, Pure Pomegranate, Pixie Pink) SU
Ink: (Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko; (Wild Wasabi) SU
Stamps: ((Decorative Circles) KLM Designs; (Mailbox Greetings) PTI
Color Medium: ( markers) Copic
Accents: (button) PTI; (crystals) Hero Arts

Background Play

If you follow my work you have probably notices that I don't use much patterned paper. I love it ;I own tons of it;


I have to force myself to use it.
I just like to make my own backgrounds. I used all PTI background stamps for this. They are so easy to use.
The flower is from KLM Designs Decorative circles stamp set. I use a lot of their digitals and now they have clearstamps!

Floral Congratulations – Papers; ( Scarlet Jewel) PTI; (Always Artichoke, Kraft)SU
Stamps: (Decorative Circles) KLM Designs; (Leaves and sentiment from Delightful Dahlia, Frame from Borders and Corners: Rectangles, Basic Backgrounds: TinType, Polka Dot Basics; (Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko
Dies: (leaf from Delightful Dahlia) PTI; (Scallop circle) Nestibilities
Color Medium: (markers) Copic
Fibers: (hemp twine)
Accent: (button) PTI

PTI BlogHop Color Combo

Color, puff,puff, ... 5 minutes, puff,puff .... Yikes! A change ...
computer crash!



I just can't get time to work for me today. Posted late so hope you all get to see this.


Here is my card. I used Enchanted Evening, Terra Cotta and Summer Sunrise. It made a great comb for a little boy's card. Image is from KLM Designs new stamp line.





Enjoy the evening!

Got your number! PTI June Bloghop Colrs

I figured I'd best post this before the laptop goes to the shop for a check-up. Have been having some serious issues lately. I give up! Time for the professionals to bail me out.

This little guy is for one of the Paper Craft challenges, to use pages from the phone book. It is also a favorite color of PTI papers.

My grandson's birthday is soon so I decided to make his card using this KLM clown stamp. He was colored with Copic markers. Classic Numbers from SU is the 5 stamped on the background and the sentiment. The 5s in all the phone numbers are highlighted. Cardstock and ribbon are PTI,(Terra Cotta, Enchanted Evening, and Summer Sunrise). Sentiment was computer generated and punched with SU punches.

Hive I told you?

Here is another from the Buzzin' Bee set at KLM Digital Designs.


The new photopolymer stamps are really great to work with. The digital has both the digi images and the clear stamp sets.

Supplies are nearly identical to the previous post. A ribbon and button from my ancient stash from quilting days, and and an additional background from PTI, Tin Type.

Sunny at last!

Good Sunday morning. Sorry to be absent so long but we, at KLM Designs, have been busy cooking up a surprise for you. Katy has been working night and day (literally) to make her dream of designing a stamp line come true. That means she needed some art work. That is my contribution. Sooooooo . . . coming to KLM in early April

PHOTOPOLYMER CLEAR STAMPS

This sunflower and sentiment is one of the sets that will be available. I couldn't resist sharing the hibiscus plant. This thing has been blooming like this all winter. There are currently 20 buds on it. What a joy to look at when there is 3 feet of snow on the deck.

Here is a close up of the card. Stamped directly onto Georgia Pacific CS it is colored with Copic markers. I used and old wash cloth and some blending solution to daub texture onto the center of the flower.

The tiny image in the corners is a stamp from one if PTI's Borders and Corners sets. These sets have these tiny additional elements that add little touches of interest to so many designs. The moss green line was made with a straight edge and a marker.

Copics saturate the paper so the color bleeds through. I usually add a piece of paper to cover this on the inside. I try to keep it light but not light enough to see through. The purpose is to cover the shadowing. I find if I use a paper color that pulls from one of the colors on the front it works nicely to mask the marker and it is light enough to write on.

Hopefully I will have time to play with some of the others, soon! Until then enjoy and keep stamping!