East Coast Stamping with Mary Louise

Hello crafters,  How many of you dabble in multiple art forms besides paper crafting?  This is my second diamond art project (the first was a small dollar store picture and very small).  I wasn't really sure about this, so many shades of grey, blues.  But I love this guy!  And I found it to be very addictive.  I would sit in the evening, just to put a few in but it would be hours later and I would realize my evening was gone.  Now I can't wait to do another one, just need to figure out what I should do next. Have you tried diamond art crafting?    

Hey everyone!  Todays project was created for a card class and I wanted to showcase the Forever Greenery Vellum.  I had seen a card on Pinterest that inspired me.  Don't you just love Pinterest? The piece of vellum was torn a bit on the bottom, as you can see from the photo, leaving just enough room to see the sentiment from the layer underneath. Stamp your sentiment using Memento onto the bottom right hand corner of the layer of Garden Green cardstock.  Then tear the vellum just enough to see that image.  Now adhere to the Garden Green layer using liquid glue and glue dots being careful with your placement.  The glue will sometimes show through the vellum, so I place embellishments over those spots to hide it. Using the silver twine, take a piece just big enough to cover the front to the card and tape it to the back of the vellum/garden green layer.  Now take a smaller piece of silver twine and tie a knot around the first piece you placed.  Add s...

Good day, folks. We are a few days into fall officially and three months until Christmas!  Two of my favourite times of the year.  Today's project will be fall based and one I can't wait to try.  I am featuring the Leaf Collection background stamp using some fall colours and then heat embossing.   Using the Real Red, Daffodil Delight and Cajun Craze ink pads and the Blending Brushes, apply ink where you want the colours to be.  I start off the paper and in a circular motion.  You can see that I layered, red, then cajun and daffodil last.  Then I stamped using Versamark, sprinkled on the White Embossing Powder and heat set with my Stampin' Heat tool. It needed to be trimmed just a bit and then adhered to the card front.  I also added a bit of the Cajun Craze to the insert using a Blending Brush, then stamped the sentiment using Memento and finally added to the inside of the card base. Next, I punched my scrap of Crushed Curry cardstock, stampe...

Good day folks!  I am here with another card created for my recent Stampin' Up! gathering this past weekend.  We had a day long activity where we focused on building up our Stampin' Up! business, watched several Atlantic Demos create some beautiful projects and then participated in a show box swap.  This was my shoe box swap offering. I have used this fancy fold layout several times and thought it was the perfect opportunity to showcase some of the beautiful Nests of Winter dsp in the latest mini catalogue! My cardbase is Grey Granite which was cut and scored, the die cut square behind the image and the strip to hold the card together are all Gray Granite too.  The dsp is from Nests of Winter and they are adhered to the front and the inside of the cardbase.  There is a small piece of Basic White for the insert and fits beside the piece of dsp.  The strip of Gray Granite,  is scored is secured next.  Starting at the far left edge of the card front,...

Today's card was inspired by a sketch seen on facebook from an American Demonstrator.  I was intrigued by the cool way to use some of our beautiful designer series paper and the best part is, you don't need a huge piece! I am attending a Stampin' Up! event this weekend and we were asked to bring a few projects to share and this is one of my projects. Fall isn't officially here yet, but once school starts up and the leaves start to fall off the trees, it's pretty close.  The Splendid Autumn designer series paper is gorgeous, the beautiful rich colours are simply stunning.   The cardbase and matte layer are Wild Wheat and the cardstock that the dsp is mounted on is Crushed Curry.  Simply cut the pieces and adhere together and then adhere to the card front.  I stamped using Memento onto a strip of Basic White cardstock which was then mounted on to another piece of Crushed Curry.  This was then popped up using Stampin' Dimensionals after the length of 2023...

Hello, and welcome to my blog!   Today's project is using an epic older layout and giving it a fresh look using products from the 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue as well as some Online Exclusives. It always amazes me how the products all coordinate and compliment each other.  Using three different selections from the Unbound Beauty Designer Series Pack, I was able to create a very pretty birthday card.  I like should have thought a bit about what colours I wanted to use for my cute bird but oh well!   Once the cutting and the stamping is done, the card goes together so easily...if you are like me it might take an attempt or two to line up the pieces. After running the larger of the two Basic White pieces through the Stamp and Emboss machine using the Zinnia 3D embossing folder, I attached it to the Petunia Pop cardbase.  Next I add the two long strips of dsp (bottom layer) to the cardfront using Stampin' Seal.  Next I added the three strips (top layer)...