East Coast Stamping with Mary Louise

 Hey everyone! Today is the perfect day to be tucked in my craft room creating.  It's been snowing and now the sun is shining, and I am glad to be inside now. I received my preorder for the new mini catalogue and sale a bration.  My video today focused on the Wildflower Birthday 12x12 Specialty Designer Series Paper and the Birthday Celebration stamp set. So let me tell you a little bit about the dsp.  It has lovely colours of flowers, birthday cakes, and balloon images and some gold embossing also.  There are also 2 pages of bigger images you could cut out to be complete card fronts or tags AND 2 pages of various die cuts-from flowers, balloons and banners to greenery and cakes.   This card and layout are very easy to duplicate and still make a great card!. Stamping was completed first, a sentiment for both the inside of the card and also for the front.  I used Soft Sea Foam ink and the Birthday Celebration offerings. Next I added a small strip o...

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...