So... I haven't posted in MANY days and usually that means one thing: I was freaking busy beyond my wildest imagination!! I had a marathon of concerts last week, a whole bunch of school stuff, a lot of...
My farewell TSG post. It still makes me sad to think about TSG closing, but what are you going to do. I am already so busy with design team stuff that I could probably do with one less...
I haven't been very at filling it yet, but I bought a Christmas Smash Journal to record memories from this year's Christmas happenings. My family and I are flying to my parents place for the holidays, so hopefully...
December 15th means we are revealing a brand new Greenhouse Society stamp set. This month it's the Clematis and well, just like 99% of the other flowers we've had, I had NO idea what this flower really looks...
Welcome to the Clearsnap/Stampendous! bloghop. We got to play with a bunch of fun Clearsnap products and I had some fun with pigment inks. I thought it would be nice to stamp with the wonderful metallic inks on...
Hi there! This week the team from Stampendous! is joining forces with the people from Clearsnap. Rich, bright pigment inks from Clearsnap have long made embossing with Stampendous premium embossing powders simple. The slower drying time of pigment...
Topical Tuesday: Chalkboard Ornaments
- December 10, 2013
- By Tobi Crawford
- 2 Comments
Hi there,I'm here with a fun kid-friendly Topical Tuesday for Annabelle Stamps! I bought a package of plain, clear Christmas ornaments knowing I wanted to decorate them somehow, so really this was all just playing around... First, we painted...
I am SO excited to announce a workshop I've had in the works for a while now and it's called: Copic-A-Looza! It will be a two-day extravaganza of Copics, colouring, and probably a few belly-laughs along the way!...
Hello all, thank you for joining us tonight for the very last challenge of 2013! This month it's all about colour, and these would be perfect for lots of different occasions including Christmas! So grab out your stamps...
It's sad, but true; There She Goes is closing their doors... I started designing for Jessica shortly after meeting her and a few other girls in 2011 at a stamp retreat and from there we became close friends....
We at TSG love our holiday sets, and we love our animals, too…so whenever they can combine, we are THRILLED. The new Merry Christ-moose set from Torico is no exception! Ummm... Because he's nailed to the wall above...
Challenge: Colour the Truck of Gifts stamp in rusty yellow... Challenge accepted! Now we're getting into some complicated colouring here! This isn't just colouring something yellow... Or is it? To get the rusty effect I used a couple...
Welcome to day three of new releases from There She Goes stamps! Our second set from new illustrator Danielle Lounds find’s us celebrating the holidays with her unique style of combining handwritten sentiments, with super cute images. I...
Day two of this month's There She Goes Blog Hop Challenges, and we have a full set of fun from artist Wendy Leach that features our favorite sock goblin, but lots of other winter accessories to go along...
This winter sports silhouette stamp is perfect for the winter enthusiast in your life. Not only will it make amazing cards, but it will ROCK for scrapbooking, too. You know I love playing around with backgrounds and Silhouetted...
I've been enjoying creating in my Small Dylusions Journal mostly because it's really quick to finish a page! I love creating in my big one, but sometimes I don't have a tonne of time! Here's my most recent creation: ...
Hi there. Today I'm sharing a card I made with the There She Goes stamp set, Season's Greetings: I think this Spellbinders label die fits this image perfectly! Once I cut it out I left the die on...
Santa Air Drop - Monochromatic Colouring Tutorial
- November 21, 2013
- By Tobi Crawford
- 1 Comments
I'm here today with another quick Copic tutorial using Stampendous! stamps. For today's card I chose the gorgeous Cling Santa Air Drop stamp. I was looking at this scene and wondered how I could really focus on Santa and...
This month is a beauty... It's one of those stamps that doesn't take a lot of work to make beautiful. I stamped the image with Memento ink and coloured it with Copic markers. As you can see, it...
So I've been smitten by PanPastels. I'm seeking out new ways to use them and I've been having a lot of fun. Today's art journal page started with the PanPastel Resist technique. This technique was different from what...