Over the summer holiday I bought a video camera with the intention of filming more technique videos. It's not the filming part that's stressful though - it's the editing!
It was a whopping 45 minutes when I started (that's pretty good when you consider how long it takes to make an average card) but I whittled it down to a more manageable length!
In the video I show how I do the background with paints and stencils and how I put the whole card together... I love to combine my love of paint with my love of cardmaking and I hope I have shown how easy and freeing it is.
I hope you enjoy!
I was so excited that the Technique Tuesday team was asked to guest design for Becky at PageMaps for the quarterly sketches starting in April.
Check out all of the sketches here:
And here are my samples:
Head to the CardMaps Blog for a Technique Tuesday giveaway and a discount!
Ps... Here's a little video showing my new die storage.
I've gotten so many TT dies lately that it was totally out of hand.
I've gotten so many TT dies lately that it was totally out of hand.
Now they're organized and accessible and I love it!
Supplies Card #1:
Stamps: Say Cheese, Bright Idea
Papers: Bazzill Cardshoppe, Echo Park "This and That" patterned papers
Supplies Card #2:
Stamps: Bundle Of Joy
Papers:Bazzill Cardshoppe Cardstock, MME and Pink Paislee patterned papers,
It's time for a new challenge over at the Naughty Or Nice blog and this month's theme is: Love/Anti-love. I decided to do a funny card I've had in my head for a while and made a video to go along with it.
So in the video I cover: Making, Generation Stamping, and Altering your stamps. I bought some camera equipment this weekend that would allow me to better take videos and I would love to hear what you think! I really enjoy watching other people's videos so I thought that I would make a more concerted effort to make more. I hope you find it helpful, if not, entertaining! lol..
Stamps are from There She Goes (retired)
Memento Inks
Bazzill Cardstock
Crate Paper patterned paper
General's Chalk Pastel Pencils
Hi there! So it's World Cardmaking Day and I have a couple things going on today on the blog... First off: a card!! lol.. (Seems fitting, right?)
I made this card for Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Finishing Touch. I don't know about you, but when I'm nearing the end of a card I take a step back - maybe tidy up a little - and look at the card one last time to see if it needs something else. Can you guess what that was on this card? If you guessed the black drips, then you guessed right. The Queen Anne's Lace stamp (Technique Tuesday) looks great on its own, but the sky looked a little empty and needed something. (The background was cut out of a paper from this Webster's Pages line...) So I took out my black Dylusions Ink Spray and dripped some ink onto the background. Now it looks like little puffs are floating through the air!!
Now for a little fun! My friend Danielle Lounds, has invited me to participate in a "Crafty Hop". Danielle is one of my online craft friends that I've actually met in real life!! She's one of those people that you like instantly because she's just so damn likeable, AND she can bake like no one's business!! lol.. I love the idea of this hop because it can just keep going, introducing us to bloggers we may never have met otherwise. So how does it work? I answer a few questions and then nominate a few other bloggers to take part in the hop. So here goes:
What am I working on now? Hmmm... That's a tough one because I SHOULD be working on stuff, but lately finding the motivation to actually get anything done is hard. I am way behind on my 48 Weeks class with Donna Downey (like, 3 months behind!!), and I do have some design team projects coming up, but nothing is really pressing right now. The most annoying thing about how I work is I need deadlines to motivate me! Give me a deadline and I'm golden!!
How does my work differ from others in my genre? Well, that's a great question because I don't really think I fall into one genre so perhaps my work is unique because of that fact. I think the fact that I don't have one style is kind of my style!! But if I were to say Copic colouring: I like to colour with a lot of contrast so my darks are super dark, and the lights are almost white. I also use Chalk Pastel pencils to add shadows/dimension. Mixed Media: I love colour - I'm not afraid of fluorescents and vivid colours all mixed together!
Why do I create what I do? I have always been an "artist" and I have a very entrepreneurial spirit and I always tend to monetize my creativity. I was always a musician but when music became my full-time career it was really impossible to enjoy it as a "creative outlet." Enter cardmaking. This is something I can come home and do after a long day of teaching. After 7 years I still love it because there is always something new to learn and master and, just like any other kind of art, you are never done learning how to be better. I love a challenge!
How does my creative process work? Like I said in the first answer, I need a deadline or a reason to get started. That could even be as simple as a challenge I would like to play, but yah, I need a "job" to do to get started... From there it's decision-time: mixed media? Copics? Watercolors? Clean and Simple? Stamping? No stamping??? Then it's patterned-paper (if I'm using it), then stamps... I also need to have a completely clean and organized work-space each and every time I start crafting otherwise I can't think. ADHD is really annoying sometimes and I just can't focus with distractions around me!
SO speaking of creative process... Do you want a look at my new digs here in China? I went through how I have organized my craft space too!
Who am I nominating?
Teri Anderson: Her blog: A bit of this. A bit of that, was one of the first blogs I ever subscribed to. Her clean & simple style intrigued and fascinated me and I found myself looking forward to her new posts each day in my reader. Fast-forward a few years and she is now my "boss" with Technique Tuesday and one of my good crafty friends. Her generosity of talent and her kind nature are two of the things I love about her... Oh, and she's also an amazingly talented and famous crafter. There's that too...
Daniela Dobson: Her blog: Create Your Everyday is for everyone: cardmaker, scrapbooker, altered art, project life... She does it all and she does it very well! We've been on Tech. Tuesday for many years and I think that's where we "met" but I've been a follower of hers for a long time. Her projects are always full of beauty, layers, intricacies, and heart.
So that's all for now. I hope you are able to get creative today!! Thanks for visiting, and I hope you like the video!
Hey everyone, and welcome to our second, and final night of peeks for this month's release!! Tonight's set is SO super sweet!!
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Here’s the card using some gorgeous Webster’s Pages designer papers:
That is SO something my kitty would do. lol…
Little Moments is a 6x8 set that includes a total of 12 stamps $24.
Would you like to win the new Little Moments stamp set? Here is what you need to do- visit the Trendsetter’s blogs that are participating in each of the blog hop challenges below and comment on their creations as you go. One of the Trendsetter’s blogs (from each hop day) will be randomly chosen as the ‘it’ blog and a winner will be picked using a random number generator from the comments left on that Trendsetter’s Blog Hop Challenge post.
You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning new stamps! The Blog Hop Challenges will be open until 5 PM Eastern Time Saturday December 31st with the winner being announced during the release party chat.
I chose to make a card for the cat lovers in our lives… One thing my son and I like to marvel at is our cat’s ability to sleep ANYWHERE and in ANY POSITION. We have two little cutie cats but this is the one who is the contortionist of the pair:
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Here’s the card using some gorgeous Webster’s Pages designer papers:
That is SO something my kitty would do. lol…
This particular scene consists of 3 separate stamps (the window, kitty, and the dresser).
Here’s a close-up:
And… Because I got such a warm response from my first Copic video I filmed most of the colouring of this image. My iPhone was a little full so I wasn’t quite able to capture the whole thing, but really you just missed out on me drawing the floor and colouring in the background.
Little Moments is a 6x8 set that includes a total of 12 stamps $24.You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning new stamps! The Blog Hop Challenges will be open until 5 PM Eastern Time Saturday December 31st with the winner being announced during the release party chat.
This is an exciting day for me! I got an iPhone last week and I’ve been downloading apps and playing games, taking cool pictures, but I kinda totally forgot that I can take videos with it. DUH!!
This is my grand debut of a Copic video (yes I know Copic videos are SO 2 years ago, but I don’t care!) and I hope you like it.. I did the kind of video where I do no talking but show you the colours that I’m working with and I’ve sped it up… I hope you like the format because I really do…
Enjoy!
My grand debut!
Here are some still shots of the final product:
Thank you for your feedback if you have any!
