I am so excited for this project! This month we were asked to create a Suitcase for our project with the amazing ladies from Thinking Outside The Box, and with the wonderful idea from my friend Che…

I decided to take a little break this weekend from painting and did some tangling. This tangle is done on 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" white drawing paper. I used Micron-Pigma waterproof black ink pens in .005 and .08. This is not officially a Zentangle since they are usually not representational shapes - I guess it would be called Zentangle inspired art.

Hi everyone, I am so excited to present you this months project. We were asked to create a milk carrier box, and I love how this turned out. I was inspired by a box that I received from another dem…

Hi everyone, I am back again with another project with the amazing ladies from Thinking Outside The Box! This month we were asked to design an hinged style box. This is the box I made. I had to use…

Welcome to the next instalment of our International Blog Hop Thinking Outside the Box! This month we are literally going “outside the box” with our creations! It is a card that “explodes” when you …

Take your Alcohol ink to next level with texture and shine. Make unique 3D Textured Wall Art with Alcohol ink - no sanding needed.

I love how these two cards turned out! On the first card I placed the paper border about two thirds down on the card and then put the sentiment onto the stitched circle. On the second card I placed…

Welcome to Barb's Daily Creations! I have lofty ambitions - I want to post a new drawing or painting every day. The purpose of this, of course is to stay creative and on task artistically even when I may not feel the muses calling, prodding and pushing. I hope that you enjoy my humble efforts, because, ultimately, that is the purpose of creating art - to enrich lives - mine and yours. Thanks for visiting!

Sail Away Masculine Card Class Saturday June 29th at 2:00 PM Past Classes

Happy Wednesday to you all! Today I am going to be featuring Country Home in my One Card Two Looks! This stamp set is so beautiful and I have been loving all of the gorgeous samples that have been …

Sail Away Masculine Card Class Saturday June 29th at 2:00 PM Past Classes

Hello I have another few cards for you today, again using these great Kaszazz Australian Animal stamps. I have again used white card bases, and olive card to mat the image panel and for the stamped and fussy cut gum leaves. The koala was stamped with memento ink and coloured with alcohol ink markers, then cut out. The gum leaves are stamped with archival ink and coloured with pencils, then cut out. The sentiment is embossed. These were then all attached to gumleaves paper and taped to the card front. The koala is coated with glossy accents. The emu was stamped directly to Vintage map paper and a second time to a sticky note, which was cut out and used to mask the original image. Another two emu were stamped over the mask and the mask then removed. An emu was also stamped to spare card, coloured and cut out. All four emu were coloured and the spare emu then mounted, along with some gum leaves to the card front. The dimensional emu is coated with glossy accents. The Windmill and reeds from River Bank set were stamped directly on to the paper. The kangaroo was stamped on white card, coloured and cut out, then mounted, with some gum leaves to the card front. Kangaroo is also coated in glossy accents. The awesome day sentiment used in the inserts is from Jungle Friends set. I hope you have enjoyed this visit and these cards and I look forward to the next time. BaRb

Hello You will of course, have realised by now that I am a Stampin'up Demonstrater, (and have been for many years) though this is not a Stampin'up blog. I love Stampin'up products and am happy to share my ideas and designs. Here is the link if you would like to access Stampin'up products to create your own designs. You will sometimes see projects here which have been created with other products I have and love to play with. Till next time BaRb

Good Day Crafty Friends, Welcome to this fortnight's Colour INKspiration Challenge #36. Blog Hop. You are currently visiting Jackie Aitken in Western Australia. The Colour INKspiration Design Team have created some absolutely amazing cards to inspire you, so be sure to hop all the way through. We have a gorgeous inspiration picture and earthy colour scheme for you to play along with. I am not going fib, when I first saw this inspiration picture I was torn, I love the images but so not a fan of Crushed Curry or Soft Suede and immediately knew if I over thought it I would struggle. I knew I wanted to use the new Tropical Chic bundle but these colours didn't exactly scream tropical lol. The card base has been stamped using Basic Grey ink stamped off along with Crushed Curry. The cluster base has been created using the new Foliage Frame Framelits cut in Whipser White card and then the Frangapani Flower has been inked using Crushed Curry ink. The die cuts were created using the Tropical chic bundle from Soft Suede card When I find a colour challenge a little tricky, due to colours not in my heavy used list, then I often make a couple of cards. This way I have options and just in case some attempts are complete failure then I have something to fall back on. The second card uses the large square framelit die cut from Soft Suede and adhered to a layer of Silver Foil card. Again the Basic Grey was stamped off for the Frangipani leaves and the border detail stamp applied to the bottom of the card front. The celebrate you thinlits were used to die cut the words from Crushed Curry and Soft Suede card. The third card didn't make the cut, what it did make was a screwed up ball in the rubbish bin LOL. INKspired to join the challenge? It's so easy. Firstly, get some INKspiration by hopping around to see what all of the Colour INKspiration Crew have to show you. Then you have 12 days from today to make and upload your creation to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group. You don't have to have a blog to participate but if you do you can link back to your post. Make sure you use all of the challenge colours. You can also use neutrals such as white, black, Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake and Metallics. Not a member of the Facebook group yet? Just click here and ask to join Colour INKspiration, add the group to your favourites and share it with your crafty friends so they can join in the fun too. We can't wait to see what you create with these gorgeous colours. Up next in the blog hop is my very talented friend, Bronwyn Eastley all the way over in Tasmania. Enjoy xx Thanks for stopping by today, until next time, stay awesome

Hello I have another few cards for you today, again using these great Kaszazz Australian Animal stamps. I have again used white card bases, and olive card to mat the image panel and for the stamped and fussy cut gum leaves. The koala was stamped with memento ink and coloured with alcohol ink markers, then cut out. The gum leaves are stamped with archival ink and coloured with pencils, then cut out. The sentiment is embossed. These were then all attached to gumleaves paper and taped to the card front. The koala is coated with glossy accents. The emu was stamped directly to Vintage map paper and a second time to a sticky note, which was cut out and used to mask the original image. Another two emu were stamped over the mask and the mask then removed. An emu was also stamped to spare card, coloured and cut out. All four emu were coloured and the spare emu then mounted, along with some gum leaves to the card front. The dimensional emu is coated with glossy accents. The Windmill and reeds from River Bank set were stamped directly on to the paper. The kangaroo was stamped on white card, coloured and cut out, then mounted, with some gum leaves to the card front. Kangaroo is also coated in glossy accents. The awesome day sentiment used in the inserts is from Jungle Friends set. I hope you have enjoyed this visit and these cards and I look forward to the next time. BaRb

Hello Happy Mother's Day to all the Mums out there. I couldn't resist this - these little birds make you feel so happy. Dudes have Mums too. Words not needed. They speak for themselves. Enjoy and have a great day Till next time BaRb

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Hi, Sarah G here! I have been playing with colour bursts and wanted to try out these vibrant colours with some Uniko designs. I white embossed the beautiful butterfly from English Country Garden and combined it with colour bursts in blue and purple: The embossing resists the colours - I love the way that they swirl and mix when sprayed with water! Unfortunately, I didn't have time to flatten the card after it had got wet so it looks wavy here. It really needed a night under something heavy but you get the idea :) I tried the same technique with the chrysanthemum stamp. The oranges, reds and yellows give the image definition. I combined it with a sentiment from Originally Organic. I hope you like the combination of bright colours with the white embossing. It makes the images pop! Thanks for stopping by :) Sarah x

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Hi stampers! Welcome to week 2 of the Colour Creations Blog Hop with the Art With Heart Team. Every week we will be featuring one of the stunning Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order, starting with the new 2023-2025 In Colours. This week we are featuring Copper Clay. For tonight's card I have used the amazing Earthen Elegance Bundle. Another set that jumped out at me when I first saw the new catalogue. There is a range of stamped and die cut pots and foliage that go beautifully together. These co ordinate perfectly with the Earthen Elegance 12"x12" DSP, so many yummy textures in these papers. I started with a Copper Clay card base and stamped the fine foliage in the top left corner in Copper Clay ink. The pots were cut from the Earthen Elegance DSP and the foliage was cut from Lost Lagoon, Pecan Pie and Pretty Peacock card stock. I wanted to show you a closer look at the pot with the handles as there are two different dies required, the pot and the handles. The Deckled Rectangle behind the pots is Gray Granite and had been embossed with one of the Earthen Elegance Dies. The Thank You is stamped in Pretty Peacock and cut with a Stylish Shape Die. The final embellishment is a piece of Linen Thread wound a couple of times around the tall pot and finished with a bow. I have a second card to share with you. I got the idea for this card from another I saw online made with another stamp set. I started with a piece of Very Vanilla card stock 8cm x 19cm. I inked a C Block in Pebbled Path, stamped off once and then sprayed with rubbing alcohol before stamping in the center of the piece. I repeated this process with Copper Clay and Wild Wheat ink. I made a mask the size of the block and then stamped the foliage images over each block. I used a small piece of Pebbled Path Ribbon under the greeting. All of the products used to make these cards are in the new Stampin' Up! catalogue and are available in my online store. The links are below. If you have any questions please contact me. Now it's time to head to Di Furniss' blog to see her amazing project featuring Copper Clay. If you encounter any issues with the links if this blog hop please head to Cathy Proctor's Blog as she is the wonderful host of our Blog Hops and has a complete list of tonight's participants. Make sure to come back next week when we will be featuring Moody Mauve. Happy stamping, Rachel Product List Earthen Textures Bundle (English) [161514] $96.25 Earthen Elegance 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [161503] $21.75 Inked & Tiled Cling Stamp Set (English) [161158] $47.00 Copper Clay A4 Cardstock [161730] $17.50 Copper Clay Classic Stampin' Pad [161647] $15.75 Gray Granite A4 Cardstock [147008] $17.50 Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550] $18.50 Pecan Pie A4 Cardstock [161726] $17.50 Lost Lagoon A4 Cardstock [133686] $17.50 Pretty Peacock A4 Cardstock [150886] $17.50 Pretty Peacock Classic Stampin’ Pad [150083] $15.75 Wild Wheat Classic Stampin' Pad [161651] $15.75 Pebbled Path A4 Cardstock [161731] $17.50 Pebbled Path Classic Stampin' Pad [161648] $15.75 Pebbled Path 3/8" (1 Cm) Textured Ribbon [161632] $14.00 Stylish Shapes Dies [159183] $53.00 Linen Thread [104199] $8.75 Clear Block C [118486] $14.00 Stampin' Spritzer [126185] $7.00 Add All to Cart

Welcome to Barb's Daily Creations! I have lofty ambitions - I want to post a new drawing or painting every day. The purpose of this, of course is to stay creative and on task artistically even when I may not feel the muses calling, prodding and pushing. I hope that you enjoy my humble efforts, because, ultimately, that is the purpose of creating art - to enrich lives - mine and yours. Thanks for visiting!

I got this idea from Tina Dyck and cased it. Her talent can be found here: TINA DYCK I had been wanting to stamp with this hostess set a...

Having embossing folders that coordinate with images makes for great cards. Look at this Simple Dandelion Wishes idea.

Seize the Birthday is the fun new challenge that uses the same sketch for two weeks. The twist is that the first week is feminine, the sec...

As this catalog year comes to a close, I wanted to share a group of color inspiration posts that will include all the current Stampin' Up! colors. I originally wanted to share a color each week of the catalog year with color inspiration and card samples. But life happened, and I was not able to

This is my version of the northwoods photo from Wisconsin in the style of Z.L. Feng. This painting is 12" x 9" and is painted on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold-pressed watercolor paper. It turns out that it is more my style than Feng's - Oh Well!

I decided to go for my friend Linda Callahan's vase sketch but with the shelf look. I started with the DSP called Tutti-Fruitti for my background layer. I added it to the Tranquil Tide base. I stamped the vases in Memento Tuxedo Black then stamped them with Lemon lime twist ink before stamping my flowers in Tranquil Tide and filling them in with Rich Razzleberry ink stamped off once. I stamped the "shelf" in Tide and the sentiment in Real Red. I finished it off with some Lemon lime Twist sequins. I like the colors together and the freshness of this new set called Varied Vases! My upline, the amazing Mary Fish, helped create this set after she achieved her 1 million in sales for Stampin' Up! So proud of her! And I think she is SIMPLY THE BEST! I hope you have a blessed day and thanks for stopping by! Windy windyellard.stampinup.net Stamp set: Varied Vases Ink: Real Red, Tranquil Tide, Memento Tuxedo Black, Rich Razzleberry, Lemon Lime Twist Paper: Tranquil Tide, Tutti-fruitti DSP, Whisper White adhesive-backed sequin in Lemon Lime Twist

Hi, all! Back again today with another MFT August Teaser for you! Today we’re showing you two more sets: Inspired by the Front Porch - Fall and Mouse in the House - It's Your Birthday, but first, here are a few things you need to know… Here are the details about the upcoming release: You can attend the New Release Party on August 7 from 8-10 PM EST HERE in the MFT forum, where you can WIN PRIZES! The MFT release, including all new stamp sets and Die-namics, is on August 7 at 10 PM EST. You'll find all the newest products HERE at release time. The guest designer contest is going on now! Check out the forum for details on how YOU can win over $200 in stamp sets and Die-namics. If you'd like to see all the teasers for today, please click on over to the MFT Blog NOW. Be sure to leave comments as you go for the chance to win one of 2, $10 gift certificates given away daily. The winners will be posted on August 7 just before the release party, on the MFT blog. I love this set for several reason—one, I love fall and am excited to start designing fall cards, and two, this is one of my concepts :) For this card, I stamped the pot of mums image on Whip Cream card stock three times, masking the center one to stamp the others. Then I colored them with Copic markers and cut the trio out with a soon-to-be-released Die-namics Designer Labels 4 STAX die. I layered it with another die cut from Kraft card stock, cut it down the middle, and adhered the ends to the main image die cut. I tied some twine around the base and added a Jellybean Green button as an accent. I finished it off with the sentiment stamped on a shortened Die-namics Sentiment Strip die cut. Here’s the inside with another sentiment from the set. I’d love to get this as an invitation, wouldn’t you? Here are the Die-namics dies I used on this card: Thanks so much for stopping by! See you back tomorrow for another August Teaser! ~Supplies~ Stamps: Inspired by the Front Porch – Fall (MFT) Paper: Whip Cream card stock, Kraft card stock (MFT) Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa; Antique Linen Distress Ink (Ranger) Accessories/tools: Vagabond; Die-namics Designer Labels 4 STAX, Die-namics Sentiment Strips, Jellybean Green button (MFT); foam dots, Copic markers, Eclipse masking tape, twine