by Ericka Strange
I hope you are all doing well and having a fantastic day. I'm over on the Shimmerz Paints Blog today playing with the Shimmerz Paints and making a fun rainbow card. I love all the beautiful and bright Shimmerz available and thought I'd play around making a rainbow. I stamped the Essentials by Ellen Over... Continue Reading →
Happy Monday and I hope the start of this new week finds you healthy and well. I'm over on the Shimmerz Paintz Blog today with another card I made for the Shimmerz Spring Forward Challenge. The challenge is all about making a layout or card WITHOUT using PATTERNED PAPER!! I made a fun background using... Continue Reading →
I'm thrilled to be a guest artist for this month's CLASSroom Color Trend Challenge for Ellen Huston. I'm a huge fan of both the store and also this fun challenge. If you haven't heard about this fun challenge here is a little info. The Color Trend challenge is a monthly inspirational challenge based on the... Continue Reading →
I'm playing along with the Ellen Huston Pin Site Challenge for April. Here is my card I made using this gorgeous new Mondo Sakura. I stamped the image on watercolor paper and heat embossed in gold. I then took my Zigs and watercolored the images focusing the darker color on the shaded areas. I love... Continue Reading →
I'm playing along with the Ellen Hutson Pin - Sights Challenge with this fun Essentials by Ellen All Inside set. I recently received a set of Avery Elle's awesome liquid watercolors from an Ellen Hutson blog hop. I thought they would make the perfect background for a rainbow card. I took some watercolor paper and... Continue Reading →
I hope you are doing well. I was lucky enough to get my hands on these new sets by Essentials by Ellen and wanted to share them with you. You can find the new release here. Let's take a look at the Hot Mess Leading Lady. As a mom, I can totally relate and often... Continue Reading →
I've been having fun playing with alcohol inks and backgrounds and then I saw Jessica Frost -Ballas from All The Sparkle post where she had the most gorgeous flower painted with alcohol ink. Find her post and video tutorial here, it is awesome. I started out stamping the magnolia on some Yupo paper in Versmark... Continue Reading →
It’s November so it’s time to start making Christmas cards. I wanted to use some scrapes in my stash, so I decided to make some pattern paper by cutting 1/2 inch strips and placing them on a card base that I had put some double stick tape on. Once I had my card base! I... Continue Reading →
It's been a busy an summer and the kids are finally back to school after a 2 week delay thanks to Hurricane Harvey. Thankfully, we are all safe and well but I'll post more on that later. Even though it doesn't seem like fall weather here in Houston, I broke out the fall colors for... Continue Reading →
I'm playing along with the Ellen Hutson June Pin-Sights Challenge today. I made two cards using the color prompts of the challenge. For my first card, I used the Essentials by Ellen Mondo Peony and the Concord & 9th Happy Words & Stripe Builder on Strathmore Watercolor paper. I first stamped the stripes in Picked... Continue Reading →
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