Living My Dream

Random Stamping Technique

Today I am the guest blogger at Scrapbook and Cards Today. This is my blog post for them: Hello Scrapbook and Cards Today friends! I have three cards to share with you today using one of my favorite stamping techniques I call "random stamping". I try to get as much use as possible out of my stamps, so I often turn to this technique as it uses all the stamps in one set and can give you many different looks with one set. My favorite type of stamps to use for this technique are flower stamps as they create beautiful card backgrounds. Today I am using a floral stamp set by Concord & 9th called Wildflowers. I used a different... Read more →

Pretty Pink Posh Christmas Friends

This is NOT a Christmas post although the title might have made you think it was! During the holiday season, Pretty Pink Posh released a stamp and die set called Christmas Friends. I fell in love with it. But apparently so did every one else as it was immediately out of stock everywhere! I was very disappointed as once it did come back into stock, the holidays were too close to utilize it. BUT, I decided to buy it recently because I realized it was too cute to resist AND it could be used for winter cards as well! All that leads to today's post where I will show you two shaker cards using the Pretty Pink Posh Christmas Friends... Read more →

"One Stamp, Five Ways" - Simon Says Stamp March Card Kit

Today's "one stamp, five ways" post uses the newly released Simon Says Stamp March Card Kit called Some Bunny. Here is an image of this very springy kit: They are selling the darling stamp set alone HERE if you only want to use that - I will be showing five ways I used it in this post. They are also selling just the floral egg stencil HERE which I used in one of my cards below. The kit also includes three containers of Tonic Mini Nuvo Mousses. After playing with them I am a big fan! Card 1: This card focuses on the stencil and mousse. I wanted to show different ways to use it in each of my cards.... Read more →

"One Stamp, Five Ways"- SSS Love and Quotes

I finally finished another "one stamp, five ways" post to share with you! I've been a little busy lately, so I haven't had as much time to create. REALLY BUSY. With terribly important things. Ok, truthfully, I've become addicted to collecting sea glass and it's getting in the way of me blogging! I have lived by the beach for 20 years, but for some reason I didn't know about sea glass until about 2 weeks ago. And now I'm addicted. My daily beach dog walks have gone from an hour a day to about three! I know I have to come back to reality and be responsible, so this will NOT last. Ok, back to the blog post purpose! Here... Read more →

Watercolor Love Cards

I shared my set of Love Watercolor Cards when there were released a few weeks ago. But I hadn't colored them all yet, so I made a few more to share with you. They were out of stock for a while, but they are back in stock now at Simon Says Stamp! Here is the set - I made most of the cards work for general love, not just Valentine's Day. Here are some of my watercolored versions. You can use any coloring medium, but I used watercolors for all of these. I'll give details under each one. I die-cut this one with a stitched rectangle one size smaller than a card front using MFT Blueprints 13 die. I painted... Read more →

Pretty Pink Posh Design Team!

I'm so excited to announce I'm joining the Pretty Pink Posh Design Team for the next four months. In the past, I have guest designed for them twice. I use their sequins on EVERYTHING I make! When they started making stamps, I fell even more in love with them. Paulina is such a great designer and such a nice person that I really wanted to work with her products more. So I was super happy when she asked me to join the team for this next season. The Pretty Pink Posh store is reopening as of today! All of their products are back up for sale after being closed for the past couple months. And they are coming out with... Read more →

Altenew Blog Hop Winner!

Hello friends! Today I want to announce the winner for the Altenew Blog Hop from last week. I am going to use Random Number Generator to pick a winner so here goes. There were 273 comments left on the post. Here are the results! Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 3 Timestamp: 2017-02-04 21:56:34 UTC Now I'm off to find out who left the third comment! The winner is: I love the Life is Beautiful Stamp Set, stunning cards. POSTED BY: CATHERINE SMITH | JANUARY 27, 2017 AT 07:51 AM Congratulations to Catherine Smith! Thank you to all of you who left comments - the compliments just made me so happy and made all that hard work (play)... Read more →