Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Impressionist Iris - A Coloring Hack!


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Y'all. My white irises are STILL blooming! And my rosebush is going insane - it also changed color - but nothing surprises me anymore.

However, oddly - this is the first year in 21 years that my amaryllis haven't bloomed - unless they are just going to have very strange timing this year. 

Anyway, with all the floral inspiration, I thought I'd try something different for this stunning iris die - and I ended up loving it! So I will keep the deets a secret, but I'll give you a bookmark for the video that will be posted next Wednesday with a step by step!

The die is just lovely and just a few pieces to put together - I think you will love it. The sentiment is from this set. I'll be back in a live this week with the - you guessed it - BLUEBONNET. 💙

I thought it was dramatic enough I'd just put it on black and let it shine. 


I hope you're having a good week. Work has been crazy, Splotchy has some hives, and it's been stormy and cold here, so I'm ready for a weekend with no obligations and some sleep!

My mom found a Leo Lionni book I had never seen!! I can't wait to read it!

Speaking of reading - does anyone know how to make the sleep timer on Audible work? I set it for 30 minutes, but it just keeps playing and then I wake up in the morning and it's still playing 34 chapters later. 🙈 I'm on iOS. 

Hope you have a good weekend!

Loveyameanitbye.


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Monday, March 18, 2024

VIDEO: No-Line Stenciling


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Hi friends! We've emerged from a stormy St. Patrick's Day weekend! I hope you had fun. I doodled around on the internet all weekend since I couldn't weed my flowerbeds, and I found some fun things. I found a video for a super high tech, pretty coffee machine I'm intrigued by. My espresso machine is from the late 1900s - it's been a workhorse, but it's HUGE. We pulled out this hideous built in microwave that came with the house recently and that's when I noticed how much bigger older appliances are than newer ones. We actually have the same issue with our ovens - we have double ovens, and when they died and we had them replaced just prior to 2020 - it left about a 4" tall gap at the top of the opening which I have yet to creatively deal with. But I also - through a DEEP FB rabbit hole, found a website that has historical aerial images. It's a little too pricey a subscription for me, but if you're looking for something specific, it would be incredibly helpful. I do use Google Earth Pro, but it's got wonky images sometimes. All the other sources of aerials were designed by something other than humans and are so hard to use. This site is pretty slick, so I'm tucking that away for the future. 


Anyhoo, I have a new video for you today with a no-line layering stencil for teacher cards. Just a note, this does have a matching stamp set and dies that I used to no-line watercolor this same image in this video

What I did in this video though is flip the intention of the highlight portion of the stencil, which is a fun way to get a different look from layering stencils. 

It's the time of year to start thinking about teacher appreciation, so don't wait too long! Here's the card! After completing the process in the video, I used some grid tape to stencil a blue background for grounding. The sentiment is from the matching stamp set. The ink colors are listed in the video description.


So enough chit chat - here's the video!



Loveyameanitbye.

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Bookish Cards


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Trigger warning - I have used an old book in this blog post 😂. I know that that, and painting wood furniture upsets a lot of people so I'm giving you fair warning!

I love all things book, despite my controversial use of mass market used books in my art! So I love pairing that sort of ephemera with book-themed products, and that's what I have for you today!.

I had the MOST fun coloring the book that this cute little literary gnome is reading - I chose dark colors to make it look older, like he's sitting in the stacks of my college library. 

And you might not recognize it, because my video with the technique was so dramatic and bold, but I actually used my Blackout Embossing technique on this card, just with a dictionary page and a Sea Glass ink pad to give that fun sort of upholstery look in the background

If you are an avid reader, and want to see some AMAZING things, check out this hashtag on Instagram - it's one of my favorites.


I used some retired fall paper for this cute little owl and if you look at the gold strip - the embossing folder looks like an open book! I just cut one row of the pattern. I used my go to word die for a simple finish. 


I asked this on Facebook the other day and got some great responses, so I'll ask here - what are you reading? I'm looking for a new series that's as good as Louise Penny's Gamache series is. Got any suggestions?

Hope you are doing well.

Loveyameanitbye.


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