Today in Rainbow Maker Class we explored rainbow stamping. I was inspired by Jennifer McGuire to make this card: Do you arrange your clothes by color in your closet? I definitely do, and I think that yellow dress needs to be in my size! Which color do you want? Smile, It will look good on you! […]
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Rainbow Maker: Hugs Sequin Card
I was inspired by Laura Bassen (and Jennifer McGuire) to make this card: It may not look like it, but there are over 200 sequins (4 mm) on this card, each placed one-by-one! This was definitely a labor of love. I think it was worth it, don’t you? Loving this class so far. May your […]
Rainbow Maker Day 1
What a great day of class today at Online Card Classes: Rainbow Maker. We started out with Kristina Werner showing us many ways to blend ink and create rainbow cards. Here’s my first samples: The last one is actually inking AND stenciling as taught by Laura Bassen. SO, for my first card I used that […]
Rainbow Happy Birthday
I’m so excited for the upcoming Online Card Classes: Rainbow Maker. So I couldn’t resist to make a few rainbow cards to get ready. I used a few stamp sets from Mama Elephant and a die from My Favorite Things. Here the second card: And, of course I couldn’t stop there. So I made another […]
Comparing Distress Ink & Distress Oxides: Watercoloring
[This is the second in a series of comparing Distress Ink vs. Distress Oxides. See the Blending comparison here.] The next question I had was: “Can you watercolor with the new Distress Oxide inks?” And, since it’s the end of shark week, I used sharks as my subject. I used Tim Holtz watercolor paper and […]
Distress Oxide Inks: Blending & Stencils (How do they compare?)
I will admit, I was skeptical about the new Distress Oxide Inks. In many pictures I saw using the Distress Oxide inks, they looked chalky and not as vibrant. They also looked muddy and unimpressive to me. Now, I love my original Distress Oxides for inking, but they are not so good for stamping. So […]
Glitzy Glitter! (MFT Camp Create Day 5)
Who can resist a little glittery glitz? Of course I was very excited about today’s camp craft with MFT. I took some darling MFT monkeys and added some glittery shirts using scor-tape. It’s nice and strong and keeps the glitter in place pretty well. Here’s my card: They are ready for a night out on […]
Divine Dry Embossing (MFT Camp Create Bonus)
For today’s camp craft, we learned more about dry embossing with a die cut. I opted to use my MFT striped cover plate and an embossing pad to make the following card: I used some Distress ink to ink up those daisies (from MFT) for some variation. I love how it turned out! Hope you […]
Spectacular Shakers (MFT Camp Create Day 3)
Shaker cards are fun to make and fun to get (don’t you think?) So for today’s MFT Camp Create we got to make one! It took me some time to figure out what my images would be for this shaker, but I came across this cute set that reminded me of 4th of July. I […]
Remarkable Resist (MFT Camp Create Day 2)
I had a fun day at camp working on a Heat Embossed resist background. I used an older MFT stamp set for this one, but its still one of my favorites. Then I took the large scale background stamp (the circles) and heat embossed them on the balloons and the “floor” of this card. I […]
Hi I'm Kari. I'm a creator, a card maker, and a day maker! I am Lucky in love to a supportive husband, blessed to raise 3 kids (all moved away now!), and happy to be watched over by 2 dogs. I originally started this blog to remind me to be happy amid adversity, and I hope it inspires you, too!
