Sunday, June 8, 2025
Landscape Tea Kettle Card
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Beachy Birthday Card for Spellbinders
The Spellbinders Clear Stamp & Die Monthly Club Kit for June is titled, "Anchors Away". I don't have any other club kits in my possession (except the Glimmer Kit), so I tried to get really creative with minimal products.
To get started, I turned to several products in my stash, some Ranger Kraft Cardstock, as the base for my foiling, and an ombre paper pad from Scrapbookcom.
The Glimmer plate is roughly 4 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, so I foiled a larger section of kraft paper, then trimmed my foiled cardstock down to A2 sized. My foiling was done using my Glimmer Hot Foil System, then run through my Platinum 6.


Monday, June 2, 2025
Painted Mountains Card for Pajama Crafter Stamps
Since I'm watercoloring, I opted to stamp my image on heavyweight mixed media cardstock.
I initially stamped my card with black hybrid ink using my stamp positioner, then laid down some masking tape (mint tape) and stamped again with the extra ink on my stamp, fussy cutting only around the top portion of the image.
I laid the trimmed tape on top of my stamped image to mask that area and ink blend my sky, however I forgot to heat set my ink after stamping and some of the red ink blending got a bit muddy around the trees.
I also decided to trim off the trees from my masking tape before ink blending to better better get my ink into the space between the branches. I highly recommend you don't forget to heat set your stamped ink, or instead, do some heat embossing for the stamped image.
All of the inks I'm using today are Catherine Pooler inks. They're water based, and easy to paint with by simply pressing your ink pad on a craft mat, spritzing with a tiny bit of water, then grabbing the mixture with a waterbrush to paint. You can also use a wet paintbrush.
The colors I used are:
Ink blended sky and mountains - Rockin' Red, Orange Twist, Glacier
Field - Succulent, Macchiato, With an Olive
Monday, May 26, 2025
Patriotic Coffee Card
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Spring Tea Card featuring Pajama Crafter Stamps
I'm an avid tea and coffee lover and most days, I start out with a cup of java, then switch to tea. I prefer loose leaf tea and have lots of infusers, although I do buy tea bags as well. I often share photos and reels in my IG stories and on Tiktok @wavingmywand.
This is my current situation, below. Piper & Leaf is a local tea company in my home state, just a couple hours from where I live. I've been a fan of their tea for years and love all the varieties. I will often drink caffeine free tea in the afternoon and today, I'm sipping on the Orchard Peach. It's one of my faves and is soooo peachy!
Let me share a couple brief, creative tips. I really wanted to do some paper piecing so I took a piece of vellum and placed it over my cup, tracing the front of the cup outline with a fine tip black marker. I then used it as a template, laying it on top of my patterned paper and cutting around the outline on my vellum. I was very easy, but not absolutely perfect. I'm still happy with the results though.
I colored all my other images with OLO Markers, using just 4 colors - YO2.2, R0.3, YG2.1, B0.2.
Look closely in the photo above, and you can see where I lightly traced an outline on the inside of my cup, to color in some "water" using B0.2.
Here's a bonus tip: Color all your images first, then color in the "water". It will give added depth to your pre-colored images. I didn't just color water in the empty space, I swiped my marker across the entire space that I sectioned off with my pencil.
Friday, May 23, 2025
Pastel Coffee Card
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Honey and Jelly Card for Catherine Pooler Designs
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