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Thursday, November 28, 2019

Scene Built Watercolor + Happy Thanksgiving + Black Friday Coupons

Happy Thanksgiving! Or Happy Thursday if it's not Thanksgiving where you are! Brace yourselves for pictures of food on the internet.

I'm headed to my mom's house - I'm making prime rib, which I'm super excited about. My post-turkey life is going well!

I made cranberry sauce anyway because I love it. Instead of regular orange juice, I used Evolution Fresh Defense Up juice, which has a touch of acerola cherry and the sauce is phenomenal! I just use a bag of cranberries, 8-10 ounces of orange juice, the zest of one orange, and 2 TBS brown sugar. I cook it until most of the berries have popped. I like mine VERY tart, so feel free to add more sugar.

Cranberries are miraculous - the way they gel is so fun. I wish all fruits did that - think how easy on the spot jams would be!

I bought a few new stamps that speak to my Santa Fe loving heart a few months ago and they've been sitting in my "to be used" bin waiting for my hectic fall travel to end. I like to keep new stamps together on my desk until I've used them before I file them away.

These are scene building stamps that work with other scene building stamps, so I bought the mountain set and the desert set. They work especially well with masking.

This is the order I did everything in.

I stamped the small cactus from the desert set first and masked it. Then I stamped the larger cactus on top of it. Leaving the small cactus masked, I stamped the house and masked that. Then I stamped the mesa from the mountain set three times, masking it twice. You can build endlessly long mountain ranges with these stamps, and angling them differently as I have done here with both the mountains and the cacti make them look like totally different stamps! I painted the sky in Ultramarine Blue, the mesa and ground with my favorite - Hematite burnt scarlet, and the house with Quinacridone deep gold. The cacti are a combo of Undersea Green and Quinacridone Purple.

I'm so glad I had time to paint this this week - I love this imagery. Makes me feel at home in my beloved desert. This whole line is on sale this week - there are some awesome Black Friday sales happening, so I'll list a few coupon codes below my card! You can pick up these and the Daniel Smith at Ellen Hutson's sale.



I hope your Thanksgiving (or just your weekend) is safe and happy and filled with pie and stretchy pants!


Watercolor Desert, Art Impressions...
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Watercolor Mountain, Art Impressions...
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The Ultimate Mixing Palette: a World...
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Fadeout No Line coloring Detail Ink
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VersaFine Clair Ink Pad, Nocturne -...
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Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors
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Escoda Versatil Brushes, Travel Round...
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Fabriano Extra White Cold Press...
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MISTI Stamping Tool
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Rotatrim Professional Series Cutter -...
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Nesting Porcelain Bowls - BLICK art...
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My Favorite Watercolor Sketchbook
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Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two...
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LightView 2in1 LED Magnifier for...
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Airtable: Organize your stamps & dies
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Sakura CLASSIC WHITE Fine Line 05...
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Art Anthology BIG CRAFT MAT 24x36 311473
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Heavy Base Weight Card Stock- White
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Teflon Bone Folder - Ellen Hutson LLC
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Crafter's Companion GEMINI...
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OrganizeMore! Craft storage made easy!
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Scor-Pal MINI SCOR-BUDDY Scoring...
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Essentials by Ellen Storage...
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Die Storage - Clear Storage Pockets...
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XL Stamp Storage Pockets
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Lawn Fawn STAMP SHAMMY Cleaner LF1045
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Mermaid tidy towel case and glue...
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Picket Fence Studios - Stickers,...
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Sumikko Gurashi Paper Stickers |...
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Happy Thanksgiving! Loveyameanitbye!

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Big Bold Birthday + Coupon Code

This was going to be the year I really kicked it into high gear in the birthday card mailing department.

It's not like I don't have the supplies, after all.

But it's amazing how little control any of us have over what our plans are, really.

The good news is, I have made a stash of both birthday and Christmas cards this year that I CAN mail when my schedule permits, so watch out, birthday people! Incoming!

I was lucky enough to have met Amy, the owner of The Stamp Market, in another life, and I was tickled pink when she struck out on her own. She's such a sweet person, and her style is very clean and appealing to me.

So our Crafty Friends just because focus this month is Amy.

I had done a little retail therapy in her store this fall, but hadn't had a chance to use what I bought until I got back in town a few weeks ago. I fell hard in love with her bold birthday die, because y'all know how much I love die cut inlay with bold dies. I did the never-ending thing - where after I cut it a few times, I used the parts and pieces to make several cards.

First, I cut a piece of Key Lime. Into the negative spaces, I took the positives from another piece I cut from white cardstock, and mounted that on a white card base for an all one-layer clean and simple birthday card. So quick if you're rushing out to a birthday party!
Now here's a blast from the past! Remember this video?


Well would you believe I still have some of those samples in my UFO pile? (UFO = Unfinished Objects.) It's true - I do.

One of the samples I had done on a blank sheet of canvas, and I loved the texture in the background. It took some courage to die cut that piece, but I did! I didn't paper piece this one - the white showing through is the card base. But I did glue back in the pieces on the B, the R and the A. 
The leftover letters were too pretty to throw away, so on the piece that I cut the white letters out of on my first card, I pieced the canvas letters into it for a second all one layer card. Such a fun die. It would be great with the eclipse technique too. 
Stay tuned below for a coupon for 20% off this die or whatever catches your eye at Amy's shop! Discount is good through tomorrow. See the graphic for details.

Birthday Cover Die - The Stamp Market
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Dylusions Adhesive Canvas Blank, 8pc
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Lukas Cryl Liquid Acrylic - Cadmium...
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Lukas Cryl Liquid Acrylic - Magenta
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Lukas Cryl Liquid Acrylic - Cobalt...
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Envelopes 10 pack- Key Lime - Gina K...
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Heavy Base Weight Card Stock- White
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Art Anthology BIG CRAFT MAT 24x36 311473
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MISTI Stamping Tool
[ MSP | HA | SSS | ELH | MFT | UNT ]
Rotatrim Professional Series Cutter -...
[ BLIC ]
LightView 2in1 LED Magnifier for...
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Teflon Bone Folder - Ellen Hutson LLC
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Crafter's Companion GEMINI...
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Scor-Pal MINI SCOR-BUDDY Scoring...
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Essentials by Ellen Storage...
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Die Storage - Clear Storage Pockets...
[ CHC ]
XL Stamp Storage Pockets
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Mermaid tidy towel case and glue...
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Lawn Fawn STAMP SHAMMY Cleaner LF1045
[ SSS | CST ]
Airtable: Organize your stamps & dies
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Products Archive - The Stamp Market
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Click the graphic to shop at a discount and use my code at checkout!