Welcome to the TSB Blog Hop! If you’ve just arrived from Amanda’s blog, you’re in the right place. If not, get back there get started. I’m stop 2, so you’re not far off track. It seems the DT ladies are sick of snow and wanted to bring a little sunshine and flowers to the blog world. Of course, here in …

Last week I taught my first 10 Cards/10 Techniques class at Memories Live On. It was such a success that I’ll be teaching it again on Saturday, March 6, from 2-5pm. This is a seriously fun class where you’ll learn things you never knew you could do with your stamps and inks. We make a big mess, but that’s part …

Here’s what happens when I make cards. I color an image, then I go through my paper stash to see what patterns and colors I have to go with that image. If the answer is none (as it often is), I make my own. We’ll get to that in a second. Once I have 2-4 papers to work with, I …

Fact: Attempts to save time rarely end in actual time saved. Case in point: I have a bunch of cards to make today, so I wanted to make the one for this post quickly. So, I decided to color my image with Distress Ink rather than Copics. Then I remembered that I’ve been meaning to do a video tutorial on …

For this week’s Hambo project I used the Skyline stamp. I love this stamp, because the entire thing is seven and a half inches long. That makes it great for larger projects, like scrapbook layouts and 6×6 cards. And of course, you can always cut the image down to fit on a standard card, which is what I did. The …

 I made a whole bunch of hats recently. My friends are having babies at an alarming rate. The top two hats are my own design. Not that it’s a difficult design, I’m just saying I didn’t get a pattern from anywhere. The monkey hat is adapted from The Happy Hooker. I followed the pattern for the monkey face, but the …