Hey friends! I need to apologize for being away so long. No drama, just life, and when life gets busy around my place my blog is the very last thing on my mind and very first thing to get pushed to the back of the line. Brent took the last 5 days off of work and we’ve just been hanging out and enjoying having “nothing” to do. We have gotten some house projects done, took care of the car and…
Welcome to Skipping Stones Design’s Blog Design Team Blog Hop!! I’m so glad to “see” you here today! Today we are celebrating the release of two new stamp sets, Holy Carp and Home of the Brave. If you just happened upon my blog today, you’ll want to go back to the beginning at Skipping Stones Design. You should have arrived from Jen del Muro’s blog. Combined with the blog hop today, it’s also Skipping Stones Sketch Tuesday which means the…
My apologies to those of you who have received an email and are looking for today’s post. I just received an email from Skipping Stones Design and today’s Blog Hop has been postponed until tomorrow, Wednesday, May 19th. I just pulled my post and rescheduled it for tomorrow. Please come back to play with us! Inky Smiles!
Toilet paper is always fun to talk about on a blog. Some of you may remember blending paper towels and sheets of paper in a blender with some water to make “homemade paper” art projects in the 3rd grade. I remember doing that and having so much fun creating molds and shapes with my paper pulp… but man, it sure was messy! Today I want to share with you a technique that can accomplish the same end result with a…
Hey friends! I’m back this week. Yay… or something. LOL! Anyway.. it’s been a seriously insane week. It’s 12:41 am on Tuesday and I’m hurrying to get this post scheduled so I can hit the sack and be ready for work in a few hours. Long story short: we’re still working with the insurance on settling about the car. We did, however, purchase a smokin’ hot car tonight in Salt Lake City from the dealership Brent’s bro is a mechanic…
Happy WOMEN ROCK day to all my friends, whether you’re a mom or not. Happy WOMEN ROCK day to moms who’s hearts ache for lost and wayward little ones, to women who long to have children but that blessing is denied, to those missing their mothers or other influential women in their lives, to those who may not have had the best experience with their mothers and are sad today. And Happy Mother’s Day to my wonderful mother, Karen, my…
Hey Friends! It’s been a CrAzY week this week. I worked a couple of days extra and finally ALMOST got caught up at work. YAY! Did some spring cleaning @ the house and finally straightened up and cleaned up my pantry. Went to the cardiologist and had a good visit… I don’t have to go back unless I start having the same issues that I had going on last year again. Dr said that my heart sounded good and my…
I had so much fun making my last SSD card and figured I should share with you how I did my background for my “masculine” card. I think I will call this technique “Popped Metal” or “Metal Popping”. I was going to try to use a “Chalk Popping” technique on the card but realized I needed to think up something else when I peeked at my chalks and saw that I only had pastel colors… so I pulled open my…
Happy Tuesday Inky Friends! Sadly, today is our last sketch with the awesome Kimberly Crawford, but I really had fun with this one. It’s a simple, straightforward sketch, but I had an idea almost immediately and created my card last TUESDAY, which is NUTS for me. LOL! Usually it’s Saturday night and I’m stressing about it. hehe! Anyway.. moving on… Here’s today’s sketch: I played around with the Whispering Wings stamp set and decided to go with something a little…
Good morning crafty friends! It’s time for another Skipping Stones Design Sketch Tuesday and today’s sketch is a really fun one! This week Kimberly Crawford is challenging us to: You may remember that I mentioned in a previous post that shaped cards are not something I am entirely comfortable with… YET… I decided to take the sketch literally this time and created a round card. and since it was dinner time when I was making it I was a little…