BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE

Third Coast stamps used:  Southwest Scene and First Cup  

Coronado Island Stamp used:  extension of horizon

Colored with Copic markers and pencils

Declaration of Love

 Here is a short tutorial for this piece:

Stamp image on scrap paper and cut out.  Using a pencil, trace the image onto heavy patterned cardstock.  Staying inside the penciled outline, remove  the outer layer of the cardstock with sandpaper.  When the white core is reached, use a stamp positioner to stamp the image into the white hole created for it.  In this case I used brown ink to match the colors of the cardstock.  Using a Copic marker in a shade darker than the original cardstock background, color the background leaving selected images untouched.  Sponge edges with gold pigment ink pad.

Color the prince and princess with Copic markers.  Layer over a piece of the original uncolored cardstock and layer that over an additional matching paper.  Add “love” brad.

Magic Potions

Using printed scrapbook paper as background:  the woman is the only stamp.

Bird Watcher

Fred's Dog Escapes

STEAMPUNK EYES

STEAMPUNK POLLY

This piece was created with two stamps from Third Coast Rubber Stamps.  Colored with Copic markers and pieced over printed scrapbook paper.  It was published in Just Steampunk!  issue of Just Cards! Vol. 2, 2012

THE END OF THE JOURNEY

As the knights near the end of their journey, the lovely maiden also departs, her watchful presence never noted by those below.
The frame of this piece is a piece of  scroll scrapbook paper cut down to fit.

SHIPWRECKED STOWAWAY

Our heroine is not sure she is better off as a stowaway, or being cast onto an island with this sword wielding creature.

finding inspiration

I find inspiration in lots of places:  paintings, nature, and even ads.  This Lancome ad caught my eye with its color scheme, so I dug through my stamps to find anything that sort of matched.  This is the result :-)  Note:  the woman stamp can be found facing the other direction at Golden Acorn stamps.  I am not sure of the source of my left facing stamp.

Tiny Treehouse

The treehouse is from Third Coast stamps, and the little girls are from an unknown company.

Playing Dress Up

Horses

The Job

Did you ever have a job that stifled your soul?  Or did you ever want a job so bad that you were willing to sacrifice to get it?  Or did you ever leave a job and soar off into the unknown?  

Published in the Spring 2012 issue of RubberStampMadness

Winter Evening

Colored with Copic Markers and gel pens; 5 stamps used to create this piece.  All unknown except the Memory Box treetop
This scene was published in the Holidays 2014 issue of RubberStampMadness

DRAGON card

This card uses two stamps:  both are from the same unknown company.  The background paper and borders are from the Once Upon a Time scrapbook paper collection.

Ribbons and Lace

The Stampsmith Challenge for November is "Ribbons and Lace".  Here is my creation using their lovely Art Nouveau stamp.

MYSTERIOUS EYES

This card used one stamp, the mysterious eyes (sorry, I don't know what company it is from). I used sandpaper to remove the printed images from the cardstock and stamped the eyes onto the white paper core.  Other embellishments include vintage trim, velvet ribbon, lace paper, and rhinestone border.  Eyes colored with gel pens and Copic markers.

HINDU GOD card

Hindu god stamp from The Stampsmith.  Colored with Copic markers, gel pens, gold pen.  Layered over papers from India and embellished with metal filigree and jewel brad.

Cat and Moon

This card was created using 2 stamps:  cat, and moon scene.  Both stamps are from unknown companies.  Colored with Copic, Prisma, and Sharpie markers, pencils, Radiant Pearls.  Layered over shimmer cardstock and textured paper from India.