We just attended Val and Tory's elegant garden wedding…and it reminded me of the delicate Love Script die from the Valentine Collection. It's perfect with the Delphinium and Stems dies – and a backdrop of…
Hi – Jean Okimoto dropping in for a surprise (to me too!) post this sunny afternoon. I started playing with the intricate Lanthenay Designer Stencil and Radiant Neons - they created the perfect backdrop…
Hi – Yes, it's Happy Friday and time for another reveal of more just-released designs from our beautiful Summer 2014 Collection. Jean Okimoto here – with another quick card for you this afternoon. It would…
Hi everyone! It was my pleasure to be invited to teach for Memory Box at the Great Yosemite Stamp Escape the first weekend of May. The weekend began Friday evening at the sponsoring store, The Cat's…
Double- and triple-stencilling can be a lot of fun, so I suggest you try it! Here’s how I did my background. Use two pieces of low-tack tape to adhere a panel to your craft sheet, then tape the Leafy Stems stencil over the panel to prevent slipping. Pounce with ink. Do not remove the Leafy Stems stencil, and place the Mesh stencil on top of it and tape down; then pounce ink using a different ink color. (I used the foam ink applicators by Ranger for this project.) Remove the Mesh stencil (but keep the Leafy Stems stencil) inkup Vintage Dreams, and stamp over the stencil. (You actually can’t see this on mine because my base color of ink is very dark).
For today's post I chose one stencil, one die, and one stamp and challenged myself to make a set of thank you notes for a friend. Materials Used: white notecards and envelopes Stencil: Leafy Stems…
Hi – Jean Okimoto here – with a bright and easy card for you. Gears and mechanical objects aren't often described as happy – but these gears look quite happy to me. What do…
Good Afternoon everyone! Today I'm sharing another debossed stencil idea. I really love this technique. Here I used the Bare Branches Stencil 88556 and debossed with brown Momento ink. I then used Distress Ink to…
Hi everyone! I hope you enjoyed the stencil blog blitz we had in the past two weeks! I think my fellow designers came up with some awesome ideas on how to use the Memory Box…
