"Friends" Swap Card for Divas

I have been practicing my brayer technique based on a recent class I attended presented by Michelle Zindorf. I made this card for tonight's swap at our local Divas stamp club.

Paper Doll for Jillian

The family gave our granddaughter, Jillian, a surprise birthday party last Saturday and this was the card I mailed off to her.

The template for the doll is from Inka at

Altered Artifacts

and she sells the templates and offers custom designs in her etsy shop

Lynn is having a Giveaway

Lynn, on her blog, Trash to Treasure, is having a giveaway. THERE IS ONLY ONE DAY LEFT so check out her blog and jump over there to get the details.

You will need some time because Lynn has so much for you to view with new pieces created and added almost daily. She is one talented lady.

May Lottery - Altered Designs

The theme for the May lottery at Altered Designs is Vintage Gothic Arch shape. I elected to use a rubber stamp by Scrolls Work for the bottom design, a downloaded image of a lady of fashion 1920s style all mounted to a background paper I had made a long time ago. I cut an arch out of a piece of chip board and added a little gold scrap around the top.

Photos from Michelle Zindorf Class

I copied these photos from Michelle's blog and the photos were tiny so it was difficult to get some really good uploads. However, I wanted to share how pleased I was to attend. My friend, Cathy Thomlinson, sat next to me (photo on the left) and Michelle and I are in the photo to the right.

It was a very inspiring day!

Card for a Friend

Lots of experiments to create this card. I embossed the Zia image first with white EP and heated. I filled the inside of the leaves with dye ink on a wet surface using reinkers. I used liquid transparent watercolor for the blue section around the leaves. As a final touch I swiped a turquoise dye ink pad across the entire card; reheated the embossing and edged with a gold leafing pen. The verse was stamped and embossed in gold and is from Jim Stephan.

TGIF - Altered Designs - FLOWERS

The ATC theme for this upcoming week at Altered Designs is flowers.


I used a wallpaper sunflower design for the base, a bouquet image by Ink'n Rubber and a verse by Moonlight.