How To make a Water Colour Journal

Hi, I just made this journal with a Home Decor kit from Linnie Blooms: Rustic Journal.  I have the project posted over at the Linnie Blooms Design Team Blog here. So just click on the blue here and that will take you to more pictures of my work in steps.

Briefly I used the kit: Rustic Journal from LB....

and with the help of my Gelatos I changed the look and personalized it.  I wanted a small size journal that would allow me to make small works of art on the go.  I chose to use water colour paper for the pages so I would have a sturdy, thick paper that could take on wet supplies like ink and paint.

Thanks to Linnie Blooms for the Rustic Journal Kit,  to Plaid® for the ModPodge, and to Spiced Sunshine Stamps for The Buzzing Bees stamps.

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How To Make Interactive Cards

A card that moves is what I have to share with you today.  We have a new challenge going on over at the Blue Moon Creation Crafting Station:  "Interactive".  That is the blog where I am on their Design Team, and I get to use all those fun stamps they give me. That means the  participants are to make a card that moves or can be interacted with in any way!  Mine is a big fat ladybug with a spinning belly!  I do not know what this guy ate but he seems happy anyways!

To make him or her I used a beautiful digital stamp image from the Spiced Sunshine Stamps over at the Etsy shop for Blue Moon and Spiced Sunshine.  I used Copic paper and markers for the colours.  To make the spinning belly I used a punch the same size as the bug's belly.  I was lucky that I have a Creative Memories circle punch that matched the size of this bug's belly!  I pierced a small hole into the circle and the belly and attached them with a brad.

All the papers I used are scraps from my scrap box.  The red Dew Drops are from The Robin's Nest.
I also used my Fiskars paper edger punch with the red scrap.

I hope that I have inspired you to make a fun card too.

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