Happy Monday everyone! Let's start out the week with something to look forward to. I don't know about you, but I always enjoy planning for a project and looking forward to doing something creative. You ever have any projects that you have been planning for a while? This past weekend, Ray and I, worked on a DIY project that we had been talking about for a while. It finally happened, and it was oh so rewarding!  We tranformed our crates and gave it a grey distressed look!  Instructions: This is the before picture! The crates are just your ordinary run of the mill crates, that I got from Michaels. You can get your wood or crate of choice that you would like to distress.  Start with a Dark Walnut Stain ( Minwax Woodstain 2716). Coat with the entire crate/wood with the stain. Use a rag and wipe the excess stain. The longer you keep the stain, the darker the grey stain, and less you keep the stain, the lighter grey it will be.  Take a rag, use whi

Happy Friday everyone!! Today's the last day of techniques week! Thank you for reading and joining along. I really appreciated having you as my audience!  I saved the best and the most elaborate technique for last!  This technique is called the Bokeh technique. It looks like little water bubbled in the background. It is the perfect background for those simple sentiment cards!  Instructions:  1. Use ink refills and pour out two different colors. I used flirty flamingo refill and peekaboo peach refill.  2. Use a paintbrush and water color paper and fill in the entire paper with both the colors! Mix it up and let it blend.  3. Finish coloring in the entire paper.  4. I cut out different circles using a circle thinlit. Use it as a template. Use whisper white refill. 5. Color in the different circles using sponge dauber and whisper white. Use different pressure to have the colors come out differently.  ** TRUST ME- WHEN YOU FIRST M

Welcome to Day 4!!  This technique really doesn't seem like much of a technique because of how easy it is!  The brick on the crumb cake cardstock is actually textured snow/brick look. I love love loveee this bundle. It's called At Home With You, the combinations are endless with this. You could do fall doors, spring doors, thanksgiving doors and Christmas doors.  Instructions: 1. To get the textured brick look, use the embossing paste on the stencil template. Just layer it on. 2. Just brush off the excess, pull and peel the stencil. Really, that's how easy it really is!  I even had my Aunt Karin come over and craft with me tonight. She ended up making this incredible Christmas card out of the stampset and embossing paste technique! I really love how the garland wraps around the door!! I can't wait to make this card for Christmas!! Don't Forget: For techniques week, throughout the week : every 25$ you spend, you receive a

Good Morning everyone! I really hope you have been enjoying the techniques week. Let me know what you have enjoyed so far. Did you try out the techniques? Don't wait....try it out with me.  Today's technique is the Masking technique, with this technique you can create an overlap of the stamps without the lines running over into each other!  This card is dedicated to my friend Maria Gill! She's the most supportive and amazing friend ever. She stuck with me for our 5k obstacle run! Here's a sneak peek pic of us. Don't mind the sweaty selfie!  Instructions:  1. Ink the stamp ( girl with umbrella from Beautiful You Stampset). Stamp on whisper white.  2. Use paper snips to fussy cut the stamped image.  3. Keep the cut out image ready.  4. On a separate piece of cardstock, stamp the image of the girl. Use the cut out image to cover the image you stamped, and stamp the girl next to the one you already stamped.