Exciting News... Coloring Techniques for Card Making Blog Hop

 

Welcome to the Coloring Techniques for Card Making Blog Hop! Today we wanted to introduce you to a brand new, must-have book that has been written to help shed some light on some of the hottest trends in coloring techniques in paper crafting today.

Coloring Techniques for Card Making features three of the most popular coloring techniques in card making today--water coloring, colored pencils and using alcohol-based ink markers. Each chapter showcases one particular technique and includes an introductions that will help you choose the products that are right for you, and will walk you through the steps to creating one of our featured projects. Easy-to-follow instructions, detailed materials lists and helpful coloring tips will make it easy for you to achieve stunning card-making results. As a bonus, enjoy a chapter that focuses on ways to highlight and accentuate your projects with products such as glitter and gel pens, shading techniques and methods for creating the look of texture with color.

Here is one of my cards you'll get to see in the book! We have Chickadees flitting around the yard all year round, so this one is a real favorite to stamp and color!

Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper Inc.

Stamp Set: Our Daily Bread designs

Ink & Reinkers: Memento from Tsukineko, Ranger Industries Inc

Other: Sakura of America white gel pen, Spellbinders, Cuttlebug embossing folder from Provo Craft, Stamp Positioner by EK Success, waterbrush

We are pleased that you have joined us for the hop! Be sure to leave a comment at each blog along the way to be entered for your chance to win a free copy of Coloring Techniques for Card Making!

The designers who are participating in the blog hop are as follows:

Keri Lee Sereika 
Debbie Olson 
Jeanne Streif 
Trudy Sjolander 
Asela Hopkins 
Broni Holcombe 
Kathy Menzies 
Christine Okken 
Dawn Lusk you are here!
Laurie Wilson  
Sherrie Siemens 
Chrissy Le

A Little Inspiration...

Here's a card I made as a sample when I worked Stampaway with Kelley & Rick from Our Daily Bread. It's been crazy around here and I never got it blogged, but today's Inspiration Challenge on Splitcoast and this jar worked out perfectly!

These Flower Soft globes are so hard to photo, but oh~so~cool in person! Not sure if you can tell, but I put sunflower seeds in the globe! I used the new Harvest Blessings die, cutting two sets of sunflowers and popping them up. Don't you just love the fence! It's the Martha Stewart fence punch twice punched! I learned that from my good friend Angie!

Here's another sample I did for the show using the same set Harvest Blessings and Happy Fall and dies. I also used my new Scor-buddy for this quick tote!

Don't forget to stop by here and visit the other blogs for a chance to win this book!!!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Crafts 'n Things, October Issue On The Stands!

Don't miss out on this fab issue! Pick up yours today..
or better yet, subscribe!
Check out pg 95 of the October issue!

You'll see my Chickadee Harvest CD art
with instructions!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Raspberries, Jam…and Roses!

First, the Roses!

Click on the picture to see how to make this Rose frame!

I love how the picture turned out! I had to send the frame to Crafts n’Things because it was Winter when they needed photos…somehow snow and smelling roses just didn’t work!! LOL

And…the fruits of my labor

Four and a quarter pounds of red raspberries! YUM!

Eight pints of jam!
I wish I could say that was freshly baked bread!
haha, but, nope it’s store bought.

I started my day picking berries, went for a walk, vacuumed… THEN was planning to make the jam. Well…Amber’s neighbor had other plans for me.

She decided today was a good day to thin her Iris and Hostas… and send her hubby to deliver a TRUCKLOAD to me!! I’m not kidding!! Although it’s not a full size truck, but still, it was FULL!! I was to split it all with Dianna…and it had to be planted ASAP as it was all bare root!

Do you know what the temps are today? UGH!! Right now it’s 93, thankfully it was just under 90 when we were digging holes! And she’s got MORE!!! Hope she waits to send them up till it cools off!

Hmmmm, think I need some more toast! *wink*

Stay cool and thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Create and Decorate Magazine

Check it out!

The August issue of Create and Decorate , I made the stamped/Flower Soft frame with sheep and trees!

And I just found out today that my project will be featured as one of the "make & takes" at CHA in Orlando in July!! (a card based on the frame) How cool is that!!

This magazine is jam-packed full of goodies! It goes on sale tomorrow.

Holiday Home....and Jury Duty

Yes, I have jury duty today...ugh! Fingers crossed I don't get selected!!

If you're out and about and see CK Media's Holiday Home on the shelves, turn to page 47!

Thanks for stopping!! Have a wonderful day!!

A HUGE Thank You and a Small Blog Break

First off, I want to say Thank You to all who congratulated me on my "Cover Girl"!!


And to say my posts will be limited for a few days as I'll be at our county fair with the 4H kids and llamas! oh boy...fair food!! (after a week of it....)
Check for my Monday Challenge Chicks post!




thanks for stopping!

I'm A Cover Girl!!

Imagine my surprise when a dear friend emailed me to congratulate me on being published............and................for being on the Cover!

I'm still pinching myself! *grin*

thanks for stopping!