Sonoran Starfish Designs

Hi crafty friends! Thanks for stopping by today. Wednesday means Brutus Monroe blog hop today, and this week is an "Anything Goes" week! I chose to use this gorgeous new Happy Rose stamp set for my project. I started with a piece of aqua pigment paper and stamped the rose in the corner using raven ink. I stamped the rose on a piece of masking paper and used it to overlap the rose all the way around the outside edge.  I colored the flowers with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers, and I blended the color out with a shimmer pen instead of a water brush. I've been following Alex Syberia on Instagram and YouTube, who does these cool dot painting techniques. I really love the texture of the dots so I decided to add some dotting to the roses and the leaves. I fussy cut around the inside and adhered a sheet of acetate to the back, and lined around the edges with foam tape. I stamped the sentiment on a piece of wood grain cardstock with Raven ink, and sprinkled some bl...

Hello crafty friends! Thanks for stopping by my blog! It's Wednesday which means a Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team blog hop! Today we're sharing projects made with some of the subscription items. I chose to use the cute stamp of the month! It's this adorable whimsical birthday cake. For this card, I also used the aqua pigment of the month, Buttercup, as well as the aqua pigment from last month, Rhubarb. I faded the Rhubarb up into the Buttercup on some aqua pigment paper, so it did take on a more orange tone. By itself it's more yellow. Then I heat embossed one of the laser cut mandalas with Gilded Sparkle EP and attached it over the panel with glue, and placed a heavy book over it while it dried. I stamped the cake in Raven detail in and colored it with my Zig markers. I first cut the image and then heat embossed the sentiments in Gilded. I trimmed the sides off the mandala, and popped the cake up in the center with foam tape. I trimmed the sentiment pieces dow...

Hello crafty friends! Today for the Brutus Monroe blog hop we're sharing some different background stamps from the new collaboration collection with Unity Stamp Co.  For my card, I started by heat embossing the background onto some aqua pigment paper with Alabaster embossing powder. I taped the panel down and soaked it with clean water, and dropped the aqua pigments "Rhubarb" and "Yellow Orange" straight from the bottle onto the wet background. I soaked up any giant puddles with the corner of a paper towel and set it aside to dry. Then I painted a scrap of sweets pigment paper with the Rhubarb aqua pigment and dried out with a heat tool. I embossed the sentiment in Alabaster and trimmed it down to a square shape. I also cut a coordinating, slightly larger swear from vellum and adhered them together. I popped the sentiment and vellum squares up with foam tape and mounted the whole thing on an Alabaster card base. I added some paper flowers to th...

Hi crafty friends! Thanks for stopping by my blog. Today is Wednesday, which means Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team hop day...This week the theme is foiling! If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you'll have seen a lot of projects with foil. I love it! It adds such a wow factor to cards! There are a lot of ways to add foil to your cards, with or without a laminator. This project uses one of the new Brutus Monroe sketch foils and one of their laser cut mandalas! I started by cutting the giant mandala into 4 equal pieces using a paper trimmer. I sponged DecoFoil transfer gel generously all over the mandala section and left it to dry. While it was drying, I put a sheet of double sided adhesive onto a scrap of cardstock and then placed some of the silver sketch foil onto it, essentially making a piece of foiled carstock. I die cut the letters "hola" from that foiled cardstock.  When the mandala was dry, I ran it through my laminator twice with silver sketch foil...