Sonoran Starfish Designs

Hello crafty friends! Thanks for stopping by. This week for the Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team blog hop, the theme is “Fabulous Foliage”. I’m on vacation for a couple weeks, spending time with family on the east coast, so I had pre-stamped this amazing succulent frame stamp, and heat embossed it with Penny EP, and I brought my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers on our trip to color with.  I colored with a variety of greens, blues and yellows, and then filled in the background with some sandy browns. I blended a lot of the colors together with a Spectrum Noir shimmer pen, which is my favorite way to fade and blend my zigs! I wish it was easier to pick up the shimmer on camera. Have you tried any of the new border stamps from Brutus Monroe yet? Share your projects to social media, and be sure to use the hashtags #BrutusMonroe and #CreateYourOwnEnding so we can see what you make! Now keep hopping to see the cool foliage projects from my fellow team members. MARIE LUIS...

Hi crafty friends! Thanks for stopping by my blog today. The Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team's assignment this week was to showcase the Brutus Monroe dies. I chose to use a word die and a hexagon die! I started with two piece of Alabaster cardstock, one for the card front and one for die cutting. Using the "Hello" word die, I ran it through my die cutter 6 times. I started with the "Hello" towards the top right, because I wanted to make sure there was at least one complete word on the background. I positioned all the rest around it in diagonal lines. I glued them down with a fine-tipped applicator, but if you have the double sided adhesive sheets, they would work great for this project! I let some hang off the edges and trimmed them down at the end. I popped it up on a slightly larger piece of Alabaster cardstock with foam tape.  I stamped the cacti with Raven detail ink, and colored them with my Zig markers, and fussy cut them out. I chose the "hel...