Happy Valentines Day Everyone!!! February is indeed the Month of Love for my family. Tom & I just celebrated our 10 year anniversary on the 9th in our favorite city, New Orleans, and on the 11th we attended our nephew’s wedding. Whether your Valentine’s Day will be spent curled up watching your favorite movie or [...]
Archive for the ‘Embellishments’ Category
Be My Valentine….
Posted in Design Team, Embellishments, PPA (Perfect Paper Adhesive), Projects, Studio Essentials, tagged Prills on February 14, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Prilly Fun – Don’t Forget The Children
Posted in Design Team, Embellishments, PPA (Perfect Paper Adhesive), Projects, tagged Prills on February 11, 2012 | 5 Comments »
What are Prills? Prills are highly pigmented beads of color that one can create wonderful art with! Whether you do a whole art piece with Prills or you use them to add dimension and texture as accents, Prills are the distant cousin to mica flakes. I am currently working on some detailed projects with Prills, so in [...]
Lifelong Friends Assemblage
Posted in 101 Heavy, Design Team, Embellishments, Fluid Acrylic Paint, Mica Tiles and Shapes, PPA (Perfect Paper Adhesive), Projects on February 9, 2012 | 5 Comments »
About a month ago, I used a photo stamp for the first time – Senior Ladies 3 1/2″ x 4 3/4″ (#8671) from Viva Las Vegastamps! – and created a card. Every time I looked at the stamp I imagined more and more about the two ladies it shows, sitting outside, side-by-side…. …They’ve known each other [...]
Thrills and Prills!
Posted in Design Team, Duo Adhesive, Embellishments, GildenGlitz, PPA (Perfect Paper Adhesive), tagged Duo Adhesive, Gilding, ppa, Prills on February 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I am having the best time using USArtquest products! They are so very versatile and the wonderful pops of color are in all the paint, gilding, mica and more! I love color and this company stimulates that love! I am scheduling this post ahead of time as I will have just gotten back from CHA [...]
Shimmering Koi Kimono With Mica and Gold Metallic Leaf
Posted in Design Team, Duo Adhesive, Embellishments, GildenGlitz, Watercolor Palettes on January 26, 2012 | 11 Comments »
Sometimes I feel more like a collector than a crafter. I see things, new and old, and say to myself, “Ooo! That’s so nice! I know I can make something with that!” I buy it and then it sits—sometimes for weeks, months or even years. That was this case with the Kimono stamp #2545 I [...]
Paper Napkin Collage Frame Using Perfect Paper Adhesive (PPA)
Posted in Books, Design Team, Embellishments, PPA (Perfect Paper Adhesive), Projects, Videos on January 12, 2012 | 6 Comments »
I’m so excited to be sharing my first project as a member of the USArtQuest Design Team (DT)! I first met Susan Pickering Rothamel at a scrapbook convention in 2009. She was demonstrating technique after technique all while answering questions from the crowd. I watched in awe. She made everything look so easy, I was [...]


