Time for a journal!

I have always loved notebooks and journals. I don't personally manage to maintain a journal, but just owning them makes me happy. :-) I used to make journals for sale, up through last Christmas, but although I still have a bunch left, I probably will continue to make them! For the He Has Shown image, from Micah 6:8, I embossed in gold. The journal is, as mine always are, covered with wallpaper. By using wallpaper and mitered corners, the journal can be easily wiped clean, and the corners do not get mashed like they would with paper.

Eureka May Blog Hop

Hello and Welcome to the

May Eureka Stamps Blog Hop!

I hope all you Mom’s had a fabulous Mother’s Day!

This month our design team ladies are showing you some

of the great Eureka images that you can use for Wedding and Graduation projects.

I don’t know about you but those seem to be the cards I need in June!

If you get lost along the way or a link is not working, just hop on back here and get back on track with the list below.

Here is a Wedding card I made to start off the blog hop for you.

I used Heart Bouquet to make it.

Now l get hopping and see what

Barb Best

has to show us.

From there you will hop on to:

Ceal

Jessica S.

Kristie

Kristine

Roxie

Sarosa

and then

Back here to the Eureka Stamps Blog

where I hope you'll leave a comment telling us what you thought of the hop.  And please leave comments along the way.  All the design team ladies love to hear what you think.

Then pop on in to the Eureka Stamps Store and see what might strike your fancy.

Happy Hopping!

Kristine

Blue Bonnets and Butterfly

 Hi there and Happy Saturday!

It' s my day to show off a Eureka Stamp. I fell in love with this stamp 21201 Butterfly and Bluebonnet.

 It makes a beautiful Sympathy, Thinking of You or Get Well card.

We also have a Eureka blog hop coming up on Monday so check back for that.

Hi All!

I hope you are having a fabulous week!

Today I have another beautiful card made with this Angel Stamp from Eureka Stamps.

I cut her out so that more of the paper would show but kept the card pretty simple to leave the focus on her!

I used some snowflake paper that has been in my stash forever but with the angel image I think it looks like stars in the sky.

Just a quick post today.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristine

Mother's Day Card

Happy Mother's Day!

I know Mother's Day isn't until Sunday,

but I thought I'd be the first to say it.

I made this card using 2 stamps from QKR Stampede.

"Bouquet" (#16220)

and Happy Mother's Day from the

"Happy Birthday" set (#22803)

I stamped the Bouquet image onto white card stock and colored it with FlexMarkers and inked the edges.

The sentiment was stamped with the same color ink as I used to ink the edges and that I used to create the base paper.

To create the base I:

1. Ran a piece of waxed paper through the Cuttlebug in an embossing folder.

2. Put a piece of white card stock on either side of the waxed paper and ironed over it. (Place a piece of scrap paper over it before ironing so you don't get wax on the iron.) This transfers the wax to the card stock.

3. Inked the card stock with direct to paper technique. This means you put the ink right from the pad onto the paper. You could use a blending tool if you wish. The wax acts as a resist.

4. Use a paper towel to buff over the entire piece, this will remove any excess ink that is on the waxed areas.

5. Use the newly created patterned card stock.

It's as easy as that!

Make a stop into the QKR Stampede shop and see what images you can find that will be great to use with paper you create with this technique!

Thanks for stopping by today!

I hope you enjoy my card as much as I enjoyed making it.

Leave a comment if you wish and come again soon.

Fishing Bear

Hello! Today's post is for Eureka! stamps.

 I used the stamps Fishing Bear

 and Drop you a line.

I stamped onto watercolor paper then colored

 with Tombow markers and a waterbrush.

Background paper is from Paper Loft.

Thanks for visiting today!

Butterfly and Sunflower

Hello stamping friends!

Kristie here and today I'm showing you a card I made with

"Butterfly and Sunflower" (#20801) from Eureka! Stamps

I used water color crayons to color this lovely image.

I then used the "out of the box" method to cut it to size. I love the look of those bits that are fussy cut on the outside of the image.

My design team friend, Roxie, has a couple wonderful tutorials that explain how to do this technique. If you follow the link to her blog and scroll down the right side to her Tutorials, there are 2 different methods for

"out of the box" cutting.

If you like this image, you should go check out all the wonderful images they have in the Eureka! Stamps Shop. Every time I look I find something that I missed last time I was there. There are so many wonderful stamps, rubber and digital!

Thanks for stopping by today. Come again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!