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Whimsy</title><description>&lt;p&gt;As we mentioned at&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Jingle Belles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;last week&lt;b&gt;, &lt;/b&gt;&quot;&lt;i&gt;Whimsical&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;&lt;/i&gt; describes something, &quot;&lt;i&gt;Playfully quaint, fanciful, imaginative and slightly odd; often suggesting a lighthearted, unpredictable or charmingly unusual quality not based on strict logic.&lt;/i&gt;&quot; So this fortnight we&#39;re asking you to use that definition and&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2026/03/walking-in-whimsical-wonderland.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;make a Whimsical holiday card&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;… it might be mice decorating the holiday tree, a space-age midcentury modern wreath, some fun little holiday gnomes, or maybe even adorable tiny reindeer driving a red plaid car* loaded with festively wrapped holiday 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probably only use my Lawn Fawn Car Critters + Holiday Add-On stamp sets a couple of times a year. I nearly always paper-piece the little guys and use the curvy road template I made when I first got the sets; so it&#39;s a pretty similar version each time, but it always makes me smile, so I see no reason to stop now. Most of the paper used here was scrap pieces I stamped on or punched. The trees background was a freebie from Flow Magazine; the red is Carta Bella. I stamped a Lawn Fawn sentiment on graph paper and colored the gifts with Tombows.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2026/03/walking-in-whimsical-wonderland.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;JB2607: Walking in a Whimsical Wonderland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;will run until 6pm (&lt;i&gt;Eastern&lt;/i&gt;) on Wednesday, April 8th. Hop over to&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Jingle Belles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;to see Stephanie&#39;s amazing card and link up your own.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: xx-small;&quot;&gt;*In case there are any auto manufacturers reading this: I would absolutely buy a red plaid car. Just sayin&#39;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/04/more-holiday-whimsy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXhIfM8eCQDN9maW-gsquLrgfwMb7qKNpsFWBSEmo0L7ye_7tbXqlfjJ6zFif-ekhiFT_hoFA5Nxf33ag6ru_jSN9k6C5szOfFdbBHK5vWsS3kEGW_HF_lKK1EkSGv5Y1ohk6n8uVqIzwBBM4zhyphenhyphenIf-tR1VaeZxBC18RTi5mydQYMf9EQvIfF6omCXMMs/s72-w400-h400-c/jb2607-whimsy%202-LF.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-4807162906079210967</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-04-01T03:00:00.124-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">brads</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">easter</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">eyelet outlet</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">washi</category><title>Hip Hop Bunnies</title><description>&lt;p&gt;These adorable &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/rabbit-brads.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Eyelet Outlet Rabbit Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; are helping the Easter Bunny hide &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/color-egg-brads.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Colored Eggs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; in preparation for the big day. &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/daisy-white.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;White Daisy Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; are in the mix; and while &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/macaron-washi-tape.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Macaron Washi Tape&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; isn&#39;t technically holiday-related, it does have sweet treats of exactly the right colors!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ooqSv3DsZve-eipJsddrswQ9Q_mhdGPxuYqLF2gHSVLOvjSakdjNCwo5tFZ69ISATYyrTD5vjauV0XJIK-hMYinae6UP2ULYk0Oo09v6cyE4MzGGBVRmVJK_KzJl8TO5mCKHaeLjIfsOqEBiFwwh9jc5dn5UA_CbQo1k7U6HpiqtDDZS1oWkmU-Megs/s1095/hip%20hop%20bunnies.jpg&quot; 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target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Rabbit Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/color-egg-brads.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Colored Egg Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/daisy-white.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;White Daisy Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/macaron-washi-tape.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Macaron Washi Tape&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Eyelet Outlet Online Store&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; has all the cutest cardmaking embellishments you could possibly need!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/04/hip-hop-bunnies.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ooqSv3DsZve-eipJsddrswQ9Q_mhdGPxuYqLF2gHSVLOvjSakdjNCwo5tFZ69ISATYyrTD5vjauV0XJIK-hMYinae6UP2ULYk0Oo09v6cyE4MzGGBVRmVJK_KzJl8TO5mCKHaeLjIfsOqEBiFwwh9jc5dn5UA_CbQo1k7U6HpiqtDDZS1oWkmU-Megs/s72-w400-h400-c/hip%20hop%20bunnies.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-6974262507271311180</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-30T09:00:00.116-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dina ledger journal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dina wakley</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">letter it</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mandala monday</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mandalas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">stencils</category><title>It&#39;s a Big BIG Mandala Monday</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I have to confess this started out as an ordinary-sized Mandala; it grew to cover about half of my two-page &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/products/dina-wakley-media-ledger-journal?_pos=1&amp;amp;_psq=ledger+journal&amp;amp;_ss=e&amp;amp;_v=1.0&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Dina Ledger Journal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; spread; and finally I thought, &quot;&lt;i&gt;Just fill both pages!&lt;/i&gt;&quot; So I did. All of which happened on three or four evenings over the course of maybe two weeks.&amp;nbsp; For the record, most of my mandalas are not completed in a single sitting; I typically have 20-30 minutes at the end of the evening for &quot;freestyle&quot; art and usually I start a mandala or a collage... or a collaged mandala if I can&#39;t decide which, lol.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQfNXON-2sx-HZhR4tpYSY7_PJyZIsDrI0AqgwdHELw5l2P2g7u86BH6iEI_Cr9t_bCPX68bKMdcx76MACCKcD_hVypco1Kh25yfpucUXuGnWHjEBB6ONGaRsKs26m6qLQt1ifJMp7uWdFVROnrQzDtI0HMSGOYCDa-HxukWGsLRdiITjRG_Z35pqL1Rk/s1920/MM13-big%20color.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1920&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1920&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQfNXON-2sx-HZhR4tpYSY7_PJyZIsDrI0AqgwdHELw5l2P2g7u86BH6iEI_Cr9t_bCPX68bKMdcx76MACCKcD_hVypco1Kh25yfpucUXuGnWHjEBB6ONGaRsKs26m6qLQt1ifJMp7uWdFVROnrQzDtI0HMSGOYCDa-HxukWGsLRdiITjRG_Z35pqL1Rk/w400-h400/MM13-big%20color.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I used a &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/products/ranger-mini-ink-blending-tool?_pos=1&amp;amp;_psq=mini+ink+blend&amp;amp;_ss=e&amp;amp;_v=1.0&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Mini Ink Blending Tool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/products/ranger-ink-blending-tool-doomed-foam?_pos=1&amp;amp;_psq=domed+foam&amp;amp;_ss=e&amp;amp;_v=1.0&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Domed Foams&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to apply rainbow shades of Archival Inks in concentric circles; then added black &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/search?type=product&amp;amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last&amp;amp;q=letter+it+fineliner&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Letter It Fineliner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; details; then some messy stenciling with &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/search?type=product&amp;amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last&amp;amp;q=coaster+stencil&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Dina&#39;s Coaster Stencils&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. At the end, I got out some &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/search?type=product&amp;amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last&amp;amp;q=posca+pen&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Posca Pens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and used a detail blender or marker to tidy up some of the rounds if the colors split in a weird way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The biggest impulse to keep going came NOT from something I did well; au contraire. Actually, it was a Big Mistake! When I was about halfway across both pages... (&lt;i&gt;around where the ring of purple tabs with white hearts are... though they didn&#39;t have much detail yet&lt;/i&gt;) ...I added those 1-inch blue and green circles with &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/products/letter-it-background-stencil-polka-dotting&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Letter It&#39;s Polka Dotting Stencil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. And I &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;haaaaaaaaaaaaated&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; them. I added more colors, tried to blend them out, tried to disguise with white, etc... nothing really worked. I closed the book and mentally added this one to the &quot;unfinished&quot; pile.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But the next time I saw the unfinished spread, I remembered that when you can&#39;t manage to cover up something you hate, the answer might be (&lt;i&gt;rather counter-intuitively!&lt;/i&gt;) to ADD MORE OF IT. Yep, I know it sounds nuts but... sometimes the &quot;ugly&quot; thing just needs more context. And in this case, I do believe it worked! Which is not to say that I love those dots but... I like them more and was able to finish the page. And thus another Mandala Monday is complete.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hope your week is off to a good start!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/its-big-big-mandala-monday.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQfNXON-2sx-HZhR4tpYSY7_PJyZIsDrI0AqgwdHELw5l2P2g7u86BH6iEI_Cr9t_bCPX68bKMdcx76MACCKcD_hVypco1Kh25yfpucUXuGnWHjEBB6ONGaRsKs26m6qLQt1ifJMp7uWdFVROnrQzDtI0HMSGOYCDa-HxukWGsLRdiITjRG_Z35pqL1Rk/s72-w400-h400-c/MM13-big%20color.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-3914345336732877275</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-29T11:53:39.969-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">art journal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">collage</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">digistuffs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hybrid papercrafting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tiny Tales Collection</category><title>Sunny Days Ahead</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I had a bunch of printed images leftover from the hybrid layouts and cards I made this week using the fabulous digital/printable papercrafting kit my friend, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.naysworld.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Carol Porter&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/b&gt; designed. In case you missed it, this kit is called &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/listing/4474223402/rainy-night-digital-art-journal-kit-png?ref=shop_home_active_1&amp;amp;dd=1&amp;amp;logging_key=e33585f2930dae2cf22d0a123b8d85d152ed6f51%3A4474223402&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Tiny Tales Collection: Rainy Night&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;; it’s going to be a multi-part adventure (&lt;i&gt;hooray!&lt;/i&gt;) but Chapter One is called “The Walk Home” and is now available in &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/shop/naysworld&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Carol&#39;s NaysWorld Etsy Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;; btw, you can get there via the link in her &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.instagram.com/naysworld8/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;@naysworld8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; profile. I recommend hopping over to her account, because both she and her granddaughter have made some FAB creations with this kit that you don&#39;t want to miss!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaiR_8I2SgTd-LUDEV9wKq9fmsRVIg2rIyrhzE6jI0ydZPCAXMYCJ7rEQ4uIW6ocPE2eZ2Dbjehkz3Q2U2QU6Na-HBq_XVJIZAJz-DLGnnprbmJ1ijVL_C8-1C4WM3sO0bZuKGJsFoIJr6Z6oLptxQwr2HMeUcNKyDhoPRIqBsd1y4KwyvglQ9YEL8dTQ/s1409/sunny%20days%20journal.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1409&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1409&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaiR_8I2SgTd-LUDEV9wKq9fmsRVIg2rIyrhzE6jI0ydZPCAXMYCJ7rEQ4uIW6ocPE2eZ2Dbjehkz3Q2U2QU6Na-HBq_XVJIZAJz-DLGnnprbmJ1ijVL_C8-1C4WM3sO0bZuKGJsFoIJr6Z6oLptxQwr2HMeUcNKyDhoPRIqBsd1y4KwyvglQ9YEL8dTQ/w400-h400/sunny%20days%20journal.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;This time I haven&#39;t done any digital wizardry, except to print several of the images (&lt;i&gt;the lotuses and the newspapers&lt;/i&gt;) at several different sizes. Which, to me, is one of the beauty parts about using a digital kit to do traditional/ physical papercrafting: you can literally make every item as big or as small as your printer (&lt;i&gt;and your 61 year old eyeballs, lol!&lt;/i&gt;) will allow. I used a mix of ordinary cardstock and glossy photo paper, which (&lt;i&gt;serendipitously&lt;/i&gt;) makes it look like the main character is walking out of the rainy night-time scene and into a bright sunny day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoTjCLid9Dd6RnQ4gyhOVydOMn3FWx0afNtWBd6dea5JN1eFHfltEbyM7Zr0FT_RyBoZxazDraAxkJbAlD1tM2A5kfEQDCVpbxPQRvz_pVwZiukIHA_QRocG4PUdSq2beRMYjqQEJLKgFFbY6njW_knrIk6dUl6Hbtc5JT5qjp381DwsQBhyb0g06lqpw/s1920/7e77663f-805f-4971-925f-c6ec9a4c59d2.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1440&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1920&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoTjCLid9Dd6RnQ4gyhOVydOMn3FWx0afNtWBd6dea5JN1eFHfltEbyM7Zr0FT_RyBoZxazDraAxkJbAlD1tM2A5kfEQDCVpbxPQRvz_pVwZiukIHA_QRocG4PUdSq2beRMYjqQEJLKgFFbY6njW_knrIk6dUl6Hbtc5JT5qjp381DwsQBhyb0g06lqpw/s320/7e77663f-805f-4971-925f-c6ec9a4c59d2.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I, too, will be walking out into a bright sunny day; though in my case it will mostly be to clean our deck and do some yardwork. But hey, I&#39;m not complaining, after a snow-bedecked winter, it&#39;s lovely to be outdoors doing ANYTHING that doesn&#39;t involve a snow shovel!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hope your Sunday is off to a good start! ♥&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/sunny-days-ahead.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaiR_8I2SgTd-LUDEV9wKq9fmsRVIg2rIyrhzE6jI0ydZPCAXMYCJ7rEQ4uIW6ocPE2eZ2Dbjehkz3Q2U2QU6Na-HBq_XVJIZAJz-DLGnnprbmJ1ijVL_C8-1C4WM3sO0bZuKGJsFoIJr6Z6oLptxQwr2HMeUcNKyDhoPRIqBsd1y4KwyvglQ9YEL8dTQ/s72-w400-h400-c/sunny%20days%20journal.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-9137471808105425198</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-27T01:00:00.116-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cute cards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">giftwrapping</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jingle belles</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">xmas</category><title>JB2607: Whimsical Winter Wonderland</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&quot;Whimsical&quot; describes something, &quot;&lt;i&gt;Playfully quaint, fanciful, imaginative and slightly odd; often suggesting a lighthearted, unpredictable or charmingly unusual quality not based on strict logic.&lt;/i&gt;&quot; This fortnight at &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Jingle Belles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, we&#39;re asking you to use that definition and &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2026/03/walking-in-whimsical-wonderland.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;make a Whimsical holiday card&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;… it might be mice decorating the holiday tree, a space-age midcentury modern wreath, some fun little holiday gnomes, or whatever says whimsical to you. Here&#39;s my card:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL-QTVCq0B2Yk2cGMtE8CFW-bYaUzWfJkDAc9Zngu9SwvlLspatW9_w9NOvMfNS0ldmCu6Z32xaPsq_4a4OdsRKM6O-J9J7b7XpNZQfvS0nfpqnnyUn67UjZEFgW28wVmM_xOSkKmrn4JIa2rUmDQ2Zu_uLnrwI4QLZdTZRbm6mCU34yqoSpbZIFaJssc/s986/jb2607%20whimsical-wk1.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;979&quot; data-original-width=&quot;986&quot; height=&quot;398&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL-QTVCq0B2Yk2cGMtE8CFW-bYaUzWfJkDAc9Zngu9SwvlLspatW9_w9NOvMfNS0ldmCu6Z32xaPsq_4a4OdsRKM6O-J9J7b7XpNZQfvS0nfpqnnyUn67UjZEFgW28wVmM_xOSkKmrn4JIa2rUmDQ2Zu_uLnrwI4QLZdTZRbm6mCU34yqoSpbZIFaJssc/w400-h398/jb2607%20whimsical-wk1.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;My friend Gina wrapped my holiday gifts in suuuuper-cute Hello Kitty holiday giftwrap; which of course I saved carefully and backed with cardstock. Then I cut out alllllll of those presents, trees and Kitties. (&lt;i&gt;Yes, I am indeed nuts; thank you for asking.&lt;/i&gt;) I wanted my whole background to be that pale green snowflake paper, but alas there wasn&#39;t enough. As it turns out, I think that was a good thing, because it completely changed how I used the tiny cut out houses and trees ...for the better! The pine tree background is ancient Pebbles; the scrap of plaid is, I believe, Echo Park; and also quite elderly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2026/03/walking-in-whimsical-wonderland.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;JB2607: Walking in a Whimsical Wonderland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; will run until 6pm (&lt;i&gt;Eastern&lt;/i&gt;) on Wednesday, April 8th. Hop over to &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Jingle Belles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to see Stephanie&#39;s amazing card and link up your own.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/jb2607-whimsical-winter-wonderland.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL-QTVCq0B2Yk2cGMtE8CFW-bYaUzWfJkDAc9Zngu9SwvlLspatW9_w9NOvMfNS0ldmCu6Z32xaPsq_4a4OdsRKM6O-J9J7b7XpNZQfvS0nfpqnnyUn67UjZEFgW28wVmM_xOSkKmrn4JIa2rUmDQ2Zu_uLnrwI4QLZdTZRbm6mCU34yqoSpbZIFaJssc/s72-w400-h398-c/jb2607%20whimsical-wk1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-1742146046677232553</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-26T11:09:24.822-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">art journal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">digital art</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nay&#39;s world</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tiny Tales Collection</category><title>More Tiny Tales</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I mentioned the other day that my friend,&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.naysworld.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Carol Porter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, aka&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.instagram.com/naysworld8/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;@naysworld8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;has designed a wonderful digital/printable papercrafting kit called Tiny Tales Collection: Rainy Night; it&#39;s going to be a multi-part adventure, with new sets to come; but Chapter One is called The Walk Home and it is now available in her&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/shop/naysworld&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;NaysWorld Etsy Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Whether you&#39;re a digital, physical or hybrid papercrafter, I think you&#39;re going to love this kit as much as I do... which is A LOT!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZiw5Dzi0nDA4qO9lS8uEbGGWClLo-LMrBSHFQ8VZLiJYcGWmBE-6AeyIMHZ8oJaXKxoNssv3_LIMqdiWXVgAYVjly4RTz5zig99xCzQX2V66T3pw_YBEk0iKVrqUYqDoGJ8cNEkftoTN7rO24FaOreVzPheIHMCCE24v8b45bZJC3O824KOvzFM7qdGU/s1920/cdc0178e-bb66-47e9-bba2-25dc8bf117ff.png&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1440&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1920&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZiw5Dzi0nDA4qO9lS8uEbGGWClLo-LMrBSHFQ8VZLiJYcGWmBE-6AeyIMHZ8oJaXKxoNssv3_LIMqdiWXVgAYVjly4RTz5zig99xCzQX2V66T3pw_YBEk0iKVrqUYqDoGJ8cNEkftoTN7rO24FaOreVzPheIHMCCE24v8b45bZJC3O824KOvzFM7qdGU/w400-h300/cdc0178e-bb66-47e9-bba2-25dc8bf117ff.png&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The kit has a dozen gorgeous .png elements which means they have completely translucent backgrounds for effortless digital layering; plus they resize beautifully and look great whether you use them in big or small digital art. But... it&#39;s not JUST a digital kit... you can print and cut these images out to use in layouts, journals or cards. BTW, no matter what size I printed them, they looked absolutely perfect on both plain cardstock and glossy photo paper. Case in point:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOzdUvy8qQxYw2o332uRgtj5_Ohgtcrq7AYBT0y28I0J7zwpxPGB7jGBKCMAmLVl2kGJx6zG9-4j7SDt8YYLEL7b2L0ldaN2JE84igbi6DZi4aKOetBCaIfErEwVb4_7coBAYEGTZrf4b98gUmmQzd9juiC77aRsqsg-g1J3elYtJwEf-0okQ-FcC-gJg/s1783/carol-let%20it%20rain-both.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1783&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1783&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOzdUvy8qQxYw2o332uRgtj5_Ohgtcrq7AYBT0y28I0J7zwpxPGB7jGBKCMAmLVl2kGJx6zG9-4j7SDt8YYLEL7b2L0ldaN2JE84igbi6DZi4aKOetBCaIfErEwVb4_7coBAYEGTZrf4b98gUmmQzd9juiC77aRsqsg-g1J3elYtJwEf-0okQ-FcC-gJg/w400-h400/carol-let%20it%20rain-both.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I made two physical versions of this Let it Rain design: an A2 card and a larger art journal page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNw1fsDf4q-BeBspzp3v5wogzJNvK7WwBEO3pT9ZpOZN4Yhfxh9O3pIphCqbcfSCJLG94uP6GElHp9T5jg8ea1Jkjl40XLZPaQgXQIy1bK-j4XNbJbDR2P1djy_y9TgBo5g2b-LS1F9D-_wr3Y62LmANtFdqdC4AjZFxF3p3S41LxvTOARVE_wgI7ifYQ/s1040/carol-let%20it%20rain-card.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1040&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1040&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNw1fsDf4q-BeBspzp3v5wogzJNvK7WwBEO3pT9ZpOZN4Yhfxh9O3pIphCqbcfSCJLG94uP6GElHp9T5jg8ea1Jkjl40XLZPaQgXQIy1bK-j4XNbJbDR2P1djy_y9TgBo5g2b-LS1F9D-_wr3Y62LmANtFdqdC4AjZFxF3p3S41LxvTOARVE_wgI7ifYQ/w400-h400/carol-let%20it%20rain-card.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I layered some of the elements digitally before printing; and added others that I printed and fussycut. For the latter, I chose to leave a very skinny white border to get maximum definition. Lotuses are one of my favorite flowers, so I printed and cut LOTS of them. I only used a few in this design, but trust me, you&#39;ll see them again!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVZRzWMzD2lDjeWohRk7r8C5G1dCENU9scjonNZ2Rt_J43mbLHDPUrYKud295LyG38zzIY76KdCGKG-gfhE4K-haxLh4a9oerdvvk5l7iiue3LvAFLRLdS9oDtakQkVuBZlZwvnUh-bD5YOF5KBWaqOqm49IFEIoomJ3sUWwz6Fs9ZFQha7cOjuylOUck/s1666/carol-let%20it%20rain-journal.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1666&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1666&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVZRzWMzD2lDjeWohRk7r8C5G1dCENU9scjonNZ2Rt_J43mbLHDPUrYKud295LyG38zzIY76KdCGKG-gfhE4K-haxLh4a9oerdvvk5l7iiue3LvAFLRLdS9oDtakQkVuBZlZwvnUh-bD5YOF5KBWaqOqm49IFEIoomJ3sUWwz6Fs9ZFQha7cOjuylOUck/w400-h400/carol-let%20it%20rain-journal.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;No matter what size I used or what paper I printed on, the images were flawless, scaling perfectly and printing beautifully. I also made a pretty large all-digital collage... just because I could, lol:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3q9Q6ITTtr3BveWQXpAzqh8pIJbfNsh2KQm00xYbmVe9y9f73No_s5CfKGc5RixDbom4LHUYG2mAzNU1568WpWog_rJ5mapnQkwYVvbu2R3he7sqNYgmX6Kh_AMevp-H38PCwwkIY_2KttTuqVTAYq3HGF9AAksJmock3VJt3QeSALesjPq_HCout8yE/s767/let%20it%20rain%20digi%20collage-carol%20porter.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;761&quot; data-original-width=&quot;767&quot; height=&quot;396&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3q9Q6ITTtr3BveWQXpAzqh8pIJbfNsh2KQm00xYbmVe9y9f73No_s5CfKGc5RixDbom4LHUYG2mAzNU1568WpWog_rJ5mapnQkwYVvbu2R3he7sqNYgmX6Kh_AMevp-H38PCwwkIY_2KttTuqVTAYq3HGF9AAksJmock3VJt3QeSALesjPq_HCout8yE/w400-h396/let%20it%20rain%20digi%20collage-carol%20porter.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I added a digital background paper that wasn&#39;t in the kit; and I also very slightly widened the city street image to fit better in the square format. As you can see, there was NO distortion or loss of clarity.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More projects to come. In the meantime, you&#39;ll definitely want to check out Carol&#39;s work (&lt;i&gt;and her sweet granddaughter&#39;s who is already quite a formidable designer!!!&lt;/i&gt;) via Instagram&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.instagram.com/naysworld8/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;@naysworld8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;as well as her&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.naysworld.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Nay&#39;s World Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/shop/naysworld&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;NaysWorld Etsy Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/more-tiny-tales.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZiw5Dzi0nDA4qO9lS8uEbGGWClLo-LMrBSHFQ8VZLiJYcGWmBE-6AeyIMHZ8oJaXKxoNssv3_LIMqdiWXVgAYVjly4RTz5zig99xCzQX2V66T3pw_YBEk0iKVrqUYqDoGJ8cNEkftoTN7rO24FaOreVzPheIHMCCE24v8b45bZJC3O824KOvzFM7qdGU/s72-w400-h300-c/cdc0178e-bb66-47e9-bba2-25dc8bf117ff.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-6605281770244147666</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-25T03:00:00.113-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">brads</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">eyelet outlet</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">washi</category><title>Best Reading Quote Ever?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Building a card around &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Eyelet Outlet Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and a favorite quote is a great way to make fresh, personal cards for friends and family. Stamps and journal cards abound; or format your fave in a text document, print it out and add it to your card. This card has a base of &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/book-washi-tape.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Book Washi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; matted with &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/hardwood-washi-tape.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Wood Tape&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;; and helping set the scene for a cozy day of reading, this sweet bear is surrounded by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/book-brads.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Book Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;; a cute potted &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/cactus-brads.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Cactus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;; the tissues from our &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/toilet-paper-brads.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;TP and Tissue Set&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;; a &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/hear-brads.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Heart Brad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;; 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width=&quot;390&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Cozy Reading Shopping List:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/book-brads.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Book Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/cactus-brads.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Cactu Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/toilet-paper-brads.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Toilet Paper and Tissues Set&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/hear-brads.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Heart Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/sun-cloud-brads.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sun and Cloud Set&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/mini-ladybug-brads.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Mini Ladybug Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Eyelet Outlet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; has all the embellishments to make your next card even more delightful!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/best-reading-quote-ever.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9IQqCDy9liT8LQfM3GD5BLxFaA0DUByh1CTFXlscthDhqRslrikXwUMRATmYaEJV65C9IS5vE5SMCngw1tWpcRaPLpUGaYokWaV_3R81ZY5jXxu3DuFF4HzdJxhX7ID-JzHvekLJzhEQd9pZNYtbr-VnifmkhZacvxV3PpmLRRV-BHskA63VNjUET0rs/s72-w390-h400-c/books%20groucho-blog.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-529637188355161009</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-24T06:30:00.116-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">diecutting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">gel printing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">heroarts</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">prismacolor pencils</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">shopping our stash</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tombow dual brush pens</category><title>SOS570: White OUT</title><description>&lt;p&gt;It&#39;s time for a new challenge at &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Shopping Our Stash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and this fortnight we&#39;d like to see cards/ projects which contain NO white.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ON7Uak6m_gB2CnhomcpPkz6AL1k_OPR8PyCVPPD6Kw468APKCpy3DVDw321tLVR835vazYMJfuKmAewiCNzk00PlJewWj-U9_c6nSatBt2FVBjrLd3uhp0Cz_xX3gOcplhBLS0G5etVirzw9adC4k3Yj6QtZpZyYBdQd-EEGD4GPZheyndpxrvUdV64/s1205/sos570-no%20white-blog.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1205&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1205&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ON7Uak6m_gB2CnhomcpPkz6AL1k_OPR8PyCVPPD6Kw468APKCpy3DVDw321tLVR835vazYMJfuKmAewiCNzk00PlJewWj-U9_c6nSatBt2FVBjrLd3uhp0Cz_xX3gOcplhBLS0G5etVirzw9adC4k3Yj6QtZpZyYBdQd-EEGD4GPZheyndpxrvUdV64/w400-h400/sos570-no%20white-blog.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I recently realized that it&#39;s been quite some time since I made a card with one of my favorite die sets: Hero Arts&#39; Frame Cuts Tulips. If this set had coordinating stamps, not only do I not own them, I&#39;ve never seen them. And while they look perfectly nice just cut from cardstock or patterned paper and pieced; it&#39;s actually not terribly difficult to add a sort of ruffley edge just below the top of each flower to make them look a bit dimensional. You can use inks, paints or watercolors, but this time I went with my trusty Tombows in three very nicely blendy shades of pink and two of green. When I had the colors to my liking I took very sharp Prismacolor Pencils in a coordinating shades of dark pink and medium green to emphasize the layers and add a bit more shading. I used gel prints for my label shape and card background; the one looks like it actually has a bit of white on it but NO, I assure you, it&#39;s very pale pink. I used a rich rusty orange-ish red for my mat and for the A6 cardbase. I even changed the top thread on my sewing machine from white to light pink before adding some machine stitching as a finishing touch.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;SOS570: White OUT&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; runs until the evening of Monday, April 6th. Visit &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Shopping Our Stash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to see our Crew&#39;s inspiring takes on this challenge and start planning what you&#39;ll link up with us this time.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/sos570-white-out.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ON7Uak6m_gB2CnhomcpPkz6AL1k_OPR8PyCVPPD6Kw468APKCpy3DVDw321tLVR835vazYMJfuKmAewiCNzk00PlJewWj-U9_c6nSatBt2FVBjrLd3uhp0Cz_xX3gOcplhBLS0G5etVirzw9adC4k3Yj6QtZpZyYBdQd-EEGD4GPZheyndpxrvUdV64/s72-w400-h400-c/sos570-no%20white-blog.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-2444421816747446357</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-23T14:30:00.118-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">art journal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">digital art</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hybrid papercrafting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nay&#39;s world</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tiny Tales Collection</category><title>Tiny Tales Collection: Rainy Night</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m so proud to announce that my friend, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.naysworld.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Carol Porter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, aka &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.instagram.com/naysworld8/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;@naysworld8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; has designed this ah-mayyyyy-zing digital collection, which is now available in her &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/shop/naysworld&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;NaysWorld Etsy Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Whether you&#39;re a digital, physical or hybrid papercrafter, I think you&#39;re going to love this kit and find lots of ways to use &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/listing/4474223402/rainy-night-digital-art-journal-kit-png?ref=shop_home_active_1&amp;amp;dd=1&amp;amp;logging_key=e5b224c7e57f2a970aed1599a0b0cbe2e51af066%3A4474223402&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Tiny Tales Collections Presents - Rainy Night: Chapter 1 — The Walk Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; (Notice it says, &quot;Chapter 1... because it&#39;s a growing series… more stories are on the way!)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn9tEc67U7tM4ZaRv0YQkypmSy9Pve-PZEhFVHaDBuoTwbANM0GmPeooYxdx1T_rWE7hgql5UZdE6_HhGyzr-Tx0LhWABiFEhSr4w8nqWlkwYUeQu2SEpulE3YbnARtD6M5bNszXRLE9dWA2oQJCNTqsr-nW5VLDlLT-mpnmTdLCmZUbSY4C7oCFyXg1c/s1920/cdc0178e-bb66-47e9-bba2-25dc8bf117ff.png&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1440&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1920&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn9tEc67U7tM4ZaRv0YQkypmSy9Pve-PZEhFVHaDBuoTwbANM0GmPeooYxdx1T_rWE7hgql5UZdE6_HhGyzr-Tx0LhWABiFEhSr4w8nqWlkwYUeQu2SEpulE3YbnARtD6M5bNszXRLE9dWA2oQJCNTqsr-nW5VLDlLT-mpnmTdLCmZUbSY4C7oCFyXg1c/w400-h300/cdc0178e-bb66-47e9-bba2-25dc8bf117ff.png&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;The kit features 12 gorgeous .png elements which resize beautifully and look great whether you use them in big or small digital art; AND no matter what size I printed them, they looked absolutely perfect on both plain cardstock and glossy photo paper. Case in point:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP09yAA9Ao4avg8WOl_aSMKDvPCcs0WKqtfxfyABiGR-D79RGJVjNBRLYtaCEdPBteKTCTXgacZ-YgeIL9I0eYV6hFU-MRVkkxggOqw3rsRTa5bIK3QhwIDnDQ4wsMuHRq5lQ68iWcwory1xMC1-RduNjz2dDXzjyvbRysjQVysiqd60aLUNNNP3HMvCQ/s1690/carol-city%20walk-both.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1690&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1690&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP09yAA9Ao4avg8WOl_aSMKDvPCcs0WKqtfxfyABiGR-D79RGJVjNBRLYtaCEdPBteKTCTXgacZ-YgeIL9I0eYV6hFU-MRVkkxggOqw3rsRTa5bIK3QhwIDnDQ4wsMuHRq5lQ68iWcwory1xMC1-RduNjz2dDXzjyvbRysjQVysiqd60aLUNNNP3HMvCQ/w400-h400/carol-city%20walk-both.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;I made two physical versions of this City Walk layout design; one as an A2 card and one as a larger art journal page, about 6 x 9&quot; including the gel print background.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyGHoBQwThp6h6-LCg97uFce-xCEb6R0vP3A26tk-McIBb4deK8guK9wX9BXveVNxK-0KHgJn4riIL9v0R0AGd1L0LuqBm1YBgMLizjmx0R3SKw5CcCCRTgBMs7JZ9tFauwoOMie7D6yO6hUQvzD6kZL4o7ibkFVf1QTGexP5OIl-eaXLTd2uXWF5_fow/s1022/carol-city%20walkcard.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1022&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1022&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyGHoBQwThp6h6-LCg97uFce-xCEb6R0vP3A26tk-McIBb4deK8guK9wX9BXveVNxK-0KHgJn4riIL9v0R0AGd1L0LuqBm1YBgMLizjmx0R3SKw5CcCCRTgBMs7JZ9tFauwoOMie7D6yO6hUQvzD6kZL4o7ibkFVf1QTGexP5OIl-eaXLTd2uXWF5_fow/w400-h400/carol-city%20walkcard.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;I layered some of the elements before printing and added others that I printed and fussycut. For the latter, I chose to leave a very skinny white border to get maximum definition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG_Z_TFW-hh3KDx-V4qO-P3IhgfFeI7dCCQG48PGp4WBYiXCJEBtHx-gj-GQUWlTIV6RZAaZBkbd781yh0KtmgeRdARBcV0a7CqhzX-wbmIwjQoWvtchpbRD0RCwiQUZMNYJFUW_XkRWy_HogNE5O-gdTjNZXXO4EFEGE8tPiUrmDxI95HnMcvZvWGd9M/s1269/carol-city%20walk-journal.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1269&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1269&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG_Z_TFW-hh3KDx-V4qO-P3IhgfFeI7dCCQG48PGp4WBYiXCJEBtHx-gj-GQUWlTIV6RZAaZBkbd781yh0KtmgeRdARBcV0a7CqhzX-wbmIwjQoWvtchpbRD0RCwiQUZMNYJFUW_XkRWy_HogNE5O-gdTjNZXXO4EFEGE8tPiUrmDxI95HnMcvZvWGd9M/w400-h400/carol-city%20walk-journal.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;No matter what size I chose or what paper I used, the images were flawless, scaling perfectly and printing beautifully. I also made a pretty large all-digital collage... just because I could, lol:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw_9VpWMiuohtNs0bwwwOj6yhQpYRdnBHbuZewYheidtCxTPCdzZdOhczmUfUw7GUuYhW0IYR-eGncmDE24PeXYEEsR_JaPnHksY6oF_bm3cdyUw8AKO4T-FP5kX43MtPW3587t75AC2ow72CWugQaUn9w1pOsb9lqlIixooqQrvw5z_qIiKdT8LJvtXk/s768/carol-city%20walk%20digi%20collage.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;762&quot; data-original-width=&quot;768&quot; height=&quot;398&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw_9VpWMiuohtNs0bwwwOj6yhQpYRdnBHbuZewYheidtCxTPCdzZdOhczmUfUw7GUuYhW0IYR-eGncmDE24PeXYEEsR_JaPnHksY6oF_bm3cdyUw8AKO4T-FP5kX43MtPW3587t75AC2ow72CWugQaUn9w1pOsb9lqlIixooqQrvw5z_qIiKdT8LJvtXk/w400-h398/carol-city%20walk%20digi%20collage.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;As you can see, I added a background paper that wasn&#39;t in the kit and I widened the city street image just a tad to accommodate the square format, with no distortion or loss of clarity. I put a bit of a drop shadow on the lady and on the sentiment strips, but otherwise the images are exactly as they came in the kit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;I&#39;ll have more projects later this week, so stay tuned. In the meantime, make sure to check out Carol&#39;s work via Instagram &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.instagram.com/naysworld8/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;@naysworld8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; as well as her &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.naysworld.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Nay&#39;s World Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and find the first &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/listing/4474223402/rainy-night-digital-art-journal-kit-png?ref=shop_home_active_1&amp;amp;dd=1&amp;amp;logging_key=e5b224c7e57f2a970aed1599a0b0cbe2e51af066%3A4474223402&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Tiny Tales Collection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; in her&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/shop/naysworld&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;NaysWorld Etsy Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/tiny-tales-collection-rainy-night.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn9tEc67U7tM4ZaRv0YQkypmSy9Pve-PZEhFVHaDBuoTwbANM0GmPeooYxdx1T_rWE7hgql5UZdE6_HhGyzr-Tx0LhWABiFEhSr4w8nqWlkwYUeQu2SEpulE3YbnARtD6M5bNszXRLE9dWA2oQJCNTqsr-nW5VLDlLT-mpnmTdLCmZUbSY4C7oCFyXg1c/s72-w400-h300-c/cdc0178e-bb66-47e9-bba2-25dc8bf117ff.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-98335087673055453</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-23T10:51:38.001-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">art journal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">collage mandala</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dina ledger journal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mandala monday</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mandalas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vintage goodies</category><title>Don&#39;t Be Koi</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Feeling a bit fishy this Mandala Monday, thanks to this fun vintage (octagonal!) needlework pattern I&#39;ve used as a centerpiece. The petals are made from beautifully patina-ed vintage Chinese dictionary pages (thank you Liz!) and Big Dollar Trading stamps (thank you Stephanie!) while the circles are graph paper and parts of a crochet-stitch illustration. I feel like this needs one... more... thing... BUT I&#39;ve been considering and trying out &quot;one more things&quot; for several days with no outcome. So it&#39;s possible you&#39;ll see this one again at a later date, if I ever figure out what to add, lol.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTbeevbNYr0WFqfb_Rq0Rom5rpmnTfF8mLde_brIYBiQi2yS9CjBCdTInnLYV7aGnig_2u7DZuN1wpi7HMtXP1NcmHGaWSX7oepnUkoI7IBwKqR_woWqchNtA0WRoWBLgysYiJ7NJm4k6aabhxitREwtf4C0dBdb-djXnTyCsK9TdStRZz1YUXJaEmrjM/s1474/MM12-fishy%20collage.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1474&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1474&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTbeevbNYr0WFqfb_Rq0Rom5rpmnTfF8mLde_brIYBiQi2yS9CjBCdTInnLYV7aGnig_2u7DZuN1wpi7HMtXP1NcmHGaWSX7oepnUkoI7IBwKqR_woWqchNtA0WRoWBLgysYiJ7NJm4k6aabhxitREwtf4C0dBdb-djXnTyCsK9TdStRZz1YUXJaEmrjM/w400-h400/MM12-fishy%20collage.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hope your first week of Spring is off to a good(ish?) start!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/dont-be-koi.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTbeevbNYr0WFqfb_Rq0Rom5rpmnTfF8mLde_brIYBiQi2yS9CjBCdTInnLYV7aGnig_2u7DZuN1wpi7HMtXP1NcmHGaWSX7oepnUkoI7IBwKqR_woWqchNtA0WRoWBLgysYiJ7NJm4k6aabhxitREwtf4C0dBdb-djXnTyCsK9TdStRZz1YUXJaEmrjM/s72-w400-h400-c/MM12-fishy%20collage.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-8682889622197629873</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-21T09:00:00.116-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">archival inks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">letter it fineliners</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">painting with archival ink</category><title>Even MORE Roses!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Spring is officially here but it&#39;ll be a little while yet until we see daffodils in our gardens, much less roses; so here are some that I painted using three of my favorite new &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/search?type=product&amp;amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last&amp;amp;q=archival+ink+pad&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Archival Ink&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; shades from Ranger: &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/products/archival-ink-pads-sweet-treat&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sweet Treat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/products/archival-ink-pads-avocado-toast&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Avocado Toast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/products/archival-ink-pads-sand-castle&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sand Castle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOybIxvHpA3Ux7bLcKvmpL19fkPDtR4oaJj8zRKP3EiKNFEciAMW3gWTLg-2UDS4Aoy38c0asTsMvLLoFmycZCLm_dwZpsiwfVc8dmS4wj_UK8RFT8k7NmcXSy0mZm9MckwNm67OV3sNsWUns2UmcW4R4J0W4dh0K5Pe1S2IXbWloN13h-0cS0PB-scg0/s827/archival%20rose%20card-cropped.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;827&quot; data-original-width=&quot;827&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOybIxvHpA3Ux7bLcKvmpL19fkPDtR4oaJj8zRKP3EiKNFEciAMW3gWTLg-2UDS4Aoy38c0asTsMvLLoFmycZCLm_dwZpsiwfVc8dmS4wj_UK8RFT8k7NmcXSy0mZm9MckwNm67OV3sNsWUns2UmcW4R4J0W4dh0K5Pe1S2IXbWloN13h-0cS0PB-scg0/w400-h400/archival%20rose%20card-cropped.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I used a &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/products/dylusions-waterbrushes-2pk&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;waterbrush&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; full of Isopropyl Alcohol to pick up &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/products/archival-ink-pads-sweet-treat&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sweet Treat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; ink I had smooshed onto my craft sheet, swirled it around into loose, semi-circular shapes, let it dry and then &quot;found&quot; the layers and petals of the roses and used Wendy Vecchi&#39;s brilliant Wonky Double Outline Trick with a &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/products/new-letter-it-fineliner-black-pens-3-pack&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Black Letter It Fineliner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. For leaves, a vaguely triangular shape with the hypotenuse tucked under the flower works pretty well and a little bit of tannish &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/products/archival-ink-pads-sand-castle&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sand Castle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; ink mixed with the &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/products/archival-ink-pads-avocado-toast&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Avocado Toast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; adds interest and the illusion of texture.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As with most of my watercolors (whether done with water-based or alcohol-based media) I like to use up any extra pigment by splashing it as speckles randomly on top of my design. So I did.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/even-more-roses.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOybIxvHpA3Ux7bLcKvmpL19fkPDtR4oaJj8zRKP3EiKNFEciAMW3gWTLg-2UDS4Aoy38c0asTsMvLLoFmycZCLm_dwZpsiwfVc8dmS4wj_UK8RFT8k7NmcXSy0mZm9MckwNm67OV3sNsWUns2UmcW4R4J0W4dh0K5Pe1S2IXbWloN13h-0cS0PB-scg0/s72-w400-h400-c/archival%20rose%20card-cropped.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-479976536053322563</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-20T01:00:00.116-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jingle belles</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">xmas</category><title>We Three... Ugly Sweaters (x2)</title><description>&lt;p&gt;We&#39;re still &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2026/03/we-three-kings.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;celebrating THREE&#39;s&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; at &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Jingle Belles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;; so this fortnight you can basically choose any color palette, any layout, any theme and any products; but... we want to see a strong group of THREE...something.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6pFZIYn6uTe2QsSWUj_LWl5mRpYEw2QbXqtIzxlA2RF62T2VrW9G7T3XvIlUgZdA3cjTpqPm9G9D7_J8Pp5qWI2dnKMDzIeOSwTryWZ16MkQjVKixyFvJ2HzNInjcD7JhElScFZjgmGo56F9MopdTICJRAgCf-TObEseUZ1KLQkYT-LYTAW1X5U8ZS8E/s1451/jb2606-three-week2.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1451&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1451&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6pFZIYn6uTe2QsSWUj_LWl5mRpYEw2QbXqtIzxlA2RF62T2VrW9G7T3XvIlUgZdA3cjTpqPm9G9D7_J8Pp5qWI2dnKMDzIeOSwTryWZ16MkQjVKixyFvJ2HzNInjcD7JhElScFZjgmGo56F9MopdTICJRAgCf-TObEseUZ1KLQkYT-LYTAW1X5U8ZS8E/w400-h400/jb2606-three-week2.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have about half a sheet left of PhotoPlay&#39;s (&lt;i&gt;appropriately named&lt;/i&gt;) Ugly Sweater Party patterned paper, and I must confess that although I&#39;ve had several of these sheets, I&#39;ve never used it as a background or in any other way than as I&#39;ve used it here. I really only want to cut out the cute little sweaters and put them on cards. So much so, that I had cut out four or five sweaters to make my THREE-centric card before remembering I either had to put some aside or make two cards with three sweaters. Obviously, I chose the latter course. I used my Elizabethcraft Planner Filmstrip die to hold the sweater trios and I had planned to stamp, &quot;&lt;i&gt;Don we now our ugly sweaters&lt;/i&gt;&quot; as the sentiment. Because I could have &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;sworn&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; I had a stamp that said that. As it turns out, either I was mistaken, OR it&#39;s been hidden away by the gremlins who also steal single socks and tupperware lids. So after a bit of searching and quite a lot of grumbling, I just formatted the text on my computer and printed it out. Which doesn&#39;t mean I won&#39;t, for the next few weeks, spend a few random minutes here and there still vaguely looking for that stamp... Obviously...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT4FA65_OACahzq_5Z6RPZl_8lazALD3WoWDWiRzIbBroPvPTazEm0Om9VBO06bScvOOZFHDiwfEVWVAK8hyphenhyphenUhC6kXnDe-cBplEhyZwxmMPhRSsbc868CB79nmWrVpXSR0xoptb0vazPg3-HKFOH1CytLx-wRaCMX0409dJtht_uJWoCLL-wDoxt1OG74/s600/CHP2910.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;600&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT4FA65_OACahzq_5Z6RPZl_8lazALD3WoWDWiRzIbBroPvPTazEm0Om9VBO06bScvOOZFHDiwfEVWVAK8hyphenhyphenUhC6kXnDe-cBplEhyZwxmMPhRSsbc868CB79nmWrVpXSR0xoptb0vazPg3-HKFOH1CytLx-wRaCMX0409dJtht_uJWoCLL-wDoxt1OG74/w200-h200/CHP2910.jpg&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2026/03/we-three-kings.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;JB2606: We THREE Kings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; runs until next Wednesday evening, March 18th. Head over to &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Jingle Belles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to see the Readers&#39; Gallery and link your own tremendous trio(s)!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/we-three-ugly-sweaters-x2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6pFZIYn6uTe2QsSWUj_LWl5mRpYEw2QbXqtIzxlA2RF62T2VrW9G7T3XvIlUgZdA3cjTpqPm9G9D7_J8Pp5qWI2dnKMDzIeOSwTryWZ16MkQjVKixyFvJ2HzNInjcD7JhElScFZjgmGo56F9MopdTICJRAgCf-TObEseUZ1KLQkYT-LYTAW1X5U8ZS8E/s72-w400-h400-c/jb2606-three-week2.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-8362700705262889688</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-18T03:00:00.116-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">brads</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">easter</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">embossing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">eyelet outlet</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ranger</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">simon hurley create</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">stellar inks</category><title>Chicks and Eggs and Flowers</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Spring officially begins this weekend, and Easter is just around the corner; what better time for a bold and colorful card featuring &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/chick-brads.html&quot;&gt;Eyelet Outlet Chick Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/sun-cloud-brads.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sun and Cloud Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/fresh-flowers-bright.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Bright Fresh Flowers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/colordaisy.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Colored Daisy Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEewgUYn0DpsuJDuTZ6jXg8H7hdr6p3Yzr20elyF6tGDOTPb4YRVhSV2Y2oYcx63F5rvwlm4kEnxl-Rhf_1_62oKrvtentkiIdOT7qaybKpNDFxniUoO6rX-135vohkZabe22RYXt4RASqWrZZLZwVoBmsLpwOXPVnc5XH6JcWud5vmiFqQHc-e11Cix4/s1118/eo-chicks%20and%20eggs.jpg&quot; 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text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Egg-cellent Easter EO Shopping List:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/chick-brads.html&quot;&gt;Chick Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/sun-cloud-brads.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sun and Cloud Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/fresh-flowers-bright.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Bright Fresh Flower Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/colordaisy.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Colored Daisy Brads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Eyelet Outlet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; makes Easter cards (&lt;i&gt;and all other cards, too, actually!&lt;/i&gt;) easy and fun!&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/chicks-and-eggs-and-flowers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEewgUYn0DpsuJDuTZ6jXg8H7hdr6p3Yzr20elyF6tGDOTPb4YRVhSV2Y2oYcx63F5rvwlm4kEnxl-Rhf_1_62oKrvtentkiIdOT7qaybKpNDFxniUoO6rX-135vohkZabe22RYXt4RASqWrZZLZwVoBmsLpwOXPVnc5XH6JcWud5vmiFqQHc-e11Cix4/s72-w400-h400-c/eo-chicks%20and%20eggs.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-6719987418099044758</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-16T12:30:06.620-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">archival inks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">embossing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">liquid pearls</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Make It Stamps &amp; 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Today&#39;s post features a set of four minicards made with the &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/products/make-it-clear-stamp-set-chic-birthday?_pos=4&amp;amp;_sid=6c8c44845&amp;amp;_ss=r&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Chic Birthday Stamp Set&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/products/make-it-stencil-sprinkle-hearts?_pos=1&amp;amp;_sid=6c8c44845&amp;amp;_ss=r&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sprinkle Hearts Stencil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and four of the brand new &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/search?type=product&amp;amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last&amp;amp;q=aasrchival+ink+pad&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Archival Ink&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; colors. If you&#39;d like to see &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/blogs/projects/make-it-chic-birthday-mini-card-set-by-lauren-bergold&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;the full step-by-step photo tutorial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, head on over to the &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/blogs/projects&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Ranger Project Tutorials Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEcCPg8_SfvZoHsrliCZhB946w9vmyJEWhtW6A8roN6q7VnSbAjULi-9rk4xF1phppqrQr2YisKvV9gUk7nHwh0AaWR52HyD53w4vfcQsYYUdsmZrIzvI-hX2ERqDXIPkkJzwFPDwrIUPajh8wTzaDXxJ8OADAn5koI2LXOiiTnM1lLEfiAWjeXpGZ_Ks/s640/step_9.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;640&quot; data-original-width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEcCPg8_SfvZoHsrliCZhB946w9vmyJEWhtW6A8roN6q7VnSbAjULi-9rk4xF1phppqrQr2YisKvV9gUk7nHwh0AaWR52HyD53w4vfcQsYYUdsmZrIzvI-hX2ERqDXIPkkJzwFPDwrIUPajh8wTzaDXxJ8OADAn5koI2LXOiiTnM1lLEfiAWjeXpGZ_Ks/w400-h400/step_9.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheydqNbajx_aMWGiVs0YhowuX78AIvWSqLFEJzgePuLb-dhPHrHgjfDhicNg0QC3YnfuT7DdlrMJEu-u61smhb8PJWWnsLowJsmdI_YDE9J0l8tHyJhjNiHZVsI_B9iZXTf-WEvgWxrPD_57uxZd43cBE0jSyJSVVC-osJi_mfaeM_mwn8i1Iob2jQngc/s640/step_10.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;640&quot; data-original-width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheydqNbajx_aMWGiVs0YhowuX78AIvWSqLFEJzgePuLb-dhPHrHgjfDhicNg0QC3YnfuT7DdlrMJEu-u61smhb8PJWWnsLowJsmdI_YDE9J0l8tHyJhjNiHZVsI_B9iZXTf-WEvgWxrPD_57uxZd43cBE0jSyJSVVC-osJi_mfaeM_mwn8i1Iob2jQngc/w400-h400/step_10.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/chic-birthday-card-set.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEcCPg8_SfvZoHsrliCZhB946w9vmyJEWhtW6A8roN6q7VnSbAjULi-9rk4xF1phppqrQr2YisKvV9gUk7nHwh0AaWR52HyD53w4vfcQsYYUdsmZrIzvI-hX2ERqDXIPkkJzwFPDwrIUPajh8wTzaDXxJ8OADAn5koI2LXOiiTnM1lLEfiAWjeXpGZ_Ks/s72-w400-h400-c/step_9.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-1559831095881510799</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-16T09:00:00.122-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">archival inks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dina ledger journal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">letter it fineliners</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mandala monday</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mandalas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ranger</category><title>Bokeh Batik</title><description>&lt;p&gt;One of my favorite things about working with &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/search?type=product&amp;amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last&amp;amp;q=archival+ink+pad&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Ranger Archival Inks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is that you can do a lot of the fun little tricks I love about watercolor, but instead of working with water, you use 91% Isopropyl Alcohol. BUT... for sciencey reasons I don&#39;t entirely understand, the fact that you&#39;re using alcohol instead of water means you can be working on fairly thin paper or cardstock and it won&#39;t warp or rip or pill or otherwise hurt your substrate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0JlD3HG9D0vAKmrtu01lulU8boAAmvyusiHh7FlkMHX517_AaThFrscvG3abrGdkeBxGIvr0w41Uy2LOKYILR4pYUigxmO5hoFVDSxa54aJ3OfqWqk32aohvdj7MQlrL3lKGE7VBAVP_r_iZOV4CrdwqedVDUUqgRL-ED-_hAL6K8B2FNAPSBQQJXQI/s1611/MM11-archivals%20and%20splatter.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1611&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1611&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0JlD3HG9D0vAKmrtu01lulU8boAAmvyusiHh7FlkMHX517_AaThFrscvG3abrGdkeBxGIvr0w41Uy2LOKYILR4pYUigxmO5hoFVDSxa54aJ3OfqWqk32aohvdj7MQlrL3lKGE7VBAVP_r_iZOV4CrdwqedVDUUqgRL-ED-_hAL6K8B2FNAPSBQQJXQI/w400-h400/MM11-archivals%20and%20splatter.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I used an ink blending tool to add all of my &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/search?type=product&amp;amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last&amp;amp;q=archival+ink+pad&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Archival&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; colors, letting them overlap a bit to create new shades in between; then I flicked on LOTS of droplets of clear alcohol, over and over, blotting them each time to pick up a little color. Until I finally had this very cool effect that almost looks textured. And, as you can see, my page is not lumpy. bumpy, ripped or wrinkly. Some of the color DOES seep through to the back of the page, however, something you might like to keep in mind if you try this fun &quot;trick&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;BTW, all of the above is just one tiny little portion of information I&#39;ve learned from the very awesome &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.instagram.com/wendyvecchi/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Wendy Vecchi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, and if you aren&#39;t watching her Tip Tuesday videos on &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.instagram.com/wendyvecchi/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; or &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/groups/804326560596779&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, you are realllllly missing out!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/bokeh-batik.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0JlD3HG9D0vAKmrtu01lulU8boAAmvyusiHh7FlkMHX517_AaThFrscvG3abrGdkeBxGIvr0w41Uy2LOKYILR4pYUigxmO5hoFVDSxa54aJ3OfqWqk32aohvdj7MQlrL3lKGE7VBAVP_r_iZOV4CrdwqedVDUUqgRL-ED-_hAL6K8B2FNAPSBQQJXQI/s72-w400-h400-c/MM11-archivals%20and%20splatter.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-7093432980409192241</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-14T09:00:00.112-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">buttons</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">collage</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">trading stamps</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vintage goodies</category><title>Another Button Collage</title><description>&lt;p&gt;It turns out that hand-sewing buttons onto vintage paper collages is somewhat addictive. But luckily I have A LOT more buttons (&lt;i&gt;...and a lot more vintage paper for that matter...&lt;/i&gt;) so I can&#39;t really see a downside.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZXCiinVhcMMicMXsgy7i1Ue1DHyaYL-H5jw7szrbapBZCO09Knq-ZvozSIp9vykornkzJUz0kcm5RmwnLfVEUeYl6NfjRuLZu5Dg-m3t4xRPvdp0l4OPPtdnv2LsnLsPBV5Hj3BCQCQD6GXcrMeCfEvM0JtSNR8fNKbvFl2dph0q6ccxJtE5kqFagXE/s1673/button%20collage-cream.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1673&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1673&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZXCiinVhcMMicMXsgy7i1Ue1DHyaYL-H5jw7szrbapBZCO09Knq-ZvozSIp9vykornkzJUz0kcm5RmwnLfVEUeYl6NfjRuLZu5Dg-m3t4xRPvdp0l4OPPtdnv2LsnLsPBV5Hj3BCQCQD6GXcrMeCfEvM0JtSNR8fNKbvFl2dph0q6ccxJtE5kqFagXE/w400-h400/button%20collage-cream.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope your weekend is off to a good start and that before it&#39;s over, you&#39;ll find a little time to indulge in whatever crafty activity you feel compulsively drawn to right now! ♥&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/another-button-collage.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZXCiinVhcMMicMXsgy7i1Ue1DHyaYL-H5jw7szrbapBZCO09Knq-ZvozSIp9vykornkzJUz0kcm5RmwnLfVEUeYl6NfjRuLZu5Dg-m3t4xRPvdp0l4OPPtdnv2LsnLsPBV5Hj3BCQCQD6GXcrMeCfEvM0JtSNR8fNKbvFl2dph0q6ccxJtE5kqFagXE/s72-w400-h400-c/button%20collage-cream.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-2640128888428557620</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-13T01:00:00.121-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">collage</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jingle belles</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vintage goodies</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">xmas</category><title>We Three... Kittens?!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Ok, technically, the new Jingle Belles prompt is called, &quot;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2026/03/we-three-kings.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;We Three Kings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&quot; and we&#39;re asking you to create a card with THREE of one element: three circles... three reindeer... three packages under the Christmas Tree... you get the picture, right? But in my case, it was three kittens, as you can see:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9IqFNfGzs61TAEUvvJkgDOri3wJRdb9gkXsfhGO8mWcnN0TVTRVBzUNfOCHvGVTu93re6XnVbf7dqidjSwoUDUuXyk1eeZXZQxdFjDMAvcZ5iWBYwB05iQynAz4KRNLQOUdbc2NwvK7fJ1voVAdvRksWVA1u_cqvZnYsINoWC27YCmFbEHzfRJO3zlTc/s1245/jb2606-we%20three-kittens-week1.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1245&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1170&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9IqFNfGzs61TAEUvvJkgDOri3wJRdb9gkXsfhGO8mWcnN0TVTRVBzUNfOCHvGVTu93re6XnVbf7dqidjSwoUDUuXyk1eeZXZQxdFjDMAvcZ5iWBYwB05iQynAz4KRNLQOUdbc2NwvK7fJ1voVAdvRksWVA1u_cqvZnYsINoWC27YCmFbEHzfRJO3zlTc/w376-h400/jb2606-we%20three-kittens-week1.jpg&quot; width=&quot;376&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;In addition to three adorable vintage felines, my card has a few more threes: three torn patterned paper pieces and three pieces of doily. I kept trying to add &quot;one more thing&quot; but nothing really seemed right, so I attached the sentiment, did a bit of machine stitching and called it good.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2026/03/we-three-kings.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;JB2606:&amp;nbsp;We Three Kings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; runs until 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, March 25th. Hop over to Jingle Belles to link your card(s)!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/we-three-kittens.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9IqFNfGzs61TAEUvvJkgDOri3wJRdb9gkXsfhGO8mWcnN0TVTRVBzUNfOCHvGVTu93re6XnVbf7dqidjSwoUDUuXyk1eeZXZQxdFjDMAvcZ5iWBYwB05iQynAz4KRNLQOUdbc2NwvK7fJ1voVAdvRksWVA1u_cqvZnYsINoWC27YCmFbEHzfRJO3zlTc/s72-w376-h400-c/jb2606-we%20three-kittens-week1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-9089228170975083939</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-11T03:00:00.121-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">archival inks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">brads</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">easter</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">eyelet outlet</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">painting with archival ink</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ranger</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">simon hurley create</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">washi</category><title>Bunny Hugs</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/rabbit-brads.html&quot; 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style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/bunny-hugs.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZGQpZJkdDa4k9JgEN_nX70aYo4sTbPoBeoOoVB4gLiP60AZMbdFXSo8w2RUAc9D1EKOqgEKL9ENm7O5JA7B4oReIeZ2qdpT-XMmNHGDC-JfV50em-ghipEVVlgl1kH3EBGSoM4xGD4uTVhxJjMwe-JAB5IicsXSmk4j3x8UXJXdTXXQ2Jdn-NgIobTpI/s72-w400-h391-c/EO-easter%20bunnies-card-blog.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-1950756597981532357</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-10T06:30:00.148-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">machine stitching</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rub-on transfers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">shopping our stash</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">stickers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vintage goodies</category><title>SOS569: I&#39;m COUNTING on You </title><description>&lt;p&gt;If you&#39;ve guessed from the title that this fortnight&#39;s challenge at &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Shopping Our Stash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is to make a card with at least one numeral on it, HOORAY, you&#39;re right! Here&#39;s my card:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjizG3cPvFL1Qqd9Y3cErc9IhpHJ8-Z_6Xbn-EJQPWu8gcy3xQYCR68TWAYR5TIdcH0k1pocDvDbBU8-y4eqYdoG_2WQi3HK9b5TnCX7zc9jYK5ykuzHEp3YyAiCgcqYGsZwGrddqW2vbX5V4a-qqICJ6KuXEDez1Nd5Xl2HeV93KyQhaTgp3J3nvKgpv4/s1216/sos569numbers.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1216&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1204&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjizG3cPvFL1Qqd9Y3cErc9IhpHJ8-Z_6Xbn-EJQPWu8gcy3xQYCR68TWAYR5TIdcH0k1pocDvDbBU8-y4eqYdoG_2WQi3HK9b5TnCX7zc9jYK5ykuzHEp3YyAiCgcqYGsZwGrddqW2vbX5V4a-qqICJ6KuXEDez1Nd5Xl2HeV93KyQhaTgp3J3nvKgpv4/w396-h400/sos569numbers.jpg&quot; width=&quot;396&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lots of seriously elderly stash usage here: my numerals are from this ancient set of Making Memories Alphabet Rub-ons; I&#39;ve applied them to my well-hoarded Hambly Screenprints transparency card base, so that they peep out as mirror images from the under the corners of my funky collage. There are also numerals on the tickets, and some in the various text papers as well. That beautiful orchid sticker is from DK&#39;s Botanists&#39; Sicker Anthology, a book that &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ingeniousinkling.com/category/shoppingourstash/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; gave me a couple of years ago and despite LOTS of use it still has hundreds of gorgeous stickers in it! Not to brag, but I really love how this came out AND it&#39;s a reminder of the fact that challenges often spur me on to make something I would not have thought of, otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;SOS569: I&#39;m COUNTING on You&lt;/b&gt; runs until the evening of Monday, March 23rd. Head over to &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Shopping Our Stash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to read the details and check out the inspiring cards our Crew has made. Then root around for one or two neglected craft items and join the fun!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/sos569-im-counting-on-you.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjizG3cPvFL1Qqd9Y3cErc9IhpHJ8-Z_6Xbn-EJQPWu8gcy3xQYCR68TWAYR5TIdcH0k1pocDvDbBU8-y4eqYdoG_2WQi3HK9b5TnCX7zc9jYK5ykuzHEp3YyAiCgcqYGsZwGrddqW2vbX5V4a-qqICJ6KuXEDez1Nd5Xl2HeV93KyQhaTgp3J3nvKgpv4/s72-w396-h400-c/sos569numbers.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-4673956702865983104</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-09T09:00:00.112-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">archival inks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">letter it fineliners</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mandala monday</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mandalas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ranger</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">simon hurley create</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">stencils</category><title>Too Much? </title><description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m putting the &quot;psycho&quot; into &quot;psychedelic&quot; this Mandala Monday. I started out with a fab mix of &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/search?type=product&amp;amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last&amp;amp;q=archival+ink+pad&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Archival Ink&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; colors and Simon Hurley&#39;s awesome two-part &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/products/simon-hurley-create-layering-stencil-sunrays&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sunrays Layering Stencils&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. I probably should&#39;ve stopped at ONE mandala ring and made the petals more consistent though; the combination of sunrays and offset circles is a bit dizzying, lol. Ah well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi44ohsgVPhgR6GfUoof0oUJo6F6cmr-7KToLtz2YvojqfHdsl_FPegXlXXg2t641QpJmYLzToLZ7h_u9YvvA4JMVYKwsCCgmnAsRNsIszeDGVUSYI-tNvF0ttRNuM6gyQOf9HO3BVpdS4M3c9oAu9YMPYR9issv1EyTeyeHrxsc3VZbWHvf94jGGUJ97c/s1370/MM10%20psychedelic.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1370&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1370&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi44ohsgVPhgR6GfUoof0oUJo6F6cmr-7KToLtz2YvojqfHdsl_FPegXlXXg2t641QpJmYLzToLZ7h_u9YvvA4JMVYKwsCCgmnAsRNsIszeDGVUSYI-tNvF0ttRNuM6gyQOf9HO3BVpdS4M3c9oAu9YMPYR9issv1EyTeyeHrxsc3VZbWHvf94jGGUJ97c/w400-h400/MM10%20psychedelic.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is this my favorite mandala? No. Did I &quot;waste&quot; my paper, ink and time? Also no! I tried something new, I enjoyed working on it, I learned a few things to do... and a few things &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;not &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;to do next time. All of which adds up to a successful art session, if not necessarily a beautiful finished piece. And I&#39;m absolutely fine with that. Hope your week is off to a good start!&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/too-much.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi44ohsgVPhgR6GfUoof0oUJo6F6cmr-7KToLtz2YvojqfHdsl_FPegXlXXg2t641QpJmYLzToLZ7h_u9YvvA4JMVYKwsCCgmnAsRNsIszeDGVUSYI-tNvF0ttRNuM6gyQOf9HO3BVpdS4M3c9oAu9YMPYR9issv1EyTeyeHrxsc3VZbWHvf94jGGUJ97c/s72-w400-h400-c/MM10%20psychedelic.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-5558468965597280184</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-08T11:32:53.839-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">buttons</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">collage</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">trading stamps</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vintage goodies</category><title>Collage + Buttons</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I had a craving to make a collage with a cascade of buttons... so I made one. Yes, I placed each button individually, used a paper-piercer to poke the holes, and sewed them on... one by one... with embroidery floss. Which seems tedious, but was actually quite relaxing. (&lt;i&gt;But yes, I&#39;m kinda weird, so maybe it would be tedious for anyone else, lol&lt;/i&gt;.) I hope that today you&#39;ll find time to make or do something YOU have been craving!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCQM209oGJU6SW93Z3cBARfQkhe503nuNlC4o64F_mU0XfrVMiOodvzE_j-rPRObnw7FJGSt2QkK2CTHkcXOqmHYPSYBq17cRmjyd_Lpi7OmGEpxsxRCbyKAKLYTB0MQoWPXj8QVq8nqzvWATIs1a5XWtY0fmVGvhznZU_4HW9_1RuiLnpfa68NC5IHs4/s1345/utton%20collage.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1345&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1345&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCQM209oGJU6SW93Z3cBARfQkhe503nuNlC4o64F_mU0XfrVMiOodvzE_j-rPRObnw7FJGSt2QkK2CTHkcXOqmHYPSYBq17cRmjyd_Lpi7OmGEpxsxRCbyKAKLYTB0MQoWPXj8QVq8nqzvWATIs1a5XWtY0fmVGvhznZU_4HW9_1RuiLnpfa68NC5IHs4/w400-h400/utton%20collage.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unrelated PS: This morning a friend sent me an article from @billy_penn revealing there will be NO Zitner&#39;s Butter Krak Eggs this Easter. A sad blow to all chocolate- and coconut-loving folks born and raised in the Philadelphia area. I&#39;m gonna need a little time to walk this off...&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/collage-buttons.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCQM209oGJU6SW93Z3cBARfQkhe503nuNlC4o64F_mU0XfrVMiOodvzE_j-rPRObnw7FJGSt2QkK2CTHkcXOqmHYPSYBq17cRmjyd_Lpi7OmGEpxsxRCbyKAKLYTB0MQoWPXj8QVq8nqzvWATIs1a5XWtY0fmVGvhznZU_4HW9_1RuiLnpfa68NC5IHs4/s72-w400-h400-c/utton%20collage.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-2771889154261552442</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-06T01:00:00.122-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">49 and market</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">diecutting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jingle belles</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">washi</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">xmas</category><title>Deck the Halls with... More Music!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;We&#39;re still celebrating &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2026/02/fa-la-la-la-la.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Christmas Music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; at &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Jingle Belles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;; so we&#39;re asking you to create a card (&lt;i&gt;or tag, or gift card holder, or whatever else you&#39;ll be needing for the holidays&lt;/i&gt;) that incorporates music, musical instruments, or even the title of a favorite Christmas Carol.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&#39;s my card:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt0-95T7fbEWmihlb-MuncB9HA5yAUedBapcdYf9wQcPLVJv2VBEydrCoJ0heR2YHNQSNUJ2PYAmdEELlWBDQ87is_5jY1gecVjZZcST_KC6lmLFtK68ww3sRVskd_AGwzxBCZpyeN5sY_BIRQwjOFEwfPDchuXkbtYW0BRWyM4EN51j9Bsp0SuLuWfnk/s1114/JB2605-music2-blog.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1114&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1011&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt0-95T7fbEWmihlb-MuncB9HA5yAUedBapcdYf9wQcPLVJv2VBEydrCoJ0heR2YHNQSNUJ2PYAmdEELlWBDQ87is_5jY1gecVjZZcST_KC6lmLFtK68ww3sRVskd_AGwzxBCZpyeN5sY_BIRQwjOFEwfPDchuXkbtYW0BRWyM4EN51j9Bsp0SuLuWfnk/w363-h400/JB2605-music2-blog.jpg&quot; width=&quot;363&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I used a vertical strip of real (&lt;i&gt;torn&lt;/i&gt;) sheet music; some horizontal music-printed washi tape; and a tiny journal card with &quot;&lt;i&gt;Deck the Halls&lt;/i&gt;&quot; on it, so I think I&#39;ve covered all the bases. The background paper is from 49 &amp;amp; Market; the ancient slide mount frame is of unknown origin; and the foliage diecuts were leftover from another project... the dies were Tim Holtz for Sizzix Christmas Greenery. I cannot tell a lie: I love how this tuned out!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2026/02/fa-la-la-la-la.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;JB2605: Fa-La-La-La-La&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; runs until 6pm (Eastern) on the evening of Wednesday, March 11th. Hop over to &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Jingle Belles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to see the fun little prize one random cardmaker will score... just for linking up with us this fortnight! ♥&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/deck-halls-with-more-music.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt0-95T7fbEWmihlb-MuncB9HA5yAUedBapcdYf9wQcPLVJv2VBEydrCoJ0heR2YHNQSNUJ2PYAmdEELlWBDQ87is_5jY1gecVjZZcST_KC6lmLFtK68ww3sRVskd_AGwzxBCZpyeN5sY_BIRQwjOFEwfPDchuXkbtYW0BRWyM4EN51j9Bsp0SuLuWfnk/s72-w363-h400-c/JB2605-music2-blog.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-5149686895009021700</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-04T03:00:00.114-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">brads</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cards</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">easter</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">eyelet outlet</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">washi</category><title>Sweet Easter Chicks</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Easter is just a month away, but luckily &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Eyelet Outlet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; has all the brads you need for fast, easy, mailable Easter Cards. 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style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;The &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eyeletoutlet.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Eyelet Outlet Online Store&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; has embellishments for Easter, Spring, Birthdays and every other card-making occasion you celebrate!&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/sweet-easter-chicks.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf1qmYPspbaK0lB1sgbLYsYycI44BGzeFkJKTF5eWVkGiA9nx3dpmCnT77GD_HeP61jvje5YT-038oUSqAgTEWsnZ6k5HvI2Dgz2ftc-WQSn9D7835B5pHdJ4IdchnxJ1Imwn6nTszyzQSPZ-OKNgE63Fw1xrxiR49b_j0Wa1KhwPg5xZvd-JwIN7Mofw/s72-w363-h400-c/seet%20easter%20chick-crop%20copy.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-6592893093945234056</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-03T10:44:34.641-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">card kits</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">holiday jumpstart</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">paper anthology</category><title>Cardinal Song Holiday Jumpstart</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/listing/4464662009/holiday-jumpstart-cardinal-song-card?ref=shop_home_active_1&amp;amp;logging_key=b58fcff5fc2e568674fbeb8571d50af5cbec38e6%3A4464662009&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Holiday Jumpstart: Cardinal Song&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/shop/PaperAnthologyDesign?ref=seller-platform-mcnav&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Paper Anthology&#39;s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; newest holiday card kit, which features the eponymous cardinal perched on a chunky layered sentiment, surrounded by holiday foliage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKjOPiVmir6oPgzgIg33UZZBaRTaW-pk0C1ugq-fVtH9GhxcoURLhL4nDARx58H95oXmmq1v_K_Hy5qgA2m80idcPAlfprhQ6cLJ7FByXI8MIEdzkz-junoX6xHPEd5C1JAvCVv_1YxdtNguMxMHUOnbrhEBErURhBNwy-2aMdU7desDAA_31WleaJEsQ/s929/cardinal%20joy-sequins.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;929&quot; data-original-width=&quot;929&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKjOPiVmir6oPgzgIg33UZZBaRTaW-pk0C1ugq-fVtH9GhxcoURLhL4nDARx58H95oXmmq1v_K_Hy5qgA2m80idcPAlfprhQ6cLJ7FByXI8MIEdzkz-junoX6xHPEd5C1JAvCVv_1YxdtNguMxMHUOnbrhEBErURhBNwy-2aMdU7desDAA_31WleaJEsQ/w400-h400/cardinal%20joy-sequins.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/shop/PaperAnthologyDesign?ref=seller-platform-mcnav&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is our pre-packaged kit that includes everything you need (except adhesive) to complete FIVE copies of this new original holiday card design. This edition is called “&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/listing/4464662009/holiday-jumpstart-cardinal-song-card?ref=shop_home_active_1&amp;amp;logging_key=b58fcff5fc2e568674fbeb8571d50af5cbec38e6%3A4464662009&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Cardinal Song&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;” because of the sheet music embossing and the handsome layered diecut bird.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We all love the IDEA of making holiday cards throughout the year, instead being overloaded in November and December; but sometimes it’s hard to be inspired during the “off-season”. That issue is solved by this pre-packaged kit, which features everything you need (except adhesive) to complete five copies of this original design. Also included are complete written instructions (not pictured, but included!) and a nice big photo for reference.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjABLkbjfcjczLvVaAeAckwb5Q2TS9n71_-24LT-PJyQEzJF4t5_uQZJIGreUVtZCJTdzSmdPeBVDd4AZHpSGM9rUEkJqDZ0X9Dxs9HrwxrLNuOYL7klIqhgDe5xCxkndROru7hQGUHu8dZFUixndc5Yo7SnjP8BeGXP74qTOXrQps3K93BVEx8LdOwsDE/s1920/cardinal%20joy-ingredients.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1920&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1920&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjABLkbjfcjczLvVaAeAckwb5Q2TS9n71_-24LT-PJyQEzJF4t5_uQZJIGreUVtZCJTdzSmdPeBVDd4AZHpSGM9rUEkJqDZ0X9Dxs9HrwxrLNuOYL7klIqhgDe5xCxkndROru7hQGUHu8dZFUixndc5Yo7SnjP8BeGXP74qTOXrQps3K93BVEx8LdOwsDE/w400-h400/cardinal%20joy-ingredients.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;This kit contains all of the bits and pieces you see here. Just add adhesive and optional inking, put all the parts together and VOILA... you&#39;ve got a JUMPSTART on holiday cards!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtBetDipBLckv-xsl16yWrutqWt1-NRLTgsMZ82AjF22ew1PqMqnhT0J7zOHpeGTyYqr660MJorSVTSxTDUc5UddNYVBlmUrH0tFhPOMzadYwzr3ERhkUjQcOYcfuVjGADxuvKkrgRSFNXxw3us5TCXWhJjBCA08fZFFq7bKpjEGcIDkBOHjI2nuDzALM/s1000/square%20placard%20for%20kits-cardinal%20song%20copy.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1000&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1000&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtBetDipBLckv-xsl16yWrutqWt1-NRLTgsMZ82AjF22ew1PqMqnhT0J7zOHpeGTyYqr660MJorSVTSxTDUc5UddNYVBlmUrH0tFhPOMzadYwzr3ERhkUjQcOYcfuVjGADxuvKkrgRSFNXxw3us5TCXWhJjBCA08fZFFq7bKpjEGcIDkBOHjI2nuDzALM/w400-h400/square%20placard%20for%20kits-cardinal%20song%20copy.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Visit the &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/shop/PaperAnthologyDesign?ref=seller-platform-mcnav&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to purchase &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/listing/4464662009/holiday-jumpstart-cardinal-song-card?ref=shop_home_active_1&amp;amp;logging_key=b58fcff5fc2e568674fbeb8571d50af5cbec38e6%3A4464662009&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Cardinal Song&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; or any other Holiday Jumpstart Kit!&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://llaurenb.blogspot.com/2026/03/cardinal-song-holiday-jumpstart.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lauren bergold)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKjOPiVmir6oPgzgIg33UZZBaRTaW-pk0C1ugq-fVtH9GhxcoURLhL4nDARx58H95oXmmq1v_K_Hy5qgA2m80idcPAlfprhQ6cLJ7FByXI8MIEdzkz-junoX6xHPEd5C1JAvCVv_1YxdtNguMxMHUOnbrhEBErURhBNwy-2aMdU7desDAA_31WleaJEsQ/s72-w400-h400-c/cardinal%20joy-sequins.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236003707769495273.post-8537621557350895299</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-03-02T09:00:00.115-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">archival inks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dina wakley watercolor journal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">letter it fineliners</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Make It Stamps &amp; Stencils</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mandala monday</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mandalas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">posca pens</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ranger</category><title>The Blues Are Still Blue</title><description>&lt;p&gt;It&#39;s a bold, blue (&lt;i&gt;and green!&lt;/i&gt;) Mandala Monday featuring precisely half of the newest &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/search?type=product&amp;amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last&amp;amp;q=archival+ink+pad&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Archival Ink&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; release from &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rangerink.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Ranger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;; to wit: Best Dressed, Big Plans and Avocado Toast. 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