Perfect Ice Cream Shades

It’s almost ice-cream season, and I wanted to do a fun card with my ice-cream themed cutting dies. I have two sets: One from HoneyBee Stamps (Lovely Layers Cupcakes & More) and another random set I picked up somewhere else (not sure where – could have been a yard sale). The two completed cones were…

Sketchbook Small Landscape Lake

This is from my sketchbook – there was a small corner of a geli print that just looked like a serene lake – I didn’t want to add too much to the composition, so I layered colored pencils over a layer of gesso after adding the original tissue collage to my sketchbook with a layer…

Garden Mother with Bees

This is when the magic got my attention! I created geli plate papers and collaged them onto a small 8×10 inch canvas – When I had the papers glued down and stepped back, I clearly saw a bumble bee (maybe because I love my bumble bees), so this painting emerged from that first collage of…