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Thursday, July 16, 2026

Gerbera Daisies!

When I saw this flower, I knew I had to buy it. I'm glad I did because Altenew sold out of it, luckily it is available, for now, see my supplies link below. To see all the Altenew new products, click HERE.

The flowers are cut from colored cardstock, I don't really keep track of the cardstock I buy, but I'm pretty sure this is 65 lb Michael's cardstock. I like this weight for shaping petals. I always google photos of whatever flower I'm making, luckily Gerbera daisies come in a ton of colors.

To shape the petals, I use the Tim Holtz Shaping Kit. It comes with 2 stylus, a pad and reverse tweezers. I used the tweezers to bend the petals in half It gives them a bit of height and dimension. You don't have to do this step, these flowers look gorgeous just diecut flat.

The background is watercolor paper. I used Brutus Monroe Aqua Pigments in shades of blue and dipped and splattered my paper. After it was dry I used an embossing ink pad and edge the paper, poured gold embossing powder on it and heated it. Kinda dramatic.

That's it for today, nice and simple.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Mini Gertrude Mixed Media Card

The Sizzix Gertrude by Tim Holtz, in her new, smaller size. Some of the old Tim Holtz diesets have been resized a bit smaller. I wish I had the larger, original Gertrude, they look great together as a parent & child.

I decided to use some old Idea-ology paper to diecut her, this paper is a few years old and no longer available, called Abandoned. I saw some on ebay at a ridiculous price. There are other current papers available and I would go for one of those, click HERE.

The background is sprayed with Distress Sprays, in Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers for the sky and Antiqued Linen and a bit of Gathered Twigs for the sand. After it was dry, I stamped a few areas with Field Notes in brown Archival Ink just to break up the large areas of blue.

For the globe, I used a very old die called Destination, it's of course, no longer available. There is one that is currently available called, World Travel. It's similar, in the shape of a smaller circle. The good thing about the newer one is that it would easily fit on a standard card. I had to make mine 5.5" square.

I cut it 2x from black mixed media paper, and put some Sizzix Rose Gold Luster Wax. I'm a huge fan of their Luster Wax, it comes in a few colors. It's super creamy and a little goes a long way. I put a small amount on my finger and lightly touched areas of the globe. I then used some turq and light green acrylic paint (super cheap from Michaels) applied with a dry brush here and there to resemble patina.

The stems are from Wildflower Stems, these are older sets but are great basics. I used some from a few sets but really any one of the sets work. The moss is fake moss from Michaels I bought many years ago. It came in terrible colors like turquoise, I just sprayed it with some Rustic Wilderness Distress Spray Stain. After it dried I glued it onto the paper with some Distress Collage Medium, placing the globe over it.

I cut out the word HOME using the Vault Edges dieset but any set will do. I used the same paper as I used for the giraffe.

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Here's the image of both sizes Mini and the original Large:

Here is a photo showing both the original Large characters and the new Smaller characters.