Tag Archives: Stamping With Family

Stamping With Sisters and Friends!

By | October 18, 2018

Pratt Road, Jeffersonville, VT Fall is my favorite season, and for the past few years Reggie and I have spent a week or so in Vermont with our family and friends. What a treat to be in New England when the leaves are changing color and the nip in the air tells us “we aren’t… Read More »

Monoprint Card Backgrounds

By | October 6, 2018

A couple of years ago when I was visiting my sister-in-law Sherry in her Vermont stamp art studio, she showed me how she makes prints with her Gelli Plate, a monoprinting system using acrylic paints brayered onto a soft jello-like clear surface. After the paint is applied, she lays embossed cardstock onto the painted surface… Read More »

Mentoring New Young Stampers!

By | March 6, 2017

Kathy Degree has been inviting her young friend Sarai to come over and stamp whenever she is visiting her grandfather, Kathy’s neighbor. Sarai is about six years old, and she has been stamping with her mentor, Kathy, for a year or two. Recently, Sarai came over to stamp a birthday card for her grandfather –… Read More »

We’re Really on the Same Page!

By | December 31, 2016

Sister-in-law Sherry Pakulski and I have been submitting our card artwork to The Stampers’ Sampler and Take Ten art stamping magazines for about three years now. We have set some goals for ourselves regarding our submissions, but one thing we really, really hoped to achieve was to one day have our cards printed in the… Read More »

I’ll Be Home For Christmas…

By | December 22, 2016

I got a phone call from across the miles from my sister-in-law Sherry today, which was nice because she had great news for both of us about the upcoming January issue of The Stampers’ Sampler! I’ll let that news be for another day, however, because I want to show you a couple of cards that… Read More »

Fall Flower Basket Card

By | October 13, 2016

This Fall Flower Basket Card was the result of a one-on-one stamping session I had with my sister-in-law Kathy last week. I not only got to stamp with my entire group of card-making friends and family while I was on vacation, but sitting down with a couple of them individually for paper art crafting is something… Read More »