Florence Turnour's Blog

Here are some drawings I did that I posted on Facebook, but not here. Sherman Gardens and Library Work in progress Seal Beach Pier Los Alamitos Bay Downtown Long Beach Downtown Long Beach Signal Hill Two views from the beach at Belmont Pier Gondola Getaway, Los Alamitos Bay Rancho Los Alamitos Thanks for looking!

Celebrate! Why not? I had a great time going to the Anaheim Scrapbook Expo with my friends last weekend. I decided to use Justrite Friday Challenge to try out some of the products I purchased. Here's my card, "Celebrate!" Celebrate! Justrite Friday Sketch Challenge #090 This is my second sketch challenge. I'm still getting the hang of it, which in my case means I pretty much copied the sketch. My favorite new item so far is the glittered embossing powder I bought from  Sparkle N Sprinkle . I have long wanted to glitter my stamped images, and I've done it with the glue stamp pad, but what a pain to clean the stamps and myself and my work area.  I shy away from that glue every time I think of using it. The Sparkle N Sprinkle product is embossing powder infused with glitter leaving the image both crisp and sparkly. Neither the pictures in the Sparkle N Sprinkle shop that I linked to above, nor these pictures of my card really do a great job showing the glit...

I made this card for a Unity Kit Club Sketch Challenge. After writing this post, I figured out that I missed the deadline for the challenge. Sad sad. So I'm entering it into the Fashionable Stamping Challenge ( Surprise Us ) and Simon Says Stamp Challenge ( Anything Goes , along with 500 other people), and Loves Rubber Stamp Challenge Blog ( Anything Goes ). December 2012 Unity Sketch Challenge I've not managed to use a card sketch before, though I like the idea of having a plan before I start pasting. I actually bought a book of sketches that I like to look at, but still I have yet to actually put shapes in the places they suggest on a card.  In any case, this time I wanted to play along on the Unity Stamp Blog, since I bought some Unity Kit stamps.  So I gave it a go. I made this card to hold these earrings I made for a fellow beader, as part of a new year's earring exchange. (I hope she doesn't look at my blog before I get them mailed off!) The earrings mak...

My dress stencil just turned die cut. I'm using the cut-out this time, to make these magnetic dress tags for the JustRite Challenge #77 "Tag you're it!" Magnetic Dress Tags I drew the dresses in Adobe Illustrator and cut them out on my Silhouette cutter (to make stencils, originally, here are some stenciled dresses ). I cut out some dresses from white card stock, and another set from magnet paper. I stamped and sponged them, and then colored them with my Prismacolor Pencils, blending with so called Odorless Mineral Spirits. On the purple dress, I used a stamp from the JustRite Original set called My Garden Set . I love the flowery dress; I was going to do them all in flowers, but I decided to shoot for variety.  The To and From stamps on all three dresses are part of a stamp in the   From Our House Set , and cut out with a die from JustRite's  Vintage Label and Banner Dies . Magnetic Dress Flower Tag On the Christmas dress, I used a snowflake posta...

I made this project using the shirt stencil I talked about here . This time, I cut the stencil out of acetate (an overhead transparency) so that I can wash it off.  The stamps are from Blockheads Stamps , which inspired me to use the embossed resist technique with their technique challenge (see below). I like the results so much, I also entered them into the Stamp Man's Favorite Technique Challenge . My favorite technique definitely has to do with sponging with stencils. Come into My Garden I used two Calendula stamps for this card, the full plant on the frame, and a single flower for the shirt. I used Justrite Stampers (retired) font system to write "come into my," and added the word Garden from this Blockheads set (I should have gotten the bigger bunch of tulips! Next time...) I stamped the single flower through the stencil and embossed the image with clear embossing powder. I replaced the stencil and sponged (and brushed) ink to reveal the flowers. I did th...

I bought two sets of stamps from Flourishes recently, so I thought I'd participate in their challenge. In this card, I used the From the Garden set, and managed to thoroughly embed the voices from the band Chicago in my head. Can You Dig It? This Timeless Tuesday Challenge was a bingo challenge. Participants choose a row, column or diagonal and include all three elements in a card. I chose the last column: bling, die cut and emboss. I stamped the images on white card stock, and colored them in using my Copics.  I used the Spellbinders' Classic Circle and Parisian Accent dies to cut out and frame the images.  I also paper pieced the gloves, adding a little shading with my Copics.  the bling is from Recollections (Michael's). I stitched around the edge in tight green zig-zags to give my border a finished look. Can You Dig It? Detail Thanks for looking!