I took a class with Marika Rahtu, in Altenew's Academy,  called Beautiful Details. Oh, how I loved her drawings on vellum and her pencil...

Have you ever liked fashion or art that was made up of elements you would not think "go together"? Have you ever heard someone des...

I love  working color onto surfaces in interesting ways.  So playing with watercolor in unconventional ways was fun. I made a couple cards u...

As a card designer, one of the most powerful ways to create mood is with color. With this card, I demonstrate how atmosphere transforms a de...

  When I first started making cards, it was all I could think of to find pretty paper and an interesting stamp to ink a pretty  card. Hey, w...

A challenge I completed 1/3 of the way through my AECP course involved making ten cards and the boxes packaging the two sets (I present an o...

Note: I am writing a separate post on the process of creating these  cards. This post looks at the design of the project as a whole. My teac...