News — Andrea Shell

Hello there! It's Andrea back with you to share a sweet and spooky Halloween card featuring new products from Picket Fence Studios. Isn't that girl adorable in her cat costume?! She's from the new Freckle Friends: Bella Boo stamp set. I colored her with Copics and added highlights with a white gel pen. It doesn't show in the photos, but I also brushed clear sparkle over her costume (What little girl wouldn't love a sparkly cat costume?). That awesome background is from the new Halloween Cottages Fabulously Glossy A2 Card Fronts. You really don't need to do much when you...

Hello there! It's Andrea back with you, and today I'm sharing a fall card featuring products from Picket Fence Studios' July release. Who else is ready for fall?!! Those gorgeous leaves are from the Layered Flora: Fall Foliage Dies. Aren't they awesome?! To create them, I first scribbled watercolor markers onto watercolor paper, spread the ink with water, and then dried it with my heat tool. I repeated the steps to build up the color before adding Opaque Black Paper Splatter. Once the paper was dry, I diecut it with the Fall Foliage Dies. I also diecut leaves from gold...

Hi there! It's Andrea with you, and today I'm sharing a colorful card featuring some new products from Picket Fence Studios' July release. I am loving the fall vibe of this release! I couldn't resist this cute squirrel from the Layered Fauna: For the Love of Mushrooms Squirrel Die! Isn't he adorable?! I diecut the base from white cardstock and the detail layer from several colors of cardstock. I added shading to the detail pieces with Copic markers before gluing them to the white base. That awesome background is from the new Autumn Scenery Fabulously Glossy A2 Card Fronts. I...

Hi there! It's Andrea with you, and today I'm sharing a fun card combining a couple of my favorite techniques: pattern making and inlaid diecutting. This card might look time-consuming, but it came together pretty quickly! I started by creating my pattern with the Wreath Building Ice Cream You Scream stamp set. To make it easy for myself, I arranged several of the images onto the lid of my MISTI and just moved and rotated my cardstock when stamping. To fill the panel completely, I eventually removed some of the stamps and stamped one or two here and there. Once...