A random on purpose life: Something new coming to Swirlydoos!!!

Faux Metal Tutorial

This was so much fun!!! My page titled The Journey (above this tut) features this faux metal. Here are the supplies you'll need...

How much do I love thee? Let me count the ways!! Isn't this flower adorable!? I ran across this tutorial on the web months ago and it has been rolling around my head ever since. It is so versatile making it perfect for every one one of your gorgeous creations. Let's go!

Calla Lily

I fell in love with this flower when I saw a video for it on the Heartfelt Creations website. So, if you don't want to read my tutorial you can click here to watch it over at HC. I did distress this up a little bit, which is not on the video. All right! Let's get started......

Faux Leather Tutorial

Making faux leather is easier than you think. I know, I say that about a lot of my tutorials. Have I been wrong? LOL...

Snowy Poinsettia

These flowers are just too cute! They are beyond easy to make too...BONUS!

Emerging Color Stamping Technique

Ok, I'll admit it...I really love stamping and the more I stamp the more I want to stamp. It's a wonderfully vicious circle. Emerging Color is one of those techniques that have some very basic and constant elements to it, but the creative license is all yours in how you present it. I'm sure if you Google or YouTube you will find a ton of tutorials and a lot of them will be very similar. Emerging Color boils down to this one word: resist. This is at its very core a resist technique. The whole trick to doing this is to remember that you will work in layers.

Something new coming to Swirlydoos!!!

Swirlydoos is proud to introduce to you our brand new monthly challenge.... SwirlyHues!! Our Design Team has been working like crazy and keeping the details of this challenge super top secret! Even the most skilled interrogators have failed at their attempts to squeeze information from them! *insert evil laugh*

Come on over to our blog on 9/10/11 and get all of the details including information on our inaugural prize!!

This challenge will be open to everyone, not just our subscribers! Come on over and join in the party....swirly style!