Tattered Poinsettia

Another Beautiful Poinsettia Card design from Kittie Caraccilo. Kittie is able to make such beautiful Poinsettia's and die cuts to create such warm and stylish Holiday Cards:) This time she used our Poinsettia and Holiday Red paper and made it so elegant with the tattered poinsettia, greenery, ribbon and dies. Thanks Kittie, and I hope you all enjoy this design as much as I do!

xxxTina

Tina Wenke Cardmaking Papers

Enter our First Giveaway of our NEW Winter Card Making Papers! We've added a couple
of my Stampavie stamps just for fun, too:) There's 12 festive pages with 4 6x6 designs on
each page. These and more holiday products are available at the 2012 Tina Wenke Holiday Store.
To enter just "Like" and "Share" on my Facebook page . We'll choose a random winner after Friday, November 1, Midnight.
Sorry, North American residents only for now:(

xxxTina

P.S. Hi everyone, the Tina Wenke Store only sells the papers and not the stamps. Sorry for any confusion:( But, you can still win these with the Giveaway!

More Tina Wenke New Winter Stamps:)

Hi everyone,

I thought I'd show you some more of the new collection for winter from Stampavie.
These were so much fun to design and draw I can't wait to share all twenty with you!
Each one has a special place in my heart because I always love to draw from Holiday
memories of my own children who are now grown. Also, winter critters are my
absolute favorite critters of all.

"Cardinal on Pine Branch" I did not know, there are no Cardinals in France.

They are one of my favorite birds since they stay all through the winter:)

  

"Feeding Winter Birds" This little girl reminds me of my daughter Sarah, 

all warm in her new winter coat.

"Mouse With Stocking" This little guy makes me think of Christmas Eve,

all warm and cozy, waiting for Santa to arrive;)

xxxTina

First Video Demo!

Hey everybody! Over the weekend I worked on my first video tutorial and posted it on my facebook page on how I paint with water color pencils. I painted one of my Stampavie Winter Collection stamps and made an ornament out of it. It was sooo much fun! It's not perfect- out of focus and very looong. But hope you'll check it out anyway. You may have to squint your eyes some and fast forward a little, LOL. It's not about having it all right the first time, it's a journey and learning as I go.

Not sure if any of you know this, but I work alongside my husband Mike. He's a graphic designer and he's the one who takes my artwork and turns it into something that someone can actually use. Also, he is a very talented artist himself. He sits silently in the wings allowing me to get all the credit. Mike inspired the filming and edited the video for me. An amazing jack' of all trades, Mike is not afraid to try something new.
I love video how-to's because "we" creative people are visual learners- we learn with our eyes and our fingers. My very best teachers were the ones who actually sat down and took the time to demonstrate.

Can't wait to work on some other projects and to share more of the fun things I have learned with you:)