AL Eye Candy 5-28-09

One of the best things about releasing my line of digital images is getting to know some wonderfully talented artists that I might not have met online otherwise. Two of them are Broni Holcombe and Bonnie Sharp. They recently wrote about their experiences with digital images, and they both did awesome jobs coloring their cards, [...]

Announcing the AL Design Team

The Summer 2009 Angels Landing Digital Design Team has been selected. It wasn’t an easy task to choose only six from the applicants. In fact, I didn’t manage it — the final team has eight awesome designers. They all have their own unique artistic styles. A great big “Welcome!” to the entire Angels Landing team. [...]

Reminder: Design Team Call

Are you planning to apply for the first Angels Landing Digital Stamping Design Team call? The Summer 2009 term runs for three months, from June 1 through August 31, 2009. Applications are due by this Friday, May 22, 2009, and are open to paper crafters worldwide.
Complete details on the qualifications, requirements, and benefits can be [...]

Mini Bears: Cubby Cousins

The new Mini Bears and Birds digital stamping images include three bears: Bearly Adequate, Chubby Cubby, and Cubby Cousins. This is a photo of the original 15" Cubby Cousins from my teddy bear book. The book included patterns for cross-stitched blocks and a bear-sized quilt with the letters B-E-A-R.

Photo © Lee Phillips. Used by permission.

For [...]

How to Make 3-D Cardstock Flowers

There’s a new tutorial on the main Angels Landing website: How to Make 3-D Cardstock Flowers. It explains how to attach multi-layer, three-dimensional cardstock flowers and leaves to wire stems. The directions include a materials list, nine step-by-step photos, and complete instructions.

In the Idea Gallery, you can see a sample project using this technique: 3-D [...]

AL Eye Candy 5-12-09

Two of the advantages of digi-stamps are that they can be flipped for mirror images and scaled to different sizes. Alma Olhava transformed a single wallaby image from the Aussie Animals set into a family group. After flipping and scaling the wallabies, Alma cleverly arranged them with the parents supporting the baby on their tails. [...]

Mini Bears: Chubby Cubby

The newest set of Angels Landing™ digital stamping images, Mini Bears and Birds, includes a teddy bear named Chubby Cubby. His saying is, “When you’re a chubby cub, there’s more of you to love.” This is his closeup photo from my bearmaking book.

Photo © Lee Phillips. Used by permission.

This artist teddy bear came in two [...]