Sweet Talk with Tracy Valure

Welcome to our very first Sweet Talk segment.  This will be a monthly feature where one of our SugarPea Designers will share with you a little about themselves and a technique or tip designed to inspire and spark your creativity.

Today we are with the incredibly talented, Tracy Valure!

Sweet-Talk---Tracy

 

Tracy is known for her mad coloring skills and gorgeous card designs – but today we get to take a little peek at her everyday life.

I’m Feeling…

Sick! The pollen has been atrocious this year here in South Florida. My allergies are definitely keeping me down!

I’m Wishing…

I was on vacation somewhere. Somewhere that is preferably warm, maybe a Caribbean cruise or Key West.

I’m Loving…

Coffee!!  I was never a coffee drinker but I have become one in the past couple of months. I feel like I have missed out all my life and now I can’t get enough. Starbucks has become my new friend.

I’m Creating…

Cards. Although, I have been buying some mixed media items lately I just need time. Sigh!

I’m Reading…

Crashed, Book 3 from the Driven Series by K. Bromberg. It’s slightly smutty. You need a little smut here and there.

I’m Watching…

Dexter, Season 6.  Yes I am guilty of binge watching on Netflix shows. This is my newest addiction. But, I ONLY watch it if I am stamping. I feel like I am getting something done while I stamp. So no guilt (except when I walk by the laundry room).

Heart-Seperator

Now that I’ve shared a little bit about me, now it’s time for me to share trick I learned to get a crisp, clean image with my clear stamps.

I work on a folding table sometimes and it never fails this is what I end up with. The middle of my stamp didn’t transfer. If it’s just a tiny piece I will grab a copic multi-liner and fix it, but when it’s something large like this, there is NO fixing it.

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SugarPea Designs stamps are clear photopolymer stamps. I happen to LOVE clear stamps because I can see right where I am stamping.  Some rubber stamps have a foam backing.  Which give your stamps a little cushion and help in getting a clear image. You can create that same effect by purchasing a piece of thin foam from your local craft store.

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I place my cardstock on top of the foam.

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Stamp your image as you normally would.

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Voila – No missing pieces!!! I stamped this on the same table, in the same spot as the above image. It’s perfect!
Now remove the foam – tuck it away for your next stamped image and get to coloring what I hope is a SugarPea Stamp!
card

 

Tracy used the newly released, Love You Bunches from our Sweet P Collection.

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7 Comment

  1. Reply
    Maria
    March 14, 2014 at 6:24 am

    Fantastic! Loved hearing of the things you like and more about you. I am also a devout coffee drinker for a long time!! 🙂 And have seasonal allergies. Pollen is NOT my friend! Love your card and how you colored the image and the idea on the foam stamping sounds great! I will try it!

  2. Reply
    Donna
    March 14, 2014 at 10:28 am

    Hi Tracy. I’m a fairly new stamper and what I found works for me is an old mouse pad that gives just a little. Thank you for your inspirations and thank you Wendy for your great stamps!

  3. Reply
    Jenny Peterson
    March 14, 2014 at 12:57 pm

    Love your card and that you admit to reading smut novels 😉 xo

  4. Reply
    Joleen
    March 14, 2014 at 1:56 pm

    It was nice meeting you! I love your work!!

  5. Reply
    Lisa Lara
    March 16, 2014 at 1:51 am

    How fun to learn a little more about you Tracy. I love that tip. Beautiful coloring…..love the grass.

  6. Reply
    Lesley Croghan
    March 16, 2014 at 2:23 pm

    Wow! What a great trick! Love this idea!!! I laughed at the “guilty walking past the laundry room”…I am with you on that account. I need to set up a tv in my stamp room so I can stamp and watch…sounds soothing!

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