Halloween

Happy Hauntings Sparkly Witch Hat

Another witchy item a Sparkly Witch hat to go along with those lovely boots posted earlier.  The hat also features the ruffled ribbon look with a cute little dangly spider.  This card design is also from the Cricut Happy Hauntings cartridge.  

Coffee Filter Witch Broom

My friend Cheryl S. is pretty creative and clever and she made these Witch Brooms using coffee filters and twigs that her dh pruned from the trees in their yard.  So cute.  Thanks, Cheryl.

Stampin' Up Halloween Smiles Card

The happy jolly little pair of Jack-O-Lantern's on this card are from the SU set Halloween Smiles (Retired)  these guys are too cute!  The papers are SU Pumpkin Pie, Crumb Cake and Crushed Curry.  The accent designer paper is from a paper pack called Midnight Magic by Recollections.

Stampin' Up Bootiful Occassions Card

Look closely at the eyes looking back at you on this "Bootiful" boot.  Stampin' Up stamp set "Bootiful Occasions" was used for this card, along with Basic Black, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and  Rich Razzleberry papers and markers.

Halloween

Happy Hauntings Witch Boot

It's time to get to work on Halloween projects.  This beautiful sparkly Witch's boot features frilly ribbon accents in bold colors.  This boot can be made as a card or as a decoration.   The design is cut out using the Cricut "Happy Hauntings" cartridge.

The frilly elements and ribbon lace up was designed by Kimberly at My Craft Spot. Thanks Kim for the wonderful video.  (http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com/search/label/halloween)

Halloween Countdown Calendar

How about this "BOO" countdown calendar.  The numbers are magnetic so you change them out daily. The kids will love this, just post it on you refrigerator and countdown the days till spooky Halloween.  I have used mine for a few years now and the chipboard design holds up really well. 

This calendar was a gift from my friend Cheryl S.  Thanks Cheryl

Stamps used on this calendar are by Stampin' Up (Witch, Moon and Spider Web, not shown) Close To My Heart (Graveyard Scene) Doodles By Design (Halloween)

These two items were chosen by my daytime group for our September Halloween Workshop group and will be featured along with some really cool Halloween treat containers.

Obsession Impression Max and Polly and Stampin' Up Fishy Friends

Polly and Max

Workshop for this project is set for Saturday, August 31, 2013, 1-3PM at 

THE CREATIVE STAMP

1329 Spring Street

Paso Robles, CA 93446

Call to make your reservation: (805) 239-1996

Summer Fun Matchbook, Paper bag, Mini Albums

These fun and easy little albums can hold photos and trinkets from your child's summer adventures.  Tags are large enough to hold a photo and journaling.  The children can join in making these and color the stamped images on the paper bags.

 Inside, on the bags, I used Stampin' Up sets Fishy Friends and Life's A Breeze

colored with Derwent Inktense  watercolor pencils.

Products used to make the Matchbook, paper bag, mini album

Impression Obsession Molly and Max stamps

Stampin’ Up Fishy Friends Stamp Set

Stampin’ Up Life’s A Breeze Summer Fun stamp

Stampin’ Up Label punches

Spellbinders or Cricut frame shapes

Cricut Life’s A Beach anchors

Paper bags, turquoise card stock, BoBunny Key Lime Splash

Buttons, twine, jewels

Wilton doilies, brown and blue inks and sponges

Stapler, craft hammer

Edge punch, corner rounder

Watercolor pencils and blender pens

Glue, tape, dimensionals, hot glue gun, Krystal Klear

Stationery Boxes

  Kits for these boxes were made for an upcoming workshop and I will post photographs of the completed boxes after the workshop.  

A verity of stamps were used for the tags and cards including Inkadinkado and Stampin' Up.  Nestabilities dies and Stampin' Up and Martha Stewart punches.  Coloring with Stampin' Up markers.  Stampin' Up and KandCompany papers.

Thanks for looking and check back as I will post the photos of the workshop boxes soon.

Natural Beauty

Stampin' Up Natural Beauty Stamp Set

I made this card for the SCS Challenges:  Colors CC436; Technique Lover's TLC440 and Ways To Use It WT437  The colors used are Marina Mist, Bashful Blue and Calypso Coral; Technique #39 Paper Piecing and Use of Custom Matting.

I cased this card from page 136 of the 2005/2006 Idea Book and Catalog, I love the way the little bird is popping through the torn paper.

Driving Test Congrats

Our grandson recently passed his driving test and secured his driver's license, YEAH!, freedom for both him and his parents.  I couldn't resist this Stampin' Up "Hit The Road" stamp set to say congratulations for a job well done.

Papers are Stampin' Up Wild Wasabi and Very Vanilla.  Image is colored with Derwent Inktense pencils and a blender pen.  Image was stamped three times, once on the background then twice on Very Vanilla and cut out and layered to make the car three dimensional.

Greetings From California

For another challenge over at SCS, to represent your state flower.  I hope this qualifies even though the California golden poppies are a very small part of the image.

Originally a California state 34 cent stamp from the Greetings From America commemorative stamp series. The United States Postal Service released this stamp on April 4, 2002. The retro design of this stamp resembles the large letter postcards that were popular with tourists in the 1930's and 1940's.

This 37 cent version is a free online drawing, downloaded and colored with Derwent Inktense pencils and watercolored with an overlay of Smooch added for sparkle. I altered the palm trees to look like fireworks in honor of July 4. Although palm trees are native to California our state tree is the giant Sequoia.

Proud To Be An American

This card and calendar page were made for a Red, White and Blue Patriotic challenge over as SCS.

Stampin' Up papers, inks and stamp set:  Liberty For All

The fireworks are made by stamping a Studio G Dandelion flower stamp in red, gray and blue adding Stickles for sparkle and shine.

My July calendar page was made using the same stamp set Liberty For All, the inks used are Real Red, Night of Navy and Going Gray

July 4th Banner

Independence Day

4th of July Banner  - Happy Independence Day America!

Julie Nutting Prima Doll Stamps

Upcoming Prima Doll Stamp Workshops

I have two upcoming workshops on building your own tags/cards with the Julie Nutting Doll Stamps by Prima.

The first workshop will be Saturday, July 13, 2013 at The Creative Stamp, 1329 Spring Street, Paso Robles, CA from 1-3PM cost is $20 for two tags:

In this class you will be provided with two tags covered in designer papers, two dolls, dresses and headbands already cut out.  You will design and decorate your tags with the many embellishments available with guidance on design principles, symmetry, color coordination, etc.

The second workshop will be held in my studio on Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 2:00 PM.  For this workshop you will need to sign up in advance and choose the colors that you are interested in, again you will be designing your own layout, and adding embellishments to make the tags/cards your personal creations:

Samples:

Fish Card

The Big One

Whew!  This one took a little while but I finalized the layout late last night and this is the finished card.

This one is for my brother-in-law the "fisherman" who is prone to the claim of landing bigger and bigger fish every year.

The inside reads:  The best part about getting older is the fish get BIGGER and BIGGER.  Hope you "REALLY" catch the BIG ONE on your Birthday.

Now to the details;  Last summer I came upon a card made by Melanie Schulenberg over at Pockets of Inspiration found here: http://melanieschulenberg.blogspot.com/2012/06/suspended-trout.html

Melanie has a tutorial and templete for making this fish.  That was the easy part.

In searching for some inspiration I also found a card made with curled paper to resemble waves, so I set out to give it a try and it worked out great.  My card is an easel card so to prop the front of the card up for display, I used my Fiskars grass edge punch and cut the blades a little longer, stuck it down and then curled them forward a bit.

The little fish on the right is from Jolee's.  All sentiments are computer generated.  The real tricky part was the fishing lure and hook.  Using some old jewelry wire I strung three tiny glass beads on the doubled over wire, wrapped the wire around a tiny feather and created a curved hook with one wire and the line with the other which is hot glued under one of the ribbon waves for stability.  The whole thing is suspended and moves freely.

The only stamp set used on this project is Stampin' Up French Foliage for the dots on the fish which were then dabbed with Smooch Glitz "Starlight" also used the Stampin' Up Square Lattice embossing folder on the top parts of the fish.

Independence Day

4th of July

Three more Julie Nutting Doll Stamps - Prima Stamps

Prima - Julie Nutting Doll Stamp - 4th of July

Independence Day

I made this tag in honor of our 237th Independence Day.  I used the "pocket dress" doll designed by Julie Nutting for Prima.  Little Miss Independence was stamped onto Bazzill card stock and cut out.  Her dress was stamped onto two different pieces of Creative Imaginations card stock and pieced together.  Her hair was colored with Derwent Inktense pencils and blender pen.  A dab of chalk was added to her cheeks.  Embellishments are a mixture of old card stock pieces and some K&Co. Americana  border pieces.  Handmade rosette and pinwheel and to top it off a "Fireworks" cocktail pick.

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful celebration of our independence on the 4th of July.

Warm Winter Wishes

I put together this black/white card for the MIX20 "use black to shade a stamped image" challenge over at SCS.   I stamped a snow tree and snowman from Art Impressions on white paper and watercolored with Stampin' Up basic black ink pad, splattered some white acrylic paint mixed with water for a snowy effect, probably can not see it in the photograph, but it is there and turned out quite nice.

Warm winter wishes is from CTMH Captured Moments stamp set. No adornment on this one, plain and simple and nice for a change.

Framed in black on a white card base. 

Wedding Tag

Julie Nutting - Mixed Media Prima Doll Stamp

I love the new mixed media doll stamps by Julie Nutting for Prima.  I made this wedding tag for an upcoming wedding.  

Just a little fussy with bridal vail and paper piecing of her dress, but this turned out awesome.  She is painted with Copic markers and placed on the tag with pop dots.  Seam binding ribbon died and scrunched.  Martha Stewart edge punch and doily.  Tiny pearls by Stampin' Up.  Floral pearl spray by Hirschberg Schultz.  Papers are from Little Yellow Bicycle "Kiss The Bride" collection.  Sentiments are computer generated and edged with Stampin' Up Basic Gray.

Thanks for looking, have a great day.