Exciting News

I have partnered with Marie over at Pink Poison Stamps - Splendid Little Company, we have opened a Yahoo Group for all the lovers out there, we will be sharing ideas, tips and tricks, we would love to have you join us, we will talk about every coloring medium from Gamsol magic to Copic markers, they have a new range coming out in January and I can't wait to get my hands on some, I will post when I do, they will be changing there name to "The Greeting Farm" in January, don't you just love their new logo


Here is the link to the group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/splendidlittlecompanystamps 

Hope to see you there

More Magnolia Christmas Cards

I have two more cards to share with you, one is for my manager at work and the other is for a friends of my Mum's who is lovely and always send Maddi and me such lovely things that she quilts.
Let me know what you think


Happy Holidays

Special Christmas Cards

I am finally down to just my special cards!! I created four today..not alot I know and they did take nearly 2 hours each!! Still I thought I would share them with you, the recipients don't watch my blog, or even log into the world wide web, so 'm safe sharing them with you, they are all winging there way across the pond,

The first was to my very special great-aunt, who is in England from Germany for the holidays, you will have to excuse the red fingerprints, we have a tradition of putting Maddi's hand print in the cards and the older she gets the messier it gets!!



The second is for my Grandad, who is so special to me, we are very close and I miss so much not being at his house for all our family traditions and can't wait to get to see him next year


The third is for Mum, she is a card maker, but doesn't get much time at the minute to craft so this one took extra time as I wanted it to be perfect and her to feel appreciated for all she does for me and Maddi and all the red cross parcels we get!!


Finally, this is for my Mum's neighbor, she is wonderful to Maddi and has a great-niece only 10days different in age to Maddi.


The first three cards are done with my copics, and the final card is gamsol magic with the CHF Thomas Kinkade collection its the first time i've used it and love the outcome.


Hope you are all enjoying the holiday season




PS. Thanks Debi, Sandy and DeeDee for the images I was so pleased to get to play with them, I hope you like what I did with them

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Ladies

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Inspired by colour not shapes

This weeks inspiration challenge over at Utah Divas blog is the beautiful snowflake stamps, I was actually looking at these in the post office and up close you can see beautiful purpley/greeny tones on the snowflakes, so I scrapped the card I was making and wasnt too happy with, instead I started playing with the colour combo, I loved how it all started coming together, hoewever, my snowmen weren't stampin up, so I grabbed the only xmas set I bought this year, snow swirled and started playing with the gamsol technique, I don't have a finished card to share yet as i'm still playing with how to finish it but thought I would show you that the inspiration doesn't have to come from the shapes or objects in the picture it can come from the colours, this is the snow swirled tree, it is a little more "funky colours" than i would normally use on a christmas card, but all the same I quite like it,

I thought it looked like a muted alcohol ink technique.

I also tried an inkadinkadoo stamp that I have had for a long time, I am so pleased with it I have decided to turn it into my christmas card design, I'd love to know what you think, I used my precious copics!!


I also started with the blues on my Judikins, you will love this set i've you've never seen it before, I will work on the other angels and show you they are so cute!!


That's it for this week! I am hoping to stamp at the weekend, but never get around to it!! I have 250 christmas cards to make so I must get going!!

Happy Thanksgiving and Great News!!

Hi Everyone

Hope you have all had a fabulous thanksgiving, although its a new tradition for us we still had a nice family day and a lovely meal that in true thanksgiving style took 3 hours!! So now for my news, I am now part of the inspiration challenge design team at Utah Divas International's blog, these are a group of talented and wonderful ladies and I have made so many friends through the group, you can go over to there blog to see what this weeks inspiration was, I had a little trouble finding a stamping up set that fitted with what I had in mind be eventually settle on trying my new copic airbrush and came up with this card, I was so pleased with it until I smudged it!! Well it will go in the box!! Hope you all like it


Best Wishes to you all this holiday season

Where has the time gone?!?

I know I promised to post last week but I have been working 'til very late all week making the most delicious ice-cream and ice-cream cakes for our new Cold Stone Creamery, if you live locally please pop by in the Lehigh Valley Mall and say Hi!! this job is going to be lethal cause ice-cream tastes it's best freshly made!! and the cakes are just as yummy!!! I have posted below a birthday card I made for a very good friend, I haven't done any stamping this week, I am in search of the Martha Stewart Icicle punch so if you know a secret location please yell!! I colored this card with copics and was pleased with how it turned out, let me know what you think



I am going to stamp tomorrow, so hopefully I will have something to share then, hope you all have a good weekend.

Just a Reminder

I know I have been MIA, I had a fantastic Stamp A Stack at the cropping station and met some wonderful ladies, in fact I am having another this weekend, this is what we are doing:
You can view all the info at the cropping stations website

Also, Maddi has started walking she took her first steps on Sunday, we were so excited, I also have a few projects to share but really must get some gardening done so I will share with you later, I have lots of news so will be back soon

Hope you all had a happy and safe Halloween

Design Notice

Ladies

I would just like to let you know that I will no longer be working with Creative Inkling, after an upsetting experience I have decided to no longer team with them, I look forward to the new challenges I will find and hope to be part of another design team now my schedule will permit. Thank you all for your continued support and I can't wait to post for you some of the things i've been creating and growing my skills with you all.

A few cards

So I have had a productive few days even tho I haven't been posting,

The first was another bulk amount of thank you's I made about 12 of these,

I also co-ordinated the inside and the envelope


And lastly, I mounted up my copic elephant, one of you maybe receiving this shortly :)


That's it for now

Stampscapes 2

So this is my first winter scene, I know what I did wrong so going to try it again with another color combo, I'd also like to try the background with airbrushing copics, I also stamped some of the branches at the top in white although it's hard to see in the picture,


Til later

Stampscapes

Yesterday I went to one of my favourite stores, De Pue's Rubber Stamps in Tannersville, I bought some stampscapes stamps, I never really had a "thing" for them before, but something yesterday caught my eye so I thought why not give them a go, so this is my first attempt, I am quite pleased with it, I can see a few errors in it, but not bad, I wish I had a few flying birds I think it would finish it off, I'd love to know what you think and if there are any experts out there i'd love your help!!

So this is the finished project,



It started like this but I thought it was too plain, but thought i'd take a pic in case I messed it up by adding too much,


I had so many little stamps, grasses, benches, tree's etc I stamped them all out on my stamp a ma jig sheet first so I could see what was going to fit best and where, there was ALOT of stamp a ma jig use on this whole project, and to think I thought it was a waste of money!!!



I also made this sheet whilst I was adding in colors I made this for my greens and another for my reds/yellows/oranges in the sunset, I found it to be really helpfull.


I'm going to play some more, I'd really like to try a winter scene with this

Thank You Card

My husband needed some thank you cards for work so i came up with these, I'd love to know what you think, it uses the new kiwi satin ribbon and upsy daisy stamp set


That's it for this evening,

Stamp A Stack

I will be hosting a Christmas Stamp A Stack at the Cropping Station on November first, you can find more info at their website.

I would love to see some of you there, we will make 5 of each of the following 4 designs, for those of you in New Jersey, I will be hosting this class again at the end of November at Pieces of Time in Flemington, If you would like me to email you the details please let me know. After 2 hours you will have 20 cards made!!! Everything i cut for you so all you have to do is stamp, embellish and assemble!

Here is card number one,


It is a little hard to see but I made a really quick and simple quilted background and the rest is just layers and a stunning old fashion Santa stamp

Here is card number 2,

This is using some of the lovely new Fa La La La making memories papers, this whole collection is stunning

Here is card number three

I love this new cuttlebug folder, there is so many things you can do with it

Here is card number 4,

I love these new stamps, we will also use some distress techniques on these cards

Hope to see some of you there

Playing With Copics

I recently got into copics, so I thought i'd share with you the few things I have done with them so far, the first thing I did was this snowman, he is an outlines stamp and was please for a first attempt,
I then moved onto one of the new Stampin Up! Images, home for Christmas, I also used some Spica's on this although its hard to see in the picture, I want to add some stickles or puffy paint to the tree to add some dimension

Finally I wanted a card for a friend so colored in this image which I really didn't know what do with, I will post the finished card when I have decided how to mount it

I have a few more posts for you this evening

Mums Brag Book

This is the final project for Creative Inkling, I'd love to know what you think, I made a "Mum's Brag Book" for Maddi's first brithday pictures

This is the first double page, I made a leaf to tuck in tags with journalling, and made te second picture into a leaf to add more jounalling


With there only being a few pages to the album I decided to make this into interactive pages


The next page I put a picture of the cake I made for her party, I wanted to add jounalling but had no room, so made another flap under the picture


This page has a clear leaf so I can see what pictures are in there

This is the back page, I used a transparency over the picture just to finish it off


I'd love to know what you think, I'd love to have kept this I was so pleased with it, I hoped they liked it

Hope you are all having a good weekend