Pat Jaynes, Dionne samples

Here are some more great samples from the Design Team! Pat Jaynes created these cards and post-it note holder all with artist Dionne's stamp sets and aren't they beautiful? Love'em Pat, and thank you for the inspiration.

2010 Workshop Dates

We had a great time at last Saturday's Stamp Club Workshop, and some super cute cards. If you have not attended one of these free Saturday workshops you should! They are super fun, you do not need experience, and we even feed you lunch. Here is the schedule for the rest of the year; (this is also posted on the side bar of this blog for future reference)

February 27th
March 27th
April 24th
May 22nd
June 26th
July 24th
August 28th
September 18th - Stamp Camp
October 23rd
November 13th - Christmas Card Workshop
December 4th

Workshops are all on Saturday's and start at 11:00am and run until about 2:00. Most workshops are free and include lunch. Please RSVP a week before the event, or ASAP. Please let me know if you have any questions and I hope to see you at an upcoming workshop!

DT Challenge samples by Suzanne Milam

Check out these cute samples made by Design Team member Suzanne Milam. This months challenge was to use artist Dionne's images in their samples. I will be sharing the other DT members samples with you this week.

Thanks for the inspiration Suzanne, and the beautiful stamps Dionne!

Heart in Hands card

Here is some photo's of one of the cards we are going to make at the Stamp Club workshop on Saturday. It is one of my favorite images from out new artist Blair Lambert called Hear in Hands, and it is a drawing of a pair of hands in the shape of a heart. This has been a popular image in commercials lately and I was so excited when Blair submitted it to us.

a couple of red rhinestones add a little bling I love me some satin ribbon now!
here is a close up of the heart in hand image... I used Copics to color in shades of; E00 skin white, E11 barely beige, rv21light pink, rv23 pure pink, and the outlined it with c-1 cool gray no.1
Here is the finished card we are making. I am using the BasicGrey collection Sugar Rush which is so much fun and reminds me of spring, which I have been dreaming about.

We still have room at the workshop so if you have been on the fence about coming... please do!

Hi stamping friends,

Would you all like to go to a rubber stamping convention in February? I will have a booth in Lawrenceville GA the weekend of February 6th and 7th ath the Heirloom Rubber Stamp Convention and it is a really fun time to see demo's and do make-n-takes and get inspiration.

Here is the website for more information on the convention;
http://www.heirloompro.com/shows2010/shows-lawrenceville-02-06-2010.html You can order tickets through them or at the convention. You may notice that I am not on the list of vendors but that is because I am a last minute entry. Also, they have fee classes you can take on Friday if you want.

The convention sponsors have rooms blocked off for convention goers at; Holiday Inn Gwinnett Center, 6310 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth, GA 30097, for $75.00 plus tax. So we could all stay at the same hotel, and maybe share rooms to keep costs down. I am going to be there Friday to set up the booth and if you want to come the night before we could all meet for dinner. Wouldn't that be fun?! And the same for Saturday night as well.

I will need some help during the convention and would be very grateful if you would like to volunteer please let me know. You can just volunteer for a 2-3 hours if you want, or more. I will compensate you in free stamps.

If you have any questions please feel free to call or email me. If you have not been to a convention this would be a great one to go to and I would love to hang out with my stamping buddies!

Warmly,

Melissa
Owner, www.TheStampingStudio.com
melissa@thestampingstudio.com
office 706-359-6387
cell 706-401-6985

Last of the Transparency Samples by Wendy

Here are Design Team member Wendy Sebesta's Transparency projects. Aren't they wonderful?! All the samples from our talented Design Team members really inspire me. I heard from DT member Cheryl that a magazine is interested in her transparency samples for possible publication. Yea! We will keep you updated on that and when she will be in the magazine and which one. I can't wait to try some of these techniques for myself.

January Stamp Club Workshop

You are all invited to our next stamp club workshop here at the Studio January 23rd starting at 11:00. Everyone is invited but if you are a regular be sure to bring your calendars as we will be choosing hostess' for this year. There is no charge for the workshop so you come on and bring a friend or family member. Please RSVP a week before the workshop if at all possible.

We are going to be using some of our new stamps including our new artist Blair Lambert's image of the cute little bird in the "Bushel and a Peck" stamp set. I love that little bird! We are also going to use Brooke Smith's SOTM set number 3, Chip Cookies and recreate one of Suzanne Milam's card samples that I posted today. The 3rd card I will keep a secret... something to look forward to. :)

Sweet Of The Month (SOTM) #3 is available!

The 3rd set in our Sweet Of The Month series is now available in the online store in the sections "READY SET STAMPS" or "New Rubber Stamps". Suzanne Milam created these wonderful samples below and she said that she just loves working with these "sweet" stamp sets by Brooke Smith. It really show in her fun and inspiring work!

Flower Of The Month Series 2, Set 1 available!

We are so excited to show you the new FOTM (Flower Of The Month) Series 2, Month #1! Whoohoo! Brooke has outdone herself with this new series and the first in the series is the Queen Anne's Lace item #FOTM2-1. This set is now available in the online store at www.thestamingstudio.com in the READY SET STAMPS, or New Rubber Stamps sections.

To check out some great samples made with this set check out our The Stamping Studio Facebook page or go to the website www.thestampingstudio.com and click on Studio. Suzanne did a wonderful and inspiring job!