Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Snowflake Tree Sneek Peek

Hello Stampers and Scrappers,

Here is today's Sneek Peek stamp set - Snowflake Christmas Tree. Won't this look lovely embossed on a dark cardstock... maybe in silver or white, or maybe a rich gold? You could also stamp it in a soft color and then stamp the saying over it in black. This would be a quick Christmas card image to work with... no coloring! I hope you all like it as much as I do.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Pine and Holly Sneek Peek

Hi Stampers and Scrappers,

Here is your Sneek Peek stamp set for today... Pine and Holly. I can already see these images stamped up with 1st and 2nd generation stamping layered over each other in beautiful greens, with the holly mixed in for some texture, and then some brown pine cones. This is going to be a fun one!

Monday, October 13, 2008

Roses from fallen leaves

This is a Non-Stamp project someone sent to me, but I thought it so clever and something you all might like to try, I would share it with you. Roses made from maple leaves... but now that I think about it... I am sure we could incorporate stamping into the this project! How about stamping directly on the leaves with black StazOn ink?

Here is a link to a step by step tutorial on how to make these - http://haha.nu/creative/how-to-make-roses-from-maple-leaves/

Let me know if you try these! The leaves here in Georgia are just beginning to turn color and it is going to be in the middle 80's today and the rest of the week, so I will have to wait to try this project for another month or so.

Oh Dear, Sneek Peek!

I have imagined this set in my head for a while now and was so happy to have it come together! I love nature and animals and easy breezy stamping and these images include everything I love. While playing with the images on paper and trying to get the right scale, and sizing I realized that we can stamp a whole heard of deer with these, some walking and some running and they are going to work wonderful with our Tree Silhouette images to create our own landscape scene. I suggest that you get the Tree Silhouette set while it is still on sale for HALF price, as you will want it to use with the deer. I hope you like this set as much as I do!

Friday, October 10, 2008

Sneek Peek Sweet Elves

Here is the 3rd Christmas set from artist Brooke Smith - Sweet Elves and I just love all the detail that Brooke includes in her stamp images... the striped and dotted stockings on elves legs, the cute little teddy bear wearing his heart, and the candy cane and gift box are just icing on the cake. The hand lettering is always a favorite of mine in Brooke's sets and just identifies it as her signature set.


This is the last stamp set in this series but if you are craving even more rubber don't dispare!... I just sent in another series of stamps to be manufactured and I think you are going to love these as well! I will start Sneek Peeking those sets next week.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Sneek Peek Christmas Sayings


Can one ever have enough saying/sentiment stamps?

I don't think so! Here is a new Christmas set from Suzanne Milam. This set is filled with holiday spirit and includes 7 sayings/words to celebrate the season with. It even includes a "rounder" that reads Merry Christmas and the initials "MC" were designed to fit in the middle of the rounder. Rounder stamps, both big and small have proved to be a big seller for us and are so much fun to work with.


These should be ready in a couple weeks or sooner... I will keep you updated!

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Twins Birthday Invite

Here is what I was working on yesterday - my twin boys birthday invitation. Sean and David are going to be 9 years old this month and really wanted a costume party as their school discontinued "costume day" day this year for some reason. We don't go trick or treating so this had been the only time they got to wear their costumes out in public. We also needed something to occupy everyone's time while at the party, so Husband came up with the idea to also have an obstacle course. Kind of a strange combo for a party but the twins are ecstatic!

I wanted to make about 20 invites and did not have the time to hand color them all, so I stamped, cut, and colored the trick or treaters (representing our costume party) and layered some BasicGrey papers and stamped the stitches along the bottom, and a scroll to dress everything up. I glued the stamped image onto the card front and then scanned the whole thing into Adobe Photoshop and that is where I added the text. I printed these out and then glued that to black cardstock. I was pretty happy with how they turned out! I also printed out the time and dates, and directions to the party and glued that inside the card as well.