TSC22: Autumn

It's quickly approaching my favorite time of the year and with cooler weather on it's way, Lynn has challenged us with an 'Autumn' creation for the current Stampsmith Challenge. I used the sunflower from the Botanica stamp sheet from The Stampsmith as shown below. I stamped the sunflower and coloured it in with my Copics, then I carefully cut out all the petals with a good set of scissors. I call it my scissor-therapy time. Funny how I find it so relaxing to use cut out intricate designs. :)

Botanica Stamp Sheet

I hope you decide to play along in the fun with us this week. It's the middle of the month, so that means although we'd love to see your creations using at least one stamp from The Stampsmith. Upload your creation to the The Stampsmith Challenge blog for a chance to win a $10.00 gift certificate for The Stampsmith Shop from the lovely, Estelle! I look forward to seeing what you all come up with!

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Reach for the Stars

I have some Lana Turner eye candy to share with you tonight. Lana was a definite star and I love this image of her. She looks as though she's looking to the stars, so I opted to pair this image with the sentiment, 'Reach for the Stars.' I made this card for a friend who just graduated and she's starting her life in the real world. So, Sarah, reach for the stars, the sky's the limit.

A little tip: I really love this lace, but it was a cream colour, so I simply used a sponge and applied black ink to make it the colour I wanted. Ta-da, black lace to match my project!

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TSC21: Use a Faux technique

I have a Christmas card to share with you that features the lovely, Grace by The Stampsmith. Grace is so lovely and can be purchased as a single photostamp.

For the current challenge over at The Stampsmith Challenge, we'd like you to use a faux technique of your choice. For my sample card, I played with some 'alcohol inks' and created the background for Grace. My apologies for the blurry picture. My camera is dead and I can't seem to find my charging cable. So, I had to use my scanner and it wouldn't seem to pick up the detail from the alcohol ink technique.

For this challenge, although we'd love you to show us creations using stamps from The Stampsmith, you're free to use to stamps from any company to play along. The random winner will be announced on September 15th and will be awarded a gift certificate to The Stampsmith store to grow your collection. I hope you decide to play along in the fun! I look forward to seeing all the different techniques everyone chooses...

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Mini Friends Album

I got together with my local crafty friends this weekend and we each made one of these mini albums. I decided to make mine into a 'Friends' album and for the tags to hold pictures of the friends who are dear to me. The pages are 6" x 6." I used patterned paper sandwiched over box board. The pages were bound with ribbon after punching the holes using a Cinch machine.

For the 'Friends' image on the front page, I used a photostamp by The Stampsmith, called Banjo Singers. It can be purchased as a single. Don't they look like they're having fun?

This shows you all the pages of the album; back and front page on the top row, 2nd and 3rd pages on the next row, 4th and 5th pages on the following row and 6th and 7th pages on the last row.
Here's a close up of the 2nd page, I'll be adding add a photo to the frame below and some journalling around the frame.

Here's the 3rd page with space for another photo.

Here's the 4th page with space for another photo.

Here's the 5th page. The pocket holds a tag for another photo and lots of room to journal in the background.

Here's the 6th page. Again, the pocket holds a tag for another photo and lots of room to journal in the background.

Here's the 6th page. Again, the pocket holds a tag for another photo and more room to journal in the background.

This is the back page of the album.

I hope you've enjoyed my album, I know I had a blast making it with my friends and I look forward to filling it with stories and photos.

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Mojo204

I'd like to share the lovely Ophelia, with you today. She can be purchased as a single in both a tiny and large size from The Stampsmith. I used the tiny size in my project today. She also comes in an in-between size as part of the Shakespeare Heroines - Ophelia and Friends plate. I've given the dimensions below:

1.25" wide x 1.75" high

2.25" wide x 3.5" high

3.75" wide x 4/5" high

I haven't done any of the Mojo Monday sketches in quite a while, but we're having our monthly crafty night tonight with my local group of crafty friends and our swap theme is to make a card that would fit any challenge out there. So, I chose to use the current sketch challenge below.
I'll have a fun project to share with you soon that we're making tonight. That's if I get it done tonight...sometimes with the larger projects I tend to fiddle with them for a while before I post them. Anyway, please stay tuned...

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TSC20: Sketch Challenge

We thought we'd change things up a bit this time, so our current challenge over at The Stampsmith Challenge is a Sketch Challenge by Valerie Wilson. We'd love to see you play along, in the fun. Please include at least one Stampsmith image to be eligible to win the random draw. Other stamps are welcome in your project, as well. The winner will be announced on the 1st of September.

So, here's Val's sketch to follow.

The image I used is from Those Were the Days fifties art rubber plate by The Stampsmith. There's some fabulous images in this plate, shown below.
I look forward to seeing all your entries!

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Peaceful Sunset

I have a sympathy card to share with you today. For the main focal image, I used a free, downloadable image from freefoto.com. They have lots of beautiful images. I found this one by searching for 'sunset.' As long as you link back to their website, you're free to use them on your non-commercial projects.

This is the inside of the card.
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