Stamp Simply Celebrates Day 5
Posted: December 5, 2008 Filed under: Designer Paper, Home for Christmas, Lovely as a Tree 15 CommentsThe party continues at Sharon’s blog today so drop in and see her own Stamp Simply Challenge then pop over to see
Barb Schram – Explore. Dream. Discover. – Barb has an offering of BLOG CANDY today!
Cathy Tidwell – Cat’s Creations – CAT, too, has BLOG CANDY to offer today, but she has more!!! She has created a Sketch Challenge for you as well. You can see the sketch over at Cat’s Creations, so be sure to stop!!! (NOTE: Cat’s Challenge and Ssharon’s challenge can tie in together well and you can get two challenges done on one card!!!)
Here is my card for CAT”S challenge:
I think I qualify for Sharon’s challenge also, using a non-traditional Christmas stamp and non-traditional Christmas designer paper. I used Cerise Designer paper for this card, cutting out the little squares and placing brads in them for the detail down the side. I used Creative Memories oval cutters for the central image.
Please check out these fabulous blogs to see samples of CAT’s Sketch Challenge: Darlene, AJ, Leslie, Julie, Susan. And please bear with us all as we are uploading throughout the night — all will be posted by morning.
Anyone can play ANY of the challenges by ANY of the hostesses during our 12 days of Stamp Simply Celebrates!!! You DO NOT need to have a Blog to play — uploading your project to SCS (Splitcoaststampers.com) is not only permissible, but HIGHLY ENCOURAGED. When doing so, use the KEYWORD SSC08. Thanks!
Supplies:
Stamps: Home for Christmas, Lovely as a Tree
Inks: Riding Hood Red
Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla, Cerise Designer paper
Also: Red hemp twine, red brads
Stamp Simply Celebrates day 4
Posted: December 4, 2008 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentThe party just keeps on going over at Sharon’s – No Time To Stamp? – with more BLOG CANDY!
and at Dee’s – Stampin cuz I Luv 2 – Dee also has some BLOG CANDY today!
and a challenge over at Deb’s – Dream In Color – Today Deb’s Featured Project is to make a gift of Note Cards, attractively packaged for gift presentation. She is also turning this project into a Challenge for you to participate in, allowing you to show all of us your creations. Be sure to check it out!!! There are sure to be so many lovely samples to inspire!!!
Don’t forget, any one can play whether you are a blogger or not. Upload to your blog and then link back to the hostess or at Splitcoast, PLEASE KEYWORD all Splitcoast uploads for this event SSC08 (Stamp Simply Celebrates! 2008).
See you tomorrow with some stamping.
Stamp Simply Celebrates Day 3
Posted: December 3, 2008 Filed under: Uncategorized 1 CommentThe party continues over at Sharon’s blog.
I don’t have anything new to share today but make sure you visit the following blogs for inspiration and candy!
Blog candy: Joan
Blog candy: Jennifer
Challenge and Featured Project: Tammy Hershberger of Stamp Happy. Tammy’s Featured Project is making Christmas cards in mass production. Make sure you drop by to check out her fabulous cards, as well as those of her sample makers, Darlene, AJ, Leslie, Sharon, Julie and Barb.
Celebrate by stamping a simple postcard
Posted: December 2, 2008 Filed under: Lovely as a Tree 14 CommentsStamp Simply Celebrates got off to a fabulous start on Monday morning over at No Time To Stamp. Sharon is giving away some candy and Janine has a Cookie Recipe exchange on her blog with candy as well. Today the fun continues with Becky, Sharon and Darlene.
Becky at Hemidemisemiquaver Design – has a beautiful Featured Project showing us some of her over-the-top Gift Packaging Ideas. She also has some BLOG CANDY to share.
Sharon, our fabulous hostess at No Time To Stamp? – has more BLOG CANDY today, so pop over there.
Darlene at Dar’s Crafty Creations is hosting a fun Challenge today, where I am participating as a guest designer. The challenge is to keep the card light and the postage low by making a Christmas postcard. Make sure you drop in at Darlene’s to see her great ideas and those of her guest designers also.
Janine Orchard’s sample found HERE
Dee Jackson’s sample found HERE
Leslie Miller – HERE
LeAnne Pugliese – HERE
The festivities last for 12 days so any time you want to see what is happening next there is a PARTY CENTRAL post on Sharon’s blog with all the details. Just look way up the top above her banner and you will see it.
Anyone can play ANY of the challenges by ANY of the hostesses during our 12 days of Stamp Simply Celebrates!!! You DO NOT have to have a Blog to play — uploading your project to SCS (Splitcoaststampers.com) is not only permissible, but HIGHLY ENCOURAGED. When doing so, use the KEYWORD SSC08. Thanks!
Here is my postcard for Darlene’s Challenge:
After fiddling around with a few stamps I decided to try making a traditional postcard scene. This one is inspired by a picture in a book I am reading my son at the moment. I stamped the trees first and then embossed in clear. I then used a versmarker to draw some snow on the branches and embossed in white. I masked my snow with a piece of paper, spotted the stars with the versamarker and embossed in white, before brayering over. I’m not sure whether it was the paper or my technique but I didn’t get good coverage with the brayer so I did some sponging on the sky as well. Finally I added the little moon and a little sponged shadowing on the snow.
Supplies:
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree
Inks: Night of Navy, Pretty in Pink, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, Basic Black Versamark.
Cardstock: White
Also: Clear and white e.p., Brayer, sponges
Double trouble
Posted: November 30, 2008 Filed under: Snow Swirled 2 Comments
This is a fairly simple card but not at all simple to photograph. It looks out of focus because I have stamped two of each stamp, the gold slightly offset from the red. In real life the gold is more prominent and you can see four little gold ball stickies too. The card is vanilla, but again, its hard to tell. I used my stamp-a-ma-jig for the tree and the sentiment rather than trying to eyeball it, like I usually do.
Don’t forget to check in at No Time To Stamp tomorrow for the beginning of the celebrations there. I will be back tomorrow to take part in the festivities.
Supplies:
Stamps: Snow Swirled,
Inks: Encore Gold, Riding Hood Red
Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla
Also: Gold Rhinestone Stickers from Michaels
Elsewhere
Posted: November 28, 2008 Filed under: Snow Swirled 4 CommentsMy time has been spent elsewhere in the last week. On Tuesday I had a table at the craft sale where my husband works. When I first heard about it I was very keen, then we heard that I couldn’t be the seller, my husband would have to do it as I wasn’t an employee. We put off making a decision as we were both very busy and then finally decided we couldn’t fit it in. When Andrew informed the organizer, who had visited my blog, she encouraged us to change our minds. Well to cut this long story short, my sweet husband did end up selling cards and candles for me. I had quite a few late nights getting everything ready. It was not so much the making of items, rather the packaging and stamping my name and the Stampin’ Up angel policy stamp on everything that took my time!
Here are two sets of candles I sold. I took a picture of the red set before packaging it so you could see the candles a little better. I also had some individual candles with matching tags.
I had many single cards as well as bagged and boxed sets of cards. I did some very quick tags sets which all sold, making me wish I’d done more! Andrew came home and told me the kind comments he could recall which was nice. I really would have loved to have been there. He also gave away a few of my new business cards which he had designed and printed for me the night before. All in all it was a success, but I think I need a bit more lead time next time! 
Elsewhere in the world of stamping blogs, my friend Sharon at No Time to Stamp has reached a momentous milestone. The host of the weekly Stamp Simply challenges and stamping designer extraordinaire has reached 1,000,000 hits on her inspiring blog. She has a wonderful ten day celebration planned to start on December 1st to thank all her visitors. Make sure you check her blog for details. I am privileged to be taking part in the festivities as one of 18 bloggers who will be offering all sorts of Christmas projects, challenges and blog candy to help you with your Christmas preparations.
See you soon.
Gold swirled
Posted: November 22, 2008 Filed under: Snow Swirled 1 Comment
I’m glad my daughters managed to stamp something this week because I have not had much time at my craft table. I did manage to get a bit done last night but nothing is photographed yet. This card was done by my older daughter and her friend earlier in the week. I keep telling them to make two when they design together, but they only do one!
Snow Swirled is definitely the Christmas favourite around here this year. L14 embossed the tree in gold and stamped the background images in gold ink, simple but very pretty all the same.
Supplies:
Stamps: Snow Swirled,
Inks: Encore Gold, Versamark
Cardstock: Handsome Hunter, Brushed Gold, Very Vanilla
Also: Gold cord, gold e.p.
Candy cane colours
Posted: November 18, 2008 Filed under: Snow Swirled 3 Comments
Isn’t this pretty, it reminds me of candy canes. My younger daughter made this one the other day, which is great because I’m not getting anything new made at present. Instead of cardmaking, we have been gingerbread baking. All three of my children are entering a gingerbread contest and they are all working with friends on different designs. The last two nights have been spent mixing, cutting and baking the pieces. My dining room table is covered in large and small pieces of gingerbread for the dollhouse, the church and the village!
Supplies:
Stamps: Snow Swirled,
Inks: Riding Hood Red
Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Pirouette Pink, Whisper White
Also: Pink grosgrain ribbon
Christmas card event
Posted: November 18, 2008 Filed under: Home for Christmas, Uncategorized 1 Comment
I haven’t had anything new to post over the last few days as my time was taken up getting ready for a Christmas card making evening at my church. This is the second year I have organized the event, ably assisted by my girls and a friend on the night. Everyone made four cards including the one above that my daughter A12 designed and demonstrated. The others are already on the blog here, here and here.
I also set up a tag making table where people could go whenever they had a few minutes between cards.
Supplies:
Stamps: Home for Christmas
Inks: Really Rust
Cardstock: Really Rust, Whisper White, Vintage Violet
Also: Gold cord
Moonlit Skate
Posted: November 12, 2008 Filed under: Lovely as a Tree, Stamped Landscapes, WInter Post 3 Comments
My inspiration for this card was a similar card my daughter and a friend of hers designed. When I bought the Winter Post set, I wasn’t sure what to do with the skaters but their idea of a tree lined skating rink definitely appealed to me. I wonder how long before it begins to look like this outside?
To begin I tore a piece of paper to be about the size of the rink which I used to mask the space while I stamped the trees. I stamped the small trees, which are just the top of the tree from Lovely as a Tree, with Night of Navy and versamark. The larger trees in the front I stamped in Basic Black and versamark, then I embossed them all with clear embossing powder. To fill in the forest I stamped the tree over and over in Night of Navy creating some dark and some lighter trees. I stamped the skaters in black and then coloured with some Stamping markers and some watercolour pencils. It is hard to see but there are some skate marks embossed with iridescent ice. The sponging on the ice is Bashful Blue. The moon was an afterthought, embossed with white e.p. The sky was brayered with Brocade Blue, Navy and a little Black.
I realise that a picture or two of the process would be more helpful than all my description here but I just haven’t had time lately to do a tutorial. Some time soon I hope. Thanks so much for dropping in.
Supplies:
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Winter Post
Inks: Night of Navy, Brocade Blue, Bashful Blue, Basic Black Versamark.
Cardstock: Whisper White, Bashful Blue, Night of Navy
Also: Clear and white e.p., watercolour pencils, Stamping markers, Blue Taffeta ribbon, Brayer
Heather Telford 
