Stempel Spass

Hi Everyone, Dream Valley's new challenge is opening today - the theme is Summer - perfect timing I would say, that's what we have right now here in New Jersey and what a wonderful summer it is this year! I did some tone on tone stamping here - using a striped background stamp by  Market Street Stamps  called Candy Cane.  The flowers are by  Stamplorations from the set Eclectic Florals , that I fuzzy cut. Added some Paper Candi, colored with Copics. The sentiment is by  Papertrey - Signature series Flower. Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More  is proud to sponsor this challenge Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More , a division of I Did It Creations, was created and owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More  is happy to award the winner 3 digita...

No-Sew Quilted Cards is the theme at  Make it Monday this week. I have not played there in a while.... The talented  Dawn McVey has a cool video, showing us how to do that.   I first had to research quilting patterns to find something I liked...... Not really my usual style, but I really like the result of it!  I first cut myself some triangles from My Minds Eye patterned paper, glued it onto white card stock and then ran it through my Big Shot using the Papertrey Quatrefoil  die as embossing folder.  The sentiment is  - how cool is that - designed by Dawn as well -  from the Papertrey Signature series -Flower, the wood cut is from Michaels. The card really looks like a quilt! Amazing! Thanks, Dawn!

I dabbled around to come up with something for this weeks Make it Monday . Betsy  Feldman inspires us to create multi-layer images form a single stamp. I struggled a bit with the subject, since I don't have any PTI stamps that lend themselves easily to this technique. Again, I had to improvise - as I often do for Make it Monday. I pulled out the little flower stamp set from the signature series  - one of those sets I have in my stash now for who-knows-how-long and never used....Not sure why, its so pretty! I inked up the flower with my Kaleidocolor inkpad, stamped it 3 times and fuzzy cut it. I embossed a strip with the PTI Woodgrain embossing plate, colored the edge with Copics, to give it more definition and mounted the flowers with different  height foam tape. The sentiment isfrom the same stamp set. Added some Memory Box pearls. I am also adding this card to Keep it Simple - Anything goes Snippets Playgroun d - used Snippets for the flowers an...