Another card from the Creativity Boutique store

Here is another card I made with the wonderful things that I got in October to work with from the Creativity Boutique store:



I created this sketch to go with the card and hosted the 3PM hour over at the Kit 'n Kaboodles messagea board Fall Fling crop today!



I hope you are enjoying the fall weather where you are....

Happy crafting....Lynda

A lot of catching up to do...

I got to share this card and the technique I used to stamp the leaf on the Kreative Kaboodles blog this week... don't you just love this leaf stamp!!!



and I created these projects with the I Am A Scrapaholic October kit...
this first card uses a Memory Capsule to hold these treasures from our trip to the beach this summer:


and this card is made using one of the MM Journaling sheets as my card form; I adhered it to the front of a standard card base and trimmed the excess off...leaves a great shape!



and finally is this layout that features some wonderful Jenni Bowlin pattern paper; Magic Mesh...that Martha Stewart loopy punch...that is one of the yummy new Prima flowers...fun, fun, fun stuff!



and this catch up post would not be complete without a few pictures of my favorite trick-or-treaters...




and there was no way I was going without being dressed up...so here I am...not too bad for an old lady witch....


Happy Crafting....Lynda

Imagine the embossabilities

For those of you that don't know...I first started out as a stamper...some twenty years ago...first making holiday cards...then branched into scrapbooking after my now dh took me on a trip to California... that seems like soooo very long ago. Over the years I have done lots of things; I was a Close To My Heart demonstrator for almost ten years; had my work published in a stamp manufacturer catalog; and taught numerous stamping classes.

I have always loved stamping...there is something about it that is so very relaxing...could be that coloring brings me back to the days when I would sit in my room and just color/doodle... It could be that it is easy to share this art with pretty much anyone; both my girls stamp and have since they were old enough to hold the ink pads!

I was so very excited to get my first package from the Creativity Boutique and to find some delish stamps, awesome Class-a-peel stickers, cardstock and embossing powder... next to inking things; embossing is one of my favorite things to do to cards...

For this card, I used a tri-fold card base from my stash; I used the gold embossing powder to emphasize all the edges along the card. I also used the same powder along all the edges of the Coordinations cardstock that I layered onto the front of the card. I finished off the card using some of the Stampendous Class-A-Peel stickers - aren't they great!



I am having so very much fun stamping my little heart out....

Be sure to stop by the Kreative Kaboodles blog and check out all the amazing projects created by the design team members!!! (you can even find more pictures of how I created this card)

Happy crafting.....Lynda

Never too old to try something new...

Bad girls kits is doing a special challenge series called Project 52. The first challenge was to create a canvas that features an item from nature and is about a Hero to you...

Well...I have never created a canvas before, so this was a challenge for me...and I am so very glad I decided to push myself to create something new and different...

I decided that my hero would be my Nanny. She was the only positive female role model I had in my life growing up. No matter how bad things were in my house, my Nanny could always make me feel loved and wanted with just a few words.... "Just want you to know i love you"...

I started with a plain white canvas and used inks to create the muddled background...I stained the paper doily with Distressing inks...the skeleton leave is my natural item...I then added other items that reminded me of her in some way... two small pearl topped pins topped with a made with love locket to represent her crochet hobby, the heart button was actually from something of hers, the pearls represent her always wearing fake pearls, the silk flower because her name was Rosa; the small Tim Holtz spinner because she always helped me to pick the right direction. All of the dimensional pieces on the canvas were put down using Helmar's 450 quick drying adhesive. I LOVE this glue when you are working on a project and you need to have the flexibility to adjust your pieces as they dry...and then when it is dry...it is really stuck!

Here is my first ever canvas...a tribute to my hero...Nanny Rosa...



Thank you so much to Julie and the other dt gals over at Bad Girls for this Project 52 challenge....it was wonderful to spend time once again with my favorite hero! (and I got to try a whole new medium for expressing myself...totally fun!) My girls both want to put this in their room....so I may have to creat something else about Nanny and we can rotate them....

I am excited to see what they have in mind for their second challenge....

Happy crafting....Lynda

Not quite what it was meant for....

So...I've been trying to use my supplies in ways that they may not have been originally intended for...I find this a great way to get our of a "slump"...when my mojo has taken a mini-vacation and left me behind...

I got this cute calendar date stamp in the October I Am A Scrapaholic Addict kit...and thought I would see what I could do with it other than the obvious..stamp it on my layout and record the date...so I gathered together my supplies...wasn't sure whether I wanted to use Memento or Versafine ink....decided on the Versafine after all was said and done...



I stamped the image a bunch of times all over my cardstock that I was using for my card front...making sure to stamp off the page so the front was totally covered with the image...



I then stamped the image one more time on a scrap piece of the same color as my card base and cut it out. I also punched a scallop circle from darker cardstock to back my circle with.

I then used a red marker to circle random dates on the circles on the card front. I attached the stamped card front to my black card base. I wrote January and 2010 on the image, circled the 1 in red, and popped the whole thing up with foam tape....

I added the Happy Birthday that I had printed onto the same cardstock; edges inked and also popped up with foam tape...



now I'm all set for a birthday card that I need to mail in December....

I totally think this would be a fun stamp to use for Christmas cards too...circle the 25 on the stamped image and put "no peeking until"....or even tags for gifts....

I hope this inspires you to look at your supplies in a new way and find some unusual ways to use them....you never know what you may create....

Happy crafting....Lynda