Late Night Stampers - Challenge 64

Today begins a new challenge over at the Yahoo Group, Late Night Stampers. This week is Challenge 64 - Sympathy Cards.

Most of my day today was spent running errands for family. But I was able to work a few minutes here and there to create this card. Not my best work, but I'm happy with it.

If you're not a part of Late Night Stampers, you really should visit and join the group. Its filled with a lot of great people, both demonstrators and non-demonstrators. If you are already a part of the group and haven't done your own card yet for this challenge, what are you waiting for!? :)

Happy Stamping!

Eggshell Easter Basket

Its been a while, but I found the time to get some craft time in. Challenge #63 for the Late-Night Stampers Yahoo Group is "Anything BUT a Card". So I made an Easter Basket. But not just any easter basket, I made it look like the bottom half of an egg.

This is accomplished using a 8x8 sized sheet of cardstock. I've considered creating a tutorial for this if others are interested. I'll try to work on this tomorrow and get it up soon.

I hope you enjoy my basket! Happy Stamping!

A use for retired cardstock

I'm doing a fundraiser at work for March for Babies. We'll be having a used-book sale on Wednesday and so I decided to make some bookmarks to sell in hopes of raising some more cash. These were inspired by my upline, Teri Wells, who shared the idea with us as a past stamp camp. these were made using the Bigshot and the Table Settings Bigz Die-cut.

I also felt this was a great way to use up some of my retired cardstock. Handsome Hunter is still current, but Cool Caribbean has been retired for a couple years now. I used the Very Vintage jumbo wheel on each.

These are magnetic bookmarks, as seen in the bottom picture. They were decently easy to make (just tedious at the volume I was cutting, running through the bigshot and then running the wheel over). I really hope these are a hit.

If you're at all interested in helping out, please stop by and sponsor me for the walk on April 24th. Visit Marchforbabies.org and see if there is a walk near you!

Finally ... a post!

After a long while, I finally created something!



This card was inspired by Wendy Hawkinson. The file is an animated gift so that you can see the inside and outside (Hopefully it works). I'm still learning how to use a photo box I've made to try and take better photos.

Enjoy and Happy Stamping!