Happy Thanksgiving to all of you living in the USA. I hope you are having a wonderful day with your families. If you get a chance, pop over to LINDSAY'S STAMP STUFF and check out all of her new stuff, like this Bachelorette Party Kit! Everything is 40% off today along with all of MyGrafico shops, so hurry over-Don't miss out!!! And once again, Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Happy Thursday, Everyone! Today I am working on some ATCs for a swap. The only requirement was to have a frog on it! So, I immediately thought of the cute frog prince stamp in the Pretty Princess Set from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff at Mygrafico. I think he's just about the cutest frog ever! I used the polka dot paper from her Homemade Holiday Papers set as my base and layered the Embossed Oval from the Embossed Mats set (at her Shop Handmade store) then added that cute little frog! OK, I'll confess. My son did all the layering in his photoshop program for me. LOL He's taking a class in school, so he knows all the tricks! Once they were printed, I stamped the sentiment, colored the frog and added the embellishments. So cute and so fun. Only eight more to go! Check out the fun projects the rest of the design team has been working on this week. And Lindsay will have a freebie, so start with hers!
Happy Thursday, Everyone! Today I am actually on vacation, but made this recipe card before I left! Yes, it's for another swap at the Stamp Shack! This is a cookie/bar recipe card swap. I used some fun digi paper from the Winter Printables kit and the FREE Shipping Tags from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff. I started with a 6x6 panel of white card stock onto which I added a strip of embossed coredinations paper. I printed the paper on a 4x6 sheet of matte finish photo paper and set it to leave a border. This creates the pocket and it's quite nice because I could print the paper on a smaller scale and didn't have to trim - no waste! I opened the tags in my photoshop program and typed up the recipe in red and printed them out. 
After I cut them out, I inked the edges and colored the tabs with distress inks. I stamped a snowflake for a little extra decoration. :) Next, I added snowflake brads and stick on jewels in the corners. A photo of my yummy treats finished off the front and I was done! Check out all of Lindsay's fun digi stamps, svg sets, and now fun digi paper packs at her Mygrafico and Shop Handmade sites. The digi paper is at the Shop Handmade site and is only $2.00! Check out that site for some great sales on more of Lindsay's products!!!! And don't forget her fabulous Design Team - check their blogs for lots of inspiration and see what you can create!Lindsay Weirich (Owner and Stamp Designer)
Laurel Seabrook
Wow! Another great sale this weekend at Mygrafico! Be sure and hop on over and see all the great stamps, papers and kits they have to offer! Here are a few previews for you to check out:
Wow, Thursday sure rolls around fast these days! I have a set of Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) for you today. I am in a swap at the Stamp Shack (of course) and the theme for this set is "That's So Funny". We had to create a set of ATCs with some kind of play on words, so I put on my thinking cap and got out my STEAMPUNK and SCHOOL PAPERS sets from LINDSAY'S STAMP STUFF and went to work. I covered my digital canvas with the ledger paper and then layered the typewriter over it. I added the text "You're just my" on the next layer and then sized it to 2.25 x 3.25 and printed a sheet of them and cut them out. I then stamped "type" on each one using letters from My Sentiments Exactly, swooshed a bit of black soot distress ink around the edges for extra depth and added a few dots of distress stickles in the corner. That piece got mounted on a black cardstock panel and that completed the front. Easy peasy!
Next, I decided to print up the ATC back FREEBIE that Lindsay has in her Mygrafico Shop. I think it's nice to put some information on the back to let the collector know a bit about the card. I love making greeting cards and doing mini books, and lots of other paper crafts, but I think ATCs are my very favorite pieces to create. I just love making and collecting them! Each one is so different and unique, even though we all have the same basic theme and instructions.
Since it's almost Halloween, I thought I would give you a last peek at a couple of the great Halloween sets Lindsay has in her Mygrafico Shop.
The Creepy Crow set is my all time favorite, but the Too cute to spook set is fun too! Gobble them up while you still have time to eek out a few more Halloween cards! Here is the DT list for this week...you know the drill! Have fun and happy digi stamping!Lindsay Weirich (Owner and Stamp Designer)
Laurel SeabrookThese girls rock! I hope you enjoy their creations as much as I do!
Happy Thursday, Everyone! A sale always makes me happy, and at Mygrafico everything is 40% off today only ! Yesterday I went about the task of making a set of ATCs for a swap called "That's so Funny" that I am in at the Stamp Shack, but I just couldn't make anything work out. I wanted to use my Lindsay's Stamp Stuff image and sentiment "Get knitty with it" and the yarn balls in the center, but I just couldn't create anything cute that wasn't too plain and blah. I scrapped that idea for now, but did still want to use the Crafty Tools and Puns set. I decided to get a bit more digi than I usually do, and created my own patterned paper using a green background and randomly "stamping" the all around phrases borders (it doesn't show up well in the photo, not sure why?). I made a blue panel for the bottom and separately layered the sentiment onto black and also printed the image. I embossed the blue layer and cut out the sentiment and image. The image was layered on to a piece of Coredinations sparkly paper - I love that stuff!!! I added corners, ribbon and flowers to finish. I know it's not one of those "WOW!" cards, but I think it is cute.
This week, I have chosen to use a FREEBIE that Lindsay posted a few weeks ago (the freebie is at the end of her post). I just love this image and had to use it! I "colored" it with my Tim Holtz Distress Inks (spiced marmalade and peeled paint with a touch of milled lavender) and then gave it a little sparkle with brushed pewter distress stickles. I layered up Bazzil card stock with bo bunny patterned paper and added a few Prima Flowers for fun. I painted a bit of the stickles on the brads and flowers and then to finish, I stapled the corners with my tiny stapler (Tim Holtz). Super quick and super easy -My kind of card! (Smiling)
