My New Stamp Company!!

I know it's been kind of quiet here.. but that's not only because I have been on vacation.. but I am starting my very own stamp company! :) woohoo.. It's called The Alley Way Stamps, we are going to be holding a grand opening.. You can click HERE to get some details about freebies, prizes, and inspiration. :) I hope you will join in the fun! hugs

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Spark Challenge

So for my creation for the spark challenge.. I loved the idea of a wall hanging photos.. and Emily totally made this cute card.. so I was totally inspired by her creation. Mine of course is a little different.. and it looks sooo easy.. and it is.. just lots of steps.. at least how I did it. :) so I took the 2 rectangle shaped signs from the hang up's set and stamped them out 1x for the large, and 4 times for the small. I then cut them out.. leaving a little border. I stuck these down to my card base temporary, and then used broken china distress ink and rubbed it all over the card.. In real life the blue is a much more pale blue.. :) then I took the masks off to have the white squares. Using a post it note, I placed it down, and stamped out the rectangles using the Pumice Stone distress ink, then using that same ink I stamped the birds all but the yellow one and the sentiment with the same color.. I used some fuzzy scallop ribbon to separate the two.. I really love how this turned out.. :)

** We are headed out of town for the Holidays and will be back on the 23rd.. so no new cards from me for a bit.. :) Merry Christmas!

hugs

Paper Smooches stamps

Word Salad-Sentiment

Hang ups- for the boxes/picture frames

Birds- Smoocheroos, My Peeps, Santa Paws

Challenges-

Paper Smooches Spark Challenge

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Market Street Stamp GDT

Hey everyone! Well I am so honored to tell you that Market Street Stamps asked me to be the Guest DT Member for December... So I had to make something fun and Jolly of course. I had to play with these adorable new stamps the snowflake one is called Flurries. LOVE LOVE LOVE this stamp.. I would love to see these snowflakes larger as a snowflake set.. they are amazing.. The reindeer and sentiment come from the set Prancer, this is such a fun stamp, if you look closely the reindeer is made up of snowflakes.. :)

So my idea for this project was to make a chimney (you can download it from SVG Cuts)

I did something a little different where I added some American Craft ribbon to make it look like icicles, and heat embossed with white oh kraft cardstock on the chimney it's self to make it look like it is snowing.. then I thought, no chimney would be complete without a reindeer. So I added some bakers twin, a little red and gold stickles to our little fella and popped him off the chimney to give the illusion of him flying.. :) All and all I love how this turned out.. Thanks so much for stopping by.. visit The Market Street Stamps Blog for more inspiration too.. HUGS

Challenges-

Simon Says Stamps-photo inspiration.. reindeer and snow

The Paper Variety-inspired by a song(up on the housetop)

Wee Memories (holiday)

Creative Card Crew-tis the season

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paper Smooches Spark Challenge

WOW.. it feels so good to get a little bit of crafting time in.. so I decided to play along with the Paper Smooches Spark Challenge.. this photo to me was SOO inspiring..

How I took inspiration from this photo...

-the light blue and white with a "pop" of yellow

-The butterflies hanging in two of the frames

-Stripes on the table cloth (stripes of butterflies)

-The pattern inside the frames (dots on butterflies)

-Texture (heat embossed the dots)

I used 2 stamp sets for this creation, the Alphadots set is the spots on all the butterflies. The Word Salad is the sentiment. I used the Martha Stewart triple butterfly punch to punch out all the butterflies, and then creased them each in the middle, lined them up and placed them in rows on the card.. hope you have a wonderful weekend.. hugs

Challenges-

Paper Smooches Spark Challenge

Wee Memories-anything goes

Moxie Fab

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I'm BACK!!!

Okay.. so most of you probably didn't really notice that I was gone.. but for those 1 or 2 (thanks Jenny ;) that totally did.. I just wanted to let you know I am BACK!! :) woohoo.. I am so sorry for being gone so long.. I came down with a wicked case of pneumonia and couldn't kick it..I literally did almost nothing for a month.. it was totally crazy.. well I have a little creation to share with you all.. It's a publish reject.. :( but none the less it's a fun card.. so.... here it is..

This card was made by using the stamp set Fun{tache}tic by The Craft's Meow (this is my favorite set of theirs. Lisa just came out with a bunch of new stamps too.. I really liked making this card.. and think that there are not enough fun men's designs out there.. so when I got this set in the mail, it quickly became one of my favorites..

Well I hope you all have been doing good this past month.. I have missed many of you.. I can't wait to get back in the crafty seat.. :) Have a great week.. HUGS

Challenges

Wee Memories-Anything Goes

Moxie Fab World-Mustache(s)

Stripes, orange, aqua, my mustaches are in a stripe pattern..

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Friend SSS GDT post 3

First off I want to say a HUGE THANK YOU for all of you who voted/supported me with my haunted house.. well I WON!!! WOOHOO!!! I am so excited!! I couldn't have done it without you.. so THANK YOU! I have the best blog friends ever!

Hey everyone!! :) well I have another cute Sweet Stamp Shop creation for you today.. This time I am using the set called Sweet Tooth.. You are probably looking at the card thinking..umm.. what?? lol :) well on this adorable set you have these amazing circles, and gumballs.. well I really wanted to showcase that and let you see how versatile this set really is.. So I made a little pleated half circle and placed some colored "gumballs" on top to bring in the colors I used on the side of the card.. I really am pleased with how this turned out! :)

Stop by the blog too :) there are lots of amazing and inspiring creations there.. :) hugs

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Mixed Media 5x5 canvas :) let it snow!

Hey everyone! So first I wanted to say a HUGE THANK YOU to all of you who have voted for me.. (if you don't know what I am talking about and would like to vote, click here).. You can vote each day.. so if you haven't voted today.. head on over and do it! :)

For this project I used the stamp set Happy H'owl'oween from The Craft's Meow.. now I know this is not a halloween creation.. it's a cute little canvas.. a Christmas one that will be standing in the front by my door.. :) but I used these adorable Halloween Stamps (the owl) and made some little hats, to turn them into a Christmas Owl Couple.. :)

I really love how this turned out.. there is lots of textures, and fun elements I wish you all could feel/see it in person the clouds are made with stencil puffy stuff (don't remember what it's called, but it's 3d and has a texture to it.. I used rubons, a pen, some cute paper, paint, little gems, a flag w/flower, and of course some fun ribbon from pebbles in my pocket.. It goes around the whole canvas to bring it all together.. :) Thanks so much for looking! Hope you are having a wonderful week..hugs

Challenges-

Wee Memories- "Holiday Madness" (Christmas)

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PLEASE HELP me!! :)

Hey everyone! I have some exciting news.. WELL :) I made the top 10 of the Market Street Block Party Finalist.. I am hoping you all will go and vote for my project below.. and maybe help me win.. :) This is the project I made using their adorable stamps.. Please click on the star ABOVE my haunted house.. :) !!! I hope you will head over there and see the cute creations.. HUGS Thanks in advance

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Winner of my Unity Week Candy!!! is...........

Jan Garber

#24 :) congrats.. please email me!!! hugs

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Life SSS second post GDT

Hey everyone! I have a cute little creation to share with you today.. It's my second post as the Sweet Stamp Shop GDT :) and I am super excited!.. I just adore the fun whimsical images Nicole has drawn up.. and this one is one of my favorites.. it's called The Core of it :) isn't that such a cute name.. I fell in love with this apple that is just the "core" hehe left..for my creation..

I really wanted to show you how adorable this single stamp is.. and how you can take one stamp and create a whole card.. :) so that's what I did.. I used Cosmo Cricket Clementine pp to paper piece one of the apples to make it stand out. I also wanted to bring in a little more color.. so I used some twine, and the distress ink shabby shutters to stamp my sentiment in.. I really like the colors and how this turned out :) Thanks for stopping by.. and stop by SSS blog too :) hugs

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Haunted House

Hey everyone! Well Liberty took her nap today.. and I really needed.. wait I NEEDED some crafty time.. so I took it! :) If you know me.. crafty time is my destressor.. soo :) my house didn't really get cleaned.. but I got a craft project done does that count? lol :) I haven't done much with Halloween this year, so I really wanted to make something fun for my house! :) sooo.. I created a cute haunted house..

before putting this together, I stamped some spiderwebs (using Market Street Stamps for this whole thing..)on the house in white and heat embossed them. then I wanted to add some fun little things.. Like a cute ghost, a couple flying bats, some little spiders.. and I just had randomly won this set from Market Street Stamps.. and really wanted to ink them up.. :) so I used this collection called Sweet Spooks... LOVE it!!

There are so many little details on this project..

The spiders on the webs have some black stickles placed on top of them..

I really wanted this house to have texture.. so I bent the fence, and also added some black distress ink all over the whole project so that it gave it nice shadows and made things stand out a bit more..

I placed the bats and ghost on wire to make them seem like they are flying :) also I used some green vellum behind the windows to give it a glow.. :)

I am for sure entering this into the Market Street Stamps block party..(since I totally used only their amazing stamps :) Thanks for looking :) hugs

Challenges-

Wee Memories-Halloween

Simon Says-Halloween

City Crafter Challenge-color inspiration

SVG file template here

I used the new Echo Park (halloween) papers for this :)

Lindy's stamp gang -Midnight rendezvous raven (hard to see in photos but it shines)

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It's been a crazy week....

So yesterday I needed to blow off some of my stress.. so I made a super quick and simple card.. I wanted to play along with the Spark Challenge at Paper Smooches.. the inspiration is so much fun! So I made a cute little onsie card I really love how it turned out..

For this card I used the Vegtastic little peas, and the top of the carrot for the green around them, I also used the sentiments and hearts from that set too.. :) Love this set.. so many possiblities.. :) The onsie template is from paper smooches also.. I used memento ink, distress ink old paper & fired brick , copic pen, pp is MME life of the party, Cosmo Cricket Clementine.

last night.. it was almost time for Liberty to go to bed, she was playing the rockband drums.. and was so excited, she tripped and hit her eye on the coffee table.. end results.. trip to the ER and 4 little stitches.. :( what a bummer.. needless to say this week has been crazy!

Thank you to everyone for the well wishes for my dad.. he is doing better, he had to have a stent put into the front main artery that was block 99%.. he has a few others that are borderline, but they would like to try to clear some of them up with medications.. he has to take it easy.. and work his way back up to his "normal"... :)

I hope you all are having a less eventful week than I am.. :) hugs

I used the colors, stamp set, and "bunch theme"

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I am the Guest DT member for SSS Oct.

Hey everyone! Sorry that I didn't get this up sooner, my Dad had a heart attack yesterday and I have been at the hospital ever since..

I did want to let you all know how excited I am to be the Guest DT member for the Sweet Stamp Shop. If you haven't heard of them.. they are so fun, and such a whimsical stamp company. You should totally check them out. I have created a card using their Sweet Tooth set that is just adorable..

I used some pop dot's, stickles, copic markers, and that's really it plus an amazing stamp set..Thank you so much for having me this month as part of the team.. :) I hope you will stop by their blog and see the adorable creations their DT makes.. :)

HUGS

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Operation Julie's Smile Blog hop

I am so glad that you joined us on this amazing blog hop for Operation Julie’s Smile. If you came here from Andrea Murdock’s blog, then you are in the right spot. If not, you may want to start from the beginning at the Sweet Stamp Shop’s blog and take your time. You have ALL WEEKEND to hop with us and win prizes!

If you haven't heard about Operation Julie's Smile then let me tell you a little about it.

The creative blogging community is coming together this weekend to help one of our friends, Julie Ranae. You may know her as the Design Team Coordinator for many wonderful companies from bakers twine, die cuts, rubber stamps and more. What many people don’t know about Julie Ranae is that she has had some pretty major dental surgeries in her lifetime due to medication she had to take as a child. It was in her plans to think about having all of her teeth replaced at some point in the next 5 years, a decision that was pretty easy to plan out. Butthen it happened…she chipped her front teeth on a weekend a month ago. The dentist told her there was no way to save them & that it was his recommendation that she give in and have them all her teeth removed soon, but for that day, they needed to get her front teeth done so her gums could begin to heal. He said he would 'work out payments with her to have ALL this work done...but when she called to make her appt for the first step of impressions, they told her the amount of money that was needed and that the 'payments' applied only to the two teeth that were extracted that day. Her husband Paul was with her & that too, was his understanding as well. So this is how she has found herself in this situation…Needing at least $4000 to get started and another $3000 to finish the process…a total of $7000.

Nicole Rixon, owner of Sweet Stamp Shop put together this benefit after finding out about this situation and before Julie Ranae knew it, it took flight!

Because she is an event organizer by trade, she has taken on the job of organizing all of the blogs in this hop as her way of ‘working overtime’ for what she needs, the same as if she were able to work overtime at an outside job to pay for the work to be done.

It is the goal of all of these generous friends & sponsors to help make this situation more do-able for our friend so that she can share a brand new smile with all of us soon.

If there is anything you can do to help with a financial donation, there is a donation button ready for you to click. Any amount is appreciated and ALL DONATIONS will be eligible for prizes from our sponsor pool of over $2500.

There are 3 ways to win

1. from Blog Comments left

2. from PayPal Donation list

3. for Blog Hop Hosts

This is a HUGE blog hop so there may be broken links here nd there.. if that happens feel free to go to the Sweet Stamp Shop for the master list at anytime.

I wanted to make a creation today that I thought would make Julie and the rest of you smile.. :) So I created this card.. I used tissue paper, and some home made glimmer mist to put this card together.. the circle stamp is from Unity and the little sentiment is from Market Street Stamps..

I really love how this turned out.. The textures are amazing..Here is a close up of the textures.

I was totally inspired by Julies Challenge blog The Play Date Cafe the colors this week are amazing

Also the Moxie Fab World Challenge is Textures :)

Other Challenges

FWF- Unity

fav technique (glimmer mist and crumpling anything)

I hope you enjoyed your stop here on the hop! The next stop is Lindsey Wood’s blog. Make sure you leave a comment here before you go so that you can have a chance at the amazing prizes up for grabs and if you can, please make a donation so we can help bring back a new smile for our friend. I hope you will join in with me and donate.. :) I did..;) Every little bit helps..

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Welcome Baby! PS Spark Challenge

Hey everyone!!! Well first I want to say a HUGE THANK YOU for all the well wishes to Stefan & Stretch.. they are doing much better.. just sore, and a little bruised.. They will need some massage/adjusting but they are doing good..

I haven't had much "creative time" lately.. but really wanted to play along with the Paper Smooches Spark Challenge.. So this is the inspiration photo:

and this is my creation..

I used 2 paper smooches stamp sets.. the A Little Lovin for the sentiment & the Friendly Flowers set.. Yes.. I really did use both of them.. Oh.. I also used the Paper Smooches onsie template.. so cute!

for the base I clear embossed my own flower pattern using the Friendly Flowers set.. it looks so neat IRL.. :) I used some Rasselberry glimmer spray and tissue paper to make the "ruffle".. it turned out so cool.. and the texture ROCKS!! I added some twine, a little safety pin, and some white faux stitching.. I know I am cutting it close.. but with everything going on.. I still wanted to play along..

Thanks so much for looking!! HUGS

Challenges-

favorite technique (right now is inking/spraying anything)

anything goes

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