Anne's Stamping Room

 My parents are leaving today to head back to England - its been great having them here for the past 7 weeks, before they left I got my Dad to help me out in The Squires Shecave!  I asked him to stamp the back of each card I have available for sale with the required Stampin' Up! logo.  There are lots of cards to stamp! My Dad has a bit of a shaky hand so the Stamparatus was the perfect tool to help with the project.  I was able to put two different stamps on the plate; one on each side and depending on the style of the card he would flip the plate over.  He is not a crafter at all, but the Stamparatus made the job super easy.  It kept him busy for a few hours! If you have not used the Stamparatus yet, you really should.  It is the perfect tool to use with all stamps, but in particular getting your sentiments straight, large detailed stamps - it allows you to reink the stamp and stamp again to fill in any missing details or easily stamp a sentiment multiple times to create patterns.

I want to share a notebook that I created for my customers who participated in a recent class I hosted.  The class was using the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set and dies and I thought the notebook from Linda Powell would be the perfect thank you gift for my crafters. I started by covering the front of the notebook, which I bought from Amazon, with basic black cardstock.  I stamped the large sunflower image in crushed curry ink on coordinating cardstock and cut out the top layer in daffodil delight.  I have to say the new Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine makes it super easy to cut out the detailed dies from this set.   The centre of the flowers are cut with crumb cake cardstock and I used a sponge dauber to add to some colour around the edge. I stamped the small flower in pumpkin pie ink on coordinating cardstock and the leaves are stamped in pear pizzazz ink and the top layer is old olive cardstock. I really like the flowering branches (not sure what to call them!)  from this set,

Every year I do a 3D Christmas project and one of my regular crafters helps me to come up with some ideas.  I am really excited about this years project - yes I know, it is only September but I have been making holiday projects for the past 6 weeks or so and I really wanted to share the project with you. I started off with a round form from a local craft store and wooden pegs from the dollar store. I used multipurpose liquid adhesive to glue to the pegs to the round form.  I have to admit, I was surprised that the liquid glue was strong enough to hold the pegs in place and the liquid glue allows you to move the pegs into position. I cut strips of DSP (Designer Series Paper) and adhered them to the pegs, I spent some time to working out the sequencing of the patterns. I then added three poinsettias using the dies from the Poinsettia Place Suite.  I cut one in whisper white, green foil and red velvet paper and added a beaded pearl in each centre. I think the projects looks good as it is

Today I want to share a project I made this past weekend using scraps of DSP, and a few other elements to make a simple but fun card.  The card would be perfect to make in bulk to send to friends, coworkers and family for the holidays. I started off by using my scraps of Heartwarming Hugs DSP,  I had quite a few smaller pieces from another project I had made (I will share that one another day!) which were perfect to cut into 1" x 3.25" strips. I really like the DSP, perfect colours for the holidays and modern patterns.   I used Pear Pizzazz for the cardbase, added a real red and whisper white layers.  I randomly adhered the DSP strips to the card and stamped the sentiment in real red ink using a stamp from the Christmas Means More stamp set. I cut out two bells from the Sounds of the Season dies using silver and red foil - I cut them out using my new Stampin Cut & Emboss Machine which I totally love, so smooth to use. I used the oval dies to cut out the sentiment and a sc