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stamptvbusy in the garden
It IS a busy garden time at the moment and I got nothing to show for it LOL…. We have had daily afternoon showers which is wonderful and everything including the weeds are exploding in a luscious green 
My compost is quite happy, between the gardening and juicing it is being fed quite well!
This card was my entry for the Midweststampers paper piecing challenge last month
didn’t win a golden star but I totally love the card! It was stamped with some masking and lots of paper piecing. All stamps are from Firecrackerdesigns by Pamela
Still trading :)
The theme for our July MWS (midweststampers) ATC single swap is fairies/angels and/or clear emboss resist. I did a bit of emboss resist with the branches up top and used that gorgeous fairy from Whispers in the Woods of Clear Artistic Stamps which is also the title of my ATC. I wanted it a bit dark and mysterious
The two white cutouts on the bottom are leftovers from a border punch, too pretty to throw away! This fairy of course will travel in style in her Double Trader pocket:
Template and instructions, check previous post
For a SALE on this wonderful set, check previous post….
that’s what I get for posting twice in the same day…. oh well
Trade Happily :)
When you send ATCs back and forth with traders, just how do you mail them? Or give them as a present? You’ve worked hard on your little pieces of art, you may want to give them nice protection and packaging for safe travel!
How many cards do you trade at a time? One, two, three or perhaps four?! I got you covered for all of those. Meet the trader pockets Here is a sample for the “Four Corner Trader” which holds 4 cards nicely, you can even stick a little note in there as well:
You can of course decorate any way you like, make it elegant or grungy. You may want to keep the theme neutral though because these traders are supposed to be used over and over again and travel the world. Here is the inside:
The Four Corners Trader fits nicely into a regular A7 envelope (like the wonderfully cheap Halcraft ones you can find at Michaels) meant for a 5 by 6.5 sized card.
Complicated to make? Heck no, these are very easy and quick. How to make? I wrote a tutorial for this one, one for 1 or two cards and the Triple Trader and you can find it on the Elemental Doodles Tutorial Page . Let me know what you think, I hope you enjoy these
The stamps used in this sample are all from the Whispers in the Woods set from Clear Artistic Stamps, if you hurry, I think it is still on the 4th of July sales page …. The “ATC” wording is from Firecrackerdesigns by Pamela
It is not the food in your life – it is the life in your food!
Night and Day…
You may have noticed, I’ve been fuzzing with my theme template here on blogland. Did you know you can spend all day looking for a wordpress theme that you like and still come up empty?…ugh. Well I think I do like this one once I get a few issues fixed. I like clean and simple, don’t want too much distraction in the blog design, rather have you look at the content!
I have updated a few things like the published art page wohooo!! Adding some more categories to the side bar and sorting them. I like that you now can click on a category and you will see the entire posts with pictures from that “search”, very practical!
So, please bear with me while this place may look out of sorts at times while I try out things and new functions and layout
Today’s color challenge on splitcoast was kraft/night of navy and so saffron, CC225 very cool. It immediately reminded me of “Night and Day” which I translated into a pair of QAE (quick and easy) bookmarks!
Just decide for your stamped panel width, add 1/2 inch for the backlayer and corner punch that one. Stamp your panel and slip it in (I do use adhesive so it doesn’t shift) and embellish any way you like. I try to keep bookmarks fairly flat so that they actually are usable as bookmarks 
The stamps I used for my night and day are from the Elemental Doodles Heavenly Tea Set .
A cup of Love
Who can not use this at times? A tea bag always fits into a card with a hand written note, this stamp is perfect for such an occasion I am playing a couple of challenges with this one, I followed the sketch from Our Creative Corner and used the beautiful color combo from Color Throwdown #48 . I really did like these, sad to see them go 
The pretty stamp can be found in the Whispers in the Woods set. Take a closer look at the cup. I colored it with reinkers and just a touch of pink shimmerz :
Clear Artistic Stamps has a short 4th of July special going on with some super fabulous prices for you. You can find them on a special page here .
I just noticed that the Whispers in the Woods set is also in this special sale!!
more fat pages!
Remember my Spring Fat Book ? Well the group is at it again to make pages for a SUMMER fat book! I just finished mine and I had such a fun time!!! All stamps used this time are from Flourishes, had to try out my new goodies here. On the front is the woman on the swing with the gorgeous saying:
She has a paper pieced dress from Baisc Grey (Urban Prairie) and the background is from a DCWV stack with glitter flowers. I made a word-cloud and the cute sun is from Vippies.
For the back I went all sour
Just LOVE those lemon slices, so yummie! The background was stamped in green on green and the leaves colored with Aqua Marine Shimmerz (diluted). The lemon-framed sentiment is from the Poppy set
And notice how far ahead I am of myself here, I messed up the date by a month LOL….ooooops!But the fun didn’t stop here, I went a little stamp crazy and continued on the envelopes, the lemons (colored with yellow glitter pen….) are just wonderful on the front and the little girl fits exactly into the flap point:
It only takes a few minutes to decorate an envelope and it is SUCH fun to send and receive. This IS really what it is all about, right? something cool in the mail? I’m afraid we tend to forget that at times
Can’t wait to receive my fat summer pages from the others and then make my summer book!
