I'm guest blogging today :-)

Back in June I won some stamps together with Sherri Funk, made by Close To My Heart (CTMH), sponsored by Elizabeth at Broken Treasures. She also sent me a CTMH Idea Book, with lots of lovely stamps.

Sherri and I did a twin blog post with the stamps we had won, and Sherri was a Guest blogger at Elizabeth's blog at the same time. Elizabeth liked what she saw, and invited me to blog post for her this month.


In the said idea book, I found some stamps which shouted my name, a stamp set with faux stitching: they are so versatile, and just so me.

Stamp Set C1459 Stitched Together (not my card - example from CTMH)

In the guest blog post at Elizabeth's, you will find further details on how I used the stamp set to make these creations:


An altered canvas:

Stamps used with embossing and on shrink film

Button Card

Buttons are made by stamping on shrink film

In spetember I used the stamps while solving CSI File #37:

Stamps are used to create the border, the circles and the stitched stripes under the washi tape stripes.

Please head over to Elizabeth at Broken Treasures check out the tips from me, and to see Elizabeth's lovely creations!


How do you use your stamps?

Crazy Guys (Sketchabilities #75)

As I mentioned yesterday, Sketchabalities is up with a new, lovely sketch.
One thing I really loved about it was the the sketch was designed for (optional) multi photos. I had some photos from Greece this summer, taken when hubby and DS9 went para sailing, and there was no way I could use one photo only to tell the story.


Here they are, my crazy men, praparing to sail, sailing and beeing happy afterwards.




Patterned Papers, chipboard & Rubons: Fancy Pants Beach Bum collection.
Alpha: AC. Buttons: unknown. Stars: home made


Did you notice the tiny black stars? I bought myself some cool stitch stamps last week, and me and DS9 had fun playing with good old fashioned shrink plastic this morning.

Click on image to see the stars better

Stamps: CloseToMyHeart Stitched together

Tell me, have you played with some old stuff lately?

OMG! I have stamped!!!

Not long ago I won a cute stamp set when the challenge blog Scrapping Everyday Miracles celebrated their birthday. There was this "Invite a friend" challenge: Sherri Funk invited me, I told she had done so, and we both won a set of stamps, identical sets. This stamps are from the company Close To My Heart.

When I started making cards, before I started scrapping, it was all about stamping. I hoarded stamps, I had ink in any colors, and pens, paint and other utensils enough to color images for the rest of my life. Then I discovered you could make cards without the stamping, and I just quit. Like that. And I have hardly stamped anything over the previous five years. OK, I admit I use some background stamps on layouts and crads, but that is about it.

The stamps I won are just adorable, and surely far away from my everyday style, but who says no to a good challenge? So I decided to give them a try! I also made an agreement with Sherri  we should do a twin blog post about our creations, and you'll find an intro about her, and a link to her blog, further down.


So I pulled out my ink, my old embossing powder, scared to death I would be completely rusty. I decided to start easy and use the stamps with some papers which was a safe pick: Webster's pages. I chose to stamp borders and sentiment on the background paper, but the medallion an butterfly were stamped on  seperate sheets and cut out. I also figured out that if I used lots of flowers, I could cover my mistakes easily - he-he. Here is card #1:

CTMH stamps used: Large frame, cameo, butterfly, border, sentiment

Close up photo from a different angle to show dimension

What I really loved about this stamps was they gave clean, sharp prints and the prints were easy to emboss because of that, too.


Then I made card #2: this time I stamped all on the background paper, but I still played safe with Webster's Pages papers and lots of flowers:

CTMH stamps used: Small frame, butterfly, sentiment

From a different angle

Pretty cards - easy to make when you have great stamps, pretty flowers and papers :-)
And very not my everyday style..

It was time to take it a bit longer, step out of the comford zone and see if I could use these stamps on more Clean & Simple cards...


CAS card #1:

CTMH stamps used: Small frame, cameo and sentiment. Embossed: frame & cameo

OK, it could be done *lol*


I then got this idea and pulled out the most horrible stamp ever made: a surprised cat by Cherry Arte. OMG, its aweful - and I love it so much. I'm willing to sell any of the stamps in my collection but this cat!


CAS card #2:

CTMH stamps used: Large frame, heart, sentiment

I think CAS card #2 is my fav.... More...me!?!


So I hadn't forgotten it all, I discovered lots of great stamps in my shelf, and will hopefully pull them out more often.

Are you good at stamping?




Now, head over to Sherri Funk's blog to see what she has done with the same stamp set.
Sherri is a super talented, Canadian scrapper, and one of the sweetest persons I know. She design for plases like Let's Capture These Sketches, Let's Capture Our Memories and Scrapping Everyday Miracles and has a fun, carefree, linear style. Now please go and visit her to se her lovely creations (if her post isn't up yet when you read this, it is due to time zones)! Here is a sneak peak of Sherri's work:

And if you wonder: no, I'm not payed, or have been sposnsored, by anyone or any company to do this blog post *lol*