You were always meant to FLY...!

Hello everyone,

If you are looking for my Repeat Impressions post, please scroll down!

Are you ready for some more fun from the Inky Stamper Arts & Crafts Store?

Chelsea sent me the cutest dies, asked me to design a sample for her, using the Small Fry Box. Well, how could I stop there? I simply had to play with the Dragonfly and Mini Double Bow Die as well!  The Small Fry Box  has 5 dies, and is SO easy to assemble! The Mini Double Bow Die makes the cutest bow, and it's a ONE PIECE die!

Here's what I created:

This first photo is shown using the Dragonfly Stamp Set, the Small Fry Box, AND the Mini Double Bow Die!

Here is just the Small Fry Box with the Mini Double Bow Die

A better look at just the Small Fry Box

And one more...

Here is the card using Images and Sentiments from the Dragonfly Stamp Set.

All coloring is done with Copic Markers. If you enlarge the photo, hopefully you can see the detail work with a white gel pen, and some Spectrum Noir Glitter Pens.

For this one, I decided to use a stamp from the Dragonfly set, along with the flower, tag, and banner dies from the Small Fry Box Die set. I thought it would be fun to double the box, using the tag in the middle as sort of a handle.

A better view of putting two boxes back to back. I realized as I was finishing up this blog post, that I didn't put any ribbon in the hole of the tag!  Oh well, next time, right?

  

Stop by at see Chelsea at the Inky Stamper Arts & Crafts Store!

Please bear with me if you find any link errors here today, or horrific typo's - I'm having a vision problem this week, and can't be trusted at the keyboard!

Thanks for dropping by today - hugs and smiles to all, and remember - 

You were always meant to FLY...!

Patti J.

Exciting News!

Hello everyone,

If you are looking for my Repeat Impressions post, please scroll down!

Are you ready for some very exciting news? It's been hard to keep this secret!

 There's a new stamp store making its' debut today! 

A long time creative friend, Chelsea Comer, (some of you know her as Inky Stamper) has begun designing her own line of stamps and dies. At 8:00 a.m. today, Chelsea's new stamp store, the Inky Stamper Arts & Crafts Store opened for business!

Chelsea asked me to design a sample for her store opening today. Of course I said yes, and it's a good thing ya'll couldn't see this old woman happy dancin' and squealing, here in my girl cave! 

When my Inky Stamper package arrived, the first thing that I noticed was the unique packaging. These stamps are packaged in resealable high quality bags!!! Look at this package - pretty impressive, right?  It's sad to pay a lot of money for a set of stamps, and the first time you use it, the package has to be taped together. This package is going to last a long, long time! 

The next thing that impressed me, was that every single set will have sentiment(s) included. Yep...Every. Single. Set!

So, do you want to see my sample? Lol...I couldn't stop with one, so without further ado (as Chelsea would say), here is what I created using using one of her new sets, 'Sandbox'.

For this card, I stamped and colored the image, matted and mounted it onto some cute designer paper. The sentiment was stamped on black with Versamark, and heat embossed. Sentiment was popped up with some tiny dimensional dots.

 I was hoping this paper would look a bit like sand, but I think it was a fail.... This image was very quickly stamped, colored, matted, and added to a treat box filled with candies.

Again, this was just some creative card folding, and a bit of coloring, matting, and assembilng.

For the last card, I stamped the image on white cardstock. I then created a 'mask', by stamping the image again on some masking paper.

I placed the mask over the stamped image, and began to draw some clouds, water, sun, etc.

The mask was removed, and I colored the card with Copic markers, and used a fine liner to outline. The final touch was a white gel pen to add a few fun accents. I was trying to make the sun shining off of the body of water, but not sure it works!!! What do you think?

 

Hope you will check back here next Wednesday - I will have another fun item(s) to debut for the Inky Stamper Arts & Crafts Store!

Thanks for stopping by today - hugs and smiles to all, and remember - a little sand between your toes...always takes away your woes!

Patti J.