Stamp room

**Warning VERY long post

Joanna sends out our Tombow assignments usually a month at a time so we can work on them. I have to tell you I about freaked out when I saw one of this month's assignment was to show our stamp room! YIKES!! I marched right upstairs and got to cleaning! I'm so glad she did, because it sorely needed it!!

I am blessed that I have a whole room to work in. The room itself needs lots of work, but it is still mine to retreat to to create. My door is always open so the "boys" (this includes DH) can pop in whenever they want. Plus they know there are little jars/containers of candy they can munch on while we visit. Ü

Okay, you all ready? Open the door and to my left (west wall) is my sewing table. There are no electrical outlets in my room (the house is VERY old and apparently they didn't think this room needed them???), so I run a cord to Aaron's room to use my machine. (note: you can click on all the photos for a closer look.)

This is hanging above my sewing table.

this is a perfect reminder for me to see every time I sit down to sew

We are just going to move around the room, so this is what you see next. These boxes hold my Rubi Coils, Sizzix dies, and the top one just has some misc crafting items like tiles, alterables, etc.

Beside my Rubi Coil are two sets of shelves.

These were made by a Dirty Dozen member that I rec'd in a swap.

In the 3 white photo boxes I have my ribbon wrapped on 3.5" x 7" chipboard. One box is for pink, red, yellow, orange; one for blue, green and purple and the 3rd for black, brown, and white

On the bottom shelf between the boxes are 2 boxcar boxes that hold my ink refills. You can buy these at Wal-Mart. You can see how I label them on the outside.

North wall: Where I sit and do most of my stamping, I like that I can look out in our back yard. On the first shelf in the white/clear box is my SU! ink pads, bottom drawer holds SU! buttons and brads and needles. on the bottom is my 12 x 12 paper

East wall: underneath the table in the drawers are:

drawer 1: bling items like jewels

drawer 2: embossing powders, glitters, heating gun, etc

drawer 3: adhesives, tapes, glues

drawer 4: misc inks like cats eyes, embossing

drawers 5 & 6: punches

Wonderful birthday gift one year from a very special friend. this is within reach of my desk. On top are my blades, stamp cleaner, gamsol and cute clay sculptures from my son.

Not shown on this 6' table is this box of my 6 x 6 paper pads and my Big Shot.

by my table: I love this old trunk. Bruce bought this for me when we were dating. It was covered in THICK layers of ugly brown paint and we stripped it and found this cool blue stain underneath. This holds Benjamin's first pair of jeans, overalls, blankets his great grandma made him and some of Aaron's 'firsts' as well.

The little pink blanket the bears are sitting on my great grandma made me when I was born. The bears were made by DH's aunt.

this wallhanging was made by a friend and I use it as a curtain here.

In the corner, the red box holds felt, the clear boxes 8.5 x 11 cardstock. The door is to a very small closet. Inside I have shelves that hold my fabric, paints, alterables and wrapping paper

South wall: wonderful oak cupboard that we got at an auction all beat up. We stripped it of it's paint and stained it. Inside the top part are files, photo boxes, notepads to alter, etc.

In the drawers are envelopes and the bottom holds all my scrapbooks. I made that doll sitting to the left.

in the southwest corner I have my Darcie patterns, a quilt frame my g'ma gave me and some canvases I've been wanting to alter.

Last but not least is this antique printers tray I use to hold my stickles and other fun items.

Oh yeah...my Cricut is downstairs, because I don't have electrical outlets in my room.

Primitive Christmas

Here is a cute QKR Stampede primitive tree that reminds me of Charlie Brown's Christmas tree. It's called The Perfect Christmas Tree (digi image here)

I used up some Basic Grey scraps I had to make the card base, some of my vintage ribbon and lace and a clear word sticker that had come in a mail as a freebie. I added glitter to the star and Diamond Glaze to the ornments.

Altered Candle Tutorial

With the holidays closing in on us, I wanted to show you a quick, easy and very affordable gift to make. This would be perfect for teachers, mail carriers, hostess gift or the best kind of gifts...just because.

Supplies:

candle in glass jar
patterned paper (I used Bo Bunny's Olivia)
ribbon
Tombow Mono Adhesive Power Bond
cardstock sticker (from Bo Bunny's Olivia line)
Opt: sewing machine

Directions:
1. Cut patterned paper to fit around candle jar
2. Sew around edges if desired
3. Apply Tombow Mono Adhesive Power Bond around edges of paper and adhere to jar

4. Tie ribbon around jar and knot; trim ends
5. Apply cardstock sticker to center of jar with ribbon knot to the side of sticker

Note: To finish off as a gift, add a little shredded paper inside cello bag and insert candle and tie shut with ribbon.

I like to have several little gifts like this ready for "whenever". Especially last minute hostess gifts or when I find out the day before that it is a teacher's birthday.

This candle cost me 75 cents. Add some fun papers, sticker and ribbon and you have a very affordable gift.

Snowy Friends

Here is another peek at a display board at CHA and my cards. All of these snowmen can be purchased at Inky Antics in clear or wood block.

Snowy Barn

I'm almost afraid to post this! We have been having BEAUTIFUL fall weather! I don't want it to end. I'm hoping I don't "jinx" the lovely fall weather and end up with snow. I do love snow, but AFTER Thanksgiving. Then I'm ready. I'm kinda picky that way. LOL!!

This image is called "Snowy Barn" by QKR Stampede. (digi image available here). Our barn is red, so I had to color this one red as well. I love old red barns!

I added lots of glitter to make the snow look like it was glistening.

PS: on a family note...please continue to pray for my Uncle Mic. He has taken another bump in the "cancer" road and is in the hospital. I "uncle-sat" him Friday so my aunt and cousin could go to the football game (to watch grandson/nephew play in the play-offs) and he was doing pretty good for what he's been thru then. It is so hard to see loved ones struggle like this. I know the family would really covet your prayers....thank you!

Punched Owls

I just love these cute punched owls. All punches are by SU!. I think this would make a cute anniversary card. I think all the papers are by SU! too. This was a class I took.

Teddy in the Cornfield

WOW! I can't believe it's the last day of October! Today I am sharing with you another image from D2D's Scarecrow Teddy set. Have you purchased it yet? Did you know there are a whopping NINE image in the set for only $2?! Hurry on over to the store to pick up yours.

Apple Pie

I've had this image colored and cut with my new Nestibilites die since it came out a couple of weeks ago. It's been sitting on the table waiting for inspiration of how to use it. When I saw this card of Laurie's, I knew I wanted to CASE the sketch. I love this layout!

I didn't have the cute little paper clip and was going to leave it blank, but then decided to use a regular paper clip. Silver didn't go with my color scheme, so I colored it with a rust Copic marker. I LOVE that you can do that! So much fun!!

The lace is some I picked up at a second hand store. A ziploc bag full of fun vintage seam tape, lace, rayon seam binding and hooks & eyes (will have to find a way to use those too) ALL for 50 cents! WOOHOO!!! I was sooo excited! Yellows, brown, blues, creamy whites, the lovely sagey, olive-y green color (used on my card here) and burgundy. Colors perfect for fall projects.

I speckled the pie tin to look like the antique enamelware. I would love having a pie tin like this. To speckle, just make dots with your clear Copic pen after you've colored the image.


There are SEVEN images in this set for only $1.50!! How can you go wrong with that?

Halloween Triangle Treat Box

This cute treat box is created using Inky Antics triangle box stamp and their cute stamps: Fritz Frankenstein and a treat background that must be discontinued as I can't find it, but they have other cute ones that would work.

Here are the instructions to make this:
1. stamp solid paper with background stamp

2. On the back side of stamped background paper stamp box template

3. cut and fold as lines indicate (solid for cutting, dotted for folding and punch holes on the dots

4. fold up into triangle and add ribbon and tie
5. stamp image, color and cut and adhere to triangle front with Tombow's Mono Adhesive Permanent.

If you would like to make these and don't have this triangle template stamp, I found a tutorial HERE that is close to it.

I love fall BEARY much

Isn't this the CUTEST scarecrow bear you've ever seen?! This was the freebie this week for Designed2Delight. Have you been playing along with the challenges? Faith has another fun image for you tomorrow. It is an image of something I have a small collection of. Hmmmm. what do you think it is? Ü

If you haven't been playing along, you can still pick him up in the store here.

Dino-Mite!

This fun card is made with an image Aaron drew a couple of years ago.

Good Friends

I love this sentiment by QKR Stampede. You can buy the digi image here.

Fall break is officially over and we are back to school today. Tonight I am going to another SU! class. Can't wait to show you what we make.

Punched Pumpkins

I took a class a couple of weeks ago and we made the cutest projects!! Four cards and a treat project. Here is the pumpkin scene that we made and it was all with SU! punches. I will be sharing the other projects later.

There was also a bat punched image that the others put on the moon and a ghost hiding behind the pumpkins, but I wanted my card to be more fall-ish than Halloween, so didn't add the bat or ghost. Thank you Bridget for a super fun class!

Pretty In Pink card kit

This is another card kit from my friend Melissa. Here is the card she made.

She sent the card panels separate, with the silver image already stamped and embossed. I added the jewels and flower (in the kit) and my own brad.

Let's Talk Turkey

Welcome to QKR Stampede's "Let's Talk Turkey" Blog Hop. Did you just come from Ceal's blog? If you did you are right on track. If not, be sure to start there for the instructions and then hurry back here. Ü There will be a $20 gift certificate to the QKR Stampede store as a prize for this hop! WOW...what an awesome prize!!

Here is the fun project I made using the turkey image again. It's another toilet paper tube project.

I stamped the sentiment (a corny one I just made up) with Karen Foster snap stamps. Just wrap a toilet paper tube with patterned paper using Tombow's Mono Adhesive Power Bond and decorate as desired.

Now it's time to HOP over to Monika's blog and see her wonderful creation.

You don't want to miss what our designers have in store for you! If for some reason one of the links is broken along the Hop do not worry, HOP back over to QKR Stampede Blog -http://www.qkrstampede.blogspot.com/. The complete list will be posted there.

Pretty In Pink

Edited to add:
I was in such a hurry I didn't tell how I did this. I printed the image in pink. Since the printer ink is not permanent, I used my Tombow blending pen and picked up ink from the outline and colored in the flowers.

Here is my card for this week's Designed2Delight challenge.

I've been dealing with a pinched nerve in my back/hip this week and have been slow in getting anything done. It is now fall break and hope to feel good enough to create like crazy. Ü

Fall Butterfly

Edited to add: Here is Melissa's card. I found out I've had this kit since April of 2008! YIKES!! I told ya it's been a long time.

This card was created with a kit package that I received a LONG time ago from my friend Melissa. I rec'd several card kits and am just now putting them together. I have no excuses for not having them done a long time ago as everything was pre-cut! I found them in my stash (while looking for my Nestibility circles that I still can't find) and decided it was time to get the cards made.

I don't know the company of the butterfly, but I love it and the colors of this patterned paper. She even sent the jewels! I sponged the vellum butterfly and cut it out. I only added adhesive to the middle to leave the wings free.

QKR Turkey Time

Not only is fall my favorite time of year, but Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I love the no pressure, no hassle feeling to the holiday.



Today, my card uses QKR Stampede's Thanksgiving Feast (see digi version here).

This is called a "tent" card. Just make a smaller base card and then add stamped shaped image to the top to fill the length of the card. This will fit into a regular shaped envelope like you mail bills in.

Grateful Notepads

This week Tombow is partnering with Bo Bunny. Oh my!!! We received an AWESOME package from Bo Bunny. I LOVE it! Part of it was fall and a HUGE part was Christmas. You will be seeing lots of projects with the wonderful papers and accessories we received.

This project is made with their new Olivia fall line.

I prepared a little tutorial for you, so that you can make these too.

Supplies:
5" x 8" Jr. Legal Pad cut in half lengthwise (this can be done at Office Max)
solid cardstock: 5.5" x 8 1/8"
patterned paper: 2.5" x 2", and various scraps 2.5" wide
Tombow Mono Adhesive permanent
embellishments: I used Bo Bunny cardstock stickers

Directions:
1. Score solid cardstock from long ends 2 5/8"

2. Add Mono Adhesive Permanent to 2.5" x 2" patterned paper and adhere to top of notepad.

3. Add Permanent Mono Adhesive to the back of notepad and adhere to inside right of scored cardstock.

4. Cut patterned paper pieces to 2.5" wide and adhere with Permanent Mono Adhesive to front of notepad cover.

5. Add sticker or other embellishments.

(note, the scalloped piece on the left notepad was some scrap left over from another project. It is not Bo Bunny paper, but matched perfectly, so I used it)

 If you make one of these I would love to see it. Please post and let me know and send me a link to your blog or gallery.

Inky Beware

It's been awhile since I posted an Inky Antics card. This is one that I colored for their catalog. One day I took a bunch of scraps and made card fronts. Then I stitched where the papers met. This color was perfect for this cute Mousie.

The "Beware" sticker is one from a sheet I had a couple of years ago.

Pocket Folder Journal Tutorial

This is the new Friday freebie from Faith of Designed2Delight. She designed this in honor of the challenges going on each day at SCS for the Hope You Can Cling To for breast cancer.

I have family and friends who have not only faced breast cancer, but other cancers. 5 years ago, I had a brain tumor (benign and I'm doing fine, had a scare a few weeks ago, but it wasn't a tumor again, just after affects still from the surgery) and something that helped me get through the storm was journaling. So when I first saw these images I knew I had to make a journal.

This journal is quick and easy to make. I can't remember where I first saw this idea, but I tweaked it a bit and have been making them for some time now.

Supplies:
pocket folder
8" x 5" Jr. legal pad
patterned paper to decorate folder
embellishments (opt)
stamped image
ribbon
Tombow Mono Adhesive Permanent

Directions:
1. Cut pocket folder in half on crease line
2. With short edge along paper cutter edge, cut at 8.25"  (away from bottom edge) 
3. With long edge along paper cutter edge, cut at 10.5" (away from pocket end) and then score at 5 1/8" and again at 5 5/16"

4. Cut the pocket edge down as show in the picture below. This is where your notepad will fit.

5. Cut patterned paper piece 5" x 2" and cover bound edge of notepad and insert notepad over cut flap.

6. Decorate front as desired.

7. Apply adhesvie to ribbon to the front of folder and wrap around back and tie at side.

8. You can also decorate front inside flap.

 Note: One folder will make 2 notepad journals. The "pocket" will just be on the other side. When the pocket is on the left, I cut it at an angle and add a couple of paper clips. Notes and etc can be tucked inside the pocket. Then I add adhesive to the back of the notepad to hold it inside.