Creativity With Stamps

Artisan Award Entries - Heart Layout & Tree Card

I've been busy getting ready for a long road trip with my family.  We will be visiting the coastal southeast states and are getting really excited to finally go on vacation...I think my whole family needs it!

I should have the video on the origami dress sometime this week, in the meantime, here is the first non-winning layout (I was inspired by Jennifer McGuire):

All those little punched out hearts were made by using one of the presto DSP and sponging it with three different inks...the entire sheet was then punched out.  Some of those hearts are attached directly to the crumb cake heart and others are popped up with dimensionals.  This is a photo of my kids...they are only 17 months apart and always together.

Stamps:  Cheep Talk

Cardstock/Paper:  Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Newsprint DSP, cherry cobbler, very vanilla, Presto Patterns DSP

Ink:  basick black, marina mist, baja breeze, bashful blue

Accessories:  Vintage Type Rub Ons, Antique Brad, hemp twine, Heart To Heart punch, Full Heart Punch, Lots of Tags Sizzlit Die

 

Here is my third non-winning card.  I wanted to use those awesome wood and cork sheets and make this card very earthy.

Stamps:  Thoughts & Prayers, Woodgrain

Paper/Cardstock:  Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Whisper White

Ink:  Early Espresso, Old Olive, Versamark

Accessories:  Vintage Trinkets, wood sheet, cork sheet, seam binding ribbon, Lots Of Tags Sizzlit Die, Scallop Oval Punch, 1 3/4 X 7/8 oval punch, clear ep, 3/16" corner punch

 

 

Artisan 3D Project - Altered Embroidery Hoop

I hope everyone here in the U.S.A. had a fabulous 4th of July!!!  We enjoyed the fireworks in Boston and they were by far the most amazing fireworks I have ever seen (and I have seen many). 

I am working on the video for the origami dresses..it's just a little tricky to find a time where I don't have my kids interrupting me for more than 15 minutes at a time and so I am trying to figure out how to get them involved in something so that I have at least an hour to set up the video camera, my supplies, my thoughts and then making the video.

Here is one of my 3D projects I made for the Artisan Award that did not win:

 

I picked up this cute embroidery hoop at Jo-Ann and used that pretty Sew Pretty Stampin'Up fabric that is now in the brand new 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalog.  I originally wanted to use a photo of me wearing my wedding dress since it was made from scratch in Italy from an awesome seamstress but then I realized that one of the rules for the entries was to not use a picture of ourselves.  My dear friend Giovanna from Sardinia came to the rescue when she told me that her dress too was made from scratch from a seamstress and amazingly enough her dress was from the same collection (different dresses but same collection) so she gave me permission to use a photo of her...I'm thinking about her often since she is going to have surgery on Monday and I am praying for her every night.

Stamps: Sew Sweet, digital broadsheet alphabet

Cardstock/Papers: Sew Sweet DSP, very vanilla

Ink:  basic black

Accessories:  Embroidery hoop, Fun Flowers Bigz Die, trinket crown, brights designer buttons, basic pearls, daffodil delight pom pom trim, vintage trinkets, sweet stitches designer fabric