Speaking of Butterflies......

I recently had these cards published in the Fall Take Ten -- featuring butterflies!

(You can click on the magazine to see more of what is in it)

Published -- Stampington's Catch Up Issue

I was excited to see nine of my cards published in the newest edition of Stampington's Catch Up Issue.  As the name implies, they feature cards that have been submitted in the past and have not been published in any of their magazines.  And sometimes they go waaaaay back.   I had submitted these two cards for a moo challenge quite a while ago.  Some of my other cards went back two years or more.....and I truly didn't recognize them until I saw my name!

I receive Stampington's e-mail newsletter Postscript and I was even more thrilled to see my card as the sneak peak for the next Take Ten coming out in June!   

Click here to see it for youself.  It's part of a masterboard I created and if you scroll down on that page, they show more of it. 

The New Take Ten

The new issue of Stampington's Take Ten is out -- and it certainly is new!  They've redesigned it and it has a very fresh look about it.  You can see that from the cover.  Inside they've got a greater variety of features which makes it a bit more interesting. 

So much for that infomercial.....and on with some of my cards that were published in this issue:

These two pages highlighted stamping on text paper and how easily it can be done.  Hence, the heading fearless.   Not referring to me at all, but a way of saying that things often aren't as difficult as they seem.

Stampers Sampler

The Oct/Nov Stampers Sampler is going to hit the stands soon and I have two projects featured in it!
This is the double-sided screen I made for Christmas and then Winter.

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I also created this masterboard from Oxford Impression stamps along
with some cards and tags using the masterboard.

I love making masterboards and this is probably my favorite of the ones I've made.

Holidays and Celebrations

This was a first for me -- being published in Stampington's special publication, Holidays and Celebrations. They chose some of my Easter/spring chipboard houses.

I love this publication -- it's filled with such gorgeous holiday creations!

Theme Thursday -- Numbers

I spent some time this week creating some submissions for the Stampers Sampler template that appears in the June issue. I had so much fun with it -- and this particular one just so happens to coincide with the theme at Theme Thursday which is numbers.

Watch for this template in the new Stampers Sampler. If you can't get ahold of the magazine, they usually post the templates on the Stampington website.

Great Mail Week

A complementary issue of the June Stampers Sampler arrived in the mail this week. Funny thing about the cover (which I think is just gorgeous), at first glance I thought one of my cards had made the cover. I had submitted a card using this PaperBag Studio stamp a while back.

After looking closely at the cover and through the magazine, I saw the cards included in a two -page layout by an artist named Paula Whittaker. I really liked her work and tried to Google her name to see if she had a blog so I could tell her so.

I couldn't find her -- but I did find my card ........

It was included at t the bottom of her two page lay-out. My name was correctly given, so that was fine. My card is below. Can you see why I took a second look at the cover?
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The summer issue of Take Ten came this week as well. I had a good amount of cards published in this issue. These are a few of the ones I liked the best.

Can ya beat this?

A complementary issue of Stampington's Catch Up issue arrived yesterday. I expected to see a card or cards I'd submitted a while back. But I was astonished to see a card I submitted almost three years ago! Can anyone beat that? I've seen posts for a year to almost two years, but nothing approaching almost three years.

I checked my old issues of Stampers Sampler and found I had submitted the card below (which is cut off because of the way it was photographed in the magazine) for a challenge for spinner cards which was due August 15, 2006. Which means I was probably working on it in May or June of 2006.

The unfortunate thing about showing card on it's own is the spinning concept is entirely lost. When you spin the wheel on the side of my card it showed pictures of different female images (ones I thought fit the femmes fatale theme.)

Tag Tuesday

No, it's not a new challenge site -- it's just a name I made up for today's post as it seems I've been drawn to making tags lately -- and to this little fairy/angel stamp from Oxford Impressions (Fairy Sweets sheet).

She's been popping up all over the place. In this tag I placed her in a frame I cut out from a Crafty Individuals stamp. The text above her is from Hero Arts.

Christmas Bling

The theme at This Thursday was "bling." I have had this very bling-y paper for a while and decided to put it to use for this Christmas card. I also added some stickles and then glitter over that to my snowflakes. Amazing how adding a little glitter to a snowflake can result in glitter all over the craft room!

The stamp is from Stampington.

ATC Diptych

A very cool challenge this week at Think Monday, Think ATC to create a

diptych -- two ATC's that are connected in some respect but can stand alone as well. I used stamps by Inkadinkado and Stampington to create mine.

Embossed Wedding Card

I had a friend request a Wedding Card. Silver and purple immediately came to mind. I also wanted to create something embossed for the challenge this week at Layers of Color. I managed both kinds of embossing here using the Cuttlebug to dry emboss my silver background paper and also silver embossing this scroll heart stamp by Stampington.

Stamper' Sampler Catch Up Issue

The Stamper's Sampler Catch Up Issue came out this week. This is the issue where they publish a lot of the cards they received through the year that didn't make it into one of their bi-monthly issues.

I had seven cards published in this issue. The funny thing is I sent in some of those cards more than a year and a half ago! Long forgotten. Some of them were sent in for challenges, and just seeing the cards independently they look kind of -- well, lame.

Sorry for the pictures, but I had to copy them out of the magazine. With their new layout they overlap some of their cards, so it was a little hard to get a perfect picture of just my card.

I thought the cover of this issue was just gorgeous. Personally, I like the new look of the magazine inside and outside.

Thank God It's Friday

One more post for today and then that's absolutely it! LOL I've had lots to share, and I just saw the theme for Thank God It's Friday. I made this card this week for a group submission at StampinD'Amour and I thought I'd post it for their theme of blue-green although the TGIF theme may have been more blue and green rather than the shade of blue green I had in mind when I created this.

I did stamp on cloth for the cream background (Stampin' Up). The couple (Stampington) was stamped on parchment paper that had been inked with blue and green distress inks. The butterfly (PSX) was stamped on blue-green paper and then glitter was added to it.

Wednesday Stamper

"Valentine" was an appropriate theme this week at Wednesday Stamper. I created this one using stamps from Stampington, Hero Arts, and SeeD's. The main image is from Crafty Individuals. Glad Valentine's day is almost here -- I'm ready to start creating something else!

CI Valentine

I loved making this card -- this is the kind of card I could spend all day making. I used an image from Crafty Individuals as well as stamps from Stampington (large heart), flower border and cherish definition (Hero Arts), and words on tag (StampinUp). I stamped the large heart in pink pigment ink and clear embossed it, then cut it out and attached it to my card.

Christmas Card Challenge Day 6

I was happy to use up a lot of paper scraps for these two cards. For the first one I used one more stamp by Stampington. Actually more of a winter stamp than a Christmas stamp, I think, but it's one I like a lot. I stamped it over some text background paper. I love this polka dot paper I placed it on -- forget who makes it.

I love this evergreen tree from Art Impressions. After silver embossing I placed it on a strip of silver shimmer paper and then some text background paper by DCWV. I added a strip of scalloped vellum at the top and bottom and then attached it to some paper by Memory Box.

Christmas Card Challenge Day 5

A long time before there were Thomas Kincade stamps, there was PSX, which happens to be one of my favorite stamp companies of all time. They are now carried through Inkadinkado which calls them their Fine Line Classics.
This was the stamp I used for most of my Christmas cards last year. I colored in dozens of them. So when I picked up this stamp today, I thought, "no way." I went instead with a distressed look and created a vintage Christmas card. I also used the December 25th stamp and sentiment stamp from Stampington. These vintage Christmas papers from Daisyd's just fit the bill.
I've got a boxful of Christmas colored buttons from Rhonna Farrer, so I intend to use them wherever I can!

Christmas Card Challenge Day 2

My challenge to myself to use all my Christmas stamps -- in lieu of buying any more -- continues today. I used two stamps from Stampington for today's cards, both of which are collage in style and make it very easy to make a quick card.

For my first one I stamped my angel stamp from Stampington on a piece of acetate in black Staz-On. When it was dry I then turned the acetate over and added a few drops of Adirondak Wild Plum alcohol ink to the wrong side of the acetate. I then placed another sheet of acetate on top of the ink and smooshed the two sheets together so the ink dispersed over my image. When dry I attached my acetate to my background paper and cardstock with some gold brads. I added a piece of self-adhesive paper lace on the bottom.

I didn't include a greeting as the stamp has greetings in different languages on all four sides.

It's a different color, I know, but I like it!

I placed this Santa collage stamp from Stampington on some plaid paper from Daisyd's and then added a circle greeting punch from SU. The buttons are from Rhonna Farrer.