This is a card I made for an upcoming shoebox swap I am attending with other Stampin' Up demonstrators. It is a new stamp set that is coming out in the new Summer mini catalog. The stamp set is called The Open Sea. I LOVE this set! I can't wait to use it with my New England photos, especially my photos of the Whaling Museum.
I inked the background with the lettering stamp in crumb cake then stamped random images of the anchor and the map in early espresso. I used the new patterned paper that matches this stamp set as a base layer and curled on of the sides up to look like a curled map. I then stamped anchors on not quite navy and stamped the ship image along with the compass and edge the paper so it looks distressed. I used the new bakers twine and wrapped the ship image and the layered anchor image. I then used another new stamp sets words to send the message of adventure!!

Here are the gifts I made for the front desk staff for Administrative Professionals Day. The gift holds a small anti-bacterial gel. It's just "a little somethin'" for them. I used a template that I found online to make the box/holder and then used some coresponding patterned paper to decorate them. I hope they like the gift.

I made this thank you card for our front desk staff at work. Wednesday is Administrative Professionals Day and I wanted to let them all know how appreciated they are. The "thanks" with the flower was cut out using my Cricut machine. I glittered around the flower petals and layered the card in pink and green.

I made this shadow box for a friend who's brother got married. She wanted to have the wedding invitation decorated in some way. I came up with a crab basket and crab mallets to accent the crabs on the invitation. I weaved the basket out of card stock and attached brads and ribbon. I think the basket turned out great, a little more like a Longerberger basket than a crab basket, but I still like how it looks. I bought two crab mallets and split them in half and adhere them down. It is simple but cute.

Here is a Christmas advent calender I made for my friend Tricia. I painted the clothes pins in a metallic green color and used pattern paper for the numbers and images. The clothes pins attach to chicken wire that I stapled to the back of the frame. I "antiqued" the frame by painting it black and then used sandpaper to give it the distressed finish. Of course she loved it!!

Halloween Stamp Camp Projects!

September 19th I am offering a Halloween Stamp Camp where you will be making five different projects all of which are Halloween themed. You will also be getting one pack of the DSP Wicked Fun Specialty paper to make the projects. The projects include a 12x12 scrapbook page, a photo holder, a coffin candy holder, a gift bag and a pencil/treat holder. Please see the individual posts of the close up pictures of each project.

Stamp Camp Scrapbook Page

Here is the first project we will be doing for the September Halloween Stamp Camp. It is a "spooky" scrapbook page. It will be a 12x12 page with the ability to hold two 4x6 photos. The mirror can be used as an area to journal on.