Time for a Vintage look

  This card was made with the Basic Grey Love and Lace set made by Hero Arts.  The lovely lacey frame has a large enough space to stamp the thank you inside.  We've used the Versafine Majestic Blue with Rangers Silver Pearl embossing powder.  We've used Tombow markers on a plastic pallette misted with a bit of water to soften the colours to pastel shades.  We've used a corner rounder on the raised layers to add some softness.  The yellow panel was embossed with a Sizzix Ribbons folder to add a touch of texture.  Happy Stamping.

Viva, Viva Decor!

Viva Decor has a wonderful array of products for the paper crafter.  The Pearl pen keeps wonderful dimension and dries much faster then similar products on the market.  The same holds true of their Glitter liners, Paper pens & Glass-Effect pens.

 
If you have concerns about applying the pen directly to your card art, you may wish to make your pearls on a craft sheet.  Once dry choose pearls of the required size and glue them to your project. 

New Kraft-Core from Ranger

If you like Tim Holtz's Distress colours, you'll love this pad of Kraft backed coloured goodness.  When this card is put through an embossing folder and then sanded, the Kraft colour shows through.  This creates a really nice contrast and allows for further layering with ink.  I like to use the blending tool as well as applying the distress ink directly to the surface, which allows for variations of the ink colour. 

Just a friendly reminder there are still a few spaces left for May's workshop. Please contact the store for further information :)

Stacy's Spring Stamps

These are some of Stacy's wonderful Botanical Florals and Bird stamps.  They are a wonderful red rubber product made in the USA.  Her Floral sets come with two pieces.  One is a single version of the flower and the second piece is a great triangle corner design (see picture below).  The Zinnia stamp is easy to punch out with a 2 1/2" scalloped round punch, if you're not in the mood for a lot of cutting.

Check out the newest desgin on the bottom left, (See above), which is the new Stained Glass Rectangles stamp.  You can easily mask a center design and create your own stained glass effect.  This collection is priced very competivly ranging from $8.25 to $11.

Spring Has Sprung

A new board from Northwoods has come in with some great animal card layouts. If you are looking for some summer ideas and/or guy cards, this board has lots to offer. All of Northwoods stamps are on woodmounts and range from $6.95 to $14.95. Check it out the next time you are in the store. 

Queen and Co. New Ribbon & Gemstones

Queen and Co. have some great new additions.  You've gotta love the tiny rolls of twine.  At only $2.50 a roll there are a number of colours to chose from.  Their Rhinestone packs include 60 self-adhesive pieces from small to large at a great price at $1.75 and a great colour range.  Something new to the embellishement line, is Twinkle Goosebumps.  No amount of words that I use are going to describe this well, but they are 1/4 inch round stick-on that look like a pile of glass microbeads stuck together. (Pictured Below) There are 20 to a pack for $1.75 again, in a great colour selection.

Everybody has their version of printed Scotch tape, but I haven't seen such a wonderfull selection of prints and colour combinations.  At $2.50 a roll, the price is right to pick up a number of them.  Have a look at the white card at the top right corner of the Trendy Tape banner (in the top picture).  You can see how easily these tapes will replace ribbon borders. 

Who doesn't love Cardinals? Well, at least their bright red colouring works so well with our Christmas palette! This is a design board from Northwoods Rubber Stamps.  When they told me the entire board was to be done with Cardinal designs, I couldn't imagine there would be this much variety.  All of Northwoods stamps are wood mounted and priced from $4.50 to $13.50. I still have a good selection of these in stock. These images would make great winter cards for birthdays etc. We all know winter lasts for ever here!!

Happy Stamping!