Masking 101

Have you ever seen projects where it looks like the stamps are layered on top of each other and wonder "How do they do that"? Well, wonder no more. Stephanie has a wonderful tutorial that will walk you through it step by step. Here are a few examples of cards where the images have been masked.Now if you follow this link, you will see the tutorial Stephanie has prepared which will take you through the steps she took to create the adorable Bildmalarna card above.

Up For A Challenge?

Don't forget about all the great Stamping Scrapping sponsored challenge blogs!

Sparkling Magnolia Challenge ends tomorrow!!!- use any Magnolia image

Gift card holder challenge ends 10/24 use any products sold at Stamping Scrapping

Halloween Treat Bags- ends 10/24- use any of your supplies

Purple/Lavendar House Mouse Challenge ends 11/6- use your house mouse stamps!!

Anything Goes with Bildy ends 10/31- use your Bildmalarna stamps!!

Stop by to see the great projects posted by the Design Teams and enter a project of your own!!!

Stamping Scrapping News & Updates

Here is some news for all of you Magnolia Lovers out there. The new Magnolia Christmas collection is now available for pre-order! (There are some adorable ones!)
http://www.stampingscrapping.com/category_840/A-Merry-Little-Christmas-10.htm

Also available, new Magnolia Doo Hickey Dies. http://www.stampingscrapping.com/category_628/Doohickeys-Cutting-Dies.htm

Magnolia's Christmas Magazine edition will arrive at the store on Monday! This magazine is full of beautiful projects, awesome tutorial, sneak peeks of new stamps, it's pure eye candy!!!! This is selling fast, so grab one while you can!

Other exciting news, MAGNOLIA Mini's will be here the first of the year! These adorable mini versions of your favorite Tilda, Edwin, and accessories are around 2 inches high. They are great to use on tags, smaller cards, or as embellishments.

Other store news- The Penny Black group buy ends today. I just looked at these again today and there are so many cute ones and tons of adorable pigs that I know my daughter will love!

Penny Black Stamps: 22% DISCOUNT off retail price as a GROUP BUY. They will be special orders meaning it will take a few weeks once the group buy ends to ship. You must be a member of one of Cindy's groups, but please pass around the sale anyone can join and take advantage!

PLEASE have orders to Cindy TODAY PLEASE

email her at stampingscrapping@charter.net put Penny Black in the subject line
Make sure to put your name/addy/phone/ and if you want to pay by Paypal OR if you want Cindy to call you for a credit card number in the U.S. only

MAKE SURE TO PUT THE ITEM NUMBER AND NAME OF THE STAMP in your e mail.

PLEASE GO TO http://www.pennyblackinc.com/ to see the entire line! retail prices are BELOW....

Cindy will draw from TWO orders and those TWO people win a BONUS Penny Black stamp from her and Kevin! The Stamps either have an Alphabet after them or they are transparent or cling

RETAIL PRICES take 22% off the below pricing for the group buy!Shipping is the same as on our site under $60.00 with discount = $4.99 over $60.00 with discount
SHIPS for FREE(to U.S. only contact me for shipping if you are outside the US I will ship them special either first class or priority flat for you but there is no insurance or tracking and no refundsif the items are lost, stolen or misdirected once it leave our store)

ALPHABET BEHIND THE NUMBER A - $4.00B - $5.20C - $5.75D - $6.75E - $7.20F - $7.95H - $8.75J - $10.77K - $11.40L - $11.80M - $12.75"T" Transparent Sets are $15.00 except:30-005 - $13.0030-015 - $17.9030-016 - $17.9030-016 - $13.00Slapstick Cling (40-001 - 004) - $8.00

So, what are you still reading this post for, click one of the links and go shopping!!!!!!

Bow Tutorial by Sheri

Our newest Stamping Scrapping Design Team tutorial comes to us from Sheri. Sheri has a quick and easy way to make fabulous bows to decorate your cards with!

Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central – Gift Card Holder

 

Our current challenge at Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central is to create a Gift Card Holder.  Hmm…….I’ve never created one of those before!!  So, I did what any crafter in need would do!  I went in search of some ideas via YouTube.  I found THIS tutorial from ChickNScratch that was both easy and cute!  Also, in my search, I found THIS tutorial that I just HAD to make to go with my gift card holder.  Both extremely easy!!  Here are some photos of the items I made:

Isn’t Sleeping Baby Tilda just to-die-for cute!!! 

A photo of the front of the brag book and the opened gift card holder.  The gift card slides into that middle section.  It was soooo easy to make!!

Sorry for the dark photo!  My camera didn’t want to flash on this one!  ha!

This is the back of the gift card holder and brag book.  I guess it really doesn’t matter which way you open the gift card holder.  I made it so that whichever way you open it, the papers are the correct orientation and both outside sections have a piece of patterned paper pop-dotted onto it.

• Image – Sleeping Baby Tilda
• Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Seven
• Copics – E000, E0000, E21, Y11, Y00, Y000, C00
• Chipboard
• Clear A2 Envelopes

Doesn’t that image just make you melt??  Babies are so cuddly and cute!  *sigh*

 

I also cut my image out and layered her on the Labels Seven set to make it look like she’s sleeping on the book.  After all, this is a nursery rhyme theme brag book.  :o)

The patterned paper I used on the inside cover of the brag book and the embellishments and papers on the gift card holder are from the store “Hey Diddle, Diddle”.  Cute, glittered and glazed cardstock!!

If you would like to see the tutorial on how to make the brag book, please visit my blog.  I have written directions there. 

I hope you’ll join us in our challenge to create a gift card holder!  There is a prize involved for the winner!!!!  ;o)

{hugs}

Billie

Monday Madness

Monday Madness Sales at www.stampingscrapping.com

Monday ONLY from 6 a.m. - 12 a.m. EST

HALLOWEEN Category is all on CLEARANCEjust in time for Spooky Creating!Including Limited Edition Cricut Carts and lots more!http://www.stampingscrapping.com/category_782/Halloween.htm

Many other items are on Sale/Clearance http://www.stampingscrapping.com/category_166/CLEARANCE-.htm

Tim Holtz NEW Distress 12 colors are in stock and shipping here:http://www.stampingscrapping.com/category_131/Tim-Holtz-Distress-Stickles.htm

All orders receive a sample pack of Cryogen paper.

This is the premier preferred paper to use with Copics!

All 100.00+ orders receive a FREE Scent for a cure Scent

and a bonus sample pack of Halloween paper!

DOUBLE STAMP CLUB MONEY CERTIFICATES Monday ONLY from 6 a.m. - 12 p.m. EST

you will receive 2 Stamp Money Certificates for each Bildmalarna, Magnolia, House Mouse or Gilli StampPurchased. This is equal to an additional 20% discountoff our prices. ORDER $60.00 and its FREE shipping!ORDERS apply for in stock and PRE-Orders stamps.

Here is the link to our stamp club (no there is no chargeto be a member just buy a stamp & your in)http://www.stampingscrapping.com/pages/StampClubs.htmNOTE: NO stamp club monies are given on stamps orderedwith Stamp Club Gift Certificate code.

House Mouse – Lavender/Purple Challenge

 

Hello House Mouse And Friends lovers!!

Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to stop by today!  We truly appreciate ALL of our visitors and hope you see something that inspires you to pull out your stamps, Spellbinders, papers, etc and CREATE! 

Do you just LOVE House Mouse & their adorable friends??  They’re CUTE, aren’t they!?  There are so many cute ones that can be used for soooo many occasions!  If you don’t own any of these cuties yet, please hop on over to Stamping Scrapping and shop ‘til your heart’s content.  Cindy will be more than happy to take care of your shopping needs!!  And speaking of Cindy’s store, did you hear the news?  She’s doing a SALE tomorrow, October 11.  Shh….don’t tell anyone!  It’s a SECRET!!!  ;o)

The current theme at House Mouse And Friends is to create something using a House Mouse, Happy Hoppers or Gruffies image and Lavender or Purple to create something – card, 3D project, bookmark, layout, etc. 

I made this card using:

• Image – Mice Cream Celebration
• Die Cuts – Spellbinders Deckled Rectangles
• Inked Edges - Tim Holtz Black Soot
• Copics – YR68, E33, E35, E37, E53, E00, E000, C1, C3, C5, C2, C00, V04, V06, RV00, Y17, YG11, YG03, RV000

I hope you’ll stop by our House Mouse And Friends blog and link up your adorable project soon! 

Thanks again for stopping by!  I hope you have an awesome week!!!

{hugs}

Billie

Gilli Stamps Are Here!!!!!!!

I'm sure you have all heard of the new adobable new Gilli stamps that our extremely talented design team member Anary has created. They are available and in stock now at Stamping Scrapping.com. Here is a card Anary has made using Romantic Gilli and coloring her so that she is ready for Halloween.

Isnt' this card Fantastic? The Design team is hard at work creating Gilli projects and will be hosting a Gilli Blog Hop soon. You may want to get your Gilli stamps out and join us, because I think there could be a prize involved!!!!

Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central – HALL-O-WEEEEEEN

 

 

 

HELLO  Bloggers! 

 

Thanks for stopping by today to see my latest Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central Design Team post!  The current theme is “Halloween”. 

I have a bunch of Halloween House Mouse  stamps that I’ve never used and a member of my group, The Frugal Scrapper, made a video on how to make this “Never Ending Card”…so now is the time to try out a new card fold and use these un-inked stamps!!!  And even with all of the stamps I used on this project, I still have a few more that I have yet to use.  ;o)

Because there are a lot of products used in this project, I have decided to break down the photos by section to tell you what supplies I’ve used. 

Here is a shot of the front of my card.  Overall finished measurement is 8x8…it’s BIG!!

The two images above are close-ups of the stamps on the front of my card.  For these two, I used:

• Image - Mice Carrot
• Sentiment - Stampabilities
• i-rock tool
• i-rock jeweltone gems
• Spellbinders - Labels 3
• Spellbinders – Beaded Ovals
• Copics - G05, G07, G12, C3, C5, C7, C9, R24, RV00, YR00, YR04, YR07, E13, E17, E00, E000
• Tim Hotlz Black Soot Distress Ink
• Flowers – Recollections from Michaels.  The black one was white.  I colored it with 100 Copic with my Airbrush 

 

This is the next layer of my card. 

 

• Image - Incognito (Ghost Mouse)
• Sentiment - Stampabilities
• Copics - C2, C1, E17, E13
• Spellbinders – Labels 4
• i-rock tool
• i-rock jeweltone gems
• Stampabilities – Small Labels

This is section three of my card. 

 

 

• Image – Monica Flutter-by
• Mouse Prints – also by Stampabilities
• Spellbinders – Deckled Edge Classic Ovals
• Copics - YR04, YR07, YR00, G20, C7, C5, BV00, RV00, C3
• Spider Web – Martha Stewart Spider Web Punch
• Glimmer Mist – sprayed on the spider web
• Footprints – Stampabilities

I’m not sure why I didn’t ink the edges of the piece with footprints.  I didn’t notice it until right this moment as I sit here typing up the details of my post.  ha! 

 

This is the last section of my card. 

 

• Image - Little Pumpkin
• Copics - YR04, YR07, YR00, E000, E00, RV00, E29, E25, E21, C3, E13, E17
• Spellbinders – Beaded Ovals
• Sentiment – Stampabilities
• Spellbinders – Deckled Rectangles
• Footprints – Stampabilities (I just stamped them randomly all over.

On the stamped images and sentiments in this card, I used the dies to cut, emboss, add the black ink to the “beaded” sections with a little finger dauber and Tim Holtz Black Soot ink.  I removed the die and added more ink around the edges with the same Black Soot ink and a bristle brush.

This card isn’t hard, but it does take patience to get all the folds correct.  Once you get that figured out, the rest kind of falls into place! 

THANK YOU for visiting my blog today!  I hope you’ll attempt to make one of these cards.  Please make sure you link up your Halloween project on our Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central blog for a chance to win some cool products from Cindy & Kevin at Stamping Scrapping!

NOW!  I’ve been telling you all that I’m going to be doing a blog candy, right?  Well, it is TIME!!!  This is what the winner will receive:

In this photo:  10 various stamped images.  Each set contains one to three images each.  In all honesty, most of them have three each and only 1 or 2 has less than that…maybe three.  But there are several.  :-)

In this photo:  seven Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabbers, 1 Strawberry scented Scent My Cards, four Copic Markers (YR04, Vo9, V06 and G07 and a zipper baggy of pre-colored “Skittles”. 

How do you enter to win this BLOG CANDY?!

1. Leave a comment on MY BLOG (not here!!)
2. Become a follower of MY BLOG
3. “Like” my Facebook page
4. Make a post on your blog or Facebook page about my blog candy and link it up on MY BLOG

Thanks for looking and hope to see you again soon!!  :o)

Billie