Art designed to Inspire

Clear stamps giveaway

I have a package of our Hampton Art "Footlongs" clear stamps to giveaway! Just go to our facebook page and post a comment for a chance to win these cute stamps. I'll pick a winner next Tuesday May 29th at noon.

 

Make it in Minutes

Made with recycled cardboard, brown bag and a bottle cap combined with some scraps of our patterned papers and KP clear stamps from Hampton Art.

Hand made for Mom

Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful Moms!! This is the card that I'm going to give my Mom later today. It was also one of my "make & take " projects featured at Kitchener's Scrapfest a couple of weeks ago, so there are a few other ones like this floating around out there. I know our Mom's will appreciate our efforts! Did you make something for your Mom this year - or maybe you'll be receiving a hand made goody instead?

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!

Did you know that May is national scrapbooking month? And today is National Scrapbooking Day. Yeh for scrappers! Happy Day! Of course, I had to get out the paper stash and even bought a new flower punch. Here is the result and the pic of my punches I used to make the card. Are you getting your craft on today??

Make&Takes for Scrapfest

I'm packing up all the product for my make&take table at Scrapfest. Will you be there? I will be in the crop area from 2-4 on Saturday afternoon. Here are the cards that crafters can choose from.

Happy Easter!

I hope you all have a lovely Easter! I don't usually get crafty for Easter, but I was inspired by Kelly Goree's easter eggs that she made for a post on Scrapbook and Cards Today blog. She was using a technique "encasing" from Vicki Boutin's new book Creative Foundations. It's great how you can use these techniques for scrapbooking and more. I really had fun with my mixed media supplies and even made my own bird's nest using papier mache (couldn't find a real bird's nest). I've still got time to make some Easter gift tags for the prezzies - I better get back to the work table.

"Start the car, start the car"

Do you recognize that quote from the Ikea commercials? The female shopper got such a great deal that she thinks the cashier must have made a mistake and under-charged her.....she runs out of the store screaming to her hubby in the waiting vehicle "Start the car, start the car". Well, that's what I felt like today when I bought a bunch of perennial lilies for 99 cents each when they were regularly $9.99. Here are the little pretties. They're called "Tiny Bee". What a great way to celebrate this sunny Spring day!!

Digital Scrapbooking

I started creating this montage of photos and part way through I realized that it could be classified as digital scrapbooking. I used some of my stamps (that I designed as clear stamps) as photoshop brushes and then used handwriting (on my wacom tablet) to describe some of the photos. I kept it to a square size in case I want to print it to include in one of my scrapbooks. It did take a while, but I kept it all layered so that I can repeat the elements in subsequent pages. The next page should take half the time.

We often find old junk in various "dumps" at the farm and I imagine ways I could recycle the rusty bits. Mr. P is always a good sport and drags stuff back to the barn for me - never a shy one for the camera, he will stop and ham it up for me too!

It started with a "pin"

Yes, I am talking about PINTEREST. I started a board there called TINY TRAILER (some of the pics are shown below). I began searching and pinning cute trailer pics, most of them vintage with a kitchy style. Soon, I was smitten and my addiction led me to kijiji where I found a 1975 "trillium" trailer looking for a new home. Well, I convinced Mr. Pinoochi that we should drive up north to just "look" at it and summarily we dragged it home. We now have a 'Before and After" project unfolding in our driveway. I'll let you all know how this goes - I think it's going to be fun! How about you - has Pinterest got you pinning out of control??

"Why Not Win Wednesday" at Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine

Did you see that Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine has our product prize as the give-away for this week's "Why Not Win Wednesday"? just click here to go to their site and leave a comment for a chance to win. Contest closes on Friday, March 15th at midnight. Good Luck!!