Posted on April 30, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
I am so excited I could burst! Today I get to introduce you to my first ever Deign team for Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff Digital Stamps! But first here is a little card I whipped up Last night:
Stamp: Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff, Cardstock: Doublemates, K&Co
I used my Thinking of Ewe digi-stamp and colored it with watercolor crayons. [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
I must admit that I have a soft spot for cowboys, or rather cowboy/western themed scrapbook products! I love this Free -Form Horse stamp from The Rubber Cafe, it was the first stamp I ever got from them, isn’t he wonderful?
I used Kazan’s card sketch from 2 sketches 4 you to make the card. I [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
I just joined a fantastic stamp community call Oriental Stamp Art and you guessed it, it is all about creating with Asian themed stamps. I decided I would jump (or Hop as the case may be) right into this challenge to make some Asian inspired art with a rabbit as the theme. Well, I did [...]
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Posted on April 26, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
The fabulous Stephanie from sent me some stamps and a beautiful card:
She is one of the Caardvark team (and yes the whole team is amazing) and I participated in their fantasy challenge and won them from her blog, wasn’t that nice! Also she used the coolest stamp on the back of her card:
I emailed her [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
Masking is one of the best tricks a stamper can have up her sleeve. It gives depth, perspective and lets you use your stamps in totally different ways. There is an awesome feature on masking in the May issue of Vamp Stamp News (I just so happen to have never-before-seen work featured in that issue [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
Happy Friday everyone! I have had my sketchpad out this week and and have added several new stamps to the store! Here is a fun project I made with one of them.
I used the Ellie the Elephant stamp on this one and as a special thank you to my blog readers you can download Ellie [...]
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Posted on April 22, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
To celebrate Earth day and also because they have a tree themed project over at Caardvarks I thought I would share this tree mini album with you. The best part is you are recycling! Instead of cutting the pages out of chipboard I used a cereal box.
I had a leftover tree so I made this [...]
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Posted on April 20, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
I made a couple of cards tonight using the sketches over at 2Sketches4you and I love the way they came out:
The first one using Laura’s sketch was so fun. It is a mother’s day card for mom (she doesn’t do computers so the secret is safe LOL!) And she has a thing for roosters so [...]
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Posted on April 19, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
I just found out this week that my little sister is having a boy! I’m so excited for her and it give me a chance to do some “blue” baby stuff instead of always using my comfort zone color pink. Other exciting news my friend Michelle has a brand new grand-baby, congrats girls! Speaking of [...]
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Posted on April 18, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
It’s called the gesso technique and I saw a cool tutorial on Split Coast Stampers a few weeks ago. I finally got around to trying it last night. Here are the results:
This works with any silhouette style image, good thing I snagged this awesome silhouette set from About Art Accents, and it is quick to [...]
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