Lindsay's Stamp Stuff - Leaf Prints Sympathy

Let me get the exciting news out of the way first. Mygrafico is having 40% off sale for today only. That includes all the product in the Lindsay's Stamp Stuff store on mygrafico. Now is the time to get the set you have been eyeing.

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I recently had the need for another sympathy card. I decided to use Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Leaf Prints to keep it seasonal.

Although it looks black in the photo, the matting with the edge punch is chocolate brown. I used cork squares to add some interest and texture. The leaves were printed in brown and colored using Q-tips with ink pads.

Please stop by the rest of the DT to see what kind of goodies they have created this week. Lindsay will have a freebie for you on her blog. Be sure to stop at the store to check out all the new, fabby sets that are for sale.

Lindsay Weirich (Owner & Stamp Designer)
Cindi Hooks
Diane Bove
Jennifer Bliss
Karin Martin
Laurel Seabrook
Leanne Garner
Margie Visnick
Micki Harper
Shannon Neparko
Tamara Bennett
Tracey Allen

Thank you for stopping by!

Supplies:

• Stamps: Leaf Prints by Lindsay's Stamp Stuff (mygrafico.com), Best Wishes by Close To My Heart
• Papers: Georgia Pacific CS, PaperTrey kraft, misc brown
• Inks: Stampin' Up Earth Elements, CTMH Chocolate
• Tools: Stampin' Up edge punch, CTMH edge distressing tool, paper piercing tool, Swiss Dots embossing folder
• Embellishments: misc. buttons, PTI bakers twine, Zig chocolate marker, cork

Challenges:

• Annabelle Stamps - Say It with No DP
• Baby Bud Designs - Fall/Autumn
• Challenge Up Your Life - Autumn
• Crazy 4 Challenges - Autumn
• Instyle - Color challenge
• Latte Lounge - Fall/Halloween challenge
• Lots To Do - Plain & Simple
• Make It Crafty - Distressing
• Paper Cutz - Anything Goes
• Rainbow Lady - Fall Foliage
• Sarah Hurley - Coloring In
• Simon Says Stamp - PCP challenge buttons galore (Simon10)
• Speedy the Cat - Stitching
• The Stamp Man - Autumn
• Stamping with the Dragon - Use ink
• Tiffany Doodles - Fall theme
• Tuesday Throwdown - Anything Goes

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #25

The new Sentimental Sundays challenge is black, white & another color of your choice. Since my daughter was invited to a birthday party for a friend that loves cats, I decided to make a kitty card and matching gift bag.

Sorry the 2nd picture looks a little strange. The gift bag did not fit in my light box and I was in a hurry to get the photo taken so we could leave for the party.

The kitty image is from Pink Cat Studios and is already colored black so you only need to color the bird and the flower. I used digital paper purchased from Sweet Shoppe Designs. I love the black and white design. For other projects I have printed it on colored cardstock for instant DP that perfectly matches my CS. The gift bag is a cheap bag ($0.49 from Target). I like to keep several of these plain bags around to alter or to have on hand so I don' t need to run to Walgreens at the last minute for a bag. (Not that I procrastinate or anything...)

I hope you will join the Sentimental Sundays "Black, White & Another color" challenge this week. You are free to create any kind of project and use any supplies as long as it is a new project and it displays a sentiment.

Stop by the Sentimental Sundays blog to download the free sentiment set from Ann Vento of Raindrop Echo Designs.

While you are out surfing the web today, you might want to stop by Whimsy Stamps to check out the new digi's available from Raindrop Echo Designs. Ann has created some really great new autumn & Halloween sentiments and some new digis designed to work with Spellbinders Nestabilities. They are really cool.

Have a great day! Thank you for looking!


Supplies:

• Stamps: Kitty & Sweet Bird from Pink Cat Studios, Flowers with Love from Annabelle Stamps
• Papers & CS: Georgia Pacific CS, the Paper Studios black CS, misc pink CS, Out on the Town Again digital paper by Penny Springmann (Sweet Shoppe Designs)
• Inks: Momento black
• Tools: Copic markers, Fiskars edge punch
• Embellishments: Misc gemstones, Hug Snug seam binding, misc. gift bag

Challenges:

• AI Factory Challenges - Animals
• City Crafter - Wings
• Crafty Den Anything Challenge - Ribbon
• Crafty Calendar - birthdays
• Creative Friday - Altered Projects (altered gift bag)
• Just Inspirational - Anything goes with stamped/digi image
• Paper Cutz - Anything Goes
• Paper Pretties - Black, White & one other color
• Totally Gorjuss - Pink
• Tuesday Taggers - Anything with more than 2 legs

Music Saves My Soul #5

Today I want to share a song by one of my favorite artists, Neko Case. When my brother first introduced me to her music, I was not impressed. It was too country sounding for me. But, after giving her another listen or two, she became one of my favorites. There is just something about her voice and quirky lyrics that makes me listen to her albums over and over again. Her "Blacklisted" album would be another of my "desert island" discs.

Although "Hold On, Hold On" is not my favorite song, it is a good one. I had a hard time finding a video to embed that had decent sound quality. It seems I keep picking songs that don't have slick, commercial videos. I hope you enjoy it any how. Have a great week end!

To join in and share a song, link up your blog post on Marcea's blog.

Meljen's Designs - Tag challenge

The new challenge this week on the Meljen's Designs blog is tags. Kind of funny isn't it? I was just mentioning how tags imtimidate me and I have another DT project using tags. This time I decided to go with it. I used one of the images just released yesterday to create a tag to add to an altered container of candy corn to give to my daughter's teacher for Halloween.

This is my tag! Isn't this little witch cute! I was even able to recycle by adding some cardboard from a box that was in the basement.

Here are a few more pictures of my project. I decorated the top of the jar using Meljen's Stitched Fan Flower which was a freebie on the blog a few weeks back.

Thank you for looking! I hope you will join in the Meljen's Designs tag challenge.

Supplies:

• Images: Cutie Sitter Witch & Stitched Fan Flower (freebie) by Meljen's Designs and Halloween Ticket Sentiments by Raindrop Echo Designs (both artists are available on Whimsy stamps)
• CS & Papers: Close To My Heart Olivia DP, Georgia Pacific CS, misc. green, brown, vanilla, olive papers
• Inks: Close To My Heart Chocolate
• Tools: Cropadile, Big Shot, Spellbinders Nestablities, Copic markers
• Embellishments: Scrap cardboard, Old Paper Ranger distress crackle paint, large eyelet, raffia, PTI bakers twine, misc. buttons, jar, & rick rack

Challenges:

• Aly's Sunday Challenge - Halloween
• Baby Bud Designs challenge - Fall/Halloween
• Bee Crafty - Halloween (w/a digi)
• Card of the Week - Halloween
• Catch the Bug - Magic/fantasy (Witch image)
• CES - tags
• Challenge Up Your Life - Autumn
• Craftalicious - Anything Goes
• Crafty Ann's - Digi+favorite coloring medium (copics)
• Creative Cottage - Halloween
• Creative Craft Challenge - Trick or treat
• Creative Friday - Altered projects
• Cupcake Inspirations - photo inspiration (I was inspired by the colors & flowers)
• Cutie Sunday - halloween
• Double Dutch - Halloween
• Dutch Dare -Tagalicious
• Easy Craft Projects - Halloween or its colors
• Everybody Art Challenge - Halloween
• Fairy Fun Fridays - Tags or Tickets
• Fussy & Fancy - Halloween
• Inky Impressions - Anything goes
• Inktegrity - Halloween
• Latte Lounge - Halloween/fall challenge
• Latte Lounge Monthly Challenge - 3d with autumn theme
• Little Red Wagon - something old, something new (old jar & cardboard, new image & DP)
• Peachy Keen - October inspiration (not a card)
• Pear Tree Designs - Autumn
• Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - halloween or fall
• Stampin' Royalty - Halloween
• Wee Memories - Halloween

Hang in There! with Lindsay's Stamp Stuff

Since October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I wanted to created a card to help support awareness. I think this might be the most pink card I have ever created.

**Edit: I just found out about the card drive for Elise of Paper Love Affair who has been recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Cheryl from My Cardmaking Haven has collected some prizes for one lucky person. For more info on this card drive and Elise's story, please see My Cardmaking Heaven. I am going to sent this card to Elise to let her know she has lots of blogging friends that support & pray for her.**



As you probably know, I just love Lindsay's "On the Line" digital stamp set. It is so versatile! I have used this set to make baby cards, anniversary cards, friendship cards, birthday cards, and now, an awareness card. Here is a closer look at the set.



And, no trick, I have a treat for you! Lindsay is having a sale on everything in her mygrafico shop. You can get this set (19 images!) for $4.20. All her digi stamps sets and svg files are included in the sale. Go get yourself a little treat.



Please stop by the rest of the DT to see what they created. Check out Lindsay's blog to download her weekly freebie.

Lindsay Weirich (Owner & Stamp Designer)
Cindi Hooks
Diane Bove
Jennifer Bliss
Karin Martin
Laurel Seabrook
Leanne Garner
Margie Visnick
Micki Harper
Rhonda Walker
Shannon Neparko
Tamara Bennett
Tracey Allen

Thank you for looking!




Challenges:

• All Sorts Challenge - Inspired by Song - Pretty in Pink by the Psychedelic Furs
• Artistic Stamper - Layers
• Cow Girl Sundays - Girly Girl
• Craft Garden - use pink ribbon, lace or yarn
• Craftalicious - anything goes
• Creat for fun - Use a digi
• Ellephantastic - Anything Goes
• Inky Impressions - Anything Goes
• Little Red Wagon - Something Old, Something New (new clothes pins, old image & DP)
• Moxie Fab World - Perfectly Placed Pleats
• Mygrafico - Anything Goes
• One Stitch At A Time - go digi
• Papertake Weekly - 3 of a kind (3 pearls, 3 types of fibers)
• Raise the Bar - Breast cancer awareness
• Stamp & Create - Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness
• Stamp Something - use punches or dies
• Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge - TESC131
• Tellen's Place - 2 DP
• The Cats Pajamas - Photo inspiration / awareness mug
• Tuesday Throwdown - element's in 3's (pearls & fibers)
• Whoopsi Daisy - Paper Piecing

Supplies:

• Images: On the Line & Breast Cancer Awareness (freebie) digital stamps from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff (mygrafico.com)
• Papers & CS: October Afternoon Ducks In A Row This Little Piggy DP, DCWV Cotton Candy CS, Georgia Pacific CS
• Inks: None
• Tools: Martha Stewart edge punch
• Embellishments: Kaiser pearls, Canvas Home Basic mini clothes pins, PTI button twine, Sugar & Cream yarn, Hug Snug white seam binding

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #24 - Tags

The Sentimental Sundays challenge this week is tags. I don't know why, but I don't like making tags. They are so little but some how they intimidate me. And (don't tell anyone) I don't make my own gift tags. I use store bought ones. *gasp* I know, I know... So when I read the challenge this week it took me a while to decide what to do.






Do you see my tag? It's there. Here is a better look.

What do you think? I really wanted to use this cute Snow Girl image that I won from Paper Cupcakes a while ago. (And it allowed me to get 1 more Christmas card completed!) I kind of like the tag now. Some one can keep it with the card or they can pull it out and use it as a gift tag or a book mark. Multi- purpose - imagine that.

I hope you will join us in the Sentimental Sundays Tag challenge. You can use any products you would like as long as it is new, fits the theme, and has a sentiment. While you are at the Sentimental Sundays blog, you can download the free sentiments provided by Ann Vento of Raindrop Echo Designs. (Check out her new stamps for sale at Whimsy Stamps. Too cute!)

Don't forget there is a DT call going on at Sentimental Sundays. You have until 10-18-10 to enter.

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoy the rest of the week end.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Snow Girl digital stamp from Paper Cupcakes, Made of Snow from Papertrey Ink
• Papers & CS: October Afternoon Very Merry Sing the Carols & Fill the Stockings DP, Papertrey chocolate & white CS, Georgia Pacific CS
• Inks: Close To My Heart chocolate
• Tools: Big Shot, Spellbinders Nestabilities, Zip Dry Glue, Copic Markers, Cropadile
• Embellishments: Cotton Ball White Fun Flock, Twinklets Diamond Dust, Sugar & Cream twists yarn, Hug Snug seam binding, misc. lace, pink pearls, eyelet, & narrow white ribbon

Challenges:

• Alphabet Challenge - X=Xmas
• Bah Humbug - Favorite Cuties
• CES Challenges - Tags
• Crafty Den Anything Challenge - Christmas
• Crafty Ann's - Digi + fav coloring medium (copic markers)
• Digital Tuesday - Ribbons, buttons, or bling & digi
• Dutch Dare - Tags
• Fab N Funky - use a digi
• Fairy Fun Fridays - Tags or Tickets
• Inky Impressions - Anything Goes
• Kaber - Go digital
• Lothian Crafts - Christmas
• Paper Playtime - embellishments
• PollyCraft - Anything Goes
• There's Magic In the Air - Christmas card w/snowflakes (Snowflakes are on DP)

Music Saves My Soul Saturday #4

This song has been going through my head all week. It has a catchy little tune. I love the lyrics. I think we all have known some one during our lives that this song could apply to. Let me know what you think.

If you would like to participate in this weekly challenge, link up your favorite song on Marcea's blog.