Last order from FranticStamper

My last order from Frantic Stamper arrived this week after they closed their doors the end of July. I ordered their tag die set but I really am happy that I ordered her Retro Label Maker Halloween Sentiment stamp set:

First I stamped this on white card stock, then orange, lime green, and a lavendar card stock. All were stamped using black ink on scrap card stocks:

First group of labels on white card stock I cut those out using the banner/label die set from the stash by Divinity Designs. I also cut these out using a pair of scissors and then the trimmer:

In the pumpkin dish on the left are the labels I stamped and used the banner/label die set to cut out and that left a white border around the strips. The pumpkin on the right has the labels I cut out with scissors and the trimmer and I did not leave a white border around them. Here are the orange, lime green, and lavendar labels I stamped and cut out using scissors/trimmer and I have a small border around those:

Really like how this stamp set stamps and I like both of the stamped strips with and without a colour border around them. These stamped strips will come in handy for holiday projects ahead.  Also -- the pumpkin and the ghost trinket dishes were quite the search for me to find... FOUR Target stores were involved and I found none but my DSD found both the pumpkin and ghost dishes at Target Dollar Spots at Target stores in her area so happy I have them now as I had seen crafters show them on YouTube videos...

Just the right size for small die cuts for Halloween projects in the making and ahead... happy to have these trinket dishes finally!

Order for 6 Altered Dollar Tree Clipboards

Just finished the 6 Altered Dollar Tree Clipboards that someone asked me for. I had to buy the six Dollar Tree clipboards but all card stocks, beads/chains, craft paint, and ModPodge I had in my craft room stash. Here are the photos of 5 of the clipboards (do not have a photo for the 6th):

All the recipients are girls so floral card stocks were used. Easy project to put together as all you do is peel off the JOT label on the clipboard and then paint the edges with craft paint about one inch wide and also the edges so the clipboard has some colour. Cut your card stock piece for the back and used ModPodge to adhere that. While that was drying I used small beads and seed beads for the dangles and added a flower charm to the bottom of the dangle. Cut the floral piece of card stock for the front and put that on the clipboard again using ModPodge. Set this aside to dry for 24 hours. The fronts of the clipboards are all covered with floral card stock and the backs of the clipboards have a solid piece of card stock or a plaid card stock or even a dotted card stock. The back card stock is in the same colour family as the florals on the front card stock and it also matches the paint I used on the clip boards. Happy to finish another project using more of the craft room stash....

4 Craft Rooms Sales

My PIC (stamping Partner In Crime) and I have had two yard sales this summer for our craft room destash stuffs only. She and I both weeded out our craft rooms, my DSD no longer does paper crafts, and then Mom to my PIC passed away and left her whole paper crafting craft room to her. We both priced and organized our products so when we held our sales like things were together to make it easier for shoppers to find items they may be looking for and also for finding things they did not know they need.... 

The photos I show will be from the first sale --- very hot Saturday in July --- hubby helped me set up all the canopies in the driveway and we hung tarps in case it should suddenly rain. He also ran an extension cord for his big garage fan and that helped a lot..

This table had all the machines - the Big Shots, Cricuts, Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil machine, etc.. For other items we used card board boxes to hold items and I used lime green poster board from the Dollar Tree for all my labels/tags:

We had our own colors for pricing so both paying and sorting was easy to do. Our first sale went well, even with the terrible heat, and the sale yesterday did just as well. Many of the bins we started with are now empty and packing up after yesterdays sale went quickly. Not as hot either so that was good. We will do another sale in September and I am sure more crafters will shop then for holiday supplies with schools back open and holidays ahead.... Fun to meet so many other paper crafters and happy our gently and some new products found new craft rooms to be used in.....

Turkey Time Card

Jaded Blossom just released their new August release and it is for Thanksgiving. If you ordered any items from their new release when it first came out you received a free gift. Always nice when you receive free craft items with an order..... I ordered their die set "Gnome Friends Turkey Die Set":

This release also has a fun stamp set with matching dies for cutting those sentiments out:

I like the "talk turkey to me" sentiment as well as the "feast mode activated" and the "whatever floats your gravy boat".... Fun stamp set to use for holiday cards. Here is a photo of the card I made:

For the card base I cut and scored at the top a piece of cream card stock. I also used this card stock to stamp my sentiment on. For the card front I used the card front die set I had picked up at the stamp show in Fredericksburg, VA from Tall Mouse Designs for $10.00.  For the printed card stocks I used various 6x6 paper pad collections and cut out the layering pieces. For the base frame piece I cut that out of kraft card stock. Used liquid glue to put the layering pieces on the kraft frame piece. Then I put this onto the cream card stock base again using liquid glue. 

For the turkey - the packing only shows all the pieces included in the die set so I went to the home page for Jaded Blossom and went to their blog and found a photo for the two turkeys this die set will cut out:

"Lee-Ann" has a video on YouTube showing how to assemble these turkeys. I printed out this photo and I will keep it with the die set so I will be able to make either turkey with a photo to go by. For my turkey I used various scraps of printed card stocks for the feathers/hat/scarf for my turkey. Die cut it all out and assembled her using liquid glue. For my card I used new washi tape I just ordered from PlannerEnvy.com and I put a piece of that washi tape across the bottom of my card behind the turkey:

As with all washi I added liquid glue to the backside of it to be sure it will not pop off the card. For the sentiment I stamped that with the Misti using a light rust ink onto a scrap of the cream card stock. Die cut that out using the matching die. Put that onto the card front in the upper left corner. The turkey is on the card front using pop dots. Added a gem to her scarf and on the card front using gems from the stash.

Here is a photo of the free stencil they included in my order:

This pieced card front die set from Tall Mouse Designs I have used on another card:

Same die set but the above card I used the layout of the card front upside down so both cards look totally different. Fun card front to use showing off printed card stocks.... Fun turkey die set for the holiday ahead and another good use for printed scrap card stocks. 

Rustic Wooden Pumpkins

Had seen the video on YouTube from "My Whimsical Day" for her Rustic Pumpkins and I decided to make some for Fall decor. She used smaller blocks from Dollar Tree but the only wooden blocks I had were their towering wooden blocks and those are very small. Ordered larger blocks off Amazon for my decor pumpkins. Had various paints in the stash so I picked out autumn colours and painted the blocks. Once dried I sanded the edges and then used wood glue and hot glue to put them together. Added a round wooden piece at the top like a stem that I painted brown and added moss from the stash to those:

She had a small sunflower stencil and stenciled that onto her pumpkins using black paint. I looked through my stencils and picked out a couple of sunflowers and stenciled those also using black paint. Used twine and old buttons from the stash and made a twine bow and put that and the button on the tops of the pumpkins using hot glue. Here is the front of the pumpkins:

Found two fall stamps from a stamp set and stamped those onto scrap kraft card stock and die cut those using the ticket die set from Franticstamper in black ink:

Fun project to put together using mostly stash items.... Happy she shared her idea and how-to's on her video for her rustic pumpkins. Tied painted wooden beads on twine around the stem of the pumpkins using the same twine I used for the bows. The painted wooden beads were on a decor item from the Dollar Tree and I cut them off of that and used them on my pumpkins. These will work out well for Fall decor and esp since they are free standing.....

Washi Frame Halloween Card

All items are from the stash..... digging through the Halloween die stash I came across this small cover plate die but I do not know the manufacturer:

 The die cut sample I had put in the packaging looks like this cut out of card stock:

I went through my washi tape stash and found a holographic spider web washi tape roll. Decided I would die cut a card stock frame and cover that with the washi tape. Here is a photo of the washi tape roll and the frame I made:

As with all holographic projects it was hard to get a good photo with the camera but here is the card:

For this photo I had turned the card so you could see the holographic die cut card front and I put that on a piece of silver mirror card stock:

Card stock base is black cut and scored at the top. Cut a piece of turquoise card stock for the card front and used liquid glue to put that onto the black card stock base. For the frame I used the Spellbinders Precision Layering A2 frame set and cut out a frame to fit over the cover plate die cut piece using two of the rectangle dies in the set. Then I used liquid glue to add the washi tape to all four sides of the frame leaving a small amount of the turquoise frame showing in the front. Then used scissiors to trim away the extra washi tape from the frame:

With the washi tape trimmed from the edges of the frame I added liquid glue to the back of the frame and put that onto the holographic cover plate die cut piece. Put foam tape behind this framed piece to add dimension to the card front. Used white mirror card stock and cut out my ghost using an old Cuttlebug Ghost die. For the pumpkin in the left corner I used a pumpkin face punch from Marvy and a solid pumpkin punch from M Stewart. Sponged the edges of that for some dimension. Added the ghost and the pumpkin to the corners of the washi frame piece using tear n tape. Added clear gems from the stash to the holographic cover plate die piece. Here is another photo of the card which shows the different colours this card stock has:

Fun card to put together and always happy to make a card using items from the stash and more of the washi tape stash is in use!

Flower Power Ghost Card

I had seen the video by Tina/Cards and Coffee Time on YouTube showing the new "Free Spirit" ghosts die set from Hero Arts. Her card was very cute and that card totally inspired this card I made:

She used all products from Hero Arts - The die set, the floral stencil set, frame dies, etc but for my card I only had to buy the Free Spirit ghosts die set as I had a floral stencil set I could use for the background as well as many rectangle frame die sets in my stash. For my card I used an aqua card base cut and scored at the top. For my stenciled piece I used a piece of white card stock and I used the PrettyPinkPosh Layered Spring Flowers stencil set from the stash:

I only wanted three colours on my card so for the first layer of this stencil I used a light hand for my turquoise, blue, and purple inks with a blending brush. For the second layer, again using the same inks, I used a heavier application adding the colours to the flowers. With both layers of the flowers done I added the third layer, the center of the flowers, and I used black ink for that. I wanted my flowers and ink colours to be random so I used mini Post-It Notes to mask off my flowers on the stencil:

I ink blended the first layer and then did the second layer so it was not time consuming adding the different inks to the stenciled piece. Here is a photo of the finished stenciled piece:

Trimmed the stencil piece to the size I needed for the card front and used liquid glue to put that onto the turquoise card base. Set this aside. 

For the ghost - as she did in her video - I added ink to the top and bottom of the ghost. I also ink blended the three inks onto scrap white card stock and then I cut out the flowers in the die set. Here is a photo of this Hero Arts die set:

Not shown are more flowers I had die cut for this card as I was not sure which flowers/colours I would be using for my card front. On her card she uses a piece of vellum behind her frame so that you can see her stenciled floral background for her card front. I liked the idea of using vellum and for my wavy frame I used this die set from Penny Black "Waves":

When you die cut this frame set out you not only get the wavy frames it cuts but you also get a funky wavy frame piece behind the frame dies. This photo shows the 6 different frames this die set die cuts if you leave the die set as one piece which I did:

The black, light yellow, and orange pieces are the frames this die set cuts out. The bright yellow, the lime green, and the blue center are the wonky wavy pieces it also cuts out. For my card I used a piece of black card stock and cut out the frames. In the above photo the lime green wonky wavy frame is the same size frame I used for my black frame on my card. I used a smaller frame for my card front that she did as my stenciled flowers are a larger design and I wanted a lot of them to show around the frame:

I used a ruler and measured the height and width of this wonky wavy frame and I cut a rectangle piece of vellum to fit. Used liquid glue to put the vellum behind the frame. With that done I added foam tape behind my ghost and put her onto the vellum frame using liquid glue. For the flowers I used black card stock for their centers and for all the flower centers and eyes for the ghost I used clear Wink of Stella to add some shine to those. Put flowers on the ghost using black pop dots. The sentiment:

Used an old wood mounted holiday stamp from Northwoods and stamped that onto scrap white card stock using black ink. Cut that out with a banner die set in the stash and put that onto the ghost using pop dots. Added some purple gems from the stash for some shine to the card front:

Such a fun card to put together for Halloween. Turquoise, blue, and purples are not my usual holiday card colours but fun to put this card together..... Thanks to Tina for sharing her too cute card and happy I used more stash items so I did not have to buy anything more than the Free Spirit ghosts die set which I know will be getting much more use this Halloween season.... She is too cute not to use her!

Michaels - Maybe not . . .

Had seen videos on YouTube showing new Halloween paper craft items at Michaels stores. New stickers, ephemera, paper pads, washi tapes, etc.  Have lots of Halloween products in the craft stash but I wanted to see some of these items in person. Went to a local store and they did not have any of the washi tapes but they did have a few paper pads. I picked up a Halloween paper pad but that was all..... came home and looked at Michaels.com online store to look at the washi tapes they carry for Halloween. They were selling these washi sets for $15.50 but they had it on sale for $12.40.  Their description also tells you who this product is shipped from. The washi tapes I looked at are from Planner Envy. Wanting to know if Planner Envy offered any other designs off I went to their website before I ordered from Mikes....

Planner Envy had the same washi tape set as Mikes, and others, and their price was $8.75 for the same set of Halloween washi tape I wanted and I looked at their Fall washi tape sets and those were also $8.75. I picked out a Halloween set and a Fall set and ordered those:

They are packaged in a clear box and lay flat so they ship well. Here is a side view of the patterns:

Happy to have found Planner Envy. They have lots of washi tape sets - 2 pages worth - on their site and they have new Christmas and Winter sets as well as Halloween, Fall, Easter, Valentine's Day, etc.. Good quality product too.... and they are also having a sale at   plannerenvy.com.  Lots of stickers as well if you need those for your planners/junk journals or other projects you are working on. 

Scrapbook.com also featured new products and I picked up a pack of a set of 2 plates for my new Sizzix  machine. These plates are sparkly red and happy to have them:

It was time for new plates in this craft room and happy to find them in red - 

A little jazzing up for my die cutting machine.... Hoping they last as long as my older plates that are years old.....