Green Grass Stamps

princess

Laura: "My niece will celebrate her 16th birthday soon and it is apparent that she will probably always consider herself a princess. All you need for this card is black ink and some paper."
Stamps (princess, heart): Femme Royale

Patterned paper is by Sasafrass Lass. Pink and yellow cardstock, black ink. 6 x 6" card.

6x6 Card, "Princess"

cute cards in a windowsill

2 more cute cards from Laura. I know, I totally psyched you out on there not being any more design team ones. I forgot about a bunch I still had. (sheepish) This is getting close to the end of them, though.
Laura says, "I have three, yes 3, wedding announcements on my fridge and figured it was time to get the cards ready for all those summer wedding celebrations!"

"Happily Ever After" stamp: Card Greetings II

Patterned paper by Basic Grey and Scenic Route Paper Co. Ink by Nick Bantock. Misc. brown button. Size: 6" square"I'll use this as a thank you card. I have had so many neighbors and friends help us this past month that I've had to find creative ways to say thank you to all of them."

"Gee, you're sweet" stamp: Card Greetings II

Cardstock stickers by Sasafrass Lass. Chipboard bird by Glitz Designs. Size: 4 x 5 1/2"

long time coming

I finally mailed off this happy little guy to my stamp maker today:

He (along with his super-cute little matching baby whale, some other sentiments, waves and more) should be coming back to me in stamp form in a few weeks! I can't wait!

You probably noticed I've stuck with word-based stamps up to this point, and it's because I'm not very good at drawing. But I finally spent some time learning a few more things in Illustrator, and I am so excited to add images to my stamp sets.

More sets to come, including birds, cupcakes and hearts. Wow, that sounds super girly, huh? Hehe. What can I say? I'll do a masculine one for next Father's Day.

Laura says, "I've been wanting to try 6x12 for a while now and the Chase stamps were the perfect size for the layout. I loved that I could stamp the different colors and cut out what I needed. It seemed a lot easier than using stickers."

Chase letter stamps. "2" is from Back to the Futura. Crowns are from Femme Royale (hey, look how they work on a boy page!).

Ink is by StazOn. Patterned paper is by Scenic Route.

special thanks

A pretty thank you card by Laura that says "thanks" three ways. All stamps from the Thank You set.

 

Patterned paper by Scenic Route. Ink by Nick Bantock. Other: Red & white cardstock.

Laura says, "I tried something different with this layout -- instead of sitting down and thinking 'what can I do with this picture,' I gathered several things I wanted to use on a layout, found a picture that went with it and challenged myself to just make it work."

Letter stamps: Chase
"Boy!" stamp: Baby Shower

StazOn ink, Sassafrass Lass paper and owl, Glitz Designs chipboard bird

thanks a million

Sherry has a knack for using stamps creatively, and I love what she did here, using the double row of hearts from Femme Royale as the leaves of the tree. The tree and trunk are both scraps of cardstock -- I never know what to do with mine, but Sherry does.






















Dotted lines stamp is from Card Greetings II. "thanks a million!" stamp is from Thank You. Hearts stamp is from Femme Royale. Cardstock is Bazzill.

the little things

Just sorting through some emails and finding the DT cards I haven't posted yet. And fiddling with my new iPod running mix...it's kind of hit and miss right now...by 'kind of' I actually mean 'very.' I should put Earth, Wind & Fire's September on there! If that song doesn't make you feel good, I don't know what would. Hey, sweet! Did you all know iTunes has exercise music? That is AWESOME.

Oh yes, the card. Well, it doesn't make me want to run, but it does make me want to pull out my For the Record stamps. ;)

Epoxy stickers by MOD (Autumn Leaves. Bling Brad by Making Memories. Cardstock by PTI (white) and Stampin' Up! (black). Black ink by Brilliance.

handy little tags

Laura tapes these on the sides of bags or the tops of small gifts to give them that little extra sumpin' sumpin'. I would say that's a lot of extra sumpin', these are dang cute. And unbeknownst to Laura, I am working on a bird stamp that actually looks kind of like that cute little guy! But with a different beak. She's a cute one, I think you'll like her.


Cards are each 3" square
Stamps: Thank You (thanks a million!), Card Greetings II (Birthday Wishes), Femme Royale (crown)
Bird is Glitz Designs, misc. ribbon

Do I make anything besides thank you cards?

<sup>No. No, I don't.

And you would think with all these cards lying around I would be giving them away left and right, but I am terrible at sending out thank you's in any kind of timely manner. When I finally get around to it, I am going to have quite the large stack to choose from. ANYWAY, here is the card:</sup>



The chipboard circle and leaf are both by Stampin' Up!, as is the yellowish ink (More Mustard), Chocolate Chip ink and Earth Elements cardstock. The ribbon is part of Basic Grey's Two Scoops line and the green flower is Bazzill.

Grid background is my Dotted Grid stamp and the "thank you" circle (punched with a 1" punch, handily!) is from Thank You.

I have such creative names for these stamp sets, huh? Spoiler alert: My next sheet is going to be called The One With Seven Stamps On It.