Crafty Secrets Postcard Album #2 and answers to questions!

You saw this front page peek yesterday! Today I bring you the rest of the album! Some of you have had questions about the album that I will answer at the end of this post! Thank you for your interest! The Hello heart placed on the basket is one of the smaller images adhered to a small chipboard piece with edges sanded. I added another clear fragment and pink adhesive gem!

The back to page one is set up for a photo or maybe a handwritten message! Again I used a dauber and ink to give the chipboard some color!

Page 2! Another beautiful image! Prima Rose Leaves with silk ribbon bow adorned with a Prim Fairytale Rose works well together! I had an "Easter Blessings" sentiment still on my desk from previous work, so I cut the ending off and glued it in between the rose and ribbon!

The back of page two is set up again for a photo most likely! A green oval could be used for a date or name maybe? And take a look at this darling bird nest stamp in the kit's stamp set.

Third page with some wrinkle ribbon! Another blank oval for some writing! Kind of looks like the ribbon is holding the bouquet together! Back of the third page reveals more stamping, with some red dots! Wrinkle ribbon and one of the smaller chipboard embellishments makes it complete! Notice this album is vertical and album one was horizontal. There you have it! I LOVE how these turned out and will be gifting them to my daughters for Mother's Day so they in turn can use them for their own daughters!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I appreciate it! Remember to get in on the BLOG CANDY from The Stamp Simply RIBBON Store hop!

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ANSWERS! If you have any other questions please contact me at bjshome@sbcglobal.net and I will respond!

The Crafty Secrets Postcard Best Buds Kit can be used to create Mail postcards, wall hangings, garlands, ornaments, etc. The possibilities are endless, I just chose to create TWO mini albums from one PostCard Kit! Very economical at $12.95 for entire kit!

The stamps in the set are tiny. But there are 11 stamps in the set, yes 11 clear stamps that can be utilized over and over.

I used four kinds of adhesives, Aleene's Tacky Glue, Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue for tiny gems as it has a pen tip applicator, Foam dimensionals, and ScorTape. The holes are already punched in the large chipboard postcards, I added my own rings purchased at the dollar store! The ring measures 1 1/4" from outside edge to outside edge.

The Ringlet Trim is adhered using 1/8" Scortape. This is not a separate top trim and another piece of trim for the back. It is one piece! The wonderful thing about this ringlet trim is that it's very flexible and allows you to wrap the chipboard edge placing one side of the ringlet edge on the top and the other side on the bottom on the underside giving it such a finished look! This trim comes in five colors!

It's a Hop! A Grand Opening! Inspiration & Blog Candy!

Welcome! We are celebrating the Grand Opening of The Stamp Simply Online Ribbon Store. There are 5 designers sharing projects today, a progressive Blog Candy offering (CHECK OUT ALL THE DETAILS ON SHARON'S BLOG) and a lot of quality SALE items for you to enjoy! Totally fun Blog Candy Offering! Spellbinders, JustRite and a large assortment of paper products are the featured sale items. Note that the storefront has a section entitled SPECIALS located on the right sidebar. You can click there anytime to see all price reduced items. If you're looking for bargains, it's a great place to start. But don't forget to check out the gorgeous new offerings by Prima, Webster's Pages, Melissa Frances, Bo Bunny, Cosmo Cricket, Kaisercraft, LaBlanche, and Pink Paislee to name a few, not to mention all the gorgeous May Arts ribbons. For my creation today, I used a Crafty Secrets Postcard Kit, Best Buds. The kit includes a Crafty Secrets Clear Stamp Set, Six Large printed images, Twelve Embellishments, Eighteen Chipboard Pieces. I chose to use the postcards to create mini albums. So three for each album. I used the large images for one side and added my own papers for the backs. In the above picture, I stamped a sentiment onto one of the smaller chipboard pieces. Here is the back to the front page above. I used Spellbinder Labels Four to cut dies, along with Classic Oval shapes. Here you can see some stamping utilizing the included stamp set. I used dimensionals on the sides and bottom to enable a picture to slide into opening. Another page with a large printed image. A simple bow with heart embellishment makes this complete! I used trim around the postcard edges once I had adhered my large images. The tag looks like I made it and attached to bow, it's printed and would make a darling name tag, or date if wanted. The back of page two is quite simple, a mat with a small printed embellishment. The small image is adhered to the small size chipboard pieces with edges sanded. Page three is another large printed image. A small image place on a punched oval edged with a crocheted piece of string. I also added a clear square fragment to the top of the small image. Back of page three shows another stamped image. On the page backs I also used a dauber and ink to lightly give some color to build the page on. Prima Fairytale Rose & Rose Leaf creates a great embellishment for this page. All Ribbons, Prima Flowers & Leaves, Ringlet Trim, String, Postcard Kit, are found at The Stamp Simply RIBBON Store!

Here is a peek of the front page of album Two! Stop by tomorrow to see the remaining pages!

Take a look at the exciting inspiration from the following team member's blogs!

Sharon Johnson – owner

Michelle Woerner

Deb Saaranen

Holly McMillen

Barb Schram

Transitioning into Fall!

Falling Leaves, is a great theme this time of year! Sharon Johnson's Stamp Simply challenge this week is to incorporate leaves into our projects, any type of leaves! We're looking forward to seeing some beautiful leaf creations as we transition into fall mode! I made a Halloween card utilizing my favorite leaf embellishments this year! You can't go wrong with these suede leaves! They are so soft and easy to work with. I wanted my leaves to look somewhat crunched, you know how they get when they fall and start to dry out?

This is how I scrunched the leaves. Using Jute String, and a large eye needle, sew a running stitch down the middle of each leaf and pull to gather. These suede leaves come in many colors and are a snap to use!

When I got to the base of each leaf, I added a button using the same string. After trimming the string, I then taped string end down with scotch tape and secured entire leaf and button to card using glue dots. Let's see what leaves fall into your creations this week! If you upload to a public forum, please use keyword, ssnotime155. Remember to upload to Mr Linky over on Sharon's BLOG.

Check out the falling leaves captured in the Stamp Simply Designers creations!

Sharon Johnson, No Time To Stamp? Deb Neerman: Paper, Ink, Scissors & Stamps Barbara Anders: Paper Pursuits Jenny Gropp: One Krafty Kat. Janine Orchard: 2bKrafty AJ Otto: The Willow Garden Deb Saaranen: Dream In Color

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PAPER: Crafty Secrets Halloween Images & Journal Notes, Kaiser 6" Up, Up & Away Designer paper pad (STAMP SIMPLY RIBBON STORE), Vintage Cream Cardstock (Papertreyink), All other (SU) INK: Tim Hotlz Old Paper Distress Ink (Joan's Gardens) OTHER: Sheer Black Ribbon, Suede leaves, & Jute String (STAMP SIMPLY RIBBON STORE), sponge dauber, Kaiser Adhesive Pearls (STAMP SIMPLY RIBBON STORE), ticket corner punch (EK Success), large eye sewing needle, adhesives, misc buttons

A Sketch Challenge, Clean & Simple!

For this Friday's Stamp Simply Challenge we are offering a Clean and Simple Sketch for you to follow. There are so many different looks achieved when using the same basic sketch, and we want to see what your creation will look like! If you want to dress up this basic sketch that is just fine too! The most important challenge rule: have FUN!!

I altered the sketch a bit to accommodate the images I used. I made simple 4x4 cards. The front panel from fold to edge is 2 1/4" with image being adhered on the left side allowing it to extend off the paper edge. The images come from Crafty Secrets Halloween Images & Journal Notes. I LOVE these paper pads. You can find them at The Stamp Simply Store. I trimmed off the tops of two pages to get the images here. Wide ric rac with a darling button embellish the image perfectly! A few adhesive pearls and jute string and we are good to go! Here is an opened card to see how the front panel manuevers. The paper on the card inside is from October Afternoon's Fly A Kite. Super fun, simple, and easy! I thought since many are creating for the holidays in July I may as well get some Halloween cards completed! LOL Hope you get to play along this week. Use keyword ssnotime149 if you upload to a public forum. Please remember to upload on Sharon's Mr Linky too! Let us know if you post on your blog, we want to see your take on the sketch! Take good care! Check out the fabulous Stamp Simply Challenge designers!

Sharon Johnson, No Time To Stamp?

Clare Buswell, Clare's Creations, July Guest Designer Deb Neerman: Paper, Ink, Scissors & Stamps Barbara Anders: Paper Pursuits Jenny Gropp: One Krafty Kat. Janine Orchard: 2bKrafty AJ Otto: The Willow Garden ,AJ's post will go live Friday evening Deb Saaranen: Dream In Color ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PAPER: SU Black cardstcck, Bazzill walnut cream cardstock, October Afternoon Fly A Kite (STAMP SIMPLY RIBBON STORE) OTHER: Crafty Secrets Halloween Images Journal & Notes (STAMP SIMPLY RIBBON STORE), Kaiser Adhesive Pearls (STAMP SIMPLY RIBBON STORE), Jute string, black sheer ribbon, ric rac (STAMP SIMPLY RIBBON STORE), Cuttlebug swiss dots folder, misc buttons

A Stamp Simply Sketch Challenge #144

Our Stamp Simply Challenge this week is a sketch challenge, courtesy of Sharon! You can go clean and simple or fancy the sketch up! Totally up to you! Just have FUN! For my card today, I chose a page from my Crafty Secrets Homemade Images and Journal Notes pad. Actually the focal image is the bottom piece of a page. I did add color with my chalks! The cardstock is SU and the patterned paper is October Afternoon's Road Map. A few buttons with jute string, punched strip of paper and we are good to go! I went clean and simple! This is one of my hubby's birthday cards! We hope you can join us this week! Please use keyword ssnotime144 when uploading to a public forum. And don't forget to upload on Sharon's Mr Linky! Let us know when you post to your blog, we want to see your fabulous creation! You may play any time, as many times as you please! Easy and fun! Thanks for checking in! I love it when you visit!

Check out the Stamp Simply talented designers and see how they interpreted this weeks Stamp Simply sketch!

Sharon Johnson, No Time To Stamp?

Julia Aston, Create With Me- JUNE GUEST DESIGNER Deb Neerman: Paper, Ink, Scissors & Stamps Barbara Anders: Paper Pursuits Jenny Gropp: One Krafty Kat. Janine Orchard: 2bKrafty AJ Otto: The Willow Garden Deb Saaranen: Dream In Color

Valentine's Day Cookie Mix

I'm winding down my Valentine's Day gift giving! This is a box sugar cookie mix I found, loved the heart shaped cookies on the front of box. When I spied it, I knew it would be perfect for Valentine's Day! Wanting some cuteness for the box, I remembered this image in my Crafty Secrets "HOMEMADE" Images and Journal Notes. This is the top half of the page. Since the box had the bluish teal color, I added that color to the image bowl and window with a dauber and chalk! All other colors were already on the image. Since this is for my daughter, I wanted to use this image, and simply added the color to make it work! Easy!

The Happy Valentine's Day tag is an extra I made while creating this Valentine HERE! JustRite fonts are the best way to personalize any creation! The rolling pin embellishment comes from a 6 piece embellishment "Dress It Up" set purchased at Michaels. The gorgeous Stamp Simply ribbon is sheer with suede dots! Simply wonderful ribbon! Love the polka dots! The jute string is also from the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

Hope you are having a wonderful Wednesday! Take good care, thanks so much for stopping by!

Card Positioning Systems Sketch meets JustRite

This weeks Card Positioning Systems sketch is sponsored by JustRite! You have until Saturday, February 6, 8pm CST to play along! If you share your CPS creation (details on their BLOG) you will receive a chance to win JustRite's new set, STITCHED WITH LOVE! How cool is that? I turned the CPS sketch to create a vertical creation. I will be using this creation to give a garden center gift card. So, this Journal Note from Crafty Secrets Homemade fit the sketch nicely! I purchased my note pack from the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store. I trimmed the bottom, but left a few lines to write a message. The Kraft card stock is 4' x 11" and scored 2 11/16" in from the top and bottom. I then marked the center of the flap end (2"), and cut diagonally from the score line to the center mark. The point was corner rounded.

The stamped sentiment is from JustRite's set, Seeds of Kindness. All circles are punched using EKSuccess punches.

I have shown you how I placed my dimensionals to create a channel, so my string runs through it perfectly.

You can see the placement of the black circle to the top flap. I stitched the journal note to the black card stock, then machine stitched along the sides and bottom of the black creating a pocket for the gift card. Scor Tape is used to adhere to Kraft card stock and also to attach the Kraft to the green.

CREATION INFO:

Stamps: JustRite Seeds of Kindness

Ink: StazOn Black, Tim Holtz Old Paper Distress Ink

Paper: Papertreyink Kraft, Crafty Secrets Homemade Journal Note (Stamp Simply Ribbon Store), all other is SU

Other: Dimensionals, circle punches- ,oval punch, sponge dauber,sewing machine, Glue Glider (Joan's Gardens), Jute String (Stamp Simply Ribbon Store)

Hope you are having a wonderful Wednesday! Thanks so much for stopping by! I appreciate it so very much! The JustRite set, I used yesterday for my pin cushion project is shown in it's entirety HERE. Take good care!

JustRite Romantic Sentiments...Just in time for Valentines Day!

Here is my hubby's 2010 Valentines Day card! I love this Rise and Shine fabric piece from Crafty Secrets! And using my Spellbinder's die to create the sun lends well to the theme! Here we are, breakfast in bed! The fabric piece is sewn on the distressed edged paper, then mounted onto the red/blue cardstock. The blue card base is not as dark as it is showing...which throws look of the card itself, but it is so cute in real life! Really!

I added Stickles to the sunshine for a little sparkle, to the tag punched hole, and the dot on the letter i, this brought the sunshine all the way to the tag! Look at that gorgeous ribbon from Sharon Johnson's Stamp Simply Ribbon Store!

This is the new JustRite Romantic Sentiments set, where I found this so appropriate sentiment! There are new JustRite goods in the store, just released! Check it out...more release sets to come in January too! Visit the JustRite blog for your daily updates! And did you know that JustRite moved their blog address and a have a new look?

Check it out! http://justritestampers.typepad.com/

Hope you are having a wonderful Wednesday! Thanks so much for stopping by! I am still compiling comment questions about the studio pics, I did NOT forgot! More than I thought to answer!!! I WILL them post soon! Take good care!

2Sketches4You and a $100 JustRite Giveaway!

That's right! JustRite is giving a $100 gift certificate to one lucky recipient in celebration of sponsoring this weeks sketch challenge at 2Sketches4You. Here's my take on the sketch. I used my new Crafty Secrets paper, Earthy from their Heartwarming Vintage Collection. (purchased at Joan's Gardens) As you can see, I chose a pretty simple interpretation of the sketch!

And here is the JustRite set, CHRISTMAS JOY I used along with my 1 3/4 x 2 5/16" oval wooden block. I chose to use a circle punch to follow the sketch challenge. That's what I love about JustRite, the possibilities are endless! I Copic colored the bell image after stamping with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Old Paper Distress ink is placed around stamped image cardstock, Kraft paper, and patterned DP. Stampers Select White, Kraft, ribbon and button are from Papertreyink. Teal is SU.

You have until Saturday, October 17 midnight, Mountain standard time to enter! Get on over to 2Sketches4You and check it out! Take good care!