I Brake for Stamps, Day 4

We’re nearing the end of our hike this week with I Brake for Stamps.  These stamps are a joy to work with. Deeply etched, excellent quality red rubber that is available as cling mounted or unmounted.  Whatever you prefer, you will enjoy creating with the crisp clean images.
Remember that special going on for Stamper’s Quest’s readers [...]

Marcia shares a Mother’s Day card

With Mother’s Day just around the corner,  Marcia’s beautiful card may help you with some inspiration. 

Mother’s Day Card
By: Marcia Mattos, Artistic Guide
 Finished card size: 6.75″ x 5.25″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Manuscript Background (Hero Arts)
Wreaths and Garland Floral Set (Impression Obsession)
Floral Flourishes Set (Inkadinkado)
Alphabet Stamp Set (Making Memories)     
Ink:
Tattered Rose Distress Ink (Ranger Industries)
Tea Dye Distress Ink (Ranger Industries)
Vintage Photo Distress Ink (Ranger [...]

I Brake for Stamps, Day 2

More I Brake for Stamps for you today. Della’s designs are great fun, and come from years of loving the art:

I used to stamp when my daughter was little, which was about 20 years ago. As of now, I have no time to stamp because of the business. I must say though, that I have a [...]

April Featured Company – I Brake for Stamps

This month we feature samples from I Brake for Stamps, a “Ma and Pa” rubber stamp internet company that began in 2004. Della and her husband operate the business on a full-time basis. They boast over 3,000 images to choose from.  Their stamps are excellent quality, deeply etched red rubber that you can order as cling foam [...]

April Reader’s Challenge

We received two adorable Easter cards featuring our challenge for the month of April – Easter Parade; Pastel Colors.
Here’s a teaser of the cards submitted by Trena Brennon of Naperville, Illinois.

Trena, thank you for your submissions, they are wonderful!  This month’s cards went to Just People, an organization for developmentally disabled adults. (www.justpeople.org/) To see [...]

Product Review – Sunday International EZ Mount

Sunday International EZ Mount
By: Susan Wolf Caplan, Product Guru
 When I started stamping in the 90’s, the wood mounted stamps were affordable.  As the years have passed the price of wood has increased, and as a result, the stamps mounted on them have begun to exceed stamper budgets. Many stampers now choose to purchase unmounted rubber stamps and opt to [...]

Meet Evelyn Spikes, April Guest Artist

I’m Evelyn Spikes, a retired high school English teacher who lives in the NE corner of Oregon.   I began rubber stamping about 2 years before I retired in 2002.   I’ve always loved the visual arts, but I certainly didn’t practice any.   My mother gave me colored pencils when I was in junior high, and I [...]

Addicted to ATCs

By: Chris Herrmann, Artistic Guide
Okay, now my secret is out. I am an ATC addict. Wow, now I feel much better! Seriously, I really looooove creating ATCs, so you can imagine my happiness when I discovered  a fantastic book all about making them. The book is called Artist Trading Card Workshop by Bernie Berlin. If [...]

Memory Cards

 By: Chris Herrmann, Artistic Guide
I would guess you all remember playing with Memory cards when you were growing up.  I have a 15 month old grandson and I decided that he should have his own custom made memory cards to play with when he is old enough.  I decided to start them now because I [...]

April 2009 Sketch Card

We present to you a very versatile sketch this month created by our talented Regena….
 

April Sketch
What can you create with this month’s sketch?  If you send them, they will appear, in our Sketchbook, that is! All you have to do is send them to stampersquest@yahoo.com and we will upload them. Please be sure your .jpeg file [...]

Flowers & Butterfly Thanks for the Adventurer

Flowers & Butterfly Thanks Card
By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide
Stamper’s Quest is all about the journey and I have been having a fabulous one! I would like to invite you on my journey as I adventure some more with colouring pencils.
Finished card size: 5.5″ x 4.25″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Flowers (Luxe designs)
Thanks (Hero Arts)
Papers:
White A4 card (140gms) 297 x 210 [...]

Sonoran Sunset for the Discoverer

Sonoran Sunset
By: Chris M. Herrmann, Artistic Artist Guide
Finished card size: 4 1/4″ x  5 1/2″
Did you ever work on a card and when adding your finishing touches mess something up? Well that’s exactly what I did on this card. I decided it needed a little something else added to it so I stamped “Happy Birthday” [...]

Sunny Spray Butterfly for the Adventurer

Sunny Spray Butterfly
By: Jennifer Willis, Artistic Guide
Finished card size: 4.25″ x 5.5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Open Wing Swallowtail (Northwoods)
Small Butterfly (Northwoods)
Paper:
Purple Glossy Card Stock (Unknown)
White Card Stock (Unknown)
Ink:
Chalk Ink Pad – Charcoal (ColorBox)
Pigment Ink Pad – Canary (ColorBox)
Other:
Embossing Pearl – Pearl Blue (Ranger)
Iridescent Accents – Delirious Blue (Dr. Ph. Martin’s)
Gelly Roll Pens – Pink, Blue, Green (Sakura)
Souffle Pens – [...]

Happy Place Frame for the Inventor

Happy Place Canvas Frame
By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide
This is not a hard project and doesn’t require any special equipment or products but with some time and careful cutting, produces a stunning 3D canvas frame that will really grab attention.
Having played with these papers and stamps I wanted to make something fun and pretty.  My original [...]

Decorative Tile for the Inventor

Decorative Tile
By: Chris Herrmann, Artistic Guide
 Finished tile size: 4″ x 4″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Dancers (Another Stamp Company)
Sun (Another Stamp Company)
Words (Another Stamp Company)
Ink:
Archival Jet Black ink pad (Ranger)
Adirondack pens: (Ranger)
     Stream
     Wild Plum
     Butterscotch
     Red Pepper
Other:
Tumbled marble tile (any home improvement store)
Craft Sheet (Ranger)
Wide paint brush
Mini Mister (Ranger) or fine spray bottle
Heat It Craft tool (Ranger) 
Directions: 

Wipe tile with [...]

Foam Board Jewelry for the Inventor

Foam Board Pendant and Earrings
By: Bea Rosenleaf, Artistic Guide
While playing with the Shaving Cream Technique, I wondered how it would work on foam core board. That’s the stuff you can buy at any hobby or craft store. It’s made with a styrofoam middle sandwiched by two pieces of cardstock.  Here’s a description I found on [...]

Ooh-La-La for the Adventurer

Ooh-La-Lah
By: Chris M Herrmann, Artistic Guide 
Finished card size: 4.25″ x 5.5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Dress (Rubbernecker Rubber Stamps)
Ooh-la-la (Another Stamp Company)
Papers:
Red card stock, 8.5″ x 11″, folded at the 4.25″ mark
Small piece of white glossy card stock, 3″ x 6″
Ink:
Jet Black Archival ink pad (Ranger)
Clear embossing ink pad (Ranger)
Meadow and Cranberry Adirondack pens (Ranger)
Other:
Tiara Puttin’ On the Glitz (Suze [...]

Color Blocked Butterflies for the Discoverer

Color Blocked Butterflies
By: Jennifer Willis, Artistic Guide
Finished card size: 6″ x 6″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Small Butterfly (Northwoods)
Friendship Text (Auntie Amy)
Paper:
Bright Pink Card Stock (Unknown)
Bright Green Card Stock (Unknown)
Bright Yellow Card Stock (Unknown)
Bright Turquoise Card Stock (Unknown)
White Card Stock (Unknown)
Ink:
Versa Color – Lagoon Blue (Tsukineko)
Other:
Double Sided Tape (Tombow)
Scissors (EK Success)
Paper Trimmer (Purple Cow)
Directions:

Cut a 6″ x 6″ card from [...]

Laughing Earth

All around my home in north Georgia there are daffodils and hyacinth in bloom. The red bud and pear trees are in full array, and the dogwood trees are budding.  The change of season is a magical time. (Fall is equally magical. Albert Camus said, “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a [...]

Happy Birthday Flowers for the Discoverer

Happy Birthday Flowers
By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide
StampersQuest is all about the journey and I have been having a fabulous one! I would like to invite you on the story of my journey as I discovered how I could achieve magnificent effects with colouring pencils.
I have long admired the colouring that people do using Gamsol.  I [...]