January Map Project – Happiness

 
 
 
Our new Artistic Guide, Jan Hennings, created a card just for you using the January map!  Enjoy. 
 
 
 
 
 
  
Happiness
By: Jan Hennings, Artistic Guide
Finished card size: 4″ x 6″
Supplies:
Stamps:
7 Gypsies
Paper:
Worldwin
Making Memories
Ink: 
Timber Brown StazOn ink pad (Tsukineko)
Other:
Brads (Paper Studio)
Image (Paper doll vintage image from Germany)
Glue (Aleene’s)
Trimmer (Fiscars)
Hanger (unknown)
Muslin fabric (Hobby Lobby)
Clothes pin (Encore)
Sheet music (Old music book)
Acrylic paint (Plaid)
Sewing [...]

January Map Master project

This year we have an addition to our monthly map offerings.  Our new Map Master, Ken Schneider, will take you hiking on the creative trail showing you how he takes the monthly map created by Regena from conceptualizing an idea to the finished card.  We hope you enjoy joining Ken in his Tree House (studio) each month as he interprets [...]

Basically, Thank You. *Back2Basics*

Fly-By Thanks
by Stephanie Loomis, Artistic Guide and Editor
Finished card size: 5.5″ x 4.25″ 
As promised, Stamper’s Quest will bring periodic “Back2Basics” projects to our readers so that we may all remember why we chose this art form! This particular card takes us to the very element of rubber stamp art. It requires four things: stamps, paper, [...]

December Sketch Card

 
 
 
 
Have some last minute holiday cards to make up for those special folks in your life?  Why not give our December sketch a try? What a card Regena has created for you this month. Long with many different shaped layers to show off all those gorgeous papers in your stash! The bonus…adding those stamped images that will really make them pop.
 
 
 
 
 
Check [...]

Gratitude Card for the Discoverer

Gratitude Card for the Discoverer
By: Stephanie Loomis, Artistic Guide
Finished card size: A2 (5.5” x 4.25”) 
Supplies:
Stamps: 
G is for Gratitude (The Angel Company)
Paper:                       
A2 note card: 5.5” x 4.25” (Georgia Pacific cardstock)
White cardstock: 2.5” x 2.875” (Georgia Pacific)
Patterned paper A: 3.25” x 3.5” (unknown source—pulled from scrap box)
Patterned paper B: 3.25” x 5.5” (unknown source—pulled from scrap box)
Patterned [...]

Thank You Card Set for the Adventurer

 
By: Stephanie Loomis, Artistic Guide
Finished card size: 5.5” x 4”
 When making multiples of the same card, it’s easier to set up an assembly line and do each step on each card at the same time. Pull together all the supplies and do all the cutting and stamping together. Then simply assemble and go!

 
 
Supplies:
Stamps:         
Box Words: “Thank [...]

Using Your Brayer for the Discoverer

Do you have a brayer that sits in your drawer because you don’t quite know what to do with it?  I generally use mine with the multi-colored ink pads, such as the Kaleidacolors because it’s easy to create great backgrounds.  There are so many other things you can do with a brayer!  Don’t want to [...]

Inky Fingers

To Copic or not to Copic—that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in art to suffer the pangs of being last among friends to participate in  the latest trend, or to empty the bank account in a sea of purchases… To color, to create…perchance to dream (apologies to Shakespeare.)
Copic markers are the current rage in the [...]

Bounty of Blessings for the Discoverer

Bounty of Blessings
By Penny Yoder, Artistic Guide
Finished Card Size: 4.25″ x 5.50″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Box of Apples (Stampin’ Up!)
Words (mine and the computer. Font: Lucida Handwriting Italic; Size 18)
Paper:
5.5″ x 8.5″ (for the card) and 1″ x 3″ (for the words) yellow cardstock (Stampin’ Up!)
4″ x 5.25″ – apple green cardstock (Die Cuts With a View)
3.75″ x 5″ – [...]

Photos On Cards

 
Photos On Cards
By: Shelly Newkirk, Artistic Guide
Finished Card Size: 5.5″ x 4.25″
Supplies:
Stamps:
“Just For You”  (River City Rubber Works)
Paper:
11″ x 8.5″ scrapbook paper (K & Company, Studio K, Meadow & Breeze paper pad)
Gray-green cardstock (unknown)
Ink:
Library Green Archival Ink (Ranger)
Jet Black Archival Ink (Ranger)
VersaMark (Tsukineko)
Other:
Black fine line embossing powder
Ticket punch (Stampin’ Up!)
Directions:

Attach the scrapbook paper of your [...]

Christmas in August

People usually think of  ‘Christmas in July.’ For me, Christmas starts in August. My husband and I are members of Oregon’s largest choir: Portland’s ‘Singing Christmas Tree,’ with 300 voices. We get our new music the first Monday of August every year, so our Christmas atmosphere starts early. We rehearse every Monday night as a [...]

Mysterious Wolf for the Adventurer

Mysterious Wolf
By: Shelly Newkirk, Artistic Guide
Finished card size: 4.25″ x 5.5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Wolf stamp (Whispers)
Pine bough with pine cones (unknown)
Paper:
White card stock (Georgia Pacific)
Ink:
Jet Black Archival Ink (Ranger)
Other:
Sponge
Dark yellow and brown colored pencils (Rose Arts)
Glue (Crafter’s Pick Ultimate Glue)
Directions:

Cut white cardstock to 8.5″ x 5.5″. Fold in half to create a card measuring 4.25″ x 5.5″.

Sponge black [...]

Black and White Flower Card for the Discoverer

By: Michael A. Trent, Artistic Guide 
Finished card size:6.5” x 5” 
Something else I enjoy doing when using black and white images, papers, etc.  is to add just a dash of color to a project that is 99% black and white.  In this project the emphasis is black and white but I added some color to the [...]

Black and White Tulips Matted Art for the Inventor

Black and White Tulips Matted Art
Regena, Artistic Guide
Finished size:  11″ x 14”
Supplies:
Stamps:
Vase with Tulips (Inkadinkado)
Paper Texture Cube (Stampendous)
Tapestry (Great Impressions) 
Paper:
8.5″ x 11″ matte coated white cardstock (Marco’s Paper)
12″ x 12″ Black Glimmer cardstock (The Paper Company)
Ink:
Coal Black Ancient Page ink (Clearsnap)
Other:
11″ x 14″ White on Black Mat  with 2 two 5″ x 7″ openings (Michaels)
11″ x14″ [...]

New Artistic Designer – Janice Ellis

 Janice Ellis
Janice hails from Canada and rounds out our international team members. While an Asian style is found throughout much of her art work, Janice creates many more projects covering a multitude of styles and images. Here is what she shared with us about herself:

My name is Janice Ellis, a SAHM who got into rubber [...]

New Designer – Maria Loomis

Maria Loomis
Maria lives in Seattle, Washington, where she keeps herself busy teaching classes at her local stamp store, along with participating on a design team for a rubber stamp company.  Maria does a  lot of work with Copic markers, and teaches many, many techinques. She has so generously offered to share her wonderful video tutorials [...]

Fabulous Friend, 1 Stamp=3 Cards. Day 1

One Stamp – 3 Cards
By: Michael A. Trent, Artistic Guide
I have a new motto when deciding if I want to buy a certain stamp – if I can’t think of at least 3 cards or projects to use the stamp with, I don’t buy it.  When I saw this image at my LSS I immediately [...]

June Sketch Card

Oh my goodness! Can you believe it’s June already?  Where has 2009 gone? 
This month our exclusive sketch card, designed by Regena,  is long and skinny with circles and squares. (And you thought you wouldn’t use geometry after high school!)

Our guides share a variety of interpretations with you.  Instead of all long and skinny, some are made [...]

Girl on Log Card for the Adventurer

Girl on Log Card
By: Michael A. Trent, Artistic Guide

Finished card size: 6.5″ x 5″ 
Supplies:
Stamps:
Valentine Tilda (Magnolia)
Log (Magnolia)
Paper:
White cardstock
One sheet each of Pretty Posies, Green Thumb, Sunkissed, and Garden Rows paper (Aunt Gert’s Garden Set – S.E.I.)
Ink:
Jet Black Archival Ink (Ranger)
Pink, Green, Red, Brown markers (Tombow or your choice)
Other:
Pink flowers (Craft Store - wedding section – or [...]

Fairy Happy for the Adventurer

Fairy Happy
By: Sue Trembeth, Artistic Guide
Finished Card Size: 4.5″ x 5.5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Is here – 2710E (Penny Black)
Flower fairy – B1174 (Close to my Heart)
Papers: 
White card stock, 5.5″ x 8.5″, folded in half to form 4.25″ x 5.5″  base card
Glossy white paper,  3.5″ x 2.75″ (unknown)
Black cardstock, 3.625″ x 2.875″(unknown)
Red card stock 3.875″ x 3.125″(unknown)
Black card stock 4.5″ x [...]