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Outside in: Let the Sun Shine

Finished size is a standard business envelope:  4.125″ x 9.5″ Supplies: Stamps: Sun/moon collage (Stampers Anonymous) Sun rays (Coronado Island Stamps) Face (ERA Graphics) Small sun (A Stamp in The Hand) Wish Here Postage (All Night Media) Large Swirl border (Too Much Fun Rubber Stamps) Small border prints (Hero Arts) Soleil (unknown) Papers: Standard Business sized [...]

July Trail Map: Marion’s View

Faith Hope, Love Finished card size:  5”x7” This card is going to a friend who is recovering from surgery. Itr can also be a very different sympathy card. I love the sentiment because it can apply to so many different situations. Supplies: Stamps: Kanji Faith Characters (Stampendous) Fanciful Leaf Filaments (Hero Arts) Sentiment – GW0625 [...]

July 2010 Trail Map

July 2010 Trail Map by Regena This month’s trail map has a lot going on! What to do with those three stips?  Our talented Guides have figured it!  Check out their beautiful and varied take on this month’s map. And you’re in for treats all week long. We not only have our Map Master’s rendition [...]

June 2010 Map Master Project

Travel Card  Finished card size: 5.25″ x 7.875″ Whenever I see tags, I think of  luggage, exotic places, exotic drinks and airplane food. So I’m making this month’s card with  an international travel theme. I’m making it a  larger size card to fit my stamps. Supplies: Stamps: London, Paris, Italia, Pyramids, Stonehenge and International Post Mark (Hero [...]

The Standards:Celebrate

Finished card size: 4” x 9.25” Supplies: Stamps: Galaxy of Stars (Hero Arts) Any greeting/sentiment stamp Paper: Cardstock: (Bazzill)      Sandbox      Rope      Phoenix      Deep Blue Ink: VersaMark (Tsukinenko) VersaFine: (Tsukineko)      Onyx Black      Crimson Rose      Majestic Blue  Old Paper Distress Ink (Ranger) Other: White and Clear Embossing Powders Piercing/Needle Tool Beige [...]

May Trail Map

It’s time for our new monthly Trail Map (sketch card).  This month our sketch features triangles, rectangles, and tabs. How would you intepret this month’s Trail Map? Here are our Artistic Guides’ interpretations: Stamps: Innovative Stamp Creations   Stamps: Hero Arts & Serendipity  Stamps: Doodle Factory & Firecracker Designs by Pamela  Stamps: Gina K Designs  Stamps: Another [...]

Reverse Stamps- the final day

Think Oz and you will recognize our last day’s theme! Poppies- those vibrant and gorgeous flowers. They call for brilliant loud colors. Bright reds, oranges and pinks. Yes,  there are pink poppies- I have them in my garden. We are using Hero Arts’ Poppy Background CG140. Our first card is stamped with black pigment ink and [...]

Reverse Stamps Day 3

YIPPEE Spring is here! I don’t know where all of you are from, but I am in Pennsylvania and all of us on the East Coast have had one heck of a winter!! We are so ready for spring! Today we are using Silhouette Flower CG105 by Hero Arts. The daisies will bring a smile [...]

Reverse stamps Day 2

Alllll-righty Folks… You all, saw the video I posted yesterday, right? I am sure you all are hooked the same way I was. Let’s see what other stamps and ideas there are, eh? This stamp is Silhouette Bells- CG 165, from Hero Arts. I just love Lilies of the Valley and this stamp reminded me [...]

Those Pesty Reverse Stamps

Hello  Faithful Artists! Have you all seen all those new reverse stamps that Hero Arts has come out with? I would look at them and think, “What the heck?!  I can’t use these!” I would just pass them by without another glance!   While blog hopping one day, I came across a video by Jennifer Maguire [...]

PennyWise Arts Blog Hop 2

 Thanks for hopping along on our Pennywise Arts community blog hop! If you happened to stumble upon us, the previous blog in the hop is over at our friend, Jennifer’s, blog at:   Crafty Chick from Maine Our friend, and co-editor, Stephanie Loomis, is the next stop in the hop. Hop on over to her blog: MyLife as an Accidental Artist There [...]

March Map Master

Erin go Braugh, and Happy Easter Egg. Instead, let’s celebrate this month making a Birthday card from the March map. I’m not that good on color combinations but you get the idea. Supplies: Stamps: Large frog (All Night Media) Mid-size frog (Inkadinkado) Small frog (Hero Arts) Happy birthday (Viva Las Vegas Stamps) Finger print (Viva [...]

March Trail Map

The March map has a lot going for it.  Create a lovely window to showcase your artwork, or put someone in jail!  Grab a cup of your favorite beverage, sit back, relax, and enjoy the gorgeous artwork the Stamper’s Quest Artist Guides have created for you this month. After oogling at all the inspiration, show us [...]

February Trail Maps

February 2010 Trail Map by Regena Good things come in threes!  Rectangles, triangles and a circle (or is that an embellishment?).  Where can you go with this map?  Let’s see what trails the Artistic Guides were led down this month to inspire you to follow your own trail map! Stamps: Another Stamp Company Stamps: Hampton Arts  Stamps: [...]

Sue T.’s Valentine’s Day Series: Day Three

    OK !! Not all Valentine’s have to be red or pink. We can try to shake it up a bit! One of my staff asked me to make a card for her 15 year old son- guitar hero extraordinaire! I was sure he wouldn’t like a red or pink card. Here is nontraditional [...]

Sue T.’s Valentine’s Day series: Day Two

    Welcome back Readers. Here is Day Two in my week-long Valentine Series. I am going to make you work a bit today. This is a very special card for you to give someone very special. You know who will be getting this card  from me, and it won’t be my sweet cat Pinkie! [...]

January 2010 Map

In keeping with our theme of quests, trails, hiking, scenic by-ways, we are changing the name of our sketches!  To find our way during our journeys, we generally need a map to help guide us to our destination.  Sketches help guide us in our creative journey, beginning at the trailhead (a few stamps, ink, paper) and ending at [...]

Sue’s Advent Series – Week Four, Christmas Found Elements: Day Four

Finished size: 4.25″ x 5.5″ Supplies: Stamps: Christmas Found Elements. C-8449 (Stampington and Co.) Merry holiday borders LL113 (Hero Arts) Papers: Cream card stock (unknown) Decorative papers (Memory Box) Black card stock (unknown) Inks: Tuxedo Black Momentos ink pad (Tsukineko) Other: Glue Stick Foam Tape Metallic Chalks (Pebbles) Diamond Screen Embossing Folder (Quickcutz) Oval  and Scalloped [...]

Sue’s Advent Series – Week Three, Owl Christmas: Day Five

      Here we are at the end of week three! Aren’t those owls just so much fun! Boy it is amazing those owls seem to have staying power in the stamping world. They are just as hot this year as last year.           Finished size: 4.25″ x 5.5″ Supplies: [...]

Sue’s Advent Series – Week Three, Owl Christmas: Day Four

Finished size:  4.5″ x 4.5″ Supplies: Stamps: Owl Christmas -CL238 (Hero Arts) Papers: Matte White Card Stock( unknown) Red card stock scrap (Die Cuts With A View) Inks: Mementos ink pads:  (Tsukineko)      Tuxedo Black      Rhubarb Stalk Other: Square and Scalloped Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders) Snow flake Embossing Folder (ProvoCraft) Liquid Pearls White Opal (Ranger) [...]

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