Tag Archive for ‘Watering Hole’
Sewing Notions with the Sew Easy
Sewing Notions With the Sew Easy By: Cathy Peper, Artistic Guide Finished card size: 5.5″ x 5.5″ Supplies: Stamps: Sewing notions (Blockhead Rubber Stamps) Greeting and frame on 2nd card (Stamping Scrapping) Paper: Solar White (Neenah) Kraft Paper (Papertrey Ink) Patterned Paper-Victoria Gardens (Echo Park) Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko) Other: Sew Easy Stitch [...]
Crafting With OCOD
Crafting with OCOD By: Lisa Minckler, Artistic Guide Hello to all you wonderful readers of Stamper’s Quest. I am one of the “newbies” of the group and this is my first blog article since joining. I’m delighted to be part of this experience and I hope that what I’m sharing with you today can [...]
The Search is Over
The search is over, and we are happy to welcome five new members to our team. We have quite a crew. These folks will bring such a wide range of creative styles to the team of Artistic Guides. We are excited to bring you their projects in the coming months. Please say hello to: Lisa [...]
Thoughts on Masculine Cards
Thoughts on Masculine Cards By Marion Davis, Artistic Guide Before we begin I will apologize for bending the rules a tad in my photos. First of all, there’s a lot of them, and I haven’t included stamp credits since they came out of my “masculine” stash. Secondly, not all the cards even have a [...]
Playing With Mists
Playing with Mists Finished card sizes: Flower and Crown 5.5 by 4.25 inches. Owl 5 by 7 inches. Supplies: Stamps: Girl (Hearts in Touch) “Handle with Care” (7 Gypsies) Beaded circle design and sentiment (Stamping Scrapping) Owl (Tattered Angels) Owl Sentiment (Mark’s Finest Papers) Paper: Cardstock: White (Neenah) Sweet Mango (Gina K) Enchanted Evening (Papertrey [...]
Father’s Day Card
Finished Card Size: 5″ x 7″ With Father’s Day just around the corner, I wanted to feature a Father’s Day Card with several versions of basically the same card. Supplies: Stamps: Fisherman and boy digital stamp (Karen’s Doodles) Astibe foliage stamp (Penny Black) World’s Greatest Dad digital stamp (birdscards.com) Water Pattern (Stampscapes) Cloud Cumulus (Stampscapes) [...]
Paper and Ink Pens
By: Nancy Thaut, Artistic Guide I always find it interesting that when I see something I really like, the colors are perfect, and I know exactly what inks and pens have been used and I try to do exactly the same thing, but it doesn’t look the same. The picture shown below is using the [...]
“Apeeling” Peel Offs – Part 3
By: Marion Davis – Artistic Guide This time I want to give you a few techniques that will take your stickers to a new dimension. Under Metal: Use HVAC tape from the hardware store or Metal Foil by Amaco. If you are going to color these with alcohol inks do that first. Cut a piece [...]
“Apeeling” Peel Offs – Part 2
By: Marion Davis, Artistic Guide Image Stickers This article covers the positive and negative parts of image stickers, and how to add color in the background, to the outlines themselves, and to background paper as well as layering on colored papers. Let’s start by discussing how to handle larger stickers. If you want to span [...]
“Apeeling” Peel Offs – Part 1
By: Marion Davis, Artistic Guide For those of you who are unfamiliar with “peel off” stickers I think you are in for a treat. First of all these stickers have many names. I was originally introduced to them by friends from the UK. There they are called “Peel offs” and Dawn Bibby had many on [...]
Art Coasters
Art Coasters By: Cathy Peper, Artistic Guide Finished Size: 4 by 4 inches One of the Yahoo groups I belong to, Gingersnap Creations, recently did an exchange of art coasters and I joined in. Now, my first experience with this fun stamping surface was after reading a post here at Stamper’s Quest by our very [...]
More Metal Embellishments**RRR**
Finished Card Size: 5.5” x 4.25” For my March “Green” project I added a couple of flowers and leaves using a pop can, embossing folders and Provo Craft dies with my Cuttlebug. I enjoyed it so much that I decided that I’d expand on that idea and see what I could come up with for [...]
Coffee Filter Flowers
By: Cathy Peper, Artistic Guide Finished card sizes: 5.5 by 5.5 4.25 by 5.5 I wanted to try making flowers out of coffee filters since I’ve seen many examples of this on line. One such example, which I followed, is at Gingersnap Creations. Card One Supplies: Stamps: Sentiment (Stamping Scrapping) Paper: Green card stock (7 [...]
Using what you have **RRR**
Recycle, Reuse, Reduce, or Consolidate, Finish, and Purge By: Marion Davis, Artistic Guide I must admit that I was a bit stumped when I first saw the theme for this year, but having had time to think about it, I realized that it was something I needed to embrace. Then came ideas for all the [...]
Visible Adhesives
By: Cathy Peper, Artistic Guide Last month on one of the Yahoo groups I belong to, Inky Fun Stampers, we had a challenge to use visible adhesives, such as brads and eyelets. I thought this was an interesting idea so decided to blog about it here at the Watering Hole. There are of course many [...]
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 [...]
Here we grow again! (Call for Designers)
It must be spring along the SQ Trail. Things are blossoming by leaps and bounds and Stamper’s Quest needs more help leading the way through all the new growth. We need three new Artistic Guides, and this is YOUR chance to join one of the best teams on the internet! We have three design team openings to [...]
Running in Circles
Shapes are a great place to find inspiration. Complex shapes become backgrounds, simple shapes become card elements or even whole cards. This card was inspired by a plate of spaghetti. I love the shapes formed by the noodles on the plate and there are days when my brain seems loose and loopy like those noodles. [...]
Monochromatic Magazine Motivation
Exercising may be an odd time to find inspiration, but you never know what might make your Muse cooperate. I found inspiration for this card in a women’s magazine while walking the treadmill at the gym. The page is simply a divider between sections, but the simplicity of the layout captured me. I tore out the page [...]
My Muse and a Bottle of Epoxy
What inspires you when you’re stuck in an artistic rut? For me, the sources of inspiration are as varied as the colors of nature. I look to arts and craft magazines (especially Stamper’s Quest), to my stash of swap cards and ATCs, and to every book I can get my hands on. I’ve joined clubs, [...]
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