Stamping Therapy

Fall and Scarecrows

Hey Guys,

Well, Fall is in the air, my favorite season. I just love the fall colors: reds, rusts, green, pumpkin, brown, etc., so I got inspired to make these ATCs for a Yahoo Group. The theme was "embossing", so I added embossing touches here and there, the acorn and the scarecrow. (Both rubber stamps by A Muse, of course). I also had a chance to go through my "stash" of stickers, tags, die cuts, etc., to see what I could add to these ATCs and I found things I didn't even know I had. And "good" stuff, too! LOL!

For my "Fall" ATC, I used the new acorn stamp from A Muse, embossing it with a black inkpad and embossing powder I bought from Michaels. The patterned paper and gold leaf sticker is from Hot Off the Press, the Fall tag is from a company called Moxxie, the leaf brad is from Target's dollar bins and the acorn stickers and maple brad are from my stash. I inked the edges with a brown Memento inkpad and "viola" all done!

For my "Scarecrow" ATC, I used a picture of a cornfield from a magazine as my background, scarecrow and crow stickers from my stash, and the sticker with the phrase "scarecrows" from Target's dollar bins. I embossed my scarecrow (by A Muse) with black embossing powder and ink from Michaels twice, once on white cardstock and once again on patterned paper from Klutz and Hot off the Press. I then paper pieced my clothes onto my scarecrow, adding some details with Copic markers. I made the Scarecrow's stick from patterned "wood" paper from Hot off the Press and added the Fall "die cut" from Moxxie....Hope you enjoy these babies. They were a lot of fun to make....and now I'm gonna pass out from exhaustion. Ha! Ha! Hopefully, I'll make it to my bed since it's almost 10:30 pm...Have a good night!

Happy Pumpkin and Couch Potato

Hi All,

Happy Friday, Everyone! I'm soooo excited about this weekend! How about you? Tomorrow we are celebrating our kids birthday party at "The Jungle". It's a play area for kids where they can climb, go in tunnels, play video games, and just go bonkers. I'm just glad that we're not having the party at our house, like we usually do. LOL! I just don't have the energy to clean my house! Ha! Ha!...

Well, today I have some more creative ATCs to share with you. These were for an "Artist Choice" category for one of my new Yahoo groups. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out....The first ATC is called "Happy Pumpkin Day" and it is a combination of images from an on-line sampler from Dover Publishing which I printed out on my printer at home, stickers from my stash, Palmer Glitter Glaze (on the pumpkins), google eyes, and Spica Glitter Pens (on the web and spider). I mounted everything on a black piece of cardstock and inked the edges with a white inkpad...

The second ATC is called "Couch Potato". The "Couch Potato" is actually from a "Party City" flyer and the rest of the images (t.v., t.v. tray, "I Love Lucy" image on the t.v. and comedy mask) are from a Google search of images on my computer. The words are a combination of what I printed out on Word and what I  found on the internet. I also tied gold elastic cording on the sides of the "mask" for more embellishment and tried to make it look like "Mr. Couch Potato" was watching t.v. in his living room, soda and chips in hand. This ATC was especially fun because it makes me laugh everytime I look at it....I hope your on your way to a great weekend!

Edgar Allan Poe ATCs

Hey Guys! How ya all doin? Did you miss me? I've just been busy with work and this pregnancy. I'm almost four months along and already showing. In fact, I went to ""Motherhood" yesterday and bought some pregnancy clothes because everything fits me so tight. LOL!...Regarding, my "crafty" style, I was also getting "bored" and wanted to try something different, so I joined two ATC groups on Yahoo that are more "mixed-media" related, combining paper, rubber stamps, clip-art, miscellaneous trims, etc.

One of the categories for my October ATC group was "Edgar Allan Poe" ATCs. I just couldn't resist. I loved Poe's "creepy" stories and poems in Junior High and High School, so I was on a mission to find some pictures of him to use. I found a few pics on the internet and now that I have a new color printer, I couldn't resist putting my ATC together using these images and rubber stamps.....

For my first ATC, called "Never More" I used Poe's "Raven" poem for my background and added this picture of him. I also stamped A Muse's large "Raven" bird and a moon image from SU, cutting them out and placing them on top of Poe's head. The "corner tabs" are also stamps from A Muse which I colored in orange so you could still see the poem from underneath. I then added letter stickers from my stash spelling "Never More", the phrase the raven says over and over again in this poem.

For my second ATC, I used a collage of different images: a picture of Poe taken off the internet, a cut-out  written "letter" taken from an old game, and some rubber stamps from A Muse's Halloween collection. My background is some patterned "bat" paper from SU. I really like how these both came together....I hope you are enjoying my new style and have a great day.