Candy, Store & Coupon

I'm really excited to announce that I opened my new Etsy store this week - Vintage Page Designs!


If you follow my blog you'll know that I love to create things with old book pages. I have a real passion for collecting interesting old books, illustrations and ephemera. Trouble is, these things just seem to follow me home from flea markets and thrift stores, and now my house is full :) So, "why not share the love on Etsy?", I asked myself.


I've only just begun to fill the store, but the kinds of items you can expect to find are vintage book pages of all kinds, ephemera, old photographs, kits and pre-made journals and cards. I plan to offer some digital content in the near future. I put new items in every day, so you never know what you might find!

As a thank you to those of you who visit my blog, I'm offering up some blog candy and a special 20% coupon for the store. The code is newenglandstamper and you enter it at check out. It applies to all items in the store, but not on shipping. The code will be valid for one week until midnight on Sunday, September 18th, 2011.

And now to the blog candy.....I'm giving away a selection items from my store and some stamps (because it's all about the stamping, right?)

The package includes: packages of my vintage French and school dictionary pages, vintage botanical illustrations, three Victorian children cabinet cards, some vintage lace and pink buttons plus one my handmade sheet music notebooks.

Plus, two sets of acrylic stamps from Inkadinkadoo and 6 unmounted rubber stamps from Crafty Individuals.


All y0u need to do is visit the Vintage Page Designs store and select your favorite item. Leave a comment here letting me know what your fave item is and you'll be in with a chance to win the blog candy. I'll randomly draw the winner next Sunday and announce it on the blog on Monday, September 19, 2011 . Good luck!

Winter Art Exchange

It's my pleasure to host another Art Exchange on Gingersnap Creations! This time around we'll be creating 4" x 4" panels with a Winter Theme. I created my Snow Baby by stamping this adorable Crafty Individuals stamp onto a piece of Antiqued Glimmer (TJ technique - Dec 09). He's mounted onto a piece of white snowflake embossed c/stock and wrapped in some cozy fibers.

For more details, read the Art Exchange Post. I hope we get lots of players!

Happy weekend,

Ali

Back after a Break

I took a blogging break for a few weeks over the summer to spend time with family and friends. We had family staying with us for best part of a month and we did a bunch of fun things. Here's a brief snapshot:

I just have two Gingersnaps challenge projects to share today - the first for the current color challenge (red and black) and the second for the supply challenge (punches). The color challenge card uses an image from Crafty Individuals and is colored with Prisma pencils and gamasol. The background stamp and sentiment are both from SU.

The second card was made using the Inchie Masterboard technique and a retired SU set called Architectural Elements. It probably needs a sentiment or another embellishment, but I literally had five minutes to make it. The punch I used was a 1" square punch.


I hope to start stamping again next week if I can find some mojo from somewhere - it's been months since I've sat down and made something just for fun. Sigh.....

Happy weekend!

Ali

Paper Peeling & Color Challenge

There's a new color challenge on Gingersnaps - GC64: Yellow, Orange and Red. I posted it last Wednesday, but have been a very flaky blogger and this is the first chance I've had to post my card here.

In fact, I made two cards with this color combination using the Peeled Paper technique (TJ newsletter April/May 2010). I used my favorite Fabriano watercolor cards for the bases and stamps from Crafty Individuals. I used Distress Inks to create the panels - Mustard Seed, Barn Door and Spiced Marmalade.


Here's a closer look at the peeled paper.


Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful weekend!

Ali

Book Page Backgrounds

I had a lot of fun writing a tutorial called Book Page Backgrounds on Gingernsnap Creations this week. Here are the cards I created for it.

This is my favorite because I love how the text peeks through behind the silhouette image.


You can see it more closely here:

This flower is made from Grunge Board. I created one of the book page backgrounds on a sheet of GB and ran it through the Big Shot with one of the new Tim Holtz dies. I also made some birds, which I can't wait to find a use for. I inked around the edge of the flower to give some definition.


Finally, this card uses one of my favorite Technique Junkie techniques - Herringbone (Dec 09/Jan10). I used up left over scraps from the different sheets I made to create this herringbone effect.

If you like the look of these backgrounds, head to Gingersnaps for the full tutorial.

Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful day!

Notecards for Teacher

For Teacher Appreciation week, I made Hannah's fourth grade teacher a set of six note cards. And Hannah picked a bunch of beautiful lilacs from our yard, which smelled divine.

This another one of my new stamps from Crafty Individuals and I used the Washed Color technique described in the previous post.

The card bases are, as always, Fabriano Watercolor cards and the watercolor paper is also by Fabriano. I'm such a huge fan of these - I buy big boxes of them from Dick Blick, so that I never run out!



I'm not sure if you can see it, but I highlighted the images with a sprinkle of glitter:

Have a splendid weekend!

Ali

Clean and Simple Thistles

Can you believe I've had Crafty Individuals stamps for several weeks now and haven't used them? It's a crime! I cracked them open today and made some thank you cards.

The first is for my blogging friend, Susan's new challenge One Layer Wednesday. If you like clean and simple designs, her blog will blow you away!

This is super super simple, but I like it anyway. The image was stamped with Versamark onto cream c/stock, colored with chalks and highlighted with some glitter. The photo doesn't show the glitter well, but it's on the top of the thistles and I applied it with a glue pen.


The next set of cards uses the same stamps and were created using a TJ technique called Washed Colors. You apply several different colors of watercolor paint to a piece of c/stock and run the colors together. Quick, simple and so easy.


Thanks for stopping by!