Spring Stamp Camp Announcement and Another Sneak Peak of a Stamp Camp Card!

SPRING STAMP CAMP

with Dies, Stencils, Punches and Specialty Paper

Designed and Hosted by Karen Hasheck 

and Jane Luxem

SATURDAY, MAY 16 – 10 am to 1 pm

DC Everest Sr. High School – Room 121

COST $25

includes supplies, snacks, beverages

and DOOR PRIZES

Deadline to register is May 10.  Reservations and pre-payment are required.  Space is limited so reserve your spot now by emailing Karen at khasheck@gmail.com or calling 

715-359-5788.

  Mail your check to:

Karen Hasheck

5507 Hickory St.

Schofield WI 54476

If you are new to stamping, let us know when you register.

There will be no sales or promotions.

Please bring a class kit which includes adhesive, scissors, mounting tape/pop dots.

We may add a second session during the week if needed so let us know if this date does not work for you. 

My Designer's Choice Challenge- Punches and/or Dies with Stamps

It’s another Designer’s Choice Challenge at The House that Stamps Built, Repeat Impression’s blog. It is my turn and I have challenged my team and you to create a card using punches and/or die cuts with stamps. Why don’t you join us in this challenge and enter your card for a chance to win some awesome Repeat Impressions rubber? Please visit the blog for all the details and to see the other Rock Star's projects for this DCC challenge. I have seen them and you do not want to miss them!

I find myself designing with die cuts and punches all the time now and when you combine them with great stamps, you have the best of both worlds. I loved this Easter card I found on Pinterest and decided to CASE it for this challenge. I started with an oval stitched die from My Creative Time cut in the center of a white piece of cardstock. I die cut another oval in a piece of acetate and used that to sponge the pastel colors in the egg onto the white card base. I stamped the “beauty of springtime” sentiment from Repeat Impressions in the center of the pastel colors and attached the front piece with mounting tape to raise it. I die cut a couple pastel bows (Clearly Besotted) and added a gem to complete the Easter card.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at Craft Your Passion and Crafting from the Heart, and the Design TeamShowcase.

And don’t forget: For a 10% discount on any size order at Repeat Impressions, just make a note of my discount code (rr10kh), click on the blog badge on the side of my blog and go to the website here to shop and save!

Playing with Brushos and Goosebumps and NBUS

I am in between deadlines for publications and design teams which means I have time to play which makes me very happy. I also have a pile of NBUS (never before used schtuff) which is mostly dies and playing with new dies makes me very happy too:) I saw some cards using these head phone dies from My Favorite Things and the matching stamp set and I just had to get them. Perfect for teenagers, right?

I purchased Goosebumps spray a while back after seeing some cool cards my dt buddy Deonna made. She used it with Bisters as a resist so I thought I would try some backgrounds with my Brusho Crystal Colors and the Goosebumps. I sprayed the Goosebumps on watercolor paper but admit I had a hard time controlling where the spray went. I thought I got too much on the piece, but went ahead and added Brushos and spritzed this card is the result. The MFT "You Rock" was stamped on a Spellbinders flag label die cut piece.

The Brusho colors I chose were black, brown and grey- which are fun to use but are not black, brown and grey...They are a wild assortment of blues, oranges and other colors. I thought I would try one just dotting the Goosebumps on with the nozzle piece, but that didn't really work. BUT I have found that no matter what you do with Brushos and Bisters, the result is pretty cool and there is no need to throw it away. Here is my second card playing with Brushos and Goosebumps:

See what I mean about these cool Brusho colors? The MFT headphones get cut out twice (grey and black) so I used the second pair for this card. I also had a set of My Creative Time speech bubbles dies in my NBUS pile so I used one of them with another fun saying from My Favorite Things.

I am entering the first card in the anything goes challenges at 613 Avenue Create and Scribble and Scrap.

Celebrate Card in Kraft and Cream

I was so inspired by this card I found on Pinterest  not only to make this card but to buy the curved borders die set from Spellbinders. Just had to have it! One of my favorite color combos is kraft and cream so that is another reason I love this card. I embossed the kraft card base with my favorite embossing folder- Swiss Dots from Cuttlebug. Then I cut the curvy border using three of the dies on a cream piece. I die cut the Memory Box butterflies out of kraft and cream and added a "celebrate" cut with a Penny Black die cut out of cream cardstock. Another class card ready to be shared.

I am entering this card in the kraft challenge at Fairy Tale Challenges and the Things with Wings challenge at Kitty Bee Designs.

New Issue of Through the Craft Room Door has been Released!

The brand new March/April 2015 issue of Through The Craft Room Door magazine is available for your viewing pleasure in the "Subscribers Only Area" of the TTCRD website.  It is loaded with over 100 pages of paper craft tutorials, tons of inspiration and projects you can create. Plus free digis, two articles by me (CHA review and Zentangle tutorial) and 3 of my cards among dozens of great cards. Come check it out! If you do not currently subscribe to the magazine you will need to go to the top of the page and click on the Subscription/Renewals tab. I highly recommend everyone get a subscription to this great on line magazine.

The card above is one that was published in this newest issue of TTCRD. I also shared it in the classes I teach in my home and it features the Dahlia Fold. For more details on the card, please visit the TTCRD website.

There is a new challenge in this issue and this is the card I made for that challenge. You can join in this challenge and maybe win a great prize. You will also get your card published in the on line magazine. The challenge is to use these colors in a card: 

I made a guy card using my stamps from Crackerbox Palace. I am entering these cards in the Anything Goes challenges at Sister Act and Art by Miran.

Easter/Spring Cards 4 Kids at Send a Smile 4 Kids

It’s Saturday and time for another fun challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids! This time our challenge is Easter/Spring Cards 4 Kids! Create and link any Easter or Spring card for a child and you could win one of our great prizes. 

We have three very generous sponsors for this challenge: Crackerbox Palace is giving their winner 3 digis of their choice from the CBP stamps at their website!  The Cutting Café is giving their randomly picked winner 3 digi or cutting files!  And Kitchen Sink Stamp’s winner gets a $25 gift certificate! TEAM S.A.S will also be choosing their favorite cards for our top three and the winners will receive a blog badge and an opportunity to be a guest design team member on a future challenge.

My first card above features fun Easter stamps from Crackerbox Palace. The Easter egg with feet just makes me smile, and I hope that happens when one of our kids gets this card. I stamped the egg on a white oval piece cut out with a Nestabilities die. I paper pieced the egg with some colorful dp and colored the legs. I filled up the white space around the egg with bright dots of Copic color. Then I layered it onto a pink scalloped oval (also Nestabilities.) The yellow cardbase was embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder.The fun sentiment was stamped, cut out with another Spellbinders die and sponged pink while still in the die.

My second card is a sweet shaped bunny from The Cutting Cafe'. I simply cut out the bunny shaped card, the feet, ears, nose and front white piece. Then I added a face, heart and ribbon to complete the cute card.

I am entering my cards in the Anything Goes challenge at Scrapper's Delight and the shaped cards challenge at Fab 'n' Funky.

St. Patrick's Day Fun Fold Card

It's Crackerbox Palace Friday and today I am sharing a St. Patrick’s Day fun fold card made with stamps from Crackerbox Palace. To make this card, I started with a piece of spring green paper 12” x 5 ½” and scored at 2, 4 , 8 and 10 inches. Fold mountain, valley, valley, mountain resulting in a 4 x 5/12 card. I have seen this card fold used with punched owls and other animals- the key is to attach two stamped or punched figures to the top fold on both sides and one to the center of the bottom fold. I stamped two of Crackerbox Palace’s leprechauns, cut out and attached to two stitched ovals. I attached them with adhesive on the top half only to the sides of the top folded half. Then I stamped CBP’s leprechaun hat, cut out, attached to a stitched oval and put that in the center of the bottom half. The stitched oval dies are from My Creative Time. I stamped the curved sentiment and a couple more shamrocks on the front. 

On the inside of the folded card, I stamped another shamrock and a lovely Irish blessing. I don’t usually make St. Patrick’s Day cards, but these stamps from Crackerbox Palace are just too fun to resist. I will share another St Pat’s card next Friday.

**As a present to you from Crackerbox Palace, all the  stamps  on this card will be 20% OFF for one week! What a deal! **

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Love’s Rubberstamps and the “Good Luck” challenge at Open-Minded Crafting.