ADVENT CALENDAR BOOKS 

Hey everyone....

It's been longer than I thought since I've been here but

 I wanted to share this awesome project. I found this great 

tutorial for an Advent Calendar Book and decided to 

make them for my grandaughters.

The insides are identical thats why there is 

only one picture

I changed the spine size to 3" and adjusted the size 

of the boxes from 1" deep to 1.25" deep so a 

scrunchie would fit...lol!! 

I made all the boxes from white 68lb cardstock

 and cut print card stock for each. 

Tip: I have found in the many projects I have done

that its hard to get a crisp fold on heavy cardstock

and its my opinion that you can add strength to any

 lighter weight cardstock box by gluing layers like

 I did here with the print cardstock. 

This also applies to multiple layers of die cut 

letters, frames etc.

I was really happy with the way they turned out!!

I painted the High Hopes Rubber Stamps 

images with Tombow markers.

I used my older circle dies and a set of lower case

letters I bought a few years ago. 

I was missing a lot of stuff to even start these books

and being Covid I had to shop for the rest online. 

I purchased the heavy chipboard, strong tape, 

all the papers and sparkle paper for the box numbers 

from a great shop in Windsor, Nova Scotia

My Stamping Studio!!

https://www.facebook.com/mystampingstudio/

I hope you like my advent books and here are

the links to the original designer of this project

YouTube video

Maymay Made It

Thanks so much for stopping by...

Karen x

Silly Monsters

Hi everyone.....

I have been playing with these adorable monsters...

from Your Next Stamp "Silly Monsters"

I couldn't resist them....soooo cute!!

I have created a bridge card for my monsters

from a great tutorial by Jennifer Mcguire.

Love all the different fancy folds and design

ideas that Jennifer shares with us!!

Thanks so much!!

I am using 3 of the monsters in the set and 

a balloon from my High Hopes stamps. I 

embossed all the images and painted them 

with Tombows. I used an embossing folder

for the card.

I hope you like it!!

Thanks so much for stopping by....

Karen X

HELLO EVERYONE....

I created this card with a new stamp set from

 Your Next Stamp...."Cool Tees!"

I thought my granddaughter would have

some fun with this set.

This is a birthday card I made

with the little kitty in the set.

I paper pieced the tee shirt and colored

the kitty with Tombows. 

I hope you like it!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Karen x

Hello everyone....

It has been so long since I have blogged I didn't even remember how to do this.....lol!!!

It took me some time  but I think I am in control now!!!

Anyway I have been fooling around with different shaped cards, moving cards and 3D cards.....there are so many awesome designers out there....

Thanks so much for sharing your designs!!

I am not used to small stamps but I needed some for the cards I wanted to create so I checked out  Your Next Stamp!! They had just what I was looking for and it's a great Canadian stamp company too!! 

I chose these adorable little owls....Life's a Hoot to make this adorable "pop up shadow box card" designed by 

Jennifer Mcguire.

It was really tough getting a good pic to show how fun this card is so I will try to explain it as best I can!!

This pic shows the shadow box effect.

This pic shows what the card looks like closed.

This pic shows how the owls have moved. When you pull on the side tabs the two owls at the top move back and forth. Cute eh!!

I am going to try and add this to the YNS challenge blog so wish me luck....not sure I remember how!!

Thanks so much for stopping by...

Karen x

High Hopes Spring release 2016

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.....

Today is my last sneak peek of 

High Hopes Spring 2016 release!!!

The whole release is just amazing so I

hope you will check it out on April 1st on

 the High Hopes website and at

One Crazy Stamper!!

Also there will be SVG cutting files 

available for all the new stamps too!!!

My card today is created with....

"Rocking Out"

I embossed the image with black and

painted it with Tombows.  I used a music

embossing folder for the background and

the DP is from Doodle bug. 

The Tombows I used are.....

133-126-N65-N75-N60-528

925-985-N25-977-991

I used Heavenly H2o's for the white.

I hope you have enjoyed the sneak peeks

this week and 

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

KAREN x

High Hopes Spring 2016 new release

Hey Everyone.....

I hope you are enjoying  our 

High Hopes new release!! 

I am back today with another

fabulous stamp to share with you!!

I created a shadow box card using

the adorable "Puppy Wonder"

I embossed the image with black and

painted it with Tombows. I created the 

clouds with a scalloped oval cut out 

and distress ink and a sponge. I cut

out and layered the butterfly and used a 

die cut for the grass. The frame was 

made with a MS punch. The dp is by 

Doodle Bug.

The Tombows I used are.....

451-452-761-723-133-098-606-623 

I painted the puppy with Heavenly H2o's

Thanks so much for stopping by....

KAREN x

High Hopes Spring 2016 release day 2

Hello everyone.....

I am back again today for another

High Hopes 2016 Spring Release

sneak peek!!!!

We have an amazing new release

and the image I  am using today is

"With Sympathy"

I just love that the sentiment and image 

are all one stamp!!

I embossed the image with black and

painted it with Tombows. I colored and 

cut out all the little flowers and leaves 

by hand and layered them. Not sure if 

you can see the layers in the picture though!

 I used a punch for the green backround.

The Tombow markers I used are....

553-533-126-098-N60

Hope you can stop by again tomorrow 

for another new stamp sneak peek!!

Thanks so much for stopping by....

KAREN x