Cottage Lane Stamper

Well January is off to a rocky start.  I hadn't had classes since October due to the death of my mother, the holidays and then some health issues afterward.  Seems one of my conditions decided to rear it's  ugly head the morning of my Wednesday a.m. class so I had to cancel at the last minute. Happy news is, I had a new face at class on Tuesday night and possibly a new hair stylist!  And she lives in the neighborhood!  It was also  good to reconnect with class members/friends again on Tuesday night. This is one of the cards we made using the "Geared Up Garage" bundle, which is part of a suite of products, including embellishments, DSP and ribbon which can all be found on page 43 of the Occasions catalog.   Purchase this bundle with the DSP, embellishments or ribbon and get a free item from the Sale-a-bration catalog! I CASE'D this from Frenchie Stamps.  There are so few masculine Valentine cards and I really love thi...

If you know me, you know I don't sleep well.  So this morning in the wee hours, I got up and started to putter around in my craft room, putting way my new things from the Holiday catalog.  I got to the Beautiful Blizzard bundle  I got some ideas that I just had to try out with the Blizzard Thinlet!  Let me show you! Alternative ways to use the die: Looking at these two cards you can see that I used the positive and negative images.  Card 1: On a 4 x 5 piece of card stock, which is the size of the Thinlet, I adhered a piece of our Adhesive Sheet to the whole piece of Shimmer cardstock. Then I ran it through the Big Shot.  I ran it through a couple time.  It was early so my brain was still in a bit of a fog.  It wouldn't cut through the backing of the Adhesive sheet.   Then the light bulb came on!   Duh! the adhesive was on the snowflakes, I didn't need to punch them out.   So I peeled th...

When I first opened my new catalog, to page 129, I fell in love with the simplicity of this card and it's beautiful images. I not only used the Springtime Impressions as a die cut.  I also used it as an embossing die with my Impressions pads, something also newly available in the 2018-2019 catalog. When using the Impressions pad you can emboss images onto paper, much like an embossing folder.  You can see the faint impression on the banner. I CASE'D this card from the catalog and when I couldn't decide on the DSP for the banner I thought I would try out my new Impressions pad with this Framelit. I also didn't use the whole die cut.  You can very easily trim off part of it with your paper snips to however much you want to use. Do you love this new Balmy Blue color as much as I do?  I used it as a wash on the back layer.  The stamps are a two step for the flowers and leaves.  I used the Balmy Blue once again by stamping off for the main fl...