Good Morning! Welcome to another Thursday with Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff!  I had planned on using Lindsay’s new Fun Fair SVG cutting files set, but “life” happened!   My Dh’s needed encouraging, so  I ventured outside my comfort zone and played with Lindsay’s Steampunk Digital Stamp set to create a card for him – work’s been beyond hectic lately, so I tucked a little surprise inside his lunch bag this morning. I’ll have to get crafty after preschool today as his birthday is tomorrow – which means I need to make another card ASAP!  I used lots of Glossy Accents on this one as I as my goal was a single layer – easy to stash in a lunch box and not be smashed sort of card. With that in mind, my “layers” were created in Photoshop – combing several digital scrapbooking products with Lindsay’s stamp set (even my “brads” are faux – created with Spica markers and Glossy Accents). I had to improvise a bit on the card base since my printer and I couldn’t agree on the sizing – I said borderless, it printed what it wanted – which meant the scaling wasn’t consistent (though scaling was NOT checked either!!) – one of these days I’ll get it figured out.

Recipe:

• Digital Stamps: Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff Steampunk
• Digital Papers/Styles: Bunny Cates From the Archive; Kim Broedelet Foiled Styles 1 and Paper Creases (blog freebie)
• Ink:  HP Inkjet; Ranger Antique Linen Distress; SU Chocolate Chip, Going Gray and Sahara Sand; Spica Markers
• Cardstock: Bazzill Textured Trio (Brown); Georgia Pacific White
• Other: Tombow Mono-Adhesive; Fiskars Paper Trimmer; Photoshop; Ranger Glossy Accents 

Challenges I Played In:

• Tellen’s Place – Anything Goes
• Sweet Stampin’ Challenge – Just a Note
• No Time to Stamp – Let’s Here It for the Guys
• Southern Girls Challenge – Anything Goes
• Gingerloft – Anything Goes

Have a fabulous day! If you haven’t arrived from Lindsay’s blog, be sure to stop by – I know there’s a freebie and the links to the other DT blogs. Don’t forget Lindsay’s sale – 30% off through tomorrow. Happy creating!

Happy Thursday! Just  a quick post from me as we’re off to Preschool again this morning – and still adjusting to our new routine.  First off, MyGrafico is having an end of summer sale, which means Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff, as well as the other designers products, are on sale!

Lindsay has released a new SVG set – called Teacher’s Helper – super cute and easy to use. Since my little one just started Preschool, and I am volunteering at her school, this set was perfect for me!  I used it to create cute little pencil boxes/teacher gifts.  The super cute paper is from the Animal Cracker Stack (DCWV). I added little rhinestone embellishments from My Mind’s Eye – and viola – cute and easy! Really easy – just load the files in Sure Cuts A Lot, pick your, paper, and cut!  Now I  just have to finish the other 8!

Challenges I Played In:

• ABC Design Blog – Back To School
• Cutie-Sunday – Anything But A Card
• Hand Stamped Sentiments – Anything But A Card
• Little Red Wagon – Back To School
• One Stop Craft Challenge – Not A Card
• Paper Cutz – Anything Goes

If you haven’t already been to Lindsay’s Blog, be sure to stop by. I know she has a fabulous freebie and the links to all of the other DT projects (as well as some amazing creations of her own!).  Don’t forget the sale – 30% off as well!

That’s all from me – another morning of preschool and a lunch date await us! Have a fabulous day!

Happy Thursday and welcome to another adventure in creating using Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff designs.  Lindsay recently released a stamp set to coordinate with her Steampunk Style SVG cutting files – so I decided to once again venture outside my comfort zone and create a card using one of her Steampunk Style Digital Stamps images. I paired the typewriter with one of the digi-papers in Lindsay’s School Papers printables in Photoshop and let my Cricut and Sure Cuts A Lot (SCAL), and one of Penny Duncan’s awesome nesting cutting files do the rest.  In order to get my sizing correct, I used Inkscape to export the cutting file layers I wanted to use as bitmaps so that I could “read” them in Photoshop.  I resized the digital paper and clipped it to the cutting file template, duplicating as needed.  Then I added the typewriter image and printed out my layers.  I tried using Penny’s technique to cut the printed images with SCAL, but I wasn’t overly successful, so I opted to cut them out with my trusty scissors and use SCAL to cut my non-printed layers – which are embossed using Cuttlebug folders and my Big Shot. Before adhering everything together, I edged the layers with my Basic Black (SU) marker to seal the edges and add just a bit more definition. I also stippled Black Soot Distress Ink (Ranger) over the typewriter layer to combat the stark white CS I printed on – I thought the tiny bit of distressing added to the overall vintage feel. The card base is from DCWV La Crème box set – I am loving these! I wish our Joann’s had the 8×8 or 12×12 set of this style – it’s definitely on my wish list! I added pearl accents (Michaels) and viola – a 7-layer black and white vintagey card emerges.

Challenges I Played In:

• Incy Wincy Designs – Challenge #50
• KL  Stampin’ and Scrappin’ – Dry Embossing
• Little Paper Shop – Distressing
• Paper Sundaes – Lots of Layers
• Penny’s Challenges – 7 of Something
• Practical Scrappers – Embossing
• Paper Crafts Connection – Vintage Typewriter

If you haven’t been to Lindsay’s blog yet, be sure to stop by! She always has tons of inspiration as well as the links to the other DT projects.

Happy Crafting!