One Stamp Challenge card!

Jeanette sent me this card for the one stamp challenge, thanks Jeanette!

She says " I love the circle of flowers. I stamped it twice with black and clear embossing powder on the white card. Once again on a piece  of white cardstock which is layered onto the card. I colored the floral design with a damp brush using markers. I accented the grouping with black ink lines. What fun!" Jeanette

The Eyes Have It!

The brown card with eyes and dragonfly is a lovely card by Jeanette!

You can go here to see our gallery of cards where this and many others are explained and there are links to the main web page for the stamp's specific pages where you can order the stamps used.

Eyes can be seen here; our outline dragonfly is here. The background stamp is not one of ours. Sequins embellish the card--great job Jeanette!

Striped feather and eyes card is one that we have had up in our booth at conven

tions for many years; unfortunately I'm not sure who stamped the card.

Leafing pens $4.00 each till gone!

Krylon Leafing Pens in copper, silver and pale gold: Leafing Pens on sale for $4.00 each until stock runs out (quantity in stock listed on the web page). These sell for as much as $6.95 so gobble these up! Sale on web page only, not good in our store in New Holstein.

(color shown in pic has sold out)

GLITTER GLUE ON SALE til Aug. 4

Now until Aug. 4th our $2.00 regular priced glitter glue is only $1.59 per bottle while supplies last. Go here to see all the colors we have. This sale is not good in our store but only online. I won't be reordering if a color has sold out. If what you choose is no longer available, I will let you know and you can pick another color. I'll do my best to keep the color list updated :)

New Housecleaning stamps on sale for a month

Until Aug 24th, there is a new bunch of Housecleaning stamps on the web page. These stamps are available unmounted only for 1/2 price. Great deals as low as 88¢ - go check em out!

This time it is borders and backgrounds. I will be adding some pics of cards made with these stamps as I find them hanging in the store's card lines. Some of the borders are long but could easily be cut apart to give half as a gift to a stamping friend!

The card at right uses the wavy dot border

from the middle of the card to the bottom in various shades of color. The main image is Jesus walking on water; a 2 piece stamp set.

A blog challenge--just one stamp

Can you make a card using just one stamp for the main image, the same stamp for background and any layers?

Pick any stamp you own (CowTown or other company) and create a card that has a main image and background and maybe a layer. Email me a copy of that card and I'll post it on here. 

Can you do it? I'm off to find one stamp to use and make a card to show ya what I'm talking about :)

This one is more of what I was hoping for. You can see the background is used with the same mini bandage stamp. I used a golden layer instead of the 2 shown above with the materials.

Look! Laurel has made a card LOL

Yup I made a bunch of them. Used my cuttlebug and did thank you cards for our anniversary party. I did try to rub pastels on them but didn't like how they looked so I left em plain on the front.  I wrote a personal message on the inside, and you can see an atc size pic of us after the vow renewal was inside each card. 

And the winner of our first blog candy is...

Thank you to all who joined in the drawing for our first blog candy.

The randomizer has spoken and the winner is...Rita L. from da Up!

Congratulations Rita! A package with some free unmounteds will be on the way this week to you.

25th Anniversary Party

Oh we had such fun at our 25th anniversary party yesterday! We had about 50 people at the house during the day and tons of food and lots of fun. 

Mark and I renewed our vows and both

 got a bit teary-eyed. After pastor said this concludes the renewal, Mark turns to him and says, "what about the part where I kiss the bride?" As you can see we both got into it :)

It was a wonderful day, lots of our friends and family --we are truly blessed and very thankful for the many blessings in our lives.

If you would like to see all the pictures of the anniversary celebration, click here.

An Awesome card!

My customer Rita from da Up sent me this card using our pearl butterfly. She stamped the image on copier transparency, then used 3-d glaze jelly pens to color, letting each color dry after applying. The white background is done with a cuttlebug and a nestie helped her cut the hole. Vellum tape helped adhere the transparency in the front of the card and beautiful faux stained glass! Thanks Rita for sharing this lovely creation.