She Who Stamps & Scraps

Card Challenge: Distress

This weekend I found a website called Our Creative Corner.  It has a fun sketch challenge each week and I decided to jump on the bandwagon.  This is my take on the challenge posted on Saturday.  The idea was to use distressing as a technique on a card, based on their sketch, which is here:

   

I used a sheet of Bo Bunny 2-sided paper, stamps by Stampers Anonymous & Acey Deucy, distress inks, Tim Holtz metal flowers and TH Tattered Florals die plus a sentiment stamp.  Thanks for stopping  by!

 

Scrapping Sort of Day

It's been a scrapping kind of day for me today, but not in a fun page-making way, more in a scanning/shooting/uploading technical way.  I realize if I'm putting myself out there with stamping I should be doing the same with scrapping, since I do love them both as the title of my  blog implies! So today I put about 30 layouts up in a gallery at scrapbook.com.  This is one of them... I really enjoyed making this a few years ago in a challenge to share more about yourself, with words.  

If you feel like popping over to the gallery, my name is MKemper there.  I think this link should work: scrapbook.com/mkemper.Hope you're all having a great weekend and that you are making art!  

ATC: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

This week Simon Says Stamp has put out a color challenge using Coffee & Cream.    I made this ATC using scattered straw and brushed corduory along with some Maya Road mini tickets, a scrap of a Kay & Co border strip, a paper stash scrap, bit of yarn, and a scallop punch. Attached the tix with Tim's tiny attacher. Colored in a bit of the girl with weathered wood and wild honey. The alpha stickers were a steal at Michael's last week.  They have them in every color and a huge sheet is just a buck.  I decided to add the ATC to a tag and stamped it in complementary colors.  Thanks for looking, and have a great day.

CCC #33: Altered Metal with Alcohol Inks

  This week's challenge at Studio L3 brings us to page 56 of Tim Holtz's great book, the Compendium of Curiousities.  I tried a few things but didn't love them.  Then I pulled out an old embellie box and found this hinge from Making Memories.  Love how you can hide a private note or whatnot with a hinge.  I put a stamped sentiment behind this one. Voila!

 

 

 

  Inked the tag with distressings. Stamps are by Tim Holtz, Stampers Anonymous and Hampton Arts. Bling is Basic Grey. Black door knob is Enamel Accents (Ranger). Thanks for taking a look!

Show Some Stripes

This week's challege at Simon Says Stamp is to show some stripes.  I used 7Gypsies papers and stamps from Stamper's Anonymous, Tim Holtz, and Hampton Arts.  Thanks for stopping by today!

Wendy Vecchi Challenge - Heart Wall Hanging

This week's challenge at the Wendy Vecchi yahoo group is to use a heart and a piece of junk jewelry on a wall hanging.   I painted a chipboard album page with a red pepper paint dabber (Ranger) and then  used a script stamp and some hearts and dots for background.  I embossed a tag with a TH embossing folder.  Painted that red pepper after I ran it through the machine (probably would've been easier to paint it first!) and tore it, then used gel medium to adhere it to the chipboard.  I thought I'd like the torn edges exposed but I didn't, so I covered them with the black rickrack. Got out my crop-o-dile to fit oversized eyelets in the chipboard and added a few punched hearts and some metal words.  The heart and sentiment are studio490 stamps  by Wendy Vecchi, and the little starm charm is my substitute for junk jewelry. The big border on top is a Stampers Anonymous stamp.  Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great day!

Monopoly page embellisment

 

This week's challenge at Simon Says Stamp is to make your own embellishment. I decided to make a date stamp/journaling embellishment for a page about my son Sam winning at Monopoly.  Really, who doesn't love to win Monopoly?  Especially when you're nine and you beat your older brother AND your parents!  The base of this is a Teresa Collins journaling card covered with misc. stuff from my stash along with an Anna Griffin sticky note, a Maya Road tiny ticket and a star punch.  Thanks for looking and have a great weekend!  Maybe you'll break out a board game...

CCC #32: It's All Perspective

This week's CCC challenge at Studio L3 is Inking & Stamping Masks.  It comes from pg. 59 of Tim's Compendium of Curiousities.  I used Tim's umbrella man and sentiment stamps, along with a lot of different background stamps (text, grid, honeycomb and cracked glass).  Also a small heart and a swirly one from Inkadinkadoo that I really like.  I added a few brads and a 7Gypsies rub-on, then inked a cloth button to fasten the ribbon.  Inks were peeled paint, crushed olive, forest moss, weathered wood, faded jeans, and black soot.  I used Tim's distressor to rough up the edges of the tag and the sentiment. Hope you like it... I like anything that umbrella man shows up on!

Heart on Her Sleeve

 
I had so much fun making this tag for the Simon Says Stamp challenge this week.  I used wild honey a stencil to layer some color at the top and bottom using wild honey and fired brick, then added a couple of strips of Heidi Swapp paper tape.  The art doll is from Stampers Anonymous (of course!) and I stamped her on Tim Holtz's Lost & Found Paper stack.  I then cut her skirt into strips and edged each strip with black soot, then embossed each one with clear powder and reassembled the skirt.  Same with her torso, sleeves, legs and head. I then glued all her parts onto a grunge version of her I had stamped for placement. 

I thought she needed a purse so I added one using a chipboard tag from my stash. I stamped a Bisous Zoo heart on the tag and heat embossed it, then attached with a brad and some glossy accents.  The top hat called from my stash, and I thought she could pull it off.  Used alchohol inks to take the shine off it.  Added the words and the same heart (embossed again and up on a pop dot).  The little Figure 1 tag is daisy d's.  Also used brushed corduroy and black soot distress inks and Black Staz-on.

Thanks for looking!

Ranger Enamelware Challenge: Valentine's Day Card

A Happy Valentines Day card for my honey. I'm participating in a new  Ranger Ink challenge using Ranger's Enamel Accents.  Also used Ranger's black soot distress ink, Basic Grey paper, a Wendy Vecchi heart stamp, a Stamper's Anonymous border stamp and tiny alphas.  Thanks for looking!