Rock the Block

Rock the Block!

You can get an exclusive E-size stamp set and the My Creations® Collage Cubes for just $15 with your qualifying purchase through January 31st!

Join the craze! When you place a minimum order of $25 from the Autumn/Winter 2011 Idea Book, you can get two new products for just $15: the My Creations® Collage Cubes (a Spring/Summer 2012 sneak-peek product!) and the exclusive My Acrylix® Rock the Block E-size stamp set. That’s a retail savings of almost $30! You're going to love the Collage Cubes and the Rock the Block stamp set, which work together for interactive, 3-D fun.

Check out the great video at the end of this newsletter for more details.

Click here to start shopping or contact me to place your order! 

*Offer valid December 19, 2011–January 31, 2012. Tax and shipping/handling apply. Some restrictions and exclusions apply. Only items available in the Autumn/Winter 2011 Idea Book count toward your qualifying purchase total

Grateful Card

I received this cute card from a fellow CTMH consultant named Elizabeth. Thanks Elizabeth it was so sweet!

I just adore pumpkins in the fall. So much, we usually have a few growing in the front yard. I'll see if I can't get a few pics of them for you later this week. :)

While, I'm scrambling around doing my house cleaning today, I thought you all would enjoy this short video on using the Grateful stamp set and making this card.

Enjoy!

See you later!

Suzy



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Clear Stamp Storage Solution

First, I have to say that I have become a big fan of clear stamps. They take up less room then the wood block stamps and you can mix and match them on the clear blocks for ease of designing your pages. However, when you keep acquire more and more of them, they tend to take up space.

Mine, until now have been piling up in a plastic storage bin along with my wooden stamp sets. It becomes quite a mess when trying to dig through and find just the right stamp when I'm designing a book. So the other day I was cleaning my daughters' room and came across one of my oldest daughter's Pokemon card holder sleeves.

As you can see, these baseball card sleeves (affiliate) are the perfect size for holding those small stamps sets. You know the kind that you pick up for just a few bucks at your local craft store.

The second nice thing about them is that baseball card sleeves are prepunch for fitting into a 3-ring binder (affiliate). So, not only was I able to organize my clear stamps, but they're nicely collected into a 3-ring binder that I can flip through and find what I'm looking for in just a few minutes. Total, I think it cost me less than $10 to get over two hundred stamps organized.

Leaf Guest Book Album

Normally, I like to give my albums a title. What's a book without a title right? This album we're simply going to call "Panda". My oldest daughter said the designed reminded her of Pandas. Her best friend likes Pandas and everyone knows Panda's like to eat bamboo leaves. That's what reminded her of the Pandas...the leaves.

I thought they looked more like palm leaves, but who am I to argue with the mind of an eight-year-old?

So.. PANDA it is.

As you can see, once the parchment paper dried, it came out very nice. I cut it to size and laid it in as our first page. You can see through the parchment paper to the next page of the book. I actually did a cut out of  leaf and the green you see is the next page attached.

It's a perfect page for writing in the name, date, or event of this album.

As you can see in these two photos, I added some special photo pages. Like my other albums, you can slide a 3.5" x 5" photo graph into the rounded corners of these pre-designed areas.  I added some dimensional and stamped and glittered leaves along with some simple word usage like: believe, hope, cherish.

In between the green photo pages are ivory card stock pages stamped with a single leaf.

Since all the pages of this album are acid-free and lingign-free. These blank pages can be used for signatures and well wishes for a guest book or additional photographs for a lovely album.

And it wouldn't be a MRsCHADT handcrafted book without my new signature book pouches.

This one I stamped with the same green leaf that I used in the album. I took some green netting for the closure and a simple white bead.

My favorite feature of this album is the see through parchment page stamped and traced in glitter. What do you like best?

You'll find it, along with many of my others in my shop at http://www.mrschadt.etsy.com/

Invitation RSVP

I had a bunch of scrap paper laying around and was playing around with a pattern I saw from over at Dawn's Stamping Thoughts.

Dawn's design, originally was for a gift card holder. I made a few of them and gave away to family at Christmas time. I got to thinking after I'd finished the album how neat it would be to use my photo rounder punch from FRISKER and make a unique invitation.

This is just a sample I came up with. I'll probably make another sample and perfect the pattern a little more. Basically inside, I stuck a card for all your information and replaced the "gift card" with a double sided card that serves as both an RSVP and a blank on back.

Since the two cards slide out of the middle section, one can slide in a combo of RSVP, Driving Directions, Save the Date, or photograph.

Their is multiple possibilities for creating a really neat invitation here. I'm planning on doing up some more samples. Thinking would be great for a tween or teen sleep over where the RSVP's could be handed back at school or put in lockers. I'll let you know what other designs I come up with.

What do you think? Theme? Inside card combo? You never know, I just might pick one of your suggestions to try. If I do, I'll send you six of the design for free!