August Challenge Winner....

Yesterday we wrapped up another fun month long challenge. So many gorgeous entries!

The winner of the challenge is this beauty by Jen Rzasa! 

Not only is it pretty, but we appreciate the whole thinking outside the box Jen did with the inspiration photo. The negative XO misted is a nice touch!

Congrats, Jen! Please contact us so we can set you right up. :)





Before I go, I wanna point out a few "honorable mentions". These entries really caught my eye!

Love this card by Lorraine M., she created the rays using the tie from Papa Love. Such a clever girl!



Amy Kolling never disappoints with her clean, classical cards! Wow, swoon!



Check out this sweet tag by Charlene Bopp! Such a cute frame within a tag!



And what about this cutie by Vera Yates? So adorable!!!

Thanks for playing along, everyone! I loved seeing everyone's masterful creations using our stamps! :)

Home Decor with Jenn Biederman

Hello! Jenn, here, and today I'm sharing a couple framed pieces I've been working on. The first one uses my favorite set...Bootastic. I change out my framed decor to match the seasons, so this piece will work perfectly on display this upcoming Halloween.

Next is a simple image where I used part of the My Heart is Full sentiment from the Many Thanks set and added in one of the houses from the Full House set.

This is going to be on my desk as a daily reminder that the simple things: my faith, family and friends, are what makes my heart full. :)

I hope I've inspired you to grab an existing framed piece in your house, or find one at a thrift store/garage sale and craft away.

More projects by our guest Heather Campbell!

The talented Heather Campbell is back today to share with us her final projects as the guest designer for us this month. True to form, her cards are as delightful as she is. Thank you for sharing yourself with us, Heather!

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Hi everyone! I'm back today with my final post as the August guest designer.  Thank you so much to Kryssi and the entire team for having me!  It has been such a treat!

The first card I'm sharing today uses Many Thanks, which is absolutely full of thankful goodness. I absolutely love sets like these because there is a perfect sentiment for every thankful occasion.

To create this card, I pulled a sentiment from Many Thanks and simply added a little coloring to the inside of the sentiment.  Then, I added my favorite little heart, which is from the new Foodie stamp set and stamped a border from Basic Borders.  

My last card is one I've been so excited to share, using the Bootastic set. 

I know I gushed about how much I love Bootastic during the Stampede but seriously I adore Bootastic.  Those little trick-or-treaters are just too cute and that princess could be used for other occasions too. Again, I used Basic Borders to ground my images.

That's it from me today!  Thank you so much for letting me join you today!  I hope you have a great day!

NY with Geralyn!

Hi everyone! Geralyn here this morning, and I'm sharing with you a mini-book spread from my New York travel book. I've been working on a little divided page protector handbook about my trip for a while now, and Mama Elephant's trendy stamps are so fun and easy to use on my pages.

The left side has two snapshots of restaurants we went to in New York, so I put the awesome Foodie stamp set to use. The stamps were great for embellishing my journaling card.

On the right side, I stamped the 'you are here' stamp from the Message Bands stamp set in yellow and cut notches on the ends to create a long banner. How perfect is that skyline stamp from the Central Park stamp set? I love it so much :)

Hope you enjoyed this peek into my New York mini book! Have a great day! 

Bootastic with Jenn Biderman!

Morning! It's Jenn and today I am sharing a Halloween mini-album I created using the Bootastic set. For a while I've had the idea to make an album that documents Halloween costumes for each of my daughters. This set gave me the creative boost I needed to make this idea become reality.

I masked off the "All Trick, No Treats" sentiment and stamped the tabbed pages.

I masked off the "hello, have a great day" stamp from the Tree Friends set and used the Halloween sentiment from the Bootastic set instead.

After making a small cut on the arms of the little Frankenstein, I added dimension by lifting the arms and attached the jack-o-lantern candy basket to him.

Even the bunny from the Tree Friends set made an appearance in my Halloween album!

I love how the little bats shine using silver glitter embossing powder.

The little witch worked perfectly with this page!

Since I didn't have a bee stamp, I incorporated the extra "e" in with these banners from the Be You set. I love how this one turned out!

The sentiment from the Hustle set worked perfectly with the big bad wolf costume.

This Queen of Hearts costume is my favortie, so had to add the "That Was Epic" stamp from the Be You set.

There's blank pages at the back so that I can add to it as the years go by. I hope I've inspired you to make your own album to document your children's years of Halloween happiness.

Catch you later!