Make your own stamp - it's easy with Undefined Carving kit!

I have this comig in the next order - cannot wait to get my hands on it!

 

I have plenty of ideas already (so yes  - I also ordered the refill kit!). I should be getting my order sometime next week - so keep following my blog. I will be posting my carving creations here once I have them done!

 

 

 

Envelope Punch Board - make 66 different sized envelopes!!!

Another great product from Stampin'Up!

(I know what I'm asking from Santa this year!!)

 

 

And here is a great tutorial so you can see how it works!

 

NEW Thinlits Card dies - easy way to make WOW cards!

Have you seen these already??

 

They are super fun and are a very easy way to make WOW and FUN cards!

 

Settin'Sail photopolymer

I just had to get this stamp set (Settin'Sail, photopolymer), when I saw it.

I had it even with me on our summer journey, but since we were not on a 'seaside vacation', it didn't get used.

But I did create a card with it once we returned home.

The colours of the inks and papers are: Marina Mist, Real Red, Baked Brown Sugar (in-colour) and whisper white.

Oh, and if this posting has tons of spelling mistakes: I have a bandage on my left middle finger (tip), and I'm posting with iPad. Well, let me tell you that touch screen typing with bandaged finger... Tons of missing letters ;-)

Colour blocking with Field Flowers

Lately there has been a trend to create colour blocks with masking tape. I wanted to jump the band wagon, but of course, could not find my masking tape :)

I have done some cards by inking the clear block directly on the ink pad, but this masking tape technique uses several colours. So how do I do that without masking tape???

Well... I took 3 markers: Strawberry Slush (new In-Colour), Rich Razzleberry and Sahara Sand
Then I coloured 3 sections on the clear block (tried not to overlap the colours, so that my markers would not get ruined (at this point I wished I had that masking tape....)

And then I stamped - well... the result was not what I expected. Hmm.... what to do???




I then thought that I need to sprits the block with water... needless to say, I was too lazy to walk to the next room (= bathroom) and fill a misting bottle with water, and I didn't have any rubbing alcohol without ink in a misting bottle either, so I grabbed my Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz (but didn't shake it).

Just a tip: if you don't want shimmery effect
- DO NOT USE IT!

Then I stamped the block on my card stock (Naturals Ivory) - Holy smokes! the effect was not really wat I was going for  - but I liked it! The colours were quite intense so I sprized it again (with the shimmer Smooch Spritz) and got a more subtle effect.

I then decided that I would make identical cards to show the difference.

I hope you like them as much as I do!

Travel Journal 2013

Finally back to regular mode = working on my desk top :-)

Posting blog posts with iPad is better than nothing, but you don't have access to all the editing options - and I could not update the new HOLIDAY CATALOGUE link on my blog!!!

Well - now it's there and this is again a "crafty" posting  :)

I had ALL the intentions work on my travel journal during the trip - well... let me tell you, that when there are SO many new things to experience (and when you change hotels EVERY night) - there really is not that much "extra" time to craft :)

I brought with me some stamps, ink spots, markers, washi tape (forgot SNAIL and glue!!!), journaling tags, and pieces of paper.

Well... I got working on my journal once we got to the cottage. This is how much I got done - the cover!!! :-)

Well... I guess it's better than nothing.

The journal has some non-Stampin'Up! items (stickers and couple of stamps and a non-SU washi tape). The paper is a retired travel themed paper, which I had tons left and wanted to use some, so it would not be wasted.

Here are some supplies I carried with me

Helsinki, my home town

Some of the photos are from a previous trip, but just happened to be taken with a better camera (not my cell phone) and had already been "fixed" with a photo editing program :-)

We visited a great little museum in downtown Helsinki. It was all about a former Finnish Field Marshal and president named Mannerheim. What a great man and what a life he lived!!

My sister-in-law Laura, me, my brother Aki and my husband Tom