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WSC92 Winner & Inchie Spotlight

Just a quick note to let you know I have an Inchie Spotlight Technique over in Ellen Hutson's CLASSroom today ... I hope you'll join me there for the details on creating the project above. Now on to the Weekend Sketch Challenge #92 winner. Many thanks to everyone who sampled this sketch -- all of your cards were fabulous! The randomly chosen winner is Kathy, with this beautiful card: You can find out more about Kathy's card on her blog, Inspired to Stamp. Congratulations, Kathy! I hope to be back tomorrow with some more artwork! Read more →

Our Craft Lounge Release Day Blog Hop & Giveaway!

Welcome to Our Craft Lounge's Holiday 2009 release & blog hop -- 31 new stamp sets are debuting today! You can find a list of retailers HERE that carry OCL stamps, or my favorite online retailer is eclectic Paperie. To celebrate, OCL is giving away one of each set! You can find a list of all the designer's blogs that are giving away the stamp sets at the OCL blog. Each designer also has wonderful samples made with these sets. The set OCL provided for me to give away today is Ghostly Greetings -- it's a clear acrylic stamp set, illustrated by Marianne Walker: Aren't these ghosts adorable?!! I love that they look like Casper the Friendly Ghost! Here's a gift set I made with these stamps: The sweet girl ghost was stamped on vellum cardstock and then colored on the reverse side of the vellum with Copic markers YR09 & T3, to ensure the stamped ink wouldn't smear. Sometimes ink will not fully dry on vellum and smear, but your Copics will color and dry beautifully on vellum! On the front of the vellum, I used Clear Copic Spica Glitter pen to color in the the ghost (hopefully you... Read more →

Our Craft Lounge Sneak Peek-Tweet Winter Wishes

Tomorrow Our Craft Lounge releases 31 new stamp sets and today is the final day of sneak peeks. I have the pleasure of showing you one of my favorites of the new sets, Tweet Winter Wishes, a clear acrylic stamp set illustrated by Marianne Walker. You'll be able to see all the images in this set tomorrow, when they are released for sale, on the Our Craft Lounge blog. You can also check the OCL blog, for a list of links to all the blogs that will have sneak peeks of 10 of the new stamp sets today. Here's my sweet snowman creation: Aren't those little birds darling?! I adore snowmen and was thrilled to be able to work with this set. The images were stamped, cut out, and colored with these Copic markers: The image was then glued onto a Cosmo Cricket Wonderland tag and a glittered ghost snowflake shape added. I used this week's sketch challenge at Splitcoaststampers.com for the layout. Did you know Our Craft Lounge also has its own online forum community? You can find them HERE. They post all sorts of fun challenges and contests for you there, too. Don't forget to check the OCL... Read more →

Happy Birthday, Joy: Our Craft Lounge Sneak Peek

Today, Our Craft Lounge is celebrating a few different things ... the most important of which is co-owner Joy Kennedy's birthday! Joy loves Kona the Turtle (see below!), so in honor of sweet Joy's special day, OCL is releasing this great set, Hangin' Loose With Kona -- just in time for the start of summer! Cowabunga, Dude! Isn't this sweet Kona the Turtle adorable?!! And he's drawn by OCL illustrator, Marianne Walker, of course! I swear, that girl has more natural talent in her pinky finger than I'll ever have in my lifetime (grin)! Marianne certainly knows how to draw images that love to be colored ... Kona is so much fun to color, I was smiling the whole time! Here are the Copic markers I used to color him: This stamp set will be available exclusively from eclectic Paperie, beginning right now! Won't he make adorable summer party gathering invitations and birthday cards? You can join me in wishing Joy a very happy birthday, by surfing over to Cambria's blog, where you'll find a list of everyone participating in a blog hop for Joy's birthday today, all showcasing this sweet new stamp set! Happy Birthday, Joy!! That's all the... Read more →