Self Inking Custom Stamps Made QUICK

SO, I applied for a new companies design team in December 2016, and although I did not make the team, they were gracious and gave a gift certificate for a custom stamp from their shop. I was quite excited about that as I did need to get some made for my envelopes when sending out Happy Mail. 

I decided on the FLAG UP Mailbox Return Address Stamp, and in the mail box I write my name each time. 

I have now used this stamp for almost six months and it is still as juicy as the day it arrived. It is in self contained packaging so all I have to do is take off the cap and stamp down, then replace the cap. No fuss no mess. 

The model number of the type I chose is Round Ideal 400R

I love the fact you have ten fonts to choose from, and eight colors as well. Shipping was very fast, I had the stamp four days after placing my order. 

SO, if you are looking for a re-inking custom stamp to be made, Simply Stamps is a company I will highly recommend. 

If you are asking yourself why I waited months before writing this post, I wanted to be sure to give a good review with appropriate information. Anyone can receive a product, use it once or twice and give a review. I gave this baby a workout and know it is good and feel confident to add Simply Stamps to my list of recommended companies. 

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Awesome Easy Ways to Utilize Hardware Supplies in the Craftroom

Greetings friends and fellow crafters, just a quick post today that I wanted to share with you.
Last week the husband and I went to Lowe's (GO JIMMIE JOHNSON #48), and I was looking for magnet sheets, well they were out so we went to Wal-Mart. Over in the air conditioning filter section I found the magnets I was looking for. Deflecto 5" x 12" 2 in a pack for less than $3.

I brought them home and promptly lost them. 

Today I started looking for them and there they were, of course still in the Wal-Mart back on the loveseat in my craft room. SO, then the fun started. I cut each magnet into 4" x 5" rectangles. 

I then started putting my dies on them, and put them in page protectors purchased at Staples they are 5.5 x 8.5.

Now on to other craft room hardware store finds. 

My workbench from Harbor Freight, my husband bought it for me a couple weeks before Christmas last year for $67. This thing is great, pegboard, 2 big drawers, shelf on top, shelf below, a bar light under the top shelf and a 3 outlet plug on the left side. 

On the top shelf you can see the Tool Caddy also from Harbor Freight $11, normally for nuts/bolts/screws. I have my Kat Scrappiness Sequin collection in there, and all the drawers are used.

In the green photo frame is my original die storage have used for 2 years now, also a magnet that is 8 x 10.

Hope this has helped to give some inexpensive ways to get your room organized.

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Joy Clair- Flawless and Be-YOU-tiful

Greetings friends and fellow crafters, LeeAnn here today with Joy Clair and this great stamp set from the Color By Faith line called Flawless.

Flawless

This set is perfect in many ways, I can see using it with Teen Birthday cards, and Bible Journaling. Today I made a fairly simple project, and am happy to share it with you.

Making this project I used the small flower from this stamp set, and using Versafine Black Onyx ink I stamped this flower all over the card base. I then used my stamp tool and stamped 5 images of the lipstick with Memento Tuxedo Black and with my Spectrum Noir Markers CR3, CR6, BP2, DR1 and DR7 and colored one top with each. I followed that up with Wink of Stella in Silver for the lipstick tube and Wink of Stella in Black for the base. The next step was to use a rectangular stitched die to cut out each lipstick into its own section. Once all this was finished I used double stick tear tape to attach each rectangle across the base. I used Recollections Ombre' Ink to stamp out the Be-YOU-tifuL and positioned it along the bottom of the card. Finishing touches were made by using On-Point Glue to attach the little half pearls in the center of each flower as  I remembered our technique for the month was to use bling.

I hope this post has given you some inspiration to use this set. If you would like to see another project I made earlier with this same set you can just click here.

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Joy Clair, and I'm Sorry

Greetings friends and fellow crafters. LeeAnn here today with a card I challenged myself with. Wanting to get more use out of some of my stamps I decided why not see how many Joy Clair stamps I can use on one card, and keeping it looking good. So here it goes...

Can you figure out how many sets I used to make this fun card? Well I am going to tell you, and what I used of each set with the set linked up.
Butterfly Kisses- left side butterfly
Designer Labels- Small Flowers and Butterfly
Every Day Sentiments- I'm Sorry
Grow With Faith- flowers
Let The Light Shine- Sun
Puppy Love- Puppy & Paw Prints
Song of Solomon- Birds
Speech Bubbles- Clouds
Wood Background- Fence

So, in order to make this project I stamped out all my images in the colors I wanted and then using my Scan N Cut and cut them out. I then sat for a couple hours to decide exactly what I wanted to do as far as the finished layout,
I used Tumbled Glass and Broken China distress inks to make the sky, then used On Point Glue to affix the right side cloud, a thin foam tape to affix the sun and then thicker foam dots to affix the left side cloud, in order to give multi layer dimension.

Using double stick tape I affixed the fence, and the grass panels. I then went back to the On Point Glue and added the remaining elements. Foam dot on a couple of paw prints and sentiment bubble with foam tape on the pup finished off this 5x7 card.

Sometimes, we do something that we aren't proud of and need to apologize for, and sending a card as cute as this should hopefully help.

Hope you have enjoyed this project, please come back again to see the next project.

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Graduation Time

Greetings friends and fellow crafters. It is June and many great kids have graduated this year, I made this project in honor of all of them, Ashley (college), Taylor and Brianna (high school), Dominic (pre-k) and most of all my daughter Megan and her fiance Danny who will graduate from College in August. This color is made not only in the colors from my daughters High School but also the University she is receiving her Bachelor's degree from. 

This project is entered in the http://tictactoechallenge.com/tttc0001-welcome/  challenge #tttc001  #tictactoechallenge  Entry 19

Products used... 
Stamp AnnieThing stamps... Annie You Did It
Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers
Gold Metallic Sharpie
Bakers Twine
Recollections Gold Foil Card Base
Virginia Turtle Gold Glitter Enamel Dot
Darice Graduation Embossing Folder (black layer)
Recollections 110 lb white card stock

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Tidal Worries with Dare To Be Artzy

Greetings friends and fellow crafters. LeeAnn here today in my guest spot with Dare 2 Be Artzy. I really have had a great time with these stamps and dies, and appreciate the opportunity to work with them.

Today I used the Flip Flops stamp and die sets in my project.

In order to make this project, I first ran the top half of my card topper through my Big Shot inside a Darice embossing folder to get the cloud feature. I stamped the chair on a piece of green cardstock and then rant it through the big shot as well using the die from the set.
When this was complete I used Tumbled Glass distress ink to create the cloudy sky. I used Dried Marigold to create the beach sand look and Mermaid Lagoon to create the water. With a swiping back and forth motion I created it to appear there were white caps on the water as the tide was coming in. With a big of the water washing over the the shoreline. I used Bahama blue to stamp the sentiment and cut with my trimmer to size, adhered with foam tape.

I hope you enjoyed today's project and I really think this needs to be a beach day.

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Quick Quotes Flip Flop Kind of Day

Greetings friends and fellow crafters, LeeAnn here today with a fun project. I have really fallen in love with two of our paper packs and find myself using a lot of it, so happy to have them both here.
Adventure Awaits and Anchor's Away are really finding their way into many of my recent projects. I really hope you find I am doing them the justice they deserve.

On to today's project. I sat and thought about what I wanted to do, and decided to start looking at the Anchor's Aweigh sentiment sheets first. Well the quote box that jumped at me was Flip Flop Kind of Day, and I remembered this cute stamp set I have from Dare 2 B Artzy that I used last month with my clock project. The set  has a pair of flip flops as well. SO, I grabbed my paper box, went through and found some Adventure Awaits pages that I wanted to use with this project.


Process to make project: Using Adventure Awaits QQP-AD105 I cut one panel 5.25 x 4 and from Adventure Awaits page QQP=AD101 I cut 2 panels, the striped side panel is 5 x 3.75, The Night Blue panel is 4.75 x 3.5.

Using my stamp positioner I used POW69 Peach Tree Powderpuff Chalking ink and stamped the set of flip flops, I then repositioned the panel and stamped them again. After this I set the panel aside to dry. I also took that initial cut panel from AD105 and inked the edges with the Peach Tree as well.

Using double side tape I adhered the AD105 to my card base. I then adhered the striped layer from AD101, and then the stamped layer also from AD101.

At this point I cut the banner quote from QQP-AW500 and affixed it to a cut out from the AD105 page and banner cut it to match the quote. Using foam tape I adhered it to my card. Using On Point Glue I adhered 3 aqua dots around the card.

I  really hope you have enjoyed this project. My oldest daughter loves her flip flops and this card will be in the mail to her when this post goes live.

Have a great day. Please be sure to check out and enter this months challenge, all information for that is here.

Quick Quotes Products Used:
Adventure Awaits AD101, AD105
Anchors Aweigh AW500
Powder Puff Peach Tree POW69

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