Spooooky....

When Mary emailed us and asked us all for ideas for the new fall line, I jumped right in and suggested a cutesy spider. Now this coming from a girl who is terrified of spiders might be a bit of a surprise, but when you make them super cute, I'm sucked in. So much to my great delight when the new stamps arrived on my doorstep a cutsey spider was included!

I also happened to be shopping at AC Moore on Saturday and came across this small carvable pumpkin, I'd seen big ones before, but never a little one. I just knew that it and the spider stamp went together.

Imagine I had an idea of something a bit spookier but how could this little guy ever be scary? No way! And of course I started out thinking just the spider inside and some ribbon and it spiraled out of control!


The little boo stamp also comes in the set with the spider I used my xacto knife to make thin slits to stick the transparency into. I also stamped the spider on transparency with staz-on, and colored on the back of the image with galaxy markers that don't smear on shiny surfaces.


Plenty of coloring on the pumpkin and added ribbons with cute Halloween buttons finish the look!

Oh Baby!!

Serendipity's second August Challenge has arrived! This month we are highlighting some of the beautiful baby stamps that Serendipity has available!

Isn't that frame adorable... I just love to use them, and love it even better that they are only $3 at Walmart. I could have picked any name, but well I admit that I like seeing my name on things so I went ahead and used it!

Supplies:

* Christening Gown Stamp (627H) From Serendipity Stamps
* 6" x 12" frame
* Coordinating papers
* Coordinating letter stickers or die cuts ( I used Lyrical Letters on the Cricut)
* Brown Ink
* Colored Pencils
* Gamsol and stump for blending
* Paper flowers
* Ribbon

Directions:

* Cut pieces to fit into frame, each frame is a little different so you may need to play with the sizes a bit. Ink edges of all pieces.
* Stamp image in brown ink and color with colored pencils, blending with Gamsol for a smooth look.
* Adhere letters to center square.
* Embellish letters with flowers.
* Adhere bow to outside of frame, and add flowers to it as well!

Here is a close up of the adorable little dress!

Now for the other goodies this month check out the other Designers Blogs...

Anya's Blog

Lynda's Blog

Kathie's Blog

And for the rest of this year we have a special guest designer Jenny, check out her blog below!

Jenny's Blog



And as always check the new contest at Serendipitystamps.com and don't forget to sign up for the newsletter to get those awesome deals!

Gotta scrap those pictures...

Seems like lately all I've been doing is making cards or projects but doing very little actual scrapbooking of my photos... so I hit the scrap room with Disney photos in hand.... I love how this page turned out but it makes me a bit sad because it reminds me of all the great topiary pictures on the lost memory card... :(

This layout uses the zipadee line from Close To My Heart! Enjoy! Maybe the faster I get my last Disney pictures scrapped the sooner I can go back?

Write on...

Serendipity's first challenge this month was to use stamps that showed writing.... not hard since they have a great selection of stamps to choose from in that category... but I fell in love with the Feather Pen (192D), it's so swirly and elegant looking.

And since having a few teacher friends and a few friends who are avid journal writers I thought I'd make up a card that was also a gift.

Here's my card.. it was super simple, would make such great writing prizes or just a gift from the teacher, and would be great in so many color schemes, school colors, holiday colors, or favorite colors.

Supplies:
Feather Pen Serendipity Stamp (192D)
Three coordinating pens
Three colors of cardstock to match pens
Coordinating Ink
White or other coordinating letter stickers

Directions:
* Cut card base to 4"x4" make two mats in coordinating colors.
* Cut a strip of paper to go around pens whatever size you need to hold pens you choose... Glue three colored strips together and score into a box, and adhere to card front.
* Stamp feather pen and cut out. Adhere to top of pen holder.
* Use letter stickers to spell out Write on.

Now for the other goodies this month check out the other Designers Blogs...

Anya's Blog

Lynda's Blog

Kathie's Blog

And for the rest of this year we have a special guest designer Jenny, check out her blog below!

Jenny's Blog



And as always check the new contest at Serendipitystamps.com and don't forget to sign up for the newsletter to get those awesome deals!