STAMP ORGANIZATION - Part 1 - Magazine Collection

NOTE!  I'm finishing up this project this morning! I worked all day on the breaking down of magazine components yesterday. The stamp/ embossing folders/ dies have been condensed to one photo box. 

I'm now in the process of copying anything from the magazines I want to keep so I can take the magazines to the thrift store this morning.  

Please come back here tomorrow morning for the final pictures!

A few weeks ago, I visited Angela @ Crafting With Jack. She shared in her WOYWW #671 post how she was dealing with the stamp sets she's gotten in magazines. 

So I thought I'd kick off what I'm doing with my stamp  sets with the boxes of magazines I have. I don't need the magazines any longer... share them with someone else. But I do want to keep the stamps. Did you know that the stamp sets you receive in those magazines are designed exclusively for that issue? They are not sold outside of the magazine. 

Here's what I started with:

Here's what I wound up with:

From here, the stamps will be divided by category/ theme and placed in their appropriate shoe boxes. 

How do you store your stamps?

Creative Blessings

~Kelly 

CARD CHICKS! - April

Good morning, everyone!

I was the hostess for this month's Card Chicks Challenge.

I should have taken a picture of the kit. Did I think of that? Noooo. LOL

I started with one of my back issues of Cardmaking & Papercrafts

I love getting this magazine because every issue has something free. stamps/ embossing folders/ dies/ papers... all made exclusively for Cardmaking & Papercrafts magazine. This particular issue had this set designed by Siobhan Harrison

For the kit:

I stamped multiples of the teapot, cup, cupcake and sentiments in Memento Tuxedo Black on GP White cardstock.  

I used SU Shimmer White cut to 5"x5" to emboss the doily folder.

The rest of the kit contained:

1 - 4.25 x 5.5 each 

             Blushing Bride cardstock

             Berry Burst cardstock

2 - 4.25 x 5.5 of Fresh Florals DSP (in the blushing bride)

A scrap strip of the Fresh Florals

3 pearls in degrading sizes

1 length of Whisper White Flax ribbon and of Powder Pink Shimmer Ribbon

1 strip of GP white cardstock punched with the Martha Steward lace trim

Here are my 2 cards and what I added:

I used Stampin' Blends in:

     Lt. Rococo Rose

     Lt & Dk Seaside Spray

     Lt Granny Apple Green

     Lt & Dk Soft Sueded

I cut the teapot out using the largest circle from SU Layering Circles then the largest scallop from that set to cut from Rococo Rose cardstock. 

I layered everything on a Rococo Rose background, using dimensionals on the teapot circle to let it stand out from the base a bit.

Here's my second card:

For this one, I used the largest circle form Spellbinders Large Circle set to cut the center out of the embossed doily. I layered a piece of the Fresh Florals DSP on a Smokey Slate cardbase.

I turned the cupcake into a chipboard piece by fussy-cutting the image four times from white cardstock and laying them all together. This let it stand out away from the doily base a bit. I layered the shimmer ribbon over the flax.

I still need to do Barb's kit from February. I finally found it - for the third time - and put it where I know for sure I won't misplace it again. I'll have those cards for you next Tuesday.

Creative Blessings!