What's Up Wednesday: A Stamped Mini Album

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Hey guys, Happy Wednesday! Katie here for today's What's up Wednesday post. The project I wanted to share with you guys today is a fun little mini album I put together!

I kept the front cover fairly simple, because I really wanted the stamped title to stand out. I used the Funky Alphabet to stamp out my title.

For my pages, I used both Sacred Geometry and Sacred Geometry 2 stamp sets and stamped the amazing geometric designs around just the edges of my card stock. I colored them with gelatos and then stitched my papers onto my pages.

This was a little time consuming, stamping around the edges of every page, front and back but worth it!

One my photos were glued on, I used the border stamp from the Tea Time set and stamped it along the edges.

Here's a peek at my pages- I'm sharing all of them on my blog, Punk Projects, if you want to take a look.

Thanks for stopping by today! If you haven't stopped by the blog in a while the rest of the PWP design team ladies have been posting some super inspiring things! You should definitely take the time to hop around and look at them!

Sacred Geometry Clear Stamp Set

Sacred Geometry 2

Tea Time Cling Stamp Set

Funky Alphabet Clear Stamp Set

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Scrapbook Saturday

Hey everyone, Katie here! It's been a while since my last Scrapbook Saturday post, so I'm excited to share this with you!

Today I'm sharing a layout I created using the Funky Alphabet stamps and the Earth and Sky stamps! I love the fun font of the funky alphabet and I think it worked great on my layout.

I used it to stamp my title, "Swimming, Exploring, La Jolla, Ca." and then colored over it with watercolor pencils for a whimsical look.

I love the earth from the Earth and Sky stamp set, so I decided to use it to highlight the "La Jolla" part of my title. I colored in the earth with watercolors as well.

Thanks for stopping by, Let your creativity take flight!

-Katie

Funky Alphabet Clear Stamp Set

Earth & Sky Melange Cling Stamp Set

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Feature Friday: Falling for Fall

Happy, happy Friday peeps!

It's Shay here and I am delighted to bring you some cards for the autumn season.  I am so happy that the weather is downright pleasant after the heat of summer and I am anticipating all this season brings including autumn crafting.

I made two cards that are very similar, but by changing up the colors, sentiments and some of the images they have their own character.

Using the same stamp set, Scallop Border, I made the background for two cards with a different look by using different patterned paper.  All of the border stamps (Double Dot, Lace, Leaf, Lines, Scallop, Single Dot, Triangle and Zig Zag) come with two stamps: an outline and solid that work together or can be used separately.  Another fun feature of the border stamps are that they can be lined up so you are able to stamp the entire length of a 6" x 6", 8" x 8" 8.5" x 11", 12" x 12" page or even larger surfaces.

For these cards I simply stamped the scallop outline many times on patterned paper and cut them out and adhered them together (one under the other for a tiered effect) into a panel.  I cut the left and right sides for straight edges. I then adhered all the scallops to a piece of cardstock with the bottom cut into a scallop design.  For the Halloween card I also stamped an equal amount of scallops with the solid scallop in black ink and adhered them alternately.

For interest and dimension I curled up the edges of the scallops.

The sentiments are framed by the frame image in Day Framer for the fall card and the frame image in Life Framer for the Halloween card.  I added dots or circles to both frames using Copic markers.  You can also use patterned paper, paint them in, doodle in designs to decorate your frames...really the possibilities are as varied as the colors in the sky.

Funky Alphabet is perfect for sentiments during autumn (especially Halloween) and I spelled out "boo" and "fall" using them.  The "Happy" is from the fall card is from Details Framer and "to" from the Halloween card is from Snapshot Framer and "you" from the Halloween card is from Day Framer.  The cute cat is from the Window stamp set.

You could use the idea of this tiered scallop background for scrapbook layouts, tags, gift bags, mixed media projects among a few things.  Try one of the other borders for a completely different look.  Embellish with punched images, jewels, leaves, feathers, flowers, ribbons, fabric, lace, pearls, sequins, die cuts and the like to really make it your own.

We would love to see what you are crafting as the weather cools this fall.  Add your projects to our flickr group, to Pinterest, comment with a link on this post or even email pictures to us!

And be sure to stay tuned for our upcoming release for some great autumn and winter stamps to add to your Paper Wings Productions stamp collection!

Take flight,
Shay.

Stamps: Day Framer, Details Framer, Life Framer, Snapshot Framer, Scallop Border, Funky Alphabet, Window
Inks: Memento by Tsukineko in tuxedo black; Jenni Bowlin for Ranger in brown sugar and chili powder; Tim Holtz Distress Ink in black soot
Cardstock: white, Georgia-Pacific; black and kraft, Neenah; chocolate chip, Stampin' Up!
Patterned Paper: Anna Griffin and Basic Grey
Other: twine by Divine Twine; Copic Markers; dimensional adhesive, Stampin' Up!

What's Up Wednesday - Tag Time!

 

 

 

What's Up Peeps!!!

Today I thought I'd share a few items that Liz Allen and I were playing with while at the CKC convention.  We really enjoyed meeting so many people and getting the opportunity to share Paper Wings Productions stamps with them.

Most of Saturday, I was playing with manila tags, Dylusions inks, some spray inks and embossing powders from Lindy's Stamp Gang.  I threw caution to the wind, and started spraying like never before.  The Dylusions inks are so intense and bright - they really are amazing.  I also really fell in love with the Tibetan Poppy Teal spray from the Autumn Leaves color set and the Hyacinth Blue Jade powder.  I used the Flourish Fun 2 set with this embossing powder.  These products were so popular that we sold out of both!

 

 

Isn't this AWESOME?!?!  This card was just so pretty I never stamped any other image on it.  I bet you have items like that too.  I'll have to pick just the perfect project and add this tag to it.

 

 

 

Liz was in tag mode too, but she was working on smaller gift tags, and the theme was centered around Christmas.  Here are two of her "oh, so cute" tags. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This tag uses the Art Textures stamps in shades of blue and green to create a frame around the "faith" sentiment stamped using the Funky Alphabet set.  This tag is a great example of making handmade items quickly and easily for your family and friends.

 

 

 

 

 

Liz made this super cute tag using the small stars from the Hanging Stars set, and some new stamps she has designed for the fall release.  The small stars work well together with the "twinkle star" and the little holly sprig. I can't wait to use them!  I always like how Liz adds her own special touches to her projects by adding extra accents and doodling lines to give each item a personal touch.  

 

 

There were many more beautiful Liz tags, but I can't divulge that many SNEAK PEEKS this early!  Keep checking back because even more sneak peeks are just around the corner for our next stamp release.

 

 

That's all for now - happy stamping!!!

 

Julie

 

 

Supplies:

Stamps - Hanging Stars, Flourish Fun 2, Art Textures, and Funky Alphabet

Ink - Jenni Bowlin, Versamark, Memento, Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays, Dylusions Sprays

Paper - Manila tags, white cardstock

Tools - Heat tool

Other - Lindy's Stamp Gang embossing powder, tulle and ribbon