Stampaway My take

I think this year’s Stampaway was over all good. I’ve been at this awhile so some things seemed repetitious to me; Like Outlines’ booth mostly devoted to the stamping jewelry; but hey if it sells by all means sell it. What was new for me was being able to get some dies from Europe. I bought 2 butterflies and an Oval set made by Marianne and Nellie Snelling, in the Sweet Stamps booth. Learned that there are 67 Cover-a-card stamps by Impression Obsession and they sold out of a lot of them this show. Found a Miles Davis stamp in DP ARTworks; but some how over looked two tribal ones that a friend bought. Lucky for me she brought them over when she came to play on Monday!

I bought stamps from Loralie Designs and her booth was fabulous.

These are a few photos from the samples in her booth.

Here is what I did with Her Lazy Fairy stamp I was playing with:

Her stamps have such “attitude”. Teresa said they are sassy and they sure are!

Teresa came from Atlanta and while here showed me a technique with napkins, I used it for the floral elements with the fairy. Below I used a napkin as the background for the new die from Our Daily Bread and their stamps

This one includes one of the oval dies from Nellie Snelling. I have not finished this one yet.

 

Thanks to all my friends especially Rena, Bonnie, Teresa and Pat Hobson who made Stampaway much more of a blast!

 

It’s All Good!

QP

Convention Hoopla!

I am already in convention mode.  What Convention you say...why STAMPAWAY of course if you are a rubberstamper or paper crafter anywhere near the Ohio Valley you should attend. It is here in my home town of Cincinnati and it is one week away. So yesterday I made my convention trades. This year I decided to make ATCs since they are all the rage. I wanted a simple design since I was making them in mass.

 

I'm calling her Beauty. I got her last year at Stampaway from DP Artworks, they called her Clio, but to me she is just so beautiful. I stamped her in Brilliance Cosmic Comic on glossy black paper and embossed her with Judikins Clear embossing powder. I rounded the corners with my new Round It All, what I liked about it was that I could do multiple layers at one time. I made 30 of these so that was a nice thing.

I had a custom ATC back stamp made by READYStamps. I love their service and I love that it helps a charity. You get a 7 by 9 sheet of stamps for $36, so I had a few custom made for friends.

Last weekend I went to a scrapbook store's garage sale and one of the bargains I got was a Maya Road tin for $1...I'm not much into chipboard (yet) so getting the tin empty was alright with me. It occurred to me that it would be perfect to carry my trades in. But not naked...no no no.

This is the front:

And this is the back:

I applied Alcohol Inks in blues. Then I stamped it with Palette Hybrid ink in Noir Black and added the dots with my Ranger white gel pen.

Hyped up for Stampaway!

QP