The Stamping Chef

While your waiting for my crafty schedule to get back on track, I have a super fun crafty activity for you to try out! Have you ever heard of The Stamping Chef? You can check them out here: http://www.thestampingchef.com they have a wonderful selection of digital stamps you can use for your crafting needs. They also have a forum you can go on that has monthly challenges. If you compete in the challenges you can win 2 images of your choice! I run the monthly recipe challenge where you can make your choice of craft as long as you include all the Ingedients. Come check out the challenges at http://www.thestampingchef.com/forum I have included a pic of what I did for he challenge, and cant wait to see what you all create! Stay crafty!

First craft show success

This weekend Craftscapes did our very first craft show! Hosted by Ingleside H-0 school the show ran friday from 4-8 and saturday from 10-4. The craft show was a success but overall a learning experience. Right now I'm trying to put things away and get organized again but hope to be back to my regulsr posting scheduale soon. Stay crafty my friends :)

A 30th birthday

I almost forgot to show you! In the middle of all my craft show prep madness I sometimes have to stop and participate in the real world lol. Usually its for a good occassion such as my fiance's cousins' 30th birthday party. I of course made the card, but my fiance wanted to help so he contributed by finding a superhero/wrestling type image for the inside of the card. I find birthday cards for guys more challenging then for girls, but love the opportunity to challenge myself.  Below are the pictures of the card I made. Crafty friends I would love to see examples of other great cards for guys either you have found or done yourself :)

Where did November go?

Hi my crafty friends, if any of you know where November went can you please let me know? It seems like yesterday that it was Halloween.  Sorry for the lack of posts life got in the way of crafting for a bit. Dont you hate it when that happens? What crafty time I did get was spent getting ready for a craft show! I will be participating in my very first craft show the last weekend of November. So needless to say I have been busting my but trying to get things done in time. Have any of you done a craft show before?  If not have you visited one?  What things did people do that stood out to you? Any input from my crafty friends would be great!

Happy birthday!

Today is my mother in laws birthday :) So I whipped up this fun little card to honor the occassion. It seems these days I dont do much scrapbooking, mostly cards for birthdays and the smiley team, however I am beginning to prep for an upcomming craft show, more on that on friday. Crafty friends do you have some card bases done ahead of time for when you need a quick card? Make sure you come back on friday to hear more about the craft show, but for now enjoy the birthday card below....have a crafty day :)

World Card Making Day

Earlier this month was world card making day. Several companies and stores host card making day or run contests. The smikey team decided to focus on Santa cards this year. What about you muly crafty friends, did you participate in world card making day? I did, you can see mine below!

Halloween challenge 10

We did it! We made it to the last Smiley tour Halloween challenge!  Challenge #10 was my favorite challenge as it was anything goes. So if it was Halloween related but didn't quite fit in any of the other challenges it ended up here. I ended up creating 13 cards for this one, which seems fitting since it was for Halloween :) Well my crafty friends, if you had free reign to make Halloween cards, what would you create?