Highdesert Stamper – Artistic Inkspirations

My stampers had fun making some cards using the new Apothecary Art stamp set and the Labels Framelits, two new products available in our 2012 Occasions Mini flyer that is NOW available!! I’m so glad we now have nested sizzlits for the Bigshot!! I tried several different colors in stamping and coloring the design.

Here’s one where I colored the background with the Saffron maker. Don’t you love to color!! It reminds me of when we were kids and given NEW crayons or a new coloring book.. I LOVE NEW stamps and stamping “tools” such as the new sizzlits!!

This one has the plain background. The pretty paper is some that is going to be available FREE to anyone purchasing a min $50 order during Sale-a-Bration that begins 24 Jan!! I also colored the stamp with markers in Wild Wasabi and some Melon Mambo before stamping.. then filled in with pretty in pink for the flowers.

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Bet you thought you’d seen all the horses….well.. I had to make 4 cards…so I did them all a bit different. Here’s the one I sent to my granddaughter in Tenn. I braided the hemp along the side using a 4 strand macrame braid. The front is polished stone.

My granddaughter loves horses… so I had to make one for her. When you do  polished stone…the colors always come out different, even when you use the same mixes. I love the blue tones in this one. It was actually a green I used with some golds and oranges with gold metallic ink.

Check back later for some sneak peeks of projects using some of the new items from the Spring Mini Occasions flyer. There are some really neat new tools that match the new stamp sets.  You still have time to get some of the goodies off the CLEARANCE RACK!! Things are reduced as much as 80%. That sale will end tomorrow!!

NEW list of retired stamps for sale: see RETIRED STAMPS page.

This week I’ve been working on a “mingle” swap for my OSA group, and cleaning up my stamp table (again). It seems it keeps getting covered up before I can put it all away.  While I had my “horse” stamps out for the OSA mingle, I decided to stamp some extra cards to send out. Here’s one I made using a unique style horse. It was really difficult to get enough ink to get all the fine lines stamped. I had to re-ink my stazon pad a few times to get enough ink on the silly stamp! Do you ever have that problem? It seems out here in the desert…things dry out so darn much, especially stamp pads!! It’s such a large stamp I didn’t add a whole lot around it.. just some minor distressing.  So here’s my horse for today. It’s not one for the mingle (didn’t want to show them til they got sent off and received by the gals in he group.

I distressed the edges a bit, sponged some on the white and put a black rhinestone for his eye. Don’t remember who made this stamp.

Be sure to check out the Clearance rack to get some good deals!! Some items are 80% off!!