Highdesert Stamper – Artistic Inkspirations

How many of you have friends, neighbors, loved ones, or know of someone who has someone overseas in the Military?? I know some people overseas, so I’m sure many of you do also.  I know how lonesome it gets over seas, and how hard it is to get things, especially hand made items!!

I am starting a group to make cards to send to the troops.  If you are in the Albuquerque area, you are welcome to join our group and help make cards to send to the Blue Star Mothers who distribute all our hand made cards to the troops.  I have attached a REGISTRATION FORM HERE for anyone who would like to sign up and come. We will have a card making session once a month on the 3rd Thursday beginning at 1:00PM.   This is open to anyone who would like to come. You must pre-register so we can get the supplies for the cards.  As supplies are exhausted, we will order more in a group order.

If you would like to do something nice for our troops, and have some fun with other stampers at the same time, please print off the registration form and mail it to me with the required payment.   I have room for 8-10 people at a time to stamp.  The stamp sessions will run from 1:00PM to ???PM. You can leave when you get tired, or run out of materials!!

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Here are the next set of ATC cards we did in our COLOR RENOVATION swap. If you havent’ bought the new colors yet…. get them!! They are SO FABULOUS and fun to work with!!

Soft Suede

River Rock

Basic Gray

Eggplant Envy

I’ll post the next 4 sets on the following Monday. Enjoy.

I don’t know how many of you have ever “traded” Artists Trading cards… They are small, compact, and easy to make or can be very “tedious” as the one I’m going to show you.  They were orignally started in the 1700′s as miniature portraits that were sold.  During the Impressionist age, Artists cards were traded to study each other art styles and techniques.  If you’d like to read about their history… here’s a link. They’re very interesting.  I have traded Oriental style ATC’s,  “vintage” style, and now we’ve done a 44 color Stampin’ UP! style. I will be posting all of the Color Families over the next few weeks, on Mondays… so come back and check to see the next batch!     Enjoy.

Bashful Blue colors

Recipe: Stamp sets: Puns from the past, Charming

Card stock and Ink: Bashful blue, whisper white; Accessories: Eyelet lace border punch, crimper, new tiny flower punch from Itty Bitty Shapes, boho blossom punch, jewelry tag med. punch, Vanilla smooch spray, lt blue embroidery floss (ties on tags), pearls from pretties kit, BS Lattice emobssing folder.

Techniques: ined embossing,  I teach this in a class–it is NOT the brayered folder technique; “ruffled” borders.

If you’d like to take a class and learn how to make this card, contact me at “highdesertstamper@gmail.com”