Who Wants a Lavender Sachet?

Wink! Wink!

It's GIVEAWAY time! 

I feel like sharing the lavender love! Just leave a comment and I'll pick a winner out of the hat this weekend!

(It will be one of these ladies or similar) 

My craft room is smelling so good!

It really means a lot to me that so many friends stop by to comment and say hello! 

Little Stamped Book

I took a class at Art N Soul stamp shop in Lacey, WA last night. I loved the sample book and had to try it for myself.

The pages are wood. First, we colored them with alcohol inks, added a stamp or two, and colored them in with pencils. I love the effect! And it was so easy and meditative....like zoning out with a great coloring book.  I need to keep an eye on their upcoming classes. What a fun group of ladies, too.

Here's how mine turned out. I'm pretty much done unless I add some words and text.

If you live in Washington, or pass through, this is a great shop. Try to make it on the first Saturday of the month for 'Recycled Rubber'....seemingly endless tables of stamps people don't use anymore, and are selling super cheap! This girl on the cover was one I bought last week for a couple bucks. I had a basket full of stamps! There are also all kinds of stamping accessories,too.

See you all soon! XO

The New Girl

I made another one of the girls! Here she is.

Also, all throughout August, my felted dolls have Free Shipping worldwide. You can check them out in my shop.

I still have so many things on my list for this week. I did finish some more felted beads today. I'm almost done with another silk cocoon book, and some time over the next week I need to clean. My friend is coming to visit and there is no way she can sleep on a bed covered in wool, fabric, magazines, paint, papers, and a whole variety of art supplies.

See you soon!

The Friends We Make Through Mail Art

One of my Good Mail Day friends is Lubomyr in Ukraine. I think we've been exchanging mail art since 2010 already. She always does the coolest stuff with hand carved stamps and altering what I send her. Sometimes we get a little rough made book going, nothing fancy, and swap it back and forth, each adding elements, and stamping the heck out of it. This one is just using part of a folder.

Today, I gathered up her latest stamps, and various things of mine, and put together this book with plenty of room for her to add. A great place to use my new collection of washi tape, doodles, and some ACEOs I had done.

I love Lubomyr's hands! Isn't that a great stamp!

I'll keep you posted on how it looks upon return (which can be a while).

Playing with the stamps

Here's a quick little accordian book, or the beginning of one. . I used alcohol inks on water color paper, my stamps, and a bit of my new washi tape!  Will add words soon, and who knows....

Can you tell I am stamp obsessed these days?

What else can I stamp?

Hello!!

I'm a busy gal today cutting up paper, stamping, and making. Besides just loving to make cards, I am adding some postcards to my shop, building up the mail art stash, and getting ready to send in my cards for Liberate Your Art! Are any of you participating this year? I did it last year, and loved seeing what rolled into my mailbox! If you haven't heard of it, click the link on my sidebar...lots of great artists in it!

I used to work for Stampin' Up almost 12 or so years ago---thank god I didn't give away all my stuff. These ink pads work as good as they did when i first bought them! Amazing!

Stamping the gals on moleskines too.

the postcards...

Where do I get my inspiration?

Today---from my new obnoxious & glorious orange and black Adidas! I'm a sucker for loud 3 stripes!

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Sweet Girl

I have been carving away....made a new gal. Here she is.

Carving up stamps...

Last night, I carved up another stamp. I have plans for her.

She may end up in my postcards for Liberate Your Art.

She may pop up on some fabric for an art quilt. I decided to try to get in a ( sort of) juried show here in Olympia. It's to raise money for the Washington Center of the Arts. I have a deadline of August 3rd, and can submit up to 3 pieces of 12x12 art.

A deadline- it's just what I needed.

And, more stamps coming, I think. I have some ideas brewing.

Mail Art Envelopes

I used my new handmade stamp for some mail art envelopes. When I colored it in with watercolor cayons I thought it had a comic book feel.

Love More

Made a stamp last night.