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Stamps in the Mail is G R O W I N G!!!

Starting with Round 1 Month 2 (registration starts TODAY-Aug 10) you will now get 4 Artisans for the price of 1.

What exactly does this mean?

When you register for Stamps in the Mail you will now be tapping into the creative brains of 4 past and present Artisan Design Team members.  How amazing is that??!!  It's a whole lotta awesome, if you ask me.

Meet my collaborators:

My favorite part of all of this is that we're all friends.  I love these gals!

Jane Lee, that's ME!  I am a two-time Artisan Design Team member (2012 & 2013).  I've been a Stampin' Up! demonstrator for 10 years and absolutely LOVE creating projects with paper.  My style is urban and grungy with splashes of traditional.  I love sewing and stitching on projects as well as up-cycling items like cardboard and chicken wire (I know!!)  I also like creating projects with clean lines and white space.  You never know what I'm going to create but it'll always have a "Jane" feel.  Get out your Aqua Painters because I cannot get enough of watercoloring!!


Becky Cowley is a 3 (yes, 3!) time winning Artisan Design Team member.  Her style is clean and WOW!  I absolutely love everything she creates.  Her projects have inspired me time and time again.  Becky and I have known each other for a long time but have only become super amazing friends within the last year.  Why did I waste so much time not getting to know her?  She's fantastic!!  Lesson learned.

Cathy Caines was on the Artisan Design Team with me last year.  After one conversation with her I knew we'd be great friends.  Her style is out-of-this-world AMAZING!  Cathy has the ability to think outside the box.  Like, WAY outside the box.  I absolutely love how her brain works.  She is a scrapbooking guru.  Watch for Stamps in the Mail Scrapbook Add-ons.  Yeah, I love her.  Oh, did I mention she's from Canada?  She is.  She's rad.



Allison Okamitsu is on the Artisan Design Team this year.  SO awesome!  I'm so excited to see the creations she'll be making with the new team of 16 members!  Quite a jump from the previous 10 members.  Allison's style is contemporary cool -  funky and fun with a splash of the traditional.  Allison also has the amazing talent to carve ANYTHING with the Undefined rubber.  Need a custom stamp?  She's your gal.  Allison is silly and loud.  I think she's fantastic!  Allison is also from Canada.  Cool, eh?



Are you stoked??!!

So, now when you join my Stamps in the Mail subscription each month you know that you will be getting 4 Artisans for the price of 1.  Where else can you get such a deal??!!

All my USA friends can sign up for my Stamps in the Mail subscription now by leaving a comment in this post or sending me an email:  naptimestamper@gmail.com.  I'll send you further directions from there.  Did you miss out on Month 1?  No worries, just add the Tap, Tap, Tap set, Epic Day Washi Tape, and Black Baker's Twine to the Month 2 invoice.

Yay!

I'm so excited for this new venture in crafting.

Aren't you?

Sign up for this fabulousness today!

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Full project kits delivered straight to your door.

What are you waiting for??

 

Artisay Wednesday Wow *july facebook*

 

Welcome to the very last post of the 2012 Artisan Design Team.  Starting next week you'll see new posts from the 2013 Artisan Design Team.  YAY!  Did you just come from Heidi King's blog?  I've gotten to know her pretty well over the past month and she is such an amazing friend, mom, and creator of gorgeous crafts.  Everything she creates inspires me.  I'm really going to miss her being part of this blog.  No worries though; she has her own blog with gorgeous projects that I'm sure she'll continue to share with us.

This card was my Convention swap as well as my facebook project.

Here is my facebook post on the Stampin' Up! Artisan Board:

I am not known for girly, pretty cards…and I’m not going to start now.  HA!  I love to distress paper and make things grungy with ink.  It’s safe to say this is as girly and fluffy as my stuff can get.  I really do like this card.  All parts of it make me happy.  I love how the butterflies literally pop off the page.  These butterflies are composed of 3 butterfly punches.  Adhere 2 folded (in half) butterflies to the 3^rd one, which is flat.  I used vellum paper so you wouldn’t see it.  I love how they turned out!!

 

 

Stamps:  A Dozen Thoughts, Dictionary

Ink:  Crumb Cake, VersaMark

Paper:  Crumb Cake, Vellum, Modern Medley DSP, Subtles DSP Stack

Accessories and Tools: Basic Black Chevron Ribbon, Victoria Crochet Trim, Wild Wasabi Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Calypso Coral Baker's Twine, Bitty Butterfly Punch, Heat Tool, Black Emboss Powder, Big Shot, Chalk Talk Framelits, Sponge Daubers, Paper Snips, SNAIL Adhesive, Dimensionals
Other: Sewing machine, vanilla thread

 
Order everything from my site {HERE}

Now head on over to Jeanna Bohanon's blog.  I love love LOVE her and all her projects.  I promise you will not be disappointed.

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Artisan Wednesday Wow *butterflies galore*

Welcome to the July edition of the Wednesday Artisan Blog Hop!  Check back every Wednesday to see new projects that 10 Stampin' Up! Artisan's have created.  Did you just come from Heidi's blog?  I love her AND her projects!  I got to spend a lot of time with her last week during Convention and she is amazing!  She's hilarous and super fun to be around.  If she lived closer we'd get into lots of trouble fo' sho.  Everything she creates inspires me. F'rillz!

My projects this month are a suite of items so I'll break everything down:

•  Cards

The layers of the butterfly go like this: Vellum as the base + DSP folded in half on each side of the vellum.  Easy peasy.

Stamps:  Dictionary, Butterfly Collection Jumbo Wheel

Ink:  Crumb Cake

Paper:  Crumb Cake, White Vellum, Modern Medley DSP, Subtles DSP Stack

Accessories and Tools: Big Shot, Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die, Sponge Daubers, SNAIL Adhesive

Other: Sewing machine, vanilla thread

• Box

There are 11 layers of DSP in that butterfly.  I also stitched the center together.

Stamps:  Dictionary, Butterfly Collection Jumbo Wheel

Ink:  Crumb Cake

Paper:  Crumb Cake, Modern Medley DSP, Subtles DSP Stack, Silver Glimmer Paper

Accessories and Tools: Big Shot, Beautiful Butterflies Bigz, Paper-Piercing Tool, Essentials Paper-Piercing Pack, White Baker’s Twine, Calypso Coral Baker’s Twine, Basic Black Chevron Ribbon, Wild Wasabi Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Elegant Butterfly Punch, Sponge Daubers, SNAIL Adhesive

Other: Sewing machine, vanilla thread, paper mache box, quilting needle

• Butterfly Garland

Paper:  Modern Medley DSP, Subtles DSP Stack, Silver Glimmer Paper, White Vellum

Accessories & Tools:  Big Shot, Beautiful Butterflies Bigz, Elegant Butterfly Punch , Bitty Butterfly Punch, SNAIL Adhesive 

Other:  Sewing machine, vanilla thread

 Put them all together and what do you get?

Love.

  
Order everything from my site {HERE}

Now head on over to Jeanna's blog.  I love love LOVE her and all her projects.  I promise you will not be disappointed.

Do you follow me on Pinterest?  You can.

Artisan Wednesday Wow *hexagon grunge*

Welcome to the July edition of the Wednesday Artisan Blog Hop!  Check back every Wednesday to see new projects that 10 Stampin' Up! Artisan's have created.  Did you just come from Heidi's blog?  I love her AND her projects!  Everything she creates inspires me. Fo' realz!

How did I get these awesome hexagons, you ask?  I punched out a few hexagons on some scrap paper to create a template.  Then lay the template on your paper and spritz away.  I am in love with how this turned out!!

Stamps:  A Dozen Thoughts, Six-Sided Sampler

Ink:  Coastal Cabana, Daffodil Delight, Basic Black Ink Refill

Paper:  Rich Razzleberry, Coastal Cabana, Whisper White, Brights Collection DSP

Accessories and Tools: Stampin' Spritzer, Hexagon Punch, Heat Tool, VersaMark™, White Emboss Powder, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Paper Snips, Sponge Daubers, Dimensionals, SNAIL Adhesive

 
Order everything from my site {HERE}

Now head on over to Jeanna's blog.  I love love LOVE her and all her projects.  I promise you will not be disappointed.

Do you follow me on Pinterest?  You can.

Artisan Wednesday Wow *bravo*

Welcome to the July (JULY ALREADY??!!) edition of the Wednesday Artisan Blog Hop!  Check back every Wednesday to see new projects that 10 Stampin' Up! Artisan's have created.  Did you just come from Heidi's blog?  I love her AND her projects!  Everything she creates inspires me. Fo' realz!

Stamps:  A Dozen Thoughts, Six-Sided Sampler

Ink:  Coastal Cabana, Crushed Curry, Rich Razzleberry, Basic Black Ink Refill

Paper:  Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Vellum

Accessories and Tools: Brights Collection Buttons, Stampin' Spritzer, Crushed Curry Chevron Ribbon, White Baker's Twine, Hexagon Punch, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Paper Snips, Glue Dots, Dimensionals, SNAIL Adhesive

 
Order everything from my site {HERE}

Now head on over to Jeanna's blog.  I love love LOVE her and all her projects.  I promise you will not be disappointed.

Do you follow me on Pinterest?  You can.

Artisan Wednesday Wow *june facebook*

 

Welcome to the July edition of the Wednesday Artisan Blog Hop!  Check back every Wednesday to see new projects that 10 Stampin' Up! Artisan's have created.  Did you just come from Heidi's blog?  I love her AND her projects!  Everything she creates inspires me. Fo' realz!

Here is what I posted on the SU! facebook album for June: 

There are a lot of 4-letter words that I use (say and/or think) throughout the day.  I am a mom to 3 boys so these are my most frequented words:

• *Shhh…  This word either means to be quit or a shortened version of shoot.  What were you thinking??

• *Derp…  This is a sound that you say out loud.  It takes the place of dork, dingbat, nerd, etc.  You can say it when you are referring to someone or something they’ve done.

• *Oops…  Need I say more?  I probably say this word the most either referring to something I’ve done or while witnessing someone do something else.  

So why not have a card for these sayings?  AND let’s make it even cuter and make them circle!  A very good friend of mine gave me a circle card and I’ve been in love with it ever since.

**tip** Fold your paper in half and then run it through your Big Shot but leave the folded edge inside the cutting edge of your die-cut.  Make sense?  What other great shaped cards can you make?

 

Stamps:  Dude, You're Welcome!, Hey There - Paper Pumpkin, Show & Tell 2, ABC-123 Sketch Alphabet & Numbers, ABC-123 Outline Alphabet & Numbers

Ink:  Coastal Cabana, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Pudding

Paper:  Coastal Cabana, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Pudding, Whisper White

Accessories and Tools: Smokey Slate Chevron Ribbon, Heat Tool, Black Emboss Powder, VersaMark™, 1-3/4" Circle Punch, Big Shot, 3-1/2" Circle Originals™, Paper Snips, SNAIL Adhesive, Dimensionals

 
Order everything from my site {HERE}

Now head on over to Jeanna's blog.  I love love LOVE her and all her projects.  I promise you will not be disappointed.

Do you follow me on Pinterest?  You can.