Here are the photos of my stash from last month's garage sale at my local papercraft store. Sadly, I will be missing the August one but think I have now amassed enough stash to last for quite some time.
All these wooden stamps were one dollar except the Penny Black which was $3. It is my fave in this photo...although it will be fun to find things that will fit in the snowglobe. You can still see the original price tag on some of these...
These were a little pricier.. $2. up to $4. but the JustRite stamp sets were a little more...one at $5. and one at $6 They were originally $8. but I got to that table quite late in the day and she had reduced them!
The Heartfelt Creations here is my fave but looking forward to eventually stamping all of them. Don't laught but I already have that Stampin' Up punch...sigh...
The Memory Box dies were $1. and $2. I have already used the kraft border strips...
I am envisioning some tartan DP for the background of that Scottish Thistle stamp! The wee black manetic sheet with small silver die is a teensy golf cart. I have a slightly larger one and thought this one would be good to add perspective to a hilly golf card.
Well, that about it. What do you think? I decided to create these two blog posts to show the bargains and share that these sales are held every summer...one each month. If anyone is planning a trip to Vancouver, the sales are about a 40 min drive from downtown and also accessible on skytrain and then local transit.
We see a lot of American papercrafters at the sale as the American dollar is worth more than ours...so the bargains increase!
Here are the photos of my stash from last month's garage sale at my local papercraft store. Sadly, I will be missing the August one but think I have now amassed enough stash to last for quite some time.
All these wooden stamps were one dollar except the Penny Black which was $3. It is my fave in this photo...although it will be fun to find things that will fit in the snowglobe. You can still see the original price tag on some of these...
These were a little pricier.. $2. up to $4. but the Heartfelt Creations were a little more...one at $5. and one at $6 They were originally $8. but I got to that table quite late in the day and she had reduced them!
The Heartfelt Creations here is my fave but looking forward to eventually stamping all of them. Don't laught but I already have that Stampin' Up punch...sigh...
The Memory Box dies were $1. and $2. I have already used the kraft border strips...
I am envisioning some tartan DP for the background of that Scottish Thistle stamp!
Well, that about it. What do you think? I decided to create these two blog posts to show the bargains and share that these sales are held every summer...one each month. If anyone is planning a trip to Vancouver, the sales are about a 40 min drive from downtown and also accessible on skytrain and then local transit.
We see a lot of American papercrafters at the sale as the American dollar is worth more than ours...so the bargains increase!
I often mention that some of my cardmaking supplies came from the annual garage sales held at my local papercraft stores.
The store rents out tables for 5 or 10 bucks and the vendors sell their unwanted supplies in the back parking lot of the store. It is usually smoking hot, so most of the regular vendors choose to invest in an awning to give some shade for themselves and their customers. Even with an awning, one vendor passed out at this last sale and had to go in an ambulance to the hospital.
There are even some vendors who have a small business selling overruns and discontinued items. There are several with Tim Holtz only tables, Spellbinders only tables, and Stampin Up tables. The latter are Stampin Up Reps who are selling the"extras" that they themselves buy, when a hostess does not purchase all the specials he is entitled to on her order...
The sales was last Sunday and thought I would show you some of my bargains. Sorry in advance for the glare on these photos. The packaging really caused glare!
I was delighted to get these Tim Holtz stamp sets for $5 each sheet of 4 images. I thought that was quite a bargain as they were unused and sell here for $30 new.
Next up are some acrylic and also some cling stamps. All the wee stamps were 25 cents and the tree shaped Xmas sentiments were $1 and the other was $2
A few more stamps...the green dog themed stamps and matching inkpad are for my friend who makes dog cards.
I am delighted with the acrylic blocks. They have a grid pattern on them and the curved one is perfect for arranging individual letters to form an unusual sentiment style.
The embroidery scissors cut paper really well too...They were new in package and were free! I didn't need them but loved the style and shape! The Bo Bunny Xmas stamp in the top left corner is Brand New In Package and may become a Rudolph Days Prize! The flowers are micro teensy and match some regular small flowers I already own.
I also bought 75 sheets of double sided 12x12 scrapbook papers which I will cut up to 6x6 and use for card kits when it is my turn to host at Langley Stampers Club. They were 25 papers for a dollar. I did take a while to go through them all as she had about 500 sheets available, but patience paid off as I managed to get teensy sized patterns or inky looking shaded papers on one side.
I also bought 25 sheets of various coloured cardstock...also a dollar !
Hope you enjoyed the photos. There are 4 of these sales each summer, at the shop about a mile from my house. There is also another sale in the neighbouring village...just once a summer! I have made three so far this year, but sadly will miss the sale in mid August as we will not be home. Drat!!!
I often mention that some of my cardmaking supplies came from the annual garage sales held at my local papercraft stores.
The store rents out tables for 5 or 10 bucks and the vendors sell their unwanted supplies in the back parking lot of the store. It is usually smoking hot, so most of the regular vendors choose to invest in an awning to give some shade for themselves and their customers. Even with an awning, one vendor passed out at this last sale and had to go in an ambulance to the hospital.
There are even some vendors who have a small business selling overruns and discontinued items. There are several with Tim Holtz only tables, Spellbinders only tables, and Stampin Up tables. The latter are Stampin Up Reps who are selling the"extras" that they themselves buy, when a hostess does not purchase all the specials he is entitled to on her order...
The sales was last Sunday and thought I would show you some of my bargains. Sorry in advance for the glare on these photos. The packaging really caused glare!
I was delighted to get these Tim Holtz stamp sets for $5 each sheet of 4 images. I thought that was quite a bargain as they were unused and sell here for $30 new.
Next up are some acrylic and also some cling stamps. All the wee stamps were 25 cents and the tree shaped Xmas sentiments were $1 and the other was $2
A few more stamps...the green dog themed stamps and matching inkpad are for my friend who makes dog cards.
I am delighted with the acrylic blocks. They have a grid pattern on them and the curved one is perfect for arranging individual letters to form an unusual sentiment style.
The embroidery scissors cut paper really well too...They were new in package and were free! I didn't need them but loved the style and shape! The Bo Bunny Xmas stamp in the top left corner is Brand New In Package and may become a Rudolph Days Prize! The flowers are micro teensy and match some regular small flowers I already own.
I also bought 75 sheets of double sided 12x12 scrapbook papers which I will cut up to 6x6 and use for card kits when it is my turn to host at Langley Stampers Club. They were 25 papers for a dollar. I did take a while to go through them all as she had about 500 sheets available, but patience paid off as I managed to get teensy sized patterns or inky looking shaded papers on one side.
I also bought 25 sheets of various coloured cardstock...also a dollar !
Hope you enjoyed the photos. There are 4 of these sales each summer, at the shop about a mile from my house. There is also another sale in the neighbouring village...just once a summer! I have made three so far this year, but sadly will miss the sale in mid August as we will not be home. Drat!!!
I am really late with my snowman card for Christmas card Club. We are a Christmas card making group who take turns choosing the themes for a Fortnightly challenge. Hyperlinks to the members blogs are on my right sideboard. Pop across and take a peek if you have time. Lots of talented ladies here!
This card is inspired by one I received a few years ago. The topper portion of my card (the image, the snowflake DP cut with a scalloped edge, and the snowflake) are very similar to that card. My girlfriend had this stamp set so I borrowed hers to stamp the image and sentiment. As I only had a small snippet of white card with me, I decided to copy my cousin in law's topper design.
Used up a snippet of navy textured pearlescent card to form the first mat and then backed that with a silver DCWV Glitzy Glitter mat. The DP is Bo Bunny Dear Santa and I used a Threading Waters border punch on it, The white Martha Stewart snowflake was cut from another snippet and the star in the center of it is from a Making Memories package of various sized glittered star stickers.
I scattered various other snowflakes in the top left corner and added some sapphire mini diamonds to the center of the larger stars, I sprinkled a few more here and there. I wanted them to tie in the navy mat colour.
I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Christmas Card Club - Snowmen
Hi, I'm Pat and I live in the South West of England, and I would like to say a big thank you to Mo for
including me on her design team. I have always been creative and enjoy painting, knitting,crochet,
and needle craft. About eleven years ago, I made a few cross stitch cards and so began my love of card making. Four years ago, I started stamping and using inks, which led me to start my blog. I love trying new techniques, and dies and embossing folders are always fun to use. Mostly my cards are fairly clean and simple, with minimal embellishment.
Pat has made this pretty snowflake wreath card complete with a lovely embossed background. I love the stitched kraft mat the wreath sits on!
My name is Greta, I'm a registered Nurse (almost retired!) and living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with my hubby of 36 years and our Standard Schnauzer, Fritz. I discovered stamping nearly 20 years ago starting with Christmas cards and was immediately hooked! I love elegant, uncluttered designs, but also like to try a variety of techniques and styles. I began my blog, 4 years ago and enjoy the friendships I've made all over the world through this wonderful hobby. I'm so honored to be guest designing for the Rudolph Days Challenge.
Greta has cut this beautiful poinsettia from felt. I love the look of it and now want to give felt a try myself!
Hi, I'm Andrea, but some of you know me by my crafty name of KandA. I live in the East Midlands of England with my hubby, have a grown son and daughter, and became a granny earlier this year. I've been crafting in some form or another all my life. Since starting my blog back in 2012, I've met some wonderful like-minded and very talented friends who give me so much inspiration and encouragement. I'm thrilled to be joining the Rudolph Days design team and can't wait to visit you and see all your super creations.
KandA's card features such a vintage looking Santa, it makes me smile with memories of my youth. That was the Santa of my childhood! This lovely card has great traditional colours!
I have tried most types of craft, but discovered paper crafting about 18 years ago, and as they say, I became hooked.
I started my blog nearly 4 years ago to share my ideas and creations with other like-minded people.
I would like to thank Maureen for having me as one of her design team for the second half of the year.
Jenny has made this lovely easel card with a beautiful poinsettia image! Amazing how that bow is the exact shade of the poinsettia.
1. The Rudolph Days Challenge will start each month on the 25th, and will close at midnight PST, on the last day of that month.
2. The theme is always Anything Goes, as long as it is Christmas.
3. One entry per person and you just need to enter one Christmas card or Christmas project.
4. You may combine your entry with other challenges (maximum of 10 in total).
5. Your card (or Christmas project) should not have been previously posted to your blog. It should be posted to your blog during the current months Rudolph Days Challenge, (between the 25th and last day of the current month)
6. Please link back to or at least mention, the Rudolph Days Challenge.
7. Prizes will be shipped anywhere in the world.
8. The winner will be selected by random draw and announced on the first day of the following month.
The prize is a choice of this Banbury Stitched Snowflake die
This fortnight, Christine @ Christine's Cards and Crafts chose the theme of traditional colours for our Christmas Card Club Challenge. I love to use traditional colours but it seemed my mojo was missing...
How is it that a person can have scads of patterned paper pad and yet still can not find the colours or patterns that they need? I envisioned two DP, one with a green pattern and one with a red pattern. Could not seem to find a red tone that was crisp. They were all either too burgundy, or too corally looking.
So I eventually gave up and used this red card for the mat for the tree. Not sure I like it though...
I was out of time from too much dithering about, so I made this card up anyway and thought it might work out for one of DH's pals. It seems too plain. Hopefully that means it has a masculine feel...
Recipe
Handcut 5 1/2 inch square card, used as tentfold
Specialty paper - DCWV green glitter paper; snippet of heavy weight green satin card
DP - snippet from my stash
Dies - Spellbinder; Quick Cuts; Quick Cuts scalloped corners; Sue Wilson Christmas Phrase Tree
Bling - Dollar Store diamond bling
Stickles - Stardust
Once I had my card assembled, I went over the corner dies, the edges of the red mat and the edges of the Ivy DP with a generous coat of stickles.
I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Christmas card Club - traditional colours
2. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
Made another card at Langley Stampers Club. This one featured Stampin' Up Botanical Blooms stamps and Botanical Builders Framelets dies. I really feel that Stampin Up products are the Old Faithful of cardmaking tools. They are always dependable and I like their designs for stamps and for dies!
After die cutting each of the elements, we used chalk to add some depth and shading. I think chalk is another Old Faithful. It is a quick, easy, and reasonable way to add that little extra oomph. Before I started investing in Copics and Watercolour pencils and even pencil crayons, I used chalks to colour my images. Amazing what you can do with some eye makeup sponges for the larger less detailed area,s and better quality shading stumps for detailed work!
I believe all the stamps were Stampin' Up, but I could be wrong. I have got to learn to bring a package of sticky notes with me to our cardmaking days.
I enjoyed making this card and especially liked that we added a gorgeous fern stamp to the inside of the card before we stamped the sentiment. I added a few stamps to the envelope as well and decided to try and remember to do this more often. I like the bespoke feeling it gives.
I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Word Art Wednesday - #238 - 239 Anything goes with an encouraging or uplifting sentiment
2. Crafty Calendar Challenge - Punches and/or dies (I used framelet dies)
I posted photos a few weeks ago of our spring blooms in the new garden beds. Here are some photos of the summer blooms. I am happy with the riot of colours! Hope you like them too.
Yes the patio is finally finished. Amazing to think that this was a barren, hilly area that had never been developed. DH took down the back fence and built a retaining wall bordering our guest parking spot. Then he rebuilt the fence for privacy. He did this all himself, with just a wee bit of help from our son-in-law for the angled cuts where we decided to build in a triangle shaped flower bed just out of your sight line.
He brought in all the drainage gravel and sand himself and shoveled it in by the wheelbarrow load. When he finally laid the paving stones, I think he was glad to be done. The table seats 6 and we have enough room to accommodate 8 if needs be. A tight fit for 8 though!
Here is a close up of the raised perennial beds. I am happy with the riot of colour. There is a narrow pathway up to the second raised bed. We plan to add a water feature in the back bed...right where I have marked it with a cedar stake. I don't want to kill that plant that sprawls across where we will make the fountain, so will transplant it in the fall.
I spied this Wee Bunnies sheet of pre coloured images by Sylvia Zett, ( Hobby House, UK) and knew I could make it work for Mrs. A's current Butterfly Challenge. This fortnight, the challenge is to use the colour yellow and years on your project. Of course there must as always, be a butterfly.
A while back, I chopped up a bunch of 12x12 sheets of scrapbook paper. I remembered this blue and white stripey paper and thought the lovely swirly corners might look good with this image. I matted the image with a snippet of dull yellow card that was sitting out on my desk, leftover from a previous day of card making. Double matted with a snippet of pink card. I used a new die and I do not think I wrote the name down anywhere before I placed it onto a magnetic page! If you recognize it, let me know. It is a thin silver die set with about twenty different sizes...I used somes of the smallest sizes to frame the number 3 (for 3 years old.). As I was out of pink card, I inked up a snippet of white for the back mat of that number 3 and chalked the edges quite liberally with pink chalk.
Happy birthday (a Michaels $1.50 stamp, perhaps Studio G) was stamped onto another snippet of pink and the edges were lightly coloured up with Ingrid Bolme pastel yellow chalk ink. A thin edging of Stardust stickles over that inky edge added a bit of sparkle.
The butterflies were cut from a Stampin' Up Beautiful Wings thinlet die, and used up the last of the pink and yellow card snippets. I assembled them and layered two colours on the larger sizes. Added some mini crystal bling and again alternated the colours.
I managed to use up two VOS flowers (very old stash). The yellow paper daisy type flower is about 15 years old. I am sure you all have some...they came in decorative jars and were quite the rage at the time. I placed a pink felt flower from the dollar store on top
Last step was to add generous amounts of Stardust stickles to the butterflies, the number 3 mats, the flowers, the butterflies and even a bit here and there on the images...just to liven things up. This is a card for a wee girl and wee girls usually love sparkle!!!
I am entering this card in the following challenge:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
2. The Butterfly Challenge - colour Yellow and years
3. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
4. Crafty Calendar Challenge - must use punches or dies (butterflies and image mats)
5. Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes wk 236-237
6. Our Daily Bread - use Dimensional or pop it up (the number 3 is made of glitter paper with 3 bling rhinestones. The goden yellow mat it sits on is popped up with pop dots. as is the Happy Birthday sentiment.The butterflies are attached with Zot dots in the very center of them...so that the wings can fly free for further dimension. Lastly the flowers give three more added layers of dimension.
7. Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - must use patterned paper
8. Stamplorations - 3rd Birthday bash use moodboard
Once again, I used Random Org to choose the June Rudolph Days Winner.
The winner is # 36
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Darnell, could you please email me at scrappymo1@gmail.com and let me know your mailing address.
You have a choice between the Memory Box Holly Leaf border, or you can chose a Christmas stamp from my prize stash.
Once I receive your email, I will send you photos of the stamps for your perusal.
