The Raven- Triptychc

When I was asked to be A Guest designer for the month of Oct. for The Artistic Stamper 

I knew I wanted to create something really special for Halloween and I knew just the stamp that would do it. This  Raven Airmail bird stamp was the inspiration for my piece.

 Poe collage image by Alpha Stamps

The entire triptych.

close up of left side.

close up right side

Thank You All!!!

Thank you to all my blogger friends, family  and close friends for all you prayer chains and well wishes. I truly believe it was all of you who have gotten me through this terrible ordeal. I can honestly say I have never been in so much pain before for so long, And to my DH Vic who was kind enough to keep you updated. My Dr who saved my life. and  told me I am one lucky lady to still be here!. For all the visits, phone calls, cards, flowers and gifts and To Carolyn who's CARE bear never left my side even as I sit here. Thank you Inka for the use of your laptop. Vic was able to keep me aware of all your prayers. Its is going to be a long recovery process but I will post when I can and am able to sit for longer periods,
I do have several preposts done and those will be on my blog soon.
Thank you MOM for being there for me too. I Love you all.
Lynn
I have to go rest now. I will share more when I am able

Update on Lynn

Lynn had a appendix explode about 8 days ago,and did not it until Friday morning due to the appendix's location. The appendix had turned gangrene and also got some of her large and small intestine which also had to be removed. She is recovering at St. Lukes Hospital in Meridian, she is under heavy sedation with pain meds,she looks like she's wired for sound with all the IV's in her. Lynn hopes to be home this Friday, and thanks everybody for their concern.
      thank you all   Vic

Hi everyone,

I'm Lynn's husband and I hope I,m doing this right.
  Lynn has had a medical emerengecy and is in the hospital for about 5 to 7 days,she asked me to let everybody know that she will not be able to respond to all her comments for a while and is very sorry,
but will get after it when she gets home.



 Thanks for understanding  
 Lynn

A Vintage Christmas

A Vintage Christmas

I find these new images from Artistic Outpost 

Sleigh Ride are fun and easy to use in altered art. Here I made a Fabric hanging quilt pocket . You can use this as a gift bag or to hold all the Christmas cards you receive.

I pulled out some vintage goodies, lace, old Christmas bulbs, Red Velvet leaves, a hand crochet Christmas bell. and Vintage Christmas hankie. 

 I did a transfer of the stamped children image on Sheer Heaven

 and stamped the text on some muslin.

I'll be adding this to my Etsy shop in the future!

A close up of the transfer.

Some of the vintage Christmas ornaments and lace.

Another little treat I wanted to share. Remember I told you about my BF   Debbie stalking  meeting

Tim the man. Well here's a couple pictures I wanted to share with you.

At the Airport, Debbie had Tim all to herself!!!

The happy couple! I don't know if I've ever seen Debbie smile this much!!!

Here she is at the class she took from Tim the man!

Lucky gal!!!!!!

Sleigh Ride- New Release

Old Fashioned Sled Ride

Just in time for your Holiday Crafting!!!

My sample using some of the new images from Sleigh Ride. They can be found at Artistic Outpost. Dosent this bring back memories of swishing down that hill riding that sled you recieved from Santa?

I used some of the new Trim Artistic Outpost carries also, Don't they make great snowballs!

Sleigh Ride features nostalgic images of children in their coats and finery, perfect for your winter or holiday projects. We also feature a versatile background stamp of glistening pine trees and holiday sentiments and collage elements.

These stamps are available both as an unmounted sheet of red rubber measuring 8.5" x 5.5" or mounted on EZMount clingfoam, pre-trimmed, and stored on a printed cling card. or you can view the Gallery here.

Need some inspiration?
Go check out all the Wonderful samples the design team has put together for you
*Lisa Somerville *Gerrie Johnnic *Lynn Stevens(thats me) *Judy Hayes *Barbara Washington *Connie Paxman *Stephanie Severin*Suzanne Czosek

Perfect Pair Blog Hop

I do hope your enjoying this two day blog hop. If you arrived from  Dana  then you at the right place.

If not you may want to start at the beginning Die-Cut-Diva, You don't want to miss out on any of the Wonderful projects or a chance at some great Prizes!!.

I decided a little Tea gift set was in order. For my piece I had the pleasure of working with Tea Time  Stamps from Clear and Simple Stamps and The Keepsake Box,  Mini Tag Set and  Vintage Labels from Creative Cuts and More.

There will be 2 prizes from each company up for grabs. So you want to make sure you comment on each  blog along the hop in order to be able to win.

 Next head on over to Eva Shes got something really special to share with you.

Ever Have One of Those Days?

Well maybe not this bad.

But a trip to the dentist's office a numb mouth and $300 later.

That's how my morning started. Luckily my mail lady brought me something to cheer me up a bit.

Like this sweet tag book from my friend Cindy at Whimsical Musings

Who is been going through some tough times of her own!

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The inside. Thank you so much Cindy for thinking of me!!!! Its precious!!!!

I also received my Mermaid coasters swap from Alpha stamps.

 Thank you Lynda,Vickie,Cheryl and JoAnn. There all so fun!!!!

If  you'd like to see all the entries you can see them here. Alpha Stamps

And a few days ago I received these beauties from Marva at Purple Paints Muse.

Aren't they pretty. There Garnet and Sodalite. She took time out from her busy schedule of packing and getting ready to sell her home. Thank you Marva. There so ME!!!!!

My day is already looking better and just in time the Novocain is wearing off.

Tag Tuesday and CCC

Is it just me or are the weeks flying by faster and faster?

 I did manage to combine two challenges again this week into one tag. The Kard Krazy challenge about School days and Studio L 3 Masks Basics.

I used The stamp images from Oxford Impressions School Days plate and the mask is one of Tim's.

Speaking of Tim. I got a call from my BF on Friday who is was on her way to the Mall of American for a event sponsored by Archivers. and who did she recognize from the back? Well it was Tim the man himself. She even managed to get a picture of the two of them rubbing elbows. Lucky gal!!! I'm sure she is having the time of her life right now. Maybe she'll even let me post her picture when she returns.

Well off to do a little hopping. I have some catching up to do.

Mirror Mirror

Mirror Mirror on the wall. Who's the scariest one of all?

I couldn't resist stamping the new Halloween images along with a few old favorites on an old vintage mirror I picked up at an Estate sale.

I used the newest Haunted Halloween plate and Vintage Halloween plate from Artistic Outpost. and it all hangs from some of the cool new Ribbon also available from Artistic Outpost

in that perfect Fall Color. I added an old skeleton key and a fun little spell tag.

Creative Cuts -Awareness Month Blog Hop

I am so honored to be a Guest designer this month for Creative Cuts and More

And what a great way to kick of Cancer Awareness then to do a blog hop

For my card I used the ribbon cut out Pink card from C C & M  

and backed it with some lace,

some vintage music paper, Dictionary words about Courage, some vintage lace and velvet flowers.

Come on and Join on in the hop.

Heres the line up. if you get lost along the way just check back at

Die-Cut-Diva to find you way back.

Die-Cut-Diva

Crafting with Darsie  Will be our Newest DT Member next month!

Glitter Stamps and Ink

Dream-Bielieve-Imagine-Mustang Kayla

Art From My Heart Our Newest DT Member

My Laughing Magpie.

Steph Zerbe Design

Creating With Chrissy

Teeny Scraps on Us

Trash To Treasure Art– Our Guest Designer  Thats Me!!!

Noelle Scraps A Lot

CC&M will donate 20% of all sales of Awareness Ribbon products in September and October!!


We will donate half of the proceeds to American Cancer Society and the other half to Susan G Koman Breast Cancer Foundation.

This month’s prize will be an assortment of awareness ribbon products, including an awareness ribbon album, awareness cards and maybe a box or two.
See all the New  Awareness Ribbon Section here.

Ways to win this wonderful prize

(A) Leave a comment on this post. (This is limited to one per person unless you meet the criteria of B, C, and/or D below.)

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(E) Leave one extra comment by commenting on ALL of our talented Designers in our Blog Hop!

(F) Subscribe to our mailing list .Please mention that CC&M will donate 20% of all sales of Awareness Ribbon products in September and October!!

We will donate half of the proceeds to American Cancer Society and the other half to Susan G Koman Breast Cancer Foundation.

This month’s prize will be an assortment of awareness ribbon products, including an awareness ribbon album, awareness cards and maybe a box or two.

 C C & M and leave another comment telling us you have done so, and that is another chance to win!

Your chance to enter to win will have a deadline of Sunday, September 19th at midnight! We will announce the winner on Monday, September 20th.

Come on back to my blog for the Clear and Simple Blog Hop on Tuesday and Wednesday the 21st and 22nd.

Halloween treat boxes- Stamp-Tember

What fun I had creating these  treat boxes for Halloween. I am thrilled to say I am the guest designer this month for Creative Cuts & More. I used the coffin treat box for this, There so easy to put together. The stamps are from the newest Artistic Outpost Haunted Halloween plate.

 I used the torn frames technique from TJ

For my next project I used the slide treat box and spider die cut from Creative Cuts & More 

The technique uses Worn Wallpaper from TJ latest newsletter.

These are my entries for the Simon Says  Stamp-tember blog hop

I'm so lucky

I received the most beautiful fabric hanging from Robin at Robin's Nest

This is what I found when I opened the package. A beautifully wrapped present with the most adorable Halloween tag on top and the stamp just happens to be one of Artistic Outpost Halloween images.

Here's the fabric hanging. Isn't it just GORGEOUS!!!!! So rich in color and texture.

She did a fantastic job on it!! It is DREAMY!

A close up of the image and awesome stitching. I already have it hanging in my studio for all to see.

Thank you so much Robin. I ADORE it!!! I'm so lucky!

CCC week 13- Grungepaper flowers

Can it be? Were already into week 13 at Studio L 3 and Linda has chosen Grungepaper flowers for this week.  Well with it being #13 I thought Halloween was appropriate so I put together this little box with my flowers. I used stamps from The Artistic Stamper for my flowers. Notice they are embossed with spider webs and yes that's a spider for the center of the larger one. Oh the horror! LOL. Come join in the fun its a SPOOKTACULAR good time!

i also just added more cards to my Etsy if your interested!

Off to Neverland

Oh to be a kid again, well you can by playing with one of the newest plates from

 Artistic Outpost. Neverland.

While I did make the tile book. (which was so much fun) I can't take credit for how it was done. It was created by Penny at A Penny for Your Thoughts. If you go check out her blog she has a great tutorial on  how to do it.

Next is a Domino pendant I did with the same images from the Wonderland Plate

Alcohol inks and some of Tim's fun embellishments.

Now go and play today!

More Haunted Houses

                            Well I thought I'd share a few more of my Glass Haunted Houses.
                                        Since everyone I gave them to have received them.

Skelly front

Stamp from Artistic Outpost Haunted Halloween plate

Skelly back, Collage images from Alpha Stamps andArtchix Studio

Stamp from Stamp Francisco.

Man on the Moon Front , Collage image Alpha Stamps

Back

      Hello Pumpkin Front, Collage image

Alpha Stamps, Stamps from Artistic Outpost Vintage Halloween plate.

Witchcraft , Collage image Collagevisions

A little more info added. I cut the glass pieces in the shape of a house, along with 4 pieces for the top. I sandwich all of them together and solder it closed. I add a black patina on the finished houses. They stand around 7 " tall .

Halloween Haunted Book

Well its not really haunted but it is a book.

 One I made with lots of fabrics, dyed gauze,

Stamped images from the new Haunted Halloween plate from Artistic Outpost.

Collage image is a fabric image transfer I did from Alpha Stamps

 and can be found here. Skeleton Slides

Happy Haunting

Doubling up- Tag Tuesday-CCC

Yep I'm doubling up on my challenge today, hey we all need a little time saver right? First for Tag Tuesday at Kard Krazy Where Louise choose the theme this week as butterflies. Sorry I don't remember where the image came from but I sponged it with Tim's inks Victorian Velvet. The next is for the CCC at Studio L 3

where Linda has chosen chipped enamel from Tim's book.

 The stamps all come from I Brake For Stamps the Travel collage sheet.

Come join in both challenges or just check out all the great entries!

I Made It !!!!

Oh this has been so hard keeping a secret.

But I have some wonderful news to share and finally get to tell you all!

You guessed it! Well pretty hard to miss with the logo staring you in the face! LOL

Yep I made the Alpha Stamps Design Team.

It did come at a cost. I can only do so much and sadly I had to give up the DT's spots for 

Gingersnap Creations and I Brake For Stamps. Don't get me wrong I will still be posting and playing along when I can just not on a weekly basis.

I'm so excited to share all the new projects soon.

Alpha Stamps has a couple of really fun Halloween swaps coming up too. If you want to join in visit the blog for more information.

Haunted Glass Houses

Well I couldn't help but get inspired by the new stamps from Artistic Outpost 

Haunted Halloween.

They made the perfect backdrop for my Haunted Glass Houses.

I made four of them so far. This is just one of them. There two sided and stand about 7" tall.

The collage images are from Alpha Stamps

I'll be sharing the others later. Just a taste to get you in the Halloween spirit!

Cemetery Statues

I thought I'd share the Atc's from the online group I belong to. We swapped Cemetery Statues. The top ones are mine.

Bottom are the ones I received. Top left to right: Kim,Teri,Kris

Bottom left: Ingrid,Hope, LuAnne.

Thank you ladies they are wonderful!!!

CCC #11 and Simon Says

Wow another week flying by! here we are at week 11 for Linda's ccc at Studio L 3 where the challenge is Blended Batik and since I used Tim's stamps,inks, technique and his style well it only seems right that I enter this in theSimon Says Stamp and Show challenge this week where the theme is you guessed it TIM!!!

FCD Blog Hop and Candy

So who is ready for a little blog hop and maybe win some blog candy? This hop is being sponsored by FCD

The theme is Inspiring book covers.

Well that was an easy one. I just Love this book Semiprecious Salvage and just look at that cover. I had to have it the first time I laid my eyes upon it and its what has inspired alot of my jewelry pieces.

Its what inspired me to make some of my copper etched pieces. Like the necklace here that uses rubber stamps from FCD  the Women in Character stamps. It hangs from a copper chain with copper beads and a copper butterfly charm.

Or this bracelet using the stamps from the  Theatre Lights plate.

So join on in the hop. Its a circle hop. No beginning and no end. Just start anywhere.  Leave a comment on this post and all posts along the way and Pamela will be picking a surprise Mystery hostess  and use the random # generator to pick the winner from the comments left on that blog and who knows I just may have to add a little blog candy myself. Like maybe one of these pieces!!

Make sure we have a way to contact you.

 The hop runs from 8:00 AM Friday Aug 20th EST to Monday  Aug. 23rd 8:00 PM EST.

The next stop in the hop is Michele B at Just Painting Around

Chris

Lynn (that's me)

Michelle B

Pam

Ursula

Boni

Shelly

You can find more information at FCD

3 in 1

I don't usually like to combine challenges but time is short these days so this is for the Kard Krazy Not on paper Tag Tuesday challenge. The CCC Week #10 Using Distress Stickles on Studio L 3 and the Wendy Vecchi  Studio 490 style Challenge on Simon Says

Here's the deets.
For tag Tuesday I used all fabric for my tag, Did a fabric transfer for my image , For Studio L 3  I added the grunge paper wing and scroll both by TH covered with Rock Candy Distress stickles ( I assure you its there even though it doesn't photograph well). The stamp is from I see Paris Image plate from Stampers Anonymous.For Simon Says Did the Grungepaper rose at the top used the memo holder scroll and wings for Vecchi style. I guess that about covers it.