Bonus December Cover Mount Make, by Alix Waterhouse

This card by Alix Waterhouse wouldn't fit on our free stamp makes pages for December issue, so I am sharing it with you here instead.

Below are Alix's instructions:

Using Versacraft ink, stamp the whole image onto a 2” square of cotton. Heat seal with an iron. Stick this onto a 2 ½” square of hessian, then stick the hessian to a square of white card to stabilize it. Using a sewing machine, make small rough zigzag stitches all around the stamping to create a border and to give a quilted effect to your fabric. Assemble onto brown cardstock as shown, and doodle around the border using Liquid Applique. Heat this with a hairdryer to create texture.

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Hi folks,
Hope you all had a lovely weekend? I'm just in the process of sorting the Christmas ATC swap at the moment, so those of you who took part should get your swaps back soon. In the world of publishing Christmas has come and gone already - had a Valentine's project land on the desk this morning....

The first challenge prize arrived this morning from LB Crafts (thank you Linda)! It's rather scrummy but I'm not telling you what it is!!! Challenge will be announced when the Jan issue hits the shops - on 5th December.

POLL: I've added a little poll to the sidebar - please let me know your thoughts on the content of Craft Stamper by completing the poll. Many thanks.

Katy x

Lovely new stash!

Been having fun today playing with my NEC stash! Bit limited in what I could do because our boiler has broken down and am managing with basics - i.e. card, ink and stamps and not much else - as it's tooooooooo cold to work in my craft room (brrrrrrr).


One of my favourite purchases was a pack of Inkadinkado clear stamps called Ornate Christmas (I got these from the very friendly people from Crafts U Love). I've made two cards today with the stamps, with quite different looks.


On the snowman card, his scarf is coloured with my new Xmas colours Gelly Roll pens (which I also got yesterday from Stamposaurus) and his body is coloured with Broken China Distress Ink. All the stamps are from the Inkadinkado set.




On the Seasons Greeting's card I've coloured the stamped image by blending Distress Inks (Antique Linen and Fired Brick). The swirl is a Penny Black stamp. It's a lot nicer in real life - sorry for the awful photo, it got dark fast!

The paper is from the new Basic Grey Wassail collection (have I mentioned I am addicted to Basic Grey papers???).

I hope you like them :).


See you soon,
Katy x

Blog candy winner!

Drumroll please...........

Winner of the launch blog candy is this comment:

bex said...
Oohh another blog to look at! Only thing is 'blog hopping is cutting into my craft time!

Well done Bex, email me your address to cs@traplet.com and I'll get your candy sent out to you.

Don't worry if you missed out - we'll be having more candy in future.

Plus from early December we'll be launching monthly challenges to tie in with the magazine content, which will also have a prize! So watch this space in the coming weeks.

Might be back later if I get time to play with my NEC stash today!

See you later,
Katy

Where did you get that hat? (Part 2)

Another Santa Hat card today.

I made this using one of my favourite stamps by Bam Pop, called ‘M is for Monster’.

Been soooo busy, so I hope you'll forgive me that it’s a very simple card.


Ingredients:

• Bam Pop M is for Monster stamp (from Angel Crafts)
• Papermania clear stamp set - A Wonderful Christmas Time - Seasons Greetings
• High Hopes Santa hat stamp
• Papermania Christmas papers - A Wonderful Christmas Time
• Silver card, fuchsia card and lime card
• Scrap of fuchsia ribbon
• White gel pen (I used Ranger Inkssentials)
• Snow Writer

1 Stamp Monster onto lime card and colour his teeth and eyes with an Inkssentials white gel pen. Cut him out.

2 Stamp the hat and word monster onto the snowflake paper in areas which are unpatterned. Cut them out. Cover parts of the hat with Snow Writer to give it a fluffy dimensional effect.

3 Stamp the greeting in brown ink onto white card. Mat onto pink card. Stick the word monster over the top of the word merry with 1mm foam pads.

4 Cover a card blank with snowflake paper. Stick the monster and greeting onto a piece of silver card. Round all the corners and mat onto a slightly larger piece of white card which also has rounded corners.

5 Add the panel to the card with 3D foam and finish by adding a bow to make the greeting resemble a present.

It might be a little bit bonkers as Christmas cards go but I like it!

Probably won't be around at the weekend but I'll be back next week. Have a fab weekend.

Katy x

PS ATC SWAP: I've chosen a comment at random and am delighted to swap with KIM. Please email me at cs@traplet.com Kim. :).

CANDY: Tomorrow is the last day for the launch blog candy (see first post).

Craft Stamper at Hobbycrafts

If you're going to the Hobbycrafts show at the NEC this weekend, pop along to the Traplet Publications stand (J10) for a great show-exclusive Craft Stamper subscription offer worth over £36!

Show runs from today until the 16th November (Sunday). I won't be behind the stand, but you might spot Julie our Production Manager (responsible for the mag layout). I'll be popping along for a bit of retail therapy myself on Saturday (with quite a looonnnnnnnnnnnng list!!!).

Enjoy the show if you are going this weekend.

Katy x

Christmas ATC

The theme for this month’s ATC swap in Craft Stamper is Christmas. We've had some lovely entries on this theme which really seems to have inspired you to create.

I loved this month's winning entry - see Joanne Wardle's blog for a picture and more of her lovely work.

On the left is my take on the Christmas theme. I sponged inks onto white card, sprayed lightly with red Glimmer Mist and over-stamped with swirls using Brilliance inks. I then stamped with a wreath (Basic Grey Winterland) and seasonal message (Fancy Pants Designs) in black ink and finished with a wee bit of glitter glue (my latest favourite product), a swipe of Ranger gold paint and some paper flowers.

Trade with me! I would love to swap with a reader – please post a comment here if you would like to swap with me . If there's more than one comment, I will choose one person at random to exchange with.

Thanks for visiting, hope to see you again soon.

Katy x