Tuesday, June 25, 2013

change will do you good

Hysterical isn't it?  Thank goodness we DO change!  I used a page from an old yearbook.  (Yes, it's authentic!) and my favorite Tim Holtz saying.

 
I was inspired by the sketch at Unscripted Sketches.  I knew I wanted to use the yearbook old page, but I wanted to have a modern edge, so I mixed in some enamel dots for a contemporary vintage card.  I love it when a plan comes together:)

Quilt Stripes

The Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge this week is "Stripes".  It's amazing how many ways that Stripes can be interpreted.  This is my take on the theme.

 
I created a 6x6 paper quilt block using some of my favorite Artistic Outpost stamps.  Inky fun!  I stamped various scrap papers and cut them into strips (or stripes!). I like that some of my strips came out a bit wonky.  It makes it look more like fabric.  The yellow circles were made by using the Ranger distress paints.  Which are very, very cool!  I only bought three colors to try them and I am going to have to buy more.  I loved them!  
 
 

I've been playing around with the quilt concept for quite sometime.  I created a different quilt square here awhile back.  Who knows?  Maybe someday I will create more and attach them all together....

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Winner! Winner!


Congratulations to....YVONNE! for winning my 100th post giveaway.  Yvonne's number (3) was chosen at random at random.org.  Yvonne, please contact me at: michellezerull at gmail dot com with your mailing address so I can get your goodies mailed to you asap!
 
And a big THANK YOU to all that entered!!
:)


Whose wine is it anyway?

I have a new stamped project at The Rubber Cafe today.  Here's a little peek:




Thursday, June 20, 2013

You Party Animal

There's a sketch challenge going on over at the Avery Elle blog.  The challenge is to use a sketch from the talented Nina Yang, and the winner of the challenge earns themselves an upcoming guest designer spot. As most of you know, I don't do clean and simple designs.  In fact, I do quite the opposite.  But I do like to challenge myself by using the unexpected while keeping true to MY vintage/retro style.  And that's what I did here.

Ever since I received the Avery Elle tag dies, I have been making tags out of EVERYTHING.  Here I made a tag from a vintage photo and I used the Simply Tags: Everyday and the Party Animal stamp sets in my design.  I tried to stay pretty close to Nina's sketch.  Since the background paper had a lot of dots, I cut vellum circles to mimic the circles in the sketch.


The rebel in me wanted to use contemporary images in a retro/vintage project.  So that's what I did!


Monday, June 17, 2013

Sweet As Honey

One of my treasures is a small, vintage children's book that is tattered and ripped.  It has outlived its usefulness, but it still has a few fun pages with interesting text.  I adore the little poem on this page.

Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
But only one mother the wide world over.
 
 
Isn't that a sweet sentiment? I had to bring this page back to life!  So I pulled out my stamps and inks and some Crate Paper papers and...voila!  A card for my Mother.  I used the current sketch at Unscripted Sketches, but it doesn't look like it at first.  I flipped the sketch completely upside down.
 
 
Don't forget that there is still time to join in on my blog candy giveaway here.  Go enter!  It's super-easy. 
 

Thursday, June 13, 2013

The Button Challenge

The Simon Says Stamp and Show blog challenge is "The Button Challenge" this week.  Love it! I have noticed "buttons" have been a recurring theme in most of my projects. (BTW...Did you see the button flowers I made recently?) So I was pretty excited for the opportunity to see everyone else's button projects. :)
 
As you can see, I am still obsessed intrigued with the Avery Elle tag dies. And truthfully, I don't remember where I got those rubber stamps. They are probably about ten years old.
 
 
I purchased the old photos at an estate sale several years ago.  They are all small photos, probably captured with an old Brownie camera.  They aren't "good" photos, but to me they are treasures.  If you look close, you can see the old gas pumps in the background of the photo of the girl with her eyes closed.  How cool is that? 

Don't forget that I have a blog candy giveaway going on now.  You can get the details here.  You can't win if you don't enter! :)
 
Happy Stamping!

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

My 100th post!!

This is my 100th post!  Let's celebrate!  How about a giveaway?  Let's do it!  One lucky person will win this:

 
It's easy to win.  Leave me a happy comment here on this post and follow my blog and you could win this prize package valued at over 30.00!  No spam please. Contest ends on Friday, June 21st at midnight, central time.  You must be a blog follower to win.
Happy Stamping!

Tag-Along

I have been on a tag "kick" recently.  Here is a peek of a mini card for The Rubber Café.



Saturday, June 8, 2013

Button Posey Blossoms

It's my turn to post a project at The Rubber Café.  This week I created Button Posey Blossoms using their Grandma's Doilies stamp set and some vintage buttons.

I had so much fun creating these!

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Retro Post

I have a collection of vintage postal themed ephemera that I love to use.  The Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge Blog is brought to you by the letter "S" this week.  When I saw "S", I immediately thought, "STAMPS!"
 
The little tag was made using my new Avery Elle stamps and dies.  Other than that, everything was created using vintage elements.  I am also linking this to the current Retro Sketches Challenge, which was used for the composition.

Wishes

I have had a wonderful week!  My son and his fiancé came to visit from out of state.  Sadly, their visits are too few and far between.  I treasure the time that we are able to spend together, but as soon as they pulled out of the driveway I got busy playing with my stamps.  The laundry can wait. :)


I have several birthday's coming up, so I needed to create some cards.  I can never have enough birthday cards, yet they are always last on the priority list.  Crazy, isn't it?  I used some items from Crate Paper and a Tim Holtz blueprint stamp.  The sentiment is an older Penny Black stamp.

 
I am linking this to the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes Challenge as well as the Use It Tuesday Anything Goes Challenge.