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Preview Day 2 - Summertime Fun

Lucky, Lulu, and Monkey are back again! This time they are having some splashing fun in the water.

Surfs Up'

Summertime Fun stamp set (available July 7th)

Bazzill Cardstock

I started by taking a piece of printer paper and folding it in half. I then drew half of the surfboard and cut it out. I traced the surfboard onto my cardstock leaving about 1/2" seam on the top.

I then cut out strips of orange and green cardstock and adhered them to the blue card base. I took ink in a shade darker than the cardstock and added some shading around everything.

To stamp Lucky without the wave I inked up only Lucky and the surfboard, I had a little bit of ink go into the wave. To take care of that I took a q-tip and some cleaner and cleaned off the ink. You can also put strips of tape over the parts you don't want inked up, ink your stamp, pull off the tape and stamp.

I colored Lucky in with Copic Markers. To make the 3 colors on the "Have fun" saying I took the ink I used to add the shading and lightly dabbed it over the saying.

 

 

 

Do you want your own set of Summertime Fun?

To win this set please leave a comment on this post, one entry per person, and the winner will be picked July 7th at noon est. I will post the winner in one post, the winner will need to contact me with their address.

Preview Day 1- Pretty Kitties

These are the prettiest little kitties ever!

"S" Wall Hanging

 

Pretty Kitties Stamp Set (available July 7th)

Rob and Bob Pattern Paper

Solid Silver Ribbon

Swarovski Crystals Fuschia

Medium Weight Chipboard Coasters

 

I stamped queen kitty on white cardstock with Brilliance Dew Drops Graphite Black. Graphite Black is my favorite ink to use with markers. The paper I stamped on is from Prisma Papers and will also be available on the 7th. I have found this is nice paper to use with markers but not great to use with OMS and colored pencils. It was really hard to get the OMS to move around the colored pencil.

The black outline around the kitty was done with a pen and ruler, I wanted to have nice straight lines. I colored queen kitty in with Copic Markers, her crown is done with a Stardust pen.

I used one Medium Weight Coaster, they measure 4" x 4". I took the piece of pattern paper and cut it out 4" x 4" and glued it on, I then trimmed the corners. Finally I lightly sanded all around the egdes to give it a nice finished look.

I then assembled the hanging. The "s" was a silver sticker I had on hand. Instead of doing a ribbon hanger I took the pop top off a can of pop and used a pop dot to stick it to the back. Since the hanging isn't heavy the pop dot has worked great.

 

 

 

Do you want your own set of Pretty Kitties?

To win this set please leave a comment on this post, one entry per person, and the winner will be picked July 7th at noon est. I will post the winner in one post, the winner will need to contact me with their address.

 

 

 

ATS Challenge 7 - Color Combo

Hello everyone! Amy here with anohter weekly challenge issued to us by Jen!

This week's challenge was a color combo - to make a card/project using these colors or substituting similar colors if one didn't have SU! cardstock. The DT stepped up and made some fabulous samples - scroll down to check them all out!

And as always feel free to play along - use the keyword ATSDTC07 when you upload to a public gallery (such as ATS's gallery orSplitcoast) or you can upload it to your blog - then come back here and leave a link to your card on this post in the comment section so we can see it too!

Here are the DT samples:

by Renee

by Amy

by Christina

by Jen

by Jeanette

by Lesa

by Cyndi

by Dawn

C.C. Designs Sneak Peeks

C.C. Designs Monthly Release

Tonight at midnight we start our release sneak peeks. We have 4 releases this month, one of the stamp releases can be purchased as a card kit.

Make sure to check back each day because we will be having giveaways and tons of sneak peeks.

We also have a new member to the Design Team- Kim Reid. And we have also lost a few people over the last couple of months.

This month is a different release date than normal, we usually release on the 4th but since that is a holiday we moved it to the 7th. We are also going to have our releases at 10:00pm est. I know it is really hard to stay up until midnight on a weekday.

ATS Challenge 6 - Glitter

This week Jen issued the challenge of using glitter on your projects!!:

Please feel free to play along if you'd like!! It's always great to see what everyone else comes up with for theses challenges!!

Use the keyword ATSDTC06 when you upload to a public gallery (such as ATS's gallery orSplitcoast) or you can upload it to your blog - then come back here and leave a link to your card on this post in the comment section so we can see it too!

And here is what the DT came up with:

by Dawn

by Kim

by Diane

by Cathy

by Crystal

by Inge

by Lesa

by Jeanette

by Julie

Some housekeeping, sale stuff, discontinues, restocks, etc.

Starting July 1st the C.C. Designs Stamps, single stamps only, will no longer be available wood mounted. This includes Bitzy Bugz, Reindeers, Holiday and Season, Donald and Daphne, etc. They will still be available EZ-Foam Mounted.

I will be keeping the wood mounted sets, but changing the way they are sold. Instead of being completely assembled they wil come to you like Stampin' Up Sets, where you will need to assemble them yourself.

I will also be working on tutorials for cutting out the stamps along with guides on what rubber to cut around an image.

I feel with these changes we can provide you with better customer service. 

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I just found out that Astor Park, Bloomin Paislies, For Peep's Sake, Garden Gate, and Three Bugs and a Rug's Coco Collection, Seeing Stars, and Blossom Collection, Cloud 9's Brittany's Castle, Hampton Collection, Kate, Birdie, and Twirl have all been discontinued. They are currently listed in the 1% off category. I have also gone through and deleted out items that were out of stock and no longer available from the manufacterer.

A lot of the items that were in the 25% off category are now in the 40% off so come on by and check them out.

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We just restocked about 300 items and will be restocking the following this next week; The Cat's Pajamas, Pink Cat Studios, Tim Holtz inks, Dew Drops, Stampendous, Punch Bunch, Prima Flowers, and quite a few misc. items. Please note that they were ordered but may not be here next week, but the following week.

ATS Challenge 5 - Background Stamps

This week Jen's challegne for the ATS Design Team was to use background stamps instead of patterned paper (or if they didn't have any CCD BG's to use another CCD stamp to make their own background).

Here is what some of the team members came up with!

If you would like to play along you most certainly can - I'd love to see what you come up with!

Use the keyword ATSDTC05 when you upload to a public gallery (such as ATS's gallery orSplitcoast) or you can upload it to your blog - then come back here and leave a link to your card on this post in the comment section so we can see it too!

by Cathy by Kim

by Jen

by Lesa

by Jeanette

by Christina

by Dawn

by Cyndi

by Katie

Product Review - Little Monkey's Storage System

Hello Everyone! Amy here - hoping you all had a great weekend!

Christine let me know that All That Scraps is now carrying the Little Monkey's Stamp storage system - so I HAD to come over here and post about it.

For those that don't know what I'm talking about you can read the review that I posted on my blog not too long ago here. I seriously am LOVING storing my unmounted rubber stamps this way - in fact I got a second Starter Set along with 2 more sets of inserts so that I can start organizing the rest of my stamps - and am even contemplating unmounting some of my wood mounted (*shock* I know!) stamps so that I can store them like this as well.

Another AWESOME review of this system can be seen here on Splitcoast. It looks like all those that reviewed the system loved it - and I am sure you will too!

So as a recap - the Starter System retails for $30 and with that you get the box (which you can decorate to match your decor! That's next on my list....), 6 sleeves with inserts (they're 8x8"), a sample of the static cling sheets (I haven't used those at all - I kept them tho just in the box b/c they might come in handy down the road....).

Then you can get JUST the sleeves with inserts (right now ATS carries the Playground line - every few months or so Little Monkey's offers a new color lineup of the inserts just to mix things up a bit) - which will fit in the box you get with the starter set (on average a box will hold up to 12 sheets with inserts when they are all full of unmounted stamps).

Do you have thise storage system? What do you love (or not love!) about it? You can leave your comments/questions in the comment section of this post and I can edit it later to answer them!

New Items and More Discounts

New Items-

K&Co Wild Saffron

Tombow Dual Brush Pen

Pink Cat Studio Dress Up Billy and Owl Plate

KI Bloom Collection

Adirondack Pigment Inkpads

Imaginesce All Kinds of Happy and Baby Powder

Little Monkey Stamp Storage System

Discounted Items-

40% Off Cuttlekids and Discontinued Cuttlebug

1% Off Select My Favorite Things, Gina K, Cat's Pajama's, and discontinued Daisy Bucket Papers

75% off Junkitz, Discontinued Daisy D's, and discontinued Flair Designs

ATS Challenge 4 - Gate Fold Cards

Jen has done it again - her challenge for this week was to make a gate fold card - VERY cool!

I am uploading all the projects the Design Team members came up with - and if you would like to play along you most certainly can!

You can find directions on how to make a gatefold on SCS here.

Use the keyword ATSDTC04 when you upload to a public gallery (such as ATS's gallery orSplitcoast) or you can upload it to your blog - then come back here and leave a link to your card on this post in the comment section so we can see it too!

Here's the DT submissions:

By Cathy

By Christina

By Cyndi

By Diane

By Jeanette

By Jenn

By Kim

By Lesa

By Crystal

By Renee

 

  By Dawn