Author: Endless Creations and Everyday Cards

Christmas Bells

Christmas Cards

xmas bellsthe picture doesn’t even show how awesome this card is. The colors are beautiful together.  I like the added touch of black.  At first I made it all silver and teal but the little bit of black really sets it off.  Stamps Used:  F193 Hanging Bells, G287 Christmas  Wishes

We finally finished making stamps at 5 pm today!  Seemed like it took forever!  I now need to get all the make n takes ready, get the odds and ends ready and oh try not to forget to pack some clothes! Oh, and also make 15 cards for the blog while we are gone.  yikes, there is still a lot to do. I also didn’t clean on Wednesday since I was too busy making stamps so that needs to be done before we leave.  Brought all my plants in so they don’t die while we are gone…hopefully my sister will keep them alive by watering them 🙂

so our next journey in the stamp making process is to cushion everything.   I really should have taken a picture of what the rubber looks like when it comes out of the vulcanizer because it looks kind of cool.  Maybe when we get back I will try and remember to do that because they do have to be trimmed before they are cushioned.

 

photo 3Now with the added cling cushion we really have to pay attention to make sure we get the right cushion!  We usually just cut with a blade.  Well I had better get some rest so I can be up and at them tomorrow!

 

Hello

Hello, Uncategorized

helloI love this pattern paper! The other side is pretty cool too!  Hopefully I’ll have some cards with it on tomorrow. We are frantically making stamps and since we have two shows without coming home we have a lot of stamps to make!  Hoped to be done today and trailer packed but didn’t happen 😦

Here’s the next phase of stamp making…we have to cook everything!  And that is only half done, much more to do! Now you see why stamps cost what they do when you consider all the steps to it 🙂

photo 2-2

 

sympathy continues…

With Sympathy

sympathyyso our need for sympathy cards continues…one of my childhood friends mother-in-law died.  We’ve become friends with his wife too so our sympathies go out to her and her family.  It’s so hard to lose a parent.

We are frantically working to get ready for two shows and to go on the road soon.  We would like to be out Friday morning but it’s looking more like we won’t get out of here until Saturday am.  Too many things that need to be done before we go…like closing a pool and different things that can’t be left.  The cold has arrived!  I even broke out the heavy winter coat.

Here is the second phase of what we do.  The first we told you about before the “pulling”  next comes

photo 1-2pulling all the boards and putting the rubber on them.  We love our purple rubber.  It absorbs ink and transfers the ink so well.  Which is exactly what it’s job is!  Well I had better get back to work…this is what my garage look like right now….

garageso if we are going to get the cars in before we leave…there is a lot to do 🙂

 

 

 

Stamp Lift!

Snowman

stamp lift 3So here is my stamp lifted card from Karissa’s card on Friday.  Stamp Lifting is just taking the basic idea of the card and making it into your own.  It might be the colors, the layout, or the stamps that you like and you change to make it your own.  I used mostly the same stamps, mostly the layout, and for sure the colors!

Stamps Used:  EE42 KB’s Snowman w/heart Looking up Med ( I had the number of stamp wrong on Friday!  Will have to fix!); AA27 Snowflakes, C215 Be merry!; and D253 Heart Flag

You’ll notice the background of snowflakes are perfectly random.  I used the “Perfectly Random Template”  Here are the pics…

stamp lift 1This is the template (cut in half)–notice that the paper falls off the squares on all the sides.

stamp lift 2Here are the snowflakes all stamped in the squares even the ones falling off!  Makes the background very pleasing to the eye.

We had an awesome weekend home!  I’ll try and show pictures of all that we accomplished on Saturday and then a nice relaxing day on Sunday.  Have a good Monday.

 

 

 

be merry!

Christmas Cards, Snowman, Uncategorized

be merrySince Karissa has a busy Friday today…I told her I would blog for her.  I’ve been doing that alot lately.  Hmm wonder what’s up with her 🙂  Actually, a friend of hers is getting married today.  Lucky she sends me cards even on my days!

Love the silver snowflakes in the background.  I also like how Karissa colored her snowman with the light blue to match the background.  I think I’m going to sketch lift this card and show you on Monday.  And I have some more pictures of our stamping making process for Monday.

Stamps Used: C215 Be Merry; EE37 KB’s Plain Snowman Looking Up; AA27 Snowflakes; F210 Giga Rectangle

Have a good weekend!  So happy to be home this weekend 🙂

 

Tis the Season

Snowman

tis the season

Ok I admit it.  I love snowmen!  I have trouble staying away from them.  I had a little piece of yesterday’s background paper left over so I thought I should use it up!  I used denim distress ink for the background and for the snowdrift.  And I have to admit I did use a die for the snowdrift.  I know I could probably cut one but I just like how they look.  I also used the distress ink on the ribbon so that it all matches.

Stamps Used:  FF36 KB’s Heart Snowman Looking Up/Lg; EE42 KB’s Heart Snowman Looking Up/Med.; C171 KB’s Snowflake; C219 Tis the Season

this is the die I used.  We have been carrying this brand in our booth.  We are working on our own dies…hopefully by next year.

snowdrifts

So I thought I would just give you guys a little insight to our stamping making process.  We have 170 different stamps to make for the next show.  So we begin with a process we call “pulling”  Each stamp has a file folder with a ticket it that tells us what plate it is on, what size wood it requires, what size bag it goes in and then labels.  So we have to “pull” all the tickets and put them in little buckets.  It probably took us a good 8 hours to get them all pulled.  well,  that is really the second step.  The first step is just determining and putting together the order of stamps that we need.

pullingso here is our “bucket”  to be continued 🙂

 

Be Merry!

Christmas Cards

be merryso I’m not really sure why this card is so blurry!  Karissa will be giving me grief over it!  She hates blurry pictures 🙂  Oh well such is life some days!  The background came out awesome.  White embossed snowflakes with distress ink!  Not so happy about the card but some days are like that!  It’s been THAT kind of a day.  I think I’ll go and vulcanize (that the baking part of making stamps) since that doesn’t require too much out of me 🙂

Happy Wednesday

 

Another day…

Halloween

photo 1-1it’s another halloween card today.  It’s been a complicated day beginning with no milk for breakfast, no cream for the coffee, and no groceries in the house!  But I do have my laundry all caught up, groceries in the house, suitcases put away, all the orders have gone out, the bills have all been paid,  and I have a good start on getting stamps done for the next show which is in two weeks. Not bad for a Tuesday 🙂

I have been working on a quilt for my niece and I have three rows left on it so it’s in my plans to have that done before I leave for the Mesa, AZ show.  I got it all cut out and basted together this evening so now I just need to get sewing…so I think I’ll do that!  Have a good evening.

Sisters

Gift Card Holders

best sisterGood Morning!  It’s 5 am and we and up and ready to head home today.  Drove 5 hours last night and have a good 12-13 hours to go today!

We were in Baltimore Ravens county this weekend and the Green Bay Packers were playing in Baltimore and I guess we were only about an hour from the game!  How fun would it have been to be at that game?!  The Packers pulled off a win!  Whew, we needed a win.

Met these ladies at the York, PA show this weekend…how adorable are those t-shirts?  Pretty sure my sister and I need these!  I haven’t been home much and I miss my sister!

While in York, PA this weekend we did the coffee cup make n takes and they were well received ! I started thinking about how cool they would be as a gift card holder so on Sunday I set out to make one!  Here is it…

starbucks gift card

starbucks gift card 2How cute is that?  The gift card looks like it sticks really far out of the cup in the pictures but is really about half way and looks good!  I used the Lots of Dots border stamp because it really is one of my favorites !  Well, we had better get going.  Have a good Monday.

 

 

 

Happy Day!

Creatures, Friendship, Hello

happy day birdHappy Friday!  The weekend is here.  We are in York, PA getting ready to leave to set-up at the York show.  It is rainy like crazy here.  We got 5 inches in just 12 hours.  It should stop rainy today.  For information regarding the show go to http://www.heirloompro.com for the latest info.

Have a great weekend!

Halloween 2

Halloween

halloween2We made it to Cleveland, OH last night.  Our hotel room has no heat so it’s a little chilly!  Not sure what’s wrong with the heat but it’s a good thing there were two beds in our room since we stole all the covers from the other bed!

Here’s another halloween card to get you in the mood for halloween.  Still haven’t gotten the new stamps on the website yet but we should have good internet most of the way today.  Almost to the weekend!

Here’s what the halloween fun cube looks like:

DD65

Halloween1

Halloween

halloweenIt’s certainly October here in WI.  We have been having beautiful fall weather.

Here’s a simple Halloween card…the bats in the background is one of our new stamps.  I’m hoping to get them on our website today along with the Halloween Fun Cube.  The ghost DD44 and Boo B259 should already be on the website.

Off and running to York PA for the Heirloom Paper and Rubber Stamp Festival.  Running a little late already 😦 so better go moving!