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Ribbon Scarf

Wrap up one of the pups in a ribbon scarf! This little embellishment uses just a tiny bit of ribbon and adds a bit of dimension to the card. We stamped Reindeer Rex (231C) on white cardstock and also on a sheet of patterned paper from our 6x6 Cedar and Snow paper pack.

Cut out the rex image from the white cardstock (shade the bottom of him with a little bit of Copic Marker in Frost Blue) and wrap ribbon around his neck. Once the ribbon is tied and glued onto the cut-out, mount this onto the patterned paper. A little bit of velvety ribbon, some more patterned paper and a Meadow colored notecard - and you have Rex running across the greeting with the ribbon scarf flowing behind! Another detail - add a red rhinestone to his nose!

Calendar Pages

Our friend Shari, the store and website manager at Impress Rubber Stamps, is teaching a Make Your Own Calendar class at Impress, featuring the Poppies! All of the months are decorated using poppystamps, plus other stamps and embellishments. She sent us a calendar that she made, which is now gracing one of our desks (the desks are available from Impress). Here are a couple of the layouts that she did:

 

The tree in the background is Memory Box E1125 Bare Tree, with a little Autumn Flower Soft sprinkled at the bottom. Bobby Bird (216C) and Running Pup (232B) are playing in the fall leaves.

 

The Large Kitty (228C) makes a scary Halloween cat, especially with eyes that glow from a pastel gel pen! Fiona Faerie (219C) was stamped on purple polkadot paper for a fun "costume". The branch image that they are sitting on is from Savvy, a great spooky image for the look of the design!

Ideas from Alaska!

Cara, who works at the Stamp Attic in Anchorage, Alaska has been having some fun with the poppystamps! Betty, who owns the store, forwarded some pictures of some recent creations that Cara has on display at the store.

 

We haven't thought of giving the dog spots yet! 

 

Fun and festive - thanks for sharing Cara!

Look Out Below!

We can't get enough of snow scenes and so we were excited to use Flower Soft's "Polar White" on our card ideas!

The Sledding Time stamp (233D), with the dog's scarf trailing behind as they race down a hill is the perfect stamp to use with the Flower Soft. It really does look like a flurry of snow - it's more realistic than any product we've worked with in the past! We found that packing the Flower Soft into the wet glue and letting it dry before taking any excess off works well - and you can always add a little more glue and Flower Soft if an area seems weak.

We wanted the snow to sort of "fly off" the sled, so we drew a line of glue to the edge of the card - making it look as though the sled just landed in the middle of the scene.

Warm Grey Copic markers were a nice match with the SIlver Notecard from the Memory Box Soiree Notecard collection - and add a little shimmer to the greeting.

Up on the Housetop...

...reindeer puppy paws! This image is our current studio favorite - we dressed up one of the dog images as a reindeer and added a bold red scarf. The design is clean, cute and easy to stamp - no wonder it's our favorite!

Shade the edges of the dog in Cool Shadow Copic Marker, add some Lipstick Red to the scarf and you are done with Reindeer Rex (231C). Mount on a red layer and then onto a Robins Egg notecard from Memory Box. We embossed the Paw Print 229B with White embossing powder - for a cool effect.

More ideas on this one keep coming - decorate the antlers with some lights maybe? Or wrap his neck with a ribbon "scarf". Or maybe decorate his scarf with a punched out Holly Leaf and berries? This image has lots of possibilities!

Daniel Digger

The weather hasn't quite gotten cold enough yet for snow here in Seattle, but after last winter we are planning on the cold weather ahead. We didn't realize how little we were prepared until last December, when record snowstorms stopped up the airport and made driving next to impossible. We woke up early to head for the airport to fly to Colorado for some "snow time" at the end of December, and found an early morning challenge of digging our way through the front yard to get to the car! Incidentally, while we were in Colorado, the weather warmed up and we saw no snow, and in fact, we had one day in the low 60's! 

Well, one of the first things we did was get a new shovel - which reminds me of this guy, Daniel Digger (230C). A squirt of glitter glue, a piece of patterned paper from our new snow+cedar 6x6 paper pack and some rosy cheeks - voila, a wintry greeting.

The new snow+cedar patterned paper pack is full of a tiny, distressed polkadot pattern (love those dots) - in 10 different color schemes. The color scheme - pinks, browns, aquas, reds and creams - goes a little towards holiday, but I guess could be used year round. We're planning on using it on EVERYTHING! The 6x6 paper pack has 3 sheets each of 10 different color schemes - for a total of 30 beautiful, polka dotted sheets!

Tag! You're It!

This was a seriously fun design - and so fast! We designed the running pup to go with the other dog images, but when we stamped it with Fred Frolic - it was perfect! We wanted to create a lively scene - where the two are running across a snowy field, snow flying behind them. Stamping the two of them on a white piece of paper and then adding dabs of clear glitter glue below and behind the characters creates the illusion.

We wanted most of the colos to be neutral shades of blue that would blend in with the notecard. Then, when we added red to the dog's collar and Fred's hat, those two pieces really popped out. A coordinating red layer of paper ties everything together!

Juggling Pup

Aren't we all juggling a lot in our lives these days? We have played around with this fun image a little bit - making the balls that he's juggling in the air different colors but came across these snowball stickers and thought it looked simply great.

A little outline of blue (B41 powder blue) from a copic marker and a touch of red (R29 Lipstick Red) for the collar and you're done - this card is so fast and cheerful. It's guaranteed to put a smile on someone's face!

Our newest release

We are so excited to announce a brand new batch of rubber stamps!We have seven fun new images to work with, available on the site later today (see below for a sneek preview!).Emma and Cooper, who have been "running the show" all summer, have gone back to school but are continuing to run poppystamps after they finish their homework in the evenings! They have been doing all of the packing, pulling and invoicing - and signing each handmade thank you card that goes out with each order. We'd like to thank everyone for supporting this fun little business!

End of Summer Sale

We are enjoying some beautiful weather here in the Pacific Northwest and decided to spread the sunshine with an end of summer sale at poppystamps! All of you poppystamps fans, if you've been thinking about adding a few more poppys to your collection, now's the time! Until Monday the 21, you'll get 10% off on anything you buy on the site!

And how about this for a September project? Using our Big Pooch (225C) and Small Pooch (226B), we created a fun friends card! We used some thin pink satin polkadot ribbon for a simple embellishment across the center, which matches up with the Big Pooch's pink collar.

You can learn all about how to make this quick and easy card, using copic markers, by going here.