New Stuff

I created this card for a Yahoo group challenge and was having difficulty deciding what embossing folders to use on the rectangle and square elements. The decision was made today when the new products we ordered came in. We had placed an order to replenish our Spellbinders and added a few embossing folders from a company Crafts-Too. We weren't sure how good their products would be, so we only ordered a few. Wow, are we wishing we had ordered. The folders emboss beautifully and they are so cute. The butterfly is from Prima.

Suffice it to say, we will be ordering more.

Spring 2010 Rosewood Stamps

The new issue of Rosewood stamps are now available, view them on our website Frog's Whiskers Ink. Currently all of the designs are available in cling mount and we will have wood mounts next week.



Rose-Marie has created a new series of stamps called Pop-cuts. These very large stamps (6" square)are sold as a kit with a plastic template and instructions to make a dimensional card that when completed will fit in an A2 envelope. Stamp, colour, score and cut to create these beautiful cards.

Spring Weather

It has been more spring like here the last few days. Temperatures have been near normal and thankfully we have been getting some of those April showers that bring May flowers. In my inbox this morning, I received this photo from a friend who's job involves travelling to the New Liskeard area occasionally.



Apparently the near north was a bit wintery this morning. I am so thankful that I live a bit more "southerly". That is the kind of weather that I don't want to think about again for at least 8 months.

Stampers Camp - Update

After talking to a number of potential campers we have decided on a slight change for the upcoming stamp camp. We have decided to make the booking of accomodations up to the individual campers. We will assist if required and we do have a block of rooms held at the River's Edge Inn for campers to book on a first come, first serve basis.

The cost for the weekend will be a flat non-refundable fee of $100, which will include 3 classes, lunch and supper. Visit Frog's Whiskers Ink for further details. We have set a cut off date of April 30, 2010 for registration.

Happy Holiday

I know I shouldn't be posting a Christmas card on this beautiful Easter weekend. I came across this card a couple of days ago and it is so cute, I thought I would share it. Cassie made these for her friends this past Christmas and had this one left to give a gift to her Dad & I. The tree is Inkadinadoo stamped in Memories and pearls added randomly. The hedgies are of course Penny Black as well as the sentiment. She watercoloured the hedgies and added gems to the holly branch. The seniment was distressed and popped. (Sorry another lousy scan!)

Happy Easter everyone

Flower Power

I created this card at our play day using a technique shown here. (Jennifer McGuire does some amazing stuff!) The script is Rosewood French Script, stamped repeatedly in Memories Artprint Brown. Then I stamped and embossed Hero Arts "Floating Flowers" in clear over the script. With a dye ink I added colour to the open areas of the Hero Arts stamp. The flower is from Technique Tuesday "Pocket Full of Posies" stamped in the same dye ink and added blue accents with a Copic. I think will add dimensional product of some sort to the stamens, likely Glossy Accents. This is more my style, quick and easy

March Card Challenge

I chose this sketch for our March card challenge and as I said in my previous post, Donna & I found it more challenging than we thought it would be to follow a sketch.



Cassie joined our card challenge this month and her card used some beautiful paper that has a hand-made look. A Nestibility die was used for the layered medallion. She added a bit of bright ribbon, dollar store paper flowers and a gem to finish her card. Cassie did realize she had cut her smaller squares a bit too small and remade her card but gave it away before I could get a copy.



Donna's card features a cute stamped puppy from Inkadinkadoo. The puppy is layered onto Nestibility frames. She then added a beautiful ribbon and some doggie themed brads to complete the layout.




I tried hard to avoid the black & white featured in the sketch but in the end just couldn't resist. There is a sentiment stamped on the Nestibility frame but it is simply the wrong colour and I will restamp in a darker colour. I added some dollar store paper flowers with gem centres and a piece of ribbon.



Darlene used her Fiskars Shapeboss to add dimension to her card. The flowers and film strip are dry embossed and glittered. She used her Cricuit to cut the tag and stamped the lady on the tag. Darlene chose to round the corners of her upper squares and managed to create a perfect copy of the sketch in an A2 size. On the inside of the card she has stamped "Out of the way of a woman working." and unfortunately I don't know who makes that stamp.



And once again Lauri has created a stunning card. Lauri has used inks from Stampin' Up to create a perfectly coordinated card. The grass stamp is from Stampin' Up and she didn't mention where the sentiment stamp is from. The sentiment is layered onto blue cardstock, roughed up with a distressing tool and the edges softened with dark blue ink. Lauri created a large stamped image that she cut to replicated the sketch.





Darlene has chosen this month's challenge. Since she enjoyed the sketch challenge we will be making our cards based on this sketch for April.