Market Street Stamps January BLOCK PARTY!

Hi! 

I'm running around like a crazy person trying to get ready for my big trip to CHA, but I had to join the PARTY! That's right! It's BLOCK PARTY time again on the Market Street Stamps blog! 

While you're waiting on your orders to arrive in the mail- play with some of your older Market Street Stamps and share some inspiration! All you have to do is link up on the Market Street Stamps blog (with any projects using MSS) and YOU could win an awesome prize package OR A GUEST DESIGNER SPOT! Woot!

So- I thought I'd play along and I like to show my previously released stamps some love, too, so I have this little guy to share with you today!

Nawwwww.... Isn't he the cutest..... haha! I love that little owl- and Night Owls is one of my FAVORITE stamp sets from MSS. 

I paper pieced my little owl friend with some beautiful paper from the Crate Paper Random Collection. Then, I stamped the sentiment on white cardstock and arranged that same paper to create a frame around the sentiment- super fun! 

I hung the sentiment on the branch with some twine from The Twinery and a brad! Easy peasy! 

I hope you'll join our party- head on over to the Market Street Stamps blog to check it out!

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MSS Sneak Peeks Day 3: Bon Voyage and Travelscapes

Are you guys as excited about these new releases as WE are?! 

I have been having so much fun playing with these new stamps and tonight completes our sneak peeks with two more sets from Samantha Casey! Her clean, technical drawings are SO much fun to color and paper piece- which is what I did on this card that I'm sharing with you tonight! 

Here are the details of the release (all this can be found on the MSS blog, too!)

• The January release stamps will be "sneaked" on the MSS blog Monday-Wednesday at 7PM Central Time!
• The full sets will be revealed on Thursday night!
• Stamps will be available for sale following the reveal Thursday night!
• The January release stamps will be 15% off in the store for an entire week following the release!! Want all of the sets? If you order the whole release they'll be 25% off for an entire week!! Can't beat that!

I stamped the super cute car from the Bon Voyage set (available tomorrow!) a couple of times- once on white cardstock and once on some beautiful paper from Crate Paper! (Seriously- I love this paper. I might need a lot of it... I'm running out.... LOL!) 

I carefully cut out the car on white cardstock and took some Glossy Accents and added it to the wheels! After that dried, I adhered the cut out woodgrain car on top- super easy and super cute! 

The road lines are from the new Travelscapes set- lots of fun stuff in that set- I can't wait until you can see it all!

Hope you're super excited! Make sure you run over and check out the rest of the sneak peeks on the MSS blog- there are so many beautiful projects over there! The sets will be revealed tomorrow night at 7 Central on the Market Street Stamps blog and will be available in the Marketplace right after the reveal! 

MSS Sneak Peeks Day 2: Make A Memory

HI!

Hope you guys are enjoying the sneak peeks! I'm back tonight with another sneak peek of a new set (available Thursday) from Market Street Stamps!

Here are the details of the release (all this can be found on the MSS blog, too!)

• The January release stamps will be "sneaked" on the MSS blog Monday-Wednesday at 7PM Central Time!
• The full sets will be revealed on Thursday night!
• Stamps will be available for sale following the reveal Thursday night!
• The January release stamps will be 15% off in the store for an entire week following the release!! Want all of the sets? If you order the whole release they'll be 25% off for an entire week!! Can't beat that!

Here's my sneak for today!

The stamps in this set just screamed to be used on a layout- so that's what I did! I clear heat embossed that FUN and CA-UTE camera on yellow cardstock repeatedly to make my own background- then I went back and added some white accents with my Signo White Pen to really make the cameras pop! I really like the effect! I also heat embossed the tag image from the set (in white this time!) to add a little detail to the top corner- super cute! 

The accent patterns are all from October Afternoon (from the 5 & Dime, Hometown, and Cherry Hill Collections)- all cut with the Sizzix Hexagon Die and pieced back together. I added little doodle accents here and there to brighten them up a bit! Really like the patchwork look of this!

These stamps are SO great because they are big enough to play a big part on a layout, but still the perfect size for cards, too! SO versatile! Did I mention that these beautiful stamps were illustrated by our very own Samantha Casey! I am IN LOVE with her clean-line style and I know you are going to love her stamps, too!

Make sure you hop over to the MSS blog and check out all the other fabulous projects by our design team members and see how you can win some of these new stamps!

I'll be back tomorrow with another sneak peek! See ya then!

MSS Sneak Peeks Day 1: Birds of a Feather

Hey, there! 

Are you super excited about the new release at Market Street Stamps?! I know I am! I've been waiting so, so patiently to share these some sneak peeks with you! 


Here are the details of the release (all this can be found on the MSS blog, too!)

• The January release stamps will be "sneaked" on the MSS blog Monday-Wednesday at 7PM Central Time!
• The full sets will be revealed on Thursday night!
• Stamps will be available for sale following the reveal Thursday night!
• The January release stamps will be 15% off in the store for an entire week following the release!! Want all of the sets? If you order the whole release they'll be 25% off for an entire week!! Can't beat that!

SOOO... how about a sneak?

This new set, Birds of a Feather, is an excellent compliment to the current LOVE BIRDS kit! And how cute is that silhouette birdie in a birdie nest?! Too cute, right? Many of the images in this set were illustrated by our very own Tifany DeGough!! YAY! So happy for Tifany and I'm loving her art already! 

I used a bunch of scraps I had leftover from my LOVE BIRDS kit and made this fun little card! (If you're interested in the January Love Birds kit, it is still available! If you're signing up for a subscription, the last day to sign up and still receive the January kit is January 25th!!) The branch is from Night Owls!

Make sure you hop over to the MSS blog and check out all the other fabulous projects by our design team members! They're AMAZING!

I'll be back tomorrow with another sneak peek! See ya then!

Happy Birthday, Angelica!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANGELICA!!

 

I am SOOOOO happy to be a part of this fabulous hop for the one and only, Angelica! 

You should be arriving here from Mel's blog! If not, you can start at Kathy's blog and hop your way through! 

I have worked with Angelica now for over a year and count her as one of my very good friends- she's always there to listen, she gives me a boost when I need it, and she always goes out of her way to help and support me in everything I do. While I haven't actually *met* her in real life, I feel like we are two peas in a pod- we GET each other, and sometimes that's hard to find (especially when you're a little, um, weird. ok. not weird. cool. yup, let's call it cool.)!

So.... to celebrate Angelica's birthday (and hopefully put a big SMILE on her face!) I made her this card:

I had a lot of fun with this one! And I don't **think** she's gotten it in the mail yet so I'm ruining the surprise a bit! HAHA! I started with glossy paper and heat embossed the Honeycomb background with white embossing powder. Then, I had some fun and added some Distress Stains (Faded Jeans, Peeled Paint, Frayed Burlap, Wild Honey) with my Aqua Painter to create a fun watercolor look! It was REALLY hard to capture in the photo, but it looks really cool in real life! 

I heat embossed the sentiment and hearts (Simple Joys and Follow Your Heart) with black embossing powder on vellum so that the honeycomb pattern would shine through! 

I hope you love your card and have a FABULOUS birthday, Angelica! I can't wait to see you next week at CHA!!!

From here, hope on over to Kim's blog!

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week in review!

 Hi, everyone! I hope you all had a great week! 

I'm here to show you some of what went down in the Washburn house this week! We had a pretty crazy week due to some teacher work days.... bahhhhhh... but I did manage to snap a few pictures on my phone!

Started the week off right by receiving this beauty in the mail! Thanks, Paper Crafts for the awesome prize boxes you send out to us lucky winners!

I ask my sister, Ashley, to craft with me OFTEN. She always says no. HAHA! But this time I roped her in by inticing her with a beautiful collection of Distress Stains and showing her how to watercolor with them. I think she really had FUN! Maybe she'll craft with me again sometime! LOL!

Last week we attended a bowling birthday party for a little girl in Aden's class. Once again, Aden was the only boy at the party... lol... what is it with parents thinking boys can't go to girl parties? It's a BOWLING party for goodness sake... haha! He had fun anyway and we got to bring Austin along so it wasn't so bad. 

Didn't have school Monday-Wednesday this week so I tried my best to find some things for this little bugger to do! While AJ is very independent and loves to play make believe all day, Aden is the EXACT opposite. Always needs something to DO. So, we went to the library for storytime on Tuesday! The boys learned about the Chinese New Year and had a dragon parade!

Back to school and back to homework! Aden wrote his first poem yesterday! YAY! Love that I can so easily capture this and have it forever. Technology is awesome. 

ONE MORE WEEK! AHHHHHH! I'm so excited to go to my very first CHA! I printed out all my stuff and I'm *almost* ready to go!

Thanks for taking a glimpse into our lives! Goal for next week- take more pictures of Austin! HAHA! He's so stubborn... hates to get his picture taken... lol. I'll have to be pretty sneaky!

Have a great weekend!

Love Birds Card!

Hi! How's everyone doing?

I have a fun card to share with you today! I used the new Market Street Stamps LOVE BIRDS kit for this one! I am IN LOVE with this kit- it hasn't left my desk since I got it and it probably won't until I get the February kit... lol! The papers are so beautiful and that stamp is just perfect for some fun Valentine's Day/Love Ya cards! 

Ooh la la! LOVE it! That big ole stamp is EXCLUSIVE to the kit! If you want it ya better get it fast! I used the pretty MME papers from the Love Me collection and that pretty turquoise blue zig zag paper from Lily Bee Design Head Over Heels collection (all in the kit!)

If you want to see the full kit and check out the details about ordering it (or signing up for a subscription!) click HERE! Sign up for a subscription before the 25th to receive the Love Birds kit as your first kit! 

And check out the MSS Market Fresh Kits Group in the Neighborhood! That's where we peek all the new kit projects and chat about the kits! So fun!

Have a great day, everyone! See ya later! 

(psst.... 8 more sleeps!)

{Love Birds supplies}:

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