Sweet Trio :: Guest Designer :: Diane Noble

It's Friiiiiday! Whoo hoo!

Today I am thrilled to share a trio of gorgeous, gorgeous projects by the ever-so-talented and genuine Diane Noble.

I am always in awe of our Guest Designers and how generous they are with their time, talent and energy in creating beautiful works of art for our blog. 

Diane is not only one of the nicest, most thoughtful and inspiring people I've met in the Blogosphere, but she does fantastic work. I was so touched by the thoughtfulness and soul Diane has weaved into each project. Just keep reading more below (in Diane's words) and you'll see exactly what I mean! 

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I am a retired educator and I live near Kansas City, Missouri, with my pastor husband.  We have an empty nest now so I’m at a stage in life where I can enjoy my favorite hobby—paper crafting.  I love creating 3-D projects, including mini albums and mixed media art, but my favorite craft is card-making.  

As a pastor’s wife, I have many opportunities to send cards to encourage people and to let them know we are praying for them.  What I enjoy most though is sending cards for no special reason other than to let someone know I was thinking of them.  

My design style varies since I try to fit the style to the images I’m using, but I love the shabby chic look for paper crafting and home décor.  I try to participate in online card design challenges because they help me get out of my box and try new techniques, color schemes or design layouts.  

I’ve had over 120 cards published in crafting magazines, and currently serve on two design teams.  I was also honored to be asked to be a guest designer for Market Street Stamps.  I recently discovered MSS and am already hooked on the fun, whimsical images. 

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Enjoy the Journey Mini Album  

Measuring 4” x 4” this mini album is jam-packed with fun spots for photos or journaling.  It contains 14 pages, including interactive elements, and showcases 24 images from MSS sets.  I love mini albums and try to create ones that could fit anyone’s tastes.  This could record fun trip memories, or could be a mini journal about some significant life experiences.  I want to keep it to record some highlights of my life—important moments and special memories. The last 2 pages will record some of my faith experiences and ways God has answered prayer. (Angelica's note: you will DEFINITELY want to check out the GORGEOUS inside pages on Diane's Blog! They are must-see!)

MSS Sets Used:  

• Bon Voyage
• Cane Background
• Compass
• Home Sweet Home
• Simple Joys
• Vintage Notepad Background

Other Materials Used:

• My Mind’s Eye / Indie Chic “Citron” 6 x 6 designer pack
• Crochet lace, buttons, rhinestones, designer brads, linen thread, craft envelope
• Punches/Dies: 1-3/8” circle punch, Hearts and Brackets die (Stampin’ Up!), Beautiful Wings   embosslit die (SU), Two Tags die (SU), wide oval punch (SU), Martha Stewart edge punch, 
• Zutter Bind-It-All and binding tools
• Copic Markers, Memento Ink (Tuxedo Black, and London Fog) by Tsukineko

Enjoy Special Moments Card

I know so many women who live life at a very hectic pace…young moms who are constantly on the go.  This card invites the recipient to sit, relax and enjoy all of life’s special moments.  If only for the brief moments taken to sit and read the special message inside, I hope to bring encouragement and refreshment with this creation.  These delightfully warm, vibrant patterned papers give a slightly shabby chic ambiance to the card. The card measures 5-1/4” square.  The image has been paper pieced, and for a touch of realism, the tag string is inserted in a tiny hole, and covered with the paper pieced tea portion of the image.  (This card coordinates with the “Enjoy the Journey” mini album).  

(Angelica's note: see more photos on Diane's Blog! simply gorgeous!)

MSS Sets Used:

• Enjoy Today
• Simple Joys

Other Materials Used:

• Crochet lace, mini market tag (office supply store), buttons, hemp twine
• Patterned Paper—My Mind’s Eye / Indie Chic “Citron” 6 x 6 paper pack

Market Street Stamps Storage Bin (Altered Art)

This 6-1/2” x 9” x 4-1/2” cardboard storage bin is perfect for storing all my new Market Street Stamps! I purchased CD jewel cases to hold each stamp set. The stamps cling to the inside of the case.  I cut the labels and the pictures from the stamp set packaging to identify each case of stamps.  This is perfect for my growing collection of my favorite fun, whimsical sets from Market Street Stamps. 

MSS Stamps Used:
• Gone Campin'

Other Materials:

• Stampin’ Up!: cardstock, patterned paper (retired) and ribbons
• Rhinestones 
• Copic markers
• CD Jewel cases from Staples
• Mini cardboard file case 

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Thank you SO much for visiting today and thank you SO much to DIANE for her incredible, incredible projects! PLEASE head over to her blog for lots more photos - they are amazing!!

Have a great weekend, guys!!

Guest Designer :: Jen del Muro

Good Morning Everyone! Today I'm off to my family's Christmas Party, but first - what a treat to share these wonderful projects by Splitcoaststampers' Dirty Dozen alum, Jen del Muro! She has created two cards that have completely stolen my HEART! Oooh how I adore the way she popped out the campfire scene from "Gone Campin" and just WAIT 'til you see her amazing "Blast Off" card! SO cute and such a great design for kids and adults alike! Click HERE to read a little more on this creative star...just adore her work so so much! 


Enough chitter chatter from me, though - here's what Jen has for you! 

 


Hello Market Street Friends!  It's me Jen del Muro from www.iheart2stamp.com.  I am so excited....THRILLED, in fact, to be a guest designer this month for Market Street Stamps.  I live in North Texas with my husband, daughter and son.  We share our home with 2 brainless {and very loved} canines and a sly fat black cat.  We enjoy spending time together outdoors when we can.  When the weather gets a little wicked, we love curling up on the couch and watching our favorite movies.  When I am not hanging out with my family or running around like a crazy woman trying to solve the problems of the world...I mean "day," you can find me in my stamp room...or on my computer blogging about what I did in my stamp room.  Thank you to Market Street for having me play along this month!!  Here's what I came up...

First, this card uses the set BLAST OFF.  As a mom of a boy, this set totally speaks to me!  I love the large line art image that was super easy to paper piece and the sentiments are fun and fresh and will find there way onto many upcoming birthday cards (including my lil' guy's).




This second card I made uses the set GONE CAMPING.  Oh my, how I fell in love with this set the first time I saw it!  Again, the line art images are AWESOME and the sentiments crack me up.  I'm almost just waiting for someone to have a bad day so I can create a card with the mosquito and "Sometimes Life Just Sucks" sentiment...LOL  As for this card, I used the cutie patootie marshmallows and campfire image popped up.

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Thanks SO much for being a guest designer, Jen!!
Loved having you!!
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
Angelica

Geek Love!

Hey Market Street Fans!  It's Meg here with an extra bonus Sunday post.  Who's ready for some geek love?

I've been wanting to make a graph with the Pretty Perfect Grid ever since I got it in my hot little hands.  I started by stamping the grid in gray onto gray cardstock, leaving a bit of a border. Of course, we all know that you should always label your axes, and the two sentiments from Simple Joys were perfect to show my love for the hubby growing over time (to really geek out on you, I wanted it to be an exponential graph, but I think I would have gotten to x = 4 before it went off the card, so I went with the linear equation y = 2/3x + 1).  I thought about just adding some bling for the points, but then remembered this small little heart from Gone Campin' that was the perfect size! 

Then, being the good stamper that I am, I clean off the sentiment stamps and start putting them back on the sheet, when what do I spy?   Yes, there is an actual equation in Simple Joys.  It was like Angelica knew there were geeks out there wanting to make a love graph.

One more note: If you enjoyed this post, thank your math teacher.  Or any teacher.  Maybe get your kids in the spirit of Thanksgiving and have them write thank you letters to their teachers.  Maybe write one yourself to that teacher that inspired you to _____.  Believe me, it will make his or her heart grow-and this time it definitely will be exponentially!

An Autumn Themed Thank You

Hello Market Street fans! 

My name is Tami Mayberry. I am a *huge* Market Street Stamps fan; and, I am super excited to have been asked to share one of my projects with you today. 

First off, I have to say that I dearly love Market Street Stamps for so many reasons! Not only is the service top notch, but, the quality is outstanding. Of course, the images and backgrounds are always a joy to play with as well. The only "bad" part is having to decide just which one to use! 

For my card I chose both an image set and a background stamp. For the image I decided to use something from my very first Market Street Stamps set-Gone Campin' Then I decided to combine that with a background from the newest release- Gingham Background.

Together they make a great outdoorsy combination perfect for Autumn.

Below is the thank you card I came up with:

Supplies: Stamps: Market Street Stamps (Gone Campin, Gingham Background); Card stock: Bazzill;  Markers: Touch Twin by Shinan; Dies: Spellbinders; Baker's Twine: The Twinery

I started by making the multicolored gingham background. I stamped the gingham background in brown and then used the fine point of my Touch Twin markers and a ruler to highlight the edges of the lines. It was quite similar to this technique posted here on the blog. The only difference is that I only made one line on each stripe and lined every side rotating between 2 colors. I trimmed that to fit my card base but didn't adhere it until everything was layered on. I typically build everything on a single panel and then adhere it to the base last so that the inside of the card remains clean.

Using the gingham print as my base, I layered on some gold and dark red card stock. I scored the edges of the gold with my Scor-pal to help define the edges and stamped the red with the gingham background stamp and brown ink. I wrapped the panel with some matching twine from The Twinery and secured the ends to the back of the panel with Scor-Tape. 

I stamped the greeting (Gone Campin) on gold card stock and cut it out with an older Spellbinders die. I tied some more twine through the opening so that it would look as if it were part of the pieces I wrapped around the panel. Next I attached the tag with foam tape and added 3 matching pearls. 

For the main image, I stamped the fire and marshmallows from the Gone Campin set on a piece of white card stock with the stick placed at a slight angle. I then stamped the images onto another piece of white card stock, colored them with my Touch Twin markers, cut them out and adhered them to the first image to give it a more raised effect. I cut the whole thing out with a square die and matted it with gold card stock. I used foam tape to attach the panel at a slight angle so that the stick was horizontal and the panel balanced out the tag a the bottom. For my last step, I adhered the completed panel to the card base. 

Super easy! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today. 

Also, a huge thank you to Market Street Stamps for their great products and for letting me share my card!

Explore.

Hi there! It's Tifany and I am going to make a confession:
I have an absolute love/hate relationship with the red/teal color combo - it catches my eye...but for some reason my brain cannot comprehend how it goes together.
No matter what my brain thinks, sometimes I just can't help but use it for papercrafting...it inspires me!

This card started out when I was doing some simple coloring on a sheet of stamped images. I wanted to play with the idea of coloring this cute little camper with only two Copic markers. {Generally I use more than one shade of each color, but this was created with only two markers...one red and one teal.}

After I had my camper colored I needed to cut it out since it was surrounded by other stamped images, and after playing with layout options for the image and card I decided on this clean and simple design. 

So...what do you think about the red/teal color combo?
Love it? 

Hate it? 

A little of both?

Let me know what you think by leaving a comment...and thank you for stopping by today!


And please visit me on my blog - I love visitors!:

Supplies: 
Cardstock: Discount Cardstock (Posh Red Pepper Linen 80#);
Stamps: Market Street Stamps (Gone Campin);
Ink: Memento (Tuxedo Black);
Markers: Copic (R27, BG15, E57);
Tools: Fiskars (Trimmer, Scissors); Martha Stewart/EK Success (Scoring Board);

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p.s. Market Street Stamps is this week's "Moxie Fab Stamp of Approval" over at Moxie Fab World!! SOO exciting! Please visit this post for a chance to win one of FIVE Moxie Fab selected sets! 

Sometimes You're the Windshield...

Hey y'all!  It's Meg here, doing my very first Design Team blog post (ever!).  Are you as amazed as I am at all the wonderful creations the design team has posted this month? Every day my jaw just drops more! 

For my card, as soon as I saw that huge 'skeeter in Market Street's Gone Campin' set, I knew I had to make a card about one of my husband's favorite phrases:

"Sometimes you're the windshield;
sometimes you're the bug." 

I downloaded the Echo Park car shape (a VW "bug" of course) from the Silhouette Studio and enlarged to it be about 5x5.  I copied it, deleted all the inner details, turned it upside down, and welded it to the top of the original so the Silhouette would cut out the entire card shape.  I cut out the entire card from blue cardstock, then cut out the red and black from Die Cuts with a View metallic cardstock.  I adhered a transparency sheet behind the windshield and then added my favorite part:

I mean, seriously, bugs should really not look this adorable!  His expression even looks like he feels bad about having to bite you.  I stamped the overly-adorable skeeter onto white cardstock and colored with copics and a white gel pen.  Handy hint for today: Do not do a google image search for "mosquitoes."  (Your retinas can thank me later.)  I cut him out (as well as the wings that were stamped onto vellum cardstock) and then went around the edges with a black marker-it makes a big difference, especially on those legs and, um, its torture device? (I'm sure it has a technical name that I'm not going to look up due to my handy hint of the day.)  I would also recommend doing a quick brown coloring on the back of him since the window is window-like in its transparency (I would also recommend you do this before you stick him on with foam tape). 

I wrote the windshield sentiment on the inside of the card, but this sentiment stamp in the set was just the perfect size for a license plate, so I added it to the front:

I hope your life isn't sucking right now, but if it is, I heard the perfect cure is to get inky with Market Street!

Angelica here! 

Oh my goodness wasn't Meg's skeeter card adorable?

She has the best sense of humor!!

I'm here to announce our two winners from the 

Market Street Block Party!

Thank you all for making it such a fun weekend!!

If you didn't get a chance to play along this month, don't worry!

We'll be hosting the party after each new release!! 

So, without further ado...

OUR RANDOM PRIZE PACKAGE WINNER IS:

 20. Karen B.!!! 

& our

GUEST DESIGNER WINNER IS:

KRYSSI NG!

Kryssi's creative use of color spritz and her layout 

completely won us over!

Ladies, please email me - angelica(at)marketstreetstamps(dot)com so we can get your goods shipped out to you! :) 

There were so many BEAUTIFUL, GORGEOUS entries, believe me when I say you guys have completely inspired us! Please join us again after our September release for our next Block Party

'cause we can't wait to see what else you create!

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Announcing a new Senior DT Member!

Hi Everyone! Two Senior DT Announcements in one week! Phew! Well, this is our last Senior DT announcement until the FULL DT reveal next week. I hope you are ready - there are going to be some MAY-JAH (that was my Brit accent, needs work, huh?) prizes to be won and some fun surprises sprinkled throughout the day!

So, without further ado, the newest addition to our Senior DT is...

Samantha Casey! 

Samantha, like DoBea, was a design team member before we even had a Design Team! I am so fortunate to work with her and her creative mind both at Peachy Keen Stamps and here at Market Street Stamps. She is a master with her X-acto knife and I think the general consensus is that we'd all love to spend just one day in her mind! Not to mention she is sweet as pie and I had the pleasure of meeting her and her mama last year! Here are 3 of my FAVORITE projects  that Sam has created for Market Street (trust me, it was hard to choose just three)! 

Isn't this "Gone Campin'" card just dreamy? I love how she creates such beautiful scenes! 

Her cards are truly 'paper art'!

I had a good giggle when I saw how she made "Computer Cutie" hold a coffee cup. Just like a true computer geek would! They don't call it the "Java" platform for nothin', folks!

This card was heavily accessorized by Sam and her crafty knife skills! I adore how she turned "Robo Love" and "Robo Star" into a football player and cheerleader! 

I'm telling ya - SUPER hard to choose just three cards - especially when you take a peek at this post where she created a "Follow Your Heart" card for all 4 seasons! Simply beautiful!! 

Be sure to visit our blog the rest of this week for more Samantha inspirations! And, be sure to visit her blog and leave her a little love! 

Thanks so much for stopping by - see you soon! xo Angelica

Gather 'Round

Before I show you my card for today I just want to take a moment to say what an awesome experience this past term was with Market Street Stamps. I am SO excited about everything to come with this new term and my new position as a Senior DT member.
{And I think I am just as excited as everyone that applied for the new DT to see who the new members are! Can't wait!}

Okay, on to the card:


How adorable is that new Gone Campin' set?
Totally adorable, right?

I am sooooo not a camper, but I was immediately inspired when I received this stamp set and knew that the images would be great for coloring. {They are prefect for paper piecing, too!} I stamped each image a few times on a white sheet of cardstock and got out my Copic markers and had some fun.


I created a few sketches that would work well with focal images and decided to use this layout...clean and simple, but with a little bit of spunk thanks to the skewed mat behind the image. I then added some of The Twinery's twine for a fun accent and then adhered the focal image using foam tape for a bit of dimension.


Thanks for stopping by today!

Please visit me on my blog - I love visitors!:



Supplies:
Cardstock: DiscountCardstock.com (Gold 65#, Posh Milk Chocolate Felt 80#, Orbit Orange 65#);
Stamps: Market Street Stamps (Gone Campin');
Ink: Memento (Tuxedo Black);
Twine: The Twinery (Lemondrop, Marmelade);
Markers: Copic (Y00, Y04, YR12, R27, E25, E53, E57);
Tools: Fiskars (Trimmer, Scissors); Martha Stewart/EK Success (Scoring Board);