You Keep Me Cozy

Good morning!

Today I have a treat to share with you! 

Samantha Casey created this STUNNING card- perfect to make us feel a little warmer during the cold season we're in right now! 

She combined a few sets (Cheep Talk, Night Owls, and Cool Cats) to create this beautiful winter wonderland scene! 

Her coloring is just amazing.... makes me feel cozy, for sure! 

Make sure you stop by Samantha's blog

SAMANTHA CASEY

for more information about this card!

Cool Cats

Cheep Talk

Night Owls

What's happening!

• Stop by at 12:01 EST Friday morning on the CAS-ual Fridays blog as well as the MSS blog to see the results of the CAS-ual Fridays/MSS Block Party challenge!!
• Sneak peeks and information coming your way about the new Market Fresh Kit Club starting Friday, January 6th! 
• We have a new Paint the Town Challenge coming January 11th! 
• January NEW RELEASE will start with sneak peeks on January 23rd! Available for sale January 26th!
• There are still LOTS of stamps on SALE in the Marketplace! Check it out!! SALE

Have a great day!!

Butterfly Bliss Tags

Hi!

Happy Wednesday!

Hope you're all bundled up with a nice cup of coffee and ready to start your day!

Today we have a beautiful set of tags to show you that Tifany has created! She used the new Believing Butterfly stamp as well as the super versatile Simple Joys sentiment stamp set to create these GORGEOUS tags- perfect to add to a gift or even place on the front of a card for a quick and easy CAS design!

Love the misting! Just BEAUTIFUL!

And look how she blended those ink colors! So soft and pretty! 

(She used some fun VersaMagic inks for these!)

Make sure you go check out her blog: 

Ink Blots by TRD 

for all the information about how she made these beautiful tags!

Simple Joys- currently only $12!!

Believing Butterfly

What's happening!

• Today is the LAST day to get your projects linked up for the CAS-ual Fridays/MSS Block Party challenge!! Make sure you get over to the Neighborhood and snag the free digi, too! 
• Sneak peeks and information coming your way about the new Market Fresh Kit Club starting Friday, January 6th! 
• We have a new Paint the Town Challenge coming January 11th! 
• January NEW RELEASE will start with sneak peeks on January 23rd! Available for sale January 26th!
• There are still LOTS of stamps on SALE in the Marketplace! Check it out!! SALE

Thanks for stopping by! See ya soon!

NEW Market Fresh Kits and Design Team Additions!

New Beginnings! Today marks the start of many new opportunities and changes for us in 2012. For those of you who don't know, my family owns and operates Peachy Keen Stamps, and we are also revealing some new Design Team members over there later tonight! It is always bittersweet to change up design teams. While I'm already missing everyone who's moving on, and the change is hard,  I'm also very excited to welcome some new friends onto our team.  So it is with that spirit that I introduce our 2012 Design Team!

Starting January 10th, Market Street Stamps will be releasing a monthly scrapbooking/cardmaking kit - Market Fresh Kits - designed by our talented DT Coordinator, Stephanie Washburn! Stephanie's eye for great design initially caught my eye in November of 2010. She applied to be on our first design team and I was blown away by her creations. I knew that if I ever did decide to start a kit club, Stephanie was my girl. A year later, she has put together an absolutely adorable and versatile paper crafting kit that I just know you guys are gonna love!! Want a sneak peek before it's released? Well, be sure to join the Market Fresh Kit Club group in the Neighborhood! You don't want to miss out being one of our FIRST members. Charter members will receive exclusive perks the length of their subscription! More details will be posted January 6th with our first peeks.

Jinny Newlin joins our Market Fresh Kit Design Team for 2012.

Our Market Fresh Kit team includes the sweet and talented Brenda Weaver, Stephanie Washburn and also, we are pleased to welcome Jinny Newlin as one of our newest additions to the Market Street Family! Jinny is an amazing paper crafter with a wonderful talent for piecing texture together with eye catching design. We're thrilled to have you aboard, Jinny! You can read more about Jinny and find more of her work on her blog, Soaring!

Jen del Muro joins the 2012 Design Team at Market Street Stamps.

Also continuing with us for 2012 are our Inspiration: DoBea Alberts, Samantha Casey, Tifany DeGough, Michele Gross, Julie Day, Amy Kolling, Stephanie Muzzulin and Jen del Muro! I was thrilled to have Jen guest design for us last month and knew in an instant I would love to have her on our team this year. I love Jen's sense of style and use of color in her creations. You can find her designs on her blog, i{heart}2stamp. She also hosts the popular sketch challenge, Sketch For You to Try on her blog. Be sure to check it out and read more about Jen here!

We could not be happier to welcome these amazing women back and to Jen and Jinny, we extend a huge warm welcome!

Have an amazing day, everyone! xo Angelica

Design Team Changes 2012

Hello hello and a very Happy New Year to you all!! I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday season and is ready to get back into the swing of things. That's always tough for me!

There's SO much going on in January, and I wanted to fill you guys in on a few design team changes first. As most of you know, the design term ended Dec 31st, but we're THRILLED that many of our designers have chosen to continue with us for 2012!

A few of our designers have chosen to pursue other avenues, and I have to admit, I am sad to see them go. I  have so loved having each person on the team and have enjoyed seeing everyone's creations each week. I do know that there are many wonderful things in store for each of them and wish them nothing but goodness and prosperity in the new year! I am so happy they shared their talents with Market Street Stamps last year - and above all, to have gained new friends in each of them. Please join me in wishing Julie, Meg, Sarah, Jess and Julia a very fond farewell:

We look forward to showing you all the exciting things in store for 2012!!

Angelica

December CREAM OF THE CROP!!

Hi, everyone!

Steph here to announce our December Cream of the Crop!

And, of course, a VERY Happy New Year to everyone!! I hope you are all enjoying some time with your families this weekend! It's such a magical time of year!!

I LOVE browsing the Market Street Stamps galleries throughout the month with an eye open for FABULOUS, CREATIVE projects! There are TONS of places to find MSS inspiration- you can find some here:

{Splicoaststampers} {Flickr}  

{Market Street Neighborhood- NING}

Also, if you haven't checked out the "Neighborhood" yet- come on by! We'd love for you to come introduce yourself in the forum!

Click HERE to join us!

I'm VERY excited to share our picks for this month's "Cream of the Crop!"

Before I share the winners, we would like to encourage everyone to join in on the fun! It's super easy to enter and you can enter as many times as you want! Show us your best work!

Thank you to ALL the wonderful designers that shared their project with us this month!

So..... here are three projects that caught our eye and stood out- well executed, creative, and inspiring!!

In no particular order, here are the three designers who are the "Cream of the Crop!"

Rochelle Washington

Rochelle created this BEAUTIFUL holiday card with the new Prancer stamp- gotta love the subtle sparkle! She also incorporated the Honeycomb background- what a nice pattern to ground those reindeer! Beautifully done, Rochelle!

Stop by Rochelle's blog for TONS of great inspiration!

Two Tears In My Bucket

Lorie Souther

Lorie always seems to blow me away with her GORGEOUS coloring and this card is no exception! She used the Gone Campin' stamp set to create this super cute forest scene! SO cute, Lorie!!

You can check out all of Lorie's beautiful projects on her blog- trust me, you'll want to stay and explore it a bit!

The Thinkin' Spot

Nikki- Scrappin' Navy Wife

Well, as a wife of an AMMO troop in the US Air Force, I may be a **little** biased.... but this card BLEW ME AWAY! HAHA! LOVE the creativity and the design is just perfect! Nikki used the Here Comes the Sun background stamp to create the look of a nuclear explosion... can't beat that! SO fun, Nikki!

Make sure you stop by Nikki's blog- she has a TON of beautiful projects and inspiration to share with you!

Scrappin' Navy Wife

Ladies- please contact  
{angelica at marketstreetstamps dot com}

to collect your $20 gift certificate and the code for a blinkie that you can proudly display on your blogs!!

So... who will be the

"Cream of the Crop"

for January?

Here's how you can play along!!

The details:

The Cream of the Crop Spotlight is a merit based contest- we're looking for projects that catch our eye, but we also encourage stampers of all skill levels to upload their cards for consideration! We will be looking for projects that are well executed, use Market Street Stamps in a new and fun way, have great use of color, and have amazing overall design. Most importantly, we want to see what you're making!

• Deadline to get your project in will be the last Friday of the month
• Cream of the Crop Spotlight projects and winners will be announced that weekend!
• Spotlight winners will EACH win a $20 gift certificate to the Market Street Stamps store!
• If you are chosen, in addition to the $20 gift certificate to the Marketplace, your project photos will appear on the MSS blog (as well as a link to your blog (or gallery if you do not have a blog) )!
• You may upload/link as many projects as you like!

You have until 11:59 PM Central Time on January 27th to share your projects and be in the running for January's Cream of the Crop!

Here are links to places we'll be looking for your projects:

• Market Street Stamps on Facebook
• Market Streets Stamps on Twitter
• Market Street Stamps Flickr group
• Market Street Stamps SCS gallery (keyword: marketstreetstamps)
• Market Street Neighborhood

We LOVE to see your projects! Thank you so much for sharing with us!!

Don't miss out on the AMAZING 

CAS-ual Fridays/MSS Block Party Co-Challenge!! 

This challenge lasts for a FULL 2 WEEKS- you have plenty of time to play! And make sure you link up on the CAS-ual Fridays blog as well as the MSS blog to increase your chances of winning a prize! 

And don't miss the new MSS Block Party FREE digital stamp found in The Neighborhood! Just join the "Block Partiers!" group to get the digi! It's super cute!

Once We Believe In Ourselves,

Happy Friday it's Stephanie M here.

It looks like the Believing Butterfly set is popular with the designers this week!!!

I have to say this is one of my favorite sets of the new release . Whether you are just using the quote or the butterfly or both of them together it's one gorgeous set that i am going to be reaching for alot!!!

I did a fairly simple card with this quote I just love this stamp and matched with some pretty paper and journal piece from Basic Grey you have a pretty and sweet card for just about any occasion!!!

Hope you enjoyed todays card!!!

Background Texture

Background stamps simply have to be the most flexible of stamps in my opinion. It's Julia by the way, and today I have a card using a favorite background technique to share.

In this season of giving, I'm sure you may have some extra tissue paper laying around. If you do...go rescue it. I saved mine from the bin after our Christmas gift-opening-spree. It's a perfect surface for stamping on.



Here's the card I created and keep reading...I'll share how I did it.




First of all you need to ink up your background stamp. I've used the Grace Background from Market Street. Doesn't it look oh so elegant simply stamped in black? Ink it up in a permanent black ink (I've used Jet Black Archival by Ranger), stamp onto some white tissue paper and heat set it.

Next step is to apply the thin layer to some cardstock or patterned paper. Cover the paper with a liquid adhesive or Multi-Medium and lay the tissue onto the paper. I love the texture you get by letting the tissue crinkle a little. Allow this layer to dry and then trim to the size you want to use.


Finish the design off with a beautiful image and sentiment. I've stamped the new Believing Butterfly set and the Mesh Background onto a Twinchie for a pretty focal point.


Happy New Year and Happy Creating!