DESTASH Stamps and dies lot #1

Here are my destash stamps and dies that are available. Please post a comment below telling me what things you are interested in and your email address. I will get back to you as soon as I can to let you know if they are yours, and the total so I can send you a paypal invoice.

 $9.00 plus shipping. MFT Gets cozy with cocoa, clear set, does not appear to be used. their sets sell for $15.00 and up.

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 $7.00 plus shipping. Clear Art Stamps typing and office stuff. I did not use them, they do not look to be used or very gently used if that.

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 $9.00 plus shipping. Clear Dollar Stamps fruity fun set, retails for $14.99. new, not used, a great set for creating fruity cards!

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$7.00 plus shipping. clear halloween set, not sure what company it is from. Not used. Love the spider web!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 $9.00 plus shipping. Unmounted on cling Iris stamp set 5 pieces from Heartfelt Creations. Gently used. is not found in their current inventory on their web page.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

$7.00 plus shipping. New in package. Recollections clear stamp jars set. I was collecting mason jars (among other things) and decided I really am not using most of my stamps so they need to find new homes).

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 $5.00 EACH plus shipping. gently used. cling cushion on back of rubber. I had started to collect these girls from all over the world and then I think they discontinued them. $7.99 retail. Kraftin Kimmie stamps.

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$7.00 plus shipping. CTMH watermelon set. I purchased this as is, and it appears gently used. I did not stamp it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 $9.00 plus shipping. Cornish Heritage Farms stamp set Sweet Bee. Appears gently used, I did not stamp it in the short while I have had it. it appears as if their web site has gone to digital stamps and this set on cling is not available.

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$7.00 plus shipping. unmounted on cling cushion. I bought this used, and did not use it; rubber just needs to be cleaned, appears gently used.

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 $8.00 plus shipping. This is an 8 piece cling snowflake set (the other stamp was hiding when I took the pic). Sold as set only. see next pic for other side of stamps. I do not know who this stamp set is from. The other pic is the rubber side of the set.

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$5.00 plus shipping, large cling lily stamp. approx 3"x4" gently used. I do not know what company this is from.

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Mixed Media on 6x6 canvas with Totally Tracy stamps

I snagged 2 sets of Totally Tracy stamps--Dream and Create--from a FB sale site and since I had slopped ink and liquid acrylics on these canvas' I figured they would be a great background to use those new flower and word stamps and make some mixed media art.

Here is Dream...

Did you catch how I was laughing on the first one above? 

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close up of one corner; dream is colored with a light grey.

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Couple of leaves finish off this canvas. 

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Here is the Create canvas...

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This flower kind of exploded and then a dream jumped into it.

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I took the word "believe" and made it into "be" and "live" of course I have an "e" floating around for some future project :)

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A few polka dots.

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An upside down look at the canvas.

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Materials used:

two 6"x6" canvas that I've had for-evah

Distress Inks

Liquid Acrylics

More Distress Inks (yes I like them)

Watered down white acrylic paint

junker brushes (you know, the ones you don't care if they get paint up the ferrol and never bother to really clean cuz they are junker.)

Liquitex Matte Gel Medium

Faber-Castell PITT artist pen big brush (OMGOSH I love these!) Indian ink, waterproof, lightfast, acid free, just say'in!

Watercolor paper and Archival Black SU ink pad

Dare 2B Artsy/Totally Tracy Create set

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Dare 2B Artsy/Totally Tracy Dream set

Morning Glory card

Here's a morning glory card that I made recently. My first attempt at using Copic markers, the ciao markers. Morning glory stamp is from Stamplorations one of those "oh yes I have to have it" stamps. 

The background is one I picked up at my local rubber stamp store, which is just 2 doors down from me, inside the flower store; it's called Crafter's Studio. They happen to carry some Impression Obsession stamps and when I stop in I've been snagging some of Seth Apter's cling stamps, the background on the card below. Here is a linky to that screen print stamp of Seth's; I stamped it in distress ink, darker in the center and lighter on the sides. 

Here's a close up of the background behind the morning glory. I just ordered the big French Marigold stamp from Stamplorations and I'll show you what I make with that when it arrives. 

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Here is a bee card I made for a swap on facebook. I used a stencil for the background in yellow, easier to see in 2nd picture, and a honeycomb background over that in black. The 3 smaller bees and the Bee Happy words are from Studio Calico, the Bee Happy set. Distress inks for all the colors, glitter glue and some gold sequins finish the card. As a bonus, I made a paperclip bookmarker with a giant bee that I've had forever and don't recall who it is from; the back side of the book mark has a honeycomb from the Studio Calico set, and handwritten bee trail/words. This time I made one for myself at the same time the one to be mailed was being made :)

Welcome to my new blog!

I will be adding cards and mixed media art and other things that I've made and as much info on them as I can. I haven't blogged in years so this is starting over for me.

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First up is this fun journal page using a magazine cut out, and SU butterfly punch, a sheet of music, magazine cutouts, and a StencilGirl butterfly stencil.

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This fun fall 12x12 canvas is one I made using StencilGirl stencils--even one of the monthly club sets was the shorthand in the upper left corner. This was a fun canvas to create--I love all the little squares!

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Cover of my Wanderlust 2016 prompt journal, which I have sadly only one entry since it started in January :( gotta get my act together and catch up!!

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I made this 8x12 canvas for one of my pals over at Craftster. She loves crafting, and I got some of her Jack Russel Terrier as part of the heart pieces. I freehanded the heart stencil and exploded it a bit adding words from magazines. Another fun mixed media creation. And why yes, that is another StencilGirl stencil on the background!

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A few pieces of painters tape and several colors of my fave blues/greens and a sponge! Quick and easy-peasy!

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This is a big sea turtle stencil from StencilGirl Products. I am not sure what I used for it, but know the water "drops" behind its fins and tail are paper towels, see their fun texture? Perhaps texture paste, but I do know that Twinkling H2O's were painted on the turtle and in the water around it. 

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Wooden Yarn Bowl I crafted and painted for a Craftster swap.

The next bunch of pix are a wooden bowl that I got at at thrift store, and used my hack saw to cut a lovely jagged chunk of the bowl out then sanded it down, base coated, painted the background color and then drew on the avacados and mushrooms. The recipient loves both so I figured hey why not? I love how it turned out and so did she. She even took it to some craft shows she was in, and had lots of people ask her about it :)

Since I used different types of mushrooms on the bowl, I had to take pix of all of them. Notice how the little sliced s'hrooms go over the inside edge and one of the avocados found its way to the outside of the bowl? I wish I could have watched her open that box and seen the look on her face when she got the bowl. I know she loved it--it was something that I would do again :)