Pink Persimmon

Make your own Washi Tape

Karin Aguirre experimented with some off-white painter's tape and made her own version of Washi tape with the Antiquated Collection stamps. 

Read the full tutorial at Karin's blog:  Creative Chaos

She experimented with ink and paint and came up with some beautiful results.

 

Vintage Valentine

Kristii Lockart designed this Valentine card using the Antiquated Collection Misses' Apron stamp set.  What a cute way to display this stamp!  Love the heart she added to the front and back. 

Kristii is so good at combining lots of layers and keeping the style vintage without going too far.  She strikes such a good balance of color, embellishments and distressing. 

Vintage Sampler

Visit Lisa's blog It's In The Details, to see more images and read about her sampler project above.  This will be displayed in the Maya Road booth at CHA and showcases all their amazing new trinkets that are to be released this Spring.  Lisa's stamped images are perfect in this project. 

Bracelet made with vintage trinkets

Lisa Pace is also on the design team for Maya Road, so she has been busy making samples for CHA (Craft & Hobby Association Conference) that takes place next week.  Lisa is having so much fun incorporating her new Antiquated Collection stamps with the Maya Road items. 

Lisa used new Maya Road products that will introduced next week to make the bracelet, along with a stamped image from the Antiquated Collection (Society Lady) on a chandelier bead.  I asked Lisa how she got the image on the glass bead:   "I stamped it onto vintage ledger paper using Archival Ink Jet Black, then applied Diamond Glaze to the back of a flat Maya Road Chandelier Bead, pressed the chandelier bead on top of the paper to remove air bubbles and set it aside to let it dry. Once dry I trimmed the excess paper from around the edges of the bead then attached a jump ring.  Super easy!" 

And super pretty too!

 

Thank You Cards

Everyone needs thank you cards after the holidays, and we have a couple of birthdays in our house during January, so even MORE thank you cards are needed then!  When I need to make some cards, I try to make a batch of the same design so that I can complete them in an assembly line fashion and then I always have some on hand.  The first one always takes some time, but once I am happy with the format, then the rest are quick and easy. 

Melisa Waldorf made this cute Thank You card that I think is adorable. I don't have the die cut machine to replicate her design exactly, but decided I could use this idea in a little simpler format

I needed a card for my son to send his thank you notes, and I didn't think that pink would go over too well, so I changed up the color and size a bit.  Melisa is much better at doing the fussy cut around the scotty dog than I am, so I left a small white border around my image.  Cutting out the scroll banner, not a problem, but the fuzzy edges of the dog's fur was too much for me! 

My daughter does love pink, but she chose a different stamp for her thank you cards, and followed the same basic format.

Everyone loves receiving a handmade Thank You card.  They don't have to be super complicated, and truthfully, it is what is written inside the card that really matters. 

Stamps used for these projects:
Vintage Greetings (Scroll Banner)
Scottie Dogs
Love Dove

Shawn's version of the Holiday Wall Hanger

Shawn from poetryinapotoftea.blogspot.com sent us her version of Lisa Pace's wall hanger. 

If you are signed up to receive our newsletter, then we sent you the link to the PDF tutorial for this fun project in December.  I love Shawn's version of the project.  If you haven't already seen the PDF, you are welcome to download the tutorial here and get a head start on holiday projects for next year!  OR you can modify the project slightly for a romantic Valentine's Wall Hanging! 

Do you have pics of projects you have made with Pink Persimmon stamps?  Be sure to share, we love seeing your creations! 

Antiquated Christmas Ornament

Ronda Palazzari made this Christmas ornament with vintage book pages and the image from Stylish & Fashionable stamp set.  A sprinkle of glitter and this beautiful cameo girl is ready for display.