Please welcome the latest addition to the Pink Persimmon family: Style Girl. She is a sister to our very fun "Hello Vintage Girl" and the two of them make quite a scene on Girl's Night Out!
Lindsay Weirich used our beautiful girl here in this card. I love how she stamped the dress in a patterned paper and then added that on top of the original stamped figure. So stylish!
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We just released these adorable little 3x4 size stamps. These are based on vintage button cards, a silk mending card, and a cute little mini bingo card too. We can think of lots of projects to use these stamps with, and hope you do too!
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We are so excited to finally show you Pink Persimmon's latest release: The Antiquated Collection by Lisa M. Pace.
These stamps are now available in the Pink Persimmon online store. We have had very creative designers working with the stamp sets. Here are just a few designs, you can see a few more at our special Antiquated Collection Gallery! We'll be sharing new project samples here on our blog all week.
Card designed by Kristii Lockart using Society Lady.
Card designed by Ronda Palazarri using Fine and Dandy
Tag designed by Karin Aguirre using Stylish and Fashionable and Fine and Dandy
Lisa will be at A Cherry On Top today (11/19) for an online chat. Chat begins at 4pm Eastern (that's 1pm for those West Coasters)
We want to give some stamps away! All you have to do comment below about which stamp sets you like the best. If you post about the Antiquated Collection on your blog, comment below with a link to your post and we'll give you 3 extra entries in the drawing!! We'll draw 3 names that will each receive 3 stamp sets from the Collection. Entries close on Monday 11/21 at 5pm Pacific Time.
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We are so excited to finally announce our new stamp collection:
We have been working with Lisa Pace (www.lisapace.com), a very talented mixed-media and scrapbooking artist to create this new vintage inspired stamp collection. For those of you who know Lisa, this will be something that is true to her style. She is just bursting at the seams with excitement to share these new stamps with her friends and fellow crafters. Lisa hand selected her favorite images and then Judi crafted them into adorable stamp sets that will be a must-have for all you vintage-lovers out there!
You can see sneak peeks all week at Lisa's blog, then we'll unveil the first release of six new stamp sets at our online store PinkPersimmon.com. Join us on Saturday here at the blog for a special giveaway. You can also meet Lisa in an online chat at A Cherry On Top at 4pm Eastern on Sat. 11/19.
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Laura Achilles has such a talent with adding stamped elements to her scrapbook pages. This layout is titled "Classic Beauty". I love how she picked up the red from her daughter's dress and made smaller red accents on the page, but kept most of the background soft and warm with creme tones. It's hard to see the all the beautiful details in this full image photo, but keep reading below for some close-ups and see how Laura made the banner embellishment for this layout.
Material List:
Big Banner with Rosettes
Ric Rac Circle
PP – October Afternoon, MME, Making Memories, Crate Paper
Chipboard- American Crafts
Letters – American Crafts & Basic Grey
Embellishments – Prima
To create the banner, use the rosette images from Big Banner with Rosettes stamp set and stamp two different images multiple times.
Use two different punches to punch out alternating circles. I used a circle and a scalloped circle punch to alternate.
Fold over the circles in half.
For dimension and depth use pop dots to secure the ends together. I used Zap Dots by Helmar USA.
Adhere your banner to your project.
To finish it off stamp smaller rosette circles, punch them out and adhere them between each half circle.
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This girl has style, she is crafty, and just in from her latest appearance on a sewing pattern.
Super fun for making cards, she is a tall girl, about 5" in height. Get your mad coloring skills ready to give her dress some flair, or use paper piecing and stamp her dress on patterned paper. Take a look at these samples:
Just Calling to Say... by Kristii Lockhart
Card & Tag set by Denise January
Vintage Girl Card by Andrea Budjack
Call Me by Cindy Coutts
"Hello Vintage Girl" is now available in our online store!
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Two new stamp sets designed by the talented Cathe Holden!
If you haven't met Cathe, you will have to visit her amazingly popular blog called "Just Something I Made." She is always creating vintage digital downloads that are so fun to work with. Cathe lives just "over the hill" from us and we have been planning this release for a long time. These are the first two stamps of the Cathe Holden Vintage Design Series (doesn't that sound fun?!) I hope that you are ready to start your Holiday crafting because these stamp sets are beautiful.
The first one is called "Holly & Mistletoe" and is great for tags and cards. Totally vintage, this one will be a favorite for years to come.
The second stamp set is called "Merry Christmas Tree" and is based on a 1950's Christmas card. This one looks really good when you use embossing powder.
Look at these beautiful samples! Watch for more samples to come on our blog all week.
By Kelly Schirmer
By Samantha Sibbet
Oh yeah! I almost forgot the Giveaway part! Head on over to Cathe's blog, she is giving away 3 amazing gift packs, and all 3 include the new stamp sets!
Let the Holidays begin!
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Before the kids start saying "I'm bored" this summer, whip out the Scottie Dog stamp set and make this matching game. Julie Detlef made this for her little girls and they are enjoying this fun homemade game.
Julie stamped the Scottie Dog on cardstock and colored in the doggy coat with different colored markers. She made two of each color, mounted each one on a black piece of cardstock (so you can't see the color through the white on the other side) and her girls now have a fun game for those lazy summer afternoons. You can use the coat patterns with the colors for older kids to add some additional challenge to the game.
Thanks for sharing this great idea Julie!
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What child doesn't love looking at their own little photo book of their family members? Lindsay came up with this cute mini book for her son, Casey. She used the Dutch Circle Journal stamp as the base of the book and the Wise Old Owl set for the title page "Whoo loves you?"
Here's how she put this together:
She stamped the Dutch Journal Circle on chipboard for the front and back cover of the album. Cut them out and then carefully stamped again on the back side. (Note: remember that this stamp fits perfectly in the Spellbinders Nestabilities Scalloped Circle die, but it's not too hard to cut them out with a good pair of small scissors, it just takes a little more time).
Repeat this process on some double-sided patterned paper. Lindsay used Sassafrass Lass Serendipty on this project.
She then used Photoshop to create the circle pictures that are sized to fit the inside circle of the stamp (a 3" circle will work perfectly). Decide which side you want the pictures on and glue them to the patterned paper. Leave the other side blank for journaling.
Stamp the Wise Old Owl and "Whoo Loves You?" saying on cardstock, color and trim each piece. Glue to the front cover.
Take all the pieces to the copy store and have each page laminated. Each of the photos were printed on photo paper and came out fine from the lamination process. Trim each circle to the desired size. She then used a cropodile to cut two holes in each circle, being careful to punch the holes in approximately the same place on each circle.
Lindsay used jump rings to hold the pages together, but ribbon or book rings will work too.
You can add your journaling to the pages before you laminate if you would like, but Lindsay waited until the pages were laminated and used a permanent marker for the journaling. This way you can let your child carry the book around and when grandma & grandpa visit, they can add their own note in their handwriting.
Lindsay says "This album is totally Casey-Proof because of the laminating. He loves it and carries it all over while talking to it. It's pretty easy to put together. A little time consuming cutting things out, but well worth it in the end."
Thanks so much for sharing this with us Lindsay! Every child would love to have their own mini album that reminds them about how loved they are.
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