Fall Is Here!

Happy Fall Y'all!!!!

Wow, October is here and I am so excited for the holiday creations to commence!!

A quick drop in to share some Fall creativity to begin the celebration...

1. A very fun Back to School project where I die cut an Apple shape and then painted the Apple with black gesso. If you do not have black gesso on hand, you can find and use actual black chalk paint at your local hobby store. When I packaged them all together, I even included a piece of chalk and the addition of a small cut piece of sponge for an eraser makes a super fun desk top accessory.

2. Pumpkin snack bags are always great for small gifts or to put together for Trick or Treaters. I used a beautiful orange card stock and die cut 25 pumpkins. Using glitter pens, black and purple inks, and green bakers twine, I colored the stem and decorated the front. Using a tiny stapler, the pumpkins were attached to small zip snack bags.

3. After I completed the snack bag project, I had these fabulous open pumpkin pieces of card stock and they just screamed out to me....SHAKER CARDS!!!! Totally respecting October birthday's and being a firm believer that birthdays should be celebrated all month long (I am kind of partial since my birthday is Halloween), I took advantage of the pre-cut "scraps" and birthday confetti...Wolla!

4. Panda's are so cute and align particularly with Fall graduation at my university. Soooo, I could not resist making little tokens for my graduate students who walked across the stage this year! The panda was stamped on white cards stock and highlighted using copic markers. These treats added an additional smile to an already exciting milestone.

Thanks for stopping by and I look forward to diving into Breast Cancer Awareness events during this special month and sharing the results of our events here in the future.  By the way, I wanted to let you know that STC will trying to catch up with the latest technology and reworking our website and updating our blog.  Keep on the look out!!!!

Many blessings to all,

Jeannette

Happy Little Trees

Hello All!

Welcome to a little creative fun post! January and February of 2019 seemed to just fly by with all the crazy snow, rain, and temperatures. While I am sure it is not over yet, I am celebrating the oddities because it cut down on my travels and, more importantly, gave me some moments to spread my crafty wings. Over the 9 years Stamp to Cope, Inc. has been operating, I have watched a wonderful blending of art techniques into the craft of making cards. Our survivors seem to want to learn more and more techniques and it is very exciting to expand my kills so I can help them expand their own. When STC participates in the Berea Festival of Learnshops (watch for the 2019 registration post soon), requests come in for me to add gel printing, watercolor, and acrylic tips for coloring card images. Therefore, I thought it would be fun to share some journal projects that might wind their way into some future workshops. Certainly, the techniques will be incorporated in our tote supplies and survivor visits.  Cards are my "canvas" so creating this Bob Ross card with alcohol markers and paper piecing encouraged me to stretch into additional media. After all, he reminds us that there are no mistakes, just happy little accidents. As he would say....

“This is your world. You’re the creator. Find freedom on this canvas. Believe, that you can do it, ‘Cuz you can do it. You can do it.” 
― Bob Ross

Watercolor

Watercolor on Wood

Acrylic Paint

Mixing it all together with collage

Hope you enjoyed these happy little accidents and found some inspiration. Remember to do something creative everyday!!! I look forward to working with you all in future workshops, seminars, presentations, and tote bag sessions.

Love and blessings,

Jeannette