Ocean

I spent a few day house sitting for a friend - close to the beach. As most of you know I live in the mountain of San Diego. Palomar Mountain that is... I love where I live, but it was nice to spend some time at the beach. Here are some photo to share with you all...
Hope you enjoy...



I hope you enjoy these photo. I am trying to not just post projects. But a little about me too.. so this is me....

enjoy the photo and stop back by soon. I do have a few really fun projects to post soon..

TTFN
Terri Sproul

DT Member - Glue Dots Tip #2

Time for another Glue Dots Tip
This one is for you stamps - I love my rubberstamps! Yes, I did say Rubber! but they take up so much room in my small studio. So here is what I do.
Tip #1
I try and purchase my rubberstamps unmounted. This saves so much money - now that $12 stamps is only $3. Wow just saved $9!
Tip #2
I remove my stamps that are mounted from the wood. This doesn't save money but now I just save space to purchase more (NO that was my outside voice) LOL

Now what to do with that unmounted rubber??? Do I purchase sticky back and remount them??? That's not save me any money! So NO!
Glue Dots has Removable Glue Dots.
so I
1) Put one or two removable Glue Dots onto the back of the Unmounted Rubberstamp and adhere to my Acyclic Block. and Just ink and stamp. When I am done with that stamp I just remove from Acyclic Block and place onto a Transparency sheet for safe keeping. This will last a few time, before you might need to replace the Removable Glue Dots with another.


Now How easy was that! I post this blog while being a part of the Design Team for Glue Dots.

TTFN

Terri Sproul

How to Make a flat paper pumpin Video

I like my cards and scrapbook pages not to be to 3-d'sh.. I just like to be able to send my cards in envelopes and my scrapbook pages to fit in my albums.
I made a video on youtube a while back and I thought I would share it with you again.



I hope I got this video on here. If not check out my youtube page for all of my video at
Youtube.com/terrisproul - well I am not seeing my video when I do the preview, so I don't believe I got it on here. So sorry. My dial up give me problems with video. So I really hope you stop by my youtube Channel and check me out..

hope you enjoy your holiday season...

TTFN

Terri sproul

Last Minute and CHEAP Halloween Ideas

Halloween is just a few days away, and my house still need some love, but with Money tight this year I need to make some easy and CHEAP house Decor. So off to my studio!
Founds some of my stamps, and came up with this really easy project..
Candle:
I just stamp in Black with permitted ink onto transparency. Cut the image out (make sure you leave some transparency around the image to you can adhere to your candle.) This way you can remove the transparency and your candle is the same as you had it before. No need to purchase new candle for a one day celebration.
Frame:
almost the same as the candle, but I did not stamp onto transparency I just stamped onto white cardstock and added to a frame I already had in the house. Now I can remove the stamp image and use for another holiday.
Grave Stone
the grave stone was made using a grey piece of Chip Board. Stamp Letter using Letter stamps and the crow line on the top to add a little more to it.

Stamps are all from Stampotique

I hope you enjoy my simple, easy and cheap way to make your home a little more festive this Halloween season. so go pull out those stamps and see what you can make...

TTFN

Terri Sproul

I did it - AGAIN!

Front Cover of the Holiday Issue: Do you have your yet????



In this issue I have a 12 days of Christmas Garland Project. Using the Rubberstamp Concepts 2" x 2" EcoArt boards. These are amazing boards that take lots of mediums including, Ink, paint and much much more. You guys should check them out!
In the next couple of days I will be posting a 12 days of Christmas clock that I made to match my Garland project. This clock project will be a class at Gee Gee's Stamps and Stuff on November 20th. Please save your seat now!

This article is 3 pages long and I could not be more proud! check it out and let me know what you think please....

TTFN

Terri Sproul

just something fun!

could I be related to Merrel Streep? A friend of mine made this photo up as a joke and how everyone think I'm her. Too funny. Tell me what you think.... all in the fun of Halloween!

ButterFly Star Book

As You all know I love a blog hop and Favecraft is one of my favorite places to go as a creative person.
This was a fun project to do, it's a little alterey (made my own word up) and it's a little scrapbooky, and just plan fun.


I found these chipboard butterfly shapes at Michael - it was made to be a book. there were holes in the corners of the page to attach them together. But you know me I need to think out of the box and off the page. so I came up with this.
I Score each of the butterfly on both sides of the body of the butterfly, to help to make it bend later. I covered each butterfly with pattern paper. I also add embossing powder to all the edges to age the pages.

I glue three coin envelopes together to make a pocket area. In each of the pocket I add a tag with ribbon. I wrap lace ribbon around the bottom of the pocket and tied into a bow..



This Photo show the embossing powder around the edge well. I just added clear embossing ink to the edge. I used the direct to paper technique and sprinkle on my embossing powder (I used a dark color for my project here). Tap off the extra and heat set.


Here is a top view on how the star is made. I used Glue Dots to glue each of the butterfly wing together on all the edges.. See why I had to score the butterfly now. It made it easier to adhere together.