Wood Mount stamps compleated

Hi All

For the last week I've been recuperating from Eye surgery and still can't see out of my left eye very well.....  but wanted to complete my last phase of Organization of all my stamps into one place and container. It's been 1 month and 3 days since I started changing my Wood mounted stamps into Cling Mount.... and I can finally say I'm DONE,,,,, YEAAAaaaaaaa **********

Here's a shot of the SU boxes with just the wood blocks in them and the New way I have the stamps filled in these nice Avery Elle Storage pockets. 

The stack of 36 SU boxes was  over 41 inches tall and now fit into a file draw 13.5 long by 6.75 wide. 
OH MY LANDS what a difference this has made. All I need to do now is file them in with all my other stamps that I have already put in the Avery Elle pockets.

 

 I have them filed by Birthday, Thank You, Fun, Old Folks, Kids, Flowers & Bugs, etc........just not having to go and look for lets say a flower stamp in the 4 draws where all my SU were and a box I had all my CTMH in and binders I had all my clear stamps in, lets just say I had know idea where anything was anymore and just was not happy. I just LOVE that I have this phase of my Organization completed and now going to just sit back and enjoy it before I move on to my next phase.......

 

And maybe in a few weeks I'll be able to see better too... If these pics are blurry all I can say is I'm sorry and I'll redo them when I can tell...but just had to post this today I could not wait*******

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Dotty A

WOYWW-Turning Wood mount stamps into Cling mount stamps

(What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday)

Every Wednesday Julie Dunnit hosts a gathering of crafters from all over the world to share what they are working on with a pic of our play area.  It's really fun to see all the different things people are working on from all over the world and I must say I've meet some very interesting people from Julie's site, Thanks Julie!!!!!!

Will here's mine for today;

Back in April I posted how I've been organizing all my stamps HERE's the link.... Boy what a job this has been***
Will I have all my clear and cling mount stamps in the Avery Pocket now and LOVE how easy it has made finding the stamps I need or forgot about.   The only stamps I still had left were my Wood mount stamps and I was kind of afraid to tackle them.  But I did, and it's really not been to bad.  Here's the link to the gal that shows how it's done.... Thanks Jen!!!
Here's a pic of the FUN......

I've just started but can tell this is going to make a BIG difference.... I love it already. Hope to be finished in a week or so....

Now what do I do with all the Wood Blocks.......?

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Goofy Things....

Morn'in All....
I've been working on some fun cards that could be used for Men or Ladies... or at least that was what I was going for, let me know if you think the same or not..
Here's a close up of my little Ducky....He's from an old CTMH stamp set called Makin' Waves (C1365) there are 5 different ducky's and I love them all.  I stamped him on Watercolor paper and used SU Watercolor Crayons to color him.  But the background blue I bought my 1st Distress Ink pad called broken china, and tried to watercolor the background.... when it was dry i went over it with a clear Wink of Stella pen..I tried several shots to let you see the shine but no luck.

 

Here's the whole view of the front, I even used some sequins here and there.... on the little ducky face mask and bubbles I put Glossy Accents but it's not showing up either...

The saying is from Art Impression call Goofy things (UMF2637).

 

Here's another view......

 

and this is the inside....

here I used 3 different stamp sets...

The Celebrate came from-Inkadinkado-Birthday Cupcake 97628,

next the Life is better is from-Cloud 9-Simple Thoughts Laughter,

and then the HB is from CTMH-Happy Birthday (C1257)

Even thow they are all different I think they work well together.

So what do you think, please let me know.

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Walker Swing Cut card

Hi Again***
As promised in my last post I tried the Swing Cut Card again using a larger die this time and it worked.... Yea....*
So here we go...............

For this card I used a piece of double sided paper that was nice and heavy.... (but after I got finished I think I should have used card stock) The image is a Art Impressions stamp called Golden Oldies UMT3476, that I stamped and embossed then colored with SU Watercolor Crayons.  Used a little Glassy Accents in the glasses and Wink of Stella Gold on her Jewels.....

Here's a bit of a side view as it opens......

And this is the card open....

the left panel on the inside has another AI saying called The Body May be slow UMG3505, and the saying on the right is a CTMH called what else Happy Birthday C1257.

I just cut 2 more backgrounds out with the reverse paper and then add the white with the sayings...I did outline them all with black to let them stand out some....but that was it. 

I got my measurements and idea for this Swing card from Splitcoast Ideas here are 2 links.

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/diecutswingcard/

I think I'll try this second one next....

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/swing_flip_flop_card/

Ok, tell me what you think, REALLY!!!!

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Celebrate- Swing Cut Card

Hi All....
Today I'm posting a card I've been working on but it didn't quit make the cut.....
I was trying to make a Swing Cut Card but..... I didn't pick a die big enough to do the swing with....So this is a modified version.
I posted more pic than I usually do but this was hard to get what I though should be in each view.

Here's the front view.... the stamp is by Impression Obsession called Birthday Drink E2282...

I stamp and embossed it and then colored with SU watercolor Crayons.  I used some gold Wink of Sella for the flame... Love this stuff*** and used Glossy Accents for the drink (I don't think you can tell in any of the pics). Then I cut it out with a Spellbinders dies.  All the background papers are from SU

Here's the first fold and cut.......

and a different view of the same......

and still another view with it open a little bit.....

and here's the inside view....the Celebrate at the top show thru to the front of the card when it's closed...

I must say even thow it's not a true Swing cut card I like how this turned out..

How about you???

I'm going to try another one in the next few days....

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Manly BD- Over the Hill????

Today post is for a Manly BD card...these are the hardes cards to make... no frills, no fancy stuff, just Manly.......
Here we go.......

This is the front... I used the wood grain embossing folder for the background and then I had a small piece of paper that had horns all over it that I used for the diamond.  The Curved Antlers are by Memory Box and the Over the Hill? is by CTMH....

and the side view show that I popped the antlers up.....

Here's a view looking down on the card.  I usually don't show both halves like this but wanted you to see the wood grain and the cut out part of the Antlers there. 

 

and here's the  complete saying by CTMH... and I added a small pices of wood paper I had to the bottom, that I just tape across the bottom so you can tuck a little something in....

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