Deco Park Quilt Challenge Sighting!

Wow! Exciting moment for me to see my Deco Park fabrics used for the pattern pdf and video example for the Quarterly Quilt Challenge by Quilts and More! My heart started beating a mile a minute when I saw this. I love the fall colors in bands on the journal cover and I am so inspired to try one of my own. You can download the pdf of the free pattern and enter your own great journal covers at www.allpeoplequilt.com. Watch the video for more great ideas on how to embellish your covers with decorative stitching, etc. 

If you make something with Deco Park, send me pictures and I'll be happy to post them for others to see!

Birthday wishes

Michelle Giraud created these cards using one of my birthday cake stamps from American Art Stamp. The pink card uses paper from K&Company with smooth metallic paint. I love the pink scalloped edge and ribbon with buckle. On the yellow card Michelle popped up the cake portion for more dimension. Check out more great ideas at the American Art Stamp blog.

Namaste

I think the yoga girls are my favorite stamps. I did the poses showing flowers and vines flowing out with the direction of movement. I love taking yoga classes. When I leave I am truly peaceful and I have such great energy. I think of breathing beauty in and out when stretching and I wanted to capture that radiant feeling through the flowers. I look forward to adding more poses to this group of illustrations. Gives me motivation to do more yoga!

Amy Rohl and Michelle Giraud did these cards with the yoga girl stamps. Amy's card uses a blender pen for coloring in the girl. Michelle paper pieced the outfit together out of a cute polka dot paper for hers. Wouldn't it be clever to use theses stamps to make identification tags for your yoga mat carrying bag? Or to encourage your exercise partner in an inspirational way?

Namaste!

Halloween Stamping Fun

Thanks to Amy Rohl and Janine Orchard at the American Art Stamp blog for coming up with these cute halloween treats using my stamps!!! Janine's card is stamped with Memento black ink and colored with Copics. She embellished with glitter and sparklers for a really cute halloween card. Amy's treat bag uses the cat trick-or-treater on green cardstock, matted and button-secured to this bag and decorated with ribbon and ric rac. Halloween trick-or-treaters are available through American Art Stamp.

Thanks Amy and Janine!

American Art Stamp

I have samples of my new stamps with American Art Stamp! They are rubber stamps available mounted on wood block or as clings for acrylic stamping blocks. I am so excited! I just got back from the craft store and buying some clear blocks so I can try the clings. 

American Art Stamp makes all their stamps here in the USA, in California. They've been making stamps for about 30 years and have great lines with artists including Emerson Quillin, Karen Stolper and Marsha McCarthy. I am thrilled to be included with their group of creative artists.  Currently there are about 25 different Robin Pickens designs available including my yoga girls, Halloween images, birthday cakes and Christmas birds. You can order them directly from American Art Stamp. 

Robin Pickens Stamps:   http://tiny.cc/PFE1Y

And check out their blog with talented designers showing you great cards and ideas with stamps

http://americanartstamp.blogspot.com/

Happy stamping!!!

Surreal Day

What a crazy mixture life is. Yesterday I took my kids to lunch at a Mexican restaurant. As we sat outside the police cars went roaring by with lights flashing and sirens blaring. Pretty soon helicopters were circling not far away. After getting our groceries at Trader Joe's the traffic was backed up for miles so we took the back route towards home. Turns out there was a bank robbery not far away and the robbers left behind a suspicious package. The police had to bring in the bomb squad robot. Freeway entrances/exits closed. On the way home we stopped to pay for my daughter's quilt-making class she will do next month at the Quilt Emporium. It is one of the weekends of the Quilt Run when carloads of adventurous, fabric-lovin' ladies drive all around Southern California- Los Angeles down to San Diego- visiting quilt shops and getting their "passports" stamped. Well with the freeway exits being closed, there were a number of frustrated quilters who had to figure out alternative ways to the store. As luck would have it, we arrived when it was time to start a game in the back class room and we were invited to join (because aren't quilters a friendly and welcoming group that way?). It was LCR, or Left Center Right, played with special dice and we all got baggies of 5" fabric squares to play with. Even my 6 year old son got into rolling the dice. We sat at the table with all the Quilters Run ladies and laughed and clapped and I ALMOST won (but didn't- the woman next to me got the pot of fabric!) Of course then I realized my groceries were in the trunk and I'd better get home to get things into the fridge. We left to helicopters still circling and buzzing up in the sky. 

Wow, this is the best summer so far!