Friday, June 14, 2013

Mustache paper & overlay set (free)

Wow, You Guys! Thank you times a million for your kindness about my video.
 You are always so amazingly supportive! (Gets me all teary eyed). :o)
I promise to try to make more videos. Thinking of trying out the Hubby's iphone...



There was no resisting last-minute Mustache papers & overlays
for Father's Day. They're available
in zip files for quick downloads (but also still on flickr)...

Mustaches (on white) - free printable paper SAMPLE


You can download all the papers & the overlay in 2 zip files here:

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2 - Mustaches - on white (colours 26-51)

mustache papers - free printable digital patterned paper set PREVIEW copy
In case you want to just download one single paper
and try it, here are my very faves:

Mustaches (solid antique graph paper) - free printable paper SAMPLE

tiny_antique_graph_paper_solid_Mustaches_12_and_a_half_inch_SQ_350dpi

37-light_turquoise_solid_Mustaches_12_and_a_half_inch_SQ_350dpi

38-chartreuse_solid_Mustaches_12_and_a_half_inch_SQ_350dpi

Mustaches (antique graph paper) - free printable paper SAMPLE

tiny_antique_graph_paper_DSnet_mustaches_OVERSTAMPED_distress_graph

37-light_turquoise_DSnet_mustaches_OVERSTAMPED_distress_graph

38-chartreuse_DSnet_mustaches_OVERSTAMPED_distress_graph


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How to save these single papers directly from my blog:

PC users in Firefox/Chrome: right click on the image & choose "save link as"
PC users in Explorer: right click on the image & choose "save target as".
Mac users: Visit flickr, here, click on the paper you want, then right click and select all sizes & click on "download the original size of this photo"
 



If something isn't working for you, or you would
like some tips on printing, please just let me know
  melstampz@gmail.com




 Hope you can have some fun with these,

P.S. I got the original free mustache shapes from digitalscrapbooking.net, but their site is down for maintenance.

Saturday, June 8, 2013

a coloured traced doodling card (& my first video) :-)


Traced Doodling in Prismacolor

Hi All!

Today's card is a different variation of Traced Doodling. Size-wise, it's 3 and 3/8 inches tall by 6 and 1/4 inches wide. All in all, that's probably my very favourite size, because it's a little different from A2 size and it fits the 3-5/8" x 6-1/2" envelopes that you can find at Staples or Dollar stores for a song (at least you can find them here in Canada). Do you have a favourite card size?



The doodled bit is made using an Impression Obsession Damask stamp, stamped on dark grey cardstock in Frost White Colorbox ink and traced with Prismacolor pencil crayons. The hearts are all cut using Simon Says Stamp's two 'Holiday Shapes' dies: this one & this one.

The striped white layers are just white cardstock cut & glued on (then doodled on with white gel pen, but that's hard to see). The pink tab is made using Distress Inks & the green patterned paper is from Echo Park's Everyday Eclectic digi set #2.

Here's the inside...

 

...And in the Chicken-Little-News, I finally got up the courage to post my very first video! It's a bit of a sad little thing, :-D but on the bright side I'm delighted that I finally conquered the horrid fear that was keeping me from making one...


You can find it here on Youtube. Please forgive the odd sound. It gets better after the first bit... (I did my best to fix it in editing but that software is a lot like another language from another planet!)

...and You can probably tell that I'm such a Nervous Nelly while I'm making it, though I guess we all have to start somewhere. :o)
  
 And the 'hello' on the card front is from

It's made by Christine Newman (Listgirl)


 Thanks for popping by &
Happy Craftiliciousness