TSG (Again!) Wrapped In Joy

Hi there! It's time for the October edition of There She Goes (Again!) and this week we are clearly in the Christmas mood because we are featuring three of our favourite Christmas sets. Today is day 2 and we're featuring: 

Wrapped In Joy

This stamp set is SO versatile because it can be used all year. (Am I the only one that gets sad when it's time to pack up the Christmas stamps??) Depending on which sentiment you choose and how you colour it, most of the images can be used for Christmas, birthdays, or other celebrations. 

Check out some knock-outs from our Wrapped In Joy Pinterest Gallery: 

Kim coloured this pretty girl in Christmas colours but by not adding a sentiment this card could be for any time throughout the year. 

Wouldn't this be a great Christmas card too?? I love what Kim did - every layer is perfect - but I especially love her colouring. 

Here's a card I made recently and this was an experiment with no-line colouring. It really changes the look of a stamp, doesn't it? 

So that's all for today... Tomorrow watch out for our post featuring all new cards by the Trendsetters with this week's sets!! 

TSG (Again!) Just For You

Hi there! It's time for the October edition of There She Goes (Again!) and this week we are clearly in the Christmas mood because we are featuring three of our favourite Christmas sets. Today is day 2 and we're featuring: 

Just For You

It's not 100% Christmas, but man does it make a great label for treat bags and tags.. Did you know we have two things that accompany this set?? Matching dies, and Just For You - Halloween Additions that is perfect for Halloween (obviously) but it offers two more great labels and the sentiment strip is separate.. It's cool! 

Here are some great project from our Just For You Pinterest Gallery: 

Here you can see the Christmas potential with this set. Piali did a beautiful job stamping the label!!

Or you can just use the little images in the set like Torico did! These are too dang cute!!

Or what happens when you pop another little image in the center?? (All of the images from No Peeking fit inside the label) You get a really cute Christmas tag!! 

Thanks for joining us today! Please stop by again tomorrow for another great retro TSG set!! 

TSG (Again!) Snowy Days

Hi there! It's time for the October edition of There She Goes (Again!) and this week we are clearly in the Christmas mood because we are featuring three of our favourite Christmas sets starting with:

Snowy Days

Torico's famous dog is getting his Christmas on in a bunch of different images and when the Trendsetters got their hands on this set last year, we had a blast... Check it out!

Torico worked her magic on this card and created a very warm and inviting card. The sponging around the die cut is amazing!

Wendy paired Snowy Days with the Snow Globe and Die set and took it one step further by adding some Flower Soft as snow... What a fantastic idea! 

Sandra's combination of papers, die cuts and colouring make this card a knock-out!! I could look at this for days. WOW! 

I hope you enjoyed today's feature. If you want to see more amazing projects with today's set, check out the Snowy Days Pinterest gallery!! 

TSG229-Be Prepared

This week our challenge is brought to us by Our Trendsetters! We are challenging you to get ahead on all your Christmas projects by using some of our FABULOUS TSG Christmas sets!

To be eligible for the giveaway, create a NEW card or project with a Christmas theme, and then come back to the TSG Blog to add your name and a link to your project in the InLinkz that is located at the bottom of this challenge post. This challenge is open until the winner has been announced on the following Monday (October 21st). The winner will get a $5 gift certificate to use in the TSG Web store! 

By participating in this challenge, you may also find yourself in the Trendsetting Spotlight that shines on the TSG Blog every Thursday. We will be on the lookout to find challenge cards that stand out and show Trendsetting qualities. TSG stamps are not required to participate in the challenges but are appreciated :) 

You do not need to have a blog to be able to participate in the TSG Challenges! You can simply add the URL link from your project after it has been uploaded to your online craft gallery. If you upload your card to an online craft gallery, please use the keyword TSG229 so we can check out your beautiful work!
The winner of last week's TSG228 Color Challenge is:Azumi 
Here are your random numbers:

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Timestamp: 2013-10-15 06:42:15 UTC

Need some inspiration to help you get started? Check out these great cards made by the following Trendsetters!

~Tracy M.

~ Sarah

~Torico

~ Vera

~Wendy
~ Chaitali

Week In Review-October 6th-12th

What is Week In Review (WIR)?- WIR is where we showcase cards made by the Trendsetters and myself throughout the our release peeks week. Not only to you get to see gorgeous projects made using TSG stamps, but you also have a chance to WIN one of these cards! Leave a comment on this post and next WIR I will choose a winner using a random number generator. That person will then get to pick out their favorite card and the Trendsetter that created it will send it to them :)

Last Week's Winner Is:Heidi Brawley

Here are your random numbers:

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Timestamp: 2013-10-13 16:31:16 UTC

Torico (Poultry In Motion, Buckets Of Love, BOL Holiday additions)

Torico (Bewitched By You, Bugs & Hisses)

Jessie(Halloween Tags)

Chaitali (Autumn)

Fall Photo Canvas

For this week's Stampbook Saturday installment, I was going to use some of our new family photos to decorate an 8x8 scrapbook page, but then I was at the local dollar store the other day and saw this canvas/easel combo for ONE DOLLAR and couldn't resist! So this project is a bit of an ABC- Stampbook Saturday lovechild ;)

I didn't take pics of the process, as my fingers were SERIOUSLY to dirty to be touching the Nikon! I had my middle son, Jake, be my assistant. Helping by passing me the things I needed! haha!

I really have absolutely no idea what I was doing, so I think it turned out not too shabby, overall!
These are the basic steps that I did if you want to try your hand at altering a simple canvas into a scrappy family photo!

1. Paint the canvas with Gesso and let dry. You can speed along with your heat gun.
2. Adhere DP to the canvas. I used a dictionary pattern. I also used 1.5" double sided tape. I have found in the past that if you don't adhere the whole piece down, you will end up with bubbles and ripples, whether using Modpodge, Gesso or whatever other medium you might have. Also attach the picture using the same tape.
3. Paint another layer of Gesso. Don't paint entirely over the picture, just the edges. Let dry.
4. Stamp sentiment in Versafine ink and heat set.
5. Now the real mess begins. Using modeling paste and re-inkers (I used MFT's Hot Fudge, Electric Red, Kraft, Factory Green, Sour Apple, Gumdrop Green, Lemon Drop and Orange Fizz), make 'piles' of coloured paste on a painters palette (or the lid to an ice cream pail, if you are super professional like me). Stir with a toothpick to mix the colour into the paste.
6. Using your fingertip, pick up paste and daub onto canvas. It doesn't really matter in which order, but I went from browns to greens to red/orange/yellow. Your fingers are going to be a mess. Don't bother washing in between, colours can mix. Embrace your inner child. You know, the one that dipped the paintbrush in every colour without rinsing it off. We are trying to reproduce fall leaves, if you haven't already figured that out, and nature isn't perfect!
7. I then took a paintbrush and added flecks of white modelling paste for highlights.
8. Wait for this mess to dry.
9. Spray with Gold (or whatever you have) Perfect Pearl mist, cover the photo with a scrap of CS as you go. It's pretty much impossible to not get a mist of gold on the photo...it seems to find it's way under the CS. That's okay. I did this on a piece of cardboard in my storage room and it's safe to say the nearby summer shoe bucket got a mist of gold. I'm sure the boys will be thrilled ;) Use your heat gun to dry the mist.
10. Stamp the leaves. I used Electric Red and Gumdrop Green, as well as versamark with bronze and gold embossing powder. Fussy cut them out. Spritz the leaves with pearl mist. Shoot with heat gun.
11. I added some Hemp cord around the canvas. 
12. Using hot glue, affix the leaves to the canvas.
13. Tie a double hemp bow to an antique button and hot glue down.

For the easel portion of the product, I painted with white acrylic paint (also cheap dollar store find- no need to get fancy, it's an undercoat). After that dried, I used a sloppy technique to add Distress Crackle Paint (Tim Holtz) over top. This appalled my son, who is an aspiring artist. He now thinks I am the world's worst painter for missing so many spots.

 Wait for that to dry. It wasn't quite done to my liking, so I added another coat of crackle paint- this time in clear. It gave it a more shiney, finished look. Like a glaze would.

The TSG stamp set I used is called Autumn. And it can be yours for 9 easy instalments of $1.00 :) 

I hope you are having a wonderfall weekend! To all of our Canadian friends (like me!), Happy Thanksgiving!! May you be surrounded by the love of family and have a belly full of turkey dinner!

Thanks for hanging out with me this week!!

Halloween Treat Holders

For this week's ABC (anything but a card) project, I have some cute Halloween treat holders to share with you. ABC projects are really not my strong suit- I find they take me a LOT of time to create with more mistakes than you can imagine! So, I am going to take the easy way out and show you what I reproduced using my friend Sheri's lovely and easy to follow tutorial! You can find her Youtube video HERE. I basically followed her tutorial to the letter, only changing my stamps and embellies and adding crepe paper to the bottoms.

I used a great new Halloween set, that's perfect for all of your treats and tags~ cleverly named Halloween Tags! This set also has a coordinating Silhouette cut file available for download HERE. I don't have a Silhouette, so I hand cut my stamped images. If you are struggling with how to use these cut files with your TSG stamps, Trendsetter Tangii did an easy-to-understand tutorial last week!! Perfect!!

Some details about my treat tubes:

• I used TSG's Spiderweb die border to create the web around the top. 
• I went into my Halloween stash and found some ribbon, glittery embellishments and washi tape that would coordinate.
• I added Glossy Accents to the main images, as well as the little accents (which are stamps from the set as well), and sprinkled with Tim Holtz Rock Candy glitter. I love that stuff. I can't believe that I have been living under a rock this whole time and just bought a jar.
• I HATE candy corn. I specifically had to buy some for a prop. I'll probably toss the entire bucket in a few weeks. I'll expect Paypal donations to reimburse my $3.50 I spent to make my TSG pics nicer ;) hehe!

Here are a few close up's of each treat holder! I always make 3 when I do something like this, or my kids flip out, thinking I purposely left someone out!

Thanks for stopping in! I hope you are inspired to make some fun treat holders with some of our awesome Halloween sets!!!