Today we'll learn more about DT Member Bonnie Rose! Tell us a little bit about yourself: My name is Bonnie Rose and I currently live in Fargo ND. I have a dream of living further south one day near the ocean. I love the ocean. I could be a total beach bum and have a beach-inspired beach home one day. One day. I work part time weekdays and have most of my afternoons free to be inspired and create in my Studio. When a day goes by when I don't make something, I just don't feel complete. I love card design and stamping. I started out as a scrapbooker over 17 years ago, but soon the stamping bug caught me, and well, now I'm … [Read more...]

I love printing on fabric!  Did you know that you can too?  It's actually fairly easy and I used this method to make my card today for the tutorial.  I wanted a note card I could use for a variety of purposes and I wanted to incorporate some photos I took in Europe this summer.  Here's what I came up with: To prepare your fabric for printing you'll need to take a piece of freezer paper and fabric and cut them slightly larger than 8 ½" x 11".  Iron the fabric to the paper.  (Make sure the paper is ironed with the shiny side touching the fabric.)  Trim the paper to exactly 8 ½" x 11" to fit in your printer.  Get your photo ready to … [Read more...]

Don't those two just go together?  I hope everyone has big plans for the extended weekend!  (Even if it's just big plans to relax.)  While you're planning the weekend, I'd recommend trying these delicious cookies: Chocolate Surprise Cookies 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa (I used the Special Dark Cocoa.) 1 tsp baking soda 1 cup sugar 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar 1 cup butter, softened 2 tsp vanilla 2 eggs 1 cup chopped pecans 48 Rolo Caramel candies 1 Tb sugar In small bowl, combine flour, cocoa and baking soda; blend well.  In large bowl, beat 1 cup sugar, brown sugar and butter … [Read more...]

Now that my Design Team has been busy creating fun projects with the Schlosser Designs stamp sets, let's meet them!  Here's Michele Gross: Tell us a little bit about yourself: I'm happy, cheerful, positive, a little zany at times, and I believe dessert is good for you.  I'm married to my best friend, mom to our 2 amazing boys, spoiler to Ellie our Diva Dog, and I am a stamper!  When I'm not getting inky in my studio, or spending endless hours at the skate park with my guys (wishing they were bubble-wrapped!), I enjoy cooking, reading, and cheering (loudly) for my favorite baseball team-the Rockies!! When did you start … [Read more...]

We're going to embellish a sketchbook today.  I usually buy mine in packs of 3 plain ones and embellish them depending on my mood or favorite color.  This weekend I finished filling up one sketchbook and needed to get another one ready to go.  My last one was embossed paper and velvet ribbon: I went with something a little more fall feeling this time around.  I had a scrap of red vinyl in my scrap bag and stamped a pattern on that.  I really like how it turned out! Want to make one?  It's easy: Use pinking shears to cut a 1" strip of the vinyl.  This gives it a nice zig-zag edge.  Stamp directly onto the vinyl with a permanent … [Read more...]

Meet fabulous DT member Tina Fussell! Tell us a little bit about yourself: My name is Tina, but in the blog world everyone knows me as the Traveling Mama.  We currently live in Denmark, but we lived in Morocco for three years and Spain for two.  I guess after three languages you figure, what’s one more?  Our Traveling Tribe includes my husband, my nine year old daughter, my five year old son, and our littlest son who is almost two. When did you start crafting? I have always loved making things even as a child.  I made my very first scrapbook when my husband and I got engaged twelve years ago…but I didn’t really get into … [Read more...]

I'm in love with the new ring I just made!  Isn't it cute!  It's a little fabric flower ring! I love how they only take a very small amount of fabric (or ribbon!) so raid your scraps and see what you've got!  You can also use ribbon you've got lying around too!  (Here's a little tip for you:  If you want to make a custom color of ribbon, try coloring a white or ivory ribbon with your Copic marker.  It's permanent and you can make it any color you want to match a project or outfit!) What you'll need: 8" x 1" pieces of fabric strips (or ribbon) Ring blank Hot glue gun Velcro Coordinating beads Tacky Glue Take your … [Read more...]

I've almost finished unpacking my craft room from my move!  Yeah!  I found just enough supplies to make a quick Thinking of You card today.  I can't wait for the next few months though!  It's my favorite time to craft!  I LOVE fall and winter projects and I can't wait to show you what I've been working on for just such the occasion! I used the following sets to make this card: Starburst shape from Outside The Box, Thinking of You sentiment from Furnishing Fun. Just stamp the starburst using a few different colors of coordinating ink and top off the center with some coordinating colors of Stickles.  Stamp the sentiment and make a … [Read more...]

Remember this cute little cottage I made for DinoTalk?  Well, it was also part of another project I've been working on for the shop.  The Design Team is done testing it and now it's ready for you! Inside this little house folder is an entire packet of information to welcome your new neighbor!  It's got 5 illustrated pages of information that you can customize to your specific town or city!  There's places to put your local grocery stores, favorite craft stores and places for important information such as the nearest hospital, closest library, and trash day!  You don't need any specific software to type in your custom text, just Adobe … [Read more...]

Hi Everyone! It's Bonnie Rose here and today, I'm sharing with you a quick and easy tutorial! Are you ready? I'll let you all in on a little secret. I've only got ONE Schlosser Designs stamp set so far, Outside The Box, but I gotta tell you -- I love how versatile this set is! Click here and below to see all the images! Take a look at my previous post here for a one layer Christmas card that's so easy to replicate! Using only 3 stamps from this set, I created this card below. Easy peasy. Stamped the flowers on the cardfront. Stamped the square image in pink, then followed with the border in black. Adhered with foam … [Read more...]