Alchemy Journal.

alchemy journal, a photo by Zemphira Creations on Flickr.

Before my sister headed back to Alaska, we had a few "crafter-hour" sessions. This is when we made stamps all day, and then went back into work and stamped up some of our own creations. We had a lot of fun, but stayed up way too late.

This journal was one of my "crafter hour" creations. It uses four stamps that I think are pretty cool, some tags, and some baker's twine. I hear it's not crafty these days if there's no baker's twine.

We took the Hares to Akron.

The Handsome Hares., a photo by Zemphira Creations on Flickr.

Well, we did it. We got our first "STAMP SHOW!" under our belts. It was a lot of fun meeting customers and helping them search through the catalog to find just the right image. We found a perfect cactus, constellation stamp, a realistic pig, octopi, and a few other special requests. Still looking for that fried egg though - I know we have one.

There's more than one way to stamp a hare!

dashing rabbits espresso cups, a photo by pinkkiss on Flickr.

Love em'!
Espresso cups by pinkkiss.

Hop, Stamp, Sew

I found a little time to create some rubber stamped mixed media art -and I have my Etsy OWLS team to thank for the inspiration.   I am a member of the Etsy OWLS team, and the  challenge for this month was to create something with a rabbit.  I used the handsome hares stamp from 100 Proof Press and some fabrics from my stash, and I even used a hoop!  Hoop hoop!  Hop! Hop!

This little art quilt hanging was inspired by Jennifer's fun Handsome Hares Pillow 

I've been meaning to make something in a hoop for awhile now, and I'm pretty happy with how this Easter decoration turned out.

I also experimented with another idea.  This was my original idea inspired by the challenge, but eh, it wasn't quite what I was going for.  I had fun making the cuff, so maybe I'll work on this idea a bit later.

Rabbit cuff...  hmm...