Die Cutting Magic E-Book Launch

Hello everyone! Today am I happy to share some news. Eileen Hull together with Bella Crafts Publishing have published a wonderful e-book called Die Cutting Magic with Eileen Hull. Today is the launch day!

Die Cutting Magic is full of inspirational projects using Eileen's dies and embossing folders by Sizzix. It is a really great mix of projects: 3-D home decor and storage items, flowers, cards, mini-books, wearable art, holiday projects, baby and wedding items, scrapbooking layouts and much more, for many different themes. Over 100 projects and 154 pages full of inspiration, both for beginner and advanced papercrafters. Die-cutting really is magic, since you can do so many different things with a die.

I am happy to have eight projects in the book, of which four are tutorials. You'll also find projects by Eileen, the other Inspiration Team members, and a whole bunch of other designers.

From today, until Monday, the book is on a special of 77% off. That special will end at midnight Pacific on November 28th. During the sale it costs only $2.97 during the sale, after which it will go up to full price $12.97. If you are not familiar with ebooks, here's some quick info. You can purchase by clicking on the photo above or following this link Die Cutting Magic. Once payment is received, you will get a link to the book download, which you can keep and view whenever you’d like, on any device. In addition, if you see a project you would like to create, there are links to the dies you will need to make it.

On top of that, Sizzix has a great Black Friday sale on its website this weekend (until 27 November), and many of Eileen's dies are on sale.

I hope you'll pick up a copy of Die Cutting Magic. It is really great to see so many wonderful die cutting projects together in one book. Looking through it made me want to craft right away.

Thank you so much for stopping by today and have a lovely weekend!!

Happy stamping!

Anna-Karin

Safari Art Journal Page Tutorial

Hello friends! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates it! I always thought it sounded that a nice holiday.

I am happy to share a special project on the Darkroom Door blog. It's an art journaling tutorial using one of their new 11.8 in border stamps. The border stamps are perfect for scrapbooking layouts, or, as below, for the large Ranger Dylusions journal. At the same time, they will work just as well for cardmaking and other smaller projects too.

I used the Filmstrip Border stamp, which I really like. I have a thing for Filmstrip elements, since it brings my mind back to the pre-digital camera days, and also makes me think of my grandfather’s darkroom. For this project, I paired up the Filmstrip Border with the Wild Africa stamps. This page is dedicated to the rhino, which is seriously threatened by poaching. South Africa has the biggest rhino population in the world, and poaching has increased dramatically, from 13 rhinos in 2007 to 1175 last year. It is very tragic.

You'll find all the steps for how I made this, as well as close-up photos on the Darkroom Door blog.

Happy stamping and thank you for stopping by today!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Darkroom Door FILMSTRIP Border	Darkroom Door WILD AFRICA VOLUME 3	Darkroom Door WILD AFRICA VOLUME 2	Darkroom Door AFRICAN TREES	Darkroom Door WILD AFRICA VOLUME 1
Darkroom Door WILDERNESS VOLUME 1	Dyan Reaveley DYLUSIONS JOURNAL	Ranger GLOSS PAPER 8.5 X 11	Clearsnap Colorbox STYLUS HANDLES	Clearsnap Colorbox OVAL BLENDER STYLUS TIPS
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival FERN GREEN	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival WATERING CAN	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK	Tsukineko JET BLACK STAZON	Tsukineko Stazon STONE GRAY
Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink LATTE	Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink TEAKWOOD Adirondack	Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink PITCH BLACK	Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink MUSHROOM	Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink PESTO
Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD PUMICE STONE	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD FRAYED BURLAP	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD GATHERED TWIGS	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK BLACK SOOT	Tim Holtz Distress Paint TUMBLED GLASS
Tim Holtz SCATTERED STRAW	Tim Holtz Distress Paint HICKORY SMOKE	Tim Holtz PEELED PAINT	Tim Holtz Distress Paint PUMICE STONE	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE GESSO
Dina Wakley Ranger BLANK Media Tape	Tim Holtz LABEL LETTERS	Tim Holtz Tonic Craft SCISSORS	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET	Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger
Ranger Inkssentials PIPETTE

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December Countdown Tags Video Tutorial

Hi everyone! I hope you had a nice weekend! Our snow has almost disappeared and instead we got some autumn back again, with sunny weather. 

At the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge this week we have a Trio of Something theme. Lots of options for this one: trio of products, trio of colours, trio of cards, etc. 

I made the tags for my December Countdown Calendar, which will later go into my December journal as journaling tags. Each day, I take one tag off the calendar, write my journaling and tuck it into the journal. I really like the December Daily concept by Ali Edwards and have been doing it for five years now. I made the burlap panel for the calendar last year, you can find that tutorial here. So this year, all I needed to do was die cut, colour and stamp the tags. I went with a different colour combo for my tags, a trio of Distress Inks: Wilted Violet, Cracked Pistachio and Blueprint Sketch. I made a video showing my process, and I will share another video for the album itself once it is done.

Here's the video, you can also click to watch it on YouTube. I am not showing you all the tags, since that would make for a too long video, but walk you through the process of creating some of the tags. 

Here are all the tags together. They all look different, but use the same colours ink and some repeated stamps, for unity. The stamps are by Tim Holtz.

I mainly use smaller Christmas stamps for this project, but just love this cabin one from Scribble Woodland so much, that it had to be on the first tag. You might recognize it from my Deer Winter Shadow Box from two weeks ago.

The tags hang on a hook that I screwed into the wooden burlap panel and are easy to remove. The kids, especially Anton, like to see how the days move closer to Christmas (this is not the only Christmas calendar in the house).

I took photos of some of the tags, just to give you an idea. After writing on them, I'll put them in my December album. You can find last years album here, if you want to have a look.

 I liked the look of this Poinsettia stamp in Wilted Violet.

 The bell comes from the new Festive Sketch set.

 It is so fun to just sit and stamp. I have a big pile of stamps waiting to be cleaned now.

 The Cracked Pistachio star/snowflake pattern is repeated on all the tags.

 I stamped most of the sentiments with Watering Can so that they would stand out clearly.

Christmas is getting closer. These tags give me just enough space to jot down memories from Christmas. If I have much to write, I add an additional tag or paper and sometimes I include photos too. However, most of my Christmas photos end up in a scrapbooking album.

On Christmas Eve, I always use a Santa stamp, since that is when Santa comes knocking on the door in Sweden. He delivers the presents himself and doesn't come down the chimney to leave them at the tree.

I hope you will join us in our Trio of Something challenge. As every week, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

If you want to, follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Happy stamping!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Tim Holtz SCHOOL DESK Stampers Anonymous	Tim Holtz WORN TEXT	Tim Holtz FESTIVE SKETCH	Tim Holtz SCRIBBLE WOODLAND	Tim Holtz TREE LINE
Tim Holtz SCRIBBLY CHRISTMAS	Tim Holtz CHRISTMAS MAGIC	Tim Holtz REINDEER FLIGHT	Tim Holtz ROCK STAR	Tim Holtz MINI WEATHERED WINTER
Tim Holtz MINI HOLIDAYS 2	Tim Holtz MINI HOLIDAYS 4	Stampers Anonymous CLASSICS #10	Tim Holtz STYLED WOODLANDS	Tim Holtz MINI HOLIDAYS 5
Tim Holtz MINI HANDWRITTEN HOLIDAYS	Tim Holtz CHRISTMAS NOSTALGIA	Tim Holtz MINI HOLIDAYS 3	Tim Holtz MINI HOLIDAYS	Tim Holtz Sizzix Die TAG & BOOKPLATES
Ranger Archival Ink DEEP PURPLE	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival WATERING CAN	Tim Holtz Distress Ink WILTED VIOLET	Tim Holtz Distress Ink BLUEPRINT SKETCH	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad CRACKED PISTACHIO
Ranger 8.5 X 11 MANILA CARDSTOCK	Ranger MANILA TAGS #8	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Sizzix MINT Standard Cutting Pads	Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger
Hero Arts SMALL BLOCK TRIO CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCKS	Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 3 by 3	Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 4 x 4.5	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET	Tim Holtz Tonic Craft SCISSORS
Tim Holtz Burlap Panel BARE 6 x 8	Tim Holtz YULETIDE Paper Stash	Tim Holtz Idea-ology SWIVEL CLASPS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology 75 JUMP RINGS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology HEART CHARMS
Tim Holtz SCREW EYES	Tim Holtz SNOWFLAKES Adornments	Tim Holtz CHRISTMAS Typed Tokens	Tim Holtz NUMBER Tokens	Tim Holtz OCCASIONS Small Talk
Tim Holtz IWREATHS Adornments	Tim Holtz HOLIDAY Letterpress

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