Serendipity Stamps Blog

I recently added the new spring line of stamps to the our shopping website – www.serendipitystamps.com.   To see them all just go to the New Stamps section.  To give you a little inspiration I’ve included two adorable cards created by the Serendipity Stamps Design Team.  Both of these cards were created using our new adorable Skunk – 1203G, which you can purchase as an individual stamp or as the cling set 1203QCL.    The set comes with both the skunk and the word stamp Scent With Love – 1204D. 

The first card was created by Kathie Bailey – wouldn’t this make a great Valentine’s Day card?.

And the second card was created by Amy Cokley.   These bright colors are just the thing for a day like today, when all I see out my window is white snow!

Oh – and did I say something about a Quickie Sale?   Just in time for a last minute Valentine – get our Heart Deco Cling Set – 969QCL for 50% off – just $7.28 (normally $14.95!).

We have a little wooden table on our front porch – it’s where I set my wine glass in the evenings during the summer when I have a moment to sit out there and watch my garden grow.   Nothing growing in the garden now!   But the other day my daughter took this picture of little bird prints in a dusting of snow on the table.   Hopefully the little bird found a stray sunflower seed while stomping around on my table.  Below the photo are two cards to remind you that bird stamps are not just for Christmas!   Those little guys need to be seen all year round!  

The card below was made by Carolyn Hurst using 1137K – Titmouse.

The next card was made by Sue Eldred using 952E – Cardinals and 145E – And Softly Fell.

I am so behind in posting the gorgeous cards that the Serendipity Stamps Design Team and customers send to me!   So for a couple of days I’m just going to post cards, no blab about my life, my garden, my kids, fishing, hunting – just cards!   Enjoy!

This card was made by Holly Craft – who is well named!   She even has articles in magazines about making cookies, and felted bags – and I’m sure many other things that I’ve missed.  Check out Holly’s blog to see more of her cards and other hobbies.   This card was made using 1179H – Autumn Birdhouse, 1180E – Music Is, 1179QCL – Autumn Birdhouse Cling Set, 642C – Maple Small, 904X – Giant Maple Punch.

I’m getting ready to head out for a weekend in the Missouri Ozarks – trout fishing with my husband – woo hoo!  Actually, he’ll fish and I’ll read and knit (woo hoo!  that one wasn’t sarcastic).  We’ll have 6 hours of quiet driving time and several blissful meals with no teenagers around!  WOO HOO!  What does this have to do with “leafy pets”?  Nothing, except Opal was rolling in the leaves this morning, totally ignorant of the fact that she was going to be stuck in the kennel all weekend and it reminded me of this cute card Cindy Malone sent me last week.  She used Leaf Pets 1024QCL (cling set) or 1024G (individual image).  Cindy’s blog is http://www.discoverstamping.blogspot.com/ - if her name looks familiar it’s because she won our Customer Halloween Challenge last week!  

Remember – this month’s is Customer Challenge is a Christmas Ornament or Gift.  Just email your project, made with Serendipity Stamps, to serendipity@serendipitystamps.com by November 11th and you’ll have a chance to win our random drawing for a $20 gift certificate to Serendipity Stamps.

Note – only a couple days left for our Customer Halloween Challenge.    Send your Halloween card to serendipity@serendipitystamps.com  by Oct 15th and I’ll enter you in our drawing for a $20 Serendipity Gift Certificate!

Each year, two of my daughters and my husband drive to my in-laws’ farm where family and friends gather for deer season to hunt, enjoy my mother-in-law’s cooking, and to sit around and share stories.  These girls are in high school now, having their hair done for homecoming dances and learning to walk in high heels.  But, they still look forward to that weekend in November when they get to spend time with their Grandpa and Uncles, show off their shooting skills, fill our freezer with meat, and still find time to touch up their nails before they come back home.  The card below is a perfect example of how Lynda Benden’s work can just take your breath away.  Her simple, clean, stamping technique, with subtle, but meticulous detail,  shows off this beautiful stamp – 116L Buck or 116QCL Buck Cling Set. 

Last year for my birthday I asked my husband to put a birdfeeder outside the bathroom window (this is how I get “honey do” projects done – I ask for them in leiu of gifts – otherwise they never happen).   My husband is an engineer – any of you familiar with the species engineerius meticulitius know that hanging a nail above the window was not going to be his solution – you can see my birdfeeder in the photo beneath Sue Eldred’s fun, creative card made using the Autumn Birdhouse 1179QCL and Music Is What Feelings 1180E.

The “pod” propped on the bracket in front of the birdfeeder is a sunflower from which almost all of the seeds have been eaten.  The birds used it as a place to stand and squawk at each other for 3 hours before they figured out those were sunflower seeds!

I’m not really an owl collector – I only have 2 or 3 that were my mother’s.  But my mother – did she have an owl collection!  Wooden, ceramic, hickory nut, salt and pepper shakers, and of course, a macrame owl.    Gosh I wish I had that macrame owl…Here is a nice little collection of owls from Serendipity Stamps.

NOTE:  We sold hundreds of Halloween stamps last week during our sale!   All you new owners of Serendipity Halloween stamps – send in your Halloween cards for our Customer Halloween Challenge!  Just email it to Serendipity@serendipitystamps.com by Oct. 15th and we’ll post it right here and enter you in the drawing for a $20 Serendipity Stamps gift certificate! 

  I couldn’t help myself!  I found a photo of the same type of owl we had hanging on our basement wall for years!  (A similar one hangs on a wall in the movie Frost/Nixon).  In looking for a photo of this lovely macrame owl, I came across a fun little website – macrameowl.com – which is dedicated “to saving, rehabilitating and reviving the macramé owl”.   It’s comforting to know that someone is taking care of this – don’t you think?

I know fall is here when my husband puts out the big styrofoam target, gets out his bow, and starts shooting arrows, most of which end up stuck in the hillside behind the target….I’m not a hunter – I like my warm bed too much for all that nonsense.    I’ll cook it – but don’t ask me to kill it OR clean it!  Here is a  card from our Design Team Alumni Holly Craft that exemplifies the beauty of nature and all her bounty.  Holly used our Buck & Doe 1183L image and May the Peace of the Lord 1195F.