Serendipity Stamps Blog

Well let’s hope so because the last challenge for our January sponsorship of the Gingersnap Creations blog is Numbers.  There are many ways that you can include numbers in a project – scrapbook a special birthday, create a calendar or make an anniversary card including the number of years celebrated.   Be inspired by measuring tapes, rulers, postage stamps, vintage ledgers or bingo cards … to name but a few ideas. Your options are endless, just include one or more numbers in your creation.   Head on over the Gingersnap Creations blog to see some great examples of creative ways to incorporate “numbers” into your designs.   Find out how to enter the challenge and check out what you can win!  Here’s a great Calendar page created by Design Team member Sue Eldred – those are Sue’s parents – aren’t they cute????  Sue made this calendar using 586F – February, from our set of Illustrated Months.  You can get a slightly smaller set of these months in a set of cling stamps or as unmounted stamps – just search for “597″ at www.serendipitystamps.com.  Sue also used 154D – The Heart That Loves and 455E – This Is Love - which is currently on our $1 sale!

Ready for some more fun?  This week, in conjunction with our January sponsorship of Gingersnap Creations, we are going to test your metal with a brand new Color Challenge – Metallics! 

That’s right, you have to add a little metal to your creativity!  Round up all your gold, silver, platinum, bronze, and copper papers, inks, paints, embellishments, hardware and pearl-ex powders so you can start playing!  Bring on your lustrous designs and show us some shiny examples of your wonderful art!

For more details on the challenge and to see some great samples from the Gingersnap Creations and Serendipity Stamps design teams head on over to Gingersnap Creations.  And of course, watch out for more timely blog candy – one randomly drawn winner from the Metallic Challenge entries gets Serendipity Stamps’ Large Pocket Watch Cling Set, shown below along with a great card that Kathie Bailey made for the week 1 challenge – embossing powder using 446K Large Pocket Watch to make just a ghost of the image on her card.

You have until February 14, 2010 to enter with your own metallic creation!

This week’s challenge, in conjunction with Serendipity Stamps’ January sponsorship of Gingersnap Creations is Embossing Powder!   Remember that stuff?  It seems for a while it faded out of popularity, but really, what cooler thing is there than embossing powder?  Want to convert someone into a rubber stamper?   Show them how to use embossing powder – it’s that simple. 

For more details on the challenge and to see some great samples from the Gingersnap Creations and Serendipity Stamps design teams head on over to the Gingersnap blog.  And of course, there are treats – the randomly drawn winner of the Embossing Powder Challenge gets Serendipity Stamps’ Victorian Hearts Cling Set.

Here are some samples created using the stamps from the Victorian Hearts set.  The stamps in this set coordinate with the McGill Super Giant Heart punch.  Be sure to check out the Gingersnap blog to see a gorgeous card made by Kathie Bailey with these stamps.

Place an order for $25 or more and get free shipping on U.S. orders.  50% off  shipping on international orders.  Ends November 23rd

IMPORTANT – You must select the $0.00 shipping from the drop down “Ship Via” box during checkout. 

Also – 25% off the Snow Angel Cling Set - 1188QCL

I’ve been hoarding all of the snowman cards from the DT and from customers until I could them them all into one big Snowman Gallery.  It’s done!  And to be specific – it’s a snow “being” gallery.  We cover the full spectrum – snowmen, snowwomen, snowkids, snowpets, and snowpersons (those non-gender specific snow creatures).  There are over 40 cards in the gallery right now.  And to encourage everyone to help me grow the gallery I’ve put the Snow Angel Cling Set on sale for 25% off.  But that’s not the best part….

Free Shipping Until November 23rd! 
All orders over $25 ship free!  Spend some of your hard earned money on yourself before you spend it all on everyone else’s presents.  Buy some snowman stamps and send me your cards!

Just click the Snowman Gallery link over in the list of galleries to see the Snowman Gallery.   Here’s a peak at the Snow Angel.  

There’s a little back highway that we take when we drive through the Missouri Ozarks to go camping.  Along one stretch you see several little houses and barns made of stone.   I always wish I could see the inside of those houses and find out their histories.  We never drive that road in the winter – we’re not that rugged!  But I imagine at least one of those little stone barns is hung with a pretty Christmas wreath just like in the card below.  Holly Craft and Jennifer Woodward used Barn Door With Wreath -  1190G on their cards.   This image also comes in a cling set  – 1190QCL.  Holly used Winter Wishes – 1193E on her card.

NOTE – Just two day left to enter our Customer Challenge – Christmas Ornament or Gift – deadline November 11th!

Winter Fenceline  – 1194H is another Serendipity Stamps image that really lends itself to a wide variety of designs – so much so that it’s name hardly fits on one of the cards you’ll see below!  Just take a look.  These cards were made by Lynda Benden, Holly Craft, Sue Eldred, and Spring Fenceline by Anya Schrier.  They’ve use the Winter Fenceline image, which is available as an individual stamp and also as a the cling set 1194QCL.  Also, May The Peace of the Lord – 1195F and May Your Heart – 1187E. 

For a limited time we have the Milkweed Cling Set – 856QCL on sale for 50% off!  I took this photo the other day of a milkweed pod next to our drive.  It’s all fluffed out and just waiting for someone to pick it and blow all the seeds away!  Did you know that milkweed plants are vital to the survival of Monarch butterflies and that the decline of milkweed plants due to herbicides and loss of habitat could harm the butterfly population? You can purchase Monarch Waystation Seed Kits to help the butterflies.  A kit and a matching card would be a nice present for someone this Christmas! Below you’ll see a beautiful and simple card to inspire you.

Most of the trees around our house are bare now – except for the oaks and the sweetgum, who are modest and like to stay clothed for as long as possible.    There are some stamps that just lend themselves to variety and our Bare Tree – 1185E is one of those stamps.  Here is a little gallery of bare trees.

We have an old, old barn on our property.   It’s beautiful, falling apart, and as much a part of the natural landscape as the giant red boulders left by the glaciers thousands of years ago that dot the hillsides next to it.  Next time you’re driving in the country – or even in some suburb – pay attention and I’m sure you’ll see some old barns - maybe even one like the one below.  Sharon Briss made this card using 1145K – Barn & Windmill.   Sharon is the Creative Team Leader for Gingersnap Creations.  Her personal blog is Ill Tempered Ink.