MarkerPOP! + SP & Company - Tina Wenke Collection Blog Hop

Hello everyone and welcome to the MarkerPOP! + SP & Company - Tina Wenke Collection Blog Hop!!!

MarkerPOP! is the home of premium markers plus lots more!

SP & Company is the home of cute and fun photopolymer stamps (made in the USA!), die tools, and a color line of buttons, ink and more!

Today we are teaming up to share some amazing projects using some of the awesome new stamps from the Tina Wenke Collection from SP & Company along with some of our favorite coloring tools fromMarkerPOP.com.

If you are just joining us on the hop, you are going to want to start back at the beginning of the hop list which can be found at the end of this post!

For my cute card, I used the new Hedgie with a Large Bouquet set from the Tina Wenke Collection.  Is he the cutest or what? I used my Spectrum Noir markers to color in the image and then I fussy cut around it and adhered it to the acetate window I cut.  The sentiment is from the Birthday Family stamp set (Gill Roberts Collection).  The patterned paper is from A Perfect Summer pad, which was available in the past Monthly Kit Club.

I think he is just the cutest!!!

And now for the goods:

PRIZES:
We have TWO great prizes up for grabs.  One sponsored by MarkerPOP! and one from SP & Company!

Prize #1 - Sponsored by SP & Company:  1 Stamp Set and 2 Single Stamps of Winner's Choice all from the SP & Company - Tina Wenke Collection

Prize #2 - Sponsored by MarkerPOP!:  $20 Voucher to the MarkerPOP.com Store

HOW TO WIN:
Visit the blogs on the hop list below and leave a comment on their Blog Hop post.  TWO winners will be randomly selected from all comments left.  The more you comment on, the better your chances of winning!

Hop will run through Tuesday, June 25th at 11:59pm EST.  Blog Hop winners will be announced Wednesday, June 26th!

Happy Hopping!

Stamps: SP & Company
Ink: Memento
Paper: Echo Park
Markers: Spectrum Noir

A Little Gift "Purse!"

Hi! Today I'm excited to kick off a week full of inspiration on the SP Stamps blog! We are all focusing on gift ideas this week and I decided to make good use of my Silhouette.

I started out by cutting out a darling purse, matching accents and a tag from plain cardstock and papers from Echo Park's So Happy Together 6x6 paper stack.  This stack is one of my all-time favorites and was available in the SP Monthly Kit Club.  I chose this particular cut because that center slot holds a gift card!

After the pieces were cut, I started stamping and adhering everything together.

I stamped the chevron on the little tag and I only inked up the area that I would need.  Remember, if you don't have a block large enough for some of our background stamps (like Chevron Chase, pictured above), you can just use the acetate that the stamp comes on as your block.  It's also perfect when it's 2 am and you're still stamping, but getting lazy.  Oh, I'm not saying I do that or anything, it's just an idea.  Wink, wink.

Here's a little close up of the tag and a flower I created using punches.  I love to mix and match patterns, so I also used the Large Polkadot Background stamp along with the papers and Chevron Chase to keep it interesting.

Inside, I stamped the sentiment in black and in watermark ink, so it will sit right behind the gift card.  This is from the Swirly Doo set.  It fit perfectly inside!!!

And this is the finished piece.  The little "Happy Birthday" on the tag is from the All Zipped Up set.  I think this would be a fun gift for anyone to receive - I know my mom already had her eye on it!

Make sure you stop back each day this week to see what the entire DT will be sharing.  And don't forget that new stamps come out each month on the 10th!

Stamps: SP & Company
Digital Cuts: My Time Made Easy (purse), Silhouette store (tag)
Ink: Memento, VersaMark, VersaMagic
Papers: Echo Park, Recollections
Punches: EK Success

Note To Self Date Book

Today I want to share a really awesome project with you.  Not only was it fun to make, but it will actually keep me (and you) organized! I've created a booklet to keep track of birthdays and other important dates.  It's small enough to fit into my purse so I can jot dates down in it whenever I think of them! I've created the inside pages to share with you today.  Just go HERE to download them for free.  Please only use them for personal use only and remember if you want to share them, send your friends over to this blog to find them!!!!

Print out the pages.  They should be 2-sided (so you might need to run them through your printer twice if it can't print two sides at once!).  Go ahead and trim them down to the crop marks.  The size will be 8 x 6.  Then trim your cover.  Make it a little larger than the inside pages.  For this, I made the size 8.5 x 6.5.  Score the cover and the pages you printed down the middle and lay them together.

 Make sure you have the pages in the correct order. Once the pages are folded, they will be 4 x 6.

I added a little bit of adhesive to the inside by the score lines, just to hold the book together temporarily.  Now, open your book to the center and get ready to sew! If you don't have a sewing machine, you can sew by hand instead or really lay on the adhesive to keep it together.

 

Now, don't freak if your sewing isn't perfect! We are going to cover the outside.  I chose to use some tissue tape, but you can use anything you want.

Not only does this cover up any imperfections, I love the look of a faux spine.  To decorate the front cover, I chose to use Echo Park's Note to Self collection.  This was part of the March Kit.

I used some stamps from Stitchery Doo Banners in the upper corner and I trimmed a few different patterns and placed them together towards the bottom.

I used some opaque spray mist, too.  I think it looks pretty cool on the Kraft stock!

I use an old shoebox for my ''spraying command center."  This way, I don't have splatters all over the place!

Here is the finished product:

Making your own journals like this is sooo easy.  You can combine tags, papers, envelopes, anything and just sew it together!!! Thanks for stopping by and if you create a journal like this one, please link it up so I can see it!

Stamps: SP & Company

Stock: Echo Park, Recollections (Kraft)

Ink: Memento

Spray: Studio Calico

Stickers: Echo Park

Twine: Divine Twine

Other: Singer Sewing Machine, ATG Gun, Supplied PDF