The new rubber is still coming in....many orders have been sent, and the rest of the packages are ready to go as soon as I get delivery of goods. Crossing fingers everything is out of here before Friday.
I want to start the first crusade - because I have some cool Halloween stuff to give away. Make something spooky or funky or crazy with your new stamps - just a quick tag that has a Halloweeny feel to it. Post a comment here with a link to your entry on your blog, picturetrail, flickr....if you don't have a place to upload send me a scan and I'll post it on my yahoo group in the files. Enter as many times as you want. We'll put the names in a Top Hat and draw a winner October 27 so I can get the prize out before Halloween.
A note about the tags above - you can see I carved a few images to coordinate with the stamps. For the mask, I stamped the face on scratch paper, drew in the mask to fit, then transferred it to safety-kut and carved. For the tombstones, I thought they needed a colored background so I stamped them onto the safety-cut and carved around the images. Inking was done with orange, then rubbed along edge with black before stamping on tag. The detailed tombstones were then stamped over top. To get the collar around the heads, stamp first onto tag, then stamp again on post-it note. Cut out image on post-it note, place over face, stamp round flourish over top to make collar.
TODAYS SOUNDTRACK: Evanescence - The Open Door
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CRUSADE No. 1
Late addition: Karen Davis
What a great idea!
Posted by: Sue | October 03, 2006 at 10:14 PM
I'm all over the first Crusade!
Posted by: deborah | October 03, 2006 at 11:09 PM
But...what is "safty cut"...I can't find it on the web...unless it's a big ole saw thingie
Posted by: deborah | October 03, 2006 at 11:13 PM
deb - great question....i edited the post to include a link to the site where i buy my carving rubber (basically white eraser known as safety-kut).
Posted by: michelle | October 03, 2006 at 11:23 PM
Michelle....those tags are awesome. And I absolutely love the collars. I already have an idea of what I want to create as soon as those yummy sheets of rubber hit my mailbox :o)
Posted by: audrey | October 04, 2006 at 09:01 PM
Yeahh - I hope that the stamps make it downunder in time for me and my art buddies to join the crusade!
Posted by: Megan | October 10, 2006 at 10:24 PM
I posted my first Crusade on my blog http://encrepapier.blogspot.com/ I'm still getting used to the foam kneeling pad backing so I kept it simple.
Posted by: deborah | October 11, 2006 at 07:22 PM
Love what Megan created for the first crusade.
Posted by: map | October 13, 2006 at 10:52 PM
oops - the name of the artist is actually below the post....that artwork is by Deborah. Yeah Deb!
Posted by: michelle | October 13, 2006 at 11:06 PM
I NEVER do blog challenges, but this one I couldn't resist :) It gave me all the excuse I needed to ignore all my other committments and play with my new GPP stamps straight away! You'll find my effort on my blog here: http://www.flo-space.blogspot.com.
While I'm here - does anyone know any internet mail order site that ships to England that sells the little clasps shown on the detail page for the Entrances sheet? I'm *desperate* to find some but they don't seem to exist here!
Posted by: Flo | October 16, 2006 at 08:50 PM
Sorry - that blog link didn't work....trying again:
http://www.flo-space.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Flo | October 16, 2006 at 08:51 PM
I jiust tried two of the "Romeo" stamps. Wowser! Now to cut the rest of them....
http://encrepapier.blogspot.com/
Posted by: deborah | October 16, 2006 at 09:09 PM
Hey Michelle, check out my blog at smith411.typepad.com for the Scary ATC using your stamps!
Posted by: Barbara | October 16, 2006 at 09:22 PM
Hey Michelle, heres's what I did with stamps.
http://wonderstove.vox.com/library/post/indulgences.html
xo, Vesna.
Posted by: Vesna | October 16, 2006 at 11:13 PM
Hi Michelle......of course I couldn't pass this challenge up :o) Here is the direct link for my creation using your awesome stamps: http://smallcreations.blogspot.com/2006/10/first-crusade.html
Posted by: audrey | October 17, 2006 at 02:29 AM
by the way - I can't comment on them directly as I don't have a Flickr account - but those Birkenstocks are WONDERFUL! want to make me a pair??!!!
Posted by: Flo | October 17, 2006 at 03:19 PM
Hi Michelle! My new stamps arrived and so I thought I would give this a go! Here's my effort:
http://brayergirl.typepad.com/brayergirls_blog/2006/10/death_becomes_y.html
Posted by: Kristy | October 18, 2006 at 04:30 PM
Michelle,
I LOVE your new line of stamps. I played with them the day I received them. Dinner.....boys, cook dinner for yourselves, I'm playing! Oh my, you've created the perfect ravens (I live in Raven country and just love them), I have been waiting for so long for some gorgeous ones to come out on rubber! Thank you so much!
My recent raven page is posted here, hope you all like it.
http://pennyrabbitart.typepad.com/photos/no_rhyme_or_reason/ab_class_pages_029.html
I also hope I posted it correctly, I'm terrible with computers!
Penny Stuart
Posted by: Penny Stuart | October 19, 2006 at 05:18 PM
"....if you don't have a place to upload send me a scan and I'll post it on my yahoo group in the files."
You have a yahoo group? Do tell! (I'm assuming this is something having to do exclusively with your art work???)
Posted by: Suzanne Renfrow | October 20, 2006 at 08:43 PM
Here's mine ... IF's theme "ghost" made me actually break them in. LOVE THEM!
http://belindaschneider.wordpress.com/2006/10/21/if-ghost/
Posted by: belinda | October 21, 2006 at 03:26 AM
ok i'm gonna try!
Posted by: celine navarro | October 23, 2006 at 08:05 AM
Meet "Skullie"! I'm pretty new to stamping but here is one of the tags I made with my new stamps! (I don't even have all of them cut out/mounted yet but I couldn't wait any longer to play!) http://static.flickr.com/117/279585829_78508b7084.jpg
Posted by: Suzanne Renfrow | October 26, 2006 at 12:09 AM
Here's another tag I made with my new stamps! I'm only using acrylic paints (new to stamping) and still have a way to go to perfect my technique, but it was still fun making this!
http://static.flickr.com/93/279589127_71118f1dc5.jpg
Posted by: Suzanne Renfrow | October 26, 2006 at 12:14 AM
I would just like to state that I suffer from chronic tardiness :) http://lauraleemyers.blogspot.com/2007/07/little-bit-of-catchin-up.html
Posted by: Laura | July 13, 2007 at 11:50 PM
Hi Michelle
It's Karen again.... playing catch up!
I love your tags btw
You can find my page here:- http://littlecraftingmiss.blogspot.com/2010/08/just-bad-dream-darlingcrusade-no-1.html
ps Do you mind me adding on to the old Crusades like this?
Posted by: Karen | August 11, 2010 at 08:16 AM