Hi Gals & Guys!
Welcome! I am so happy that you've found my blog! The crafting world & all the fabulous people in it always make me feel so grateful and just plain glad.
I'm Mel and I live in Port Moody, BC Canada (near Vancouver). I am totally shamelessly addicted to crafting and blogging. I love reading the blogs of the many talented people who share. I wanted to be a part of that.
(my favourite thing in the whole crafty world is texture!
This is made with a Cuttlebug folder, Copic markers, heat
embossing in clear powder, and some paint.)
You will find these free things here:
templates,
tutorials,
digital papers,
the odd little digital image...
and links to some fab free things that others share online.
templates,
tutorials,
digital papers,
the odd little digital image...
and links to some fab free things that others share online.
Set the craftiness free! :-)
The greatest passion of the blog side of my life, is to share things for free. Commercially made supplies are lovely & I'm glad there are such beautiful crafty supplies on offer. I covet my fair share, but I like to think that you can make beautiful things for next to nothing. (Though I do try to support crafting companies--especially small companies and artists--as well.)
from Scrapbooking to Stamping to Hybrid
A little about my meandering path following this crafty obsession: I love anything made with hands. It's amazing what people can do with paper, yarn, clay... the contents of the recycling bin!
Personally, I mostly play around with hybrid crafting now (mixing traditional stamps & supplies with digital ones).
Originally, I started out doing a few scrapbook pages, ended up in a stamp club, then I started blogging, and though I still work with stamps and traditional materials, I am madly in love with the open-ended possibilities of hybrid crafting.
Cheap Tricks:
You may notice the category "cheap tricks" in the blog labels (in the sidebar). Cheap is my middle name. "Use it up! Wear it out! Make it do, or do without!" has always been a family motto. How about you? You know that special little thrill you get when people dream up something out of nothing?
Another favourite element of crafting is that there is always something new. Now, that can make it expensive, but it also makes expansive! :0) Isn't it crazy how there are hundreds of new things to learn--or make up as you go along--every day?
Wanna Chat?
If you have any questions at all (or if you just want to chat) please just drop me a line. I'm delighted share resources and ideas. You can email me at: melstampz@gmail.com
Thank You for stopping in; I really really really appreciate it! :0)
P.S. Subscribing: If you like, you can subscribe to get email updates from my blog--(You'll receive an email with the full version of each post if you subscribe using Feedburner). All you have to do is type your email in the box at the right hand side of my blog (under the spot where it says "Want Email Updates?") and hit the subscribe button. :-D
26 comments:
I stumbled on your site and i love it! I can't believe how much information you have gathered and how great it will be for me to use! I have only been stamping about a year and this will be a great resource for me! Thanks so much! Laurie
OMG!! your site is amazing!!! Thank u soooo much for all the wonderful info u provide!! It must take forever to keep this up!! I am a hobby demo with SU so this site really inspires me!! Thanks again for such great ideas, tech, and insight!! Keep up the beautiful work!!
Hi Mel (I'm emailing all the way from Australia). I stumbled across your site one night when I was lacking inspiration in my cardmaking & looking for new ideas. Wow - I am no longer stuck for ideas. You are incredibly talented & I love looking at each step of making your cards & what you write - it's so helpful. I have been cardmaking for 12 years, yet I am constantly amazed & delighted at the different products that we can use to make a beautiful card. Thanks heaps - don't stop the Blog! Jocelyn
What a great site you have and so much information. I am hoping to get lots of inspiration and learn some new things.
I love your blog Mel!
It´s one of the greatest blogs on stamping for me!
Thank you so much for sharing your art with us!
Hughs from Susan, from Vienna Austria
You are talented, classy and you are so very generous! Thank you for the best site I've yet encountered and I am one serious surfer.
I just want to thank you for your awesome blog... it is not only crafting informational, but just personally to know that I am not the only one who surfs the net looking at all the fun blogs... I only wish I had one and could make it as nice as yours! Keep posting, we are all reading.... but don't stress out about it... relax and enjoy the world!
I just found your site and I am thrilled beyond belief!! Your Blog is great and I love all the things you have on there to keep the creative ideas flowing! I can't wait to just be able to sit down with a cup of joe and totally explore! Thank you so much!
Thanks so much for sharing your creations, ideas and information with us! Fabulous stuff Mel!
I don't know how I got here but I am so glad to be here! You have an amazing resource of information. You definitely think outside the box and I have much to learn from your amazing techniques! Thanks so much from a fellow Canadian now living in the US of A!
Hi Mel. I just blogged about you. Love your list of freebies. http://www.bellissimakids.com/2011/12/16/free-printablestags-labels-and-tutorials/
Best,
jeanne
Thank you so very much for the awesome "collections" of craftiness. Your blog is just the kick in the pants I need to get busy in my craft room! I have subscribed, pinned and stalked you thoroughly! (kidding about the stalking part). Thank you so very much for sharing!
What a fabulous site! I love everything PAPER!!! Thank you for all of your hard work and sharing!!!
wuff... I try carefully to select words to describe how I feel about your work, but find it hard to write in brief... if there is chance that I can go to Canada, I would like to meet you, more than Niagara, and expecting you are still in love with your work, and nothing stop you.. my name Wirianto, from Indonesia. Wish to know you someday... If you come to Jakarta or Bali, please let me know.. and I agree with Dany... enjoy!!
What a lovely blog you have here ... so much to see!! I had to become a follower so that I could come back again and again. Thank you so much for sharing! Susanne
Mel, thanks so much for your comment on my Sketchbook project Post on Julie balzer's blog -it's great to meet you! Lenna
Hi Mel, I am looking for someone to create a box template based on this http://www.littlecupcakeboxes.co.uk/cupcakeboxes/Cupcake-boxes-4-cupcakes-patisserie-design-683.html Are you abel to do this? Many thanks, Zena
Hi Zena, Thank You so much for stopping by. I hope you get this reply to your question since you are 'no reply' on blogger. :-) I'd love to help you with your template dilemma, but I try not to duplicate ultra unique templates in case of copyright and so forth... But you could fashion one quite easily out of a milk carton template or cut file, add a roof and a window. Hope that helps some. Warmly, Mel
Like a few other comments I read, I too just happened to stumble upon your blog. I am very excited to dust off my cuttlebug and use some of my embossing folders I have collected, but rarely used, based on some of your ideas. There are so many more ideas and links to so many others that I'm not sure where to start, or where to end. THANKS!
I love your blog, all what you do & your sweet heart too!
Everything is perfect & I thank you a lot for all your beautiful gifts!
Hi Mel,
chanced upon your blog when looking for material. LOVE your blog!
Just stumbled on your blog looking for digital designs--wow, you have so many great papers! Thank you from one blogger to another;)
www.kristendukephotography.com
Hi Mel,
Your blog is great and you have really cool ideas! I have just bought some stamps... and now I can't wait to get started.
With admiration from the UK
Mel Makes :)
Hello Mel! I found you via Pinterest with this project: http://melstampz.blogspot.com/2009/02/gesso-swiping-dry-embossing-technique.html.
I would like to create something like this for a frieze along a beam in my home. Unfortunately, never having been a stamper, I have no idea what a few things are, that you use and talk about.
For example. Embossed paper. I know what it is, but how/where did you get it and how do you make the gesso follow those gorgeous curves?
You talk about your "square" and it getting cloudy. What kind of square? and different mediums I think might be manufacturers, but can't tell.
In the hours of spare time I know you pull out of your ear, would you consider a glossary? I'm bookmarking this project because I find it elegant and beautiful and want to copy you shamelessly.
Any referrals or explanations you could point me to would be so great.
Thank you so much for all your hard work!
Sincerely,
Christine
happy wednesday Mel stamper!
I was wondering if you could do a tutorial on how to make your own overlays. I absolutely LOVE the ones you created but would also like to learn how to make my own. And if you would be so kind as to show how to do it in GIMP as well that would be fab. Thanks!!
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