More design team goodies! Retro Halloween, Retro Christmas, Dad card and Mod!!

LOOK at these talented submissions for this week!! The detail and layout on these cards is amazing! I'm so proud of our design team members!!

The first card is by Rina K. She used our retro owl and jackolantern. Look at the shading she did! Awesome!! Check out more beautiful creations on Rina's blog!

Here's how she made it: "I made a fun Halloween card using Sideshow stamps again! I put a witch hat(it's punched out part!) on a retro owl's head. Isn't it cute? Coloring with Copic Markers."

This next beautiful card is by Rebecca. She used our retro reindeer stamp. Look at the shiny background detail... gorgeous! Here's how she made it.

"For this project I used the retro reindeer stamp from Sideshow Stamps, Glitz Design Distressing Stamps, Top Boss Embossing Stamp Pad, Stampin' Up Pacific Point Stamp Pad, Ranger Ink Blending tool, Stampin' Up Occasional Quotes Stamp Set."

This next ATC is by a friend of Rina's, CHIEKO! She used a popcorn pen on the mod girl's coat to make it thick and textured. Neat eh?!

And this last card is by Rebecca, she used our golfer rubber stamp. Very cute and creative sentiment, and great retro color scheme! Check out more great art from Rebecca on her blog.

Here's how she made this one:

"For this project - Sideshow Stamps: Golfer. Copic Markers: Y21 Buttercup Yellow, Y695 Pale Olive, Y15 Cadmium Yellow, R27 Cadmium Red, W7 Warm Gray and 0 Colorless Blender. Stampin' Up: Early Espresso, Real Red, White Water Color Pencil. Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Rusty Hinge. Hero Arts: Large Plaid Background Stamp."

Thanks to all of our creative design team members! You are much appreciated!!

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Design Team Creations!! Rina and Lisa rubber stamped CRAFTS!!

Here are the latest rubber stamped creations by two of our design team members, Rina K and Lisa F!

This first card is by Rina, she used our hep cat, ink spot, and happy anniversary stamps. Check out her blog and website for more beautiful rubber stamped crafts cards and goodies!!

These next crafts are by Lisa F. Check out her blog for tons more cool cards and crafts!

She says ~ "i made this funky cool postcard/card for a very good friend of mine who's birthday is tomorrow. i took white card stock and got a sponge wet, dipped it in gray ink, rubbed that all over. then re-wet it dipped it in copper ink went all over and that is the background. the frame is a stamp from tattered angels, which i embossed and took a lighter too. i then inked it up with distress ink. i stamped 'mod girl' from sideshow stamps (the small trees also came from sideshow), her wings came from tattered angels. the larger tree is from smeared ink. i added glitter to all the trees. the cameo in the corner i cut out of paper."

This next repurposed tin is also by Lisa ~ "i used 70's owl mate from sideshow stamps. have you been over there to see the awesome stamps they have! i colored him with pencils, when over it with e000 copic marker and it blended it nicely. i punched out 2 butterflies added bling, then covered the entire lid with crackle paint. for the sides, i punched out squares glued them and some more bling!"

Thanks girls for these awesome craft creations!

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SUSHI!!! Handmade card by our design team member RINA!!

Here is a beautiful sushi card by our design team member Rina K! She used our sushi rubber stamps, bamboo, eat sign, squid, pointing hand and smile. Makes you crave sushi huh? :) I'm gonna go get some now...

Thanks Rina for your awesome card creation!!

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Retro Rubber Stamped Cards by Sarah!

Check out these oldies, but goodies by Sarah Moore! She made these cards for us a few years ago, and I thought they needed to resurface!

Sarah used our retro cherries, neat phrase and saddle shoe rubber stamps on this first card. Easy ribbon weaved through layers of cut squares makes it fancy!

On this one Sarah used our hot dog kid and our far out phrase rubber stamps. Reminds me of the circus. :)Strips of cut paper punched with tiny holes, hole punched stars and a peekaboo hole for the phrase makes this card complete. These easy tips help make something so simple look sooooo cool!

Make up a quick 10 minute card for your bff today!

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Awesome Surly-Ramics pendants by AMY!

So, I received a box of goodies from a fellow etsy artist named Amy at Surly-Ramics
She makes amazing ceramic pendants, necklaces and bracelets that she hand carves, or stamps, paints, fires etc. It's art you can wear! And makes a perfect gift!

The box was packed like Christmas with two deliciously pretty colors of tissue paper and a quote from Charles Horton Cooley - "An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."

Amy packed two necklaces for me in cute little black jewelry boxes with silver stretchy cord around the outside. And inside I found her business card and the necklaces extremely well packed with bubble wrap and cotton backing. THANKS AMY!!

These were made with our mod flowers and retro frog rubber stamps.

Sorry for the horrible pictures, that was all I could get before my camera died...

Here is some more of her art necklaces from her etsy store - this one is made with our 70's owl rubber stamp.

And this one is made with our retro rocket.

Go visit her store, etsy shop, facebook page and buy some stuff. You won't regret it! Her pendants are BEAUTIFUL!

:)

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Handmade Pineapple Plates on ETSY by CherryHillStudio

Take a look at these beautiful hand made plates by Diana of Cherry Hill Studio!

Diana says ~ "The pineapple is a familiar symbolic image of "welcome, good cheer, and warmth and affection" throughout the history of America. I hand built this plate out of stoneware clay and then added the pineapple design using a small pineapple rubber stamp and by drawing the larger pineapple by hand. It was then bisque fired. The glaze is a beautiful glossy sunny yellow which highlights the pineapple design..."

"All the pottery you see in my shop is hand made by me in my studio here in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas. I make only wheel thrown or hand built pottery. Most of my pieces are functional but occasionally I will list a whimsical piece or two. All of my glazes are lead free and food safe. They are microwave and oven safe. I love colorful pottery and am constantly experimenting with different glazes to come up with beautiful color combinations..."

Beautiful stuff huh?! :)

Check out more of her work for sale at Cherry Hill Studio , as well as many, many, many more talented artists and crafters on etsy.com!

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Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas GRAB BAGS!!

Hey all!

We put up our Fall Holidays Little Grab Bags on our website again!

Cute little grab bags of 10 untrimmed unmounted rubber stamps. All different, no repeats, high quality rubber stamps! And they're OH so much FUN!!

Each little grab bag comes chock FULL of surprises with 10 fall holiday themed stamps - Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Creepy, Retro, Cool and Festive!! (What's pictured above won't be exactly what you'll get, that's just a sample pic.)

A $35-$45 value, for ONLY $6.29! What a great DEAL in this economy!

PLUS they're currently 10% off too! And so is EVERYTHING else on our site right now!

Check it out and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

We do so love this time of year!

;)

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More fun *Rina* rubber stamped Treats!!

Check out these new super fun Rina creations!

Isn't her sense of design and color inspiring?!?

Made with our Leg Lamp and Swirl Background rubber stamps.

Made with our Jazz Band rubber stamp.

Made with our Bonsai rubber stamp.

Made with our Go Go Girl Legs rubber stamp.

Made with our Pop Art Owl, Mod Circles, and Sparkle Star rubber stamps.

Made with our Rose rubber stamp.

Made with our Retro Owl rubber stamp.

Made with our Magnolia and Butterfly rubber stamp.

Made with our Go Go Girl Legs rubber stamp.

Made with our mushrooms and smile rubber stamp.

Made with our Jazz Band rubber stamp.

Check out Rina's Flicker Page for more fun and beautiful card creations!

And don't forget to visit her AWESOME store too!

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Retro Mod Bachelorette Party Invites a go-go

Hello all!

Here is a cool idea for your next bachelorette event, girl's night out or even for a tea party! Cute girly retro go go leg invites!! These were made by Vanessa from Little Lady Company, and are for sale and custom order here. Check out her etsy shop for more cool stuff!

Her card was made with our go go legs - rubber stamp.

(I lightened the image a bit, so the colors might be different)

Thanks for sharing your creative art with us Vanessa!!

See more cards, crafts and rubber stamps at www.sideshowstamps.com

Customer Cards Galore!!

Here are some absolutely beautiful customer cards that have been sent to us.

This first fabulous set of cards is from Laura O'Donnell. Check out her blog at http://itsallrosie.blogspot.com/

Isn't this a great idea for a Christmas Money Card? (Imagine using Christmas Stamps of your choice.)

""Sweet" money holder card uses Cherry and Orange Slice. The big S/sweet is a rub-on made by Art Warehouse and behind the little paper bag are Doodlebug Frills."

"King of the Road uses the Gas Pump which is colored with Koh-i-Noor pencils and blended with OMS, then cut out and adhered with pop dots. The license plate paper is made by Tim Holtz and the rub-on letters are the Making Memories small Providence font."


"I used your "fawn" and "cherry pair" stamps. The cherries are stamped in red on natural white cardstock, which is mounted on seafoam green (such a 50's combo, cherries and seafoam green!) and then mounted on a black 5x5 card. The fawn is colored with a light pink colored pencil, then blended with OMS. I cut her out and attached her to the face of the card with low rise pop dots. The "diva" bling letter stickers are made by DCWV."



And here's another fantastic set of cards by Rina Koibuchi. Check out her blog at http://rinastampa53.blogspot.com/

She used our Ice Cream Cone, Dragonfly and Butterfly rubber stamps.

"I made background using alcohol inks on glossy paper. Stamps: Circus Poster(Sideshow Stamps)"

"Coloring with copic markers. Stamps: Hep cat(Sideshow Stamps), chicks dig me(OBP)"


And here's a beautiful set of ATC's by Emi Matsuoka.

She used our Pop Art Owls on this ATC.

And she used our Mod Girls, Trumpet, and Gas Pump on this one.

Awesome cards huh? Thanks for looking!

And don't forget to check out our CHRISTMAS CARD CONTEST!!! Lot's of FUN and Super PRIZES!! Hurry and send in your cards, time is growing short!! Details below.

Happy Holidays!

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Summer Card Contest Winners!!

Hey~ Sorry it took us so long to post the summer card contest winners, we've been trying all day, but alas, we've been victim to constant satellite outages...

However, here are the results!

First of all, we want to thank everyone who participated in our first contest! It was so much fun seeing what everyone came up with and receiving all those awesome cards. We're going to post all of the participant's cards eventually, because they were just too beautiful.

It was really hard to pick the winners, and we honestly couldn't choose one over the other, so to make things fair and impartial, we had our baby Dahlia help us! She drew 3 names from a "hat" (our leopard print fez).

First she shook the fez...

Then she picked the first place winner...

We'll announce them backwards. Drumroll please....
The third place winner is...

Emi Matsuoka!!! Congratulations! You win our Lil' Grab bag of 10 unmounted rubber stamps!
Here's Emi's fabulous card.


And in second place we have...

Rina Koibuchi!!! Congratulations! You win our Medium Grab bag of 15 unmounted rubber stamps!

Here's Rina's beautiful card.

And our first place winner is....

Eileen Bellomo!!!
Congratulations! You win our Macho Grab bag of 30 unmounted stamps! Yay!!
Here's her fabulous card.

"I looked through my stash of Sideshow stamps and found a few that are just perfect to commemorate summer. Also, my recent wonderful trip to Curacao didn't hurt. I saw plenty of palms, boats, parrots, but, I confess, no mermaids. However, this is what I came up with...The images are colored with watercolor pencils, crayons and chalk. I also used a lot of Glimmer Mist, though the golden shine doesn't come out so well in the scan." ~ Eileen

And then Dahlia ate the winner's names...

Have a great week everyone!
:)


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