Design Team Card by Rebecca! Retro OWLS!!

Here is the latest card from our design team member Rebecca!
She said ~
Today I used the a super cute 3 owl border from sideshow stamps! To create the texture on the card stock I misted brown tissue paper with Marshmallow Glimmer Mist (Tattered Angels) and crinkled 3-4 times. I then adhered it to the card stock with a bit of Tombow, and then inked the edges with Chocolate Chip ink (Stampin' Up). I grabbed some brown bakers twine and wound it around the card.I stamped the owl image on an oval and colored it using Water Color Pencils (Stampin' Up). I printed the owl sentiment on my pc and hand cut the banner.

Check out Rebecca's beautiful cards at http://thehappycrafters.blogspot.com/

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Hot cuppa Joe and an Upcycled Recycled Rubber Stamped Card!!

Hot cuppa Joe? ahhhh..... sip.....
How's it going everyone? Happy Monday!

Here's a recycled card I made. I wanted to use those cool graphics from the side of a Trader Joe's bag and incorporate them into my design to achieve a vintage look. And I used a recycled piece of paper for the card itself, and a salvaged piece of ribbon for too!

I stamped our victorian perfume bottle, hat and shoe in the background with blue ink. Then stamped our Art Nouveau girl and the spiral onto seperate pieces of card stock. I colored the girl with colored pencils and brushed the edges of the spiral with brown ink and a sponge. I stamped thank you and our victorian key straight onto the card with brown ink. Then I cut out the plane from the T.J.'s bag and colored some highlights onto it with colored pencil. Then I assembled the whole thing with double stick tape.

Pretty cool, quick and easy! :)

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Christmas Card Contest Winners!!

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Christmas Card contest! Everything was so incredibly cool, we had a really hard time choosing winners, but decided to base our choices on the most creative ideas, and in fact, we even had a tie!

So....... drumroll please...... here are the winners!

Tied for third place, we have two super cool cards with a Christmas Story theme!

(Our fav Holiday movie btw..)

In third we have Laura O'Donnell's Merry Christmas Leg Lamp Card...

And Nuria Kudlach with her "Major Award" Christmas Story Card!

Congratulations you guys! You each win a "major prize" of our Unmounted Grab Bag of 10 rubber stamps!

In second place is Rina Koibuchi with her awesome triple card entry of Retro Reindeer and Santa cards.

You win our Grab Bag of 15 super cool unmounted rubber stamps! Congrats!!

And........ da da Da DA!! (trumpets sound...)

The First Place winner is Diane Rodgers - Wilson with her Snowglobe Christmas Card!

You win our whopping Unmounted Grab Bag of 30 rubber stamps!!
Congratulations everyone!!

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and Holiday Season full of festive fun and good cheer!

May God bless you and yours through the new year!

CUSTOMER CARD!! yay!!

This here card is the first of our Customer Card posts...

This card is by Ami ~ She used our Retro Cowgirl Rubber Stamp. Great coloring job and color scheme huh?!

Thanks for your contribution Ami! Check out her blog too!

If you would like to be a part of this, email us a card you've made with some of our stamps and we'll post yours!

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busy busy busy...

Wow! It's been a while since we posted, and we had such great intentions of doing this at least once a week...

Well, first of all we here at Sideshow Stamps have been extremely busy with this lil' cutie!

This is our 4 1/2 month old daughter Dahlia. She's so awesome! And so much fun!!! I just did a little photo shoot with her, so I had to post a pic...

And, we've also just been blessed with two new nieces! Fun times!!

Okay, enough mommy and aunt stuff...

Here's a simple card I made recently.

It's stamped with our big wooden tiki, bamboo branches and hibiscus rubber stamps. I just stamped the bamboo directly onto the card with Memories art print brown dye ink and the hibiscus with Color Box ~ Prussian Blue chalk ink. I stamped the tiki with the same brown ink on another piece of cardstock and sponged the edges with the blue. I cut a few background layers and double stick taped it all together. Voila!

Don't forget our contest is still going and the deadline for submissions is August 31st!
Check below for details...

Welcome to our Blog!

Hi there! Welcome to the new Sideshow Stamps blog. For those who aren't familiar with us, Sideshow Stamps is a rubber art stamp company that creates fun, quirky and beautiful art stamps with themes ranging from retro to creepy, swank to surreal, pop art to art nouveau. For our customers and those familiar with our stamps, this will be a place to keep up with what's going on in the world of Sideshow Stamps.
At the moment we are waiting for a shipment of brand new designs, including stuff like this:

We'll also have more creepy stamps for those who want an early start on Halloween cards, as well as a bunny, sparrow, pinata, nautical star and more! We will also be back in stock on lots of stuff for those who have been waiting for some of the retro owls, teardrop trailer, elephant, birthday cake, disco ball, etc.

We will also be using our blog to keep you updated on specials, sales, contests, etc. Right now we are still offering our special shipping deal...$1 shipping on orders subtotaling between $30 to $50.

We also have an incentive plan for anyone who posts a card on their blog or group forum using only Sideshow Stamps, with a clickable link to our site. If you do this, we will send you a free grab bag with 10 unmounted stamps. Just let us know...

Thanks for visiting and be sure to check back often for updates, upcoming contests and more surprises!

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