The cute stamps I bought from Etsy

Thought you might like to see them! 

They're so cute...honestly, gorgeous. 

And how dooooes she hand carve them?

Amazing. 

So what we have here is a DSLR on the left and a regular camera on the right. 

The rubber is yellow on the regular camera because I stamped it already and my ink stained it a bit. 

I also bought the heart in the speech bubble too - know how I'll be using it...just to add to the scrap pages. 

Ha ha, was only having a go with them and didn't notice until now that the camera is saying that it loves me. 

I'd love it back if it came to live at my house :o) 

The stamps don't have a cushion in between the rubber and the wood, so I put my paper on some thin foam (like fun foam) and stamped on that. Apparently it gives a better impression when you do that.

It does and it did.

Ah, yes, and just for fun I thought I'd try a glittery camera. 

Stamped it in Versamark and put some Pralines & Cream Fairy Dust Glitter on it. 

So gorgeous!! 

I don't know if it's going to be permanent or anything (I don't know much about these things), but I'm definitely doing this again and putting it in my book (scrapbook, that is). 

SO FUN.

Thanks, Olga, for sharing your amazing talents with us. If you do a typewriter stamp, let me know!

You can check out her shop (called Cupcake Tree) here. It's so worth a visit. 

You can get personalised things too. The dog one with 'Cody' on it would be cute. The kitty one is cute too. And the bacon and eggs! 

:o)

Some fun things I've bought recently

Don't you love new things?

Oh man, I do.

Here are a few that I've bought recently that rock my papercrafting world. After all the typewriter searches there had to be some buying in there somewhere, right?

Amy Tangerine stickers.

Hello camera and sewing machine. 

And typewriter. 

Saw it, bought it. 

Please, no brainer. 

Plus it has a library card pocket sticker - love it. 

Typewriter stamp from Maya Road. It's called Tell Your Story. 

And I'm going to stamp "I love to tell our story" into our album with the typewriter right next to it. 

Hero Arts Retro Typewriter. 

Again, no thought for the brain on the purchase here. 

I saw these featured on a CHA update and knew I'd get 'em instantly. 

Oh my word, so cool - they're vintage spool buttons. 

Totally remind me of my grandma's threads that I have on display in my craft room.  

Tim's retractable craft pick. 

I've got a few craft picks, but I've had to ask Andrew for some red tubing to put over the end...no more, I'm going to try the retractable one and I think I'm going to like it.  

Oh, hello, cloud stamps...

...like really cool cloud stamps...

...to match my cloud punches.

Woo hoo...it's the little things that make me happy. 

Love the cute banner/flag stamps too. 

And the typewriter paper from Jillibean soup. 

Had to get it. 

Love the notes on it. 

Wanted this one from the new Amy Tangerine line too. 

Love the camera - going to cut that out and use it. 

Love the typewriters. 

Going to put this sheet through Grandma's typewriter and type "I love you, Andrew" on the paper there. 

Told him so the other night. 

He smiled. 

I did a little dance. 

We laughed. 

I love new things - they make both of us smile in one way or another!

:o)

I've had a thing for typewriters recently...

...must've started with this...

It's my grandma's typewriter. I picked it up from her over a year ago now and she passed on over a month ago. Of course we've all been thinking about her a lot and her typewriter is one thing of hers that I'm lucky enough to have. It's big, but I love it.

Have been looking around the place for typewriter paper and stamps and've found these:

I've posted about this paper from Jillibean Soup before - got some in my latest Blue Bazaar order. I really like it. There are little messages on each of the typewriter papers...so cute.

The way that I scrap (using the divided page protectors) is my visual diary and just the place that I record stuff about us and for us. The typewriter thing just fits with it. It also says something about me, ie. that I like typewriters, I like cute and they remind me of my grandmother who used to belt out the church bulletin on it every week or month. She was always at her typewriter. Or at the table in the kitchen writing stuff.

At her funeral, Uncle Lindsay (my mum's brother) talked about Grandma and how she put the church recipe book together. It was no small undertaking and I realised that she was a book author like me. My mum is too, she's written Bible study books. Three generations of us, I'd never realised that before.

As my mum said to me once, memories ground us as people and make us feel like we belong. Another reason I scrapbook - photos and stories help me make connections and bring all that good stuff together.

Photos are worth spending time with, they've proved that to me on more than one occasion.

...big sigh....scrapbooking really is good for the soul.

Here are some more typewriter things I've found:

Sticky Keys from October Afternoon - you can see the rest of them here, as well as the Mini Market stickers. Love, love.

And from Hero Arts...

Retro Typewriter

Vintage  

Typewriter Letters

My Type

Type

These are from Cavallini & Co and are called Vintage Office 

Maya Road - Just My Type

Say Cheese from Maya Road. 

I've also had a thing for cameras recently too. Same reasons as the typewriters - just for stamping in the scrapping stuff. 

American Crafts - Hello There set. 

Been throwing some old phones in there too. These remind me of my other grandparents.  

Kitch set by The (now defunct) Girls Paperie.

Inkadinkado - clear mini Camera

I had Grandma's typewriter on the bench for a while and during that time the family came over for dinner.

I put a bit of paper in it and typed this note because I knew they'd ask about it.

Sarah (niece, 13) had never typed on a typewriter before and Luke (nephew, 16) reeaallly missed the backspace, he said. Was funny to see them and hear them clacking away on it.

Nothing like the smell of an old typewriter, esp. one that was your grandmother's.

PS. Did a search on www.thefind.com for typewriter rubber stamps and found a few interesting ones plus a lot of typewriter alpha sets. It's always good seeing things in one place.

PPS. Did a search for camera rubber stamps too and found some tiny, hand carved ones being sold on etsy. So cute, check 'em out here and here (they're from the same seller). And check out this one - it looks like a Barbie camera, but it's a stamp!

PPPS. Just for kicks I did a search for sewing machine rubber stamps too - but this one's my favourite. What do you think, Sue?

Hero Arts + Sizzix products

Check out Jennifer's video!

Fun, fun.