Twas the Night Before Tim's Tags of Christmas

Twas the night before Tim's Tags of Christmas
When all through the Web
Every stamper was stirring in wake of this fun event!
With Distress Inks and Blending Tools ready to go,
Just a wondering which stamps Tim Holtz will show.
With #8 Tags and the Must Have Craft Sheet
waiting for Day 1,
Every stamper in town is getting anxious for some
Tim Holtz Christmas fun.
So Stamp away, stamp away, stamp away all,
For Tim Holtz Tags of Christmas
 will keep you from the busy mall.                

                                       -By Daisy Sparks

Here are some basic supplies you might want to have on hand in order to stamp along with Tim and his 12 Tags of Christmas:

Craft Sheet
Distress Inks
Blending Tools
Glossy Accents
Distress Stickles (especially new colors)
Crackle Paint (did you get the new Rock Candy)
Paint Dabbers
Grungepaper
Your favorite Tim Holtz Stamps
And some tags to practice and create some artful tags.

Every one who orders stampers dozen tags will receive a coupon code to come back and shop with eclectic Paperie. This coupon code will be good until December 31st.

eclectic Feed: Episode 15 (Distressing Tags)

As the anticipation builds for Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas 2009, seems like a good time to learn or review how to apply Distress Inks to tags. This new video tutorial shows you how to apply Distress Inks with a Blending Tool using our stampers dozen tags.

Stamp collections on Sale

We are clearing out all of our Inky Antics and Art Gone Wild stamp collections. They are all at 30% off. We will be discontinuing these stamps from our product mix so once they are gone, we will not be re-ordering these stamps. There is a big variety of designs if you are looking for special themed stamps to use for your projects. The stamp images from these collections are good line art images that would fun to color with your Copic Markers, too.

New Decorative Corner Chompers

You loved the Corner Chomper. Now comes new decorative corner chompers that are just in time for all the holiday crafts. There are 3 new Corner Chompers and each one has two different corners. It will cut through layers of paper, cardstock, chipboard, leather, plastic, acrylic and more. Another feature is a built-in chamber that holds all your clippings for easy clean-up.

Each style retails for $24.99. Don't forget that you will get two different corners in one tool. Call your friends to each buy one style; then use it as an excuse to get together to craft so you can borrow and share crafting tools. Visit this section and you can also see a video about the original Corner Chomper and how it works.

eclectic Feed: Episode 14 (Using Paint Dabbers as a Resist Ink)

Learn how to use Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabbers as a resist ink. This technique is used with Tim Holtz Distress Inks. The end result looks like a raised embossed image but the great thing about this technique is that you don't need a heat gun or messy powders.

All You Need is Love

My family loves the Beatles and their music. We are most excited about the release of The Beatles Rock Band game on 9/9/09. Gonna surprise my kids with the new game on Wednesday so this is their card. My kids don't start school until Thursday so they can spend their last day of vacation rockin' out to Beatles Rock Band game.

MacSparky(DH) is very much an avid jazz music lover. My kids (8 & 13) love all everything from Disney Channel music to The Killers and Black Eyed Peas. I love everything 80s to Green Day. The Beatles music is timeless and can be shared from generation to generation. The Beatles and their music is a shared passion in the Sparks family. There are many Beatles songs that everyone has a favorite. Rock Band is like our karaoke fun for family time. So we can't wait until Wednesday.

Inspired by The Beatles, I dug out my inks and stamps and here is my Beatles inspired card.



Stamps: Psychedelic Grunge and Fairytale Frenzy (Tim Holtz -Stampers Anonymous)
Inks: Distressed Inks(Ranger)
Embellishments: New Distressed Stickles (Aged Mahogany), Crackle Paint (Rock Candy), Grungepaper, Trinket Pins, Manila Tag

New Graphic 45 Collections

Just wanted to let you know that the newest Graphic 45 collections have found their way into the eP product mix. Graphic 45 came out with these paper pad collections so now you can have all the papers that coordinate. The paper pad include two (2) sheets of all 10 double-sided papers and one (1) sheet of each of the two coordinating die-cuts. There are three collections to choose from:

Domestic Goddess

Renaissance Faire Collection



















Christmas Past Collection


Graphic 45 also now has their own blog and Design Team. They have lots of projects and ideas posted there. Visit HERE to see some of their beautiful displays and projects from CHA Summer 2009 show.