Valentine's Is Around the Corner!

Long time, no post! I decided to change our header to Carole's lovely Valentine Sweet Cookie bouquet and decided an update was in order!

I've started another job... when you are a struggling artist, you have to wear a lot of hats to cobble together a living! So that is mostly the reason for the lack of posts here. I still make and ship food grade rubber stamps most every day. I still ship Museum of Modern Rubber's wood mounted fantastical creations. We still create custom food safe rubber stamps. I also make glass beads, teach art classes and now... elementary and high school sub work! I'm one tired puppy and blogging just has to take a backseat to actual money making!

Our Valentine Sweets header cookie bouquet was created with Sweet Stampen's food safe rubber stamps: Chocolates, a tiny heart cut from Circle of Love, The whole image of Circle of love was used with , Winner's Circle was used to frame Wedding Border, a mini heart stamp was used dry to emboss the surface around Cupid's Magic, last cookie features a stamp that is not online yet: Key to My Heart

November Header

Here's a lovey rubber stamped cookie bouquet idea for November from our teacher in San Diego.

This bouquet features the following rubber stamps:

Fall Bounty
Cornucopia (from our Thanksgiving Set)
Golden Gobbler
November Scarecrow (on sale!)

Hats (also from our Thanksgiving Set)
Autumn Foliage

October Header

Kinda late getting this month's header up!

This cookie bouquet was created by our teacher in San Diego and features:

• Bad Witch
• Halloween Kitty in a Bag
• Happy Halloween phrase stamp
• Haunted House
• Trick or Treat Delights
• Spider in Web
• Trick or Treat Witch (with Happy Halloween again)
• Halloween Dress Up
• Halloween Circle Theme Image

These are just a few of our extensive Halloween line...

New 4th of July Header / Shop Still Closed

Just popping in to change the header to our 4th of July images. I love how our San Diego teacher Carole B used different colors on the rubber stamped cookies to lend a different feel to repeated images in the bouquet below.

I hope you all have a happy and safe 4th. The shop will re-open on July 9th.

Other Creative Pursuits

I often forget that many of you don't realize I have a "day" job... Not that I do well financially at either profession but... both are creative and that suits me well.

I make food safe rubber stamps that allow people to create intricately decorated cookies, cakes and candy. Back to school through Valentine's is our really busy season followed by another pop around Easter. After that, no one wants to be in the kitchen! I also have a number of bakeries that use this technique... and this is their busy season as well...meaning they are ordering rubber and food coloring from me.

Black Widow Spider handstamped and painted cookie  - a demo from my last class.

Forgetful Holly sorta forgot that all of this was impending and has orders standing in the shop with no product. So today, I have to dash South to get our special food color, hitting my silk floral supplier as I pass downtown cause I have no flowers for my next cookie bouquet class. Then it's West for a piece of glass I need for fusing and back toward home for some acrylic stock for rubber stamp handles... OY... I don't like "car days!" But the shop will be ready to rock n roll once all that is here! So... I'll be working all weekend! That's a good thing! No complaints here!

So, before I dash out the door into LA's monstrous freeway system, I wanted to share a tidbit about creativity. One of the things I love about artists is... they see the world differently. I had a most talented lady in my last class. She had chosen a sea them for her cookie bouquet. But often students pick up a rubber stamp and they aren't really sure what it is...yet they never ask. They always just seem to make it work.

This lady had picked up our speckled Easter egg and then realized... that won't exactly be right with her sea themed bouquet.

This image doesn't exactly scream "sea shore" now does it??

But look what my student "saw" in that egg:

I love that she used that egg to envision a starfish! It looked lovely in her bouquet (which Ms. Forgetful didn't get a pic of!)

So, see your world a little differently today... Look closer... or further. Look for patterns or color or repetition... Who knows what you'll see! Or what it will inspire! Originally published on HollysFollyBeads

Hearts

Now that I've added Fashion Fridays, I thought I would try to talk about rubber stamping on the weekends... Hoping to keep it on Saturday. You know I love alliteration!

I thought I would show off some of the rubber stamped cookies from my students in the last class I taught. Being before Valentine's Day, hearts were all the rage. Although we had a Santa or two! I once had a student make a Halloween bouquet in a Thanksgiving class! We all have our passions!

One student did an all heart bouquet. She did a lovely job coloring!

And this is the makings of my favorite bouquet: A cookie for the handyman...

And one for the baker...

Became.... The handyman loves the cook!  Isn't it adorable! I just love the creativity of my students!

**Sweet Stampen is the ONLY manufacturer of food safe rubber stamps. Please do your research before crafting with your food! 

Originally published on HollysFollyBeads 2/14/12

Mrs. Frosty

Brrrr...It's still kinda chilly around here and lots of places have snow! It's the perfect time to celebrate with a snow themed rubber stamped cookie bouquet!

Please use only food safe rubber stamps in your stamped cookie bouquets!

Originally published on HollysFollyBeads