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The Old Island Stamp
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Summer 2008
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Stamp Draw Winner:
I am pleased to announce our latest stamp draw
winner is Jacquie
Kerevan from Calgary, Alberta.
Congratulations to Jacquie! The new stamp draw is ready to go. The
new prize is a group of three Christmas stamps we have just
released. To enter the Draw, click on [Home] above, and then
on Stamp Draw on the Home page. Check it out and Good Luck!
Dawne...
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| Card Gallery:
In our first newsletter,
we promised a card for every new image we add to the website, which
I have been doing my best to keep up with. With the purchase of this
business, I have inherited some very beautiful cards, and thought
why not add those as well. So that is what we are in the process of
doing, so please do take a look. They can be viewed by clicking on
the online catalogue, then
clicking on the image and there will be a link to view a card from
there.
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| The
Whistler Farmers Market:
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you were looking for something to do on a Sunday this summer,
come up to Whistler for the day. Leave early and there’s no
traffic and no construction. There really is something for
everyone up at Whistler, biking, hiking, swimming, golfing and
The Whistlers Farmers Market, just
to name a few. The market hours are officially from
11
to
4pm
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but we are setting up and ready by
10am
and rarely leave before
5pm.
You
can find everything from kettle corn to the best fresh veggies
and summer berries around, jewellery, cooking demos, soap,
bears, entertainers, music, gelato, the kids zone, which has
bungy jumping and original
hand crafted rubber art stamps, and lots more! It’s also
very dog friendly, so bring your dog with you!
The
Old Island Stamp Company is situated in front of the Le
Chamois hotel, so come and visit us.
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From Emily's Garden...
| With my own wedding less than three weeks away, I
thought I'd take a minute to share my latest project with
you. I have had my hands full creating many paper projects
including save-the-date cards, invitations, place-cards,
programs and thank-yous. I think planning a wedding is a
stamp lover's dream! I have included some
pics of our hand-drawn save-the-date postcard (recognize the
style?), my own invitation (a collaborative project I did
with Ben), as well as our "thank-you" cards & a sample
wedding favor. Of course, the invites and thank-you cards
include corresponding envelopes, complete with fabulous
postage stamps we have been collecting and hoarding for the
past year or so. We also purchased many meters of fabulous
custom ribbon to include on our favours and to incorporate
into little "welcome packages" that exist as of yet only in
my imagination. The plan is to give all of our guests fresh
strawberries and scones for the morning after the wedding.
However, I have a sneaking suspicion I might not get that
far!
Emily Hull |
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| Card Making with Scrapbook
Paper This is
something that really should be utilized more. There are
some truly beautiful patterned
paper available today. A lot of it is now double sided, with
a pattern on one side and a
coordinating color on the other, which gives you endless
possibilities. You can find paper
in every possible color and subject matter you could ever
want, from your favorite flower,
pet, sport, holiday or even country. I find that they are
great time saver, if you want to
whip up a really quick card. It can be used to accent, as a
background, or even used for the
card itself and stamped directly onto. Of course I would
love to carry all those lovely patterned papers to be able
to supply all my customers with,
but I just don’t have the room. So keep your local
scrap booking stores in
business and I’m sure they’ll
keep coming out with more beautiful things for us to play
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The Little Bird Frame We
have 16 new stamps to show you this time, but I would like to showcase
one little stamp, which just happens to be called Little Bird Frame. It
started out as a bookplate, but it was decided that we would leave out
the text and make it more versatile. I started thinking of all the ways
that this stamp could be used, and there were so many! Here are a few
ideas, first of course as a bookplate, then wouldn’t it make a great
place card for a dinner party? With the box, you could really add any
short sentiment, but I thought that it would make a nice thank-you card,
or a gift tag, you can even ink it up without the box and use it as a
corner stamp. I’m sure there are many more ways to be creative with
this little stamp, let me know what you have come up with.
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Click on a thumbnail above to view the full image
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On The
Drawing Board; Thanks
for all your input to the last images on the Drawing Board, we had
such a good response for the Vintage Tree that we went ahead with it
and you will see it on the latest images page. The 2 gingerbread men
were a different story however, it was pretty much split down the
middle, with half the votes going to the ‘friendlier’ looking #1
and half went to the more traditional #2, so we are still working on
a compromise between the two.
For this Drawing Board, we
have two of Bert Small’s images, which I’ll call Bert’s Herbs.
We quite like them and especially the way they are drawn, perfect to
make a negative image stamp. What I mean by that is, the actual
image is the cut out and the part that would be inked is the
background. I’m hoping he will do 2 more, then we could make a set
of 4, have them postage size so they could be used altogether on a
card or as single stamps. Would you use them and how? |
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