Hi Gals & Guys!
Welcome! I'm Mel (or Melissa) and I'm so happy that you've found my blog!
I live in Canada in Port Moody, BC (near Vancouver). Such a beautiful place to live.
The crafting world & all the fabulous people in it always make me feel so grateful and just plain glad. I'm excited to be able to share with all of You.
Set the craftiness free! (my crafty story)
The greatest passion of the blog-side of my life, is to share things for free. Commercially made supplies are lovely & I'm glad there are such beautiful things on offer. I covet my fair share, but I like to think that you can make projects for next to nothing. (Though I do try to support crafting companies, especially small companies and artists, as well.)
You will find these free things on my blog:
Free digital papers:
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... Free printables, templates & cut files:
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Free digital papers:
......... Free printables, templates & cut files:
Techniques and card-making tutorials
(including digital or hybrid tricks):
Some miscellaneous 3D paper craft projects:
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And in older posts, you'll find the odd little
digital image freebie that I've doodled...
I also post link-lists or round-ups of fab free things that others share online:
(including digital or hybrid tricks):
Some miscellaneous 3D paper craft projects:
......And in older posts, you'll find the odd little
digital image freebie that I've doodled...
I also post link-lists or round-ups of fab free things that others share online:
Want to Chat?
If you have any questions at all (or if you just want to chat) please just drop me a line. I'm delighted share resources and ideas. You can email me at: melstampz@gmail.com
Thank You for stopping in; I really really really appreciate it! :0)
31 comments:
I stumbled on your site and i love it! I can't believe how much information you have gathered and how great it will be for me to use! I have only been stamping about a year and this will be a great resource for me! Thanks so much! Laurie
OMG!! your site is amazing!!! Thank u soooo much for all the wonderful info u provide!! It must take forever to keep this up!! I am a hobby demo with SU so this site really inspires me!! Thanks again for such great ideas, tech, and insight!! Keep up the beautiful work!!
Hi Mel (I'm emailing all the way from Australia). I stumbled across your site one night when I was lacking inspiration in my cardmaking & looking for new ideas. Wow - I am no longer stuck for ideas. You are incredibly talented & I love looking at each step of making your cards & what you write - it's so helpful. I have been cardmaking for 12 years, yet I am constantly amazed & delighted at the different products that we can use to make a beautiful card. Thanks heaps - don't stop the Blog! Jocelyn
What a great site you have and so much information. I am hoping to get lots of inspiration and learn some new things.
I love your blog Mel!
It´s one of the greatest blogs on stamping for me!
Thank you so much for sharing your art with us!
Hughs from Susan, from Vienna Austria
You are talented, classy and you are so very generous! Thank you for the best site I've yet encountered and I am one serious surfer.
I just want to thank you for your awesome blog... it is not only crafting informational, but just personally to know that I am not the only one who surfs the net looking at all the fun blogs... I only wish I had one and could make it as nice as yours! Keep posting, we are all reading.... but don't stress out about it... relax and enjoy the world!
I just found your site and I am thrilled beyond belief!! Your Blog is great and I love all the things you have on there to keep the creative ideas flowing! I can't wait to just be able to sit down with a cup of joe and totally explore! Thank you so much!
Thanks so much for sharing your creations, ideas and information with us! Fabulous stuff Mel!
I don't know how I got here but I am so glad to be here! You have an amazing resource of information. You definitely think outside the box and I have much to learn from your amazing techniques! Thanks so much from a fellow Canadian now living in the US of A!
Hi Mel. I just blogged about you. Love your list of freebies. http://www.bellissimakids.com/2011/12/16/free-printablestags-labels-and-tutorials/
Best,
jeanne
Thank you so very much for the awesome "collections" of craftiness. Your blog is just the kick in the pants I need to get busy in my craft room! I have subscribed, pinned and stalked you thoroughly! (kidding about the stalking part). Thank you so very much for sharing!
What a fabulous site! I love everything PAPER!!! Thank you for all of your hard work and sharing!!!
wuff... I try carefully to select words to describe how I feel about your work, but find it hard to write in brief... if there is chance that I can go to Canada, I would like to meet you, more than Niagara, and expecting you are still in love with your work, and nothing stop you.. my name Wirianto, from Indonesia. Wish to know you someday... If you come to Jakarta or Bali, please let me know.. and I agree with Dany... enjoy!!
What a lovely blog you have here ... so much to see!! I had to become a follower so that I could come back again and again. Thank you so much for sharing! Susanne
Mel, thanks so much for your comment on my Sketchbook project Post on Julie balzer's blog -it's great to meet you! Lenna
Hi Mel, I am looking for someone to create a box template based on this http://www.littlecupcakeboxes.co.uk/cupcakeboxes/Cupcake-boxes-4-cupcakes-patisserie-design-683.html Are you abel to do this? Many thanks, Zena
Hi Zena, Thank You so much for stopping by. I hope you get this reply to your question since you are 'no reply' on blogger. :-) I'd love to help you with your template dilemma, but I try not to duplicate ultra unique templates in case of copyright and so forth... But you could fashion one quite easily out of a milk carton template or cut file, add a roof and a window. Hope that helps some. Warmly, Mel
Like a few other comments I read, I too just happened to stumble upon your blog. I am very excited to dust off my cuttlebug and use some of my embossing folders I have collected, but rarely used, based on some of your ideas. There are so many more ideas and links to so many others that I'm not sure where to start, or where to end. THANKS!
I love your blog, all what you do & your sweet heart too!
Everything is perfect & I thank you a lot for all your beautiful gifts!
Hi Mel,
chanced upon your blog when looking for material. LOVE your blog!
Just stumbled on your blog looking for digital designs--wow, you have so many great papers! Thank you from one blogger to another;)
www.kristendukephotography.com
Hi Mel,
Your blog is great and you have really cool ideas! I have just bought some stamps... and now I can't wait to get started.
With admiration from the UK
Mel Makes :)
Hello Mel! I found you via Pinterest with this project: http://melstampz.blogspot.com/2009/02/gesso-swiping-dry-embossing-technique.html.
I would like to create something like this for a frieze along a beam in my home. Unfortunately, never having been a stamper, I have no idea what a few things are, that you use and talk about.
For example. Embossed paper. I know what it is, but how/where did you get it and how do you make the gesso follow those gorgeous curves?
You talk about your "square" and it getting cloudy. What kind of square? and different mediums I think might be manufacturers, but can't tell.
In the hours of spare time I know you pull out of your ear, would you consider a glossary? I'm bookmarking this project because I find it elegant and beautiful and want to copy you shamelessly.
Any referrals or explanations you could point me to would be so great.
Thank you so much for all your hard work!
Sincerely,
Christine
happy wednesday Mel stamper!
I was wondering if you could do a tutorial on how to make your own overlays. I absolutely LOVE the ones you created but would also like to learn how to make my own. And if you would be so kind as to show how to do it in GIMP as well that would be fab. Thanks!!
Bonjour Mel,
Un grand merci pour le partage de votre travail, vos papiers sont magnifique, j'ai créé à partir de ceux ci un mini, que vous pouvez voir à partir de ce lien
http://lenon13.canalblog.com/archives/2013/11/19/28469775.html#comments
Je vous souhaite une très bonne journée.
hélène
A soaper gave your site to help with labeling ideas for soaps but methinks I will be visiting for this site rest of my days for the plethera of ideas you have!! Thank you for all your efforts! Wishing you all the best!
I can't believe I haven't found your site before! Thanks so much for sharing your free papers, tutorials etc. My (very nearly) 21 year old cat Thea Jay sends her love to Miss Mouse.
I also just stumbled on your blog through pinterest when i was looking for cards for men (saw your suit card).
I am very impressed (and at the same time humbled) by your generosity in sharing your templates and patterns for free as some people would have tried to make a buck by selling theirs.
You see I live all the way from the Philippines. And although there are scrapbook suppliers here and there, there are a lot of supplies not available here. Plus the fact that I do it only as a hobby (I have a regular job and I am a single mom and do handmade cards only for my friends), I try not to spend to much on it as I have to prioritize on how I spend my money.
This is why I am so happy on discovering your blog. Many many thanks and I hope you continue with this blog!
Billie
I don't have enough words to describe how thankful I am for everything you do, Mel! You are so talented and generous!
Again, million thanks to you!
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