Cat swap with Yahoo group

This is our latest swap! 4"x4" size
I bound it in a booklet with a Bind-it-all
If you click on the photos you can see a larger view

And this is a cat card I made sometime ago with alcohol inks and I used it for the back cover of the cat booklet (I cut it in a square of course)

I learned something new today!

Isn't this cool? OK, I'm probably the last one to find out about "Flick" and Picturetrail....... LOL

Stamping 4x4 for Cat swap

This is my entry for the cat swap I just organized with my Yahoo group.
Next post I will show the photos of the finished book. It was fun as usual!
All stamps used are by Cherry Pie of course! :-)

Cherry Pie is 18!!

I nearly forgot an important date......... Cherry Pie turned 18 this month!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't believe so many years went by.......... I'm shaking my head in disbelief, but anyway, we need a celebration with lots of orders......... ;-) LOL

Beginning today until end month (June 30), you can pick your own freebie every $25 you spend (before postage).
You must write your choice in the message window of your Paypal payment.
This is an offer for all those who read it.
You can forward this offer to your friends. If you have a blog or stamping group, you can put your orders together and get lots of freebies!

Happy stamping June!
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(¸.·´Marina

Click here to go straight to the Cherry Pie shop

The Cherry Pie employees of the month....

Dark stamping

I've been playing with my new images again. This dead tree is kinda creepy...... I think we all have a dark side hidden behind our sunny facade and I enjoy goth/dark art a lot.....

Same stamps, different coloring

I've been playing with acrylic paints and my new stamps.......

New rubberstamps!

Oh how exciting to have new rubber stamps to play with! The pleasure really pays me back of the weeks I spent drawing and putting these 5 artboards together. I changed them so many times, trying to make all images fit and filling spaces in between with new drawings....... now that I can touch the rubber sheets, I know it was all worth it and I can't wait to ink them up! :-)
Please go to this page on my website to see all new images in full size. They're all sold as sheets or single images. There is a plate inspired by watching Twilight, a dark scenic one, a second one dedicated to Gustav Klimt, one to Marie Antoinette and one "inspirational". I hope you like them as much as I do!

Alice in Wonderland stamped book

Another cool swap is over and it's been a lot of fun. Organized within my Yahoo group as all the past swaps too. We made 4"x4" pages stamped with at least one Alice stamp from my own line and only Cherry Pie stamps.
We were 12 players and I bound each booklet with a Bind-it-All.

A simple stamped card

Painted with acrylics over collaged "pretty papers" and stamped on top

by Marina

the Cherry Pie Stampers on Ning!

Last night I started a Ning site for Cherry Pie stampers :-)
I'm still looking around it myself........ and it's so rich in features that I'm slightly lost, but I will make it work out eventually!
If you want to join me or just give a look around, do so by clicking the link!
See you on Ning!
Marina



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Stamped bookmarks by the Cherry Pie Yahoo group

Even though I usually go to bed too late every night, I love to read a few pages of a book before sleep. I often alternate the books I read (they're all non-fiction so it's not that hard) and I decided I needed to have a bunch of bookmarks to keep in my nightstand drawer so I can have one whenever I need!
That's how I got the idea of organizing a bookmarks swap with my Yahoo group!
Now I have 18 original, colorful and fabulous bookmarks!

Free shipping week at cherrypieartstamps.com

This is a bit late but there are still several days to Sunday so here's the deal:
Free shipping to all US/Canadian orders over $25 and all overseas orders over $50.
Also one nice freebie of my choice will come with ANY order.
Please NOTE: this offer is valid only for orders placed from my website cherrypieartstamps.com and NOT for orders from eBay.
This special deal ends Sunday, March 29th at midnight EST.
ox
Marina

Finished Wednesday Addams, my new dolly

I'm quite pleased with how she turned out.
She is 8-1/2" inches tall and made of Paperclay with acrylic eyes.
She is holding a black spider on her left hand.

Stamped paper dolls

Since I'm into the doll frenzy, I thought of showing here some paper dolls made by my Yahoo group. All stamps used are by Cherry Pie of course.

New doll

When I make a new doll I start with sculpting a face. I don't know who she will be until she "speaks" to me. This new face hadn't spoken for some days, but last night I heard her saying she's Wednesday Addams!
I wasn't so sure so I googled online and I found these pics of the 1991 movie with Christina Ricci and, hey, she really has similar features!

Gothic windows booklet

For those who read my blog and are not in my Yahoo group, this is a swap we organized in 2008.
I made a template for this Gothic arch so all the players could use the same size. We were 11 players and I bound all the entries in accordion fold. It turned out really neat!









The players in the order of the pages are: myself (Marina), Kathy Ronan from FL, Loretta d'Onofrio (Australia), Mary Ann Severin, Barbe Dare (Australia), Melanie Becker (Germany), Brandy Wickham from OH, Barbara Poe from FL, Carol Anderson from Australia, Janie Husband from NC, Zed McWilton from FL and me again with the back cover.

My art muse is hard at work

I haven't published artwork on this blog for quite a while, but I have actually been in a very prolific art mood and I did a whopping 14 paintings and 2 dolls in about a month time!
All in between pressing rubber and the usual chores of course.
Today I want to show you my new girl whose name is Shanna. She is made of Paperclay with vintage glass eyes and she wears a dress and stockings from the 60's.

If you want to see almost everything else I've been up to, you can click on the title of this posting and you will see my Flickr gallery.

ox

Virtual gift award

Today I got this gift from Japan. It's a virtual award. I'm not familiar with this kind of stuff but I'm following the instructions and I thank Momo for sending it!

Here are the rules:
1. The winner may put the logo on their blog.
2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.
3. Nominate 5 blogs.4. Put links to their blogs.
5. Leave a message for your nominees.

I decided I will give this award to:
Hazel in England - http://hazel-butisitart.blogspot.com/
Fiona in England - http://magickdiva.blogspot.com/
Petra in Germany- http://petrasart.blogspot.com/
Bibi in Norway - http://bibisitt.blogspot.com/
Cina in Sweden - http://dreamcatched.blogspot.com/

Skinny Book - artwork by the Cherry Pie Yahoo group

Today I want to show off some cool artwork done by my Yahoo group. We swapped this "skinny" booklet that actually ended up being a fat-skinny one! In fact the requirements were to use at least one handmade clay piece and we all ended up with really thick pages!

Orders shipped!

At Cherry Pie's all US orders are shipped by electronic mail with a delivery confirmation and Misty takes care of it.

Then Gino makes sure that everything is brought to the Post Office the same day!

It's so good to have such efficient helpers! :-)
Maybe I'll take a vacation....

Cherry Pie's new full time employee :-)

This is Misty, 5 months old.
She is still young but I'm already training her to type. Hopefully she won't be as slow and lazy as her older brother......... :-)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

A healthy, wealthy, prosperous 2009 to everyone!
Wished by Marina and my new little girl. Her name is Candy Cotton. She was sleeping when the fireworks woke her up last night so she grabbed her dolly and got up from bed.

Candy and her doll have glass eyes and they are sculpted with Paperclay. ©Marina Lenz, 2008-9

Have you been naughty or nice?

Hello! I hope Santa brought you everything you wanted!
Apparently I have been very naughty because he totally forgot about me........... :-(

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Hope Santa will bring you all you wish for!
oxox
Marina

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse........

This is Gino, Cherry Pie's employee of the month!
(now you know why I don't email so often....... my typist is on another siesta break)

Dreaming of a white Christmas........ (not really!)

I like the Florida sun better!

Holiday wishes to the World!

Are you waiting for Santa?

Xmas card 2008 - version #1

This is the first version of my Xmas card 2008.
Not the definitive one.
I will post more in the next days and
the final version on Christmas day :-)