Indroducing Nancy's Knits!

Hope the holidays have been great for everyone, this year has gone by so fast! Summer flew by in the yard and garden. Before you know it we will be through winter and well into spring. Two months ago my daughter delivered my very first grandchild, a beautiful little girl. She is an angel, I couldn't be more thrilled.

I have some other very exciting news to tell you about. We are carrying a new line at Dog Gone Stamps, it's called Nancy's Knits. It is a specialty boutique with the cutest ever hand knit items. Only the finest wools and yarns are used. Every piece is hand knit with special attention to detail and love in every stitch. They are all one of a kind so get them fast!





Check them out on our main menu under "Nancy's Knits"!

If you have any questions or special requests, email me at nancy_torfin@doggonestamps.com

We will be adding new pieces often, such as scarves, hats, mittens and dish cloths.
Be sure to follow our blog where we will update you on all our new additions.

Best wishes.
Nancy

New Painting.

Here is a painting I did of our Zen Frog stamp. Here is a link to the Stamp :) After painting more and more of the stamps, they are a great starting point. Go nuts on them, paint (color) outside the lines/over the lines/etc! :) See it larger on the home page.

Painting of Fish Jumping Stamp

Here is a quick painting I did of our stamp Fish Jumping (PN: pl002-4s, Stamps->Seasons->Fish Jumping.

New Paintings!

Hey, TGIF everyone! Thought I would drop a line to say hello, and post a couple things I have been working on. Here is a quick painting I did using one of our stamps. This is our Owl stamp, under Stamps -> Characters -> Owl PN: pl002-6s.



This one is just a practice painting I did. Trying to get better at lighting and light effects :)

New Painting of Sports Car Stamp!

Thought I would share this painting I have made. . . might get to see this in an upcoming issue of a magazine! ! ! Stay posted for more details on DogGoneStamps, my digital paintings, and myself featured in a Stamping magazine! :)

For a bigger view of this image, see our home page :)

Cooks

Just some more I have been playing with. . . not sure where they will end up but :)

New Designs Peek

Hey all,
Just wanted to write to say hello and show you one of the new designs I have been working on. :)

New Stamp Release!

I want to thank everyone for coming by and checking out our new release and our featured designers creations! They worked really hard on them and they turned out wonderful! Thanks to everyone and we hope to see you back here soon!

Congrats to everyone who won a blog prize! If your number wasn't picked this time, there will be another release party soon :P

Thanks again,
Brian

New Stamp Release,

Enjoy the Ride!

We are happy to announce our new stamp release! We hope you all like the new stamps, and they are something you can use in your creations. For the next 3 weeks we will be spotlighting 3 of our Stamp Release designers Lisa Foust, Sandra MacLean, and Nancy Torfin. They have made wonderful cards for our release using our new stamps. We will feature each of their works each week. We also have 3 great blog prizes up for grabs! All you need to do to be entered to win the weeks prize is comment on at least one of the cards each week! Your definitely not limited to just one comment, but names will only be entered once each week :) At the end of each week we will enter all the peoples names who commented and pick a random winner!

Thanks again for coming by to see our featured designers hard work!




Here we are with the final week of cards. I'm about to find our 2nd weeks winner, so watch your emails :) Thanks again to everyone who helped make this happen.

Lisa Foust

Jana Mays








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Jana Mays



Jana has been a great help to us throughout our first year in business. She has been on all of our Design teams and has all but ran our group on PCP. I love her sentiments, she writes better sentiments for our images than I do :) (I actually have plans to use some of them once we create a sentiment release)! Her creations are always full of great humor and I have loved every thing she has created using our stamps. Jana is very talented and we wouldn't be here without her!

Sandra MacLean



From the Designer:
I typically use my SU and Distress Ink reinkers with my aquapainter brush to watercolor my images. Because the rubber sentiment is quite flexible, I straightened it up on my acrylic block and stamped it out next to the skateboarding dude. The papers are from My Minds Eye and the adhesive pearls are from Kaisercrafts. I like to machine stitch around my cards to help pull it all together.

Lisa Foust



From the Designer:
I started with stamping the image (Free entertainment) on some Neenah white paper. Colored Free Entertainment with my copic markers - greys (black is way too black). I then put together the card using some Basic Grey Origins paper (from the 6x6 paper pack). When it was done, I needed a little bit more, so I stamped the sentiment above the dogs using some PTI Fresh snow ink - it' s one of the best "white" inks I have found.

New Stamp Release,

Enjoy the Ride!

We are happy to announce our new stamp release! We hope you all like the new stamps, and they are something you can use in your creations. For the next 3 weeks we will be spotlighting 3 of our Stamp Release designers Lisa Foust, Sandra MacLean, and Nancy Torfin. They have made wonderful cards for our release using our new stamps. We will feature each of their works each week. We also have 3 great blog prizes up for grabs! All you need to do to be entered to win the weeks prize is comment on at least one of the cards each week! Your definitely not limited to just one comment, but names will only be entered once each week :) At the end of each week we will enter all the peoples names who commented and pick a random winner!

Thanks again for coming by to see our featured designers hard work!


Here are the first weeks cards! Each of our release designers are wonderful beyond words, and there isn't enough I can say to express that, though I have tried :) I think their designs will speak for themselves!

Lisa Foust



Lisa is a great designer and has also been on all of our design teams so far. She is always willing to help and her enthusiasm has picked me up, and got me working again, more than once. All of her designs are very clean and her choice of design papers always compliment the stamps and the message she is sending. With a great eye for color and use of embellishments her cards are always a treat!

Sandra MacLean



When I first saw some of Sandra's work I knew I wanted to get her to be on at least one of our design teams, and as many more as I could talk her into :) Sandra's cards are always excellently designed. I love her use of design paper and her coloring is brilliant! I have found I like her coloring of our images over mine many times, and the cards she made for this release are no exception.

Nancy Torfin



Not only is she the owner and founder of DogGoneStamps, she's also a designer! :) Here is a card by Nancy using the Singing Skateboarder stamp. I have a stack of her cards, and this one is going to be added to the collection.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Well, February whizzed by and we are already a week into March. Some of my flowers started poking their little heads up in the garden, but when I looked out this morning, snow was covering my world again. I guess Spring is going to have to wait a little longer.
Have a great weekend.
Nancy

Stamp used on this card is The Bagpiper, item #P1001-19s

still in progress. . .

Thought I would post an update to he digital painting I'm working on. . . Still not finished but getting close I think. . .

See detailed image here. Flamingo Full Image

Another Peek for you. . .

Here is another Peek for our followers :) I posted it on PCP, but thought I better get used to using our blog :) Thanks for Following!

Full image here Fairy on Turtle

Well I thought Spring was close, but I see it is snowing again.
I'm glad you stopped by today, we are planning some fun blog candy and new stamps to be released soon. Be sure to check the blog often so you don't miss out.
Nancy

Coming Soon !