Stamps

What do you do when you have to design Christmas stamps in July? Get in the Christmas spirit, of course! For the past month or so, I’ve been listening to Christmas music and drinking hot chocolate while designing my brand new Christmas stamp collection for STAMPAVIE.

I know it seems awfully early to start thinking about Christmas, but that’s how things work in the stamp world. A lot of stampers and crafters (many of you!) like to get a head start on their Christmas cards and crafts so we need to get our new designs out to stores asap :o) Personally, I LOVE Christmas and can’t complain about getting hit with a bit of festive cheer this time of year! Feel free to pop on over to STAMPAVIE to view the full collection.

Let me know which ones are your favs!

I’m excited to announce that you can now get a sneak peak of my brand new stamp collection with STAMPAVIE! This is a really exciting collection that includes various illustrations from my website, as well as, lots of animals!! I’ve posted a few of my favorites here but you can CLICK HERE to view the full collection. Let me know what you think!

A few of you have emailed me some gorgeous photos of the cards you’ve made using my brand new “Lily & Milo” stamp collection! I am blown away by your amazing talent. I love seeing your work! Below are some examples from Sandrine Vachon. She is so very talented and I love reading her blog and keeping up to date with all her latest creations. I’ve also received a couple emails from Jeanette Bosman & Stampingcaz. Check out their blogs to see their beautiful “Lily & Milo” cards! If you have some “Lily & Milo” cards on your blog, let me know and I’ll add your link!

Oh and just as a side note: ONLY TWO MORE DAYS UNTIL I’M DONE MY FULL TIME JOB! YAY! :o)

Updated! More “Lily & Milo” cards can be found on Agnes’ blog, Lena Einarsson’s blog, Rebecca Clews’ blog, Therese Pysselhorna’s blog, 7 Kids College Fund’s blog, Crystal Spencer’s blog, EBethOnline’s blog, Nicky’s Stamps and Scraps’ blog, and Lilou la Scrapeuse’s blog.  

Thank you all for your wonderful and supportive comments in my last post! It means so much to me and now I’m all excited and revved up for a great new chapter in my life!

I just wanted to make a quick announcement that my new stamp collection, “Lily & Milo”, is now available for purchase!! You can buy them at Stamp-and-Scrap.com or click here to view a complete list of stores.

I hope you like them and I’m soooo excited to see all your beautiful creations! Feel free to email me photos of your cards/crafts using these stamps and I’ll post them on my blog!

This is such exciting news! STAMPAVIE has offered me a contract to work exclusively with them for all my future stamp designs.

I started this blog in November 2007 as a creative outlet and to meet other artists. The result of this blog has been beyond any of my expectations. Soon after making a few posts, I was approached by several stamp companies to start turning my illustrations into stamps. To be honest, when I first received these requests, I had no idea how big the stamping world really was - there are SO many of you out there! I didn’t know much at all, but I was happy to dive in - I’m always up for a new creative endeavor! The stamps ended up doing so well - thanks to all of you! I’m very flattered that you all like my work! It’s been so re-assuring to get all this positive feedback :o)

That brings us to today’s announcement. Over the past couple months, I’ve been working with several different stamp companies, but I truly believe it makes the most sense to centralize all my work with one company. This will give me more time to concentrate on the quality of ideas I create! By dedicating all my efforts to one company, I’ll have more time to create the cutest, most fun, and unique designs!

This move will also help eliminate any confusion on where to buy my stamps. All my new designs will now be available for wholesale purchase at STAMPAVIE (so you’ll hopefully end up seeing them in your favorite stamp stores soon after they’re released) and for retail purchase at Stamp-and-Scrap.com. STAMPAVIE ships stamps worldwide and any stamp store (online or brick & mortar) can carry my stamps. If you are a fan and want your favorite store to carry my collections, please send them a link to www.stampavie.com!

Anyway! I hope I haven’t bored you with my little announcement! It’s just very exciting for me to become more and more established as a stamp designer! I love seeing all the wonderful art you make with my designs. I’m also extremely open to your suggestions for my future collections. I’d love to hear what you’d like me to design. Animals? Bugs? Decorative elements? Cute kids? Babies? Flowers? I really appreciate all your comments and hope to keep you all very involved on my journey as a designer at STAMPAVIE.

Look forward to hearing all your feedback!

UPDATED: Click here if you’re interested in the more ‘formal’ press release :P 

Stampavie.com is the wholesale site for my new “Lily & Milo” stamp collection. The site just launched today! You can visit the site to view the full collection of 12 stamps! Let me know what you think! …and be sure to tell all your fav stamp stores to look into carrying my new line :o) Don’t worry, they’ll be available for customers very soon!

I’m getting so excited for the new Lily & Milo collection that is about to be released by Stamp and Scrap! These are such cute stamps so I really hope you all will love them as much as I do. Take a look at the second sneak peak HERE! It won’t be too long now! Let me know which ones are your favs :o)

Lily & Milo Stamp Collection: SNEAK PEAK!

There’s a little sneak peak going on… interested in new Rachelle Anne Miller stamp designs? CLICK HERE to view the sneak peak and let me know what you think!!

Christa from Love to Scrap just sent me a BEAUTIFUL card she made with one of my Sugar Nellie stamps. Thank you Christa! It just came in the mail today and it is so lovely. I love the colors and all the special little details. You are so talented! This is the first time I’ve seen my stamps in person! Thank you thank you thank you :o)

Click here to view a larger version of this lovely card on Christa’s blog.

Marlene over at A Lil’ Bit of Me has made a beautiful card with one of the stamps I designed for Sugar Nellie. The world of card stamping is new to me, so it’s so wonderful to see the finished product. You can purchase this stamp or the rest of the collection at Funky Kits.

Marlene, you’ve done a GORGEOUS job with the card - thanks so much for sharing it!