Red Lead

Stencils - Stamps - Inks!

A new Free Gift just for you - get all of the details here.

17 beautiful colors of our new Artisan Inks right here. Our Artisan Inks are concentrated dye inks that are permanent when dry.  You can mix the inks to create your own color palette that is unique to you.  A few drops of ink on a dauber or sponge works perfectly for stenciling or rubber stamping.  The inks are mixable with water for creating custom color sprays.  Use Artisan Ink to colorize backgrounds for all of your mixed media art, card making, jouranl pages, and altered art.  Artisan Ink is acid free, non toxic, and made in the USA.

In case you wondered, this is what we have been doing!  Inking it up with our new Art Stencil Templates, Sea Shell Stamps, and mixing in our new Collage Sheets for mixed media art!

New Art Stencils!

Sea Tide Charm Collection

Palm Trees and Mermaids!

Plus so much - stencil paint cremes, brushes, Hand Dyed Ribbons!

Have a beautiful week, we will be making Deep Blue Sea art this week, what will you be making?

be true - Chris and Sharon

p.s. We will be at the Kansas City Stamp Convention in July - details later this week!

Celebrating all Women this week!

Moms, daughters, granddaughters, aunts, nieces, sisters, cousins, grandmothers, girl friends, this is your week! As a little kick off for Mother's Day week take a peek at the special savings we have for you  on rubber stamps, collage sheets, brass charms, patina charms, trendy tapes, twill ribbons, and mini books.  All right here.  Have a beautiful week, try to take some time for yourself doing whatever makes you happy.  Happy Mothers Day Week to all of you, and as always thanks for shopping with us, we really appreciate it!

be true - Chris & Sharon

Back to Playing at Work - Free Make & Take!

This is one of the art tags that Chris made for our Free Make & Take at the convention.  As we were unpacking everything yesterday it dawned on us that we should do the same Free Make & Take right here at the store - how about this Saturday!  So if you are in the mood for some creativity, art talk, & freshly baked cookies, grab a girlfriend or 2 and head over to Red Lead between 11a.m.-2p.m. this Sat. May 5th.  Hope to see you!

be true - Chris and Sharon

Rubber Stamps - Scrap Stuff!

Adventures in Stamping - 14 New Rubber Stamps!

We have been painting, packing, stamping, and running around getting ready for the Adventures in Stamping Convention.  Chris created a Make & Take Tag that is stamped and embellished with our new Wood Bits.  Here is a peek.

The tags are colorized , over-stamped, and you know Chris - she sprinkled a little bit of our special mix of glitter diamond dust in all of the right places. 

More new rubber stamps came in just in time for us to take to the convention, 14 new stamps that are mostly flowers with 2 cutie patooties and 4 ATC stamps that have words and phrases for journaling, mixed media art and ATC's in the mix - kind of a mixed bag.

See you at the store today for Coconut Macaroons, art talk, and shopping!

Have a beautiful weekend and stay true - Chris & Sharon

 

 

NEW! Wood Tickets-Roosters-WoodBits-Shapettes!

 

We are loving this wood - more woodbits and shapettes!  Any favoirte shape you would like to see?  18 new designs this week and more on the way. 

 Hens and Roosters

Love these Word-Bits

Ticket Shapettes!

We have been making lots of art this week with our new stamps and wood shapes.  You all know that I like to paint, that is one of the main reasons I am so crazy in love with our new wood.  You can really make it your own so easy.  Paint it any color you choose, and then stamp.  No mistakes because if you don't like the color, you can sand it back and start over.  Chris told me I am beginning to act like a maniac over this wood so I will try to contain myself - but not today - because I am heading over to the studio early this morning for more stamping, painting, and sanding.  Who knew that a few small pieces of wood could make you so happy?

-be true- Chris & Sharon

Susan - Eunice - Mindy - Rhonda

4 art girls will receive a handful of our new Wood Bits!

Susan Tidwell

Eunice

Mindy Lovins Allen

Rhonda Sadler

e-mail your address to us and we will mail out to you asap!

-be true- Chris & Sharon

 

Sweets from the Past

Ok, you all know Chris and I have a big time thing for old photos, especially when they are celebrations of holidays.  We just had to share these with you because they are so sweet.  Enjoy!

Here is more Vintage Easter Fun!

And you also know we are really ga-ga over all things kid cute! 

Now a little bit about what is new at the store for your creations.

13 New Rubber Stamps and a Freebie!

Love this ticket stamp!!  3 images on one artist trading card size stamp - stamp, color, cut, and make some jewelry with these. 

Anybody Home? Love at first sight!

More new wood shapettes - can't wait to paint on these.

and what do you think of these?

and these?

and last but not least - these!

Plus more than 100 new papers are at the store - Prima, Bazzill, Melissa Framces, Making Memories, Cosmo Cricket, Kaiser Kraft, beautiful velvet ric racs, leaf ribbons, and oh,  this too!

Mini cupcakes and Starbucks at the store tomorrow-hope to see you!

Have a beautiful weekend - Chris & Sharon

p.s. leave a comment and we will pick a few names at random and send you some charmettes, shapettes, and framettes!

 

 

 

 

Home Baked Cookies+Make&Take=Red Lead

lots of new at the store!

Free Rosette Make & Take!

New Free Vintage Style Art Kit!

Have a beautiful weekend!

-be true- Chris & Sharon

Wood-Bits Wood Charms

You inspired us to create  more Red Lead products, so here are the new Wood-Bits wood charms. We love these as much as our clear-bits and hope you do too!  Let me tell you about these new Wood-Bits.  Firstly ( is that a word?)  this is just the tip of the iceberg for clear-bit and wood-bit designs.  Our heads have been spinning -really- with ideas for more and more of these charms.  Are there any special shapes that you would like to see?  We want to hear from you, so let us know your thoughts.  We can't decide what are our favorites, the Word Charmettes, the Framettes, or the Shapettes.  Chris and I have a bet on about which wood-bit will be the most popular.  What is your fave? Here are a few things we love about these wood charms - you can paint them, ink them, stain them, stamp them, and any other thing you can think of.  Each set comes packaged with a double sided mini collage sheet with vintage kids on one side and script on the other, plus jump rings. Another cool thing - you can punch out the images with a one inch circle punch and collage them on the back of the Charmette, or if you have any of our word stamps you can stamp directly on the wood. They are chunky too - 1/8" thick.  They are at the store and on the website so take a look right here.

And oh, they are made right here in the USA.

We are always over the top excited when we introduce new products that we hope will inspire you to create art that makes you happy-isn't that what it is all about? 

-be true- Chris & Sharon

Tell Your Story

Tell Your Story Patina Workshop for this Sat. is full, but we have added this workshop to our May 2012 workshop schedule.  Chris is working away at new Make & Takes, more vintage style jewelry, and a mixed media beeswax workshop.  I am baking tomorrow and we will be serving one of my favorites, Carrot Cake Cookies, not too sweet, and loaded with pecans, rasins, and coconut - they are really good!

Plus new papers, charms, ribbons and such flew in and is waiting for us to unpack today at the store.  See you Sat!

- be true - Chris & Sharon

Artful Collage Art Swap

Let’s celebrate the beauty of Spring and make some artful collages!

Sign up for the Artful Collage Art Swap right here!

Here is another Artful Collage that has a painted background that is also stamped with acrylic paint, and the spring images are stamped in Ranger Archival Black Ink. 

Plus we have 8 new Clear Bit Acrylic Charm Shapes!  Here are 2 of the new shapes, the other 6 shapes can be found on our website.

Many of you have asked if I am still baking  -  yes!  I bought a new book that I love - Back in the Day Bakery.  I plan on baking this coming Friday, and serving the cookies at our Tell Your Story in Words workshop. 

Have a beautiful Sunday! 

- be true - Chris & Sharon

 

Something for You to Make - Easter Fun!

Even your kids can make these. Remember when there was always the childrens table for holiday dinners?  The kids would all sit together, tell jokes, have a fight or 2, get in trouble, then behave for a while, color in a new book, pick at their food, and wait for dessert. Anyway I think these would be really cute on your Easter Table, but if you are into rubber stamping our Hello Friend rubber stamp could work the same way.  Hello Friend is one of my favorite cute-cool stamps and I will be  making a few Easter Place Cards in the next day or 2 to share with you.

We did get more new papers and embellishments in from Prima, Bazzill, Making Memories, plus more!

Spring Beauty Flowers

Wood Tickets

Charmed Words Kit

Musical Butterfly!

Have a Beautiful Day!

- be true - Chris & Sharon

Top Hat Bunny Spring Tag

Spring Time is just around the corner, and we can't wait.  You know we love to garden, so when we got our new rubber stamps in I gathered up everything to make this cute Top Hat Bunny Tag. Doesn't this tag remind you of a sweet little cottage garden? I am so in love with our new Spring Greetings Word Play stamp.  So fun to stamp and punch out the words and images with a 1" circle punch.  I stamped with one of my favorite inks, Archival Coffee by Ranger. The bright Sunshine Yellow Tag, Vintage Posies, Charms, and Ribbon are on the website and at the store. 

Here are a few close-ups of the tag.

I made the paper grass the old fashioned way-with a pair of scissors!

 Love the 4 leaf clover!

Did you know we have a new Free Gift this month?  Everything you need to make some Sweet Spring Greeting Tags!

Read all about it here!

Here is one of the tags Chris made with the Free Gift.

Yep, you get all of that plus more in your Free Gift!

Don't forget that today is the free Make & Take at the store, I was too busy to bake this week but  we do have some delish mini choclate cup cakes for you!

Plus we got in a LOT of new papers - Making Memories, KaiserCraft, Prima, Crate Papers, & really cute Easter Chicks, Bunnies, and all things Easter!

 Last, but not least, new collage sheets for your spring time making!

Have a great weekend!

- be true - Chris & Sharon

 

Paper Quilt Cottage - Free Make & Take

 

Make this darling Vintage Style Quilt Cottage for FREE!
Grab your girlfriends and head over to Red Lead on Sat. and we will be serving freshly brewed Starbucks & home made cookies!

March 3, between 11a.m.- 2p.m.

- be true - Chris & Sharon

 

Pixie Mushrooms + Spice Cookies = Red Lead

Wee Spun Cotton Pixie Mushrooms - Leap Frog Green

The Wee Pixie Mushrooms have a glossy lacquered cap which are dotted with white spots.  The mushroom cap is about 1/2" in diameter, and attached to a 2" green paper covered wire stem.  Each mushroom bouquet is attached to a paper scallop oval for safe keeping, plus you won't  be able to lose them on your work table! Loving these wee mushrooms, see all 6 colors right here on our website.  I am going to bake cookies on Friday to serve at the store on Sat.- any suggestions?  So far everyone voted the white chocolate chumk as the all time favorite.  I have an old spice cookie recipe that is supposed to be really good, but one of the ingredients is Crisco.  As I am trying to stick with recipes that are a little bit more healthy - organic flours, eggs, butter, and dried fruit, I'm not too thrilled to use the Crisco.  Does anyone know if you can sub butter for Crisco?  I just have to say that as I proofed this post it occured to me that the lead in for Pawn Stars is pretty much like us - the guy says, "You never know what you are going to find here."  Us too, and that is why we love to go to work everyday. Always new, interesting, inspiring, creative, fun.  We are lucky and grateful to be able to do what we love everyday thanks to all of you!

-be true - Chris & Sharon