~Stamping with Denise~

Layers of Color Release Party

2009-11-14T09:00:00.000-05:00

Happy Saturday All!

Hope you are having a great weekend! Today is the start of the Layers of Color release party! There are lots of fun things happening all weekend at Layers of Color, including the Autumn stamp release, party favors, and chances to win some fabulous prizes!

In total there are 9 new sets debuting this weekend, which amounts to over 80 new and original art stamps! And anyone who joins in the festivities will receive free digital image party favors and a chance to enter a drawing and contest with prizes of $250!! Head on over there now and check it out!

Here is my release party card! I made another easel card, I'm just loving these! So easy to make and they are a great way to display a card. I've used the sets Merci Bouquet and Rise and Shine to make this card.

I've gone with a cream and green color palette and used some vintage K and Company papers. I distressed the edges and added some sponging to some. I've embellished with Prima flowers and roses, pearls, gingham ribbon and eyelets, and a safety pin.

My images were stamped in Memento black and colored with copics and watercolor crayons. The sentiment is from Merci Bouquet and I've punched it with the modern label punch, large oval, and scalloped oval punches.

Thanks for dropping by today! Be sure to check out my fellow design team members' creations and don't miss the party! Happy stamping!

A Couple of Sketches

2009-11-13T08:00:00.000-05:00

Happy Friday All!

TGIF, TGIF...can you tell I'm happy it's finally Friday! I am so looking forward to the weekend! Hope you are too and I hope it's a great one!

Today I have my two Friday cards to share with you. First is for Just Magnolia and then for Stamp Something. And funny, this week both of the challenges are new sketches to try out! Sorry...no combining the challenges this week!

Just Magnolia

At Just Magnolia we have a sketch from Mina! She always makes lovely sketches that are fun to use. This one is no exception, I will definitely use it again! And we also have a little bit of news to share too...the fabulous and fun Dawny P has joined our DT as a permanent member! Woo Hoo! Welcome Dawny!

Here's my card! I went for a vintage look with this one and distressed all the edges and use some pretty BasicGrey Eva papers. I love the colors in these; pinks, greens, browns...what could be better! I've colored my sweet Tilda with copics and then added some gel pen and glitter pen highlights. I've embellished with Prima flowers, roses, sticky pearls, and a piece of ruffled ribbon from May Arts. The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps.

This card also fits the challenges at...
Simon Says Stamp - Thinking of You
La La Land - Getting Punchy

Stamp Something

This week at Stamp Something we have a wonderful sketch designer and guest designer with us, it's Ann from Raindrop Echo Designs! She has created a fun and easy to use sketch and all you need to do is play along and have some fun with us!

I've gone with a cupcake digital image from our sponsor this week, Stretch and Bubble. The cupcake was screaming for someone fun to be sitting on top of it and I thought this Swiss Pixie cutie was perfect! They both have been colored with copics and then I added some chunky glitter and glitter glue accents to make them sparkle!

My papers are BG lemonade and SU! card stock. I've embellished with Prima flowers, sticky gems, ribbon tabs, and the glitter. I've embossed the pink layer under the image with the Swiss Dots folder and CB.

Thanks for dropping by today, I hope you have a great Friday and if you are up for some challenges, please head on over to Just Magnolia and Stamp Something and join us, be sure to check out my design team members and their fabulous creations too! Happy Stamping! :)

This card also fits the challenge at...
Cute Card Thursday...Glitter Me Silly
A Spoon Full of Sugar...create a scene

Holiday Treat Box and an Award

2009-11-12T09:32:00.005-05:00

For the Whimsy Stamps blog hop, please click HERE!

Good Morning!

Hope you're having a good Thursday...it's almost Friday! I have to say that I for one am looking forward to the weekend. It's been a long week with sick kids, school holidays, and lots to do around the house. I'm needing a break!

Today I have a creation to share that I made for my Paper Maniac DT work. All month long the design team will be sharing Holiday ideas using various products from the Paper Maniac store. This is my project for the day...it's an acetate treat box!

I found the tutorial on Splitcoast, it was pretty easy to follow. I just had a bit of trouble getting my acetate to sit still while I scored and folded, slippery little thing! But once it was scored, I was able to stamp some snowflakes on one side and then I folded it up and made the box. I stamped my snowflakes in white Staz-on ink. If you wanted your treat box to keep the contents inside a secret, Paper Maniac carries a beautiful line of premium card stock in metallic and shimmer, I think they would be a beautiful alternative to acetate!

I've used Baja card stock and some SU! designer paper with a snowflake pattern. I've embellished with some eyelets and satin ribbon and then used a scalloped circle punch and a circle punch to do the sentiment on the front and top. The sentiment is from Whimsy Holiday Postmarks at Whimsy Stamps. I filled my box with some Dove chocolates...then I ate a bunch!

And before I leave you today, I wanted to share this fun award I received from my friend Deb. Thanks hun! I haven't gotten an award like this before and it was fun to answer!

The rules are:

I need to pass this award on to five people, post on their blog to let them know I left this award, and then I need to answer a list of questions in ONE word.
So here we go:

1. Where is your cell phone? … purse

2. Your hair? …long
3. Your mother?…generous

4. Your father?… big teddy bear
5. Your favorite food? … chocolate
6. Your dream last night?… unknown
7. Your favorite drink? … Gingerale
8. Your dream/goal?… living it
9. What room are you in?… office/craftroom
10. Your hobby?… stamping
11. Your fear?… lots
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years?… here, I think
13. Where were you last night? … Home
14. Something that you’re aren’t?… mean
15. Muffins?…blueberry
16. Wish list item? … stamps
17. Where did you grow up? … New Hampshire
18. Last thing you did?… emailed
19. What are you wearing?…sweats
20. Your TV?… big
21. Your Pets?…four
22. Friends? … wonderful
23. Your life?… happy
24. Your mood?…lazy
25. Missing Someone?…sometimes
26. vehicle?… Volvo
27. Something your not wearing?… socks
28. Your favorite store? …many
29. Your favorite color?…blue
30. When was the last time you laughed?…last night
31. Last time you cried?…not sure
32. Your best friend?… awesome
33. One place that I go to over and over? …Post Office
34. Facebook?… yes
35. Favorite place to eat?… out

I’d like to pass this award on to the following blog friends:
Erin, Vicki, Janna, Ann, and Laura to choose only 5 is never easy! If you haven't received this award before and would like it, please consider yourself awarded! And, I'm breaking the rules! HA!

Thanks for dropping by today! I'm off to do some laundry and then hopefully stamp! Have a great day, happy stamping! :)

Thank You

2009-11-11T08:50:00.001-05:00

For the Whimsy Blog Hop, please click HERE!

Hi All and happy Wednesday to you!

Hope your week is going well. Things are much better here, the kids are felling better and everyone is back to school and work. Things are slowly getting back to normal and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the germs are all gone!

I made a card last night for some challenges with a fun new image I received from my friend Deb. I love all the images Deb, thanks for sharing with me!

This is a new Kraftin' Kimmie stamp called Francesca. I just love her fun pose and the look on her face! She's been colored with Copics and I added a tiny bit of highlighting with a white gel pen. I've doodled around the image as well.

All of the papers are BasicGrey Lemonade and some SU! card stock in olive, pink, and razzleberry. I've distressed all the edges of my papers and embellished with a tag sentiment, Prima flowers, ribbon, and some sticky gems. Technically my sentiment might not fit perfectly with this image, but I had Deb in mind and wanted to say my thanks to her for sharing some images with me. And it could work for a "thank you for my lovely birthday present" card, right! LOL :)

Thanks for stopping by today, have a great day. If you haven't had time for the Whimsy hop to showcase the new release of the Crissy Armstrong Collection, you still have time! Check it out HERE!

This card fits the challenges at:
The Pink Elephant - Be Thankful
Creative Card Crew - doodles
Everybody Art Challenge - distressing
My Time to Craft - tags so much

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas....

2009-11-10T11:59:00.001-05:00

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas

My True Love Sent to Me:
Twelve Drummers Drumming
Eleven Pipers Piping
Ten Lords a Leaping
Nine Ladies Dancing
Eight Maids a Milking
Seven Swans a Swimming
Six Geese a Laying
Five Golden Rings
Four Calling Birds
Three French Hens
Two Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

Welcome to the end of the Whimsy Stamps "12 Days of Christmas" blog hop! Are you in a festive mood and singing along with our hop song yet? We hope you enjoyed the hop and got lots of inspiration from our Whimsy designers! Today's hop is for our new "holiday collection" release by artist Crissy Armstrong! We are very excited for you to finally be able to see and purchase these sweet stamps!

If you are just joining me you'll want to hop back to the beginning of the hop at Bev's Blog to see all the wonderful holiday creations made by the Whimsy Stamps Design Team and Crissy Armstrong herself!

For my project I created an easel card! These cards are all over blogland right now and so I just had to try making one. I love it too! Very easy to create and makes for a real eye catching card! I'd like to thank whoever came up with this fab idea, it's a keeper!

I have used the stamp Very Present Helpers on my card today. These little cuties remind me of our own cats getting into some holiday trouble! I've colored with Copics and then added some Twinkling H2Os for some shimmer on the ribbon. The gift box was paper pieced with some Eskimo Kisses paper from BasicGrey.

I've used more Eskimo Kisses paper with some Razzleberry, Pink, and Sky colored card stock. The sketch is from this week's Sketch and Stash challenge. My unused stash would be the sticky pearl accents. I've embellished my card with polka dot ribbon, felt snowflakes, pearls, buttons, and snowflake charm.

Here is a side view of the easel card...

I created my sentiment with the Stampin' Up set Short and Sweet along with some punches. I used the scalloped oval, large oval, and modern label punches from SU!. I adorned the sentiment area of the card with more ribbon, pearls, a felt snowflake and a button. This card also fits the challenges at Crazy 4 Challenges and Secret Crafter Saturday who both had easel card challenges.

Now, this is the end of the hop, but the last stop on today's hop is the Whimsy Stamps homepage where you can enter for a chance to win some mystery blog candy which does include all 4 of the new Crissy Armstrong Collection stamps! We hope you enjoyed hopping around for some holiday inspiration! Our hop prize drawing will run from now until Friday, November 13th at noon ET. For your chance to win, please be sure to leave a comment on the Whimsy home page "12 Days of Christmas" blog hop post!

We thank you for joining us today and wish you all a very happy holiday season! Happy stamping! :)

SPCC - GDT Spot 2

2009-11-09T09:47:00.005-05:00

Hello Again!

Hope you are having a great Monday! Things could be better here at our house...sick kids! We think our son has the flu, which has made for a lousy night and day. I feel so bad for him and there really isn't much we can do. I think we'll all be taking a nap later today though!

Today I have a card to share for my GDT spot with SPCC, a color challenge blog. I've been really challenged with these color combos...it's nice to be challenged, but boy did I struggle with this one! This week's challenge color combo is...

These are rather bright colors, not ones I would ever think to use on my own. I like cheerful, but I not big on really bright colors. I just have a hard time with bright and matching images to fit that style.

I used both Night of Navy and Melon Mambo card stock and then added pops of yellow and black in my embellishments and image to be sure to have all the colors in the combo present. The papers are BasicGrey June Bug and the image is Whimsy Skunk. I've colored with copics and embellished with Prima flowers, black buttons, some brads, and distressed edges.

Thanks for dropping by today. To see who won my Spread the Love blog hop candy, please scroll down to the next post. We'll be drawing the winners of the prizes from the Stamp Something...for Jaimie blog later today.

Have a great day, happy stamping! :)

Spread the Love - My Candy Winner

2009-11-09T09:39:00.005-05:00

Morning!

Thanks to all the wonderful people who entered the Spread the Love blog hop and card drive challenge! It was truly amazing to see the outpouring of support and kindness! The blog hop and card drive challenge have now ended, but please continue to send Jaimie love and kindness for as long as you want! We would love to continue to flood her with cards and words of hope and encouragement! Thank you for all you did to help our cause!

I've put all the names of the people who left comments here on my blog with links to their cards for Jaimie in a bucket and had my daughter draw the winner of my personal blog candy prize....

and the winner is...

Cindy! Congrats and thanks for helping! Please contact me with your mailing info and I'll get that goody pack right out to you!

We will be drawing and announcing the winners of the grand prizes over at the Stamp Something...for Jaimie blog a little later this morning. Be sure to check later today so see if you were a lucky winner!

Have a great day!

Layers of Color Sneak Peek

2009-11-08T09:56:00.004-05:00

Morning!

Hope you're having a nice weekend. It's been chilly here, so I've been inside stamping and doing some house cleaning. Not a bad weekend!

Today I have a card to share, which is a sneak peek at a couple new Layers of Color stamp sets! Layers of Color has a big Autumn release planned for next weekend but in the mean time, the LOC designers will be sharing some artwork using the new stamps as a way to give you a preview. And right now, Layers of Color is celebrating with a big release party complete with awesome prizes and free digi party favors. Head on over to the LOC blog now to enter for your chance to win! And while you're there you can download your free digital image!

Here is my sneak peek using the new stamp sets Rise and Shine and Merci Bouquet. I chose to use these three adorable chick stamps for my main image and then I used the chicken wire stamp to create a background page and I added a couple flowers to soften the chicken wire and add some color.

My images were colored with watercolor crayons and a paintbrush. I was going for a vintage/country feel, so I distressed all the edges with a pair of scissors. The papers are Riding Hood Red and Black cardstock with K and Company printed red paper. I've embellished with Prima flowers, buttons, ribbon, brads, hemp twine, and hand made flowers.

Thanks for dropping by today. I'm off to make a couple more cards. Hope you have a great day! Be sure to check out the rest of the Layers of Color party details and enter for your chance to win some free stamps! Hope to see you at the party next weekend!

Some Christmas Cards

2009-11-06T07:30:00.000-05:00

Happy Friday to you!

Hope you had a great week. I know I'm looking forward to the weekend for sure! This has been one busy week that I'm happy to see coming to an end. And with no big plans for the weekend, I'm hoping to squeeze in some craft time and relaxation!

Today I have two cards to share, both for new challenges. I went with some new holiday papers and images on both to get a start on my Christmas card list for this season.

Stamp Something

Our challenge at Stamp Something this week is "Recipe for Love Somethings" and we have a set recipe and also have a special request. The challenge is to use 1 ribbon, 2 papers, and 3 embellishments on your card. Your embellishments can be 3 of 1 kind or a multiple amount of 3 different embellishments. And our special request is that you make your card not only to enter our challenge, but also to send to Jaimie Cates, as part of our Spread the Love card drive.

Our sponsor at Stamp Something this week is Mo's Digital Pencil and the design team was able to make their projects using some of Mo's fabulous images. I've used Noelle Bearing Gifts for my card.

I paired this image with some pretty Wassail holiday printed papers from BasicGrey. I love the vintage feel and the perfect Christmas colors of these papers. My layout is from Mojo Monday, which I've rotated. Then I've distressed the edges and embellished with brads, spacers, and felt snowflakes along with glitter and flocking for some texture.

Just Magnolia

Our challenge for you this week at Just Magnolia is to use a Magnolia image of course and do distressing on your project. There is a great tutorial to show you some fun ways to distress your projects as well. I LOVE to distress personally. I think it's the texture that makes me fond of the look. So have fun and rip it up this week!

I ordered some Magnolias with Erin last week and this one was suppose to be a different stamp! I have no idea of this one's name as I was sent the wrong stamp. I have to say though, that I'm kind of happy they sent the wrong one, as I do really like this one! She's been colored with Copics and the highlighted with a white gel pen.

The layout for this card is from this week's Everybody Art Challenge. And again I've used more Wassail papers and red and green cardstock. I embellished with flowers, spacers and rose centers, and some ribbon a heart charm and a heart piece of chipboard. The sentiment is from SU!'s Short and Sweet set.

Thanks for popping on by today! Be sure to drop by Stamp Something and Just Magnolia to check out my design team mates projects, they always have beautiful eye candy to share! Hope you have a wonderful weekend! Happy stamping. :)

Holiday Card and Ornament

2009-11-05T10:01:00.005-05:00

Good Morning!

Happy Thursday to you all. Hope your week is going well. It's getting colder and colder here, so we've been inside most of the week. Perfect stamping weather although I've been so busy I haven't had much time for fun things!

I did squeeze in some time last night, after the kids went to bed, to stamp and make a couple things. First is a card I made and fit to some challenges. It's been a while since I've participated in the challenges, it was nice!

I have lots of new Whimsy Stamps rubber so I wanted to ink up one of them. This is Whimsy Winter Raccoons! I've colored with copics and added some chunky and sparkly glitter for snowy accents. This stamp works for the Scene challenge at Stamp with Fun.

I went with all blues and whites for my paper colors and used some pretty SU! snowflake printed paper. This fits the Blue Christmas challenge at Cute Daisy May. I also used my lace border punch to create some faux lace accents. These are scalloped shaped and fit the so many scallops challenge at My Time to Craft.

I've embellished this card with gel pen faux stitching, a felt snowflake with gem center, and then some sticky gem swirls for added bling. The added touches of silvery bling help to fit the Blue White and Silver color challenge at Colour Create.

Next I have a holiday ornament to share with you. Our assignment for design work this week at Paper Maniac was to continue with create ideas for holiday decor.

I created this ornament to put my kids pictures on and give to the grandparents this year as keepsakes. I haven't added the photos yet, but will do that after we take some holiday shots of the kids.

I used my Labels Nesties and some Eskimo Kiss paper from BasicGrey. Each frame is a coordinating piece of paper and cardstock glued to another coordinating cardstock and paper piece. I've punched eyelets in the top and bottom on the top piece and only in the top on the bottom piece. Then I used silver thread to hang them together. I embellished with pearls and some satin ribbon.

Thanks for dropping by today! I hope to have some time to visit each of you later today too. Sorry I haven't been by all week, there just aren't enough hours in the day lately!

Have a great day, happy stamping! :)

GDT and Some Exciting News

2009-11-04T11:37:00.004-05:00

Happy Wednesday All!

It's been another busy day at our house. We had school drop off and then my daughter's ballet class and then the grocery store. I'm just getting in now! Hope you're having a great day!

I have a card to share and then some rather exciting news to spill as well! First, my card, which is for a guest design spot on Copic Colour Challenge! Not sure how it happened, but I had completely forgotten about my GDT with them, but thankfully Adele was very willing to wait for my card yesterday! Thanks Adele!

The color combo at Copic Colour Challenge this week is:

I ddin't have all of those colors in my Copic collection so I tried to match as well as I could and then added some of these colors with my papers and embellishments.

I've gone with a holiday card for this one and used the new BasicGrey Eskimo Kisses paper and buttons along with this cute Whiff of Joy image. The image was colored with Copics of course and then I added some flocking to her coat, hood, and boots to add some texture. Love that stuff!

I kept the layout simple and used my lace border punch and some satin ribbon across the middle and then framed my image with circle Nesties and an embossed piece of pink cardstock. The image is popped up on foam tape. I also added some faux stitching with a white gel pen.

Now, for my exciting news.....

I've been waiting quite a while to be able to share this wonderful news with you all and today I can finally do just that! Whimsy Stamps has a new illustrator and it's none other than the super duper talented Crissy Armstrong! We are just over the moon to have Crissy as a member of the Whimsy Stamps family, we are very fortunate! She has already created a collection of holiday stamps which will be released early next week! I adore the new images and I know you will too! Stay tuned for more info and our holiday release blog hop next week!

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a great afternoon! Happy stamping! :)

SPCC Guest Design Spot

2009-11-03T08:31:00.004-05:00

Spread the Love blog hop....please click HERE

Happy Tuesday All,

Boy what a day yesterday was! Thank you so much to all the wonderful people who joined in our blog hop as participants and readers alike! You are all amazing and so generous and kind! We thank you all for the support you have shown for our cause and for Jaimie! Please click the link above if you want to take part, you have until next Monday!

I was suppose to post this card yesterday, but I never managed to get there! I was asked by Samantha at SPCC to join them for the month of November as a guest designer. Of course I said yes, it's always an honor to guest design and it's fun too! For those that aren't familiar with SPCC, they are a weekly color challenge blog and this week's challenge is....

For my card I went with the Chocolate Chip and Creamy Caramel in the paper colors and then added some green and oranges as accent colors. I've used a Magnolia image and the sketch was from a challenge, but I have no idea which one now! I embellished with Prima flowers, ribbons, and a charm.

I'd like to thank Samantha for having me! Sorry my post is a bit late! Hope you all have a great day. Cleaning time for me! Happy stamping! :)

Spread The Love Blog Hop

2009-11-02T10:00:00.008-05:00

Happy Monday!

Today I have a very special post! Erin and I have organized a Spread the Love blog hop to help bring love and hope to a young New Hampshire girl named Jaimie Cates, who sadly was the victim of random violence in her own home and as a result of this random act, also lost her mother. It was a terrible tragedy that has touched us deeply and so we wanted to do something to help Jaimie.

Here is the story of what happened in the small NH town not very far from where I live myself....
On the night of October 3rd Jaimie and her mom, Kimberly, went to bed with no way of knowing the events that were about to transpire to change their lives forever. Four local teenagers armed with knives, broke into their home and brutally murdered Kim Cates and seriously injured 11 year old Jaimie and left her for dead in the driveway. These boys chose the home for no other reason than its location and for no other purpose than to bring harm to the occupants. It was a senseless, random crime that shook the small town and much of the state.

Erin and I have been overwhelmed with the support and compassion of the stamping/scrapping community and with the help of countless bloggers and many many company sponsors, we are bringing you our "Spread the Love for Jaimie" blog hop and card drive! Each of the members of today's hop will share the card they made for Jaimie and we all hope that you will be inspired by this young girl and want to help her too.

Today's hop started on Katharina's blog and if you are just joining me, you'll want to hop back to Katharina's and start this special hop there. If you are joining me from Jay Jay's blog, then you are in the right place!

This is the card I will be mailing to Jaimie this afternoon. I wanted to use some cheerful colors and papers, but nothing too girly as Jaimie is not a girly girl. She like sports, playing outside, and she is a black belt in Karate too!

My card uses this sweet image from Squigglefly Digital Stamps, illustrated by Crissy Armstrong, both of whom are participating in our blog hop today! I've colored with copics and then embellished with ribbon, Prima flowers, buttons, and metal hardware. My sentiment says "Sending Happy Thoughts Your Way" and is available at Whimsy Stamps, another sponsor in today's hop.

My 6 and 3 year old made the two cards above to send to Jaimie. They each chose their supplies and assembled and colored them by themselves and then drew special pictures inside. I'm very proud of them for wanting to show Jaimie some kindness.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, the next stop on the hop is Cindy's blog. Our hop will end on our new blog, Stamp Something...for Jaimie where we have a special card drive challenge posted with opportunities for participants to win some really terrific prizes donated by our generous sponsors. So be sure you continue to hop to see all the love and hope being spread for Jaimie and then we hope you will make a card and enter it into our challenge!

If you are willing to help spread the word about our cause for Jaimie by creating a post on your blog with links to the Stamp Something...for Jaimie blog as well as posting our badge, you can enter to win my personal blog candy for this event! These are the items in this goody pack: ribbon, black ink spot and hand stamped by stamp, full unmounted rubber stamp set in a baby theme, heart theme acrylic stamp set, package of Prima hydrangea flowers, sticky letters, sticky words, pack of buttons, and some chocolate!

Once you have posted the info and links about our hop on your blog, please come back here and leave a comment. I will draw one winner from the comments left here on my blog on Monday, November 9th.

Have a great day and please, if you have a few moments to spare, make a card and mail it to Jaimie and then let others know about our Spread the Love bog hop and card drive. Thank you and Happy Stamping!

Jaimie Cates
c/o Mont Vernon Fire Station
Main Street
Mont Vernon, NH 03057

Monochromatic and Cute and Fuzzy

2009-10-30T07:00:00.003-04:00

Happy Friday!

Hope everyone had a great week this week! I've been busy but it was a good week all around. Looking forward to some down time this weekend though. Hope you have some fun things planned! Have fun trick or treating!

Just Magnolia

Today is a new challenge over at Just Magnolia! We want to see you make a monochromatic project. If you aren't sure about monochromatic, it's basically just using multiple shades of one color. And you must use a Magnolia image to be eligible for the blog candy prize.

I went with shades of blue and added in some white for a winter snowy theme. I used some shimmery paper from Paper Maniac and embossed it with the snowflake embossing folder and CB. I embellished with ribbons, felt snowflakes, pearls, and a metal snowflake charm. I just received this sweet Tilda the other day and thought she was perfect for a snowy card! She's been colored with Copics and highlighted with a white gel pen. I also added some gel pen faux stitching to the edges.

Be sure to pop over to the Just Magnolia blog to check out all the beautiful monochromatic creations the rest of the design team made! And I hope you'll join in this week too!

Stamp Something

This week our Stamp Something challenge is to create something Cute and Fuzzy. Our sponsor this week is Ildico and they generously gave the design team some images to work with for the challenge!

I used this sweet party bear complete with hat and streamer! I've colored the image with Copics and used some Bittersweet papers with the sketch from Truly Scrumptious. They also had a recipe they wanted us to use with some brads, gems, and flowers, which I did, but not in the correct quantities, oops! I embossed my circle layer with the Swiss Dots folder and CB and then added some flowers, buttons, gems, brads, and a piece of satin ribbon to complete the card!

I have a special announcement to share too. On Monday, November 2nd we will be hosting a Spread the Love blog hop for Jaimie Cates! We have over 60 hoppers joining us and some amazing sponsors who have donated fabulous prizes for our Spread the Love Card Drive Challenge! You can hop over to the new Stamp Something...for Jaimie blog now to find more information about Jaimie and our cause!

Thanks for dropping by today, have a great Friday! Be sure to check out my design team mates projects at both Just Magnolia and Stamp Something and if you're up for a challenge, please join us! Happy Stamping! :)

Lollipop Lollipop oh Lolli-Lollipop, Lollipop!

2009-10-29T14:16:00.003-04:00

Hello!

Hope you are having a great day! I've been stamping away today getting some design work done as well as making a card just for fun! I checked out the challenges today too and there are some great ones this week! Lots of fun sketches!

I created this card using the Cupcake Craft sketch and my new sweet Magnolia stamp that arrived yesterday! I've been waiting and waiting and finally she is here! I love new rubbah!

I went with bright cheerful colors for this one as I think they fit perfect with this image! I've colored with Copics and added some gel pen and glitter accents to her and then cut her out and sat her on this pretty pink polka dot ribbon. I've embellished with Prima flowers, ribbon, a gem charm, buttons, sticky gems, and an eyelet border punch.

This card also fits the challenges at:
ABC Challenge - G is for Green
LaLa Land - use ribbon
Simon Says Stamp - All that Sparkles

Thanks for stopping by today, I'll be back here tomorrow with two new cards for the new Stamp Something and Just Magnolia challenges! Until then, happy stamping! :)

Stroll Through the Seasons with Whimsy Stamps

2009-10-28T12:00:00.001-04:00

This blog hop is now closed! Thank you all for joining in our stroll through the change of seasons and for leaving your lovely comments!

After removing comments for our Whimsy DT members, the random winner of my personal prize of the new Holiday Postmark Sentiment set is.....as chosen by random.org.....

Here are your random numbers:

Timestamp: 2009-10-28 16:30:52 UTC

That would be Debs who said....

Wow thats one cool looking fox, great card,

Debs

October 25, 2009 12:25 PM

Congrats to you Debs, please email me with your mailing info and I'll get that set in the mail to you ASAP. I'm off now to post the winner of the grand prize! You can see who won on our Whimsy Stamps home page!

Hi Again!

Hope your Friday is going well! We have a treat for you today...we're doing another Whimsy Stamps Release Blog Hop! We've gone with a "change of season" theme for this one. You'll get peeks at the new release stamps in each of the design team creations as you stroll with us through the changing of the seasons!

Our stroll began today at noon EST on DT member Stacey's Blog, so if you're just joining me now, you'll want to stroll back over to Stacey's Blog and start the hop there. Our hop will go until noon EST on Wednesday, October 28th. So you have plenty of time to stroll through our changing seasons to check out the design team eye candy!

Each DT member will be giving out a blog candy prize on her blog and we will have a grand prize drawing on the Whimsy Stamps website. The lucky grand prize winner will receive all 4 of the new Fall/Winter animals, shown below! And if that's not enough, we will also have another "mystery candy" chance for all who join our SNR Whimsy group! For your chance at all of these fun prizes, be sure to visit all the blogs on your stroll and leave some love for the designers. We will announce the random winners on Wednesday afternoon next week!

My creation uses the new Whimsy Fall Fox stamp and I've done a Spring themed card. My layout is from last week's Friday Sketchers challenge and I've distressed all the edges.

I've used a purple and green color palette with BasicGrey Wisteria papers. My fox has been colored with Copics and mounted as a tag with a brad and some ribbon. I've embellished with Prima flowers, sticky gems, and a dragon fly charm. My sentiment is Circle Postmarks available at Whimsy Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today! Next on your stroll will be Sharon's Blog. Have a happy walk through the changing of the seasons and remember to leave those comments for your chance at some Whimsy candy! Happy stamping!

Paper Maniac Kid Crafts

2009-10-28T08:00:00.000-04:00

Happy Wednesday to you!

Hope your day is going well! I'm off early today to take my daughter to ballet class and then we'll hit the grocery store on the way home. I hope to have some crafting time later too, but we'll see about that!

Today I have a special project to share. This is one my daughter Emma and I created together for my DT work with Paper Maniac. Our assignment this week was to create a project with our kids. So, while my son was at school the other day, Emma and I made this ornament!

Sorry about the glare, no matter what I did, I couldn't avoid it! These fun plastic ornaments are available at Paper Maniac and they make for a perfect keepsake. Emma chose the image and then colored it all by herself. I'm proud to say that an "almost" 4 year old did this! She is a budding crafter, can you tell she watches mom!

After she finished coloring her image we cut it out with circle Nesties to fit the ornament. Then we filled half of the ornament with glitter and beads. Next we fit the image piece into the ornament as far as it would go and taped it down. Lastly, we added satin ribbon for a hanger.

I love that I only had to use one half of the ornament, now I can get my son to make one too. Then our Christmas tree will have two new ornaments this year! This was a fun and easy project to do with Emma and it took very little time. I know we are all very busy these days, but if you have a half hour, these Kid Craft projects are lots of fun! You can see all the different crafts for kids at Paper Maniac, HERE!

Thanks for stopping by! I'll be back this afternoon with the winner of the Whimsy Blog Stroll! If you haven't had a chance to stroll through our change of season blog hop, you have until noon EST today! Have fun and happy stamping! :)

Be My Friend

2009-10-27T11:44:00.006-04:00

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Morning All!

Hope you're having a great day so far! I've been busy trying to get some chores done around the house, but I decided to sneak in a stamping break!

I made a card today using a few of the new challenges for this week and a neglected stamp! I've been making holiday cards lately, so I've taken a little break to make something different.

I started with this sweet Sugar Nellie Braveheart image and colored it with Copics in browns and gray. I highlighted with white gel pen and then cut it out with my circle nesties. The sketch is from Inspirational Card Sketches. I really like the simplicity to this one, I will definitely use it again sometime!

I went with a blue and green color scheme and added some retired SU! paper from last holiday season. This paper and my white gel pen dots fit the challenge at PaperTake Weekly of "Spots n' Stripes." I've embellished with ribbon, hardware, brads and buttons and a flower. I also distressed the edges of some of my layers to fit the "Rip It Up" challenge at My Time to Craft. I love distressing so this challenge was right up my alley!

Thanks for dropping by today! I'm off to finish my housework, hope you have a great afternoon! Happy Stamping! :)

Reindeer Ornament Card

2009-10-26T07:00:00.001-04:00

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Good Morning!

Hope you all had a nice weekend. It rained here one day so I got some crafting done and then we just spent time as a family. Now it's back to the grind! Hope you have a great day ahead!

I have a card to share with you today that I created using the sketch from Whimsy Challenges. I also made my image piece removable as a paper Christmas tree ornament.

The image is the new Whimsy Reindeer from our Animals Collection. I've colored him with Copics and then added a little highlighting with a white gel pen. I created snow with chunky glitter and dazzling diamond dust. The image was framed with circle Nesties and then I punched a hole with the Cropadile and added an eyelet and ribbon for hanging.

The papers are BasicGrey Eskimo Kisses with some yummy satin ribbon. I also added a snowflake charm. The edges have been distressed using the edge of scissors. This card also fits the challenges at:

Daring Cardmakers - These are a few of my favorite things - the papers and ribbon
BasicGrey Challenges - use BG and the colors red, green, blue
LaLa Land - sparkle

Thanks for dropping by today! Happy Stamping! :)

It's a Reindeer Waltz

2009-10-24T19:16:00.005-04:00

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Hi All!

I hope you are having a good weekend! It's a little later than usually for me to be posting but things have been busy at our house today. It's been another rainy day so we've been cleaning up and I did a little stamping too!

I wanted to share some news with you. Layers of Color will be holding a big party in November to celebrate the release of a new beautiful collection of clear art stamps! The party will kick off on the 14th and run through the 15th with amazing prize drawings totaling $250! Plus, if you "attend" the party, you will receive a free digital stamp party favor, get to see beautiful creations from the design team for your visual delight, and have fun meeting new people! I hope you'll come and celebrate with us and be sure to invite your friends too, all are welcome!

I wanted to leave you with some Layers of Color holiday inspiration! I've created this card using the beautiful Reindeer Waltz stamp set and some of my new favorite BasicGrey Eskimo Kisses papers.

I've embossed my bottom layer with the snowflake CB folder and then added some swirly printed paper to match the swirls in the reindeer image. I love the elegant details in this image. I've embellished with a felt snowflake and a button and snowflake charm. I added some soft pink snowflakes and a sentiment both from the SU! set Short and Sweet. It's a very snow filled card!

Thanks for dropping by tonight! Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Happy Stamping!

Just Magnolia and Stamp Something

2009-10-23T07:30:00.002-04:00

Happy Friday Everyone!

Hope you've had a great week! I've been busy this week so I'm looking forward to the weekend. It's suppose to rain tomorrow, you know what that means....stamping! Hope you have some fun things planned.

I have two cards to share with you today. The first is for Just Magnolia and the next one is for Stamp Something. Both of the challenge blogs have just posted new challenges, hope you'll join us this week!

Just Magnolia

This week at Just Magnolia we have a sketch by the talented and creative Martine! I've used the sketch almost as is, just changed the oval to a rectangle as I'm not great at making ovals.

I've gone with a pastel color palette and used some retired SU! designer papers. The colors are plum and saffron. I've distressed all the edges and added some lace and satin ribbons for a couple of my layers.

My image is one I received in a swap and she's been colored with Copics is more soft colors. Then I highlighted with white gel pen and some Spica glitter too. I've embellished with Prima flowers and roses and the sentiment is attached with a button.

This was a great sketch to work with, I hope you'll pop on over to Just Magnolia and give it a try! Be sure to check out all the beautiful design team samples created using Martine's sketch!

Stamp Something

Our challenge at Stamp Something this week is Halloween Somethings! Halloween is only about a week away, so we want to see your creative Halloween cards, treats, and projects! Our sponsor this week is Cute Daisy May and they kindly donated some blog candy as well as images for the Design Team to work with.

I went with this sweet little Halloween witch and colored her with Copics and highlighted with gel pen and glitter. I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday along with papers from K and Company and Making Memories. I've been using purples and oranges for my cardstock colors on all my Halloween projects as I ran out of black, not sure how that happened!

I've embellished this card with some gingham ribbon and orange buttons and some Prima flowers with a button center. If you are in need of some Halloween inspiration, be sure to check out the rest of the fun Halloween Somethings the design team has created this week! Then be sure to show us your Halloween Something!

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a wonderful Friday and a fabulous weekend! Happy Stamping! :)

Halloween and Christmas

2009-10-21T10:56:00.004-04:00

Hi All!

Happy Wednesday! I was meaning to have the post up earlier but it was ballet day today and things have been busy. I hope you're having a great day!

I have two cards to share, one for Paper Maniac and the other for Doodle Palace! One is a Halloween theme and the other is more Christmassy! So, I've got the holidays covered with this post! LOL!

Our theme and challenge for this week at Paper Maniac is black and white with a pop of color. I decided on orange for my pop of color so that I could make a Halloween card with this super cute image from LaLa Land Crafts, which is available at Paper Maniac.

I used some paper from Making Memories and K and Company with some cardstock from SU!. The sketch is also from our option add on to the challenge at Paper Maniac. The image was colored with Copics and highlighted with white gel pen and some Spica glitter pen accents. I've embellished with ribbon, buttons, and hemp twine. The sentiment is from SU! and I used a word window punch.

This card also fits the challenges at:
Cupcake Craft - Things That Go Bump in the Night
Stamp with Fun - Halloween
My Time to Craf t - Halloween Colors
Everybody Art-Challenge - Halloween
Kaboodle Doodles - Spooky

My next card uses a cute new Sledding Penguin from Doodle Palace! This little guy will be available to purchase this week. He's been colored with Copics and then highlighted with white gel pen.

The layout is from Inspirational Card Sketches and I've used some SU! cardstock and Imaginisce papers. I really like these cute designs and that the pages have glitter on them too. I distressed the edges of my papers and then embellished with ribbon, a snowflake charm, and felt snowflakes with rhinestone gems. The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps and I've framed that with the oval punches and word window punch and then added some brads to hold it in place.

This card also fits the challenges at:
LaLa Land Crafts - Use Sparkle
Digital Tuesday - Things with Wings

Thanks for dropping by today! Hope you have a great afternoon. Happy stamping! :)

Spoon Full of Sugar GDT

2009-10-20T08:00:00.000-04:00

Morning All!

Hope you're day is off to a good start! I have a lengthy list of things to do, but before I get to the busy work, I do I have a card to share with you. Debbie asked me to guest design at A Spoon Full of Sugar this week and of course I said YES! I love their challenges and it's always an honor to be a guest designer.

This is my holiday card using Debbie's fab sketch and some BasicGrey Eskimo Kisses papers. We were all given digital images to use for the challenge too, from the sponsor Soft Pencil. I've colored mine with Copics to match the papers. I embellished with a felt snowflake, button, and hemp twine with a snowflake charm. The sentiment if from Stampin' Up!.

This card also fits the challenges at:
Whimsy Stamps Challenges - to emboss (white layer)
BasicGrey Challenges - red, green, blue (papers)
ABC Challenges - F is for Flying - it's a stretch, but the little balloon is flying/floating!
Lili of the Valley - Christmas card for a child

Thanks for dropping by today, if you're up for a challenge head on over to A Spoon Full of Sugar and play along with Debbie's sketch! Have a great day, happy stamping! :)

Spooktacular Halloween

2009-10-18T13:53:00.004-04:00

Happy Sunday All!

We are in the midst of a cold and rainy day here, perfect weather for an afternoon of stamping! I went out and hopped around the challenge blogs and found some I wanted to try. And here is what I came up with....

When I first saw this image, from Mo's Digital Pencil, I knew it would be great for those kid Halloween projects and then paired with this old SU! sentiment, it's perfect! I've colored with Copics and added some white gel pen and gold Spica glitter pen accents. I used the sketch from A Spoon Full of Sugar, which I rotated, and then paired with some purple and orange cardstocks and K and Company Halloween paper. I've embellished with satin black ribbon and a couple bows.

This card also fits the following Halloween and Fall themed challenges...
The Pink Elephant - Fall
Digital Tuesday - Boo!
Paper Take Weekly - The Dark Side
Cute Card Thursday - Spook Fest
Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge - Fall
One Stop Craft - Halloween
Stamptacular Sunday - Spook-tacular
Pile It On! - Ready for Halloween

Phew, I think that's all of the challenges! Thanks for dropping by today. Enjoy what's left of your Sunday! Happy Stamping! :)

Bright and Zingy With Some Bling!

2009-10-16T07:00:00.001-04:00

Happy Friday!

Yeah, another weekend almost here! I'm posting early today as I'm off in a few minutes to be a chaperone for my son's field trip today. Hoping that it warms up a little bit though, it's a chilly morning here! Hope you have a day of fun planned today and are looking forward to the weekend.

I have my card to share for the new challenges at Just Magnolia and Stamp Something. I've cheated a little this week and combined the challenges as I was very short on crafting time. The challenge at Just Magnolia is to use some bright and zingy colors on your creation and at Stamp Something we want to see you Bling It!

This is about as bright and zingy as I get! LOL! I don't have many really bright papers and colors, so I went with some Lemonade papers from BasicGrey with Razzleberry and Mambo cardstock from SU!. I've used this sweet Tilda with bike image and colored her with Copics. I also added some glitter to her hair with a gold Spica pen. You'll want to check out this week's Stamp Something blog candy prize and see why I used a Spica pen!!

I've used the sketch from Sketch and Stash and my neglected stash would be my sticky gems. I love these pretties and forget that I have so many! They are also my bling for the SS challenge. I've embellished with faux stitching, Prima flowers, buttons, and ribbon. The buttons and stitching fit the challenge at Cupcake Craft too.

Thanks for dropping by today. I hope you have a fantastic weekend. It's suppose to be cold here, so I hope to have some indoor stamping fun! Happy stamping! :)