Molly and Sam In Love

Hi, Happy Friday 

Today Stamp Fairy is releasing a new collection called Molly and Sam In Love 

Gerda has created Molly a boyfriend and let me tell ya he is one fine looking young fella!!

You can see the collection by going over to the store here 

Would you like a chance to win some Stamp Fairy images?

Do you love to color with Copic, ProMarker or Colored Pencils?

Come join the fun over at CMC Challenge Group 

Stamp Fairy is Sponsoring this week's challenge theme 

Colors of Love 

Red, Pink and Cream/White

I made a card for this challenge using one of my favorite Stamp Fairy images

Patches from the Love/Valentine Collection

Papers are from Basic Grey Bittersweet 6x6 pad, Patches is colored using Copic and layered on 

an embossed SP circle and Lacy Circle. I used a MS border punch for my border and Blush Pink seam binding ribbon, Flowers are from Prima.

We would love to see  our followers join this great challenge group and hopefully one 

of you will be the lucky winner. 

Thanks for swinging by and hope you have a great weekend!

Hugs xxxxx

It's Double Fun at Whimsy Stamps today!!!

Hi there, it's a fun day at Whimsy Stamps, 
First we have a new challenge on the Whimsy Inspirations Challenge blog 


Our theme this week is to Make Your Own Flowers - FUN!! 


Here is my card using MFT rolled daisy die for two of my flowers!! 

Isn't this image adorable? It is Spring Lamb one of Chrissy's new digital images for February! Want to see more of the new digital release, keep reading to find out more about all of the new digital images available today at Whimsy Stamps!!

I colored this cutie with my Copic, paired her/him with these beautiful Crate Papers "Paper Hearts", for my hand made flowers I used MFT rolled daisy die and then added small rose buds in the middle. Sentiment is one of our new release sets from Lia Stampz.

Would you like a chance to win 5 images of your choice - then come join us this week sharing your homemade flowers.
One lucky winner will be randomly drawn. 

If you have used a Whimsy image and would like to be a future guest designer be sure to add GDT next to your name when you link your card.

Be sure to stop over to our challenge blog 

to see all the wonderful inspiration team B is sharing today


Now before you head over there to - let me share our second fun at Whimsy Stamps!!
Today is our February Digital Release Blog Hop!!
Would you like a chance to win some of the new images 


You are going to love this months release 
The hop begins at Whimsy Inspiration blog 
 You will need to continue through the hop, leaving a comment on each of the DT's blogs 


Two of the design team members will be picking a winner each to receive a free digital image of your choice.


The the very last stop along the hop -will be picking our Grand Prize winner who will win 5 free images - but you must leave a comment on each blog!!!

 Here's a little preview of one of the many darling images Whimsy Stamps Artist have for you this month!!

I can't resist Chrissy's adorable images, this one is Cute Cupid and she is a cutie for sure!!

Sentiment is Lia Stampz, papers are Crate Papers "Paper Hearts", she is colored with Copic, embellishments are from my supplies! 

Remember the hop will run for 1 week and will end on Wednesday Feb 8th at 12 noon EST!

Start here at Whimsy Stamps Inspiration blog 

So be sure to vist each DT and leave a comment for a chance to win some sweet images from our Fabulous Artist!

Then come join us at Whimsy Stamps Inspire Challenge

for our Make Your Own Flower theme challenge.

Good luck and enjoy the hop!!

Inspiring Challenges 

Lamb Card

Anything Goes - To the One I love

Party Time Tuesday - Anything goes

Top Tip Tuesday - Valentine  

Cupid Card

Crafty Sentiments - use punches or dies 

Going Grey with Scrap- Creations - Red, White & Pink 

Oldie but a Goodie - something older then 6 months (flowers, charm and Vintage corner element)and a Heart! 

Digi Makeover Challenge - My Valentine

The Shabby Tea Room - Love is in the Air (picture inspired)

Hello, Happy Tuesday,

Today we have a new challenge posted on the Sweet Stamps Challenge blog

Our challenge theme this week is 

Shaped Cards

(anything but a square or rectangle )

Each week Sweet Stamps has a new challenge and although you are not required to use a Sweet Stamp, if you have some we would love for you to use them and you will receive a second entry into our draw.

Our prize each week to one lucky winner is a $20.00 gift certificate to Sweet Stamp Store for use on any of our lovely rubber stamps.

This was a fun challenge for me as I was able to use Cheery Lynn Designs French Flair Stacker Nesting Dies to create my full card. My card base is cut using the largest of the dies 5 7/8" x 5 7/8" 

then continued with the next smaller die - I then stamped Bloom Word sentiment  with Memento Tuxedo Black on a oval die cut base and distress the edges of the yellow card stock with Shades Ink  Buttercup Yellow Sunshine. The beautiful design paper is from 6x6 Authentique Blissful pad . Ribbon, flowers and rhinestone swirl from my supplies. I used Copic C1 and Y21 to color my flowers to match the papers.

Do take a minute to stop over to the challenge blog to see all of the wonderful cards the team is sharing for inspiration and we hope you will join us this week!

MTME Pretty Palette # 45

Good Morning ,


Today I am sharing a card for our Pretty Palettes challenge.

This week we have a beautiful color combo, White, Pear, Plum and Eggplant 

Simply elegant together!

Here's my design using digital papers from the My Time Made Easy Plum Fortunate Collection

Plum Pretties - Vineyard Plum, Tartan Plum , Dressy Plum matted onto Eggplant card stock and a pale green card base. I created this pinwheel cutting two 1 .25 inch strips from Dressy Plum, added a lace trim using a border punch, then folded  accordion style and glued both strips together to create my fan fold. I glued to a circle base and then added a pear color brad in the center. My Sentiment is from  My Little Friend digital set. Lace and Sheer ribbon from my supplies.

We would love for you to join us this week, remember if you play along with us in all of 4 Palette Challenges each week during the month,  you will be entered to win a a Pretty Package of THEIR Choice!.

Thanks for visiting!

Molly Valentines gift set

Hello and A Happy Friday to everyone!!!!!!!


Today Stamp Fairy has a new release just in time for you to create some adorable Valentines cards  or any day cards!
I created a Valentine gift set using three of the new images being released today called Molly Love 

I will fore- warn  lots of pictures within this post :) 

For my main card I used Molly Love 4 and the freebie image fence.

I paired this darling image with Memory Box brioche paper 6x6 pad

along with red and yellow card stock, I printed Molly at 3 inches and the fence at 2.8 inches

then hand cut the fence out to use as a border on my design. Molly is colored with Copic and I paper pieced her dress, two different lace and beautiful red sheer ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon 

Here I wanted to show a better angle of the fence (this is a free image within the new collection)

to show how you could use as a border within your design 

Matching Heart basket using Molly 3 made using my Spellbinder heart dies

and MS border punch 

Molly's dress is paper pieced with Memory Box pattern paper and her blouse 

and tights are highlighted with a bit of Star Dust Stickles. Red Heart Grossgrain Ribbon

from Really Reasonable Ribbon 

Side view of my heart basket showing more of the detail and embellishments

with bits of ribbon and flower.

You can see the complete collection here at Stamp Fairy.com

Inspiring Challenges

Aud Sentiments - Word LOVE

Crafty Purple Frog - Valentines Day

Craft Us Crazy - Valentine 

Do You Stack Up - ribbon 

DRS - hearts

Paper Play - lace 

My Little Rebel & a Sweet Valentine Topper

Happy Thursday!!

Today is inspiring Thursday at Digital Delights blog!! You definitely won't want to miss all the fantastic projects the design ladies are sharing this week!

I have a couple of projects to share today, One more card to share using one of the adorable images from Digital Delights' January's new  50's release and 

a new Valentine Topper 

I just love the movie "Rebel without a Cause" staring James Dean when I was a teenager. When I stumbled across this paper in my scrap basket I knew I had to make Heart Throb Richie,

just a bit on the bad side, but in a good way!  LOL!!

Now isn't this paper just the perfect piece of scrap for Heart Throb Richie? I guess I knew

when I held onto this paper I would one day have the perfect image for it!! Very clean and simple card, using a Cuttlebug embossing folder for my red card stock, Black ribbon, Hearts using MS heart punches.

My silver squares are stickers I also found in my mass stash as I have been cleaning and purging my craft room. 

For second share, I used the colored Cooking Bear Topper 

and created this fun little gift for one of my neighbors girls'

Another fun and easy gift to make, especially with the Colored image, all you have to do is print and cut it out. I add a heart shape doily, MS punched hearts, pearls using my Pearl Pen, ribbon bow and two ticket sentiments - Just for You can be found in the store. Filled with some delicious cookies 

makes a perfect sweet gift! 

Thanks for visiting and be sure to check out  Digital Delights Bargain or Friday Freebie

tomorrow!

Inspiring Challenges

Valentine Topper gift 

Crafty Creations - Valentine for a child - no card 

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes 

Card

Inky Impressions - heart you 

Whimsical Wednesday - Love

Ribbons and Pearls with Whimsy Inspired Challenge

Hello,


There's a new challenge at Whimsy Inspired Challenge blog, this week we are playing with ribbons and pearls
Two of my favorite embellishments to add to any of my projects.

We hope you will join us  for a chance to win 5 images of your choice - as well as a random winner being chosen, who has used a Whimsy Stamps

image (rubber or digital) will have the opportunity to be a guest designer for a future challenge.

If you have used a Whimsy image and would like to be a future guest designer be sure to add GDT next to your name when you link your card.

For my card I attempted to do a Clean and Simple one
using some Candy Heart images by Chrissy.
I had a hard time leaving it as is and not adding 
additional embellishments :)

Candy Heart images are from Candy Hearts sets 1,2 & 3

Using my scor-pal I created a texture to the top, a border lace 

using a scrap from Jellibean Soup Blossom and a MS lace border punch

Added pearls to the borders, ribbon and Dazzlin Diamonds to the hearts.

For the inside I again kept it CAS using one Candy Heart from Chrissy's Candy Heart set 4.

adding some doodling along the edge. Leaving plenty of room for a message.

Be sure to stop over to our challenge blog 

to see all the wonderful inspiration team A is sharing today


Would love to hear your thoughts on this CAS card, 
or suggestion to help inspire me when I attempt a CAS card in the future - hahaa!


Have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by to visit!

Cooking It Up with Katie - Hearts, Punches & Embossing

Hi there friends, time to share this week's challenge at Cooking It Up with Katie!

Our recipe this week is a fun one - Mix together some hearts, punches and embossing 

Our sponsor this week is Robyn's Fetish Designs and I used one of her images I just adore!

Isn't this such a cute image Hog Wild Love!! 

To begin my card I cut my bottom layer with Cheery Lynn Design Stackers Nesting Dies French Flair Classic using the largest die, pattern paper was cut with the next size down and dry embossed using 

Cuttlebug large dot folder (I think if you click on picture you can see the embossing). I colored the image with Copic and added some stickles to the hearts, glass and her ribbon bow the layered on mat cut with largest SB Lacy Circle die. Hearts were punched with three MS punches. My beautiful heart ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon January Ribbon club Hearts in Line Red Grossgrain 3/8. Flowers are Prima with Stickles added, stick pins are Making Memory.

Come play along with us for a chance to win your own images from Robyn's Fetish Designs.

Be sure to stop over to our challenge blog to see all the wonderful cards the team is sharing.

Inspiring Challenges

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Valentine's Day

Anything Goes - To the One I Love

Creative Card Crew - Seeing Red 

Oldie but Goodie Challenge - some old and hearts (image & flowers, pins is over 6 months old)

Love is in the Air

Hello, Happy Tuesday,

Today we have a new challenge posted on the Sweet Stamps Challenge blog

Our theme this week is all about 

LOVE

Each week Sweet Stamps has a new challenge and although you are not required to use a Sweet Stamp, if you have some we would love for you to use them and you will receive a second entry into our draw.

Our prize each week to one lucky winner is a $20.00 gift certificate to Sweet Stamp Store for use on any of our lovely rubber stamps.

For my card I began by making my own bingo card in word then stamped our Vertical Love stamp with Burgundy Shades Ink , cutting each letter separately to affix to the empty block on my card using a small pop dot to add a 3D effect. Background design papers are First Edition Love Letter 6x6 pad. Behind my bingo card I cut Cheery Lynn Design French Pastry Doily die with a solid paper from the Love Letter pad. With my flowers at the top of my card I added Olive Branches by Cheery Lynn Designs. To add a bit of glimmer to my letters I added just a tad of Stickles  - Star Dust 

Side view showing the raised stamped letters 

Wouldn't you love to win $20.00 to spend in Sweet Stamp store?

Then join us this week with our LOVE theme challenge

The team and I would love to visit and see your all about LOVE creation.

My card layout was inspired by this 

week's sketch from The Sweet Shop

Other inspiring challenges 

Crafty Boots - inspired by a song ( Have I Told You Lately By Rod Stewart)

Cup Cake Craft - All you need is Love 

Simon Says Stamp - a song title - Elvis Presley - A Big Hunk O' Love

The Cutie Pie Challenge- favorite song - (Have I told You Lately by Rod Stewart) 

There She Goes - Love is in the air 

Pretty Palette #44

Good Morning 

Here's this week's color palette for our weekly challenge at My Time Made Easy Pretty Palette

Beautiful Spring Colors, perfect to cheer you up 

on any day, especially during these cold winter months

Here is my take with our Pretty Palette

I use a soft yellow (Barely Banana), a brighter pink (Cameo Coral)

along with the softer pink ( Sweet Blush) for my card base and matting.

I chose a script design paper Acorn Squash from our 

Fresh Cut Expression Collection 2.

My image is from our So Fortunate Digi Stamp set which is colored with Copic R20, YG13,RV35 and highlighted with Y1. Adding stitching around the base, Pearls from my stash and two butterfly using a MS punch. Sweet Blush ribbon, Sentiment is from the So Sentimental acrylic stamp set finishes off my card.

Here's a side view how how I popped the layers using pop dots and the dimension the butterfly have using 

two of the punched butterfly together.

My card was inspired by the Deconstructed Sketch 35

Be sure to stop over to our challenge blog 

the design team are sharing some beautiful cards using this week's Pretty Palette.

Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful day!

Hugs'