I am still so sad to learn that SheetLoad of Cards will no longer be published after this month's issue. (You can click on the cover of the current issue in my side bar to go to the SLC site and download your copy!) But this last issue was spectacular!! We had so many artists participating in this final issue and we were sponsored by a great digi company called Doodle Palace!!
I wanted to share with you a couple of cards that I submitted for this issue...Of course they both use the wonderful sketch that you can get from this month's issue!
My first one uses Doodle Palace'sBaby Bear with Sailboat image. I made this card for a co-worker who just delivered a beautiful baby boy! I love how the Cosmo Cricket papers can be masculine or feminine. I colored my bear with Copic markers and tried to make it look textured by how I blended my markers together.
My second card for the December issue uses the Doggie in Stocking image. For this card I used a variety of DP's from MME and a Nestabilitie to frame the main image! I colored the image with my Copics! This will be a great card to give to one of the youngster's in my family for Christmas!
So, I shared some of my SheetLoad cards with you,
now it is time for you to share yours with us!!
It is time for one final round of Show Us Your SheetLoad and two lucky winners this month will receive free digital stamps from our December sponsor - Doodle Palace!!
Head on over to the SheetLoad blog today and find out how you can be entered to win.
But that isn't your only chance to win!!
SheetLoad is also having their 2nd Blogaversary celebration!
Want to find out how you can win the following goodies?!?!
Four (4) Assorted Clear Stamp Sets by Three Bugs in a Rug
(actual sets shown)
&
Nine (9) Assorted Packages of Thickers
(Image above is for illustration only and does not show actual assortment.)
First, it is Sweet Sketch Wednesday which means that Arlana has a new sketch for the week,
And secondly, it is the last day that you can enter to win my BLOG CANDY!! I will be closing the comments tonight at midnight and announcing a winner tomorrow! A link is provided at the bottom of this post!
So here is this week's sketch. We are already up to SSW Sketch #27!
This week we are sponsored by Bee Crafty Digital Downloads. Please check out her blog where you will see some fabulous samples of her wonderful digis!! If you choose to play along with this week's sketch, then you could have a chance to win THREE of her digis for FREE!
The Bee Crafty image that I chose to work with this week is called "Wish Fairies" but for my creation today I am calling her an "angel" OK? I wanted to do a Christmas card and needed an angel. In fact this card is also being submitted into the Digital Tuesday's challenge # 36 which was to incorporate a Christmas Song into your card. So my card is based on the song "Angels We Have Heard on High."
I couldn't help but grab some of my red and blue papers that I keep using this season. These papers come from SEI's Winter Song collection. Look closely at the trees above. I added these to create a scene that my angel was watching over. I used the Deep Woods stamp from Unity that I stamped in Versamark Ink and then lightly chalked using green chalk. So technically the traditional colors of red and green are still present on my card! LOL!
The snowflakes are diecuts from K& Co. and the sentiment is one that I printed out on my computer. The blue ribbon is from a collection I bought on Ebay. I think this card will go to one of our sweet granddaughters for Christmas. I am sure they will find this image to be as sweet as I do!
Well, this does it for today, but don't forget to visit THIS POST, and leave a comment and become a Follower of both my blogs for up to three chances to win the BLOG CANDY that will be given away tomorrow! I will be closing my comments out tonight at midnight.
Have a great Wednesday and may your bucket overflow with angels watching over you!
Welcome to my blog which is participating in the First H{Ippity} Hop Blog Hop featuring none other than the new {Ippity} stamps. We are so excited about getting to hop along to many blogs this and every week that are filled with {Ippity} creations! if you haven't done so already, I hope that you will get some {Ippity} stamps and decide to hop along really soon.
If you are interested in purchasing the complete collection of {Ippity} stamps at a very low rate, then click HEREto check out my sales blog! And be sure to check out my BLOG CANDYcontest that is still going on too. The link for that will be at the bottom of this post!
For today's H{Ippity} Hop we are also starting a week long challenge. The Challenge on the forum this week is SNOW. Create a card or project including SNOW on it and upload it to the SCS Gallery using the keyword IHHC1 (Ippity Hippity Hop Challenge 1).
Also include a link to your card on the {Ippity} Forum Challenge Thread and one lucky winner will receive an {Ippity} T shirt!! Hope you will play along!
The {Ippity} DT members have made their cards already to give you some inspiration so be sure to check them out as you hop along!
The card that I created for this challenge uses the Christmas trees and the Peace sentiment from the Kissmas & Mistletoe{Ippity} stamp set. The DP is from Webster's. I paper pieced the trees and used gold embossing powder on both the trees and the sentiment.
My SNOW for the challenge comes in with the snowflake stamp from {Ippity's} Kissmas & Mistletoe set. I stamped it in Winter Wonderland embossing powder. Then I also used tissue paper to create a snowy landscape. (I will be sharing this technique in a tutorial in the near future!)
This snow technique is a fun way to create dimension and keep your card very light weight at the same time. I added machine stitching for more detail on the snow!
Have a great time H{Ippity} hopping around today and please enjoy our first ever hop! We hope to see your creations on our challenge forum too! Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Sunday everyone! I hope you are having a great weekend. We have been spending ours trying to get our house decorated for the holidays. It is an involved process because I LOVE Christmas and have way too many decorations for any one house! LOL!
Yesterday we spent the day getting everything down from the attic and got our Christmas village set up and I set up my Santa collection too! I still have two trees to decorate but we ran into a problem with one of our tree stands last night and decided to call it a night about 10om until we could get a new stand (or tree) this morning.
So I didn't spend any time in my craft room yesterday and have no paper projects to share with you, but if you are interested, here are some pictures of our village!
Enjoy and I will be back tomorrow with some more crafting goodies for you!!
Here is a view of the whole village showing the lights!
The town center is on the left, the homes are in the middle up higher,
the lake and Fenwary park are to the right.
A closer view of the town center with a skating rink in the center.
You can also see the train in front that goes through a tunnel underneath the houses!
A view of the church on the hill and the homes that are raised up above the tunnel.
A view of the lake and Fenway park!
Have a wonderful day and may your bucket overflow with wonderful family traditions for your holiday season!
Are you feeling a chill in the air? If you do, it is probably because you have just landed on a blog hop full of snowmen!! Even here is FL we have a snowman for you!! LOL!!
Welcome to the March of the Snowmen!
A while back I was invited to participate in a March of the Snowmen blog hop by Melissa Waldorf! I was very honored to have been asked, and am thrilled to be participating!
We hope that you will hop along with us, by visiting the blogs listed below. You will see lots of creations including Snowmen. Don't you just love images of snowmen? Well you are about to see a wide variety of snowmen stamps! And as a bonus, many will be offering blog candy too, so make sure you stop in to all of them for a visit!
To find out about the BLOG CANDY contest that I have already had going on, please click HERE!
Here is the contribution that I have to share with you for the March of the Snowmen...
I am proud to show you this incredible snowman stamp that comes from the new stamp company on the block called {Ippity} by Unity. The snowman and the sentiment both come from the Kissmas & Mistletoe set that can be purchased HERE.
From this angle you can see that I used red glittered embossing powder to make my snowmen in red and pop him right off the page! Coupled with the DP from SEI and MME that also included embossing and glitter, this card just sparkles in the right light!
This creation was finished with an icicle border created with a MS punch, the sentiment framed with two nesties and a cute gingham ribbon from an unknown source.
The sentiment was embossed first using black embossing powder, and then again in red. The red heart was paperpieced over the black one to add some additional color.
So now you can don your snow boots and march over to the rest of the blogs who are participating in today's March of the Snowmen...
Thank you so much for visiting my blog today. Enjoy your hop around the above blogs and may your bucket overflow with wonderful visions of Snowmen for this holiday season!
Click HERE for a chance to win some {Ippity} BLOG CANDY!
Friday's are one of my favorite days of the week because I get to see a ton of Unity goodness by visiting the blogs of my fellow Unity friends! I love Fridays!!
Today I have some tags to share with you. I call them my Tim's TagsUnity/{Ippity} style!
Are any of you following Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas posts on his blog this year? He really has some amazing creations and he uses such neat techniques too. So I decided to play along this year. But I am changing it up a bit and using Unity and {Ippity} stamps to create my own version of them!
I have the first three days' tags completed for you to see here...
Aren't they really cool? I ordinarily don't stamp like this so it has been fun to step outside the box for me!
Here are some closeups for you...
This is the tag for day 1 (You can see Tim's version HERE) For mine, I used the snowman, snowflake and the sentiment from the {Ippity}Kissmas & Mistletoe set. In the background I also stamped the branch from the Devotedset. This card is cool because it used a neat inking technique for the background and a crackle effect too!
This is the tag for Day 2. ( You can see Tim's version HERE)I made my own whole frame by stamping the half frame from the {Ippity} set called Life's Little Moments. The sentiment, snowflakes and trees are from the Kissmas & Mistletoeset. Mine came out a bit more feminine than his did, but I like it this way!
And here is my tag for Day 3. (You can see Tim's version HERE) This is probably my favorite so far. I loved the plaid background we created with alcohol inks. I altered slightly the Unity stamp called Deep Woods, by masking the bottom part of it so it wouldn't stamp and then I drew my own skinny trunk with a Sharpie. I also used the swirls from the January 09 KOM and the stars from the Little Sprout set to create the background.
Thanks for stopping by and taking a look! Have fun on the rest of your stops on this FWF Friday. Be sure to stop by the Unity Blog to follow the whole list of today's participants! And don't forget about the awesome sale going on all this weekend too at Unity!
For another hop tomorrow and a chance to see some more {Ippity} please visit here again when I will be participating in a blog hop called the "March of the Snowmen."
The hop will begin tomorrow at 8am EST.
Have a great Friday and may your bucket overflow with lots of flair to share!
If I am not careful I don't have enough days in the week to post all the requirements for my DT's. So today I am going to give you a couple of maintenance posts into one...
...and also explain to you about my BLOG CANDY!!
When I wasn't looking this last week, my blog hits went past the 20,000 mark which means it is time for me to give away some goodies. I will explain at the end of this post what you can win and how you can win it!!
First things first...
Did you have a chance to go and get your SheetLoad of Cards eZine yet for December?
Did you notice anything on the SL blog while you were there? Alicia announced that this is the final month for new issues of SheetLoad of Cards.
This makes me very sad because Alicia has always run a very professional magazine filled with lots of inspiration and great sketches to use over and over again. Alicia was the first person to have faith in my work as a designer and select me for her DT. I will forever be grateful to Alicia for giving me the opportunity to work with her and her ShortCut products too! Her magazine will be missed but I am sure I will still run into her on the forums and in the stamping community! Thank you very much Alicia!!
Many of the current DT members and I have decided to stay on board and conctinue to design for Melyssa, but three spots have opened up and are just waiting to be filled. So check out their call below and see if you think your would like to try and join our team! It is a wonderful DT to work with!
Whimsie Doodles Design Team Call
If you ask anyone on our design team they’ll quickly tell you….there is nothing like being Doodlelicious! How would YOU like to be in the Doodlelicious spotlight and join our Whimsie Doodles family?
Do you LOVE Whimsie Doodles? Are you creative? Do you love a challenge? Do you have a blog? Are you spunky? (A little spunk is always a good thing!!) We’re looking for 3 new design team members starting now, and you could be just the person we’re looking for!
Click {here} to visit the Whimsie Doodles blog to read all of the details on the Design Team call.
Thirdly...
The DT call for {Ippity} is still underway too!
If you want a chance to be a part of a brand new DT working for the
Straight from the Ippity Blog, here are the details...
We have 2 spots to fill and those lucky people will join
our SUPER TALENTED {ippity} DT members:
Eryn, Kelly (that's me!), Eva and Maria :)
WE WILL BE ANNOUNCING THE 2 NEW {ippity} DT members on December 18th!
Here are the details again, in case you missed them:
1. Please make a minimum of 3 samples of your creativity using {ippity} stamps.
You can make cards, scrapbooking, layouts, anything.
(I have all of the stamp sets in my possession so should you need to purchase them!, I would be happy to sell them to you. Just visit my sales blog or email me at sownsew25@verizon.net)
2. Please send a picture of each your projects to opportunity@unitystampco.com by midnight December 16th, 2009. Along with the photos of your projects please include your FULL NAME, BLOG ADDRESS, and a little paragraph about yourself.
PLEASE NOTE: An established BLOG is necessary to become a member of the {ippity} design team. However, it is NOT NECESSARY to be an {ippity} CHICK (one who sells Ippity) to be part of the Design Team.
Finally...
Let's talk BLOG CANDY!!!
I can't thank you all enough for following my blog like you do. It means so much to me that you find enough inspiration here to visit my blog on a regular basis. And to you ladies who regularly comment on my blog (you know who you are) I can't begin to tell you how special you are to me. Just suffice it to say that you guys are the reason I keep doing this! You all totally rock and I wanted to do something to thank you for it.
So in honor of over 20,000 hits on my blog I am giving away
Two Ippity Stamp Sets!
Life's Little Moments
Alphabetically Adorable
Do you want to know how you can win these sets?
Everyone can have three chances to win!
Chance 1-
Leave a comment on this post and tell me something that you like about {Ippity} stamps
Chance 2-
Already be a Follower (and have left a comment,)
or become a new Follower of this blog (and have left a comment)
Click on the Follow icon in my right sidebar to start following.
So are you having a Sweet Wednesday??? Well if you are not then you probably need something to sweeten your day up! So why not grab this new sketch fromSweet Sketch Wednesday, head to your craft area and get busy making a special card using that sketch??
Doesn't that sound like it could sweeten your day??
Here is today's sketch. In fact we were given the option of using two sketches. This is the one that I followed for my card today, but you ca get the other one from the SSW Blog.
The sketch this week is sponsored by none other than Melyssa Connolly of Whimsie Doodles Digistamps!! How neat that two of my DT's met today in one challenge!! Melyssa is offering up a prize for one lucky winner who participates in this week's sketch challenge and submits their card on the SSW blog. So be sure to play along if you want a chance to win two of her brand new sets just released yesterday... Snow Angel and Christmas Undies!)
To make this sketch work for me, I decided to shrink down the Whimsie Doodles image called Gingerbread Greetings and then also flip it horizontally for my second one. That right there is the beauty of working with digital images my friend. I hope that you have given them a try, because once they are printed out, they are like coloring on any other stamped image!! The sentiment is also a WD image from the Holiday Sentimentscollection.
My images were colored or accented with Copic Markers. I used Christmas DP from My Mind's Eye. The ribbon is Martha Stewart and the lace trim is from Michael's. The little white brads are from Basic Grey and I finished the whole thing off with a little machine stitching!!
Head on over to the SSW Blog and learn more about how you can enter the challenge and also see more of the creations from the DT members using the great sketches!!
I hope that you will do what you need to do to have a sweet Wednesday and may your bucket be overflowing with now 26 sketches from Sweet Sketch Wednesday!
This is my second post of the day so to see my post about the new SheetLoad of Cards eZine issue and a big announcement there, please scroll down!
So today is the first of December which means that Whimsie Doodles has some new digistamps being released today! The image you see pictured above is called Snow Angel. Isn't it adorable??
With the colors I chose to use, I was going for a rustic looking snow angel. I used DP that was in my stash and is from DCWV (I believe!) The Red striped DP is from The Greeting Farm.
The glitter paper is amazing and doesn't come off on your hands! It is from K & Co. The snowflake punches are from Martha Stewart. I colored in my image using Copics. The ribbon is from Michael's.
Melyssa is releasing several stamp sets today and all are perfect for use in making your holiday cards and projects. Each set is only $2.50 and comes with a sentiment too. And don't forget that with digis, you can get your downloads almost immediately and not have to wait for them to be snail mailed to you. You can begin creating with your new digis today!
Here are today's releases...
Snow Angel
Christmas Undies
(Can you get over how ridiculously cute this set is? And oh how true it is! LOL!)
Tree Trimmers
To see more of these stamp sets used on projects, please visit the WD blogtoday and link to the DT from my side bar.
So head on over the Whimsie Doodles store now and get these adorable new images! What are you waiting for??/ :-) I will have some more projects to share with you using the other two sets very soon! Until then, happy shopping and may your bucket overflow with an abundance of cute digistamps to use for your Christmas projects this year!
Head on over to the SheetLoad of Cards blog today to download your FREE copy of the December '09 issue!
This issue features a sketch by Alicia Ekermans and digital stamps from Doodle Palace. There are tons of lovely samples from the SheetLoad Artists, as well as the sponsor's design team. It is the biggest issue ever!!
Good Morning everyone! I hope you had a great holiday weekend! I know that I did. My scrap room was pretty close to perfection yesterday when I started working on my project, so now it is a little messy again! Oh well!! I will keep working on it!! :-)
Today is the last day of November which means that it was my last time to post on the Unity blog as their Guest Designer! You can see my post HERE (after 10 am CST) Sniff sniff!! But thankfully I will still get to remain involved with that wonderful group of Unity people through {Ippity}!! Yeah!!
For my last GD project, I decided to make a Recipe Book cover to hold all of our families' favorite recipes. I am going to make three of them (maybe four!) One for each of my daughters and possibly my future daughter in law too! The perfect Unity set for this project is called Kitchen Logic. You can't buy it right now, but it was available for a brief pre-release period, and will be available again in the spring after the Winter CHA in January!
I used the adorable stove image and the sentiment that says "Nothing says LOVIN' like something from the OVEN!" Isn't that the cutest?? I paper pieced the kitchen towel and colored the rest of the image in with Copics. The heart I drew free hand and then matted with a some more of the red DP.
I am so happy about how I made my cover too! I was being very green! After I buy Unity stamps that come in those cute little brown recycled packages, I put them into CD cases that I keep on a CD rack near me. I have been saving those packages since the beginning and I am getting quite a collection of them in my stash! So I decided to use some of them to create my covers. I cut them down to be a little larger than the 4 x 6 recipe cards that will go inside the books and I glued two of them together. Then I used Modge Podge to coat the exteriors to keep them more waterproof since they will end up in the kitchen where it might be wet! The title was stamped believe it or not with cheap stamps I picked up from the Dollar spot at Target. Of all nights, my printer ran out of ink and I wasn't able to print the title out as I had originally intended!
I will make a picture tutorial for you and show you exactly how I made my covers in an upcoming post! :-)
The DP I used for this project came from the BG Nook and Pantry line and also from Flair Designs "What's Cooking" line. They both give a very warm homey feel and had great muted colors that went perfectly with the Kraft colored covers. I added the three buttons for accents on top of the ribbon and lace trims that I chose. I was going for the vintage cook book look with this project! I hope that you like this and might be inspired to create a cook book or album of your own using some recycled packaging!
I will be back again with more inserts for this book as I create them. I am thinking that this may end up being a Christmas gift for the girls if I can get them done in time. I found some self-adhesive clear pockets that will fit 4 x 6 cards that can be adhered to the interior pages and allow the card to be removed for use and then replaced afterward for storage. I am really excited about sharing our favorite recipes with my girls and also giving them this book that I think they will cherish into their adult years!
I hope you have a wonderful Monday and may your bucket overflow with many ways to create lasting memories for your family!
Some of my regular followers may have been wondering where I disappeared to since Thanksgiving! In case you noticed that I hadn't been posting, I will explain why. Friday I rose at 3am after getting only two hours of interrupted sleep to do the traditional Black Friday shopping spree with my mom, my sister and my sister in law. We had a great time together and I got a lot of my shopping started!
From there I had one of those rare weekends where I pretty much had the house to myself. My husband and most of the kids were away this weekend visiting other family members and I wasn't able to go because I was on call. So I took advntage of the time here at the house and have been overhauling, reorganizing and cleaning my scrap room. It was in a shambles and I knew if I didn't get a handle on it before the holiday projects and cards took over my room, it wouldn't happen for a while.
I still have more to do and even some cards to make later today, but it will be a lot of fun creating in a clean and organized space! This week should be a full week of posting so be sure to come back tomorrow for a Unity post which will be my last one as Guest Designer for them this month! :-(
I will leave you with a sneak peek of my projects coming out in the December issue of SheetLoad of Cards. The issue will be available for download on Tuesday December 1st. For more sneaks of the biggest issue ever, click on the linkHERE!
I hope you have a happy Sunday and enjoy the rest of your holiday weekend! May your bucket overflow with good times, good food and family!
Hello to all my family, friends and Blog friends!! I hope that you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving! I am blogging with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on in the background and the to the smell of Pumpkin pies cooking in the oven. A little later today we will be heading to my sister's where she will be marrying her soul-mate! Here is a picture of Michelle and Claude. We are so happy for them! They really have a magical relationship with each other and I know they will have many years of magic in marriage together!
Speaking of magic, what really brought you here today is the Unity DT Blog Hop! Today we our showcasing the November KOM called Simply Magical! It seemed appropriate today to share with you the wedding card that I made for my sister and Claude using two of the stamps from this month's KOM.
It's almost like the love they have for each other comes from some special Pixie dust that was sprinkled upon them, because they are so cute together! This sentiment is so fitting for them!
On the outside of the card it says...
All you need is faith, trust & pixie dust...
And on the inside I have...
...for a marriage that will "make the everyday magical!"
The wand and swirling stars and the sentiments on both the inside and outside of the card come from the November KOM. The frame that I made by masking the center of the scalloped and checked block is from the November Scrapbooking Kit. I used papers from Scribble Scrabble and kept the colors in the fall family since they are getting married on Thanksgiving today!
Do not miss the Black Friday specials going on over at the Unity storetoday. You can check out all the details on the Unity Blog. You will find specials that are lower priced than ever before!
May your Thanksgiving be special and your bucket overflow with many reasons to give thanks!
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