HERE'S HOW YOU CAN QUALIFY FOR STAMP TV'S NEW DESIGNER

It was a beautiful day in East Texas -- Sunny and around 65! Stamped a little and then DH and I had a little cook-out.  After a day like today it's hard to believe we had snow 5 days ago!!

Here is a card I did today.

Stamp:  GKD Spring Florals
Paper:  GKD Ocean Mist, Lemon Drop, White card stock, misc dp
Other:  EK Success lacing punch,  embroidery thread, Copic markers

Stamp TV is looking for a new designer!!  Here is what you do:

Use any of the new release stamp sets from STAMP TV which include:
Hope is Faith
Lovely Labels
Pressed Flowers
Hang in There
Oh Baby!
Dream Birds
Inside and Out
Spring Florals
Make sure to use two of STAMP TV's new colors shown here.

You may enter multiple times but you must use a different stamp set from STAMP TV's new release for each entry.The deadline for entering this challenge is Wednesday, March 3rd at 8:00 PM central time.
Gina K will look at each entry throughout the entry period and choose one winner who will join the Gina K. Designs Team for the month of March.

That designer will have the opportunity to participate in our previews, release party and design team/illustrator blog hop challenge and will receive the entire new release including the new upcoming StampTV kit, card stock and all 10 stamp sets from the upcoming March collection!

The winner will be announced on Thursday, March 4th, on her blog, and their package will ship out by priority mail the next day so they will have ample time to participate as a design team member!

Link your challenge project in the Mister Linky box on GINA K's blog. Please use a direct link to your project, not just your main blog link, so that when sheclicks on it, the challenge project will be up. All links that do not go to a challenge project will not be considered.  

As a former Design Team member I can tell you this is a GREAT group to work with.

Stamp TV Challenge and Design Team Member Hunt

Here is a card I made for a Stamp TV's  Challenge.  I have a baby shower to go to on Saturday and I made this card to go with my gift.

 

Stamp:  Rupa Shevde's Oh Baby

Paper:  Gina K Designs Lovely Lavender, White, Lemon Drop and Vibrant Violet

Other:  Cuttlebug dies, ribbon

I used clear embossing powder on the image and sentiments.

Stamp TV is looking for a new designer!!  Here is what you do:

Use any of the new release stamp sets from STAMP TV which include:
Hope is Faith
Lovely Labels
Pressed Flowers
Hang in There
Oh Baby!
Dream Birds
Inside and Out
Spring Florals
Make sure to use two of STAMP TV's new colors shown here.

You may enter multiple times but you must use a different stamp set from STAMP TV's new release for each entry.The deadline for entering this challenge is Wednesday, March 3rd at 8:00 PM central time.
Gina K will look at each entry throughout the entry period and choose one winner who will join the Gina K. Designs Team for the month of March.

That designer will have the opportunity to participate in our previews, release party and design team/illustrator blog hop challenge and will receive the entire new release including the new upcoming StampTV kit, card stock and all 10 stamp sets from the upcoming March collection!

The winner will be announced on Thursday, March 4th, on her blog, and their package will ship out by priority mail the next day so they will have ample time to participate as a design team member!

Link your challenge project in the Mister Linky box on GINA K's blog. Please use a direct link to your project, not just your main blog link, so that when sheclicks on it, the challenge project will be up. All links that do not go to a challenge project will not be considered.  

As a former Design Team member I can tell you this is a GREAT group to work with.

Card Patterns Sketch

Card Patterns is having their first year anniversary!! They will be celebrating it from Saturday, Feb 27 - March 5, 2010.

They are going to do a blog hop and have a few prizes in store  for YOU!  Check them out here!  I can't wait to see what they will be doing to celebrate!

Here is the sketch for this week.

 

Here is my card:

 

Stamp:  Clear Art Stamps

Paper:  Silk Textured paper, Gina K Designs Pure Luxury White and Kraft cardstock

Other:  MS Punch, copic markers

CPS-Card Sketch #155

Snow yesterday --- and today it is 57!! Go figure East Texas Weather.  Here is the sketch for Card Positioning Systems Sketch #155.

 

And here is my rendition.  

Stamp:  Gina K Designs Inside and Out

Paper:   Gina K Designs Passionate Pink, White cardstock

              dp is Melissa Francis

Other:    EK Success punch, Cuttle bug, brad and a little netting

FERNS BLOG CANDY!

FERN has blog candy to give away!!

Now this is all you have to do:
1)  Follow her blog...
2)  Post her blog candy on your blog and  then link it back to her blog...
3)  Comment on her blog so that she will know who's playing...
4)  Comment on at least one of her February projects.   She  posts 2 to 3 x a week...
Good luck everyone!!

Creative Belli Challenge is sharing a few more projects from the Design Team.

This week, we are excited to introduce you to our SPONSOR - QKR STAMPEDE! They also have two other stamp businesses, Eureka Stamps and Biblical Impressions.

When you participate in the Belli Challenge and link us up this challenge period, you will have a chance to win $30 (US currency) of product, your choice! QKR Stampede will even cover the shipping to you!

A little about QKR STAMPEDE...

We have several rubber stamp lines featuring over 10,000 designs. Our website currently shows the most popular of those designs featuring artists from all over the world. We have been offering our own unique stamps and supplies to the craft industry for over 15 years and have loved every minute of it! All our rubber stamps are unmounted, natural red rubber.

Go to the Creative Belli Challenge and link up your project! Cross your fingers and maybe you will win!

Here is my card for this

 

I think this is a really sweet image! It reminds me of my grandson.  

Be sure to check out the rest of the Belli Design Team's Blogs - they are sure to inspire you!

We have a special Guest Designer - Jess Stockmeyer - Check out her blog then go to these team members!

• Anne Harmon
• Ceal Pritchett
• Darsie Bruno
• Deb Daniels
• Fern Riley
• Holly Brown - Creator
• Jenny Gropp
• Joan Ervin
• Joy Hadden
• Liz Williams
• Maria Matter
• Melisa Waldorf
• Robin Kirkpatrick - Guest Designer Coordinator
• Steph Zerbe

Come join the fun on the Belli Challenge! We WANT YOU!!!

Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger

Cath of Paper Crafts Magazine gave us two cards to use as our inspiration for this challenge.  Go to Moxie Fab World and check out both of the beautiful inspirational cards.  Leave a comment there and you could be chosen to win FOUR (4) STAMP SETS from Gina K Designs!!!

Here is my card:

 

Stamp:    Gina K Designs sentiment from Inside and Out

Paper:     Gina K Designs Black Onyx and White card stock, dp is from Stampin Up

Ribbon:   Gina K Designs

Other:      American Crafts brad and flower pieces, Cuttlebug dies for squares

Both Kim's and Kimberly's cards had pearls that I LOVED!  Tried them for the center of this flower and it didn't work! So I put a sweet little shiny brad.

Have a super good day!!

Card Patterns Sketch #50

This is a stamp set that is from Gina K Designs from Asela Hopkins's Zoo Animals. I used GKD Sweet Corn, and white card stock. The dp is from Papertrey Ink. There is a little brown and white ribbon.

Thanks for looking at my card.

HOPE IS FAITH BLOG HOP

Introducing Hope is Faith
GINA K has designed a beautiful stamp and sentiment she call HOPE IS FAITH. $2.00 of every stamp set sold throughout February will go to the Red Cross to help them continue the work they are doing to help the people of Haiti suffering the devastating effect of a major earthquake.

Here are my cards for this hop:

 

I used a wax paper technique.  See Gina K's technique here. Instead of wrinkling the wax paper, I embossed it in my Cuttlebug and used Gina K's Pure Luxury White card stock.  Other supplies:  GKD Chocolate Chip, and copic markers.

Here is the other one:

 Stamp:  Hope is Faith by GKD

Paper:  GKD Pure Luxury White, Vibrant Violet and Chocolate Kiss card stock

Other:  Ribbon 

Feelings of Hope 

Gina challenged the CenterStage Spotlight team to make a card with the new Hope is Faith stamp set using  the photo above for inspiration.  Check out Gina's blog for all the details on this special stamp set.

Then, stop by these designer's participating in the hop tonight:

Jessica Fick

Diana S. Queen

Tina Gilliland

Pam Imholz

Carla Suto

Cheri Weston

Jennie Harper

Joy Hadden

Shannon Bracken

Karen Knegten

JenMarie Taylor

Brenda Turner

Giovanna Smith

Sue Morris

Melissa Shultz

Peggy Wainman

Sharri Seffens

Carolina Buchting

Geri Utterback

Melissa Cash

Betty Neville

Sue Van deVusse

Janice Melton

Jen Charboneau

DeeMarie Kelemen

Linda Payne

Lori McAree

Kay Simmons

Shelly Wilson

Selma Stevenson

Vicki Dutcher

Sue Walsh

Creative Belli Challenge #84

SNOW, SNOW,  SNOW  This is my granddaughter's playhouse in  our backyard! 

 

Now onto fun stuff!  Here is my card for this Creative Belli Challenge.  Our sponsor for this was  QKR STAMPEDE.   They also own Eureka Stamps and Biblical Impressions.

Check out the hundreds of stamps!  They feature stamps from all over the world.  Wow so many kinds of images and sentiments.  My experience has been that you get your stamps super quick!  I've ordered a few for Easter and Mother's Day.  I had a hard time deciding!

For this one I inked up a Spellbinder, used a Cuttlebug to cut out the heart and punched out some butterflies.  I love this sentiment from QKR.  Their sentiments range from sweet to serious, funny to fabulous. 

This one I inked up the flowers from QKR, used my Stamp-a-m-jig to line the flowers up, and colored with Copics and punched out the butterflies.  Now to play along with us here us what you need to do:

1. Anyone Can Play! Challenge a friend to play along! You could win $30.00 in QKR Stamps!!!

2. Make a completed project with BUTTERFLIES OR DRAGONFLIES.

3. Go to Creative Belli Blog and post your link to Mr. Linky found there.

Would you like some inspiration?  Creative Belli Blog Design Team members have made some wonderful examples.

Our Special Guest Designer is

Jess Stockmeyer - check out her inspiration!

Now check out Creative Belli Design Team members designs!

• Anne Harmon
• Ceal Pritchett
• Darcie Bruno
• Deb Daniels
• Fern Riley
• Holly Brown - Creator
• Joan Ervin
• Jenny Gropp
• Joy Hadden - Me
• Liz Williams
• Maria Matter
• Robin Kirkpatrick - Guest Designer Coordinator
• Steph Zerbe

Thanks for playing along!  Have a super great day --- stay warm!!

Happy Valentine's Day

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!  I'm glad Valentine's is on Sunday.  It is such a family day.  I made my grandkids Valentine's Day cards for their classes.

Here's what we ended up with:

For Harrison:

 

For these I used 2 small candy canes together, filled with Chocolate bark and sprinkled heart candies.  I put them in some little bags and stapled cards on top.

For Mary Grace:

 

I found these little tins last year in the clearance shelf at Walmart.  They are Martha Stewarts wedding favor tins.  They look "valentiney" with the red ribbon!  They were filled with candy hearts.

For my friend Linda

Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of Jonathan's. For him I made the sour cream containers filled with candy hearts.

CPS-Card Sketches

This weekend I'm taking care of my two of my sweet grandkids. Two boys (2,4). Being a grandparent is GREAT. The housework takes on a new perspective and playing with them is the most important thing that needs to be accomplished. While they are napping I finished this card.

Go and check out Card Positioning Card Sketches.  It's fun to play with their sketches!
Here is the sketch for this week:

 

And here is my card:

Stamp:  Papertrey Ink called Star Prints
Paper:  Gina K Designs White cardstock, Basic Grey dp
other:  star punch

Belli Challenge #84

Wow - we are fortunate because this Creative Belli Challenge is being sponsored by Sweet and Sassy.  This is a super great company whose desire is to share the love of Christ thru paper crafting.  Please check out their page.  You will put this on your list of favorites, just like I did.

They have clear stamps and digi stamps.  This is the first time I've used digi images for cards! I LOVE IT!  No mis-stamped images or smears!  Another thing I like -- I can make the image whatever size I need!  Is that fantastic or what!  Images can be printed on any color of cardstock or paper.  (I'm sure that none of these things are new to most paper crafters -- but new to me). I'm learning.

I printed the bird image on brochure/presentation paper.  It takes color so well and almost can look like a picture.

Now to play along with us here us what you need to do:

1. Anyone Can Play! Challenge a friend to play along!  I'VE CHALLENGED MY SISTER!
2. Make a completed project with RIBBON. What FUN!!
3. Go to Creative Belli Blog and post your link to Mr. Linky found there

Here is our Guest Designer joining in the challenge.

Melisa Waldrof

Creative Belli Blog Design Team who have made some wonderful examples.  Go check them out!

• Anne Harmon
• Ceal Pritchett
• Darcie Bruno
• Deb Daniels
• Fern Riley
• Holly Brown - Creator
• Joan Ervin
• Jenny Gropp
• Joy Hadden - Me
• Liz Williams
• Maria Matter
• Robin Kirkpatrick - Guest Designer Coordinator
• Steph Zerbe

Card Patterns Sketch#49

Got spend most the weekend stamping and got to finish several challenges.  Today is another typical winter day in East Texas - a little overcast(and cool 48) but no rain!  Card Patterns has a very interesting sketch for this week. Here is the blog.
There are some very talented ladies designing cards at Card Patterns.  I appreciate their talent and love looking thru their posts.

Here is the sketch this week

 

Here is my card for this week

Stamp:  Clear Art Stamps

Paper:  Gina K Designs Pure Luxury White cardstock, Cosmos Cricket dp and chipboard

Other:  Cuttlebug