Stamps of Life #2

Ok, my goal was to post 1 card a week on Tuesdays for the Stamps of Life -- because I love their clear stamps so much.  Well, I'm a few days late, but here it is!

I'm in such a fall mood -- went to the craft store here and they had fall garlands, pumpkins, cute little scarecrows and it really put me in the mood!

So here is my card:

I used "racoons2love" - for the acorns, "daisies2love" for the stem, "turtles2love" for the leaves and the happy is from "hearts2love".  The word "fall" was cut with an old nestabilities alphabet die.

I tried to use 2 different colors of ink on the leaves so they would look "fallish".  I heat embossed the leaves so they show a little shine.

Thanks for looking at my card.  Be sure to stop by Stephanie Bernard's "Stamps of Life" and see her videos!  She has a great blog here.

Thank you for looking at my card - have a HAPPY stamping day.

Creative Belli School Challenge

Good morning!  Has school started in your area?  All public schools in our area started this week.  I went to my daughters to keep her two preschool kids while she took her oldest to his first day.  He was really tired by the end of the day!  But, boy did he have fun --- and I think mom missed him more than he missed her!  What a day for the both of them.

Darsie owner of the Creative Belli Challenge blog will be picking a "Bell of the Belli Challenge" for September so get your projects ready -- this will be a fun challenge.  She challenges us to make a project that is schooled themed - it can be anything - 3D, scrapbook layout, card or banner -- anything you want as long as it is school themed.

The spirit of the Belli challenges is to encourage you to use your OLD and FORGOTTEN embellishments! Everyone is welcome to play along! Challenge a stamping friend! Just follow the theme and add your direct link to our inlinkz widget below.

If you upload to a gallery, please use keyword CBC151.

 Here is my card:

Stamps are from Stephanie Bernard's Stamps of Life called Crayons2Stamp

Here is the list of Design Team members who have given you a jump start with these inspirational projects.

• Darsie Bruno
• Joy Hadden
• Robin Parker
• Pat Kuzenko 

Thank you for your comments - have a HAPPY stamping day!

Repeat Impressions Designer's Choice Challenge

Every two weeks Wendy, owner Repeat Impressions, lets one member of the Design Team to challenge us to a project.  This week it is Lynette's turn and she challenged us to make a project with flowers - stamped, 3D, paper, felt -- anything, as long as your project uses flowers.  You don't have to use Repeat Impression stamps, but if you have them, we would like to see them.  Here is my card:

I am so ready for fall, that I'm turning to using fall papers and themes -- hoping it will make fall come sooner!  The stamp is called Dandelion Breeze.  I just did a little making and made it a "fall" flower - sort of!

Here is the list of Designer who made projects to inspire you:  We have a couple of new team members - be sure to stop by their blogs and give them a special little encouragement.

Cheri
Dawn
Joy  - you are here
Karen
Lynette
Makiko
Patti 
Kecia

Thank you for looking at my card - have a HAPPY stamping day!

Repeat Impressions Stamp of the Week

This week Wendy from Repeat Impressions has the cutest stamp ever on a special sale!  You can get this stamp for 50% off.  All you have to do is go to her blog and get the special code, then go to Repeat Impressions Stamps, order your stamp and put the code in the blank that says "special instructions".  Easy peezey!

Here is my card with the little stamp called Mouse & Cheese.  This a gift card for a friend who just had her 3rd grandchild.  Can you guess it was a girl?

Here are the other Design Team Members who made projects to inspire you.


Lynette 
Joy  - you are here
Dawn
Kecia 

Thank you for your comments and have a HAPPY stamping day!

Grocery Store shelves in a college town

Think it would be nice to have a college in your town?  The best months are June-August.  The worst week is the week before school starts!  Here is a photo of what the shelves look like:

This was published for one of my daughters who took the pic at the Walmart near her house!

Papertrey Ink August Blog Hop

Today Papertrey Ink's monthly challenge is about autumn textiles.  Here is one of Nicole's inspirational pictures.  You can go to her blog here and see all her photos.

Here is my card:

 

I used some Core'dnations Kraft Core paper and Papertrey Ink paper called Autumn Abundance and the stamps are from Pretty Peonies and Mat Stack 1.  The die cut burlap is a Mat Stack die - I used the material technique that Melissa taught us on the Make It Monday this week.

Thanks for looking at y card -- Have a HAPPY stamping day.

Stamp TV Blog Hop for August

If you have come from Geri's blog you are right on target.  If not, you might want to start here at Stamp TV Blog Hop, in order not to miss any of the projects that the Alumni Design Team have prepared.  For this hop Gina K is offering a Grab Bag of Gina K stamps!  All you have to do is comment on each one of the Designer's projects.  Then on Tuesday Gina will pick a random winner from the comments!

This month Carolina has asked Geri to give us a little inspiration.  Here is the photo that Geri provided for us:

Does this put you in the fall mood or what?! 

Here is my card:

I used the stamp set, "Hello Sunshine" and the sentiment is from "So Grateful".  I stamped the larger flower in Memento Cantaloupe, the middle size in Memento Potter's Clay and the tiny center is actually a snowflake from "The Magic of Christmas" stamped in a green ink.  I then added a few little dots with a Copic marker.  For cardstock I used the colors, Ivory and Crandberry Tart.

Now hop along to Kay's blog's and you will just adore her card.

Thank you for looking at my card - and don't forget to leave your comments - so your name can be entered into the drawing for the fabulous collection of GKD stamps.

Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday Challenge

Each Monday Papertrey Ink has a "Make It Monday" challenge.  This week Melissa Phillips showed us how to use our dies on material.  Take a look at her video here.

Here is my card:

I used the dies from Beautiful Blooms#3 and the "thank you" sentiment is from "Think Big Favorites #15".

Thank you for looking at my card. Have a HAPPY stamping day

Sketch Day at Repeat Impressions

It's Monday and sketch day at Repeat Impressions.  I am so ready for fall!  I hung a fall wreath on my door already, hoping the weather would take a hint and get a little cooler!  HA - FAT CHANCE  in Texas.

Today Wendy gave us this sketch to follow:

I love this stamp set  and in my anticipation of fall wanted to use it.  The stamp set is called Autumn and is one of Wendy's Flip Sets.  Which consist of 4 different images and a sentiment.  For my card I use only one of the images and the sentiment.  Here is my card:

The small leaves were punched out of glitter paper and I used a few copic markers to color the trees.  Here is the list of Design Team members who made cards to inspire you.

Cheri
Dawn
Joy  - you are here
Karen
Lynette
Makiko
Patti 

Now it's your turn, make a project following Wendy's sketch  and link it on Wendy's blog, The House That Stamps Built and you could be the randomly chosen winner of a nice gift certificate from Repeat Impressions. 

Thank you for looking at my card.  Have a HAPPY stamping day!

Stamps of Life #1

I have a "pre" New Year's Resolution! I want to post a card made from Stephanie Bernard's The Stamps of Life, once a week -- eeekkkk maybe I should have done once a month -- Let's see how long I can keep it up!  Here are two cards:

I needed 3 birthday cards this month and this will be the first one.  It uses Happy2beCircles and .  This set is a big one with more than 25 images and sentiments.  This was one of the first sets I bought because it is not specific to any certain day.  The "Happy Birthday" came from the set Birthday2Celebrate.

My next card is a masculine birthday:

 

 It uses the set called Birthday2celebrate.

Thanks for looking at my cards -- I'll see you next week with another card from Stamps of Life.

Repeat Impressions Designers Choice Challenge

Today Karen, one of the Design Team members from Repeat Impressions challenged us to make a card using scoring!  I used my Scor-pal and came up with this card:

I used some Core-dinations paper and a felt flower with a couple of tissue flowers.  The sentiment is "May all your dreams...." from the Summer series. 

You can join us -- we would like to see what you can create using scoring.  Go to Wendy's blog, The House That Stamps Built and link your card.  You do not have to use Repeat Impressions stamps, but if you have any, we would love to see them!  You could be the randomly chosen winner of a nice gift certificate.

Here are some of the Design Team members who have made projects to inspire you.

Cheri
Dawn
Joy  - you are here
Karen
Lynette
Makiko
Patti 

Thank you for looking at my card - have a HAPPY stamping day

Creative Belli Challenge

Darsie owner of the Creative Belli Challenge asked us to make a project with wings this week.  Wow -- great challenge with so many possibilities!  Here is my card:

I love the butterflies in Papertrey Ink's Beautiful Butterfly set.  I used a Cuttlebug folder and some of Graphic 45's new paper called "Birdsong" which is an Oriental Themed collection.  While at CHA, I noticed lots of new collections with Oriental Themes.

We would love for you to join us in the challenge.  Just make a project with "wings" and link it on the Creative Belli Challenge blog.  Here are some Designers who have made projects to inspire you.

• Darsie Bruno
• Ceal Pritchett
• Joy Hadden
• Lynn Hayes
• Paige Grabau
• Robin Parker
• Steph Castro
• Pat Kuzenko 

Thank you for looking at my card and I look forward to see why you make!

Repeat Impressions Stamp of the Week - Curiosity Cat

Good Morning!  Thanks for stopping by to see my card!  Today Wendy from Repeat Impressions is offering this stamp for 50% off.  The stamp is being offered at this special price for one week only. 

To get this stamp 50%, just go to Wendy's blog, The House That Stamps Built, get the code there and put it in the special instruction blank when you order from Repeat Impressions.

Here is the list of Design Team members that have made cards to inspire you:


Lynette 
Joy  - you are here
Dawn
Kecia 

Thanks for looking at my card - Have a HAPPY stamping day!

Core Cards Creative Frenzy

Core'dinations is having a Design Team call and I made the following projects to submit.

Let me tell you about my experience with Co'ordinations - my sweet sister gave me some of their paper and I thought "That's nice, but I'm not interested in sanding my paper."  Well, she challenged me to do some tearing and gave me this website to check out other techniques to use.  They have some great videos!  I OH MY GOODNESS - I LOVE THIS PAPER!!

There are so many things to do with this besides sand!  Check out their videos and look at all the different kinds of paper they have.  You will love it just as much as I do.  I just recently discover their "Kraft-Core" -- Eeeeekkk, it's wonderful!

Here are my projects:

Mini Album of my Grandchildren.

tags & flowers are from Kraft-core

doily, leaves & flowers are a die cut using the Kraft-core

I'm not going to bore you with all the pages, because I have 7 grandchildren.  Next are two cards I made.

used some of the texture Core'dinations cardstock and the tree & grass are made with the Kraft-core.  The clouds are made from their Glitter cardstock.

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The two cards use my scraps of Core'dinations cardstock from my Mini-album, using Nestabilities, Tim Holtz and My Favorite Things dies.  I'm not throwing out any of my scraps of Core'dinations paper!!!

One last card I made a few months ago for Repeat Impressions using an embossing folder:

Thanks for looking at my projects!  Have a HAPPY stamping day!

Repeat Impressions Sketch Challenge

Sketch time!!! Today Wendy from Repeat Impressions is giving you an opportunity to win a gift certificate! -- You can use it to for stamps or supplies from Repeat Impressions.  Check it out all the stamps on their website here.  All you have to do is follow the sketch and post your project on Wendy's blog, The House That Stamps Built.

So now for the sketch.  Here it is:

I did a very simple card, with a sentiment called "Where we love...." that I like!  It's so true and I love the font.

The paper is from Pink Paisley and I used a little rub on flourish.  The following is the list of the Design Team Members who made cards to inspire you.  Check them out!

Cheri
Dawn
Joy  - you are here
Karen
Lynette
Makiko
Patti 
Kecia 

Thank you for looking at my card.  Have a HAPPY stamping day! 

Creative Belli Challenge

This week Darsie, owner of Creative Belli Challenge has a great challenge for you!  The challenge is to make a Travel/Vacation themed card.  This is a perfect timing for this challenge.  Here is my card:

The stamp is from Repeat Impressions, paper is from Basic Grey and the little metal embellis are from Tim Holtz.

Darsie's team would like to see what you would do with the challenge.  Make a card, and link it there.

Here are the other team members who have made cards to inspire you.  Take a look at their cards and leave a little comment for them.

• Darsie Bruno
• Ceal Pritchett
• Joy Hadden
• Lynn Hayes
• Paige Grabau
• Robin Parker
• Steph Castro
• Pat Kuzenko 

Thank you for looking at my card.  Have a HAPPY stamping day.

Repeat Impressions Designers Choice Challenge

Today at Repeat Impressions, Patti one of the Design Team members challenged us to make a card using Black & White and one other color.

This was a great challenge -- it was a challenge to limit it to 3 colors - but I had fun going thru my HUGE stash of paper - and putting combinations together.  --- Thanks Patti for a wonderful challenge.

Here is my card:

Stamps:  Swan Love, and May all...

Here is the list of Designers who would like to see what you can do with Patti's challenge.  Make a project and then link it on Wendy's blog, The House That Stamps Built.  At the end of the week, she will draw a random name for a gift certificate from Repeat Impressions.


Cheri
Dawn
Joy  - you are here
Karen
Lynette
Makiko
Patti 
Kecia 

Thank you -- I look forward to seeing what you create!  Have a HAPPY stamping day!