Paper Romance Challenge #3 - Mimosa's Rose Cottage

Good morning! Today I am excited to be the host over at the Paper Romance Challenge blog. This week I challenged the team to make an easel card. Follow this link for instructions to make your own easel card. Here is my card:



This is Mimosa Hello and she is taking time to enjoy her day by sniffing the roses outside her cottage. You can find her here at the Paper Romance store. I'm calling this card Mimosa's Rose Cottage. I love how my quirky little house turned out!



Recipe: Papers by Anna Griffin and Magnolia, Wild Orchids flowers, pearls, ribbon, trim, heart button, feather, and MS border punch

Copics: RV69, RV34, RV32, RV11, RV10, E11, E00, E000, R20, E59, E57, E55, E53, E51, E50

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Sundays With Chrissy - "A rellish to embellish"
One Stitch at a Time - celebration - very open to interpretation, so we are celebrating "smelling the roses" :o)
Sentimental Sundays - summertime
Allsorts Challenge - use lace and/OR buttons (I used a wooden heart button)

I hope you can play along with us at the Paper Romance Challenge blog. I'd love to see your easel card! Play along with us and you could be the winner of a $5.00 Gift Certificate to Paper Romance!

Don't forget about the sale going on this month at Paper Romance! 10% off orders of $25 or more! Use code word PRChallenges.

Thanks for visiting me today! Hope you can come by again! hugs,

Wedding Fhiona - Your Next Stamp

Hello stamping friends! Thanks for stopping by! Today I have made a wedding card to show you from Your Next Stamp.






This is Wedding Fhiona - how cute is this image - thank you Karen for sending her to me! I had fun coloring in this cute couple and it was so quick and easy to put together.

Recipe - DCWV papers, pearls, flower and pink button from my stash, charm sentiment from Michaels, stickles, and ribbon from my stash.

Copics - E59, E57, E55, E53, E51, E50, E00, E000, R20, C7, C5, C3, C1, C00, G21, G20, R27, R22

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Your Next Stamp - buttons (pink button and flower button)
The Sweet Stop - sketch

I hope you like my card and can leave me a comment. I really love to read them! Enjoy your Monday and thanks for visiting! Hugs,

New High Hopes stamps at Paper Romance

Good morning! Just a quick post to tell you that all of the NEWEST High Hopes Rubber Stamps Line is NOW available through Paper Romance!!!!!!! Don't forget to get 10% off with the code word PRChallenges (orders of $25 or more). Now....what are you waiting for!?!?!?! Head over to PAPER ROMANCE to pick up your favs today!!! Oh! They are just toooooo CUTE! ;)

Paper Romance - Challenge #2

Good morning! Time for another challenge at Paper Romance today. My DT pal Vicki has challenged us to create a Summer themed card. If you play along with us, you could win a $5.00 gift certificate to Paper Romance. Use the tag PRC2 when uploading to SCS. So, here is what I came up with:



Isn't this a sweet image of a girl on her tire swing! Reminds me so much of when I was a little girl. This is Swinging Shannon and I paired her up with this tree from Magnolia. Lots of cutting and altering went into that tree to make it fit with the tire swing.

Here are some more views: (I had a hard time getting a good picture of this card, sorry)





Recipe: DCWV papers, flowersoft, twine, crystal picks from Michael's, ribbon from Inky Impressions, flowers from Wild Orchids

Copics: B97, B95, B91, RV34, RV32, RV11, E11, E00, E000, R20, E59, E55, E53, E51, YG67, YG63, G21, G20, C9, C7, C5, C3, C1, C00, E59, E57, E35, E34,

BLOG CANDY ALERT!!!! Do you want to win some blog candy? Visit Paper Romance to find out how.

Please visit my DT sisters for more inspiration:

Lori Aragon
Vicki Garrett
Cindy Haffner
Andrea Murdock

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - sketch
Quirky Crafts - girly girl
Our Creative Corner - summer inspiration - summer is playing outdoors

Thanks for stopping by today! Enjoy your day and Happy Stamping! hugs,

High Hopes Stamps Blog Hop

On Monday, June 14, High Hopes Rubber Stamps is having a Blog Hop. There will be sneaks peaks at their blog and also on the DT blogs on Saturday and Sunday. Then on Monday the new release with a Blog Hop. There will be about 33 new designs as well as fun sentiments and accessories.

Do you want to win a package bursting with new release stamps? Then help spread the news about the blog hop and release. Visit High Hopes to find out how.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday Inky Impressions!!!

Hi there Inky Impression fans! Guess what!? On Wednesday, June 9, it's Inky Impressions 1 year old birthday. So I made a birthday card to celebrate!

Here is a closeup:



We are so excited and truly Thankful that all of you have taken such a liking to Inky Impressions. As a small way of saying Thank You to all of our FABULOUS INKY FANS....... we would like to celebrate by having an INKTACULAR SALE-A-BRATION. Starting today June 8th, all INKY IMPRESSIONS Rubber Stamps will be $10.95. The INKTACULAR SALE-A-BRATION will end on Friday June 11th at Midnight Eastern standard time. Please choose email checkout and Nicole will manually adjust your order and send you a new invoice through Paypal.

PRODUCT UPDATE:

We just received our Basic Grey order and will be adding it to the website soon. We also now have our own line of Loose 4mm Pearls in over 35 colors & our own line of 8mm Rhinestone Brads. They will all be added to the website soon as well.

So please, visit the Inky Impressions store and place your order today! Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week! hugs,

My first hAnglar card

Good morning to you! I have been MIA for the past several days. So busy with taking my girls to dance rehearsals/recitals and helping my older daughter study for finals. Well, I'm happy to report that the dancing is over for now but we're still studying for finals. Have been trying to play catch up with my emails and also visiting blogs. I've missed so much!

Well, yesterday I had a chance to go to the Heirloom Rubber Stamping show in Massachussettes. What fun! (I bought lots of goodies that I can't wait to play with). But before I left I finished up a card that I'd like to share with you today. I received some stamped hAnglar images from a friend awhile ago. I have been coveting these images for so long and now that there is a challenge blog for them, I have an excuse to use them. So, I made this easel card for the challenge over at the Lovely hAnglar Only challenge blog. The challenge is to use the colors pink and green, one of my favorite color combos.



Here is a closeup:



Recipe:

Copics: Skin - E02, E00, E000, R20 Hat, Shirt, Shoes, Polka Dots - RV34, RV32, RV11, RV10 Pants, Hat Ribbon - YG67, YG63, G21, G20 Hair - E59, E55, E53, E51

Tools:

MS punches, felt embellishments, lace trim, floral trim, spellbinder die

This card will be entered at the following challenges:

Lovely hAnglar Only challenge blog - pink and green
Charisma Cardz - flowers
PaperPlay Challenges - flowers and sparkle
Cupcake Craft Challenge - use some sparkle - the center of my flowers have glitter on it and the rhinestone on my butterfly is sparkly as is the wire antenna

Thanks for looking at my card today and I hope you have a moment to leave a comment - I love to read them! Enjoy the rest of your week and Happy Stamping! hugs,

Paper Romance - Challenge #1

Good morning! Over at the Paper Romance blog, Amy is excited to launch the Paper Romance Designer Challenge! Each Thursday, one of our talented Design Team members will be bringing you a fun challenge.

This week, the Tremendously Talented Cindy Haffner is challenging us to use this fabulous sketch that she designed:



And here is my take on the sketch:



I used this adorable Bildmalarna image. She is called Mimosa Dock and is from their new summer collection.

Here's a close-up:



Recipe: Papers from Webster's pages, copics, stickles, EK Success punch, yellow ribbon, and Inky Dinky drops.

I will also enter this card at the following challenge blogs:

Cupcake Craft Challenge - summer delights
Friends Having Fun - what Memorial Day makes me think of (swimming/summer fun)
The Pink Elephant - "gotta where shades" - use fun bright colors
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - life's a beach
Quirky Crafts Challenge - girly girl
Creative Inspirations - Beach theme

Please visit my DT sisters for more inspiration:

Lori Aragon
Suzanne Dean
Vickie Garrett
Cindy Haffner
Andrea Murdock

Would you like to win a $5.00 Gift Certificate to Paper Romance? One lucky challenge participant will be chosen randomly each week and announced at the following challenge. Please have your entries posted and linked to the Paper Romance Blog by 9 p.m. est on Wed June 9th to be eligible to win. No need to use a Paper Romance stamp but if you have one, we'd love to see it! If you are entering your card into a Gallery, please use the key word PRC01. Good Luck!

Also, Amy is going to run a sale for the month of June to kick off the challenges, it is 10% off orders of $25 or more, the code is PRChallenges. Check out the Paper Romance store here.

Hope you like my card today and I hope you will play along with us over at Paper Romance. hugs,

Blog Candy over at Iris' blog

Good morning! This is just a quick post to tell you about some blog candy being offered at Iris' blog Papercrafting in Cocoa. She and some friends have started up a new Hänglar Challenge Blog and in celebration of this and having almost 300 followers, she will be offering up some wonderful blog candy. If you play along in the Hänglar Challenge you will get 2 chances to win her candy.



A friend of mine a while back had sent me some of these images so I will at least get to participate in a few of the challenges. Well, have a great day! If you're interested in this candy, please visit Iris' blog. hugs,