Love Birds

Happy Monday Happy Monday. How many have been watching all the sneak peeks???? I have I have! I love it all. I cannot wait to start ordering some new products. I have started some wonderful projects. Some of those which I hope to be able to share with you soon. Even some new techniques I have been practicing.

Well today I have a new card to share that I made for Great Impressions. If you have yet to start following please go over and check out the wonderful talent. We post there weekly and will be starting up challenges as soon as the store is up and running. They offer a wonderful collection of stamps in your choice of stickables (cling) or wood mount. The best part they have new stamps that come out monthly!

So for today I just made a simple Valentine card using the image Love Chicks B189. I stamped them in Stampin' Up Ink Pretty In Pink. I then proceeded to use my my scalloped square spellbinder dies to cut out some white and pink cardstock.  I used some Bo Bunny papers and pink tissue paper along with ribbon and twine as well as some pearls and some Rosy Red Glitter. I also added a charm that was given to me as a gift so I have no clue who makes it sorry but who doesn't LOVE a little LOVE!

I hope you find inspiration in my card today and go see what else The Great Impressions have to show you this week.

CLP SKETCH
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Little Darlings - Polka Dots (If the birds count as dots)
Crafty Catz - Things with Wings
Sweet Stampin - Animals
C4C - Layer It On
Saturday Crafter - Ribbons
All Sorts - One or More Hearts
Dream Valley - Animals
My Craft Spot - ANything Goes

Valentine's Day

Good Morning and a Happy Sunday to you! I am having such a wonderful weekend. The weather has been so up and down and well my nutritionist is helping me get myself balanced hormonally without going to pills first. I would say I have a little on my plate right now with my fiance not knowing how long they want to keep him, our new puppy, my health (I am having a hard time eating on top of all the other problems), potty training my two year old, and getting my schedule back to normal. All I can do right now is think of crafting. I don't think they have a crafting addictions anonymous group huh!

So onto today's challenge!!!!

Paper Sundaes

has a theme this week of 

"Valentine's Day"

Our sponsor is this week is

Tickled Pink

 

I was so excited for our sponsor as they just released a wonderful new line. I used the new stamp Aphrodite Willow. Is she not beautiful?? I know several of the team members used her. I love everything about her. I tried hard to think Greek colors and all that came to mind was white and gold. Since I thought she deserved more than a white gown I went with something bright. Greece has such dark blue waters so I thought that perfect for inspiration. I colored her with copics, some Prima flowers, and used some new Glitz Designs papers from CHA 2012. Out already in several places. I used products found at  All That Scraps they have some sales going on as they will be receiving CHA new products soon! 

Stamp + Fun= Creativity - Sketch

Cupcake Craft - All You Need is Love

Keeping It simple

Good evening everyone. Are you ready for the weekend? I am. I am ready to power through and get some creations made. I have only coloring on my mind at the moment. I have to push FL outside of my brain and really focus on my work and my new projects I wish to take on. I have been rather busy coloring but now it is time to test my creativity. I started with that today.

Totally Gorjuss

Our theme this week is 

"KISS - Keep It Simple"

Our sponsor this week is

LOTV

I used the stamp New Hat. I thought she was adorable. They have so many new stamps out though. I would love to have some of those.  I am not good with Clean or Simple cards. I used some My Mind's Eye Paper and some twine. As always, I colored my image with copics although nothing to fancy as this is suppose to be a KISS.

A Gem of a Challenge - Sketch

Buttons Galore

Today we have a new challenge over at

Dutch Dare Cards

Robyn's Fetish

How is everyone doing today. I am a tiny bit behind again. My fiance has asked me to accompany him to Florida which has taken time away from my crafting. Although he is unsure of his length of time in Florida so we will only be there for a week maybe. They may keep him there for a year though. I do not honestly think I could be away from him for a year. So the person I am I am trying to find us a place to rent. Well where he is working of course just happens to be where they hold PGA golf tournaments and all that jazz. It is a bit more than I think we can handle on top of our mortgage. I may have to pack it all up and rent our house out if we can not find something affordable that he normally pays when he is traveling or on the road for months at a time. Okay enough babble from me.

On my card today I used the image Randy from Robyn's Fetish. He is a cute little digi and perfect for Valentine's Day coming up quickly. I colored him with copics and used a Echo Park Yours Truly paper pad. I used some sticker letters I had to spell love and some buttons from my stash filled with heart brads. If you get a chance stop by the store and check out some things on sale. They are getting ready to fill stock up from CHA!

Sketch Saturday - 191
C.R.A.F.T. - Recipe

Love and Kisses

Good morning....Afternoon...Evening.....

First I would like to say congrats to Ginger for winning my candy!
Please contact me shanna.shands@gmail.com 

We have a new challenge over at 

The Pixie Cottage

Our theme this week is

"Love and Kisses"

Our sketch this week is

For today's card I chose April with Hearts and colored her with copics. I used some new papers from the Echo Park Yours Truly cut with a Spellbinder die, an added doily, and stickers from the Echo Park Yours Truly collection.

If you get a chance to play with us remember you get to use whatever stamp you want 

(WE WOULD LOVE YOU TO USE PIXIE COTTAGE STAMPS)

Also we know there are tons of sketch challenges out there but feel free to use our as well.

Also stop by and check out some pre-orders on sale

American Crafts

Pebbles

 Use my code SCSDESIGNS for extra discounts!

American Crafts

Good evening. I know I am late posting this. I threw numbers in a bowl and let my daughter pick......the lucky winner for the candy is

Fiona

She said...
Aww she is so cute and you have coloured her beautifully :) Please could i be entered for your candy. I am a new follower.
Thanks,
Fiona L x


Fiona if you can contact me by Sunday the 29th.

Shanna.shands@gmail.com

Wise Old Owls

Good morning and a happy Monday to you all. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Mine was full of thunder, lightening, and rain.... cold rain!!!! I do not understand what the heck is going on with the weather, but a little steady pace of one temperature would be nice. Not this sunny and rainy back in forth banter of cold and warm. 

Well today I have a short post, but just wanted to share with you a quick and simple masculine card. I do not normally make masculine cards so this was a fun change for me. I really love the colors and the owls are just too adorable. Owls I think were a real big hit last year.

I used the Wise Owl (E644) stamp and the With Age (E647) stamp.

I colored the owls with copics and used my Spellbinder Oval Die, and distressed the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink . I used some My Mind's Eye paper with some chocolate colored cardstock I have. I also used some cream cardstock to stamp the With Age sentiment stamp in Memento black ink and distressed the edges with Walnut Stain distress ink. I cut it like a banner and finished the card off with some jute string and a button.

Are you all ready for some GREAT IMPRESSION'S challenges???

We are working behind the scenes to hopefully have it up as soon once the store is up and running. Unfortunately, bad weather is has the owner's playing it safe right now. Hopefully they are doing okay as there have been power outages all over due to the bad snow storms.

Hopefully you all love my card. Please stop by GREAT IMPRESSION'S tomorrow to see what new project awaits to inspire you!

Congratulations

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Sparkle N Sprinkle Deco Divas – Love is in the Air Blog Hop!!! All your fabulous comments were greatly appreciated!

For those who may not have won a prize this time – you’ll have another chance before you know it… Mark Feb 9-10 on your calendars for the Spring Fling Blog Hop!!!

Here are the winners for this hop. Please e-mail brenda@sparklensprinkle.com with your full name – address – phone contact & your choice of item(s) for the prize you won.

CONGRATULATIONS TO:

Grand Prize #1 - Full-sized stamp set of your choice on cling - Cheryl B

Grand Prize #2 - Stampette set of your choice on cling - Kaiahobid

1st Place - (from Lana Clarke’s Blog) 2 Glitter Tinsels - Aurora Selvaggio

2nd Place – (from Gerlinde Townsley’s Blog) 3 sm embossing powders – Karen Land

3rd Place – (from April Williams Blog) 3 sm glitters – Robyn Rinehart

Thanks again for hopping with us!  We'll see you soon at the next hop.

Paper Piecing

Hey everyone. Good morning.
Quick reminder today is the last day for my candy and Tuesday is the last day to enter my other candy.
Well I have had a hefty weekend full of not what I needed, but I did what I had to do to get things done a little bit. I got the house clean, some bills paid, ordered some stamps, colored, celebrated a birthday, got stormed on, and got onto a store team for All That Scraps!
It's a busy weekend right, and it's not even over yet! I still have to go grocery shopping (produce shopping), get dog food, and a new tag for our newest puppy! I'll put pictures up of my fur babies.

So onto today's challenge!!!!

Paper Sundaes

has a theme this week of 

"Paper Piecing"

Our sponsor is this week is

My Favorite Things

I used the image Pure Innocence 019. I thought this would be a great stamp for my first try at paper piecing. Well cutting out her fingers and trying not to rip the heart was harder than I thought. Then I put the paper in the printer wrong as you see love is sideways instead of right side up! 

I colored the image with copics and used my MS border punch. The papers are from My Mind's Eye Love Me  paper pad. I tried a little shading on the cut out heart. I used a vellum sentiment and embellished it with a rhinestone heart.

I really hope you get over to the Paper Sundaes blog and see what the rest of the team has created!

Just Us Girls - Red, Pink, and White

Deconstructed Sketch No. 35

Stamptacular Sunday - Spots or Polka dots

Paper Ink Creations - Love and Romance

Welcome

Good evening everyone. Are you ready for the weekend. I am not I have a birthday party to go to tomorrow and I am not feeling the long drive there at all especially if it is going to be raining.  Well the new challenge is over at 

Totally Gorjuss

our theme this week is

Welcome 

(Welcome home, Welcome baby, Welcome to your new job, etc.)

We have a new sponsor this year

Heather's Hobbie Haven

I used the new Celebration Tilda. Unfortunately All That Scraps
is out of stock but you can stop by and check out the rest of the Magnolias as well as the spellbinder circles dies I used. I also used My Mind's Eye Love Me paper pad. It was so hard for me to want to cut these papers up. Of course I colored my image with copics, which can also be purchased at All That Scraps. I used a MS border punch, added some heart rhinestones, some jute string and ribbon from RRR, and some Walnut Stain distress ink (On sale here) on the edges of the circles.

I loved coloring her. I am nor good with coloring with the RV shades yet. I did not like the color so I went over them with some of the R's and W's.

My sentiment was hand typed and punched out with a SU punch.

If you get a chance to stop in a check out the store please do. Tons of stuff on clearance and on sale.

3 challenges and a candy update!

Good morning I am having one busy day. 

If you are looking for the Sparkle n Sprinkle blog hop click here. 

Don't forget I have two separate sugar free candies too here and here one is ending this Sunday and then next Wednesday so hurry up and enter.

Shall we get on with today's fun???

Colour Create  is having a new challenge with the color scheme of

Pink, green, and neutral with the option of handmade flowers

Our sponsor for this challenge is

Kenny K

I used a new image just released not too long ago. I totally love her. She was really fun to color. I think I want to do one in white with some pink wings or red with sparkly fluff on the wings... Hmmm I should have added that to this card.  I followed along with the The Sweet Stop Sketch for this card. I really thought I needed to keep it CAS for all the cards you all have to look at today :)

Now for the handmade flowers... errr rolling flowers is not my forte and lol I need a day with a whole lot of them punched out so I can practice. 

If you get a chance to stop by and see what the team has created we have a lot of variety for you to choose from for some inspiration. Hope you can play along.

Our next challenge for today is

Southern Girls

 a little WHITE on WHITE challenge

with THREE sponsors for this challenge 

Tickled Pink

Artful Crafts

Meljen

For this challenge I used a Meljen image that was free... they have freebies so go grab some!

I used plain white cardstock and embossed it, threw on some white ribbon, and some white sticker letters that I had laying around in a box. 

Many think white on white is hard... I definitely don't feel comfortable doing it but come try it out with us and check out what the rest of the team created.

Lastly 

Also Dutch Dare is having a sketch challenge stop by and play

Also don't forget there is a blog hop down below for Sparkle n Sprinkle!

Also Stop and Scrap had tons of pre-orders...sadly I didn't get some before they were already out of stock on a pre-order (crying...tears...more sobbing)

If you get a chance check out their Facebook Page

USE MY DISCOUNT CODE for 12% off

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A little Embossing

Good morning....Afternoon...Evening..... Sorry I woke up a little late

:(

We have a new challenge over at 

The Pixie Cottage

the theme is 

"Embossing"

and as always we have a sketch for you to play with as well!

For today's challenge I used Hannah at the Fence and you can get her right here over at 

Michelle's Scrapbooking and More. I colored her with copics and I am loving red right now. Thank goodness for refills! I am starting to move to blues and pinks but I am still all for red. 

The papers I used are from the newest Lily Bee Designs paper pad. I also used an embossing folder on some pearl paper. The flowers I sprayed with some TAM and then I added stickles to the center of them.

It is a little hard to see but I stamped you are special in the corner. It was a cheap cheap stamp I got a Michael's. 

If you can come along and play with us and remember you can use any image you have.

Paper Ink Creations - Love and Romance

Also BIG News

If you order with Stop and Scrap

use my discount code for 12% off your entire order

SCSDESIGNS

They also have all of Prima on Pre-order as well as 

My Mind's Eye