Hey everyone!! Today is day two of this month's Blog Hop Challenges, and we have a SUPER adorable set from Torico for you today!! I had a lot of fun colouring this one up… I hope you enjoy!


I have no idea why I went wild with the colours, I just looked at the cake and decided that there was no normal way to colour it!! I grabbed some funky patterned papers (BasicGrey) and went to town!



Would you like to win the new A Little Treat stamp set? Here is what you need to do- visit the Trendsetter’s blogs that are participating in each of the blog hop challenges below and comment on their creations as you go. One of the Trendsetter’s blogs (from each hop day) will be randomly chosen as the ‘it’ blog and a winner will be picked using a random number generator from the comments left on that Trendsetter’s Blog Hop Challenge post.
You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning new stamps! The Blog Hop Challenges will be open until 5 PM Eastern Time Saturday, April 28^th, with the winner being announced during the release party chat.

Hello!
Welcome to the "Brand New" Technique Tuesday blog hop.
Technique Tuesday’s Stamping Techs are blog hopping again, and we are delighted this month to share with you some cool projects made with some of the new stamps Technique Tuesday is debuting this week at the CHA trade show in California.
I had a lot of fun putting this card together and playing with a brand-spanking new set!


 
Beautiful yellow daffodils. I love it when they show up in early spring and I couldn’t resist pulling out all of my unused yellow inks, paper, glitter pens… Not so much a fan of the yellow, but for this flower, how could I not??? This is a set called “Daily Daffodils” and besides the striking image there are 5 sentiments.
 
Specifics about the project:

• I first stamped the image with a light yellow ink, then I used the “Rock ‘n Roll” technique around the edges of the stamp with a shade of dark yellow.
• after the image dried I highlighted the original artwork with Copic Spica pens in gold and clear to give it some glam
• The basic grey papers used originally had the red and black inking around the perimeter of the paper (6x6 pad) so when I cut out the pieces I replicated the inking with Ranger Distress Inks.

We love reading your comments so we will have some random draws for prizes.
From the comments received on all the blogs, we will pick one lucky person to win the Flurry stamp set.
We’ll also pick one person to win the Missing You by Ali Edwards stamp set.
You don’t need to comment on all the blogs to be eligible to win. But the more comments you
leave, the more chances you have to win!
Comments must be posted by midnight on Feb. 2nd The winner will be announced on Feb. 3rd sometime on the Technique Tuesday blog.

Thanks for stopping by and here’s a list of all the Stamping Techs participating in the hop:
Tanis
Ashley
Charlene
Daniela
Tobi <---- you’re here.
Laura
Sharyn
Kris
Jaclyn
Teri

I actually got my butt in gear and made a bunch of cards for the latest Paper Crafts call BUT I didn’t get a few of them uploaded in time… OOPS! So this is my version of one of the go-to sketches. I used a classic Nestabilities die to cut the hearts out then popped up the white paper on top of the striped patterned paper. The sentiment is from a pack of die cuts from the new Basic Grey line called Kissing Booth. It all seemed to just…. come together. That’s the beauty of a sketch!

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

WOW it’s hot here. We are finally getting the summer we never got in July and August and it is SWELTERING out there! Thank goodness we have an air conditioner in our bedroom because I don’t know how I’d fall asleep otherwise. I am not a big fan of summer and I am SO ready for this heat to turn into fall weather, my favourite season. I have been getting some more Christmas products as they come into my LSS and I’m going to share two projects with the Christmas Basic Grey collection today.. First, a tag:

First I glimmer misted the tag and added some glimmer glaze (kind of like nail polish) with a template for the background, then I added some diecut stickers and a little lace. Done. Easy. Love it.

Next, a card:

The chalkboard-looking paper is black cardstock “painted” with Tim Holtz’s new picket fence distress stain. It’s opaque-ish and it’s great on chipboard, but as I discovered here, it’s fun with cardstock too.. The rest of the elements are chipboard shapes and again. Quick. Easy. Done.

Thanks for stopping by, and please, send some Autumn weather my way!!!!!

I’m a Stamping Tech for Technique Tuesday and 

today, the Technique Tuesday Stamping Techs and some of our best friends are joining together to hold this first-ever blog hop to share one of our favorite projects made with Technique Tuesday’s stamps.

The hop begins on Teri’s blog. She is linking to a designer’s blog. And then that designer is linking to someone’s blog and so on. Teri has a list of all the hop’s players so please check out her blog if you get lost along the way.

With every comment you leave on the blog path, you’ll be entered to win a Pocket Full of Posies stamp set from Technique Tuesday:

Teri will pick one person at random from all the comments made by midnight Eastern time on 1/24 to win the stamp set. So the more comments you make, the better chance you have to win.

Be sure to check Teri’s blog on 1/25 to see if you are the lucky winner.

Here's my project made especially for the hop:

I used a Technique Tuesday set called The Cupcakery. (And it's only $2.99!!)

The papers are some older Basic Grey and the big, wide ribbon has survived in my stash for 3 or more years, so I don't know where it's from, but it matches perfectly!! 

The next stop on this hop is the blog of Laura. 

Thanks for joining our hop today!

Available now from i {heart} papers is Kimberly Crawford's new set: Sweet Hearts! I fell in love with this set the moment I saw it...

1. Paper-piece the jar image using Basic Grey patterned papers (Two Scoops). 
2. Stamp the heart border on the blue background in blue
3. Stamp sentiment and hearts with Staz-on ink on chipboard. 
4. Adhere everything together and sew along seam between scalloped border and pink paper.

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I love that we have this day... A day to celebrate us weird crafty types that love to spend hours and hours and lots of $$$$ making pint-sized works of art! Today I am showcasing a couple of cards showcasing Penny Black stamps! We, the SRM design team, were gifted with some awesome stamps from the very generous people at PB, and we had to make some cards with them... oh if you insist... Check out not only the SRM Blog today, but the Penny Black blog as well for some WCMD celebrations!!

Phew... This week is going to be unbelievable with not only teaching everyday but then

• taking a Basic Grey Calendar Class tonight 
• teaching a Copic Christmas class Tuesday night
• Conducting Opus One Wednesday night
• Working at Clipper Street Thursday night 
• NIGHT OFF FRIDAY
• Conducting the Provincial Honour Vocal Jazz all day Saturday

The trouble with school, especially in September, is that it really takes a bite out of my craft time. Like, a lot. Like completely... I have been photocopying lessons, picking out music, auditioning choir students, working at night, and I am completely WIPED OUT!! So that's my long, drawn-out apology for not posting too often over the last couple weeks..

I made a couple of cards with some very fun Basic Grey chipboard and papers from the new "Jovial" line. I am in love with it. The colours are a little odd for Christmas, but they work!!

I finally got my last order of stuff from Jacksonbelle (it's been sitting at the border for well over a month) so I played with my new goodies: the MFT stamp and Capella papers.

Check out the post below for The Cutting Cafe giveaway!! 

Well... I decided to go "all out" for this paper piecing challenge and made this card:


So yah... I pretty much paper pieced everything.. If you don't know what paper piecing is, it's when you stamp your image on patterned papers, cut it out, and glue it to your stamped image on plain paper. So the wallpaper, carpet, and the quilt were all paper pieced, then I coloured in the remaining parts with Copics.

click to see slightly larger view

Thanks for taking a look!! 

No, not my husband, but cute none-the-less:

We're having a lot of fun this month as we dive into a Clean & Simple style. We challenge you to use stickers to create a card, layout, altered item (whatever you like!) with a Clean & Simple feel. Please provide your entry at the bottom of this post. The challenge winner will receive a SRM Stickers Prize Package along with an invitation to Design for SRM for the month of September. Please load up your creation(s) by the end of the month.

As a side-challenge, the DT were charged with the task of using the same sticker 3 ways.. This is how the story went:

So I was sitting at my craft table churning out some cards and I proudly sat back to show Ian (my husband) my same-sticker-three ways final product:

So now that I've used all of my Quick Cards "Love" stickers, I think I have proved a point: There are infinite uses for these darling little stickers...

*Check out today's blog post at the SRM Stickers Blog for a possible sneak peek of the new Quick Card stickers.. I've seen 'em, they're great! 

Welcome to another fabulous Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenge!  It’s almost the most TAXING day of the year so in “celebration” of tax day our challenge this week is to make a card using taxes as your inspiration.  For example ~ money, green, numbers…anything that represents your view of taxes.  We’d love for you to play along.  If you do be sure to leave us a link to your project in the the comments section of this post or use keyword JBE101 when uploading to SCS or PCP.

For now taxes aren't a scary time for me. I still have University tuition I use as write-offs and I think I'm gonna get a nice return that will help over my income-less summer! So my card is green for MOOLAH!!