It's Friday feature time at the Annabelle Stamps Blog and we're playing with the newly released Printable Pages.


I printed this out on some cream Bazzill card stock and "coloured" the tree with various Stickles. It makes it super sparkly and Christmasy!

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Hey readers! I am so happy with the card I'm sharing with you today! I sat down to make this card to preview this month's Greenhouse set and I really had no idea where I was going to go. Copic? Watercolor? Distress Stains? Copic won.... Here's what I made:




Is this a gorgeous stamp or what? I am so glad I tried Copics first because it really was a fun image to color.

How to...

1) stamp image on Copic paper with Memento ink
2) color with Copic markers and charcoal pencils
3) die cut image out with Spellbinders and ink edges with the die still on the paper.
4) assemble the remainder of the card


Check out the Technique Tuesday blog for more details!

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Phew! Every blog that I've been reading for the last couple of days have mentioned that IT'S DECEMBER ALREADY!! Yah.. Holy crap! I have my first Christmas concert on Thursday and 4 more after that. My kids and I will be very busy over the next couple of weeks, for sure. But to add to the business I have had a lot of designing to do over the weekend because, as you may know, I teach classes at my LSS and I had a deadline! I have a little sneak peek for you. I think it's my favourite card of the bunch (I made 13 cards for 3 different classes).





I went to town with some gorgeous Pink Paislee products and some dies. I can't wait to teach this class - lots of sparkly elements and lots of sass...

Another thing that's kept me busy?? Our beautiful tree:




It's my first monochromatic quasi-grownup tree and I'm really happy with it! Phoenix and I had a lot of fun putting up all of our new decorations!

Check you later!

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I’ve spent the better part of the weekend preparing and putting the final touches on a couple of new classes that will be offered at Clipper Street in July/August. As always, I aim to make the cards challenging, interesting, educational, and most importantly, beautiful! It’s never an easy task, designing a class, because you never know what the customers are going to go for, but all I can do is do my best and hope it does well!
Here’s a class I’m calling “Button Bonanza'” for obvious reasons:

I was thrilled to hear that There She Goes is sponsoring Jen del Muro'smonthly "Sketch For You to Try." I love her sketches, they're always simple, easy-to-follow and very versatile... Here's this month's sketch.






And here's what I did with it:






I used a very popular TSG set called Buckets of Love and colored it up with copics. I used some lovely Simple Stories patterned papers and they were my color inspiration... very Easter-ish!

So head over to Jen's blog to see everyone's creations! I can't wait!

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Hello!  I am SO excited to be sharing a sneak peek today from the two upcoming Mint Motif releases, Beyond Borders, Too (a companion set to the wildly popular Beyond Borders) and a new sentiment set, Simply Sentiments.  We’ve had a hiatus for a few months but Kimberly is back with a couple of great new releases.. I literally squealed with glee when I saw the Beyond Borders, Too set… You’ll see why when you see my sneak peek. Both sets will be available March 12, exclusively at IHP. 



Be sure to check out the rest of the team’s sneaks today:

• Kimberly Crawford
• AJ Otto
• Latisha Yoast
• Ryann Salamon
• Geny Cassady
• Kimber McGray
• Melissa Bickford
• Julie Masse

Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a great Monday!

When I ordered some stamps from Stampendous during CHA I had no idea what I was in for. Lots of times when I’m colouring an image I am content, calm, relaxed… but when I was colouring these guys, I was just plain freaking.. I don’t know if I’ve ever been so proud of how my colouring came out.

 

I will be teaching these four cards and all of the techniques involved at Clipper Street in March and April. If you’re in the area be sure and sign up.. Spots in this class are already going fast!!

 

Here is the main attraction:

 

 

 

 

Also… Did you check out the new Echo Park This & That papers I used?? So gorgeous I am speechless..

Take care, and thanks for stopping by!

Welcome back to the iSpy Sketch challenge! This week we are featuring this completely adorable card by Beate Johns (Beate at SCS) called Sweet li'l Sheep that was posted last year on March 24th. Beate is a stamping superwoman and a wonderful person and we are completely thrilled that she has let us feature her :D

Here is my card:

 

 

I used  a few old supplies from my “Valentines” box… I mean, how many times do we save our products with good intentions to use them again but never do?? I have some great new Valentine’s Day stuff, but I have a lot of older stuff like these Basic Grey papers and Penny Black stamp..

 

Here is this week’s sketch:

 

Last week, the first week of our blog, was a hit and I can’t wait to see everyone’s creations again! If you are able, I’d love to see you play along!

Here's how to play:

• Create a paper crafting project (card, scrap book page or 3D item), based on the sketch provided.
• Post your creation on your blog or an online gallery (using a code ISSC02), and link it here with the inlinkz widget below. Please provide a direct link to your post - not the generic link to your blog.
• A new challenge will be posted every Friday at 12.01 AM EST, and you have until noon on Wednesday EST to submit your entry.
• You may enter as many times as you like, but please provide a newly designed project with a new link for each additional project.
• We will choose the top 2 creations to be featured in our "Top 2 Thursday" post where we will announce who we have picked :) The winners will receive their very own iSpy Sketches blog badge!
• Don't forget that you may combine our challenges with others and use supplies from any company that you wish :)
• Have fun and we look forward to "spying:" your creations!

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

Hey There She Goes fans!! We REALLY hope you have been enjoying this week's blog hops! Today is our FINAL day of Blog Hop Challenges, and today we have TWO super cute new sets from Melyssa!!

I think that Leah is my favourite Whimsie Doodles character.. If you’re a colouring freak like me you will love having her in your stash. I chose Echo Park papers (For The Record) and an obscene amount of Copic markers to match:

 

She already comes with lots of fun, but if this isn’t enough she has a kit to accessorize to her hearts content! Whether she’s moving, heading off to school, or enjoying a ride she’ll surely make tracks into your heart.

 

Scootin’ By is a 4x8 set that includes a total of 15 stamps and will sell for $18.00.

Scootin’ By – Accessories is a 4x4 set that includes a total of 14 stamps and will sell for $10.00.

Would you like to win the new Scootin’ by and Scootin’ by Accessories stamp sets? 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 January 28th with the winner being announced during the release party chat.

Here is the list of participants in today's Blog Hop!!

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!

Hi there! I had a night off (woo!) and enjoyed a little Netflix-watching with the fam, then sat down to create a card for today’s Free for All challenge at SCS. The challenge is to use patterned papers to colour-block a background, so I chose some new-to-me Basic Grey papers from their Sweet Threads line.
Here’s my card:

In the spirit of the birthday celebrations at the TSG Blog, I stamped a scene using a bunch of different stamp sets. I used: Beautiful Day, The Fairy Best, and Once Upon a Time. It’s really fun having all of these interchangeable sets. I’m not a big scene-stamper, but this was really easy!
Here’s the inside:

I wasn’t able to find a great spot for the sentiment on the front of the card, so I used the scraps and dressed up the inside. I’ve heard from a few people that a “card isn’t complete until the inside is done.” Well, I’ve been taking that to heart lately and really, it doesn’t take that much extra time…
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For our September release, we have a bunch of adorable images for you that are perfect for your Back-to-School and Halloween projects...and a little Steam Punk, too!  These images are so much fun to color-- and we know you'll love them as much as we do!

Here’s my card:

I made this card while camping last week and I totally forgot to bring Hallowe'en patterned papers along to work with this image.... WOOPS! It forced me to get creative so I created the background with a couple of different glimmer mists and stencil and sprayed the grungeboard skulls with black glimmer mist. I think it all worked out pretty well..

Check out WHAT’S NEW at the Whimsie Doodles site.

In other news, this is my last release with Whimsie Doodles. They have a brand-new DT that rocks and I will be enjoying their creations as a fan instead of a Diva. I was so happy to join in the fun and I LOVE my Whimsie Doodles stamps. I can’t wait to see what Melyssa has in store for the future!

Thanks for stopping by!

Today is a fun day for me because I’m hosting this week’s Whimsie Wednesday challenge as well as giving tips on trends over at the There She Goes blog.. Whew!

Check out my post here at the TSG Blog to see how my need to organize and use scraps resulted in this card:

And check my post here to see this week’s Whimsie Wednesday challenge: 3 Patterned Papers featuring this card:

ps… Do your cats do this?? I think it’s the cutest thing ever…

It’s time for another fun TSG Challenge and this week I chose to do a colour challenge that was inspired by this beautiful makeup:

I love makeup, don’t you?? This compact is so pretty.. I want it. lol. The colors to use are baby pink, coral and black and extra brownie points if you throw in some gold somewhere on your card/project ;)

For the most part I used stamps from the set called Hibiscus. They are such a lovely flower, aren’t they? This stamp looks really good as a background, so I used both the outline and solid images to fill up the two different coloured cardstocks.

For the gold component of the colour challenge I rimmed the sentiment label (sentiment from Blossom by Blossom) with gold paint and coloured in the centres of the flowers with a Gold Copic Spica pen. Subtle, but in real life it bumps up the design a notch..

To be eligible for the giveaway, you are to create a card that uses the colors provided, and then come back to the TSG Blog to add your name and a link to your project in the InLinkz that is located at the bottom of this challenge post. This challenge is open until the winner has been announced on the following Monday (Aug. 22). The winner will get a $5 gift certificate to use in the TSG Web store!

Have you ever had to explain your craft-room and hobby to someone who’s never seen anything like it? Today a college friend came over to pick my brain about teaching music and she had a look at my “studio” and asked “So what IS this? WHY do you do this"?”

I was speechless for a second.. Why DO I do it? I was like, ‘Uh… um…”

Then she said, “Is this a business for you? What do you do with all of the cards?”

I said “Well, I work for a few stamp companies that send me stamps and I make cards with them… And I sell my cards at a flower shop, and I teach classes at my LSS…” but the conversation felt unfinished when it ended..

I have to admit that a whole room and thousands of dollars of stuff does seem excessive for a hobby, but that’s what it is.. Is card-making a PASSION of mine? I think so.. Is it crazy that I spend the money/time that I do on it? I don’t think so.. A colleague of mine from school has a very, very expensive hobby that seems really weird to me, he buys expensive sound systems for his house. We’re not talking Bose speakers, we’re talking $50k sound systems from stores that are INVITE ONLY. Do I think it’s excessive, yes, but it’s his hobby and it makes him happy. Anyway.. It was an interesting conversation..
Speaking of being excessive, here are some cards I’ve made over the past couple of days.. I’ve been productive! These are all for the Dare To Get Dirty challenges at SCS…

I made this card for this month’s Sketch For You To Try.. It’s my first one and it was fun! I used an older Kraftin’ Kimmie stamp that I actually had for sale in the garage sale I did and no one picked her up. The papers are the new, drop-dead gorgeous My Mind’s Eye “Lost and Found Two” papers. Pretty, aren’t they? Copics used: BG93, 96, 99; R81, 83, 86, 89; RV63, 66; E13, 15, 18, 31, 51, 53

The set Just my Type from Technique Tuesday is gorgeous on its own… So why not leave it? That’s what I thought, anyway. Doesn’t the typewriter stamp beautifully?

This stamp is new-to-me and I couldn’t wait to colour him up. These papers are more My Mind’s Eye “Lost and Found Two” and this particular line is my favourite. Normally I’m not a fan of gold, but the colour palette is scrumptious. Copics: YR21, 23, 25; E50, 51, 53, 71, 74, 77, 79.

This guy is from a There She Goes set called My Little Friend. I pleated the lilac ribbon, but only on the outer edges.. It’s always tricky to adhere a layer on top of thick ribbon, so I thought I’d leave it flat just in the centre.. I really liked how it worked out and will be doing that again, for sure! Copics: YR18, 63; E40, 41, 50, 51, 11; BG70, 72, 76; YG21, 23, 25; RV63, 66, C3.
Thanks for stopping by!

It's new release day and to celebrate our August release, we are having a little party with Lily Pad Cards!
Visit each of our Doodlelicious Diva blogs (click their links in the sidebar!!) today to see their card featuring our new August images and the Lily Pad color combo below...

 
Here’s what I did with the colour combo:

It looked like a more traditional combo to me, so I went with a quasi-vintage feel. As I was looking for coordinating papers I searched high and low through my paper stash and I kid you not, this is my only piece of navy blue patterned paper. It seems I don’t like this colour very much.. lol

I made a second card with a trendier feel:

I am in love with this colour combo (Sweet Blush, Berry Sorbet and Black – all PTI colours) and I thought the image looked great uncoloured. I added a couple shadows with my Cool Grey markers and that was it!

A few black pearls were added to the banner for some va-va-voom and that’s it!
Check out the challenge post at Lily Pad Cards to see what their Design Team has done with the August images and find out how you can win a $15 Gift Certificate to the Whimsie Doodles Online Store, $15 will go a long way!! And while you’re at it, check out the Whimsie Doodles blog to see all of the August images.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day.