Not another New favorite stamp!!

Oh my gosh, I remember when I started stamping and making cards I was introduced to Stampin Bella.  Had to have them. Have many of them.  Then I saw Magnolias on Scrapbook.com and fell in love with them.  Had to have them. Have many of them.  Then I fell in love with CCDesigns.  Had to have them. Have many of them.  Have you seen these darling stamps by Some Odd Girl?  Oh my gosh, have to have them!!  Where does the madness end!??!!  I was lucky enough to win one in a recent stamp release blog hop.  I won Dancin Mae.  Isn't she just delish?  It came to me packaged all pretty like! Love that!  Now the challenge this week at the Some Odd Girl Blog is to make a shaped card.  So I did! With my new dancin Mae stamp.  And oh my gosh is she ever fun to color!

I kept trying to add flowers and stuff but nothing looked right and this little cutie just didn't need a lot of embellishment.  This paper is from My Mind's Eye.  I should have bought stock in that company!

I used my Grand Calibur to cut out the Grand Nesties shaped card and papers. 

Can you see the added bling to her belt?  I used a copic spica pen and added a rhinestone to the center.

I had to add a little pink.  I thought she would like a pink Ipod like mine.

If you have a chance you should check out the challenge over at Some Odd Girl, it was a lot of fun!!

I am going to enter this in the Craft you days away challenge, the theme is music and dance.

Also, CES Challenge blog has your favorite color combo.

Crafty Catz Weekly asks for a sentiment.

If the shoe fits.. Scrap it has Green as the challenge.

The Pink Stamper challenged us to use Kraft cardstock for the National Scrapbook Day Challenge #2

Guylou's Inimitability New Release Blog Hop

Welcome to Guylou's Inimitability May New Release Blog Hop and Challenge.  If you have come here from Guylou's you are right on track. If you haven't check out the links at the bottom of this post for the list of the hop. There is a lot to see today so hang in there. 

We are so happy to finally show you GI new digistamps. We are finally seeing some signs of spring so Guylou has brought us a fabulous series of stamps to go along with one of my favorite images.  

Leah in her garden series

These images are sold individually (click on image to access online store) or as a series at Leah in her Garden Series.

Dysfunctional Fish Family Series

These images are sold individually (click on image to access online store) or as a series at Dysfunctional Fish Family.

I was supposed to bring you Leah with Coffee, but I got carried away with mine!! I decided to use all of the Leah series and make my mom a Mother's Day Gift.   I started out with making a Pizza Box. 

I incorporated my shaker box for the challenge onto the lid of the box. 

The shaker was pretty easy to make. 

First off I cut out the top of the shaker .

I then cut a piece of plastic from some plastic packaging. Can we say Recycle!!

I  cut a piece for the bottom of the shaker box.

I added foam to the plastic circle.

Added some glitter and flower soft and put the two pieces together.

Colored all of my images.  And now I got to work assembling my cards.  The first card is the actual card using the original Leah image that I made as my Mother's Day Card. 

Then I put together the same design with all 4 of the new releases.

And there you have it, my gift for my mom.  They are all the A5 size.  The paper is Kraft as well as My Minds Eye.  The tag is a Whimsy stamp set that I love.  I figured you can never have enough thank you cards.

Now back to the Blog hop.

Three random winners will be selected from the entries (the winners must leave a comment on all the participating blogs).

Your hop will be as follows:

Starts at Guylou’s Inimitability Blog 

Trina

Kim

Sara

Guylou

Brenda (You are here)

Gina

Guylou's Inimitability

Have fun hopping!!

 Now, don't forget along with the hop is a Challenge and all the details are on the Challenge Blog.    But you must add a shaker box to it.  You can use my tutorial above or Guylou will guide you over to a youtube video.  Hope today's post wasn't too long!! 

Anita Be Stampin Blog Hop

It’s Anita Be Stampin Digi Release and Blog Hop day…woot woot!  All of the new digi images are available NOW at Anita Be Stampin, and we are celebrating by having a blog hop filled with inspiration.  Be sure to visit all of the stops on the blog hop today, because one lucky winner who comments on EVERY blog along the way will win the entire digi release.  Gotta love that!

Check out my project using the brand new ABS Tessa image. 

     

Isn't she gorgeous, and so happy.  Do you remember that milestone in your life when you graduated High School?  I made this for a friends daughter that is graduating at the end of this month.  What a milestone, you think you are ready to go out and meet the world head on!!!  I thought it would be fun to do a fancy fold card.  This is called a flip flop card.  And the back:

And then I went on to play with the new Tad image.  You know whenever I do a male card they are just a little simpler.  I don't think that most men realize how much effort you can put into a hand made card. 

This paper line other than the kraft paper is all from a package I have from CTMH.  I love the different papers in this package.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  The next stop on the hop is Jeni. Remember to leave a comment on every blog on the hop by Sunday, May 8th at 12:01 am CST for your chance to win all of the ABS digi images released today.  Here is the list of all of the stops on the hop today, just in case you get lost along the way:

ABS Blog

Anita

Brenda

Jeni

Lelia

Linda

Silke

Tracy

ABS Blog

So grab yourself a cup of coffee to keep yourself company and Happy hopping!

Blog Hops

What are you all doing tomorrow?  I know what I am doing! I have 2 blog hops tomorrow, both releasing new images.  Anita Be Stampin has some new images that are going to be released tomorrow and I have made 2 projects that I will be sharing with you.   Here's a little sneak peak!!

Hmmm, can you guess the theme going on here?

And then Guylou's Inimitability is also having a blog hop tomorrow releasing 2 sets of images.  I am super stoked to have you all hop along.  I did a large project for this hop.

Do you recognize Leah?  I have created with her before here.  This is just a hint for the hop tomorrow! 

Now make sure when you come back tomorrow you check them both out.  Gosh, they are hopping at the same time!!!  

Anita Be Stampin Challenge #19

It is Tuesday and time for another Anita Be Stampin Challenge.  This weeks challenge is a color inspiration challenge.  This color challenge came from Rachel's shirt.  Teal Blue, Smokey Plum, Purple, and Sage Green.  Here is Rachel's Shirt!!

I wanted to do something a little different this week.  So I printed off Meadow and colored her up.  I have had this large letter "P" hanging on my board in my craft room for well over a year.  My oldest Granddaughter is named Peighton and I bought this on clearance one day and had not done anything with it yet.  I thought she would love Meadow so I painted it with a smokey plum color, added some paper that I have had in my stash forever that fits the color scheme and mod podged it on.  I added some iridescent medium to Meadow's wings as well as some of the flowers on the paper.

Only thing is, this thing is hard to photograph!!  I also made a huge mistake, I had the image completely colored and cut, and I messed up her eye and couldn't fix it.  So, I decided to pop dot her face, add another wing and make the image 3-D as well.  I had spent way too much time coloring to throw it away!!
I added some Wild Orchid flowers, some Recollection flowers from M's and here it is!!  I hope Peighton likes it. I have a feeling she will.  She is a girlie girl that will be 5 next month.

I hope you can find some time to play along this week.  You can find all these gorgeous fairies over at the Anita Be Stampin Store.  We only need one more member over at Papercraftplanet to get another free digi image.  There are 2 there now.  See, no reason why not to enter the challenge this week!!  And we are getting ready for another release later on this week so I hope you will come on back later to check out my projects!

Remember this is my second post today, check out my earlier post for the Outlawz Color challenge.   As always, thanks for stopping by today! 

Mahvelous May Tuesday Color Challenge

Can you believe that it is May already.  This year is flying by.  We have a fabulous sponsor this month for our Tuesday Color Challenges.

 Digi's With Attitude supplied us with a fabulous image to play along with this week.  We played with Tabatha & Tony.  How cute is this image?!!!  I had to google tigers to see how to color this cute image up.  This is what I came up with.

For the Color Challenge in the month of May we will have what we call Mahvelous May and that is the twist to go with the inspiration photo.  This weeks twist is to add twine.  I know you all have some of that fabulous twine that is all the rage right now. I don't. (insert sad face here).  But I do have some hemp so that is what I used on my card. I used kraft paper, black CTMH cardstock and of course my Neenah to color on.  My faithful Copics and a sentiment stamp from AmyR you can find at All That Scraps called Critter Sentiments.

Well I guess I should add the inspiration photo for the colors!  Orange, Black or Brown, and white. Don't forget to add your twine!

Copic Colors used.

Tony was colored with YR-21,23,24 and E-51

Tabatha was colored with Y-32,35,38

Noses and tongues E-93,95,97

Hearts R-01,05,08

Post #1 of 2 today, please check back for the Anita Be Stampin Challenge today as well.
As always, thanks for stopping by my blog.  Wish I could put the teapot on and have a cup and a chat!  

Cricut Giveaway at CDAC

Are you a member over at CDAC?  Or a Follower of Priscillastyles blogspot?  Well you will want to head on over there today.  They are giving a Cricut away to one lucky particant. I would love for it to be me.  Yeah, I have a Cricut Expression but my youngest daughter has just let us know we will have a new Christmas baby.  Very excited for her and her hubby.  If I win, this will go to her.  She will be drawn into scrapbooking when that baby comes!!  She likes to do it a little, but babies change that and I think she will want to do more!
Anyways, head on over to http://priscillastyles.blogspot.com/ and enter yourself!!



Now who wouldn't want to win this for free!!!