Just for fun: Valentine's Day Tilda

I actually had some spare time to make a card this weekend! I have no idea who I'm going to give all these Valentine Day cards to, lol. I beat my old record of 22 challenges here! And this one is for first entries only (not for second entries.) Whoo hoo!!

Stamp: Magnolia Pink Tilda with Heart; Medium: Copics, Prismacolor pencils; Paper: BasicGrey Bittersweet; Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, embossing folder, MS border punch, ribbon, Prima rose, Flora Doodles flower, eyelets, stickles

This card is for a few challenges:

1. Lexi's Creations - Valentines
2. Crafty Cardmakers - Hearts and Romance
3. caardvarks - Red Heart
4. Die Cuts R Us - Ribbon
5. My Time To Craft - Rose - I've used a small rose embellishment
6. ABC Challenge - M is for Masking
7. Creative Belli Blog - Hearts
8. Inky Impressions - Pink and Hearts
9. Little Red Wagon - Hearts
10. Stampavie and More - Love Card/Valentine
11. Moving Along With the Times - At least 3 eyelets, 3 flowers, ribbon - It's hard to see all three flowers layered together, but they're there!
    
12. Just Magnolia - Hearts and Flowers
13. Stamp Something - Delightfully Delicious Somethings
14. Fussy and Fancy Challenge - Hearts
15. No Time To Stamp - Bleeding Hearts
16. Challenge Up Your Life - Hearts and Valentine
17. Secret Crafter - Hearts
18. Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Scallops - I used a scalloped oval Nestie
    
19. Hope Stamps Eternal - Cupcake Inspiration Challenge #44
20. The Corrosive Challenge - All You Need Is Love
21. Magnolia Down Under - Challenge #31 Sketch
22. Ildi Co Creative Challenges - Pink, Red, and White
23. Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Fire and Ice (Red and White)

Pile It On! Sunday and a chance to help

The weeks are just zooming on by! We have another Pile It On! Sunday challenge for you: Enough With the Winter Colors! Take the challenge to mean whatever you like, whether it be warm reds and browns or spring yellows and greens and pop on over to the blog and get your entries in!

And if you haven't already seen this image floating around, then I'm glad that I'm able to spread the word to you. Whimsy Stamps along with one of our artists, Crissy Armstrong, is offering the Wings of Hope digital image that I've used on my card for $4 with all the proceeds (minus Paypal fees) being donated to the Red Cross help the victims of Haiti. Why not take this opportunity to help if you haven't already? If you have already given to a charity, wouldn't you like to own this beautiful image to spread the word of Hope? I encourage everyone to donate and if you do, head over to Crissy's blog to enter her blog candy for a chance to win some wonderful things. Help today, it may mean more than you know.

Wings of Hope - purchase it here and Help Haiti

Image: Whimsy Stamps Wings of Hope; Medium: Copics, Prismacolor pencils; Paper: Cosmo Cricket; Accessories/tools: Corner punch, Prima flowers, BG pearls, stickles

This card is for a few challenges:

1. Pile It On! - Enough with the winter colors
   
2. A Spoon Full of Sugar - Freestyle
3. Artful Inkables - Think Spring
4. Creative Card Crew - Punch It
5. Creative Inspirations - Feminine
6. Cute Card Thursday - Blooming Gorgeous
7. Dutch Dare Challenge - Summer in Winter
8. Bee Crafty - Romantic (and digi)
9. Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - Open
10. Etsy Inspired Challenge - Challenge #73 (inspired by the colors on this)
    

Reminder: 2 Cute Rubber Stamps giveaway

Just a reminder to sign up as a follower of the 2 Cute Rubber Stamps blog for a chance to win a wooden stamp from the 2 Cute Rubber Stamps store! The winner will be picked on Sunday. And guess what? The store now carries the stamps mounted on cling cushion! Whoo hoo! Make sure to check out the great deal that you get on the sets, too.

Good luck and visit us often! We have daily postings to get your mojo going.

Digital Stamp Oasis - Sammy Squirrel Eating Strawberries

I can't believe I forgot to announce this, too! Things have just been crazy busy in my personal life, both good and bad, so I've really just been trying to tackle one thing at a time.

Anywho, I'm very happy to join the Digital Stamp Oasis Design Team for the next two months! Ellie has chosen a new crop of designers and I can't wait to play some more with these images. They're just absolutely fantastic and this image, Sammy Squirrel Eating Strawberries, is not exception! Make sure to check my other teamies' blogs to see their creations, too! I used the Crafty Pad Challenge #55 Sketch for this card.

Image: Digital Stamp Oasis Sammy Squirrel Eating Strawberries; Paper: DCWV; Medium: Prismacolor pencils and Copics; Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, rhinestones

Lillith in Browns and Greens

What more appropriate colors for Lillith than these?

This card was designed for Deb's Creations "Girls Nite In - Challenge #2." I don't think I've officially made an announcement about joining the Deb's Creations design team, but I'm thrilled to join Deb and the rest of the gals, and wow, are they some great gals or what! All the links to their blogs are on the left sidebar. They're all very friendly and of course, very talented. You can visit us at the Ning Network here. Make sure to watch out for the official opening of the Deb's Creations online store on March 1st. We will have a boat-load of stamps in stock so keep checking back at the Ning Network to see all the happenings!

This card is also for these challenges: ICSketches #51, Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge #14 "No embellishments" and Creative Card Crew Challenge #43 "Punch It."

Stamp: Kraftin' Kimmie Lillith; Medium: Prismacolor Pencils; Paper: DCWV Indian Summer; Accessories/tools: MS border punch, ticket punch

Eat it before it melts! 2 Cute Rubber Stamps Penguin Fun

Did you enjoy everyone's creations for the official 2 Cute Rubber Stamps launch? I sure did!

I'll be posting on Tuesdays at the 2 Cute Rubber Stamps blog. Today I'm going to share with you a card I made using the Penguin Fun rubber stamp from 2 Cute Rubber Stamps. Look at this little sweetheart! I like this penguin because I can never find enough images with winter animals that are usable all year long. I've used the Week #87 Sketch from Sketch Saturday for this card.

Stamp: 2 Cute Rubber Stamp Penguin Fun; Ink: Copics; Paper: DCWV Nursery Stack; Accessories/tools: MS border punch, ribbon, button

If you see a stamp used here that is not currently in the store, you can check the "Sold Items" page and contact Heidi directly.

Oh, and did you know that Heidi posts sketches on her blog for all of us to rate? We can give her feedback on whether or not we would like to see it as a stamp! She has a few new ones up now, so check them out! You can visit her blog here: http://2cuterubberstamps.weebly.com/rate-my-sketches.html. Who knows, maybe the sketch that you've been drooling over will become the next stamp!

2 Cute Rubber Stamps Official Opening!

I'm so very lucky to have been chosen to be part of the 2 Cute Rubber Stamps design team because, as you can see yourself, these stamps are just way too adorable! Each stamp is so unique and have a little extra something about them that just make you go, "Aww." I've chosen to work with Cowboy Kid Stamp; isn't he just a darling?? Soon Heidi will be offering stamps in cling and in digital form so make sure to keep watching the store!

Stamp: 2 Cute Rubber Stamps Cowboy Kid; Medium: Prismacolor pencils; Paper: DCWV Whimsical Stack; Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, brads

Whimsy Stamps Snickerdoodle Kids Release: Snowball fight!!

Oh geez, what a mess that snowball made! Thanks a lot Denise!

And thank YOU today for joining us for another Whimsy Stamps new release party! This time, we're having a little fun and throwing some snowballs around to celebrate. If you've come from Denise's blog, then you're on the right track. If not, visit the Whimsy Stamps website to check the order of the hop to make sure you haven't missed anyone!

Also, if you haven't already, you should join us at the Whimsy Stamps SNR Group Page at the end of the hop! Some of the Whimsy gals will have fun games and $5 Whimsy gift certificates to give out.

Stamp: Whimsy Stamps - Ready, Set, Duck!

Ink: Copics, BIC Mark Its, Paper: DCWV Holiday Collection; Accessories/tools: ribbon, stickles, foam snowflakes

You know Whimsy always offers some wonderful prizes along with our hop! And what's the prize this time?! Take a look at this gift certificate to the grand prize winner! To be in the drawing for this prize, make sure you comment on all the design team members' posts. But guess what? There's more! Three random DT members will be picking from their comments to give away one of the new stamps from the new Snickerdoodle Kids Collection. Make sure you don't miss anyone! You have now until January 30 at 12 pm (noon) to enter!

Now that you've seen my card, it's time to move on and hit another team member's blog with a snowball and it seems that I've hit Simonne's blog! Click here to head over and see her wonderful creation!

Whimsy Stamps full reveal and a chance to help

Well ladies (and gentlemen?), here's the full reveal of yesterday's sneak peak!

Stamp: Whimsy Stamps Janice and Marty's Snow Day; Ink: Copics, BIC; Paper: DCWV Holiday Stack; Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Flower soft, Stickles, rhinestones, Shapeabilities

You'll get a lot more chances to see this stamp (as well as the other two new release stamps) tomorrow starting at noon EST for a Whimsy Stamps blog hop. Make sure to join us for a chance to win a GENEROUS blog candy as well as to be inspired by the super talented ladies on the team

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On another note, unless you've been living in a cave for the past week, you've heard about the tragic earthquake that devastated Haiti. To think about all those people gone in an instant just breaks my heart. Did it break yours too? Do you want to reach out and give something that means more than you can ever know?

"This special "Wings of Hope" digital stamp, illustrated by Crissy Armstrong, is being released by Whimsy Stamps and will only be available to purchase in digital form from now until the end of February. This "Wings of Hope" image will be sold for $4 and all proceeds from the sales of this digital image will be sent to the American Red Cross for disaster relief efforts in Haiti. Please help us help the people of Haiti by purchasing this limited edition digital image." You can see the full image on the Whimsy Stamps website.

Crissy herself will also be offering up some wonderful blog candy to encourage people to donate to the relief fund. Starting January 23 (today), you can visit her blog by clicking on the button below to enter for a chance at some candy. All you have to do is donate to a charity of your choice to help the people of Haiti. So what are you waiting for? Giving hope is just a few clicks away.

Whimsy Stamps Jan24th sneak peak!

TGIF!! My computer is out of commission and I'm a little erked by that, but hopefully it'll be back up soon :( Other than that, it's a good Friday indeed! I hope yours is going well too and that you're getting ready for a wonderful weekend.

Today I have a little sneak peak to show you of one of the images for the new Whimsy Stamps releasing coming up on January 24th (this Sunday). We have 3 new images by Crissy Armstrong and here's a little peak of a card I made with one of them. Come back tomorrow to see the rest and also for some information about the upcoming blog hop that we are going to have for the new release!

Go ahead....wish

Just another card to share :)

Stamp: Unity; Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Colorbox; Paper: BasicGrey; Accesories/tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, ribbon, Prima flowers, pearls, stickles

This card is for a few challenges:

1. Crafty Creations - Texture
2. Creative Inspirations - New stash - new poinsettia flower
3. Crafty Calendar Challenge - Keeping warm (warm colors)
4. Pals Paper Arts - Inspirational picture - I used the colors as my inspiration
5. The Treehouse - Circle It
6. Charisma Cardz - Anything New - new poinsettia flower
7. Cinema Saturday - Night at the Museum - Do miniature roses count? Or maybe the miniature bird on the stamp?
8. Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - Girly
9. Truly Scrumptious - Challenge #23 Sketch

On a rainy day with my WOJ stamps

There's a storm here in Southern California and it just looks beautiful outside! Today is MLK Day and I have the day off so I decided to spend a little bit of it playing with my Whiff of Joy stamps. These cards are entries for the guest designer spot. You can find more about it here at Katharina's blog. I've used the sketch for both of these cards.

I hope that you're having a fantastic Monday so far!

Stamp: Whiff of Joy Confirmed Melinda; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics; Paper: BasicGrey Urban Prairie, October Afternoon Report Card; Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Shapeabilities; Prima flowers, pearls, paper piercer

I turned the sketch 180 degrees for this card and used the circle element for my main image.Stamp: Whiff of Joy Willow with Lantern; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics; Paper: BasicGrey Indian Summer; Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Prima flowers, ribbon

Shabby Chic Tilda Picking Lilacs

Good Sunday to you my fellow stampers, scrapbookers, and all-around creative geniuses! Today is a cloudy day here in Southern California and we're expecting rain, but I love the rain so it's a wonderful day for me :)

Today I'm sharing a card made for the Simon Says Challenge which is Shabby Chic. I've used this Tilda Picking Lilacs stamp a few times now; I always seem to gravitate towards it. The Simon Says Stamp Store has her in stock here.

Stamp: Magnolia Tilda Picking Lilacs; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics; Paper: October Afternoon Report Card, Cosmo Cricket Earth Love; Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Shapeabilities; Prima flowers, Fiskars corner punch and corner rounder

This card is for a few challenges:

1. Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Shabby Chic
2. Crafty Creations - Textures
3. One Stop Craft - Fancy edges and corners
4. Ann's GCA Challenge - KaraMia Sofia Inspiration - I used this as my color inspiration
5. Creative Inspirations - Distressing
6. Magnolia Down Under - Valentine's
7. Hope Stamps Eternal - Cupcake Inspiration Challenge #42 - Used the flowers and frosting as an inspiration
   
8. Sketch Saturday - Week #86 Sketch
9. Etsy Inspired Challenge - Amethyst Soap - I used this flower as an inspiration
10. No Time To Stamp - Floral and Spring Colors
11. Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - Girly
    

Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments!

Pile It On! Sunday!

Hi there! Even though I love the holiday season, sometimes the time after Christmas feels like the day after the storm. It feels nice when things get back to normal and are calm again, don't you think so? Maybe it's just me :)

This week at Pile It On! Challenges, we have another fun challenge for you: use 3 or more ribbons! It might seem hard at first, but you'll see that there are other ways to use ribbon besides what we normally use it for. Join us for some fun and remember, all you need to do is just combine our challenge with another challenge!

I was running late (as always) and I had to take a quick picture of my project. As you can tell from the snowman's scarf, the glue hadn't dried yet! Sorry about that! Oh, and we have some new design team members joining us! Please give them a warm welcome. You can find all the links to their blogs on the sidebar to the right.


This bag is for a few challenges:

1. Pile It On! - 3 or more ribbon
   
2. Stamp with Fun - Snowflakes
3. Everybody Art - Snowflakes
4. Three Clovers - Winter
5. Fussy and Fancy - Winter
6. Saturday Spotlight - Snowflakes
7. One Stop Craft - Fancy Edges or Corners
   
8. Sew Many Cards - Anything Goes
   

Princess for a day - Whimsy Princess Coach

I can't believe the great luck that I had being able to join the Whimsy team. Not only is everyone so nice, but very talented and Denise is one of the most generous people I know anywhere. I probably sound really sappy, but I'm just feeling really lucky :)

This is my Whimsy Stamps creation for the week using Whimsy Princess Coach. Can you believe I've never used this stamp? There are so many possibilities to it! I paper-pieced the coach and colored the rest. Enjoy

Stamp: Whimsy Princess Coach; Ink: Copics, Memento Tuxedo Black; Paper: Cosmo Cricket Earth Love; Accessories/tools: rhinestones, ribbon, Prima flowers, brads

Using up some Christmas goodies!

Hello everyone! Even though I posted this card last night, I'm back to share the details today! It was a stamped image which was gifted to me for Christmas and I thought these were the perfect colors to go with the card. Unfortunately, I think I need to buy one of those fancy lamps that really tell you what color you're looking at. The blue on her dress does NOT match the cardstock! When I looked at it on my monitor, all I could do was sigh. Better luck next time!

Stamp: Kraftin' Kimmie Charlotte; Ink: Copics; Paper: Cosmo Cricket Early Bird; Accessories/tools: corner punch, MS border punch, buttons, brads, ribbon, Prima flowers

This card is for a few challenges:

1. Crazy 4 Challenges - Birthday (Birthday sentiment is inside)
2. Kraftin' Kimmie - Heavy Metal (metal brads)
3. Cupcake Craft - Going Girly
4. A Spoon Full of Sugar - Recipe: 3 DP, 1 ribbon, 3 flowers, 3 buttons - I took it to mean 3 different DPs...sorry if I got this wrong!
5. Die Cuts R Us - Leftovers - I used scraps from making some Christmas cards
6. Creative Inspirations - New Stash
7. Little Red Wagon - Polka Dots
8. Sketch Saturday - Sketch #85

So tweet and thankful

Just a quick card to share! I just recently discovered the wonderful art of Mo Manning of Digital Pencil Too. She has such wonderful illustrations and she is so generous with giving away freebies! This image is a freebie that I pulled from her SNR group page. Isn't it just adorable?? I can't wait to use the other freebies, too.

Image: Digital Pencil Too by Mo Manning; Ink: Copics; Paper: BasicGrey Urban Prairie; Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, MS border punch, embossing folder, Stickles, pearls

This card is for a few challenges:

1. Lili of the Valley - Thank you
2. The Treehouse - Bird, button, bling
3. BasicGrey - Photo Inspiration
4. Bee Crafty - Thank you
5. Sophisticats - Doth the North Wind Blow
6. Crafty Cardmakers - What's New (new ribbon)
7. Die Cuts R Us - Leftovers
8. Digital Tuesday - Emboss It
9. Delightful Sketches - Sketch #14
10. Tuesday Morning Sketches - Buttons and Bows

And just because there are animals on the stamp, here are two of our new puppies. One (the first) was a family member's, but they couldn't take care of him anymore. We couldn't part with the sweetheart so we're keeping him, at least until after he gets all his puppy shots.

To Sir, With Love

Despite the strange things that happened over the weekend, I managed to squeeze this card in! I think I'll be giving this card to my husband this year for Valentine's Day because I really liked that way that the pleating turned out (I layered the paper with some ribbon.) Not that he'll notice, but I will :D I hope you have a fun time making Valentine's Day for your sweetheart and girlfriends!

The charm on this card actually hangs straight down, but it was a quick picture and I didn't feel like fixing so that I could take another picture :P And the wings are actually layered, but you can't tell because of the angle. I feel like I'm making excuses, lol. Oh well, here you go.

Stamp: Magnolia Tilda With Hearts, Whimsy Holiday Postmarks; Paper: BasicGrey Eva and Bittersweet; Ink: Memento, Copics, BIC Mark Its; Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, embossing folder, ribbon, Prima flowers, pearls, rhinestone, charm

This card is for a few challenges - Whoo hoo, another record breaker for me!

1. A Spoon Full of Sugar - Hearts
2. Creative Card Crew - Distressing
3. Papertake Weekly - New Beginnings - new charms!
4. ABC Challenge - Layering
5. Creative Inspirations - Anniversary Card
6. Simon Says Stamp - Hot Chocolate or Pink/Brown color combo
7. Cute Card Thursday - All New - new charms
8. PaperPlay - Precious Metals
9. Just Magnolia - Paper Pleating
10. No Time To Stamp - Love Is In The Air
11. Creative Belli Blog - Glitter or Rhinestones - rhinestone in her hair
12. Ildi Co Challenges - Scrap and Metal - Used metal charm and paper scrap for her paper-pieced dress
13. Cinema Saturday - A Knight's Tale
14. Etsy Inspired Challenge - Skylar's Candy Clips - Used this as a color inspiration
15. Stamp, Scrap, and Doodle - Celebrations - A celebration of love!
16. 2 Red Bananas - Think Round - Round sentiment :)
17. Getting Creative with Ann - Love Is In The Air
18. Creative Inspirations - Distressing
19. The Corrosive Challenge - Distressing
20. Hope Stamps Eternal - Cupcake Inspiration Challenge #41
21. Inky Impressions - Challenge #27 Sketch (flipped it 180 degrees)
    
22. Charisma Cardz - Pink, Brown, Cream and Toffee
    

Stuck on you

Happy Saturday! I love getting to sleep in :) Quick post today! Just wanted to share this card and enter some challenges before running around to do some errands and getting our new puppies their puppy shots. I need to share pictures of this little troublemakers; they're so adorable! Anywho, on to my simple card.

Stamp: Unity; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics; Paper: BasicGrey Bittersweet; Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, MS border punch

This card is for a few challenges:

1. SophistiCat Challenge: Fancy Borders
2. Everybody-Art Challenge: Favorite Color Combo (black+white+splash of color)
3. Little Red Wagon: Pin it up - I didn't have pins that matched...but the stamp has pins! Hope that counts :)
4. Little Paper Shop: Bright pink, white, black
5. Crafty Creations: Black, white, and a splash of color
6. S2G Challenges: Sketch + use hearts
7. KL Stampin N Scrappin Challenge - Pink and Black