Exciting news and a challenge

I have exciting news to share. I am now a part of the Cornish Heritage Farms Design Team! And I’m here today to share my first Cornish Heritage Farms Blog Challenge card!

This time the challenge is to make a Mother’s Day Card.

I used Birds and Flowers digi for my card. Used watercolor pencils to color the image.

If you would like to play along with us of course we would love to have you!

To play create a card using CHF images. You can use either CHF digi or rubber stamps to create a card or project.... anything you like as long as the stamps are Cornish Heritage Farms. (Yes, they can be older stamps.)

Once you have created your card/project, head to the CHF blog and place a comment with a link to your card/project to the post so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword CHF52. We can't wait to see what you create!

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Design Teams blogs today so see what they created for this challenge.

 

Ann Marie Saunders
    Frances Byrne

Irit Shalom

Kelly Santi

Kristine Reynolds

Maureen Russell

Steph Ackerman

        Thanks for stopping by!

                      Amber

Guest Designer today!

I am honored to be a Guest Designer for Hambo Stamps today!  I’ve adored their images, especially their pig images as I am a big pig lover.  So of course I had to pick a pig image to make a card with.

I went with Party Pigs and paired it with a funny sentiment, also from Hambo Stamps.  I colored the image with copics, the candles with smooches and added some crystal effects to the cup.  I decided to create an Easel Card. The pigs and sentiment are on Zapdots for dimension.



Here it is closed:

Well I hope you have enjoyed my card as much as I enjoyed making it.

This is also entered in the following challenges:

Alota Rubber Stamps - make an Easel card.
Fussy and Fancy – Die cuts or punches
Lexi’s Creations – Punches and dies


         Thanks for stopping by!

                          Amber

Paris Thank You

The Lounge is having a color challenge right now of Peach, Kraft and Buttercream. I’ve been trying to get the colors to work in my card all weekend long and just not liking it. Till today that is when I saw what the Try New Technique 373 over at SCS was. Magical Masking Tape.

I used the masking tape right on my image using barely banana ink. The rest of the card was just a matter of layering, punching out the borders and tying a bow with the bow easy.  I used a sentiment from Purr-fect Wishes in the bottom corner of the card.

Play along with us this week over at The Lounge and be entered to WIN a $20 gift certificate from  Our Craft Lounge. You have until 11:59pm Thursday, April 19th to enter.  Here are the rules: use any stamps that you wish – get BONUS POINTS when you use OCL stamps!   Use the challenge as your basis – do whatever inspires you, but please base it on the challenge. If you upload to SCS, please use the Keyword OCL113.  We can’t wait to see what you CREATE and don’t forget to link to your card/project over at The Lounge.


         Thanks for stopping by!

                           Amber

There is no bunny

 

I decided to do the Ways To Use It 363 challenge over at SCS today. The challenge was to use buttons on your project.

Pulled out Hoppin’ into Spring by Our Craft Lounge for my card. Found some cute springy paper and colored my image with copics. Used the cloud stencil to make a faint cloud background. Stamped the image on the design paper, added some ribbon and topped it off with some buttons.



Layout came from Stamping 411 via Pinterest.

I’m also entering the card in the following challenges:

Stamps R Us - Anything Goes
Allsorts – Anything Goes
Pretty Little Ribbon Shop – Anything Goes
Alphabet Challenge – A for Animal Antics
Totally Papercrafts – Ribbons & bows
Pile it On – Sending Happiness
Paper Crafting Journey – Make it Cute

Have a great day!



         Thank you for stopping by!

                        Amber

Paper and Such Sponsors…..

Time for another challenge at the Paper and Such blog!

This week Paper and Such is sponsoring the challenge over at
Ribbon Carousel.  The challenge is to make a card with non traditional colors! 

 Making a valentine card? How about NOT using red or pink, or not too much of it anyways? Creating a gorgeous winter scene? Try it with creams instead of whites. Whatever you’re making….try a non-traditional palate as a challenge!

I’m still in the process of organizing my craft area and in doing so I ran across some design paper that I knew I wanted to use on today’s card. I decided to go for a Valentine’s card using Tree Graffiti. Stamped the nuts 3 times and layered them using Zapdots. Added some Twinery to the bottom of the tree. Cut the design paper out in a circle (using Spellbinder nestie) than cut it in half to use it on either side of my image.

Come play with us as we’d love to see your non traditional colors!

 

          Thanks for stopping by!

                      Amber

Howdy Partner!

Time for another Paper Pretties blog challenge!  Glitter up your card!

Glitter is hard to photograph but I do have it on my card, just squint and stand on your head and you’ll see it! hehe

I used Howdy Girlfriend Sophia for my card. Paper pieced her and colored her with copics. Colored in the stars on her boots and buckle with a Spica gold glitter pen. Did you notice the glitter on the stars on the design paper?

Pulled out some star eyelets to use and cuttlebugged the smaller square.

How to Enter: If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project using the above challenge and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword PWC189.

Don’t forget to include a link to your card on the Paper Pretties Blog, so everyone can see it too. You don’t have to use Paper Pretties stamps to play, but of course if you have them we would love to see you use them. One random participant will receive a Paper Pretties Stamps set … see the Paper Pretties Blog for more details.

Sorry no sneaks today of my area. Hoping to have it completed so I can blog it next week. It takes time to organize!

           Thanks for stopping by!

                          Amber

Happy Birthday

It’s Friday which means it’s time for a challenge from Our Craft Lounge!  This week Our Craft Lounge is also sponsoring the color challenge with Lily Pad Cards!   So here’s our pretty color palette today…



If you play along over the next few weeks and add your link to the Lily Pad Blog, you could win a gift certificate from Our Craft Lounge.

I used two sets for my card. The main set being Spilling Over. Then I took the sentiment and clouds from Love in the Air. Colored with copics and used silver & blue Smooches on the hearts. I cut the sentiment apart to fit it in the circle and masked to stamp the clouds behind the balloon. Did a little out of the box cutting too.

So come play along and add your links on the OCL Blog and over on the Lily Pad Cards blog for chances to win in both places! You have until 11:59pm Thursday, January 12th to enter at the OCL Blog & you have 2 weeks over on the Lily Pad Cards Blog.   Participate as many times as you like!   A random winner will be selected and posted here on the OCL blog at the beginning of next month.

Here are the rules:

* use any stamps that you wish – get BONUS POINTS when you use OCL stamps!

* link to your card/project at the bottom of this post using the link tool provided – **be sure to link DIRECTLY to your challenge card – not a general blog or gallery link & add the appropriate photo.**

* use the challenge as your basis – do whatever inspires you, but please base it on the challenge

If you upload to SCS, please use the Keyword OCL99.


       Thanks for stopping by!

                       Amber

Paper and Such Sneak Peek Day 4 – Friendship Sentiment

If you are looking for Operation Julie’s Smile Blog Hop, Please click here.

Release day at Paper and Such and the last sneak peek for this month! Today’s set is called Friendship Sentiments. This set will retail for $5!

I kept my card clean and simple to really let the sentiment shine. Added some cuttlebuging on the bottom strip and some ribbon to match.

You'll want to leave comments on as many blogs as you possibly can - it will increase your chances of winning the entire release!!! That's right, one lucky winner will receive the entire release!

Layout for my card came from  Sassy Lil’ Sketch challenge.

 

       Thanks for stopping by!

                   Amber

Operation Julie’s Smile Blog Hop with a sneak peek

I am so glad that you have joined us on this amazing blog hop for Operation Julie’s Smile. If you came here from Pattie Goldman’s blog, then you are in the right spot. If not, you may want to start from the beginning at the Sweet Stamp Shop Blog and take your time. You have ALL WEEKEND to hop with us and win prizes!
 
What an honor to be a part of such a large blog hop, and for such a great cause. Here is a little bit more info on this great cause for those of you who have no idea what cause I am talking about:

“The creative blogging community is coming together this weekend to help one of our friends, Julie Ranae. You may know her as the Design Team Coordinator for many wonderful companies from bakers twine, die cuts, rubber stamps and more. What many people don’t know about Julie Ranae is that she has had some pretty major dental surgeries in her lifetime due to medication she had to take as a child. It was in her plans to think about having all of her teeth replaced at some point in the next 5 years, a decision that was pretty easy to plan out. But then it happened…she chipped her front teeth on a weekend a month ago. The dentist told her there was no way to save them & that it was his recommendation that she give in and have all her teeth removed soon, but for that day, they needed to get her front teeth done so her gums could begin to heal. He said he would 'work out payments with her to have ALL this work done...but when she called to make her appt for the first step of impressions, they told her the amount of money that was needed and that the 'payments' applied only to the two teeth that were extracted that day. Her husband Paul was with her & that too, was his understanding as well. So this is how she has found herself in this situation…Needing at least $4000 to get started and another $3000 to finish the process…a total of $7000.

Nicole Rixon, owner of Sweet Stamp Shop put together this benefit after finding out about this situation and before Julie Ranae knew it, it took flight!

It is the goal of all of these generous friends & sponsors to help make this situation more do-able for our friend so that she can share a brand new smile with all of us soon.

If there is anything you can do to help with a financial donation, there is a “donation” button ready for you to click over to the right. Any amount is appreciated and ALL DONATIONS will be eligible for prizes from our sponsor pool of over $2500.”  A complete list of sponsors is listed on the Sweet Stamp Shop Blog.

And here is my card I made just for this blog hop. I made a Double Z-Fold Card that was shown over at SCS. Used a new (digi) image that will be coming in a month or so from Paper and Such but Julie is letting us show it off just for today. Colored the image with prismacolor pencils and blended with odorless mineral spirits. Distressed entire card with distress inks. Used Pink Paislee Amber Road collection for the design paper.



And the card when it is open.

I hope you enjoyed your stop here on the hop! The next stop is Janice Melton’s blog. Make sure you leave a comment here before you go so that you can have a chance at the amazing prizes up for grabs and if you can, please make a donation so we can help bring back a new smile for our friend.

Since this is such a large blog hop, there could be a break somewhere in the chain, so please bear with us.

You have the entire weekend to get around to all the blogs to be eligible for prizes by leaving comments and or making a donation. The blog hop runs through Sunday, October 9th at 11:59pm EST.

Did you like the digi image I used on my card? Well… Julie from Paper and Such is offering this sweet new digi image to those who donate to the cause.



 BUT you have to go the Paper and Such blog and leave a comment there that you did donate in order to receive the image.

That’s right folks…donate to the cause (as little or as much as you can) and you get the digi for free! Isn’t it adorable??

The very talented Angela Fehr designed it. Angela will be designing for Paper and Such, and you will be able to purchase her creations, starting in November. I can’t wait to see the other images!

Thank you for taking the time to read through this post and for being a part of the blog hop. Best of luck with the chance to win!

Also entered in the following challenges:

2Sisters – Fancy Fold
Crafty Purple Frog – Lots of Layers
Penny’s challenge – Anything Goes
Anything Goes - Die cuts/Punches
Heart Song Inspiration - Anything Goes
Make it Monday #57 – Anything Goes
Crafts and Me Challenge – Use a Digi
PaperCrafting Journey – Die Cuts/Punches

        Thanks for stopping by!

                    Amber

A new way to color aka no line stamping

So this week over at Paper Pretties, the challenge is to be inspired by fall.

I decided to try a new technique that I saw this past week on Lydia’s blog who saw it at Holly’s blog. No line stamping or Stamp Nekkid (as Lydia called it).

I stamped the owls in blush blossom and colored over them with copics. Was very interesting to do, especially with their tails/wings but all in all I think I did a pretty good job! Used some retired SU Fall design paper for my card, ribbon and leaf brads.  Sketch came from I need a sketch blog.

Don’t forget to come play with us as One random lucky participant this week will win "a Paper Pretties sentiment sampler" . You do not need to use Paper Pretties stamps in order to play along, but if you do, you will get a bonus entry into the drawing! You have to link your card on the Paper Pretties blog NOT here! Can’t wait to see your Fall Inspired.

Also for the following challenges:

Pile it on – The Colors of Fall
Digi Doodle Shop – Autumn colors
Friday Mashup – Autumn
Our Daily Bread Designs – Fall colors or theme
Really Reasonable Ribbon – Autumn
Send a Smile 4 Kids – cute Fall Card
Creatalicious Challenge – Anything Goes
Penny’s Paper – Fall


         Thanks for stopping by,

                      Amber

Operation Write Home challenge

Paper and Such is sponsoring the Operation Write Home challenge - a great organization that sends blank, handmade greeting cards to our brave men and women serving overseas so that they can keep in touch with their families. Please check out their site to play along as the prize  this time is a Paper and Such stamp set of your choice!!   The challenge is a color challenge with colors of red, kraft, black - or blue.

I used Song in my Heart but stamped only 2 of the birds. Colored them with prismacolor pencils and blended with odorless mineral spirits. Cut them out of the box a little. Sentiment is from Basket of Flowers. Used border punch on the side and for the red stripe. Used Baker’s Twine to bring more red to the card. Carried the brown over to the inside with the brown paper. Main card is Kraft




Also for the following challenges:

Clean & Simple – Sketch
Little Red Wagon – Twine
Mark’s Finest Papers – Use a Punch


          Thanks for stopping by!

                         Amber

You’re Fintastic

So I have another sneak peek for you today from Paper Pretties. When I first saw this set, Fish Wishes, I knew what I wanted to do and it seems like the rest of the DT girls had the same idea!

• Join us for our release Blog Hop this Wednesday 12 AM EST 14th September, starting on the Paper Pretties Blog.
• New Release Stamps available in the Paper Pretties Boutique from Wednesday 12 AM EST 14th September.
• Don’t forget to check out the Paper Pretties Blog to see who else is previewing the new stamps today.

I searched the net for a template and found Bigfoot & Pickle Face’s Kids Craft Ideas that had what I was looking for. I printed out the sheet and cut out just one little fish bowl. Ran it through my copier at 180% onto white cardstock. I folded it so the top would be closed (you don’t want those fish getting out!)

I colored my fish with prismacolor pencils and blended with odorless mineral spirits. Painted a little sparkling H2O on the darker blues and cut it out completely. Cut out a seaweed and used wave scissors for my water. Cut out sentiment with oval spellbinder and used rhinestones to make it look like bubbles coming from the fish.

The cool part is the bottom of my fish bowl. I used MuddPuddles Sea Glass for the rock look.

Also for the following challenges:

The Rubber Café – No Design Paper
Jellypark – Pass it On
Freshly Brewed – Something New (stamps n Sea Glass)
Delightful Challenge – Bling it
Little Red Wagon – Die Cuts
CropStop – Spellbinders

          Thanks for stopping by!

                       Amber

Tic Tac… CREATE!

So this weeks challenge over at Paper and Such is Tic Tac Toe. Your mission if you choose to take it on is to create a card using the following to get tic tac toe:

ribbon	fabric	button
flower	design paper	twine
lace	brads	felt

Using Just Sayin’, I created a CAS card. My “tic tac toe” is the first column down…ribbon, flower, lace.  (or I could have gone diagonal for ribbon, design paper, felt as my ribbon is felt! hmmmm wonder if I  can get bonus points for this now?)

Kept with pink and cream with a pop of green from the felt ribbon that is layered onto lace (May Arts). A pink flower from my stash with a sparkly brad in the middle. Colored the butterfly in the sentiment to match my paper.

Now I’m on a Christmas mood kick (no, I haven’t started many cards yet but want to) so I used some Christmas design paper for my background! You’d never know if I hadn’t have said something!

This is also for the following challenges:

Pile it on – Layers
Lollipop Crafts – Use brads/eyelets
Crafty Catz – Ribbon
Stamp Something – Anything Goes
DYSU challenge blog – Texture
Crafting Misfit – Show n Tell
My Mum’s Craft shop- Lots of layers

thanks for stopping by!

Amber

Such a Sweetie

Sorry my blog posts are late today. We had no internet all of the sudden yesterday afternoon until just now! Don’t know how I survived!

Today is the last day of the sneaks over at Paper and Such! Now you can start buying your stamps that you have enjoyed seeing. Today’s set is Butter. He is just too cute.

Colored him with copics and paper pieced his blanket. Stamped his teddy twice and attached it with glue dots for some dimension.



Is also for the Free for All81 as it is Paper Pieced.  Layout is from Clean & Simple 156.

       Thanks for stopping by!

                      Amber

Happy (deer) Birthday

Sneak peeks are happening!! But for who??  Paper and Such that is who!! Starting today till release day which is Aug.9th!

Today we have “Deer Dad”. This is a great masculine set that can be used for all occasions.  I used it as a birthday card as I need one for a friend.

Stamped the deer in vintage photo distress ink on Kraft and added just a little color with some green. Distressed the paper with brushed corduroy and vintage photo distress ink.  Used some design paper and stamped Happy (and) birthday with vintage photo and also distressed paper with ink.

This is also entered in the following:

 CPS 234 – sketch
Creative Card Crew – Anything Goes
Delicious Doodles – Fresh Start (new stamp set)
Clearly iStamp – Design Paper

        Thanks for stopping by!

                       Amber

Lots of Dots

The challenge this week over at The Lounge was to use dots. Well  the ribbon from May Arts just happened to have dots!!

Used Fairy Dust is a Must and a sentiment from Autumn Garden. Used copics to color my image. Added 24K Gold Sparkly Fluff to her outfit and twinkling h2o to her wings. Used red ribbon with white dots on it from May Arts and the bow easy to make my bow.



Entered also in the following challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday
Aud Sentiments - Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by!

Amber

Talk to the Booty

Ready for another sneak peek from Paper and Such? Today’s stamp set is called Molly. Wonder who she is related to?

I used i{heart}2stamp’s August sketch for my layout. And believe it or not.. used Halloween design paper for my card! Used copics to color Molly’s hair, feathers, shoes, legs, cell phone, beak and glasses. Stamped the saying onto twill ribbon and attached it with brads. (incase you can’t read it, (think I need to reink that ink pad!) it says “talk to the booty, cuz the wings off duty!”)

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the design teams cards and leave some love as you never know which blog will be picked to give away some blog candy.

JenMarie - http://taylormadebyjenmarie.blogspot.com/
Janice - http://inkeepaws.blogspot.com/
Taylor - http://taylorusry.blogspot.com/
Kim - http://paperperfectdesigns.blogspot.com/
Amber – You are Here
Julie - http://paperandsuch.blogspot.com/

          Thanks for stopping by!

                         Amber

OCL blog hop

Welcome to Our Craft Blog hop! You should have just come from The Lounge. Not only is it Our Craft Lounge Blog hop, It’s also Friday so that means another challenge at The Lounge. This week’s challenge is:

Today I am showing you a card using Growin’ with Granny and here is what the set looks like:



I cased this card of Pattie G.. Colored granny with copics and used gcd Melody Ross paper. I even decorated the inside with a sentiment and a potted flower.

Now head on over to Cambria Turnbow as she is your next stop in this blog hop. And don’t forget to leave comments along the way as you never know whose blog the blog candy is coming from!

            Thanks for stopping by!

                          Amber

It’s a Tea Party!

Happy Friday!! Time for another challenge over at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge Blog. This week we were challenged to make a non card item!!

I made a scrapbook page using the Tea Time Digital set. I colored the images with copics, cut them out and layered them on top of one another to make my own dimensional embellishments. I wanted a design on the teapot so I stamped flowers from Birds & Roses , colored them and cut them out and attached them to the tea pot and cup. Attached the “embellishments” to my page with glue dots.

a close up of the “embellishments”



Layout comes from Pencil Lines Sketch 240.

           Thanks for stopping by!

                       Amber

Digi Challenge Blog…..

Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps  is hosting a brand new challenge each Friday… a Sweet ‘n Sassy DIGI challenge!! And I was asked to be on the Digi challenge team as my time was up over at Sweet ‘n Sassy Design Divas.

Today’s first Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi challenge is to make a Mother’s Day card. I used One of a Kind Digital Stamp for my card and printed it twice on Neenah Cardstock. Then I used copics to color both images, cut out the birds and the leaves. Attached them to the other colored image with glue dots and Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots.



I sized the sentiment to fit right below the image before I printed it out. Used Spellbinders oval nestie and scallop nestie for image and layer. Did some faux stitching on the pattern paper and added some pearl swirls. Border punch was used on the green.

Don’t forget to check out the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge blog to see what the rest of the girls came up with.

This is also for the following challenges:

Pear Tree Designs - Free For All  
Craft your passion - Anything Goes
House of Gilli – Layers and Stitching
digidesignhouse – Bling
One Stop Craft – In Stitches
Little Miss Muffet – Diecuts or Punches

 
          Thanks for stopping by!

                      Amber