So In Love with Sweet Pea Stamps

Hello blogland!  Where oh where did summer go?  September is right around the corner and I'm enjoying the last few days of August. 

This week's new challenge at Crafting by Designs is one of our favorites - Anything Goes and we're so happy to welcome a brand new sponsor

Sweet Pea Stamps

 

 

They were so generous and gave the Design Team members their choice of digi images, and I'll be honest, it took me FOREVER to choose because there are so many yummy stamps in their store!  But I finally chose an image by Concetta Kilmer called So In Love.  Take a peek:

 

Now how cute are they?  She's wearing the locket and he has the key.....love them!  Be sure to hop on over to Crafting by Designs and enter your project in our Anything Goes challenge for your chance to win a prize from
Sweet Pea Stamps.

Monochromatic card

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Challenge: Monochromatic

August 20 - 26th, 2013

Hi everyone!  Today I want to share my project for this week's challenge at Cuttin and Stampin.  Did you ever know exactly what you wanted to make and it just wasn't working?  Yep, that was me this week - how hard can monochromatic be, right?  It's all one color!  I had CASEd a card design that I tweaked a little here and changed a little there...just didn't like it.  So it was back to the drawing board for me, and I like this version much better.

 

I just couldn't get a good picture today, but the sentiment really is much darker.  I even colored the flat back pearls with some alcohol

inks to match the ribbon. 

Head on over to Cuttin and Stampin and add your project by August 26th for your chance to win a nice little package of goodies.  Please make sure your creation post has a link back to Cuttin' and Stampin'.

Thanks for playing along we will be announcing the winners on August 30, 2013.

You can link your project Here.

Just a little Day for Daisies

Hello blogland!  Just popping in with a little project from one of my favorite digi stamp spots, A Day for Daisies.  They are this week's sponsor at

Crafting by Designs and we got to pick the images we wanted to work with.....took me so long to decide because I just love so many of them. 

But take a peak at the one I chose:

As usual, I tend to keep to the Clean and Simple style, and kept the copic coloring to a minimum and used some diamond Stickles on the bells and ribbon, and a Unity stamped sentiment, ribbon and pearls, done! 

Stop on over at Crafting by Designs and join our Anything Goes challenge this week for your chance to win a gift certificate to A Day for Daisies!

Prima Dolls

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Challenge: Prima Doll Challenge

August 6 - 12th, 2013

Hi everyone, today I've got a little project for this week's challenge at Cuttin' and Stampin - Prima Dolls. I know they're all the rage and I was so happy to get my first Prima Doll stamp, but then what? She's pretty big for a stamp, but when I started looking at the creative things everyone is doing with them, I rolled up my sleeves and jumped in.

I decided to do some paper piecing for her outfit and use a few scraps of some specialty paper and trimmed them with some flatback pearls; some glitter stickles for her headband and shoes and she was done. I added a ribbon flower I made but she still needed a little something, so some Prima pearls were it.

So tell me how I did with my first Prima Doll and show me yours!
Please make sure your creation post has a link back to Cuttin' and Stampin'.

Thanks for playing along we will be announcing the winners on August 16, 2013.

You can link your project HERE

Celebrate Women!

Hello blogland!  We has a great new challenge for you this week at

Crafting by Designs - Celebrate Women!

 

August 9th is National Women's Day in South Africa, and we're also so excited to welcome a brand new digi stamp company as a sponsor,

also from South Africa

Digistamps4Joy

 

The Design Team and I got to play with a few images to help get you inspired to come and play along with this challenge.  Here's my project:

 

This is Celebrate Celia and she was so much fun to work with.  Be sure to stop by the Digistamps4Joy store and check out all their great images, then hop on over to Crafting by Designs and enter your project for a chance to win 5 digi images from their store!  You can go HERE to find the challenge which is open until August 13.

Clean and Simple

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Challenge: Clean and Simple Cards

July 30 - August 5, 2013

Hi everyone!  I've been very brave lately and stepping outside my usual comfort zone on some challenges, but Clean and Simple has always been my go-to style for cards and layouts.  I was so happy when I saw this challenge on the design team schedule :) 

 

I love washi tape, don't you?  I think it took me longer to pick out which washi tapes I wanted to use than to make the whole card.  I used a Paper Smooches stamp set, black ink and some washi tape along with a few dots from a few copic markers....done. 

 

Come on over to Cuttin and Stampin this week and show us your clean and simple creations!  Please make sure your creation post has a link

back to Cuttin' and Stampin'.

Thanks for playing along we will be announcing the winners on August 9, 2013.

You can link your project HERE