Coffee Time!

It's time for a brand new challenge on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog! (I really need to find a new opening line for these Wednesday posts... hmmm... anyway...moving on...) This week we are creating Thinking of You themed cards. The design team is using Prima products for this challenge. You don't have to use them, but if you have some, we'd love to see how you work them into your projects!



I love these adorable wood shapes from the Prima Coffee Break Collection! They are so much fun! I combined them with this SUPER CUTE coffee cup die set from My Favorite Things. I love it. Lots. Like, super duper lots. For reals, though. That is an awesome die set.



Now it's YOUR turn! Head on over to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog to link up YOUR Thinking of You themed card for a chance to win a $50 gift voucher to the Simon Says Stamp Store.

Have a Happy!

Inspired by Debby Hughes

Don't forget to enter my current GIVEAWAY! Go to THIS POST for more information!


Wow! Day 1 of the Holiday Card Workshop over at Online Card Classes was AWESOME! I was super inspired by the designs, and made this fun card, inspired heavily by Debby Hughes, last night. The sketch/layout is all hers, as are many of the components. I switched up some of the colors and a created a 'dip dyed' look on my snowflake rather than on the tag like she did, but I am LOVING the look! I need to do that more often!



I used the snowflake dies from Avery Elle, with which I am IN LOVE, along with a great tag die from WPlus9. Debby used a cute stamped snowflake as the center of the die cut snowflake, but I chose to use a heart flair button from Bossy Joscie, instead.



For the sentiment, I wanted Happy Christmas, rather than Merry Christmas. Mostly because Happy Christmas just makes me happy. For reals, though. SO, I pulled out the Spellbinders® Holiday Sentiments dies (you have the 'merry' option, if you prefer that) and created the white on white look. I LOVE those dies so much!

You can find the links to the supplies I used below! These are affiliate links and your support is appreciated!

Have a Happy!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Crafter's Companion Ultra Smooth White
Patterned Paper: BoBunny Candy Cane Lane 6x6 Paper Pad
Dies: Avery Elle Noel and Spellbinders® Holiday Sentiments
String: May Arts Metallic String, Gold
Spray Ink: Heidi Swapp Gold Lame Color Shine (if you buy nothing else on this list, buy this stuff!!! It is AWESOME!)
Flair: Bossy Joscie

Laura Childs Gossamer Ghost Giveaway

Happy November! I hope you all had an absolutely fabulous Elsaween...err.... Halloween. I thought it would be fun to kick of November with a fantastic giveaway! j

Laura Childs is one of my favorite authors! She writes mystery series that are super fun to read, including the Carmela Bertrand Scrapbooking Mysteries! Carmela owns a scrapbook store right in the hub of New Orleans called Memory Mine. She and her best friend Marla, along with other area friends, celebrate the art and history of New Orleans, but often find themselves right in the middle of some pretty crazy things. And by crazy, I pretty much mean dead people. Yup. Murders. Carmela is known for her 'tendency' to look into these things a bit deeper, which can get her into a bit of trouble with her boyfriend, a local police officer! She and her best friend, and fellow local shop owner, Ava, are at it again in Gossamer Ghost. They find a local shop owner dead, and begin to investigate. Of course, it's Halloween in New Orleans, so it can be tricky to sort through the zombies and the genuine murderers!

Carmela's adventures are always a blast to read! Also, included in each book are scrapbooking and paper crafting tips and ideas AND recipes that are mentioned in the book! BONUS!

I have one hard cover copy of Gossamer Ghost to give away to one lucky reader! This giveaway is open to those in the U.S. only due to shipping costs. The giveaway begins 3 November 2014 and will close 9 November 2014. All opinions in this post are my own. Thank you to Nally Studios for providing this opportunity. Please use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter.

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Winnie & Walter: Premiere of Stampets: Penguin + Stampets: The Gift + Stampets: Turkey

Wow! This has been an awesome Premiere week with Winnie & Walter, hasn't it? Today we have three stamp sets to show off! They are super fun!



I used the Stampets: Turkey set for this card. The turkey is SUPER cute, but I wanted to showcase one of the awesome little stamps, so I choose this super cute pie. I combined it with one of the new cutaways for a fun Thanksgiving card!



I used the Stampets: Penguin and the Stampets: The Gift sets together to create the little mini scene on this tag. It's a fun little holiday tag, I think.

Be sure to head over to the Winnie & Walter blog for LOTS of inspiration AND a chance to win these great sets! You won't want to miss out on the cuteness you will see! These sets have LOTS of images, so there will be some variety for SURE! Also, the products go live tonight around 8pm Eastern, so keep an eye on the Winnie and Walter store to fulfill that wish list!

Happy Halloween!!!!

Winnie & Walter: Premiere of Happy Christmas + The Big, the Bold and the Merry + Cutaways

Welcome to Day 3 of the Winnie & Walter Premiere! I am excited to be showing of two awesome new stamp sets and CUTAWAYS!!! Yes, that's right, folks, Winnie & Walter now has steel cut dies. I may have screamed a little when I found out. You are welcome to do the same. For reals, though. Go ahead...I'll wait.

Now THAT was a great happy dance. Well done, my friend. And now I am excited to share a couple of cards I created using these fabulous new stamps and dies!



For this card I went with a classic color scheme and kept the design simple. I love how the negative die cuts look on this one! I popped up the white panel to add dimension and adhered the red ampersand directly to the panel. I am so in love with these dies it is not even funny. For reals, though.



For my second card today I combined The Big The Bold, and The Merry with Happy Christmas. I love how perfectly this image worked with the end of the Christmas stamp!



I used the same basic color scheme for this card (It is my favorite for Christmas, after all. LOL!), only this time I added a touch of gold by stamping some areas in gold Delicata ink and adding a few sequins. SHINY!



Be sure to head on over to the Winnie & Walter blog for a TON of inspiration and for your chance to win these AMAZING stamps and dies. For REALS...if you enter no other giveaways this week, please just enter this one. You want them. Trust me on this. No... but really... do it. K. Glad we had this talk.

Have a Happy!!!

Happy Thanksgiving and Anything Goes!

***This is my second post for today! To check out Day 2 of the Winnie & Walter Premiere, be sure to click HERE or scroll down!

Happy Wednesday, folks! We have an ANYTHING GOES challenge for you today over on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog! The design team is featuring Spectrum Noir products this week! If you have them we would LOVE to see you use them, but if not, feel free to use whatever you want for this challenge. I super duper LOVE Spectrum Noir markers and colored pencils, so I was excited to have an excuse to pull them out and play!



I created a pretty Thankgiving card using the Simon Says Stamp Feast of Thanksgiving stamp set. I love this stamp set so much! I used a bit of masking magic to layer my elements before coloring them and I really like how it all came together.

Now it's your turn! Create something...ANYTHING....and link it up to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog for your chance to win a $50 Gift Voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store! Your project MUST be new and you can enter up to FIVE times! Happy Crafting, folks!

In addition to the usual Simon Says Stamp prize, Spectrum Noir is giving away TWO tins of their totally awesome colored pencils to one lucky winner!!! Dude. I have them. You want them. Trust me on this one. They are the BEST!!! For reals. I had Prismacolors and I use these way more often now. Love them! Go. Enter. Win. Glad we had this talk.

Have a Happy!

Winnie & Walter: Premiere of Mini Scenery: Into the Woods + Scenery: Big Bang Flurries + Winter Woodland

Thank you all for joining me on day 1 of the Winnie and Walter release! Today we have some more great stamp sets to share with you! I super love today's sets! I really do! For my first card I used both the Mini Scenery: Into the Woods stamp and the Big Bang Flurries WITH a sentiment from Winter Wonderland. WHOA! Three sets in one card. Yup. Totally did that.



I stamped the background in black VersaFine ink and then stamped some snowflakes over it with VersaMark. I heat embossed the entire thing using a sparkle embossing powder from Stampendous. I just love how shiny and sparkly it is! I used Distress inks, brushed across the card, to get the look of real birch trees. Finally, I added a Bossy Joscie flair piece as embellishment on the card. YAY!



You can really see the shine in this shot. It looks so pretty in person! I promise!



For my second card today, I wanted to use that gorgeous and HUGE tree stamp, but I also wanted to do something less traditional, so I opted to stamp the image in black ink and I used red stars to decorate the tree. The snowflakes from Big Bang Flurries made a great background for this one!

Be sure to head on over to the Winnie & Walter blog for more inspiration and to enter to WIN!!!

Have a Happy!