Mojo Monday 68 - CONTEST

Happy Monday to you, I hope you have had a nice weekend. Well, I hope your mojo is flowing because today starts a new weekly sktetch from Julee Tilman and it is a contest week with the prize being your choice of any Verve stamp set $24 or less. Sound good? All you have to do is make a project using this week's sketch and link your creation on the mojo Monday blog. Yes, you read that correctly- mojo Monday BLOG! Now mojo Monday has it's very own blog and I am thrilled to bring to you my very first sample as a part of the mojo maker team. Have a look at the sketch and my card:





So, what do you think- isn't the sketch fabulous? Julee is terrific at making sketches and this one is no exception. I really enjoyed it and hope you will decide to play along with us. Now for the card deets. The image was colored with prismapencils and blended with gamsol and stumps. I added crystal effects to the heart between the owls. I stamped the sentiment and sponged around it using my oval nestie die as a stencil. For the pink heart brads I used tweezers and stamped them onto a versamark pad first then into iridescent ice embossing powder and heated with a heat gun so that they would now be shimmer brads.

Supplies:
stamps- high hopes love birds, owl love you
CS- pretty in pink, chocolate chip, basic grey bittersweet dp, white
accessories- prismapencils, crystal effects, making memories brads, 1/2" circle punch, labels one nestabilies, piercabilities border, iridescent ice ep, taffeta ribbon, oval nestabilities

To see the rest of the mojo makers' samples and see the deets on this week's challenge be sure to visit the mojo Monday blog.

Thanks for coming by and have a wonderful day!

High Hopes First 2009 challenge

Hi everyone! Today the high hopes first challenge of the new year is posted. There are some stamps up for grabs for a random participant of this week's challenge. The challenge was to use tearing on your card. I did 2 examples for the challenge. I wanted to make some New Year's cards for some people that I was unable to mail a Christmas card to.

Here is the first card:


I colored the image with copics and cut it out so that the ax would be omitted. I distressed the edges and matted it tearing the bottom of the mattes. I sanded the edges of the dp and tore 2 strips of paper to go across the seams of the 2 designs following with some twine.



Supplies:
stamps- high hopes Father time and new year sentiment
CS- KandCompany dp, soft sky, bazzill brown, white
accessories- copics (E31, E33, E37, BG10, E00, R20, C1, C4), white gel pen, edge distressor, twine, shimmer brads

Here is the second card:



Now can't you just see santa relaxing on a beach with a cool drink after Christmas LOL?

I colored the image with copics, used angel wings shimmerz on the hat trim, and used a paintbrush to stipple the sky and sand. I used the our creative corner sketch this week for my layout and tore the yellow sunshine dp strip. I used a rhinestone accent on the glass and for the exclamation point.



Supplies:
stamps- high hopes tropical santa, new year sentiment
CS- imaginisce dp, red, white
accessories- copics (G21, R46, R27, R59, E00, E33, E37, C1, prisma sunburst yellow), white ribbon, angel wings shimmerz, copic spica glitter, red brads, rhinestones, SU scalloped circle punch

To check out the divas' awesome samples and to get more details on the challenge and the prize be sure to check out the high hopes blogpost today.

Blog Candy winner

The winner of my blog candy (True Friend stamp set) according to random.org is:

Here are your random numbers:

135
Timestamp: 2009-01-03 02:40:31 UTC

Comment 135 belonged to Kristen who said:

Kristen said...
I just love the color combination, and the scalloped edge just makes the card look for feminine.

January 2, 2009 11:29 AM

Please email me at janette.olen@me.com with your address so I can have Korin mail out your prize to you

Another Sweet N Sassy sneak peek and some news

Well, tonight is the release party over in the Sweet N Sassy Forum where you have a chance to chat, do challenges and win some prizes. Sound good? See you there tonight at 9 PM EST then! In the meantime... here is another sneak peek for you using Love Blooms which is going to be released tonight after the release party.



I stamped the pink bg paper repeatedly with one of the rose stamps from the set then sponged the edges. I stamped the vase, colored it with copics, accented with a spica glitter pen, then popped the vase up on pop dots. I stamped the sentiment beneath and used some heart shimmer brads as accents along the bottom.

close up


For the inside I used my new labels one nestabilites, which can also be found at SNSS, to stamp the sentiment on and then sponge while still in the die. I also stamped, colored and cut out one of the rose images to lay over the corner of the sentiment. Here is a picture of the inside:



Supplies:
stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps Love Blooms
ink- memento black, sweet blush from PTI
CS- white, sweet blush (PT), red, black
accessories/tools- double sided ribbon, making making shimmer heart brads, copics, spica glitter pen

For the layout of the card I used Julee Tilman's mojo Monday 67 sketch for this week. She always has fantastic sketches and did you see that mojo Monday now has it very own blog?! Well, I am super duper excited to share with you now that Julee has invited me to be a part of her mojo sample maker team. I am thrilled and honored that Julee chose me along with the other fantastic members of the team. You can see the announcement HERE.



If you did not yet enter to win for a chance to win the True Friend stamp set blog candy I have offered you have until about 10PM EST this evening (Fri 1/2) to do so. I along with the other DT members will be drawing our blog candy winners tonight during the release party. Yes, that's right you have 14 chances to win blog candy because all the DT members have a stamp set to offer. You can check out their blogs which are all listed on my side bar under SNSS DT members and under my blog hop info also on the right.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you all at the release party this evening!

Celebrating the New Year with BLOG CANDY!!

Hello everyone and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! I know that there are so many things that I am thankful for in 2008 and I pray for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2009 for you.

Well, what a way to celebrate the New Year- with new stamps! Sweet N Sassy stamps is releasing 7 new stamp sets tomorrow (Jan 2) and I am blessed to be able to offer one stamp set to you for blog candy. Korin, the owner of SNSS, has generously given EACH of the DT members a stamp set to give away on our blogs so that means you have 14 chances to win candy- how cool is that?? The set I am giving away is called True Friend and it is a great versatile set that can be used on both the outside and inside of cards. I love it and I think you will too. Here is a picture of the set you have a chance to win from me:



I also have a sneak peek card to show you featuring 2 of the new sets- one of them being true friend which is the one I am offering today.



On the top section I embossed the heart and then use my piercabilities to paper pierce a pattern around it. I painted the heart with pink poinsettia blingz shimmerz and then accented the pattern with pearls. I stamped my sentiment in the scalloped circle which is from the new love blooms set being released and sponged a heart over the top from a mask I made from a punched out heart.

Here is the inside of the card featuring the true friend stamp set:



I stamped the verse and then sponged over it with pink ink. I did this by creating a square stencil with my nestabilities.

Supplies:
stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps Love Blooms, True Friend
CS- basic grey bittersweet dp, white, burgundy
ink- burgundy, pink
accessories- Spellbinders piercablities, MS doily lace border punch, white satin ribbon, pearls, pink blingz shimmerz, shimmer heart brads, heart punch, scallop punch, circle punch, Marvy scallop corner punch

So to win the True Friend stamp set all you need to do is to leave a comment on this post and the winner will be drawn tomorrow night (Friday) during the release party. The party will be in the forum on the SNSS website starting at 9PM EST.

After you leave your comment here be sure to head on over to Suzy's blog. She has has awesome card to share with you and blog candy as well. If you missed any of the DT blogs you can find a list of them under the blog hop info and remember each DT member is giving away a set so you have quite a few chances to win.

Thanks for coming by today and again HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Christmas cash? Here a few Christmas sales for ya...

Hi everyone! I know it has been quite some time since I have been able to post and I knew that was going to happen with Christmas. I have not had a chance to stamp in well over a week so I hope I will remember how LOL. So unfortunately, I still don't have a card to post but I know that in the next couple of days I will. Tuesday is my day to post on the DRS Designs blog so I have a couple cards to share with you there also.

Anyway, there are a few cool sales going on with some of the companies I design with so I thought I would take just a minute to share them with you in case you were a fortunate recipient of some Christmas cash and you would like to pick something up for yourself.

Sweet N Sassy stamps has a year end sale going on with 10%-40% off select merchandise including, stamps, paper, inks etc. So be sure to pop on over there to see what bargains you can find. Also, be sure to stop back here on my blog on Thursday where I will have some sneak peeks to show you from the upcoming release on Friday. I will also have some pretty nice blog candy to offer to you as well.

Verve stamps- save 10%-20% off select stamp sets through Dec.31st

High Hopes- save 25% off the project of the month stamps. I usually have a sample to show you but this month I ran short on time so if you click on the link I provided you can see samples from 2 of the other divas featuring the POTM stamps.

Happy shopping everyone and hope you can visit again soon when I have some cards to share with you.

A week of challenges

Hi there everyone! I know it has been awhile since I have posted but like many of you I have been really busy trying finish things up for Christmas. I probably won't be able to post much until after the New Year either. I have some things that I worked on this week that I would like to share with you.

First up is my card that I made for the hanna stamps weekly challenge which I am the hostess of.



The challenge is to use non-traditional Christmas stamps or colors to create a Christmas project. I used a winter set and pink, celery and cocoa for my card. I colored the image with copics and used stickles on the bg dp I created and the hood. I painted the snowsuit with pink poinsettia blingz shimmerz.



Supplies:
stamps- hanna stamps Ski Bunny, everyday sentiments
CS- pink pirouette, cocoa, celery, white
accessories- grosgrain ribbon, rhinestones, snowflakes cb folder, corner rounder punch, scallop punch, stickles, circle punch

My second card is for both the color challenge and sketch challenges this week on SCS. Due to time, I combined the 2 challenges.



I colored the image with prismapencils and gamsol and a few copics. I used a small paint brush to create the ground and bg behind Santa. I used liquid applique on the trim of the hat and a white gel pen for accents.



Supplies:
stamps- high hopes fishing santa, best fishes
CS- not quite navy, white, Kaisercraft dp
accessories- prismapencils, gamsol, copics, liquid applique, brads, sewing machine

The last project/s I have to show you was for the ways to use it challenge this week. I created some simple ornaments to give as gifts.





I just stamped the snowflake, matted it and added sparkle stickers as an accent. The gold snowflake was embossed and the blue snowflake was sponged. I used stickers for the sparkle because glitter and similar products would not sandwich well between the glass. A tip for you- you can't use more than 3 layers of CS with the frames because they won't close- wonder how I know that LOL? They have a closure on the side of the frames.



Supplies:
stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps snowflake set
CS- white, metallic gold, blue bayou
ink- blue bayou, soft sky, versamark
accessories- Ranger memory glass and frames, ribbon, stampendous sparkle stickers


Have a wonderful day and hope you are safe and warm. We are having a winter storm right now here and my family and I are staying in and are definitely not going anywhere soon. I certainly don't look forward to shoveling out that is for sure!

Blessings,