My last InStyle Stamps Blog Hop :-(

...Thats right you read it correctly, sadly this is my last InStyle Stamps Blog hop and post. This month marks the end of my second term as an ISS designer. I have loved every minute of working with InStyle Stamps and I want to thank Virginia and everyone at InStyle Stamps for allowing me to be a part of such a wonderful design team and for such a wonderful experience!!! Thank you! You have taught me so much and I will definitley miss such a great group of ladies!

Thanks again InStyle Stamps for such an awesome experience, I will definitely miss creating for you!!!


...........................Now on to todays blog hop post............................


Welcome to this months InStyle Stamps Blog Hop!! This months blog hop theme is Christmas in July. If you've arrived here from InStyle Stamps Blog then you are on the right track - continue on!! If you've accidentally stumbled here on your own, take a moment and head back over to the InStyle Stamps Blog to start the hop off right. Trust me, you really don't want to miss any of the fabulous projects the design team has in store for you! Be sure to visit each stop on the hop and leave a comment so we'll know you stopped by.

Now on to my card! Enjoy!!

Don't forget to pick your favorite project and vote for that DT member - once you go visit everyone's blog (leaving a comment at each stop, of course!),  go to the InStyle Stamps blog and vote for the designer who's project inspired you the most. Then, in order to be entered into the drawing to win 4 digi images, leave us a comment on that post. And as a bonus, the Design Team Member who gets the most votes will also win a prize! Voting will close Sunday, August 1st at 8:00 AM PST and we'll announce a winner Sunday afternoon.

Thanks for playing along with us today! Next you will head to Jodi's blog to see what she has in store for you!

Recipe:
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: O Christmas Tree from the A Day in the Life Collection by InStyle Stamps
Paper: DCWV Holiday Stack, Red, Black, & White Cardstock
Ink: Copic Markers
Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Ribbon, K&Company Adhesive Gems
Technique: Paper Piecing

Thanks so much for stopping by!! Enjoy the rest of the hop and have a wonderful day!!!

Digital-Ink Co. Holiday Special Challenge (DIC012)

Happy Monday!!!

I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving!!! I want to welcome you to the twelfth week of the Digital-Ink Co. Challenge (DIC012). This weeks challenge is to create any paper craft using a line or theme from any holiday song. I think that is simple since Christmas is a holiday theme from a song lol, too simple huh?!! I was thiniking about it way to hard and I had nothing, then I came up with that lol!!

I hope you will take the time to join in our challenge some time between now and Sunday, December 13th at 8 pm. When submitting your creation use the Mr. Linky on the D-IC Challenge Blog. We're looking forward to seeing your work!

Check out what 3 lucky winners could win for participating in the challenge this week.

1st place winner receives the "Cosmo Cricket" package (pictured below, and a $10.00 gift certificate to Digital-Ink Co.
2nd place winner receives 6 Chirstmas stamps, and a $5.00 Digital-Ink Co gift certificate.
3rd place winner receives 4 Christmas stamps, and a $3.00 Digital-Ink Co gift certificate.

Also when uploading your challenge card to SplitCoastStamper please put the word DIC012 in the keywords section before you upload. Also if you use a Digital-Ink Co. images please use words digitalinkco (no caps or spaces) and DIC in the keywords section before you upload.  

 Here is my card, Enjoy!!!
 

If you are wondering how I got the wall on this image to be that pretty green striped paper, just come back tomorrow for a tutorial on paper piecing with digital images. It is super simple!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: Ragga-Mutts Play Ball by M&M Designz (Digital Ink Co.), Hero Arts Holiday Cheer Messages sentiment
Paper: DCWV Holiday Stack
Ink: Copic Markers
Accessories: Felt Ribbon, Stickles

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day, and don't forget to stop by the other DT's blogs to check out what they've created for this challenge!!

Teddybella

Hi there,

With all the expecting moms around me I decided to make a quik and easy expecting card using Teddybella.

Enjoy!!!

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you come back to visit tomorrow as I am this weeks Wednesday Challenge host at the ISS blog. Have a great day!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: TeddyBella
Paper: me&my BiG ideas DP
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Accessories: Paper Peircer
Technique: Paper Peicing

Paper Pretties PJ Party Challenge #2

Paper Pretties Stamping in your Jammies 2nd Challenge was a SKETCH CHALLENGE.

Here's the sketch:

Great Sketch!!! So I decided to us my Sealed with a Kiss Paper Pretties Set but I found an issue when putting the card together with the Sketch so I had to rearrange it a little bit to make it work for my image.

So here is was I came up with. I hope you enjoy!!!



Recipe:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Paper Pretties Sealed with a Kiss
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: My Mind's Eye Tres Belle "Family Tree" Floral and Plaid
Accessories: Nestabilities, Pearls, Stickles, Paper Piercer
Technique: Paper Piecing and Paper Piercing


Thanks for stopping by, have a great day, and tune in tomorrow for the 3rd challenge from last night.

Mojo84 Pretties PJ Party Challenge #1

Hey,

If your missing out on the Paper Pretties Jammies Release Party you better head on over there, there is one more challenge left. The party started at 6pm CDT and will last until 9pm. They will be issuing a challenge every hour so be sure to come and play along!! Besides the challenges, chatter, and all around fun, the will also be releasing Hola Chica, TWO new Sophias, re-releasing Rainy Day Friend in RUBBAH, and they will have a BRAND new set from a BRAND new artist!!

Sneak peeks started on the Prettie Girl's blogs Wednesday April 29th!! Hope to see you there!!

So here it is, "The FIRST CHALLENGE is to make Christie [who is the Pretties Momma] a birthday card!" and here is what I came up with. I decided to hit two bird with one stone, how rude of me, so I used the Mojo84 sketch at the bottom of this post as my template.



And in the next few days I will share with you the other two challenges.

What do you think??? I think it's absolutely darling, but hey it's my card, I should think that, right, lol!!!

Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to join the party.

Recipe:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Paper Pretties Sweets for the Sweet and Made with Love
Paper: Michaels paper slab
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Accessories: Brads, Nestibilities, Gross Grain Ribbon, Shimmerz, Liquid Pearls
Technique: Paper Piecing

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To play along, just make a project using the provided sketch. Upload it to your blog or online gallery and leave a link using the Mr. Linky form at the bottom of this post, so we can come check out your creation. There is no time limit - you can always play any week at any time, but I will close Mr. Linky on Sunday night at 8:00pm. That way there's no confusion which Mr. Linky is the current one. If you upload to online galleries, please use keyword/tag MOJO84.

Fresh Cut

Just playing with some ideas using the new Fresh Cut stamp set by Stampin Up. I love this set so I'll definitely be playing with it some more!!! Enjoy and let me know what you think.








Thanks for stopping by.

Its been a while

Feels like forever since I last made a card, but I'm back in the game. I was taking summer school out of town so I was at my parents house for more than 6 weeks and I moved from apartment to apartment so my room isn't quite set up yet but I had to get started on my card making. My birthday was on July 27th so I had to make some thank you cards, this strawberry basket being one of them. I saw this card on a blog called Outside The Lines by Linsey Rickett and I had to make it for my neighbor who knows that I absolutely love love love strawberry's and all summer long she brought my family and I strawberry's and then on my birthday she brought me some more even though they were already starting the be out of season but they were still delicious, so i thought this card would be appropriate for thanking her for her sweet gift. Enjoy, and there will be more to come.

Graduation Cards

I used A Muse Grad Cap and Grad Scroll. The letters are Your Not My Boss Cuttlebug Diecut Letters. These cards were very simple you can change up the colors to make it match the graduates school colors. There will be more to come. The saying from the card below I believe is an SU stamp but I typed it into the computer and printed it out for I don't own the stamp and I think its a very inspirational quote. Enjoy!!



These two are money card.

More Mother's Day Cards

Friendship Blossom SU Stamp Set:




SU Embrace Life Stamps Set:




The perfect Mother's Day Card (below) and the one that I will be mailing off soon.

Mother's Day Cards

Some Mother's Day cards that I also made this past weekend. I have yet to make one that I will send to my mother. So far the last one has my vote for being mailed off, but I plan to make some more samples to see if I can make a prettier one. All of these cards used the SU Embrace Life stamp set. In my opinion cards made with this set should use watercolor which I still have yet to purchase. For the card below, I tried to make the watercolor effect with copics but in my opinion it didn't come out very well.