Twinkles Glow with Stamps

Happy Hump Day Everyone!

I made this card for yesterday's color challenge- CC303 at Splitcoast Stampers. What a fun color challenge - old olive, night of navy, daffodil delight and neutrals of choice..
I used sneak peaks from the January release- Faith and Butterfly Corner stamp sets which will be available at Our Daily Bread Designs designs on January 1. The butterfly is cut out with a die which will also be available. The dp is Basic Grey Marjolaine.


I used the Mojo Monday 171 sketch. The large squares are cut out with the new Spellbinders Grand Calibur Machine and the Grand Squares dies.
 Challenges:
Incy Wincy:  Distressing!  I sponged the edges!
Sew Many Challenges:  Anything Goes!
The Beary Scrap Challenge:  Pearls or Gems

I wanted to share with you that Your Next Stamp is having a HUGE BLOW OUT SALE!!! Visit HERE for all the details!!!! You won't want to miss these fabulous deals!!!!

Happy Tuesday Everyone!! I hope you are all enjoying the holiday week!!  I know I am.  Spending time with family and friends is something I hold dear.    I have not been doing to much crafting but thought I would pop in to share a sneak peak of two of Our Daily Bread Designs new stamp sets and a new die to be released on January 1.  I created this bookmark for Cheryl's TLC305 ribbon bookmark challenge at Splitcoast yesterday.

The sets I used are Butterfly Corner, Faith, and the butterfly die from Our Daily Bread Designs which will be released Saturday.  The image is colored with copics and cut out with my oval and circle nestabilities from Spellbinders.


challenges:

Happy Monday all!! I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas with family and friends.  I know we did!!  Today we are having a blizzard with lots of snow and 50 mph winds so we are snowed in.  I love the feeling of being stranded at home today without the ability to go out!!  It feels so cozy!!


Anywho...I am here as promised to announce the Stamp and Create $25 gift certificate.  And the winner is......

Random Integer Generator

I Have Blog Candy until December 26!!!!  Click here to see the candy and to see what you need to do to enter!!!! 

Congrats Jacki please contact Denise at whimsystamps@gmail.com to claim your prize!!!

More exciting news...my dear friend Angela Wood has made the Magnolia Sweden team!!  Woo hoo Angela!! I am so excited for you!! Angela is the sweetest ever and uber talented.  She has added on another blog for her Magnolia creations here.  Please stop by and leave her some love.  You will be so glad you did!!  Her creations really are over the top!


 I had fun using my Cuttlebug winter borders embossing folders and my scorer to create my background.  The image is colored with copics.  The snowflake is felt and from SU.  The dp is from my scrap bin and I am unsure of the company who made it.

My Design team sisters on the Stampin Sisters in Christ team have also left special Christmas cards for you, and you can see their creations on their blogs as well:

Grace, Linda, Peggysue, Randi (on break), Meisje, Rebecca, Lisa , Patti



I wanted to take a moment and wish all my followers and readers a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! This will be my last post until next week when I post the Blog candy winner for the Stamp and Create Gift Certificate on Monday....See you after the holiday!!!  Here is hoping you enjoy the peace and joy of the Christmas story with your family and friends!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope everyone has a blessed and Merry Christmas!!!!

hugs,

Happy Tuesday Everyone!! I hope you are all staying warm and enjoying the holiday preparations.  Today I have some major baking and shopping to do and then I am done!!!  Woo hoo!  The weather here is CHILLY with lots of heavy winds. YUCK!

Anywho! I have something fun for you today!!  I get to play Santa with some blog candy!!  Please bear with me as this is a long post.

I am absolutely so very lucky to serve on Design Teams with such sweet and talented people. My dear friend Lacey who owns Stamp & Create is giving each of her DT members a blog candy to help celebrate Christmas! Isn’t she so generous and sweet?!!!  I am so excited to be sharing mine today!!!

My candy will run until December 26th. The winner will be announced on December 27th!!  Everyone is welcome to enter and all you have to do is enter using the blue inlinkz frog below and leave a link on your blog sidebar to this candy (if you have one). If you want to spread the news in a blog post, that would be greatly appreciated. For those of you who do not have blogs, please leave me your email in the comments section so that I can reach you or become a follower so that you will see the posting announcing the winner!

Lacey also is having a very generous sale!!
All stamps in the Christmas Shop are on sale 25% off through the end of the year.
Now these are some awesome deals that you do not want to miss

Here is a card I created with Whiff of Joy Henry Angel Mouse (available in Lacey's Stamp and Create store for 25% off) and Whimsy's Winter Letter Seals!! 
The bow is May Arts blue silk ribbon.  The snowflakes are using Snowflakes 2 nestabilities.  The designer paper is from Creative Imaginations.


challenges I am entering my creation in: 

Stampfairy #1 - GlitterGet Creative With Ann #116 - Non Traditional Christmas ColoursBizzy Becs Store - ChristmasBunny Zoe's #7 - Sparkle & ShineOne Crazy Stamper - Christmas/WinterPaper Issues - Holiday Hook UpStudio 313 #4 - Sparkle & BlingChristmasPink Elephant #90 - Winter WonderlandPollycraft Challenge #74 - Snowy/Winter SceneStamp With Fun #89 - ChristmasSpoonful of Sugar #133 - Christmas cardsFreshly Brewed #27 - ChristmasTop Tip Tuesday #14 - Embellish itABC Christmas Challenge Z - Gone back to G is for GlitzCreative Belli #106 - Christmas Papers & belli'sGingersnap Creations #82 - White GlitterPenny's Paper Crafty Challenge #44 - ChristmasScrapbook Sisters #15 - Non Traditional ColoursAI Factory #60 - ChristmasDare to be Sassy #51 - SnowDutch Dare #93 - WinterGlitterbabe Challenge #25 - Snow/snowflakeHanna & Friends #75 - ChristmasMoving Along With The Times - Let It SnowStamp n Doodle - Winter & SparkleStamping With The Dragon #16 - Make It SparkleSugar Sweet Paper Treats - Anything GoesFussy & Fancy - SnowSew Many Challenges #36 - WinterStampin For The Weekend #53 - ChristmasAllsorts #83 - Anything GoesCreative Inspirations #49 - Anything Goes ChristmasDrunken Stampers #47 - Create a card in your own style (sewing and lots of details)Aly's Sunday Sketch #31 - Anything GoesChristmas Card Challenges #3 - Christmas CardCorrosive Challenge #95 - Non Traditional Christmas ColoursCrafty Pad Challenge #102 - Anything GoesCreative Cowgirls #3 - Christmas/WinterI Did It Creations #34 - Anything GoesOne Stitch At A Time #43 - Anything GoesOrder of the Opus Gluei #83 - Open ThemeFun At the Fairy Knoll - Christmas/Winter  Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog:#49  Cut it outCrafty Creations Challenges: #99 Angel 


Thanks for stopping by and for your comments!!  Don't forget to sign up for my candy and to leave a link to the candy on your blog!!Please leave a comment just in case the linky goes down.

also....I have another post on the Whimsy blog..I would love you to check it out.. Here is a sneak peak...Click on the picture to see more.

I Have Blog Candy until December 26!!!!  Click here to see the candy and to see what you need to do to enter!!!!

Happy Hump Day Everyone!! I hope you are all having a great week so far and are further along in your holiday preparations than me.  Oh my...the time is flying and I am still running around trying to finish up.  Hopefully today I will be done and I can sit back and enjoy the holiday celebrating the true meaning of Christmas.

Anywho...today is another Creative Belli Challenge and the last one for the 2010 year!!!  This week the team is challenging you to create a Christmas card!  Do you have some last minute cards to make...well here is your chance to enter it in the Belli Challenge.  Don't forget to use some of your old and forgotten embellishments and products though.

For my creation, I used the Blessed Christmas stamp set and the Peace and Joy stamp set from Our Daily Bread Designs.  I have made so many rectangle or square cards lately, that I wanted to create a different shape this time.  So...I created a diamond fold card.
Card recipe:
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs- Blessed Christmas and Peace and Joy stamp set
Paper: SU Candy cane dp, black and white
Tools: Spellbinders classic circles, Spellbinders Lacey circles, Spellbinder lacey squares, Snowflakes embossing folder, Labels 4 die, EK Success border punch
Embellies: ZVA Creative pearls, glitter, silver baubles, lace, white satin ribbon from May Arts

Happy Sunday Everyone!!  Are you enjoying the holiday preparations?  I made some headway over the weekend...but still have lots to do.  Today is our Sunday school and I am so excited to watch the girls and the other children perform and celebrate the nativity and the true reason for Christmas.  And....as the Sunday School Superintendent, that will be one more accomplishment behind me that I can check off. Woo hoo!!

Anywho...enough about my life...on to today's Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge.  Today's hostess is the sweet and talented Peggysue.

Peggysue chose the verse:
Micah 5:2 "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting."

At this Christmas season are you reflecting on the true gift.  The gift of God's son....a baby...being sent to save us.  What greater gift is there than that!!  How amazing that God will use a little babe born in  humble stable to be our King and Saviour!! Thanks be to God for this GIFT!!  In the busyness of the holiday don't forget to reflect on the greatest gift of all and the true meaning of Christmas!


Challenge:  Create a card using inchies!


 For this weeks challenge to use inchies...I decided to go easy peasy or CAS...like many of you I am uber busy and do not have a lot of time to spend on creations.  Funny thing is...I love how it turned out and I hope you do to.


For my creation I used inchie circles and the head of the Whimsy Cozy Little Snowman  designed by Meljen's.  The snowflakes are from the SU Bundle Up.  The sentiment is from Blessed Christmas from Our Daily Bread Designs.  I used the Scalloped Frame die from Spellbinders for the border. And Ski slope paper for the dp.

 For more inspiration, please visit my dt sisters: 

Grace, Linda, Lisa, Peggysue, Randi, Meisje, Rebecca, and Patti  

For the full devotional and challenge details please visit the Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge.

Our sponsor this week is Our Daily Bread designs.
The prize is a $15.00 Gift Certificate!
Crafty Catz - Your Choice (I chose 60-Christmas challenge)

Interested in some blog candy?!!!!!!


Lacey has generously donated blog candy to each of the Stamp and Create team members to offer to their followers on their blog.  Vicky currently has blog candy!!! For a chance to win your choice of 3 stamps from Stamp and Create, click here. To visit the store and see what is available, click on the picture below!

 
Thanks for stopping by and for your comments.

blessings,
Chris

Hi Everyone!!  I am so excited I can't contain it!!
 Whimsy Stamps have some fab news to share with you today - we have a new rubber artist joining our team.... KENNY KIERNAN!

As many of you will know, Kenny K is currently a digital stamp artist (amongst many other things) and although Whimsy will not be carrying any Kenny K digis, we are making some of Kenny's existing designs into rubber and then hopefully adding some new designs along the line that will be exclusive to the Whimsy rubber collection!

So to celebrate this wonderful new venture, the Whimsy Stamps DT plus our fab special Whimsy guests Elaine Hughes, Deb, and Janna, are holding a BLOG HOP to showcase the EIGHT images that are being made into rubber:



Remember that Whimsy Stamps will be carrying the rubber versions of these stamps only. Kenny K will continue to offer the digital versions in his store. The rubber stamps are available to PRE-ORDER from today from the Whimsy store, and will hopefully be in stock and start shipping after the holidays!

Our super-talented Ann (Raindrop Echo Designs) has designed some wonderful digital sentiments that work fabulously with these images - thank you Ann! These are also being released today!

If you would like to participate in the hop and you didn't arrive here from Marley van der Heijden 's blog, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Simonne's blog.

The hop starts today (Thursday December 16th at noon EST) and ends on Thursday December 23rd at noon EST.

For this hop we have 4 different prize draws! The grand prize of ALL 8 of the new release rubber stamps is being hosted by Denise at the very end of the hop, but there are also 3 mini candy stops throughout the hop! I'm not going to tell you where they are, so you'll just have to keep on hopping to find them! *wink* [Winners will be announced on December 23rd after the hop ends - what a wonderful Christmas present for those lucky hoppers!]

Now for my blog hop creation...
or  should I say creations...I used two images because they are so different than my normal style it was so fun breaking from the norm and these images were so fun to color!!!

The first uses the ever so fun Download Diva!!  I colored her with copics.  The paper just seemed so perfect with this image.  It is from DCWV Music.  I don't usually use bright colors but I just love bright colors with these particular images.  Since there were instruments in the background and I did not want to cover them up in my layout, I chose to add a banner instead of panels.  The letters were punched with a Martha Stewart Alphabet punch.



Challenges:
Craft Your Days Away (2 weeks) - punches or die cuts
Crafty Emma - anything but a christmas card
Sweet Stampin (2nd card) - 3 DP, 3 embellishments(gold baubles, brads, ribbon), 1 image

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - For a kid (Teenager works right?)
The Crazy Challenge - at least 3 design papers (2nd card)
Studio 313 #4 - Sparkle & Bling,
One Stitch At A Time #43 - Anything Goes.
Stampin Fairy- glitter - 1st card (dp is full of it)
Bunny Zoe's Craft : Sparkle and Shine
Crafty Sentiments : Anything goesSo now it's time for you to continue the hop by hopping on over to Vanja Stevanovic's blog where I know she has something amazing to show you!

Finally, here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:


Thank you so much for hopping with us today and I hope you enjoy this exciting new release!  Guess what?!!! I am one of the prize stops!!  Sign up on Mr Linky below for your chance to win two of these awesome stamps!!!  Please leave a comment below as well just in case the linky goes down. 

Happy Saturday Everyone!!  I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend and all the holiday preparations.  I don't know about everyone else but I have a ton to do yet.  Yikes!  ....and Christmas is in less than a week!!!

Do you want a chance to win some stamps from Whimsy or participate in winning the entire Whimsy release, leave a comment and leave a link on this post.

Anywho...It is time for another Shining the Light challenge at ODBD.

This week's Challenge:
Well...Christmas is just around the corner and when you think of Christmas classic carols is...We Three Kings...Choose three of these items to use on your card: gold, silver, blue, red, snowflakes, ornament, Our Daily Bread Designs stamps.


This will be our last challenge before the holidays. Our winner will be announced on Sunday, December 26. Our first challenge for 2011 will be on January 8.

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize , a $ 15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Thursday, December 22. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday.


While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them.As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing 1 to 2 creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by December 22 at 8 p.m. EST.If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC42. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.


 Here is my creation using a poinsettia, gold and Our Daily Bread designs stamps for my three.

embossing folder: CB and Brocade Window folder 
Paper: gold foil, white cs, black cs 
ribbon: May Arts pink silk


Francie Gumprecht
Patter Cross
Sabrina Jackson


To join the challenge, please link your creation here.

challenges I am entering my card in:
Ellephantastic - Christmas/WinterCraft Your Days Away - Punch it out
Lil Red Wagon - Use a Diecut Penny's Paper Crafty - ChristmasStampin' Royalty - Bring on the BlingA Spoonfull of Sugar - ChristmasCreative Card Crew - Anything GoesCupcake Craft- Non-traditional Christmas Stamp with Fun- ChristmasThe Crafty Pad - dry embossing AIFactory - Christmas
Top Tip Tuesday- Christmas inspired