Twinkles Glow with Stamps

Happy Hump Day Everyone!! I am so excited today as it is our New Release Blog Hop for Inky Impressions. The team has lots of fun creations to share with you. If you came here from Kim Y.'s Blog, you are in the right place, if not, you may want to start at the beginning because there is a prize along the way and you must leave comments for all the dt in order to qualify.

All you have to do for a chance to win the candy is leave a comment on each blog along the way and leave a comment on the Inky Impressions blog letting us know you completed the hop before Tuesday, April 6 at Midnight EST.

Today I have the honor of sharing Nikki's Birdie with you....If you loved Shy Little Nikki as I do, you will adore this one.

I colored my image with water colors, cut her out and popped her up on dimensionals on a dry embossed background framed by my new Spellbinders Lotus die. The dp is Basic Grey Lily Kate. The flowers are prima dandies that I added crystal affects and glitter to, ZVA Creative flourishes and some purple mini roses from ZVa Creative. Isn't the bird charm darling, these are some new charms that Nicole will be carrying in her store!! I just love this bird!!

I just want to keep this short and sweet so you can get on with the hop. You next stop will be the ever so talented and sweet Jackie.

Oh...and for some more awesome news... Nicole is offering a 15% discount from now until midnight eastern time on Friday, April 2 on all orders!! Just mention Blog Hop Discount in your comments at checkout. This is an incredible deal and you don't want to miss out!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and for your sweet comments!!

blessings,

Chris

My layout uses the Friday Sketch. I colored her with water colors and popped her up on dimensionals. The dp is some yummy paper I just bought from Michael's called Anna Griffin Isabelle collection. The green pearls on the corners are from Basic Grey and are on sale for 25% off in Lacey's Stamp and create store this week (Lacey extended her 25 % off sale on all buttons, brads, and bling through Sunday April 4! You don't want to miss that!!)

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Sneak peak of Wags n Whiskers Tiny Dancer

Paper: Anna Griffin-Isabelle, Taken with Teal, white

Accessories: Lace, white silk ribbon, bow easy, ZVA Creative blue pearl flourishes, Stick pin given to me in a RAK from my dear friend Sabrina!!, Spellbinders Lotus die

Challenges:

busy little hands: cut it my hand

Cute Card Thurday: dimensions

Charisma cardz: Spring has sprung

crafty calendar: flower power

hand full of stamps: sweet one- this tiny dancer is too sweet... I think

If you join in the Flutter By Wednesday challenge this week, please leave a direct link here. We can't wait to see your creations. Be sure to hop on over to the Flutter By Wednesday blog to see the rest of the team's creations.

For more sneak peaks at the fab new releases for Wags n Whiskers this coming Friday, please click on the links to these talented ladies! Each of the different images are being shown today!!

For my creation, I used a sneak peak of the Mom set to be released on April 1 and the sentiment from He Is Risen!! I just had to play with the new designer paper I received this week too. I am loving the Green at Heart Paper from Basic Grey. It matches perfectly with my pink satin ribbon. The flourishes on each side of my image are created with the Fancy Labels dies from Spellbinders.

Card Recipe:
For more inspiration for this challenge, please visit my dt sisters:

• America Kuhn
• Christine Okken
• Francie Gumprecht
• Natalie Dever
• Patter Cross
• Sabrina Jackson

We hope you can join us for this challenge!! We look forward to seeing your creations!

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Now on to the Saturday Spotlight Challenge!!!


For this week's challenge.....

It's Friday, so it's time for another Wags 'n Whiskers Challenge!! But before we get to this week's challenge...guess what will happen NEXT Friday?!

How about a new release and Blog Hop?! Wait until you see the new stamps to be released!!!

The sneak peeks will begin on the DT blogs starting on Wednesday, March 31st. They will continue on Thursday, April 1st. Then at midnight EST/5am GMT on Friday morning, we will host another blog hop!

Now it's time for this week's challenge...

The ever so talented and sweet Tina is our hostess this week and she gave us a wonderful sketch to follow...

Remember that one participant will win a stamp of your choice!! Yes, that will include one of the new release stamps, too if you would like!! But you MUST use a Wags 'n Whiskers stamp to be entered into the drawing for the prize. If you don't any, then it is time to go shopping....

Click here if you would like to purchase any Wags 'n Whiskers stamps.

This challenge will go on for 2 weeks since next week we will have a release instead of a new challenge. Therefore, you have until April 8th to enter this challenge.

Here is my take on the sketch:I made this wall hanging using the Puppy Love image from Wags n Whiskers for my daughter to hang in her room. She loves dogs and loves this image. The dp I just scapped up from Michael's. I never have seen them carry Anna Griffin paper!! Woo hoo!! So I picked up this Anna Griffin Isabelle Collection paper. I just love the bright cheery colors and patterns in it!! I colored my image with prisma color pencils and gamsol. I just love the yummy lace I surrounded the wallhanging with . Isn't it gorgeous?! The large trellis rose flower is another fave of mine which I will for sure be ordering more of!!

Just a reminder too....

The Creative Cottage - sparkle

Totally Gorjuss - ribbon
Simon says stamp- spring and/or glimmer

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CONGRATULATIONS to our winners for last week's sketch!!!

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Once again, it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.

The envelope in the background is created with Priscilla's 6X6 think style envi kit found here, using some golden Bazill, Sonoma dp and a large star spacer.

Challenges:
Creative Cottage- Flowers
Crafty creations - Spots & dots
Creative card crew - Going dotty
Hand Full Of Stamps: something old (dp I have had for years)
Crafty Catz - Spring
Frosted Designs - Think Spring
Paper Garden - Spring
Crazy 4 Challenges - Spring
Challenge Up Your Life - Spring Flowers
Jacksonbelle - Spring
Fab N Funky - "Show Us Something New"
Incy Wincy- Easter or Spring
Practical Scrappers- use something you have had for a year of more (Sonoma dp)
Allsorts - Spring is in The Air
Secret Crafter - Spring has Sprung
Bee Crafty - Spring


Please visit the rest of the Design Team Divas to see their take on this week's sketch!

Carol-Chocolate, Crafts, & Bears!
Carolyn - Creative Card Corner
Charlotte- Designs from Within
Denise - kc242 Designs by Denise
Jane - The Paper Affair
Jeni - Jeni's Custom Cards
Linda - Craft Central!!
Michelle - Daydreams by Michelle
Phyllis - SparklePlenty1000
Priscilla - "priscillastyles"
Sue - McMahon Five Designs
Sue Drees - Rubber Stamping Adventures

I hope you enjoyed my creation and you too are able to participate in the sketch. If you do create a card or project using the sketch, please leave a direct link to your creation here. If you upload to PCP or SC please use the keyword MMSC46.

Thanks so much for stopping by and for all your sweet comments. Please stop by later for my blog candy!

Have a great day!!

hugs and blessings,
Chris

Happy Monday! Hope you all had a good weekend! Today, I am really excited to share with you my card spotlighting Buttons, Brads and Bling This week over at the Stamp & Create blog, the DT will showcase some of these gorgeous embellishments and of course, because they are the spotlight, they will be reduced by 25%! Isn't that awesome!!

In addition to using the American Crafts Pearl brads, Basic Grey green pearls, and Basic Grey Pearl Flourishes that are on sale this week, I used Basic Grey Sugar Rush, Basic Grey Bitter Sweet dp, lace, flower charm, Trellis Roses-Coral Rose Prima flowers and the Sarah Kay-Fanny's Cuddle by Stampavie image available at Stamp and Create as well!! I colored her with water colors, cut her out and popped her on a circle cut with my Circle Nestabilities (scalloped and standard) and embossed with Swiss dots.





A few weeks ago I promised I would put up a tutorial on how I created this four drawer box card. So here it is! I hope I have put them in step by step instructions that can be easily understood.Four Drawer Box Card Tutorial


1. Gather your materials.
For my drawer card I used the Sizzix Matchbox die available at Stampin Up. You could run it through the Big Kick or through the Cuttlebug. For the purposes of this tuturial, I used the cuttlebug. (The die is sandwiched between the B and C plate without the bigger plate that comes with the Cuttlebug.)
-four pieces of 6 1/2 inch by 6 inch pieces of lavender cardstock and four pieces of 7 inch by 3 1/2 inch pieces of pink cardstock (to create a two toned box, you can use one color if you would like)-four brads-Scoretape (double sided adhesive)-one completed card measuring 5 1/4 by 5 1/4
-a base cut out of lavender or color of your choice measuring 5 1/4 by 5 1/4
-cuttlebug or Big Kick (Wizard can also be used)-cropodile2. Create matchbox.

2.

a. Using 1 lavender piece measuring 6/12 by 6 inches, cut out box with Sizzix die. Fold on score lines and use Scoretape to adhere. Fold on score lines over the scoretape.When finished...the bottom will look like this:

b. Then create top of box with pink 7 by 3 inch pieces. Fold on score lines and apply scoretape on edge to adhere together.

3. Use cropodile and pierce hole centered in front of box (bottom panel).

4. insert brad for pull so it looks like this:



5. Create entire box by sliding top pink slide over your base. Repeat steps 2-4 until you have a total of four matchboxes.
6. Take bottom 5 1/4 by 5 1/4 inch panel and center matchboxes about a 1/4 inch from the sides like this.
7. Apply Scoretape to bottom of matchbox

8. Apply glue of scoretape to top of base and adhere boxes.


This is what it should look like after the boxes are adhered.


9. Put adhesive on back of card.




10. Center card on matchboxes and base panel so they match. And Ta da...the finished product.








I want to end this post by apologizing for not hopping to blogs over the past week. Our family has been hit very hard with illness. I have had to care for my husband who has been severely ill with the flu and zapped without any energy to get up and do the normal things he needs to do. This past weekend we even had to call 911 due to an adverse reaction to his medication and some very scary happenings. The day was spent in the ER and trying to care for my dear hubby. It hurts to see him so weak and uncapable of doing so many things. Scott has always been real healthy and I have never in my life seen him this ill. He is now on his second week off from work and is showing little improvement in regards to his health. Hopefully the meds he is on will improve his condition rapidly now!!

My youngest, Meghan, also had this flu for 5 days but has snapped back so much more quickly at the age of 7. She is now just suffering a cold that resulted from this flu.

My husband and I prayed that this flu would not affect our oldest daughter, Nicki, 10, who suffers with Asthma. Flu's usually are a trigger for her. This prayer was answered until last night. She now is having real difficulties with her asthma and I need to keep a close eye on her as well. This a.m. she even had a severe nosebleed as a side affect to some of her asthma medications. This always scares me since she has been also admitted to the hospital for nosebleeds that we could not stop.

I hope to take some breathers here and visit you but I do need to put my family first. I will have posts up, Lord willing for cards and projects I have already completed in the next few days.

oh...I will also be posting blog candy later on today that I have already photographed. This is big candy to thank all my followers. Hope you can stop by later!!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by. Your visits and inspirational comments are greatly appreciated.