Twinkles Glow with Stamps

Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps December New Rubber Release

Blog Hop!!! Ann Vento, Crissy Armstrong, Melissa Jenkins (Meljen's),

as well as Denise have been busy preparing a gorgeous new line of images

and sentiments!! You are in for a real treat!!  

We have NINE gorgeous new Whimsy Stamps to show you today!

These new stamps are available to buy right now from the Whimsy

 Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. We also have our

wonderful special guests joining us for this hop - the amazing trio

of Bev, Deb, and Beate!

Here is a full list of the super fabulous new rubber stamps being released

today:

Winter's Joy (Crissy Armstrong)
Valerie's Gift (Crissy Armstrong)
I'd Follow You Anywhere (Crissy Armstrong)
Love in a Bucket (Crissy Armstrong)
Cozy Cap Mouse (Meljen's Designs)
Penguin's Present (Meljen's Designs)
Love Letter Seals (Raindrop Echo Designs)
Music Notes Background (Raindrop Echo Designs)
Friendship Tickets (Raindrop Echo Designs)

If you would like to participate in the hop and you didn't arrive

here

from Ann Vento's 

blog, you may want to start at the beginning at Bev's blog.  In 

addition to lots of inspiration from

the team, we also have 7 prizes!!!  Yes 7 prize stamps!  Who would

want to miss that!  All you have

to do is leave a comment on each blog and leave your name in the 

links 

on each prize stop for a 

chance to win. 

The grand prize of ALL 9 of the new release stamps is being

hosted by Simonne at the very

end of the hop!!

Now on to my creation....I began working on a card using the

I'd  Follow You illustrated by Crissy Armstrong and the Winter Letter Seals

sentiments

designed by Ann Vento of Raindrop Echo designs,

and then decided to do something different.  I created my own

treat bag template and came up with this.  The top border is created with

the jumbo scallop borderabilities from Spellbinders.  The papers are Basic

Grey Marjolane.  The bow on the bag uses green silk ribbon from May

arts.  The ribbon for the handles is Blue Bayou ribbon from my in color stash

from SU a few years ago. The blue snowflakes are felt from SU (a few years old).

The green snowflakes layered over top is punched using old olive and a MS 

Snowflake punch.

 I hope you enjoyed my creation, for the next stop on the hop,

click here to go to Marley's blog
 

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

Bev Rochester 
Crissy Armstrong
Beate Johns 
Vanja Stevanovic
Lori Pachkowsky 
 Debbie Eastman
Patricia Garcia
Donna Smith
Annika Ryan
Ann Vento
Chris Olsen
Marley van der Heljden
Vicki Parson
Denise Lynn
Erin Bailey
Iris Wiechmann
Deb Routledge
Crystal Irwin
Simonne Clay

Challenges I would like to enter my creation in:

 A Spoonful Of Sugar - christmas, Paper Take Weekly - christmas in non-traditional colors ,
 Craft Your Passion - anything goes,Crazy Challenge (2 entries) - christmas 
Gingerloft (2 weeks) - bows ,Let's Ink It Up (monthly) - christmas and sparkle/bling 
Secret Crafter - christmas , Top Tip Tuesday -use ribbon  The Artistic Stamper - Christmas
 Papercutz - Christmas with 2 patterned papers, Totally PaperCrafts #45 ~ X-mas Punches
Simon Says ~ Show a Holiday GreetingOSAAT #42 ~ Old Stash/New Stash 
City Crafter- Let it SnowPile it On #48 ~ It's all in the Wrapping  
Paper Sundaes - Gift ItLittle Red Wagon - Christmas Tag or Bag
Fussy and Fancy- anything but a cardScrap-Creations-make it gift or wrap

 Creative Card Crew- Anything goes

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Anything but a Card (treat bag)
Craft your Days Away - TexturePenny's Challenges - Merry Christmas

 I hope you enjoyed my creations and the hop!!

Happy Tuesday Everyone!! If you are here for the Our Daily Bread Designs Anniversary Challenge or my Whimsy creation, your are in the right place. If you would like to see my take on the take on the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge creation, please scroll down to the next post.


Today, as we continue our Anniversary celebration, we are challenging you to use your all time favorite Our Daily Bread designs Set! As with all the challenges this week... this challenge was announced on Mar. 7th on the ODBD Blog so you could get a head start, and we hope you have had the chance to play along with us, but if not, you have until 8:00 pm EST tonight to link your creation to Mr Linky at the ODBD Blog!*If uploading to SCS or other on line gallery, please use keyword ODBD2AC4.

The winner will be chosen by random and will receive ONE FREE SET of their choice from the Our Daily Bread designs store! The winner will be announced tomorrow at the ODBD Blog prior to our Very Special Edition Anniversary Release Sets and Blog Hop! We hope to see your there!

Here is my take on the favorites challenge!! I love so many different sets from Our Daily Bread Designs that this indeed was a hard choice. Since I used Happy Birthday yesterday..... I figured I would use my favorite New Release this month called He is Risen.

It seemed the perfect choice....especially when Betty asked me to make a sample using today's color challenge at Splitcoast Stampers: Orchid Opulence, Old Olive and Rich Razzleberry with neutrals of your choice. I also incorporated Betty's Stamping in Time ...On Assignment with Challenge which was to use something new on your creation with stamps from Our Daily Bread Designs.The dp is SU Cottage Wall a new dp I just opened and the charm I just received in a RAK from a friend. I water colored my image and popped it up on dimensionals on my swirled background (dessert option for the color challenge was to use swirls).


Card Recipe:
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs: He is Risen
Paper: SU Cottage Wall, Orchid Opulence, Rich Razzleberry, Bitter Chocolate, Old Olive and white CS
Accessories: Spellbinders Lattice die, Spellbinders scalloped and regular circles, ZVA Creative Pearls, Classic Butterfly punch from MS, Bow Easy, Old Olive Ribbon, butterfly charm.

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



Please be sure to visit all the blogs listed with links above, and leave a comment for each designer, because there is hidden candy on some of the blogs! You will not know where it is, but if your name is chosen and you have left a comment for the designers... you will win it!!! You won't know how many have candy each day... so be sure to visit them all and leave some love!

Winners of the individual blog candy will be announced by the blog owners who had the candy on the next day on their blogs. There will also be a big announcement on March 19th on the ODBD Blog recapping ALL the winners... the challenges, the blog candy, and the blog hop winners! So be sure to check back then!!!

I hope you enjoyed my ODBD creation and are inspired to play along. We hope to see you again tomorrow at the blog hop!!

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Today is the Spoon full of Sugar Challenge and Whimsy is the sponsor!!! When Debbie invited the dt at Whimsy to be the guests it just seemed perfect and so fun!!

The challenge at Spoon full of Sugar is to create and Easter card or Project. For my Easter card I used the Sketch Saturday sketch and the image Untamed Love. I just love these carousel horses and they are so much fun to color!!(If you love carousel images, you should see the new releases!! This weekend Proud Mama and Spring Stepping were released !! The Wings of Hope digital is also available as rubber. $1 of the proceeds goes to Haiti. If you have not seen these, you really should check them out.. )

Anywho...on to my creation......

The image was water colored, cut out and popped up on dimensionals. The dp is from My Minds Eye Bloom and Grow. The border along the bottom is created using the MS Garden Trellis punch. The flourish pearls are from Basic Grey.

For more inspiration for the Spoon Full of Sugar, using Whimsy stamps, please visit Denise, Erin, Stacy, Deb and Debbie.

Challenges:
Pile it on- Pastels
Spoon full of Sugar is to create and Easter card or Project
Sketch Saturday sketch
Secret Crafter- Anything goes
Paper Cutz- Anything Goes
Rosie Ds- Think Spring
Susies Sassy Challenge #10- Easter
Stampin' B's - Spring or Easter
Challenge Up Your Life - Flower
Cute Card Thursday : Celebrations
One Stop Craft - Spots and Dots
By the cute and girly - Spring is in the air

Thanks for stopping by today!! I sure hope you enjoyed my creations!! I hope I feeling better soon so I can go back to blog hopping and being inspired by all your wonderful creations. Have a great day!!

hugs,
Chris

Happy Monday Everyone!
I am so excited to share another Anniversary Challenge for Our Daily Bread Designs and this week's product review for Stamp and Create!!

Today is day 3 of the special Second Anniversary Celebration at Our Daily Bread designs! We are so enjoying viewing all your creations thus far!! While all the challenges are for one day only we have extended the closing time for the China Challenge (Sunday's Challenge) to 8pm EST tonight! Both the China Challenge and today's challenge will be announced tomorrow when the next challenge is issued on the ODBD Blog!

The challenges are continuing with an Anniversary theme in celebration of ODBD's Anniversary celebration. As with all our challenges, it was announced on the blog on Mar. 7th so you could get a head start, and we hope you had a chance to do that, but if not there is still time!

Since Silver and Gold are the traditional gifts for those special milestones in a marriage... the 25th and 50th Anniversaries. Today's challenge is to make a project that includes silver and/ or gold. The only stipulation is that it must be new work, no back links please! Be sure to place a link to this challenge in your post, and be sure to link your project to Mr Linky below by 8pm EST tonight! The winner will be chosen by random and will receive a $25.00 Gift Certificate for stamps from the ODBD Store! The winner will be announced on the ODBD Blog post tomorrow when the next challenge is issued! *If uploading to SCS or other on line gallery, please use key word ODBD2AC3.

Here is my creation for the silver/gold challenge using one of my fave stamp sets at Our Daily Bread Designs: Happy Birthday!!


I colored my image with copics. There is lots of silver although it is very hard to see in the photo. The edges are sewn with silver thread, the SEI Claire Paper has embossed silver diamonds all over it and I added several silver baubles. The bow is created with the bow easy and the border on the bottom is the Spellbinders Lattice Border die. The image is framed with the Spellbinders lattice die. The envelope in the background is created using Priscilla Style's envelope die found here. It was fun and easy to make.





Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs: Happy Birthday


Paper: SEI Claire, white, coral pink bazill


Accessories: silver thread, silver baubles, Spellbinders Lattice Border, spellbinders Lattice Die,
bow easy, Spellbinders Circle die, Large spacer flower for Envelope

I hope you enjoyed today's creations. Thanks for stopping by and for all your sweet comments.

blessings,

Chris

Good Morning!! If you are here for the Our Daily Bread Designs anniversary celebration and challenge, you are in the right place, if you are here for the Saturday Spotlight Challenge, please scroll down to the next post.
Hi all!...It is a weekend and Our Daily bread Designs is kicking it off with 5 days of fun and challenges. Unlike past weeks, the Challenge and Design team will be hosting a daily challenge in honor of Our Daily Bread Designs 2nd Anniversary!! You will have one day to link your challenge creations and not one week.

Today is the first Anniversary Challenge!! Since we are celebrating the Anniversary of Our Daily Bread Designs, we will be focusing on gifts for Anniversaries. Cotton is the traditional gift for the second anniversary. Today's challenge will be to use Cotton in some way…. stamp on cotton, use cotton ribbon, make a cotton flower… get creative.


As with all the challenges this week... this challenge was announced on Mar. 7th on the ODBD Blog so you could get a head start, and we hope you have had the chance to play along with us, but if not, you have until 8:00 pm EST tonight to link your creation to Mr Linky on this post!The only stipulation is that it must be new work, no back links please! Be sure to place a link to this challenge in your post, and be sure to link your project to Mr Linky below by 8pm EST tonight! The winner will be chosen by random and will receive a $15.00 Gift Certificate for stamps from the ODBD Store! The winner will be announced on the ODBD Blog post tomorrow when we issue the next challenge! If you upload your creation to Splitcoast, please use the keyword ODBD2AC1

Here is my creation for the Cotton Challenge.

I decided to make a drawer card box and use the Our Daily Bread Designs set He is Risen. My cotton is the handmade crocheted flower, the lace, and the thread I sewed my card with. My image is water colored and popped up on dimensionals.

I thought it would be fun to make a drawer card and fill it will goodies.
There are four drawers, one on each side.
Card Recipe:
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs set He is Risen
Paper: K & Co. called: Amy Butler, Baja Breeze, White, lemon Bazill
Accessories: ZVA Creative Flourishes, prima rose, cotton lace, handmade flower, baja breeze ribbon

To make the challenge even more fun, some of the designers have candy hidden in their posts. Please be sure to visit all the blogs linked below, and leave a comment for each designer, because you never know what you might win and where. .... if your name is chosen and you have left a comment for the designers... you will win it!!! You won't know how many have candy each day... so be sure to visit them all and leave some love! This will occur on every day of the Anniversary Challenges (Sat. - Tuesday)

Winners of the individual blog candy will be announced by the blog owners who had the candy on the next day on their blogs. There will also be a big announcement on March 19th here on the ODBD Blog recapping ALL the winners... the challenges, the blog candy, and the blog hop winners! So be sure to check back there then!!!

If I have candy...the winner will be announced tomorrow.....Thanks for stopping by and for all your comments!!
blessings,
Chris