Twinkles Glow with Stamps

Happy Saturday Everyone!! I hope you are all having a good weekend!!  Life has been hectic and very busy lately which has cut into my crafting time.  So many things to do and just not enough hours in a day to do it all.  I have to admit, though, that I also have a lot on my mind at the moment and I am not as productive as usual either.

I am not complaining...Believe you me I am thankful for my health and so many other blessings bestowed upon me.

Anywho...It is time for another Shining the Light Challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs.

This week's Challenge:
To use gold or silver cording, craft hemp or string of some sort.Sometimes we just use ribbons or whatever is close at our fingertips and neglect to use some of our embellishments. I hope this helps you think outside of the box.




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 November 11 at 8 p.m. EST.If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC36. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Here is my creation using the Holly Tag Set, Poinsettia Tag Set, Tag die, 
this months new releases at Our Daily Bread Designs.  The die is a match to all the new tag sets in the ODBD store.


 I created a template of my own to make this bag.  The dp is from Stampin up.  It is retired and I am unsure of the name. The burgundy ribbon is silk and the gold is sheer, both are from May Arts.  The glittery green ribbon is from Ribbon Bowtique at Michaels.

Francie Gumprecht
Patter Cross
Sabrina Jackson


To join the challenge, please link your creation here.

challenges I have added this creation too:
OSAAT- Christmas- Traditional or Modern
Sir Stamp a Lot- Christmas Traditions
Tip Top Tuesday - Christmas InspiredA Spoon Full of Sugar - Relish to embellish
The Crafty Pad-#95 Stitching 
Stamping Vacation - No! No! (no images beginning with S)
Critter Challenge - Christmas
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Incy Wincy - Anything Goes
Lexi's - Anything Goes
 Charisma - With Love At Christmas
Going Grey - Favorite Techniques- copics and stitching
Creative Card Crew - Let's Punch It
Stamp Insanity - Punches
Little Red Wagon - use the color Red
Thanks for stopping by and for your sweet comments!  Have a great weekend!!

Hello All!! This is going to be a quick post since my electric is threatening to go out.  It has almost gone off four times already (going off for a few minutes and then off).  I don't want to let my Divine Diva team members down so I better get to it.

Today it is time for another Divine Diva Inspiration challenge.  Lori sent the team this photo as our inspiration

I took my inspiration from the owl and leaves as well as the pink and brown.  This is my completed project:

The image is from Inkadinkadoo Birds Galore clear stamp set which is one of my more neglected stamps.  We never have enough time to ink all we have it seems.  I stamped it in brown and then added pink to it. The dp is basic grey sugared.  The pearls are ZVA Creative.


For more inspiration, please visit my dt sisters:

Anne
Lori
Donna
Julie
Kerri

This week is Kerri's last week as a challenge team member.  Kerri has been a dt member from March 2009 when this challenge began.  You have always been a joy to work with Kerri!!  You will surely be missed.  Of course you won't be a stranger being that we are on other teams together as well and I WILL be at your blog.
hugs!!

Hope you are inspired to come and play along with the Divine Diva Challenge. Just leave a comment here with a link to your card. We can't wait to see what you create! The keyword for uploading on SCS will be DDIC39

challenges:

One Stop Craft - Anything GoesWee Memories - Anything Goes ABC Challenge - 'G' is for Glitter Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes Lexi's Creations: Anything goes; A Spoon Full of Sugar - Relish to embellishThe Crafty Pad-#95 Stitching Creative Card Crew- Let's Punch it Crazy Challenge- pearls and swirls C.R.A.F.T. Challenge- Dry embossing


Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!! Your comments and visits are appreciated.



hugs,

Happy Hump Day Everyone!!!!

Today it is freezing here!!  28 degrees!  Yuck!! I am so not ready for winter.  Why can't it stay for a while longer.....

Anywho...today I have an ornament to share with you.  Time seems to be flying by and winter and Christmas are on the way.  It is definitely time to get cracking on all the holiday creations.  I do love the holidays though so to me it is fun (when it does not become so crazy busy that you can not reflect on the true meaning of the season).
Not to long ago Your Next Stamp had a holiday stamp release with some very adorable images.  For my ornament, I chose Ellie Loves to skate.

For my creation, I colored Ellie with copics, cut her out and popped her on dimensionals.  The snowflake background is metallic with lots of glitter.  The snowflakes hanging from the ornament are buttons (4 buttons sewn together so there is no wrong side, I figured they may twirl a lot.)

One of my dearest and best  friends challenged me to not sew on my creation....Well I flunked that challenge...I really thought the gold thread would add some elegance to my ornament and also would keep the ornament in tack better.  I am a stitching junky!!

Challenges I entered my ornament in:
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle-buttonsPollycraft- It is chill timeMarks Finest Papers - Holiday Bee Crafty - ChristmasOne Stop Craft - Anything GoesWee Memories - Anything Goes   Digi Doodle Shops Best - Anything GoesABC Challenge - 'G' is for GlitterStampavie - ChristmasPapertake Weekly - Sparkly and BrightTip Top Tuesday - Christmas InspiredCraft Your Passion: Anything Goes Lexi's Creations: Anything goes; A Spoon Full of Sugar - Relish to embellishThe Crafty Pad-#95 StitchingFussy and Fancy - Winter WonderlandOSAAT- Christmas- Traditional or ModernTotally Papercraft- Bling it on (glitter and lots of it)Cowgirl Sunday Challenge: Bling It On. (glitter-lots of it) Sir Stamp a Lot- Christmas Traditions
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge- Dry embossing**********************

I wanted to give a shout out for my dear friend Angela whose birthday is this month.  She has some awesome candy up for grabs.  You may want to go and check it out.  And while you are there....take a look at her fabulous creations.  Angela's creations are always over the top and her coloring is tops!!!  Not to mention, she is the sweetest friend ever.  Just click on her name above to get to her blog.


Thanks for stopping by and for your sweet comments!! Have a great day!!

hugs,

Happy Monday Everyone!! This is my second post of the day!! There is a FANTASTIC blog hop for Our Daily Bread Designs on the next post.  There are fantastic prizes too!!!


November is the month when Whimsy Stamps turns 2 years old! Denise is so grateful to all of our customers and fans  so all month long she will be celebrating and having some specials, sales, and fun events all for YOU! This week is the start of Whimsy Stamps rubber stamp sale. All in stock rubber stamps are currently marked 25% off regular prices, this sale does not include custom rubber stamps. Now is a great time to stock up on all those holiday stamps and some old favorites too! Sale ends on Sunday the 7th.



And, today is also new digital stamp release day over at Whimsy Stamps and our artists were busy! Whimsy has 12 new image stamps and 6 new sentiment sets and of course 5 new Meljen's Designs (that were released last Thursday at Meljen's) All of the new digis are available to purchase now and our digital design team will be hosting a blog hop at Noon EST today, which begins over on the Whimsy Blog! I know I can't wait to see what they all created! I hope you will join the fun and and have the opportunity to win some prizes along the way too!

Here is a creation I created using one of Whimsy's Darling Rubber stamps called Starry Night.  I think it just makes a darling Christmas card.  The dp is from Heidi Grace (much neglected dp from my stash).  I colored it with copics.




 Here is a picture of the copics I used for this image.  The two unlabeled Ciao markers are E93 and a blender pen.



Pile It On! - Beary Good Friends
Marks Finest Papers - Holiday Cards
Bee Crafty - Christmas
Ellephantastic - Color Challenge
One Stop Craft - Anything Goes
Wee Memories - Anything Goes
  Digi Doodle Shops Best - Anything Goes
ABC Challenge - 'G' is for Glitter
Stampavie - Christmas
Papertake Weekly - Sparkly and Bright
Stamping Vacation - Lotsa paper
 Stamping Vacation - No! No!
Tip Top Tuesday - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamps - Punches or Diecuts
4 Crafty Chicks - Punches or Diecuts
Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes
;Lexi's Creations: Anything goes;
Cowgirl Sunday Challenge: gold baubles and glitter
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Let's Get Punchy/Dies
Paper Pretties-#125 square
Innktegrity-#20 anything goes
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle-buttons
The Crafty Pad-#95 Stitching
Fussy and Fancy- Winter Wonderland
Pollycraft- It is chill time

Thanks for stopping by and for your comments!!

hugs,
Chris

I tried to vary my colors and designs.  My Dad use to be a baker and has a delish secret recipe for Dutch Almond Cakes.  So he makes 30 plus cakes each Christmas while my mom does the cleaning and all the packaging. LOL! (Hmm!  wonder which one I would rather do?)  I thought these tags may be perfect for what they need.  The box is made with a combo of black paper and the Basic Grey Jovial Paper.

challenges:
Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes;Lexi's Creations: Anything goes;
Cowgirl Sunday Challenge: Bling It On...gold embossing powder, pearls and glitter on my tags
creative card crew - punch it stampavie and more - christmas Marks Finest Papers - Holiday Cards
One Stop Craft - Anything Goes Wee Memories - Anything Goes No Time To Stamp - CAS Christmas/Winter Paper Gardens - Holiday cards Simon Says Stamps - Punches or Diecuts
4 Crafty Chicks - Punches or Diecuts Random Amusing - Pop Up Your Sentiment
Tuesday Throwdown- Use the sentiment as main focus A Spoon Full of Sugar - Let's Get Punchy/Dies

I hope you enjoyed my creation!!

This is the last stop on the hop,  so if you joined us for the entire hop, you can now go to the ODBD blog and leave your answer to the question and let us know you completed  the hop.

Have a blessed day and thanks for all your comments.