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About Me
- Chris Olsen, Glowbug
- Hi! I am Chris, also known as Glowbug on Splitcoaststampers. I live in Appomattox, VA. I so much enjoy blogging and the so many good friendships that have formed as a result. During my free time, I am creating cards or projects and I so enjoy Challenges. I have a very supportive husband, Scott, who understands my addiction and two young daughters,Meghan, 9 and Nicki, 12 years of age, who can't wait to get their hands on my stamps and embellishments. I was an elementary school teacher until my youngest was born. I have now been blessed with the opportunity to teach my two girls at home. I use stamping as a hobby or way to escape.
Blogroll
Splitcoast Dirty Dozen
Splitcoast stampers Alumni
Design Teams
ODBD Bread Basket
ODBD Design Team
My past dt sisters at ODBD
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Baby Fox1 day ago
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Coloring fun2 years ago
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Wonderful Christmas Ornaments3 years ago
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Natural Beauties ~ Power Poppy7 years ago
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Feel Better Soon9 years ago
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ODBDSLC268 Anything Goes10 years ago
Monday, April 18, 2011
Happy Monday Everyone!! I hope you all had a great weekend. My weekend was fun and busy since I had plans to visit with my parents who were here for the weekend and Scott's parents. Soon it will be Easter and we have plans to visit Scott's brother and Sister in law. I have a lot to do before we leave...
Anywho...Today is a new Stamp and Create Product Spotlight. This week's Product spotlight is Wags n Whiskers Digital images which are also on sale for 25% off.
I used the adorable Some Bunny Loves you from Wags n Whiskers digi to create these fun Candy wrappers for Easter. I also used white May Arts Silk Ribbon available in the store. The candy wrapper uses the fun Easy Candy Wrapper template designed by the talented Leigh Ann Baird. These templates are available along with several other fun templates at the Perfect Presentations store.
The images are colored with copics. The backgrounds behind the images are dry embossed. The "Peter" bunny has been embossed with the Spots embossing folder from Provocraft and the dp is from My Mind's Tickled Pink. "Ruby" is embossed with the swiss dots folder and the dp is from Prima Sparkling Spring.
Challenges I am entering by Candy wrappers in:
Little Claires: Animals
Creative Craft Challenge: Embossing
2 Sisters: Bingo (Punches, Embossing, Ribbon)
Top Tip Tuesday: Spring Has Sprung
Card Cupids: Pastels
The Crafty Pad: Easter
Creative Inspirations: Easter
Dream Valley: Easter
I Did It Creations: Easter
Scrappy Frogs: Easter
Sparkles Forum: Easter
Bee Crafty: Easter
Bugaboo: Easter
Craft Your Days Away: Easter
Easy Craft Projects: Easter
Floweret: Easter
Stampin' For the Weekend: Easter
C.R.A.F.T.: Easter
Digital Delights: Easter
Little Red Wagon: Easter
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge: Easter
The Sisterhood of Crafters: Easter
Nettie G: Favorites
Thanks for stopping by!! Have a great day!!
~Chris
Anywho...Today is a new Stamp and Create Product Spotlight. This week's Product spotlight is Wags n Whiskers Digital images which are also on sale for 25% off.
I used the adorable Some Bunny Loves you from Wags n Whiskers digi to create these fun Candy wrappers for Easter. I also used white May Arts Silk Ribbon available in the store. The candy wrapper uses the fun Easy Candy Wrapper template designed by the talented Leigh Ann Baird. These templates are available along with several other fun templates at the Perfect Presentations store.
For more inspiration for this week's product spotlight, please visit my dt sisters:
Joy, Lacey, Heidi, Vicky and Jeanette.Challenges I am entering by Candy wrappers in:
Little Claires: Animals
Creative Craft Challenge: Embossing
2 Sisters: Bingo (Punches, Embossing, Ribbon)
Top Tip Tuesday: Spring Has Sprung
Card Cupids: Pastels
The Crafty Pad: Easter
Creative Inspirations: Easter
Dream Valley: Easter
I Did It Creations: Easter
Scrappy Frogs: Easter
Sparkles Forum: Easter
Bee Crafty: Easter
Bugaboo: Easter
Craft Your Days Away: Easter
Easy Craft Projects: Easter
Floweret: Easter
Stampin' For the Weekend: Easter
C.R.A.F.T.: Easter
Digital Delights: Easter
Little Red Wagon: Easter
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge: Easter
The Sisterhood of Crafters: Easter
Nettie G: Favorites
Thanks for stopping by!! Have a great day!!
~Chris
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Happy Sunday Everyone!! Since I have my parents here this weekend, this will be a short post...
Today is another Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge!!
Today's challenge hostess is the sweet and talented Peggy Sue!!
Peggysue chose the verse:
Matthew 16:23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan!"
Peggysue chose the challenge:
Use versamark or same color ink on the same color of paper (e.g., purple ink on purple paper) for a tone on tone background somewhere on your card.
Here is my take on the challenge:
For my card I used tone on tone for my bird corners around the sentiment and also on the background of the designer paper using the bird corners stamp from ODBD.
Card Recipe:
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs: Eternity, Bird and Butterfly Corners
Paper: Prima Anna Lee
For more inspiration for the Stampin in Christ Challenge, please visit my dt sisters:
Grace, Linda, Lisa, Peggysue, Randi (on leave), Meisje, Kristine, Sabrina, Marilynn and Rebecca.
For the full devotional and challenge details please visit the Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge.
Card Makin' Mamas -- embellish it, Inspire Me Fridays - Anything goes, Totally Papercrafts - Challenge #62: Springtime, AiFactory - Challenge #076: include an animal (bird and butterfly), Art Impressions Stamps Challenge - Challenge #12: Anything goes, Sassy Studio Designs - Spring theme, Amber's Crafts and Stuff -use your favorite things (lace, , silk ribbon, flowers), Crafts and Me - #30 Ribbon, The Paper Variety - flowers, Truly Scrumptious - #55 vintage, A Spoonful Of Sugar - All Creatures Great & Small, Anita Be Stampin' - Anything Goes, Clear It Out! - 2nd week of flowers, Flourishes - Flowers, flowers everywhere, Paper Take Weekly - Dimension somewhere On Your Card (butterflly is popped up)Stamping Vacation - M - Any creature associated with a coccoon.Aud Sentiments Challenge - Anything goes.
Do You Stack Up? - Challenge #15: Scallops.Creative Card Crew - Spring
Lisa has created a Facebook Page! For every 100 fans by April 30th, she will be giving away a set of the four new stamp sets that were designed by Nina and will be released on May 1st! So click on over to facebook and become a fan! Thanks Lisa for your generosity!
Thanks for stopping by!! I appreciate all your comments!! Have a great day!!
Blessings,
Today is another Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge!!
Today's challenge hostess is the sweet and talented Peggy Sue!!
Peggysue chose the verse:
Matthew 16:23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan!"
Peggysue chose the challenge:
Use versamark or same color ink on the same color of paper (e.g., purple ink on purple paper) for a tone on tone background somewhere on your card.
Here is my take on the challenge:
Card Recipe:
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs: Eternity, Bird and Butterfly Corners
Paper: Prima Anna Lee
Accessories: Prima Mandarin roses, Spellbinders Grand Caliber, ,Martha Stewart Shell border punch, Blue silk ribbon from May Arts, Bow Easy, Wild orchid mini rose stems, Parisian Accents, K and Co Butterfly sticker
Grace, Linda, Lisa, Peggysue, Randi (on leave), Meisje, Kristine, Sabrina, Marilynn and Rebecca.
For the full devotional and challenge details please visit the Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge.
Card Makin' Mamas -- embellish it, Inspire Me Fridays - Anything goes, Totally Papercrafts - Challenge #62: Springtime, AiFactory - Challenge #076: include an animal (bird and butterfly), Art Impressions Stamps Challenge - Challenge #12: Anything goes, Sassy Studio Designs - Spring theme, Amber's Crafts and Stuff -use your favorite things (lace, , silk ribbon, flowers), Crafts and Me - #30 Ribbon, The Paper Variety - flowers, Truly Scrumptious - #55 vintage, A Spoonful Of Sugar - All Creatures Great & Small, Anita Be Stampin' - Anything Goes, Clear It Out! - 2nd week of flowers, Flourishes - Flowers, flowers everywhere, Paper Take Weekly - Dimension somewhere On Your Card (butterflly is popped up)Stamping Vacation - M - Any creature associated with a coccoon.Aud Sentiments Challenge - Anything goes.
Do You Stack Up? - Challenge #15: Scallops.Creative Card Crew - Spring
One piece of exciting news:
Lisa, our dear SSIC sister and owner of a brand new on line store, The Crafts Meow, just announced that the talented Nina Brackett will be designing stamps for The Crafts Meow, and that Alice Wertz and Sarah Martina Parker will be joining TCM as kit designers.Lisa has created a Facebook Page! For every 100 fans by April 30th, she will be giving away a set of the four new stamp sets that were designed by Nina and will be released on May 1st! So click on over to facebook and become a fan! Thanks Lisa for your generosity!
Thanks for stopping by!! I appreciate all your comments!! Have a great day!!
Blessings,
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Happy Saturday Everyone!! It seems like a long time since my last post although it has only been two days. Life has been very busy at our house with a lot going on and a lot to think about....
Anywho.....Today it is time for another Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light challenge~~
This weeks challenge: Make a card or project without any coloring. You may sponge a background or use colored ink to stamp an image but NO Coloring!!
To join the challenge, please link your creation here.
Thanks for stopping by!! Have a great day!! Your comments are deeply appreciated!!
hugs,
Chris
Anywho.....Today it is time for another Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light challenge~~
This weeks challenge: Make a card or project without any coloring. You may sponge a background or use colored ink to stamp an image but NO Coloring!!
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, April 21. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday. If you are not using ODBD stamps, please do not enter more than once. Additional entries without using ODBD stamps will not be commented on or will they qualify for prizes.
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 April 21 at 8 p.m. EST.If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC57. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.
Card Recipe:
from Our Daily Bread Designs
Paper: Prima- Botanicals, Old Olive and Baja Breeze
Accessories: SU Basket Weave embossing folder, jute, Martha Stewart Leaf Punch, Martha Stewart Butterfly punch, ZVA Creative blue roses, Labels 18 dies, Spellbinders Grand Caliber, Fancy Tags 3 Spellbinders, Parisian Accents
For more inspiration for this challenge, please visit my dt sisters:
Lori- guest designer
To join the challenge, please link your creation here.
Thanks for stopping by!! Have a great day!! Your comments are deeply appreciated!!
hugs,
Chris
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
If you are here for the Whimsy Blog hop or are looking to see if you won the Whimsy Weekly Wednesday Give Away, you are in the right place.
and the winners are:
Here are your random numbers:
Ladies, lease email me your snail mail address so we can get these out to you.
For those who entered and did not win, I hope to see you for the next give away on the 2nd Wednesday of the month!!
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And now on to the hop!!!!!
Edited to include:
Today...I am coming here to announce the 3 winners of the Weekly Wednesday Give Away from Whimsy (24 hour give away)!! Thanks to the 69 who linked to the post!!! The winners will receive 2 sample sets of images from Denise including sentiments from Everyday Mini Postage and the Party Mini Seals.These stamps are not the actual sets but the samples and will include all the sentiment included it the actual sets.and the winners are:
Here are your random numbers:
42- Grace N 64- Shirley N.
41- Tammy NTimestamp: 2011-04-14 17:28:22 UTC
Ladies, lease email me your snail mail address so we can get these out to you.
For those who entered and did not win, I hope to see you for the next give away on the 2nd Wednesday of the month!!
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And now on to the hop!!!!!
Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps April new rubber release BLOG HOP!
We have 13 fabulous new Whimsy Stamps plus 2 new wonderful dies to show you today! These new goodies 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 - Beate Johns, Deb Routledge, Jacque Beddingfield, Mindy Baxter and Minna Paajanen.
The Whimsy Stamps DT have been sneak peeking these fabulous stamps for the past 5 days, so if you missed them be sure to hop on over to the Whimsy Inspirations Blog for some more inspiration!
Here is a full list of the wonderful new rubber stamps and dies being released today:
3 stamps from Crissy Armstrong
Big Comfy Cake ~ Come Fly With Me ~ Cupcake Bliss
3 stamps from Meljen's Designs
Curious Little Fairy ~ Fairy Toadstools ~ Little Fairy Friend
4 stamps from Kenny K
Biker Babe ~ Cheers Dude ~ Madison Attitude ~ Soho
3 stamps/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Everyday Mini Postage Stamps ~ Party Mini Letter Seals ~ Postcard Background
2 dies/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Mini Postage Die ~ Double Scallop Tag Die
If you would like to participate in the hop and you didn't arrive here from Crissy Armstrong's blog, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Annika’s blog.
The hop starts today (Wednesday April 13th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday April 20th at noon EST.
For this hop we have 6 different prize draws! We have not one but TWO grand prize draws, so two lucky hoppers will win a large selection of new release stamps. Grand Prize 1 will be for those who help us advertise the hop, and Grand Prize 2 will be for those who hop along with us. We also have 4 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can enter to win a new release stamp! I'm not going to tell you where they are, so if you haven't found them you'll just have go back to the beginning and start hopping! *wink*
For my blog hop creation I used ......
the Kenny K Madison Attitude, Whimsy Banner and Pennants Shapeology die, and the Party Mini Letter Seals. This image is so fun to color. I just love her. I colored her with copics and added some string and easter confetti in the bags for texture. A lot of the bags and image are paper pieced.
Card Recipe:
Stamps: Kenny K Madison Attitude, Party Mini seals from Whimsy
Paper: Basic Grey Hello Luscious, black cs, white CS
Accessories: hand crocheted flower, button, lace, Spellbinders Petite Ovals die, SU Circle punch (for sentiment, Whimsy Shapeology Banner Pennants dies
the Kenny K Madison Attitude, Whimsy Banner and Pennants Shapeology die, and the Party Mini Letter Seals. This image is so fun to color. I just love her. I colored her with copics and added some string and easter confetti in the bags for texture. A lot of the bags and image are paper pieced.
Stamps: Kenny K Madison Attitude, Party Mini seals from Whimsy
Paper: Basic Grey Hello Luscious, black cs, white CS
Accessories: hand crocheted flower, button, lace, Spellbinders Petite Ovals die, SU Circle punch (for sentiment, Whimsy Shapeology Banner Pennants dies
So now it's time for you to continue the hop by hopping on over to Debbie Eastman's blog.
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 the new release!
Hugs,
Happy Hump Day Everyone!! I hope you all have been having a good week!! Today is a busy day for me in blogland....this is my second post of the day... If you are here for the Whimsy Weekly Wednesday Give away or would like to win some free stamp samples, scroll down to the next post. Hurry....this chance it only available for 24 hours!!
Today I have a couple projects to share with you for a few different challenges.
First, is this week's Whiff of Joy Challenge... This week the team is challenging you to create a card or project with a recipe (3 buttons, 2 designer papers, and 1 ribbon)
Here is my take on this week's challenge:
For my gift set I used Dreamy Willow with flowers from Whiff of Joy. The designer paper is from the Prima Sparkling Spring Collections. The card is cut out with the Spellbinders Labels 20 die. I colored the image with copics and paper pieced the dreses. I added gold stitching which you can see if you click on the photo. The buttons are SU Corduroy Baja Breeze buttons. The panel behind the image is embossed with the SU Lattice Squares folder. All of the gold paper is gold glitter CS from American Crafts.
I also created a matching easter basket with the same Dreamy Willow with Flowers stamp and Prima Sparkling Spring paper. The sentiment is computer generated.
Today I have a couple projects to share with you for a few different challenges.
First, is this week's Whiff of Joy Challenge... This week the team is challenging you to create a card or project with a recipe (3 buttons, 2 designer papers, and 1 ribbon)
Here is my take on this week's challenge:
For more inspiration for the Whiff of Joy Challenge with the "Recipe" challenge, please visit my dt sisters:
Anne , Chelsea, Gio, Jane, Kathrin, Kylie, Louise, Manuela. Michele To join our challenge, please link your creation here.challenges I am entering this creation in:
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- My next creation is for both the Creative Belli and the Your Next Stamp Challenge since both challenges involved stitching!!
- This week's Your Next Stamp challenge hostess is me, myself and I. I am challenging you to use texture on your creations (add felt, lace (but not just lace), dry embossing, stitching, etc.)
- This week's Creative Belli Challenge is Easter related: Bunnies and Eggs
- Here is my creation for these challenges using Your Next Stamps Fhiona's Easter Basket. The image is colored with copics. Since the challenge over at YNS was texture, I added lots of dry embossing. The background is embossed with SU Tulip border folder. The basket on the image is embossed with the Stampin Up Lattice Squares. The dp is Prima Sparkling Spring.
Karen, Crystal , Kerri , Simonne, Beth, Maureen, Jenny, Dana, Diana
and Wendy
We've decided to change the way we do prizes. From now Karen will be giving away a stamp set to a random winner! The prize for this challenge is Football Dude.
Isn't he so fun?! So why not join us for a chance to win!!
For more inspiration for the Creative Belli "Eggs and Bunnies" Challenge, please visit my dt sisters:
Anne Harmon, Ceal Pritchett, Chris Dickinson , Darsie Bruno, Holly Brown, Jessica Stockmeyer, Joan Ervin , Joy Hadden , Maria Matter , Robin Kirkpatrick , Robin Parker, Shelly Schmidt, Karen Walsh ,Mary Marsh . Beth Norman,Tamara Morgan Challenges I am entering my creations in:
Anyone For Anya - Photo color Inspiration
The Pink Elephant - Easter
Fun with Shapes & More - Easter
Stamp with Fun - Easter
Ooh-la-la Creations - Happy Easter
Everybody Art Challenge - Easter
Stampin for the Weekend - Easter
Delicious Doodles - Use Ribbons for Easter
Meljen's - Easter
The Crazy Challenge - Easter
Pollycraft - Easter
Daisy Doodles - Easter
Quirky Crafts - Sparkly, Punchy Easter
Cutie Sunday - Easter
Creative Inspirations - Easter
Simply Create - Egg-tra Special
Creative Inspirations - Punches and Dies
Copic Creations - Your favorite copic technique (Brunette hair)
Simon Says - Spring Colors/Easter
All That Scraps - Anything Goes
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Use dies or punches and ribbon
By the Cute and Girly - Cute and Girly
Ellephantastic - Anything but square or rectangle
Thanks for stopping by!! Have a great day! I hope you can come back at 12:00 EST for the Whimsy Blog hop!!
hugs,
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