Twinkles Glow with Stamps

Happy Saturday everyone!! Today it is time for another Our Daily Bread Designs - Shining the Light Challenge and Saturday Spotlight Challenge.

For this week's challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge, the team would like to challenge you to use red or pink and bling on your creation since tomorrow is Valentine's Day. It need not be a Valentine's Day creation.


To make the challenge even more fun, there will be a prize of a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store for participant randomly chosen!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Thursday, February 18. 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.


Now on to my creation:


For this card I used the stamp set You Will Find Refuge from Our Daily Bread Designs. Chickadees are one of my fave birds and I find this verse so comforting. I used some Imaginesce paper and some scraps from my scrap bin for the dp. I love bling but believe it or not I struggled with how much to put on it to not take away from the beautiful bird. The little pearls and silver baubles seemed subtle but yet elegant. What do you think?

Stamps: You Will Find Refuge-Our Daily Bread Designs
Paper: Imaginesce, Bitter Chocolate, Pink Pirouette, Bitter Chocolate
Accessories: Spellbinders Lattice Pendant, Spellbinders Lattice Border, MS pearls, ZVA Creative Pearls, Silver Baubles, May Arts Pink Ribbon, Cuttlebug Vintage Corner die

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 the challenge! If you do, please leave a direct link here to Mr. Linky. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC2. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.


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Today is a new Saturday Spotlight Challenge!! I love this challenge. It really challenges you to think outside the box.

For this week's challenge.....
The Spotlight Divas would like to challenge you to use a household item on your creation...but NOT a craft item! Use safety pins, dryer sheets, household cleaners, paper clips for doing a technique or using as an embellishment.





One Lucky participant of the challenge this week will be randomly chosen to win four digital images of their choice from Victoria's store.

Here is my take on the challenge:

Stamps: Matthew from Susanna Custom Arts and Card Designs
Paper: Nook & Pantry- Basic Grey, Chocolate chip, dusty durango, white, water color paper
Accessories: paper clip, board clip, twine


This image is Matthew illustrated by Victoria Case and sold at Susanna's Custom Arts and Card Designs. I colored him in with water colors. The layout uses this week's Mojo Monday sketch. The colors uses the color challenge at SC this week which is Shadow Chocolate Durango (sage shadow, Choc. chip, and dusty durango). The household items I used on my creation are paperclips, twine and a board clip. I distressed my creation with sand paper (another household item) I plan on using this card for my nephews upcoming birthday. He calls his sister "sissy". I was going to add a big smooch from sissy but thought that I might be pushing it there so I went with the hug. LOL!




Thanks for stopping by. I hope you are inspired by my creation to join this week's challenge. For more inspiration, please visit my dt sisters:

*Vicki (creator/coordinator)
Boni
Crystal
Darlene
Dawn
Erin
Jessica
Maria
Jodi

REMINDERS For The Saturday Spotlight:
Be sure to place the DIRECT link to your creation in Mister Linky in order to qualify to win the prize from our sponsors or voting for the top 3 creations before Friday at 3 p.m.
If you upload your creation to an on-line gallery, please be sure to label it with the keywords SSHP18

Thanks for stopping by today!! I hope you enjoyed all my creations. I sure enjoyed creating them!! I hope you are having a great weekend!

blessings,
Chris

Hi everyone! Are you all ready for a great blog hop? Welcome to the release of the new Wags 'n Whiskers stamps! I'm really excited about today, cause we get to reveal all the adorable new stamps designed by the amazingly talented illustrators Crissy Armstrong and Cris De lara for the Wags 'n Whiskers line of stamps! They will be available for purchase today at 12pmGST/ 7am EST. Here are the details of the blog hop:

First, You want to start at the Wags 'n Whiskers blog, so if you just happened upon this, you will want to go back there to start. That's where you will find the names of all the hoppers just in case you happen to get lost along the way. If you arrived here from the fabulously talented Karen, then you're in the right spot.

Now on to today's new release. Today's release includes 8 beautiful Spring Time stamps designed by the talented Crissy Armstrong! They are perfect for getting yourself in the mood for some warmer weather, spring flowers, and Easter!......and 5 fun and whimsical stamps designed by Cris de Lara. Wags 'n Whiskers has added on a new artist! She is totally new to the stamping world!! They are so fun and happy!! BETTER YET! There are 4 hidden prizes among our blogs on the hop!! That means four chances to win 2 stamps of your choice from Wags n Whiskers!! All you have to do is leave a comment on each of the stops along the hop for a chance to win.

For my creation today I will be sharing Best Friends Forever illustrated by Cris de Lara. Isn't she so sweet!! I colored her with water colors. The layout incorporates this past Saturday's sketch from Sketch Saturday. I flipped it over. My sentiment panel is on the charm which says " made for you with love".

• Stamps: Wags ‘n Whiskers Best Friends Forever~ Available to purchase -->HERE <--on Friday at 12pm GMT/7am EST.
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper: Bazzill Bitter Chocolate, Basic Grey Bitter Sweet, SU Pretty in Pink
  
• Tools: Cuttlebug Script, MS Spiral Border Punch, Spellbinders Fleur De Lis die,
  
• Embellies: Prima Roses, Heart Charm

• Challenges:
• Sketch Saturday
• Delightful sketches - Lov
• Stampin for the weekend - Love is in the air
• Crazy4Challenges- Valentine
• Creative Card Crew- Valentine
• Challenge Up Your Life - Valentines and Hearts
• Stamp Something-Something Cute
  

The next stop along the way is the extremely talented Inge . You will want to check out her amazing creation! At the end, be sure to head back to the Wags 'n Whiskers blog . Make sure you leave a comment along the way on each person's blog for a chance to win. You never know you may be one of the blessed 4 hoppers to be randomly chosen along the way!!

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have enjoyed the sneak peaks for the past few days and today's creation as well. Thanks for all your comments and visits. I truly appreciate you all, my blogging friends.

blessings,
Chris

Happy Thursday Everyone!! I hope everyone is cozy and warm. We faired alright in the snow storm yesterday and did not get as much snow as predicted. It was more like 6-8 inches instead of the 12-18 that was predicted. The wind whipped and our power went off and on all day. It was a real nuisance and after a while I just gave up on restarting the computer to do my daily blog hopping and tried to not rely on any of the conveniences we are all blessed with day in and day out. Days like this make you count your blessings for all the gifts which are bestowed upon you. Sorry...I hope everything cooperates today so I can visit all your blogs.

Anywho...Today is day 2 of the sneak peaks at Wags n Whiskers and each of the design team members will be displaying a different image on their blogs today. Today I will be sharing the sneak peak: Snuzzle Love. Isn't she just the sweetest? It reminds me of my daughters and their stuffed animals. This is my youngest daughters fave image!! I plan to give it to her for Valentine's Day.

I colored this image in with water colors, cut her out and popped her on dimensionals. The layout I used is from Friday Sketchers Challenge. The paper is from one of my fave left over stash of SU Parisian Breeze. The ribbon is now all gone. It was the last of my left over May Arts ribbon scraps. (Boo hoo-I love this ribbon).


Stamps: New Release sneak peak Snuzzle Love from Wags n Whiskers.
Paper: Parisian Breeze dp from SU,Bazill Bitter Chocolate, Baja Breeze
Accessories: double heart charm, May Arts scrap ribbon, brown pearls, prima roses, SU Felt flower, crocheted flower

Wags n Whiskers Challenge: metal and a Wags n Whiskers image
Raise the Bar: hearts
Creative Belli: Ribbon
Delightful sketches - Love
Stampin for the weekend - Love is in the air
Stamp something - Love somethings
Friday sketchers
Crazy4Challenges- Valentine
Creative Card Crew- Valentine
Creative Inspirations- left overs- scrap ribbon
CCEE stampers - Heart inspiration
Fussy and Fancy - Hearts
Challenge Up Your Life - Valentines and Hearts
Crafty Calendar - Love/Friendship with an option of Hearts

For more sneak peaks of the gorgeous new line of stamps coming out from Wags n Whiskers, visit my dt sisters:

I had so much fun coloring this image with water colors and using my new Basic Grey Origins paper and ribbon. I am so loving the springy colors. I used the Friday sketchers layout. The spacers and charm are from Stamp and Create. This image is good for spring but it also a good image displaying love, I used it for Valentine's Day and plan to give it to one of my daughters for Valentine's Day.

If you have not yet played with the Wags n Whiskers challenge, to use metal. There is still time. All you need to do is use a Wags n Whiskers image and some metal on your creation for a chance to win a stamp of your choice!! I incorporated the challenge into this card as well.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: New Release sneak peak Somebunny loves You from Wags n Whiskers.
Paper: Basic Grey Origins,Bazill Bitter Chocolate, Bazill green
Accessories: Daisy Spacers 1, flower spacers ,double heart charm, celery green ribbon from SU, MS Heart border punch
challenges:
Flutter By Wednesdays: love theme and butterflies, fairies or angels
Wags n Whiskers Challenge: metal and a Wags n Whiskers image
Raise the Bar: hearts
Creative Belli: Ribbon
CCEE stampers - Heart
Fussy and Fancy - Hearts
Pixie Dust -Decorative Border
Crafty Calendar - Love/Friendship with an option of Hearts
ABC Challenges-New- paper, spacers and flowers
C.R.A.F.T - Love
Double Dutch - Be my Valentine
Paperplay - Love notes
Penny's - Valentine
Charisma cardz - I love you
Delightful sketches - Love
Stampin for the weekend - Love is in the air
Stamp something - Love somethings
Friday sketchers
Crazy4Challenges- Valentine
Creative Card Crew- Valentine


For more inspiration for the Flutter By Wednesday challenge, please visit my dt sisters

Ann,
Cassie
Christine
Harriet
Heather
Jeanette
Jodi
Karen
Kimberly
Kris
Kristie
Lelia
Michelle
Nancy
Nicola
Pam

For more sneak peaks of the gorgeous new line of stamps coming out from Wags n Whiskers, visit my dt sisters:

Wags 'n Whiskers has added on a new artist! She is totally new to the stamping world!! This month Wags 'n Whiskers has 5 fun and whimsical stamps designed by Cris de Lara in addition to several illustrated by Crissy Armstrong. We as a team will be doing sneak peaks today and tomorrow and a blog hop on Friday for the New Release!!!



Thanks for stopping by!!! I so appreciate all your visits and wonderful comments. You make my day! I hope you all have a wonderful day! Stay warm! I know I feel cozy in the house as the snow comes down!