Stamp Something - January Digi week

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Happy Friday everyone!!

It's time again for a new challenge over at Stamp Something, and this week we are having our monthly "digi -week". Again, we have several great sponsors so there are going to be several winners!

For my card I used a digi from the Crafty Pad.
I cut a circle out with my nestastabilies and big kick, then placed the image inside the circle.

The sentiment is from a set from The Angel Company. My papers are from Bazzill and Stampin Up Designer papers.
I applied stickles glitter around the circle and the sentiment and embellished with a pink button and some ribbon, and added some sticky pearls to the corners and then did some paper piercing along the top edge.

I would also like to enter my card to the following challenges:
AI Factory (new beginnings)
Dutch dare (new beginning)
Delightful Challenges (buttons)

That's all for today, hope you'll join in for a chance at winning one of the prizes up for grabs!

Blog Hop and first Whimsy Design Team Post

Hello everyone and thanks so much for stopping by today!

I am so excited to show you today's card. It's my first card as a digital DT member for

Whimsy Stamps

plus we are having our January blog hop to show off the brand new digital images released today!! We have new images and sentiments from Crissy, Meljen's and Ann to show you today, some of them are even precolored!!
I hope you'll hop along to see all the amazing projects the rest of the Design Team came up with.

If you arrived here from Stephanne's blog you are on the right track, if not and you'd like to hop along, you will want to go to Debbie's blog to start. Be sure to leave comments along the way as there will be 6 mystery Design Team members who will each be choosing a winner from the comments left. Every winner will win one digital stamp of their choice.
The Grand Prize winner which will be chosen from the very last stop will win 5 new digital stamps of their choice and will get a chance to use those stamps as a guest designer for whimsy stamps for the month of January!

Now onto my card,

I decided to use the brand new image Tweet Heart Birds by Meljen's Designs. Isn't it adorable? I thought it would be perfect for making little pocket cards for my daughter to take to school on valentine's day.

It's been colored with copic markers and then I added some stickles glitter. My papers are from bo bunny and card stock is from stampin up. On the tag inside I stamped the sentiment "to someone with a very big heart" and I am planning on adding one of those flat packets of sweet tarts to it with a glue dot. I just have to purchase a bag of them first.

Here is a picture with the tag taken out.


These are super easy to make, if you need instructions you can find Beate's tutorial here.

I would like to enter my card to these challenges:

• Paper Sundaes (something new - brand new digi)
• Catch the bug (anything goes)
• Craft your days away (punches)
• Crafty Emma (anything goes)
• Crazy for challenges (celebrate something - valentines)
• Mark's finest paper (use something new - digi)
• Do you stack up (buttons)
  

Your next stop on the hop is Domi's blog. Be sure to hop over there to see her fabulous creation!

If you get lost along the way you can always go back to Debbie's blog for the instructions and start over again.

This hop is open from Thursday, January 6th 12noon EST until Thursday January 13th 12noon EST so you have one whole week to hop along!

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

have a great day and happy hopping!

Ellie.

DTC #93 - Shop till you drop and exciting news!

Happy Tuesday everyone!

I have some super exciting news to share with you today! On New Years Day I received an invitation to join the Whimsy Stamps Digital Design Team. I am so super exciting!! What a great way to start the New Year!!

I just love their images and I am going to have so much fun!! Check back on thursday for my first Whimsy Stamps card as a Design Team member using a brand new not yet released image.

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Now onto today's card,

we have a new challenge for you over at digital tuesday, this week was Karen's turn to choose a challenge and she chose something completely different from what we had before.

Shop till you drop

We'd like to see shopping bags, purses, shoes...anything shopping related. And from now on, it is not a requirement anymore to use a digital image, it can be anything digital: paper, sentiment or main image.

For my card I used a digital stamp from Amber Ink. It was a free set when I got it some time ago, when she first created her site. It is now available for purchase, plus she has lots more sets to choose from. She used to be one of the artists behind "Hanna stamps" which is now out of business, so you might be familiar with these images.

I have also used an image from the set "It's a girl thing" by Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, from our sponsor My Grafico. The little birdie with banner is part of that digistamp set. I thought it would be fun to write something on that banner, so that is what I did.

Here's a close up of the little birdie image.

My Designer Paper is from Basic Grey and card stock is Stampin Up's kiwi kiss. I used my sewing machine to add some stitches to the two paper strips and embellished with a Prima flower, button and silver cord. The coloring was done with derwent coloursoft pencils and gamsol and I used a couple of copic markers for the skintones. To finish the card off I added some stickles glitter to the image and to the flower.

I am also entering this card to the following challenges:

• Karber Weekly (digistamp and flowers)
• Paper Playtime (faces)
• Secret Crafter (buttons and bows)

As I mentioned above, My Grafico is sponsoring our challenge again this week, and they are giving away one digistamp set plus a 20% off voucher to one lucky winner. The winner even gets to choose the set and they have so many to choose from!! To enter all you have to do is follow our challenge theme and don't forget to use something digital.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Have a great day!
Ellie.

Penny Black @ All Sorts January Challenge

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope you all had a fabulous New Years Eve celebration and I wish you all the best for 2011!!
May all your wishes come true and may you all have a happy and healthy New Year!



And since it's the first of the month it is also time for a new challenge over at

Penny Black @ All Sorts,

and with the new year we also have some super exciting news to share!

For this month we have four prizes from the wonderful Penny Black and an extra prize as well which I will tell you about shortly, plus we are super excited to have a new sponsor

who are offering a lifetime 15% discount for products purchased from their store to one lucky winner each month. If you love Penny Black Stamps and haven't visited them yet, be sure to check them out. They have a huge amount of current and retired Penny Black stamps for sale. I have so many on my wishlist, but unfortunately they will have to wait for now!

Now for an extra special bit, we will select a further winner from those who link up as a follower this month.

And then on January 15th we are having our first ever Blog Hop with lots of prizes!! Be sure to mark you calendars!

Please help us spread the word by placing the logo below on your sidebars!

I am super excited about being part of this blog hop!!

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Now onto this month's challenge, our theme is

"All you need is love"

I used this super adorable Puppy image from the clear set called "Critter Party". I just love the look on the puppy's face! He's been colored using derwent coloursoft pencils and then I used some baby oil and blending stumps for blending and shading.

Papers are from my stash, not sure who the maker is. I embellished with some cuttlebug hearts and paper flowers (Martha Stewart punch), tiny rhinestones, some ribbon, and stickles glitter. One of the paws was popped up with a dimensional and I tucked a tiny heart under it. To finish it all of I did some distressing and sewing with my janome sew mini around the edges. This is a smaller than my usual cards, it's a 4.25 inch square card.


I would also like to enter my card to the Crazy Challenge with the theme of punch it, and then at Stamps R us the theme is anything goes, so I am also entering it there! That's all for today!

Don't forget - Blog hop at Penny Black @ All Sorts on the 15th! Hope to see you there!

Again,
Happy New Year to all of you!!

And thanks so much for stopping by today!