Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #149 - 3rd Birthday

Hi blog friends - this week it's celebration time over at 
Addicted to Stamps and More 

We've reached our 3rd birthday! and it's CAS week (Clean & Simple) so I hope you'll get chance to play along.
This post is tinged with a little sadness though as it's my last post for ATSM. I'm stepping down from the Design Team at the end of this month.  It's been loads of fun and the team are FABulous! Talented and incredibly friendly.
... on the flip side, I'm joining the Addicted to CAS Design team from the beginning of July and the terrifically talented Kylie heads  that team too so I imagine more great times ahead. Hope you'll visit me and play along there too.

So onto my card and I'm using a sponsor digi image today called Birthday Penguin Cupcake from Bugaboo

Now let me tell you about our brilliant sponsors and prizes for this birthday week!

Up for grabs we have ....

$12 gift certificates from A Day for Daisies and Sami Stamp Shop,

7 digis from Bugaboo Digi stamps and 3 digis from STAMPlorations

WOW! What more encouragement do you need to join this party?

BUT please remember to head over to the ATSM blog first

as there's more stunning inspiration from the design team.

I'd like to thank them all for making me so welcome on the

team and for being just totally awesome! 

Thanks as always for calling by and happy crafting.

Looking forward to seeing your creations this week!

Addicted to Stamps and More #147

Hi there friends, I'm back with the latest challenge details for  Addicted to Stamps and More
It's Make Your Mark week and here's my card

I love playing with inks and water so what better way to make a 

mark on a creation than combining the two.

Card Recipe:

Using a sentiment stamp set from Clearly Besotted: Happy Birthday

the images are heat embossed using clear EP over Versafine onyx black.

I've 'washed' an area of Tim Holtz watercolour card with water in the

shape I wanted colour before adding distress inks from an acrylic block,

allowing the colours to merge slightly with their 'neighbour(s)' 

colours used are: Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade,

Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers and Seedless Preserves.

(For bright and vivid colours I have to say these are my favourite Distress Inks)

We have 2 sponsors this week:

Prize is 5 digis from the store 

AND

https://shop.deedeesdigis.com

Deedee will offer $15 coupon to the store for our winners.

Before you head off to your crafty den please don't forget to check out the  stunning creations from the rest of the ATSM Design Team   

Carol

Dana

Hayley

Julie

Karen

Kylie

Sandie 

Tenia

Hope you find some time to join in and I look forward to seeing your fabulous cards. Thanks for stopping by and see you soon

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #145

Hi there friends, I'm here with a new challenge from 
Addicted to Stamps & More and it's photo inspiration time.
Here's my card followed by the photo

I was inspired by the colours and the birds so kept my card

close to those themes.

Card Recipe:

Card-io: Oriental Whispers Paper Smooches: Botanicals 2 Clearly Besotted: Design a Tree sentiment Mama Elephant: Index Card dies Pumice Stone distress inks to create the water-colour background
Here's the photo inspiration 
We have two sponsors for this challenge http://www.dianesdaydreamdesigns.com/

Deedee will offer $15 coupon to the store for our winners

and

http://rosey-hearts.blogspot.ca/

Prize is 5 digis from the store

Before you head off to your crafty den please don't forget to check out the  stunning creations from the rest of the ATSM Design Team   

Carol

Dana

Hayley

Julie

Karen

Kylie

Sandie

Tenia

Hope you find some time to join in and I look forward to seeing your fabulous cards. Thanks for stopping by and see you soon

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #143

Hi friends, it's time for another challenge at  Addicted to Stamps and More
This week it's our holiday theme so pick a holiday, any holiday and craft away.   Here's mine and I'm always keen to add to my Christmas box!

Card Recipe:

Lawn Fawn: 'Love' word die (inset)

Uniko Studio: Simply Said Christmas sentiments

Design paper from American Crafts

Doodlebug: Sprinkles

Our wonderful sponsor for this week is 

and the prize is 7 digi-stamps

Before you head off to your crafty den please don't forget to check out the  stunning creations from the rest of the ATSM Design Team   

Carol

Dana

Hayley

Julie

Karen

Kylie

Sandie

Tenia

Hope you find some time to join in and I look forward to seeing your fabulous cards. Thanks for stopping by and see you soon

Addicted To Stamps and More Challenge #141

Hi there, it's time for this week's challenge at ATSM

This week it's Anything Goes ... so let your hair down  and Happy Crafting!

Here's my card using Altenew Hennah Elements coloured using a

water-colouring method with Distress Inks.

The background was created with a 'smooshing' technique

then spritzed and splashed with water for added detail!

The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted: Spring Blooms set.

Our sponsor this week is Sweet Pea Stamps and the winner will  receive a prize of 4 digi-stamps from the store.

http://www.sweetpeastamps.com/

Before you head off to your crafty den please don't forget to check out the  stunning creations from the rest of the ATSM Design Team   

Carol

Dana

Hayley

Julie

Karen

Kylie

Sandie

Sue

Tenia

Hope you find some time to join in and I look forward to seeing your fabulous cards. Thanks for stopping by and see you soon

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #139

Hi there, it's time for this week's challenge at ATSM and we'd like to see your Clean & Simple Cards

Here's my card using Lawn Fawn - Monster Mash stamp set coloured with Stabilo Neon pens on water-colour cardstock and the sentiment is 'generation - stamped' to fit in with the 'Boo!' from the monsters

Our sponsor for this week is STAMPlorations and the winner will receive a prize of 3 digi stamps
I'm also going to link my card up at Inkspirational where the code word is NEON! Hoping my little monsters will fit in there!

Before you head off to your crafty den please don't forget to check out the  stunning creations from the rest of the ATSM Design Team   

Carol

Dana

Hayley

Julie

Karen

Kylie

Sandie

Sue

Tenia

Hope you find some time to join in and I look forward to seeing your fabulous cards. Thanks for stopping by and see you soon

Addicted To Stamps & More Challenge #137

It's time for a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this week it's 

'Make Your Mark'

Card Recipe: Distress Inks: Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers, Evergreen Bough & Picked Raspberry Clearly Besotted: Elegant Butterflies heat-embossed with Hero Arts  White Embossing Powder and water-coloured with distress inks Sentiment also Clearly Besotted from Simply Quilled Background created by inking and blending Salty Ocean ink on  Tim Holtz watercolour card then spritzing with water and perfect pearls

Our sponsor for this challenge is Sweet Pea Stamps  http://www.sweetpeastamps.com/

and the prize is 4 digis from the store

Before you head off to your crafty area don't forget to check out the  stunning creations by the rest of the ATSM Design Team   

Carol

Dana

Hayley

Julie

Karen

Kylie

Sandie

Sue

Tenia

Hope you find some time to join in and I look forward to seeing your fabulous cards. Thanks for stopping by and see you soon

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #135

Hi there, I'm here with the latest challenge details from  Addicted to Stamps and More 
It's photo inspiration time for you and it's all about toffee, candy and sugar! Our sponsor is Dee Dee's Digis who are offering a $15 coupon to the store for our winner.
Here's my take on the photo using a digi stamp from  Dee Dee's Digis - it's called Jellybean Prayer
I used the bag of jelly beans image, shrunk it and printed twice before colouring with inktense pencils, wink of stella and glossy accents.

Card Recipe:

MFT Die-Namics: Photo frame die

My Favourite things: Chevron stencil

Clearly Besotted: Sentiment  and Scalloped border die

Doodlebug: design paper and sprinkles

So before you race off to check out your crafty stash for sweeties and fizzy drinks don't forgot to stop by the  ATSM blog to check out how the rest of the Design Team interpreted the photo.
Thanks as always for stopping by my blog and I can't  wait to see what you all come up with.

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #133

It's time for a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More  and this week we are looking for your 
HOLIDAY cards and our sponsor this week is STAMPlorations prize is a $10 gift certificate
Here's my card using a stamp from this week's sponsor: Christmas Flower  which I was very lucky to win recently from Muse Card Club

Card Recipe: Christmas Flower stamp heat embossed in WOW pale gold EP image coloured using sponge daubers and distress inks in  barn door & mowed lawn with a sentiment from the same STAMPlorations set. To finish I've added red pearls to the centre of the flowers and a  wrap around of green metallic cord.

Before you head off to your crafty area don't forget to check out the  stunning creations by the rest of the ATSM Design Team   

Carol

Dana

Hayley

Julie

Karen

Kylie

Sandie

Sue

Tenia

Hope you find some time to join in and I look forward to seeing your fabulous cards  Thanks for stopping by and see you soon

Addicted To Stamps & More Challenge #131

It's time for a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More  and this week it's the very popular ... Anything Goes Challenge
... so no time to waste just craft and create whatever you please.
Here's my card

Card Recipe:

Clearly Besotted: Sweet Rose & Fabulous Fuchsias

Clearly Besotted: Scalloped Dies

Crafts Too: Lattice embossing folder

First of all I stamped my image onto watercolour card with Versamark

then heat-embossed in Hero Arts white EP.

I've used my Derwent Inktense pencils and water to colour the image

then winked it with Stella before fussy cutting and popping up on 3d foam

Just for the fun of it I'd like to head over and enter this

at Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge

where the theme this month is 'Embossing'

I've used Dry and Heat-embossing on this card

Our sponsor this week is Sweet Pea Stamps and the lucky winner

will receive 4 digis from the store

http://www.sweetpeastamps.com/

Before you head off to your crafty area don't forget to check out the  stunning creations by the rest of the ATSM Design Team   

Carol

Dana

Hayley

Julie

Karen

Kylie

Sandie

Sue

Tenia

Hope you find some time to join in and looking forward to seeing your fabulous cards  Thanks for stopping by and I'll be back tomorrow with the  Release, Reveal and Blog Hop for Uniko Studio!

Addicted To Stamps and More Challenge #129

Hello friends  It's time for a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More  and this week we're looking for your super clean and simple creations ...
It's a CAS week (Clean and Simple so lot's of 'white' space)
Here's my card using a digi-image from this week's sponsor STAMPlorations ... prize is a $10 gift certificate

I printed the image but reduced in size from the original, 

coloured with Derwent colour soft pencils and a little highlighting with Promarkers

To add some interest I've sliced the image in three then mounted

with foam pads onto a stitched square die from MFT Die-Namics

The 'Birthday' sentiment die is from Clearly Besotted 

along with the stamped words from the 'Happy Birthday' set.

There's loads more fabulous inspiration from the multi-talented ATSM Design Team so please pop across to check out their creations too.  

Carol

Dana

Hayley

Julie

Karen

Kylie

Sandie

Sue

Tenia

Hope you find some time to join in and looking forward to seeing your fabulous cards throughout the week. Thanks for stopping by and enjoy some crafty fun.

Happy Dance continuation ... Addicted to Stamps & More #127

Hi Blog friends, I'm so thrilled you've stopped by because Today is my first post as an official DT at  Addicted to Stamps and More
Here's my card for this week's challenge theme ...

Make Your Mark

(Please make your mark using markers, paints, chalks, etc)

This week's sponsor is 

and the prize for one lucky crafter

 is a $20 gift certificate

Card Recipe:

Clearly Besotted: Say it in Style sentiments, 

Fresh Flowers Stamps & Dies

Santa was very kind to me and brought the matching dies

to this gorgeous floral set which I've stamped and 

heat-embossed in white onto vellum before colouring 

on the reverse with Promarkers

To finish a strip of glitter cardstock, gems and a wrap of twine

There's loads more inspiration from the super duper DT 

Carol

Dana

Hayley

Julie

Karen

Kylie

Sandie

Sue

Tenia

so please stop by their blogs and see for yourself.

I do hope you'll join in this week and I'd love to see

 your creations so have some fun and crafty time 

Happy Dancing in progress ... so excited!

You possibly think I'm partying like crazy for New Year as is probably the case but the REAL reason for my happy dance is  I've got some exciting news to share ....
To be honest I've been itching to share this for a few weeks and I was expecting to schedule my post for NYD but due to worldwide time differences I've been given the nod to  'spill the beans' today and what better time when it's a New Year ... YIPPEE
So without further ado ...
Recently there's been a DT call at Addicted to Stamps and More   I took the plunge ... and (suspense is killing me here!) I've been accepted!

There's been quite a few comings and goings on the ATSM DT and I can't wait to get stuck in with my first challenge in 2 weeks time. Please keep your eyes out for that one
The super talented Design Team are from all over the world, they are a really fun and happy bunch and I'm so looking forward to working alongside them and getting to know them better.
Our AMAZING team leader is Kylie who recently created my  blog header, signature and watermarks and I decided to make this  announcement by creating a card for one of her other challenge blogs  which until now I seem to have missed!
Happy Little Stampers There's a magnificent sketch which is so appropriate for  New Year and my card, I hope, shows an explosion!


Card Recipe:  Uniko Studio: Decorative Doilies / Hands of Time stamp which is heat-embossed in WOW metallic silver sparkle EP. Clearly Besotted: Say it in Style sentiment For that extra bling ... couldn't resist gems and candy dots from my stash
So if you have a burst of creative energy and feel like getting crafty then why not have a go at this superb challenge.
Thanks again for stopping by and all that's left for me to add is 
Have a Happy New Year