Showing posts with label ATSM DT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ATSM DT. Show all posts

Wednesday, 17 June 2015

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 

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!



Sarah

Wednesday, 3 June 2015

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:

Rosey Hearts

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 
 


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
Sarah

Wednesday, 20 May 2015

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

Rosey Hearts

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 
 


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


Sarah

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

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 
 


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
Sarah

Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Addicted To Stamps and More Challenge #141


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

GRAB OUR BADGE!

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 
 


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
Sarah

Wednesday, 8 April 2015

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 
 


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

Sarah

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

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 
 


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
Sarah

Tuesday, 10 March 2015

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.
Sarah

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

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 
 


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


Sarah

Tuesday, 10 February 2015

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
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 
 


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!




Sarah

Tuesday, 27 January 2015

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.
 



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.

Sarah

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

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 


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 



Sarah

Wednesday, 31 December 2014

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

Sarah