{DT} - sending hugs to cure your bug!

Hi my sweet blogging friends and happy Thursday :-)

Today I want to share a 'get well' card with you.

The papers are from a digi paper pack called 'Uptown Citrus' available here at The Digichick and the sentiment is from the 'Get Well Soon' sentiment set by Raindrop Echo Designs available here at Whimsy Stamps. The striped ribbon from May Arts and the yellow button are both available at Sew Sweet.

BTW: Whimsy Stamps is having a huge sale at the moment: the digi stamps are 25% off at the moment! So what are you waiting for.. just hop on over to their shop and take a look at their adorable digi stamps :-)


Wishing you all a fabulous and creative day :-)

card receipe:

• stamps - Whimsy Stamps 'Get Well Soon' sentiment set by Raindrop Echo Design
• patterned papers - Kellie Mize 'Uptown Citrus Paper Pack'
• other supplies - white cardstock from stash, Kelleigh Ratzlaff 'Designer Label Shapes', May Arts orange striped ribbon, Sew Sweet Spring Button Mixed Bag, foam tape from stash, Glue Dots

challenges:

• Amber's Crafts and Stuff #20 (patterned paper) 
• Sentimental Sundays #65 (focus on the sentiment)
• Wee Memories #62 (CAS) 

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Sylvia

{DT} - You Make Me Happy

Hi my sweet blogging friends and happy Wednesday :-)

Today I want to show you another card that I made a few days ago, but did not show on my blog yet

It's a very simple one, where I created the 'H' using buttons from Sew Sweet. They have lots of great value bags with buttons in wonderful color combos :-) As far as I know -I hope I don't tell you lies- Emma (the owner of Sew Sweet) is hand-dying all the buttons on her own and I really LOVE the colors and combos she sells in her mixed button bags!

card receipe:

• buttons - Sew Sweet
• cardstock - Bazzill (kraft), Others (blue, orange, red, yellow)
• font - Dagobert
• other supplies - paper piecing tool from stash, Sakura white gel pen, Glue Dots, Glue Dots Mini

challenges:

• Fabulous Friday Challenge (buttons)
• Less is More #25 (button or ribbon)
• Our Creative Corner (black, button, bow, bling or all of them)
• Wee Memories #62 (CAS) 

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Sylvia

You Are Such A Deer

Hi my sweet blogging friends and happy Tuesday :)

I hope you are all feeling fine and the weather is good where you live! 

Today I want to show you a card I created for one of the 'CHA Social Challenges' at Two Peas in a Bucket. The theme was 'feathers and leaves' and they wanted us to create a project using feathers and/or leaves.

And this was my entry:

And I was soooooo happy when I read today that I WON *yay*

Thanks so much Two Peas in a Bucket!!!

card receipe:

• stamps - October Afternoon
• patterned paper - 'Autumn in Hooville' by Jady Day Studio
• cardstock - Bazzill
• other supplies - green button from 'Spring mixed button bag' by Sew Sweet, crinkled seam binding in moss green from Sew Sweet, natural kraft button twine by May Arts, Nestabilities circle dies, paper piecing tool from stash, Sakura white gel pen, foam tape from stash, Glue Dots

challenges:

• Two Peas in a Bucket CHA Summer Social Challenge #2
• Die Cut Dreams #94 (4-legged animals)
• Hooked on Crafts #4 (cute and cuddly)
• Kaboodle Doodles #77 (stitching faux or real)
• Paper Cutz #101 (anything goes)
• Totally Gorjuss #90 (punch or die)

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Sylvia

{DT} - hello friend and a new challenge blog :-)

Hi my sweet blogging friends and happy Sunday :)

Today I want to share a card with you where I used felt to create my own design elements for the very first time :)  I handdraw the clouds and sun onto white and yellow felt, cut them out and created a 'sky' with them.
To create the grass, I used a strip of green dotted patterned paper and cut lots of little stripes
The cute image is a rubber stamp from Whimsy Stamps called 'Thunder Lizzy ' created by Crissy Armstrong.

Speaking of Whimsy Stamps, I have some exciting news to share:
Whimsy Stamps is launching their very own challenge blog soon *yay*
The challenges will start on August 10th! 
If you help us spread the word, you can also win some awesome prizes!
You can read all about the details on the Whimsy Inspirations Blog --> here!




Here are some close up:

card receipe:

• stamps - Whimsy Stamps ('Thunder Lizzy'), Stampendous (words)
• coloring medium - Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (blue), Tombow Dual Brus pens
• patterned papers - Jillibean Soup (Dutch Mustard Soup), October Afternoon (Modern Homemaker)
• cardstock - Dani Peuss (kraft)
• other supplies - white and yellow felt, Fiskars (scallop border punch), foam tape from stash, Glue Dots, Glue Dots Lines
  

challenges:

• 2 Sisters#49 (anything goes) 
• Blogger's Challenge by Lisa Somerville (summer)
• Charisma Cardz #29 (sunshine colors)
• Craft Us Crazy #13 (anything goes)
• Craft Your Days Away #25 (Summertime)
• Die Cut Dreams #94 (Four legged animals)
• Digi Doodle Shop's Best #68 (clean and simple)
• Easy Craft Projects #43 (Summer) 
• Fab 'n Funky #82 (animal magic)
• Fairy Tale #20 (summer, sun, sunshine) 
• Freshly Brewed #56 (get wild)
• Fuzzy and Fancy Friday #41 (summer) 
• Fuzzy Wuzzy July (include an animal and get punchy) 
• Little Miss Muffett #14 (summer) 
• Moving Along With the Times (cute and cuddly with a punch)
• Paper Cutz #101 (anything goes)
• Papertake Weekly (getting cute)
• Stamping for the Weekend #13 (Paws for Thought)
• Totally Gorjuss #90 (punch or die cut) 
• Two Peas in a Bucket CHA Social Challenges #3 (use a cloud)
• World Play Weekend #10 (wild animals) - not sure the Dino counts as 'wild animal'.. but thought so ;-)

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Sylvia

Home Sweet Home

Hi my sweet blogging friends and happy Saturday :-)

Hope you all will have a wonderful weekend! It's raining again over here and we have our SAR dog training in the afternoon.. hope I will not be soaked to the skin afterwards ;-) 

Here's a card I made yesterday. I wanted it saying 'Home, sweet Home' but I don't have a stamp with that saying. So I rifled through my stamps until I found two clear stamp sets with two sentiment stamps:
One saying 'How Sweet' (from MFT) and the other one with 'you make me feel right at home' (from Hero Arts). Then I just inked up the words I needed ('home' and 'Sweet') and created my 'Home Sweet Home' sentiment ;-)

(sorry, had to take the picture offline, since it will be published in 'Create: Stamping Idea Book' in February 2012 - the picture will be back here on my blog in March 2012 :-) )

The House was stamped, colored and cut out trimming closely and then put on some foam tape for dimension. I also did the 'simple' variant of faux stitching (w/o poking holes) here and I repeated stamping the little tulip to create the flower row.

Enough babbled... have a great weekend everyone! 

card receipe:

• stamps - 'Whimsical House' by Hero Arts, clear stamp set from My Favorite Things
• coloring medium - Tombow Dual Brush pens, Sakura white gel pen
• cardstock - Bazzill kraft cardstock
• other supplies - blue bakery twine from The Twinery, foam tape from stash

challenges:

• Charisma Cardz #29 (sunshine colors)
• Craft Us Crazy #13 (anything goes) 
• Dare To Be Sassy Thursday #82 (clean and simple)
• Digi Doodle Shop's Best (clean and simple)

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Sylvia

{DT} - Sweet Selena

Hi my sweet blogging friends and happy Friday :-)

Oh my gosh .. I feel so bad, because I totally forgot to post my card for this weeks 'Crafts and Me Challenge' where Teresa wants to see flower(s) somewhere on your card.

You may not see it very well, but there IS a flower on my card... a teeny tiny little red 'gem' flower in 'Sweet Selena's hair ;-)

For the background of the focal point (which is Hannah Lynn's 'Sweet Selena') I used some 'Black Magic' Core'dinations Cardstock, ran it through my Big Shot using a Cuttlebug embossing folder and then sanded the embossed lines to bring out the pastel pink. I think you cannot see it properly in the picture but it's really a neat effect IRL :)

For a finishing touch I added some crinkled Caviar seam binding , added a red button and adhered the button and a metal strawberry charm to the ribbon using some pink button twine.

card receipe:

• stamps - Sweet Selena by Hannah Lynn 
• coloring medium - Tombow Dual Brush pens, Mondeluz watercolor pencils
• patterned papers - from Basic Grey 'Two Scoops' 6x6 paper pad
• tools - Big Shot
• other supplies - Core'dinations Black Magic cardstock, Bazzill black cardstock, Nestabilities Label die, Cuttlebug embossing folder, strawberry metal charm from stash, Glue Dots Mini, foam pads from stash, Sew Sweet Caviar crinkled seam binding, Sew Sweet bright red button bag, May Arts pink button twine available at Sew Sweet

challenges:

• Crafts and Me #44 (add a flower)
• Card Positioning Systems (sketch)
• Clear It Out (use old supplies - anything goes) - the embossing folder is over 1 year old :-) 
• Deep Ocean Challenge #14 (ribbon) 
• The Outlawz Saturday Paper A La Mode Challenge (flowers) 
• 7 Kids College  Funds #26 (texture)

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Sylvia

you make me feel right at home

Hi everyone and happy Sunday :-)

I'm back at home *yay* I hope you enjoyed your weekend as much as I did!
We had a blast during our SAR dog training camp (even though it was raining cats and dogs today *lol*.. but was lots of fun and great excercises although!)

But I'm also glad to be home again (and to be able to sleep in my own bed instead of a sleeping bag in a little tent together with my DH and our two dogs *lol*) 

And I just had to create this quick card:

ETA August 18th: Thank you, Hero Arts for featuring my card on their blog HERE

card receipe:

• stamp - 'Whimsical House' clear stamp set from Hero Arts
• coloring medium - red Tombows Dual Brush pen
• patterned papers - October Afternoon
• other supplies - aqua baker's twine by Divine Twine, white gel pen by Sakura, kraft cardstock by Bazzill, clear rhinestones by Prima Marketing

challenges:

• Aud Sentiments #32 (at least two words)
• Craft Your Passion #67 (use text)  
• Cupcake Craftroom (polka dots) 
• Frosted Designs: Fabulous Fridays (quote)
• StampTV Free For All Friday (card that can be recreated in 10 minutes or less)
• StampTV Mix it up Monday (sketch)
• The Outlawz CAS Sunday (something new, something old, something blue)

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Sylvia

Ciao

Hi my sweet blogging friends and happy Saturday :-)

This is a scheduled post and I hope it will go live as scheduled ;-)

I did not want to leave for the training camp without having at least one card posted for the weekend *lol*

So here is a super simple card using some more of my new Hero Arts stamps and one of the adorable buttons from the 'Spring Mixed Button Bag' from Sew Sweet and the natural kraft button twine 

I created the clouds by using a selfmade scalloped template and blue chalks.. really easy!

Then I just used my brand new crafting toy (the 'Sew Easy' from We'R Memory Keepers) and 'sewed' all around the edges of the card and added some faux stitching using a white gel pen.

Have a great weekend everyone!!!

card receipe:

• stamps - images from Whimsical House clear stamp set (Hero Arts), 'Ciao' from Sassy Silhouettes clear stamp set (Stampendous)
• coloring medium - Tombow Dual Brush pens, chalks
• other supplies - green clear button from Spring Mixed Button Bag (Sew Sweet), natural kraft button twine (May Arts), kraft cardstock (Bazzill), paper piercing tool (We'R Memory Keepers), white gel pen (Sakura), foam pads from stash, Glue Dots Mini

challenges:

• Alphabet challenge (K is for Kitty Cats)
• Do You Stack Up (sewing faux or real)
• StampTV Free For All Friday (July 15th)

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Sylvia

Monster Party

Hi my sweet blogging friends and happy Friday :-)

I want to show you this super quick and fun monster card I made yesterday in the evening.

If you have been here on my blog a few hours ago, you may have seen it here already ;-)

But the picture was soooo bad (because I did not have daylight anymore and I wasn't able to make a good picture of it) so I thought I will do a new post with a new picture today :-)

So here it is again. A card using some Silhouette monster die cuts from Hero Arts.

I cut the monsters out twice: Once using the dark grey cardstock as a mat and a second time a little smaller using colored cardstock. I think this is a perfect card for our next birthday invitations for the little ones. Will go and ask them what they think about it :-)

card receipe:

• patterned papers - 'It's a Boy Thing' by Haynay Design and WM[squared] Design
• curve template - 'More Than Just Curves Vol 2' by Happy Scrip Girl Design
• die cut machine -  Silhouette SD
• cutting files -  'Baby Monster', 'Horned Monster' and 'One-Eyed Monster' by Hero Arts from Silhouette store
• font - Bodony MT
• other supplies - cardstock from stas, Glue Dots

challenges:

• Charisma Cardz #28 (it's in the stars) - lots of stars on the background paper
• Cute Card Thursday #173 (circles) - lots of circles on the background paper; hope that counts :-)
• Digital Tuesday #119 (use die cuts)
• Freshly Brewed Challenge #55 (triple play - use three of anything) - used three monsters :-)))
• Happileigh Scrappin Challenge #30 (critters) - do my monsters count as 'critters'? hope so ;-)
• KB Cute Mondays #21 (something cute)

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Sylvia

Hi :-)

Hi my sweet blogging friends and happy Thursday :-)

Sorry, I have been very quiet this week, but had lots to prepare for the weekend: We will have a search and rescue dog training camp for the weekend :-) We have SAR trainings camps only once a year in summer and it's always very exhausting but also lots of fun!
 I hardly can wait until Saturday is over :-)


If I will not have time to pop in again before the training weekend, I wish you all a wonderful and relaxing weekend, my lovelies!


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Sylvia

Best Wishes

Hi my sweet blogging friends and happy Monday :-)

I hope you all had a great start into the new week!

Today I got my new Hero Arts stamps that I ordered last week and I LOVE them!!!

And of course I had to create a card with all the new goodies immediately *lol* and made this one for the 'Stamp It! Cards Week Challenge' in the Moxie Fab World.

And here's how I did it:
I created a shaped card using the largest Label1 die from Spellbinder and then cut out a window from the front side using the next smaller die. I then cut out a piece of acetate to fit behind the window.
The butterfly and small flower is stamped on patterned paper, cut out trimming closely and put on the acetate on the front. I stamped the label and sentiment on the inside of the card  and added some rhinestones and a little bit of Stickles Stardust as a finishing touch.

Here are two additional close ups:

card receipe:

• stamps - Hero Arts (CG328 Butterflies and Print; CL488 Congrats)
  patterned papers - Basic Grey (Out of Print 6x6 pad)
  cardstock - Core'dinations (Black Magic Cauldron)
  other supplies - rhinestones from Kaisercraft, acetate from stash, Stardust Stickles from Ranger, Nestabilities Label 1 dies from Spellbinders, foam pads from stash, Glue Dots Mini, Glue Dots Lines

challenges:

• Aud Sentiments #32 (at least two words) 
• Clear It Out (wings)
• Everybody Art Challenges #149 (use shapes)
• Gingerloft Challenge #22 (make it sparkle) - lots of glitter on the flower plus the spaaarkly rhinestones 
• One Stitch At A Time #70 (anything goes) 
• Paper Sundaes #77 (paper piecing) 
• Pile It On (favorite technique) - stamping (hope that counts as 'technique' ;-) ) 
• Speedy the Cat's Friends #63 (die cut as a background mat) - hope my card counts.. not sure
• Stamp It! Cards Week Challenge in the Moxie Fab World
• Stamp Something (something with bugs or butterflies)
• Stampin for the Weekend #12 (wings and things)
• The Rubber Cafe (shaped cards)
• Truly Scrumptious  #60 (things with wings)

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Sylvia

{DT} - amazing

Hi my sweet blogging friends and happy Sunday :-)

Today I want to share with you a simple yet happy card that I made using some digital papers, elements and doodle clip mats (everything by eNKay Design, who is a guest at The Digichick for July) and a 3/4'' orange/white striped twill ribbon by May Arts (available at Sew Sweet) as well as lots of buttons from the 'Spring Mixed Button Collection' from Sew Sweet. 

What I think, you can't tell from the picture is that I poked the 'amazing' doodle with a paper piecing tool for a little bit more interest. Looks nice IRL, but I wasn't able to catch it in the photo.

Wishing you all a wonderful and sunny Sunday :-)

card receipe:

• patterned papers and elements: 'Breath of fresh Air' by eNKay Design, 'Clip 'n Doodle Mats' by eNKay Design
• other supplies: 3/4'' orange/white striped twill ribbon by May Arts, 'Spring Mixed Button Collection' from Sew Sweet, paper piecing tool from stash, yellow grosgrain ribbon from stash, Glue Dots, Glue Dots Mini

challenges:

• 2 Sisters #47 (summer)
• Alphabet Challenge (J for Just one Word)
• Card Makin Mamas (summer)
• Crazy 4 Challenges #95 (summer)
• Dutch Dare Card Challenges #120 (summer)
• One Stop Craft #138 (summer)
• Phindys Place #63 (buttons)
• Sugar Creek Hollow (paper piercing) - the 'amazing' doodle is paper pierced
• Totally Gorjuss #88 (summer)

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Sylvia

{DT} - friends are flowers in the garden of life

Hi my sweet blogging friends and happy Saturday :-)

I hope you are all feeling good and have a wonderful, sunny weekend!
After my youngest has ben taken ill at the beginning of the week (he's now fit again), now my second youngest has pustules all over the body and I suspect this could be rubeola (even though both of the boys are vaccinated!)
So we are sitting inside watching TV and stuff like this and can't enjoy the wonderful weather outside *sigh*

But I'm always trying to look on the bright side: this way I had some exta time to create a card ;-)

The following one was made for the 'Color Cue' challenge at the Market Street Stamps blog.
I immediately fell in love with the color combo when I saw it and thought I'd give it a go - even though I'm not eligible to win *sob* ;-)

 and here' my card:

card receipe:

• patterned papers - Fresh Fun by KimB Designs
• sentiment - from 'Flowers in Bloom Sentiment Set' by Raindrop Echo Designs (Whimsy Stamps)
• other supplies - cardstock from stash, crinkled seam binding in chalk white from Sew Sweet, metal butterfly embellishments from stash, blue rhinestones from Kaisercraft, Glue Dots Mini

challenges:

• Aud Sentiments Challenge #32 (at least two words)
• Cardmadfairy's #12 (include an animal) - the butterfly charms
• Charisma Cardsz #27 (all about flowers)
• Color Cue #4 (dusty grey, ruby red, turquois)
• Cupcake Craft Challenges #149 (single layer cards)
• Designs by Lisa Somerville (floral frenzy)
• Timeless Tuesday #125 (friend)
• Try It on Tuesday # (flower power)

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Sylvia

{DT} - Birthday Wishes

Hi my sweet blogging friends and happy Friday :-)

Today I have a simple card without any patterned papers.

I created the card for the 'Stamp It! Cards Week Challenge' at Moxie Fab World.

I stamped the flower image (Penny Black) twice on kraft cardstock: Once with opaque white Staz On ink and a second time with Versamark ink. I then colored the image slightly using some watercolor pencils and added a tad bit of Stardust Stickles here and there. 

I wrapped some gorgeous crinkled seam binding in 'Elderberry' (I {heart} the color!) from Sew Sweet and also tyed a double bow with the seam binding. I decorated the center of the bow with a button from the 'Spring mixed Button Bag' from Sew Sweet. To secure the button to the bow I used some 'pink button twine' from American Crafts.

The sentiment (from Inkadinkado) is stamped with brown Versafine ink and for the finishing touch I inked the edges of the kraft card base using some 'Moonlight White' Brilliance ink. 

That's it :-)

card receipe:

• stamps - 'day dreams' by Penny Black, sentiment from clear stamp set by Inkadinkado
• inks - Versafine Vintage Sepia, Brilliance Moonlight White, Staz On Opaque White
• coloring medium - Mondeluz watercolor pencils
• cardstock - kraft by Dani Peuss
• other supplies - 'Elderberry' crinkled seam binding by Sew Sweet, Button from 'Spring mixed Button Bag' by Sew Sweet, pink button twine by American Crafts, Stardust Stickles

challenges:

• Art Impressions #23 (use something from stash) - the stamp is age old, so I hope this qualifies as 'from stash' ;) 
• Aud Sentiments #32 (at least two words)
• Bows and Berries #9 (kraft)
• Charisma Cardz #27 (it's all about flowers)
• Creative Craft Challenges (pretty blossoms) 
• Cupcake Craft (single layer cards)
• Fab 'n' Funky #80 (purple haze) 
• Oldie But A Goodie #22 (anything goes) - both stamps are much older than 6 months ;-)
• Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #57 (birthdays)
• Ruby's Rainbow #7 (birthdays) 
• Shelly's Images (celebrate)
• Stamp It! Card Week Challenge at Moxie Fab World
• Try it on Tuesday (flower power)

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Sylvia

summertime and the livin' is easy....

Hi my sweet blogging friends and happy Thursday :-)

*phew*.. it's hot and sunny here.. again. Summer is in full swing and I thought this is the perfect card for this time of the year. It's for the Some Odd Girl challenge where they want to see 'bright and blinding' cards.. well... I think with these colors my card is qualified as an entry for this challenge ;-)

card receipe:

• stamps - Roller Mae by Some Odd Girl, sentiment from last year's summer stamp set by Whiff of Joy
• coloring medium - Tombow Dual Brush pens, Mondeluz watercolor pencils
• patterned papers - Sunshiny Day by Karen Lewis
• other supplies - cardstock from stash, buttons from October Afternoon (Modern Homemaker Collection), red floss from We'RMemoryKeepers, mini staples from Making Memories, foam pads from stash, Glue Dots

challenges:

• Bearly Mine (anything goes) 
• Craft Your Passion (anything goes)
• Creative Belli #121 (custom made embellishments) - sun 
• Going Grey With Scrap-Creations (summer)
• KB Cute #20 (anything goes)
• Paper Take Weekly (anything goes with option button)
• Some Odd Girl (bright and blinding)
• Squigglefly (summertime)
• Stamping Boutique (summer scene) 
• Stamps and Fun = Creativity (yellow/red)
• Stamps R Us (there was a little girl...)
• YNS #46 (buttons)

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Sylvia

{DT} - Genevieve

Hi my sweet blogging friends and happy Wednesday :-)

I hope you had a great week so far. 

Since it's Wednesday it means another challenge at Crafts and Me Challenges, where we want you to use your 'favorite stamp'.

Well I admit it.. the stamp I used on my card is not the favorite stamp (because I love so many stamps, that I just cannot decide which one is the favorite one *lol*), but it's a stamp from one of my all time favorite stamp image designers: Hannah Lynn! I so adore her work and I used the adorable 'Genevieve' to create my card:

card receipe:

• stamp - Genevieve by Hannah Lynn
• coloring medium - Tombow Dual Brush pens, Mondeluz watercolor pencils
• patterned papers - Zen Garden Papers by Inspirations by Day
• brush frames - I Was Framed by Haynay Designs
• other supplies - crinkled seam binding in 'elegant peacock' from Sew Sweet, Distress inks from Ranger, blue rhinestones from Kaisercraft

challenges:

• Crafts and Me #42 (favorite stamp)
• Bearly Mine #14 (anything goes)
• Craft Your Passion #65 (anything goes)
• Deep Ocean #3 (cards)
• Digital Tuesdays (bling it up) 
• Dream Valley #10 (ribbon)
• One Stitch At A Time #69 (use a digi) - the image is not a digi but the papers are digi.. hope that counts, though?!

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Sylvia

Whimsy July Digi Release Blog Hop

Hi everyone and happy Friday :)

It's the first of July and that means new release day and time for another blog hop at Whimsy Stamp!

As always they have lots of adorable new digi stamps for you!

If you came here from Tine's blog you're on the right way, otherwise please go back to start on Whimsy Inspirations blog :) Please leave comments along the way as there will be two mystery DT members who will each be choosing a winner from the comments left on their hop posts! The winners will each win one Whimsy digi image of their choice!!! :)

The Grand Prize winner of the hop chosen from the very last stop, which is Lisa's blog, will receive 5 new digital stamps of their choice from Whimsy and will also get a chance to use those new digital images as a guest designer for Whimsy for the entire month of July - how cool is that?!

The hop will run until Friday 8th July 12 noon EST, when the winner will be announced on the Whimsy Inspirations Blog (where you can find the complete blog hop list .. just in case you get lost somewhere on the hop :) )

Here's a card I made using one of the adorable new butterfly images from Moon Cookie Gallery. This one is called 'Scalloped Butterfly'.

I hope you enjoy our hop and don't forget to leave a comment ;-) before you hop on over to your next stop:  
TONI's blog 

card receipe:

• stamp - Scalloped Butterfly by Moon Cookie Gallery (Whimsy Stamps)
• coloring medium - Tombow Dual Brush pens, Mondeluz watercolor pencils, Sakura white gel pen
• patterned papers - 'Ad Lib' (6x6 paper pad) by Bo Bunny Press
• tools - Zutter Bind-It-All, Dymo Label Maker, Making Memories mini stapler
• other supplies - white cardstock from stash, Making Memories mini staples in metallic blue

challenges:

• 2 Sisters #46 (birthdays) 
• Alphabet Challenge (I for Insects)
• Allsorts #110 (free and easy)
• Catch The Bug (anything goes) 
• Crafty Catz #89 (colors of summer)
• Ellephantastic (celebrations)
• One Stitch At A Time #69 (use a digi) 
• Secret Crafter #141 (summer)
• Stamp Something (use a digi)
• The Poodles Parlour (come fly with me)
• Wags'n Whiskers #57 (summertime)

 

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Sylvia

thank you

Hi my sweet blogging friends and happy Friday :-)

I'm just popping in for a quick post to say a huge THANK YOU to all who left me a comment or voted on my question about splitting the blog into two 'by style'. 

Most of you voted for leaving it as is and not splitting .... and this is what I will do :-)

THANKS again :-)

I also wanted to share some exciting news with you:

The lovely Emma has a great store called 'Sew Sweet' and she sells the most adorable crafty things over there! There are lovely embellishments, like buttons or totally adorable ribbons and (very important to me *lol*) lots of gorgeous seam bindings that she is dying by herself and so much more beautiful things.

Check out the shop here and her store blog here.

So I am now a 'Sew Sweet Sweetie' along with all of the following amazing and talented ladies:

Ali

Carrie

Danielle

Dorcas

Faye

Ingrid

Judy

Liz

Simonne

Stephanie

Ok... enough for now. I will be back later today (6pm CEST) with a card for the 'Whimsy Stamps New Digi Release Blog Hop'. So be sure to check back again, later :-)

Until then, I hope you'll have a great day filled with sunshine and lots of joy :)

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Sylvia