Come and Hop along with Crescent Creations.

 Good afternoon! It's hump day already, where is the time going?

My post today is inspiration and a link for a blog hop for a company new to me. Crescent Creations is an online craft store that sells lots of crafting goodies including their own digital stamp collections. It's a new release day today and we are having a blog hop to celebrate.

If you comment on each stop and we would love you to subscribe to our platforms you are in with a chance of winning a $25 gift certificate to spend in the store.

The digital images are PNG files, but are white on the inside so you can layer them up. I have chosen to use their brand new Happy Diwali set. This comes with 2 mandalas a candle and 5 sentiments in different fonts.

I have made 2 cards to showcase both the mandalas which are stunning colored in bright colors.

The first mandala reminded my so much of a marigold flower which is synonymous with Diwali -used for garlands and offerings to the Hindu gods.

I printed it onto stamping cardstock and colored it with shades of orange marker.

The second is stunning, I used markers to color the mandala I also added silver paint pen for extra shine.

For both cards I used a paisley digital design paper on which I printed my sentiment.

I matted an A2 black card base with orange and black cardstock to make the colors pop even more. My design paper was added and the mandala was adhered with foam squares for dimension. Finally I added some iridescent bubbles which pick up the colors of the mandalas.

The winner of the hop will be announced on 23rd September on Crescent Creations social media. You should have hopped here from Tammi and you are heading to our next design team member Theary. If you have somehow gotten lost you can head back to Crescent Creations to find your way! You should have commented on all of the design team's inspiration posts or videos.

I will be back later in the month with more inspiration for the new release.

Thank you for stopping by.

Joy Clair Blog Hop Day 2

 Good morning, it's day 2 of the Joy Clair new release blog hop, I hope you hopped along with us yesterday and if so welcome back!

You can hop along with us for your chance to win a $25 gift card to Joy Clair Designs store, valid for Digital and Clear Stamps. The hop will end on Feb. 3rd @ 11:59 PM EST. Winners will be announced on the Joy Clair Designs Blog between February 4th - 9th . The release went live yesterday, so happy shopping!

Today the design team are showcasing their favorite stamp from the collection and I love these butterflies from the Just Butterflies collection 

I wanted a clean and simple look but with a bit of a twist so I printed the butterflies twice, once on stamping card with one of the included sentiments and once just the butterflies but on a shimmer vellum.

I colored all 4 butterflies with Copic markers making sure they paired up color wise.

I matted an A2 card with coordinating cardstock and added the stamping card images to this. I then fussy cut the vellum butterflies and adhered these on top of the originals by their body only, giving me fluttering wings. Finally I added color coordinating pearls for trails from each critter.

On to the blog hop. Below you will find the links of all the participants. Just hop to them all and leave each design team member a comment on their post. 

Thank you for stopping by now go check out and enjoy the rest of the hop. 

Your next stop should be Joy.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Joy Clair New Release Blog Hop

 Good Morning! 1st of February - How did that happen?? At least it's inching towards spring and nicer weather!

There is a new release over at Joy Clair and it make it more exciting we are doing a blog hop - You can hop along with us for your chance to win a $25 gift card to Joy Clair Designs store, valid for Digital and Clear Stamps. The hop will end on Feb. 3rd @ 11:59 PM EST. Winners will be announced on the Joy Clair Designs Blog between February 4th - 9th . The release is live now, so happy shopping!

There are 7 gorgeous new digital collections to choose from which you will see during the hop. I will be show casing 2 of these one today and check back tomorrow for a second one!

On to my inspiration for today, I used the gorgeous Forever Friends digital collection. This has a beautiful floral arrangement and some really useful sentiments that are great for the current climate we are in:

I used 2 of the floral arrangements to frame the sentiment I used. These were colored with Copic markers. I matted a white A7 card base with blue cardstock, die cut an oval frame from patterned paper and sandwiched my image between to frame it. I then added some clear drops.

I gave this card a soft look but depending on how you color the flowers it could have more depth to it.

On to the blog hop. Below you will find the links of all the participants. Just hop to them all and leave each design team member a comment on their post. 

Thank you for stopping by now go check out the rest of the hop. Your next stop should be Daniel

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Joy Clair and Imagine Crafts Better Together Blog Hop

Good Morning! and welcome to my stop for the Joy Clair and Imagine Crafts Better Together blog hop. You should have arrived here from LeeAnn McKinney's You Tube channel. 

Both companies are offering great prizes Joy Clair are offering a $25 gift card to spend on stamps and if you win the Imagine Crafts prize you get a goody bag of inks! You do have to comment on every hop to be in win a chance of winning a prize!

My inspiration is using the super cute Candy Hearts stamp set from Joy Clair:

I used 3 different inks from Imagine Crafts - First I inked the edges of a 4x5.25in piece of cardstock 

using Versacolor ink in Heliotrope. I then stamped the open hearts and their sentiments with Versacolor Violet . The solid hearts with added using StayzOn Cherry Blossom. Finally I added more words and mini hearts with the Heliotrope color again. I matted this onto a piece of purple cardstock and a A2 white card base.

Ok back to the hop, If you want the chance to win a prize your next leap will be to Annie Collins You Tube Channel.

If you got lost along the way here is a list of all the hops you need to make:

Martha Lucia Gomez

Nicole Watt

Pricilla Joseph

Lisa Mensing

Danielle Brown

Lori Warren

Joy Wilson

LeeAnn McKinney

Sharon Smith - You are here!

Annie Collins

Renee Villalobos

Jowilna Nolte

Jennifer Holder Schoolcraft

Joy Clair Designs Blog

Thank you for stopping by now go hop!!!

Sunflower Fall Release and Blog Hop

 Good morning! We say goodbye to our house guests today, 8 dogs has been fun but I'm ready for a rest!

Joy Clair have an amazing September release starting today with a blog hop.

My inspiration card is using Thankful For You stamp collection I love sunflowers! Because of my style of card I have made 2 designs for this release my first uses the sentiment Hello Friend:

The second uses Thankful For You:

Both sentiments are part of the Thankful For You stamp collection. I started by printing 3 sunflower images. One of then I placed the Hello Friend sentiment. I also printed the Thankful For You sentiment. I then colored only one of the images. I die cut a circle from my colored image and put to one side keeping both the circle and the outer part of the sunflower. I matted a black card base with brown and yellow cardstock and then added my uncolored Hello Friend image. I then added wet glue to the back of the colored circle and lined it up on the uncolored image making a spotlight effect. I then added a few clear enamel dots to the card to finish my design.

My second card was made in the same way except I lined up the outer part of my colored sunflower and glued it in place. These were then trimmed and matted on yellow card. I wrapped a length of ribbon around a piece of yellow card and patterned paper and added this to a top folding card base. My Sunflower was adhered in place with foam tape. Thankful For You was matted with yellow card and foam tape glued this in place. A few yellow dots scattered on the uncolored portion of the card finished the design.

To enter the blog hop please leave a comment and answer the following question:

The line up for the blog hop is as follows you should have arrived here from Carol's Blog and will go next to visit Joy.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

You have until September 13th at 11:59 pm EST to post a comment and be to eligible to win one of the two $15.00 gift cards from Joy Clair Designs, valid for stamps and Digital Sets. Only one comment per person please.  Two randomly selected winners will be announced on Joy Clair Designs Blog on September 16th.  

Thank you for stopping by, head on over to the comments page to leave your comment and good luck with the blog hop 

I'm hopping around with Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps and CardMaker Magazine

Good Morning!

It's an exciting day today, Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps are joining with CardMaker magazine for a blog hop!

Do you want the chance to win a $20 gift certificate to spend on the gorgeous stamps over at Prickley Pear? then find out how at the end of my post.

My card for the hop is using the new Danity Dragonflies stamps:

I stamped them onto acetate using archival ink. I then turned them over and colored then with alcohol markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and they were then shaped so that their wings flutter on the card. 

I then stamped 'There is only one happiness' sentiment on to some rainbow design paper and matted this with green card onto a white card base.

The dragonflies were the added being careful to only stick the body down. I added some green gems just to balance the design.

To win the gift certificate all you have to do is hop over to my teamies blogs to see the gorgeous designs they have made. Don't forget to leave them some love along your way,  then head to the Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps blog and leave a comment. 

You should have arrived here from Kat's blog and now you need to hop over to see what Melissa has designed for us.

If you get lost along the way just head back to CardMaker's blog for the full list of participants.

Good luck and have fun checking out all the gorgeous makes!

Wow what a release - and a blog hop to boot!

Good morning! 

What a week I have planned for you! It's Riley and Company's first release this year and they have some amazing and funny stamps that are about to hit their store along with something new!!!!

Not only is Riley & Co releasing some stunning new 'things' they are joining this month with Card Maker magazine for a fab blog hop - you can find all the details on their blog:

Card Maker

So if you've come here from Sandye's blog  welcome, have a read, leave some love and your next hop is to Kat's Blog.

It was thought that Riley and his friends were a bit naked and it being winter and all they decided to warm them up a bit. 

Introducing 2 new Riley characters and a wardrobe of clothing and accessories for them!

 I will be posting every day this week showing all the new releases but for now on to my showcase today - do you remember the paper dress up dolls we had as kids? 

Well take a look:

I started by making a box to house everything 

Next came the main man and some of his brand new outfits:

These were all colored with alcohol markers - I then fussy cut each piece out leaving tabs on the clothing so Riley could wear them. I then used re-positional glue dots on the accessories so they could be changed out.

And just to bring him to life I used a crafting CD I have to make backgrounds for each of the outfits:

Meet Highland Riley:

Snow fun Riley

Irish Riley

and last but not least Ice Skating Sophie

These are just some of the 57 items of clothing and accessories that are being released today!

These aren't the only release either -head over to the store to see them all and check out the deals on offer:

SUPER DEAL! Package deal on the Dress Up Riley line: get all three clear sets, all three dies sets, the two basic Riley's and matching dies for only $100! (Reg. price $127.77. Includes 41 dies, 3 clear sets, 2 rubber stamps)

Package deal on entire Funny Bone release of 14 red rubber stamps: cling set is only $75.00 (reg. 91.00) and unmounted sheet is only $50.00 (reg. $70.00)!

Package deal on the Mushroom Lane release: get all 5 new Mushroom Lane Houses for only $45.00 (Reg. $52.50)

Word Bubble Die Special - get all three new Word Bubble Dies for only $40.00! (Save $9.85!)

Yes you have read correctly, although I haven't used them for this post - Riley now has dies!!! All the new accessories and clothing comes with it's own die as do the 2 new Riley characters!!! We also have bubble word dies for the funny Bones! 

 Don't forget the blog hop here are all the participants who have some amazing stuff to show you!

Card Maker Magazine

Angji Pruente

Heather Bolli

Stephanie Gold

Heidi Erickson

Joy Stagg

Rebecca Keppel

Katie Skiff

Heather Hoffman

Kelly Santi

Melissa Bickford

Lisa McGushion

Heather Pulvirenti

Michelle Pearson

Katie Gehring

Sandye Curry

Sharon Smith - That's me

Kat Benjamin

Terri Peaslee

and last but not least

Riley & Co.

If you get lost along the way just head on back to Card Maker Magazine 

Thank you for stopping by, for more inspiration check out the Riley and Company Blog. Or for more news about what the Moose and his pals are up to head on over to the company Facebook page

Exciting News!!!!

Good morning - very early for me but I'm here in spirit if not out of my bed yet!

I have some exciting news to share I am a new design team member for Scrapper's Delights. I have joined their New Release team and this weekend there are special offers happening as Scrapper's Delights have reached 3,000 likes on Facebook.

The new release is all about Steam Punk and if your a follower of my blog you will know that Steam punk is not one of my strongest themes so I used my image as a Victorian Lady.

Meet Lady Constance

She looks so elegant so I chose not to distract from this in my design

I colored her up using alcohol markers then chose the colors of her dress to design the rest of the card. Using cream and burgundy card for my mats and die cut flowers. After matting my card base and image I added cream lace to the edge of the image before adhering this to the card. after fixing the flowers in place I added crystal drops to the centers and to the right hand corner of the card.

Ingredients used:

Scrapper's Delights Lady Constance Digital Stamp

Spectrum Noir Markers

Copic Markers

Spectrum Noir Ultra smooth Card

Cream card

Burgundy card

Spellbinder Blooms One dies

Lace from my stash

I am extremely excited about being part of the team and sharing my designs with you over the coming months but for now why not pop over to the Scrapper's Delight Blog and check out the blog hop going on there.

You can also use the code below in the store and get 35% off your order of $5 or more.

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Crafting With Friends - Anything Goes 

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Vintage with Ribbon

Ellibelle's Creative Moments - Let's Color

Jade's Sparkling Butterflies - Anything goes Challenge 20

Thank you for stopping by and as always if you like what you see please let me know in the comments 

So Suzy Blog Hop

Good morning - Gosh it's June already and that can only mean one thing -Yes the new So Suzy Stamps design team!!!

Welcome to the new members of our team and a sad goodbye to those that are leaving us!

 

To honor the new members we are having a blog hop. If you follow the hop and comment on each of our blogs the you could be in with a chance of winning a $15 gift certificate. The lucky winner will be chosen at random from those that have commented on all the blogs and will be announced on the So Suzy blog and the Facebook group on June 5th.

 

The hop starts at the So Suzy Blog but you should be arriving here from the Lovely Amy D's blog if you stumbled in from elsewhere then check out the list below for all the design team members:

 

So Suzy Stamps Blog

Payel Ray

Amy A

Amy D

Sharon (that's me)

Martha

Monica

Steph

Justine

Jennifer

Kymona

 

On to my card to celebrate the hop:

 

 

I have chosen to use the Wedding Dress and Groom stamps which are great classic stamps for a wedding congratulations card. I have stamped them with Spectrum Aqua pens which meant I could color coordinate the bow tie with the dress. I then used a Crafter's Companion Sentimentals set for my sentiment again stamping with the pens. I wanted to keep the card clean and simple so I used black card to mat the image onto. I chose a swirly patterned paper from my stash and again matted this onto black card. I then used black pearls as buttons on the Groom stamp and around the card for a touch of embellishment.

 

Thank you for stopping by and if you are following the blog hop you need to hop on over to Martha's blog to see what fab make she has designed. Oh and don't forget to stop by either the So Suzy Facebook group or the blog and enter our challenge!

Before I go, did you know that So Suzy Stamps can be found on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Flickr and Twitter. She also has a showcase Facebook Group - So Suzy Stamps Flaunt it if you made it - where you can show your own designs (and enter our challenge) made with these fab stamps.

 

 

So Suzy Stamps Blog Hop

 

Good morning and welcome to the So Suzy Stamp's April release blog hop

 

 

Yes the store has some gorgeous goodies that are being released today and we the design team are doing a blog hop to celebrate. If you follow the hop and comment on each blog the you could be in with a chance of winning a $15 gift certificate.

 

You will have until 5th April at 11.59pm to comment and winners will be chosen at random and will be announced on the So Suzy blog and Facebook page on April 6th.

 

You should be arriving here from the lovely Jennifer's blog, if you stumbled in from elsewhere then just head on over to the So Suzy Stamps blog for the full hop list

 

So on to the release and the start of April's challenge. This month the theme is birthdays you can enter as many times as you want the only rules being use a So Suzy Stamp and follow the theme Simple!!!

 

I have used one of the fab new stamps girl on a swing:

 

 

Isn't she just adorable!!! I have colored her with my Spectrum Noir pens and added Polychromo pencil to her hair for more texture. The backing paper is from a Papermania capsule collection. I have used a spellbinder die to cut the tree twice, once on brown card and the second on the green. These have been placed on top of each other and the tree trunk in the green has been cut away to show the brown underneath. The flowers were made using a small flower punch, shaped and glued to the tree.

 I placed a water-colored background behind the tree and then used pop stickers to fix the little girl in place. This was then matted onto the background paper.

The sentiment was printed from my pc onto the same paper used in the background. I then matted this onto some of the brown card. I die cut some vines and added some of the flowers around the sentiment to tie in with the image.

I think you would agree the little darling is so sweet.

 

Thanks for stopping by and if you are following the blog hop you need to hop on over to Kim's blog to see what fab makes she has designed. Oh and don't forget to stop by either the So Suzy Facebook group or the blog and enter our challenge!

 

Before I go, did you know that So Suzy Stamps can be found on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. She also has a showcase Facebook Group - So Suzy Stamps Flaunt it if you made it - where you can show your own designs (and enter our challenge) made with these fab stamps.