Friend, You're the Best!

It's time for the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge again.

For this weeks challenge we would like you to create a card or project with a friendship theme for your special friend. Tell us who you’ll be sending it to and why he/she is so special to you and be entered TWO TIMES into this week’s drawing for our fabulous prizes!

Our very generous sponsors this week are

Meljen's Designs

and

Stampfairy

I thought this card would be perfect from one little girl to another, so I'll save it for Callie to give away on the next occasion. I used Crissy Amrstong's Wee Snippet and Mystic from Whimsy Stamps.

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I colored them with Copics and Prismacolor Pencils with OMS

Thanks for visiting!

Jo xx

Supplies

Image-Whimsy Stamps Wee Snippet and Mystic

Sentiment-Computer generated with PSE 9

Ink-Momento, Tuxedo Black

Cardstock-Copic X-Press It, Bazil Basics

Paper-BoBunny

Flowers-Wild Orchid Crafts          Leaves-Hand made

Lace ribbon-KaiserCraft, Bling from stash, GlitterRitz

Copics and Prismacolor pencils-SKIN E0000, E000, E00, R20  HAIR E31, E35, E37, E57,

CLOTHES YG03, YG17, YG25, WINGS B0000, BG11, BG13, BG15, FLOWER R81, R83, R85, R89

MYSTIC T-1, PC1054 warm gray 50%, PC949 silver, R00, R01, R02, PC1032, YR23, E39

Stamps R Us Birthday Blog Hop Winners

We have our Stamps R Us Birthday Celebration Blog Hop winners to announce today!

There is a winner for each of our design team members blogs and are listed below.

Congratulations to our winners & a big thank you to our sponsors!

Tammy’s winner – Gemma - Sponsor – Whimsy - $15.00 gift certificate

Collette’s winner – Kimberly - Sponsor – The Stamping Boutique – 5 digi images winners choice

Marilyn W.'s winner - Carolina Girl - Sponsor - K 'n K Designs 4 digital stamp sets winners choice

Kathy’s winner – Pat - Sponsor – Oozak - $10.00 gift certificate

Lynn’s winner – Meagan - Sponsor - Inspired Stamps – Acrylic stamp set winners choice

Jan's winner – Sandi De Falco - Sponsor - Clear Dollar Stamps - $10.00 gift certificate for digital stamp sets only - winners choice

Carol’s winner – Billie A - Sponsor - Squdgi Digi – 4 digis of the winners choice

Marilyn S.’s winner -Renee - Sponsor - Through The Craftroom Door magazine, 1 year subscription

Paige's winner - Georgia - Sponsor - Michelle Perkett Studio one pre selected digital birthday image

Shannon's winner - Carol - Sponsor - Cardmadfairy's 5 digital images winners choice

Joe-Anne’s winner – Stephanie - Sponsor – Bizzy Bec’s – 10 digis of the winners choice

We will be in contact with our winners soon!

Again congratulations!!!

Stamps R Us Challenge and Birthday Celebration Blog Hop

Welcome to our

Stamps R Us Challenge and Birthday Celebration Blog Hop!

To participate in the Challenge, we would like to see your Birthday Cards. Our generous sponsor is

Whimsie Doodles

and to help us celebrate our Birthday Whimsie Doodles is giving our fans a 10% off coupon good for 30 days from the start of this challenge. For your shopping pleasure the code for a 10% discount is SRU10.

For my Birthday Card I've used Princess Leah from Whimsie Stamps and colored her with Copics. The paper is from echo park paper co.and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. The sentiment is computer generated and the leaves are hand made.

And now for the Blog Hop portion of our Celebration. 
We have not one, but eleven sponsors for our hop! They are listed on the Stamps R Us Blog. If you've arrived here from Jan's blog you're on the right track. If not ,hop back to the Stamps R Us challenge blog so you'll be on track.

Please remember to leave a comment at each stop on our Birthday hop to be eligible to win one of the prizes from our fabulous sponsors!

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I hope you enjoy our blog hop and good luck in winning some of our fabulous sponsor's prizes!

Your next stop is Kathy's blog!
Jo xx

Elisabeth Bell's World Christmas Challenge

Over at Elisabeth Bell's World Challenge Blog, it's time again for the monthly challenge. 

 This time we want to see your Christmas Cards using your Elisabeth Bell images.

You have a whole month to work on it and we can't wait to see what you come up with. 

I'm using Elisabeth's sweet digital image called Letters to Santa.

I've colored her with Copics using my colorless blender and dabbing it on the mail box to get that metal look. This is my first Christmas card for the year and this little sweetie is the perfect one to start off with!

Thanks for visiting!

Jo xx

Challenges: Simply Create -Christmas in July, Craft Us Crazy -Anything goes,

Digistamps 4 Joy -Christmas in July, Stamp Something -Something embellished,

 All Sorts -Free and easy,Polka Doodles -Christmas in July

Supplies

Image -Elisabeth Bell, Letters to Santa

Sentiment -Stampin'UP!

Cardstock -Copic X-Press It, Stampin'Up!

Paper -Kelly Panacci

Flowers -Wild Orchid Crafts

Punches -Martha Stewart, Stampin'Up!

Lace -Prima (I think),  half pearls, snow flake from stash, Crystal Glitter Ritz, Stickles

Copic Markers -SKIN E0000, E000, E00, R20   CLOTHES, R21, R24, R27, R29, R89, YG91, YG93, YG95, YG97 BG0000, BG000, E21, E31, E35, E41, Y21, YR24,   Colorless Blender







Stamptacular Sunday Hot Pockets Challenge

This week at Stamptacular Sunday Challenges we want you to show us your Hot Pockets

Our generous Sponsor this week is

The Paper Shelter

Which is were you can find Cool Lolly

 For the Pockets I made a "to and from" tag and on the other tag I glued an "I Tunes gift Card".

You can find the tutorial for this Pocket card here at Split Coast Stampers.

So pop over to the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Blog and check out the gorgeous pocket cards the other ladies have made to inspire you to join in on our challenge!

Thanks for visiting!

Jo xx

Supplies

Image-Paper Shelter-Cool Lolly

Sentiments-Computer Generated

Cardstock-Copic X-Press It, Stampin'Up!

Paper-Basic Grey

Flowers-Wild Orchid Crafts,  Leaves-hand made

Gems and gift Card, ribbon and staples.

Copics and Prismacolor pencils- SKIN E0000, E000, E00, R10    

HAIR E31, E33, E35, E37, E41, E49, YR23, YR24 

CLOTHES RV00, RV10, RV11, RV13, PC1095 black raspberry, C3, C5, C7, C9, BLACK 100    

ETC BG11, BG13, BG15, B000

Beach Babes

The weather here is hot, hot, hot! So I thought it fitting to do a beach card for my Digi Bell Design Team spot this week. Elisabeth Bell's digital image, Little Best Friends was the perfect choice!

You still have time to do the Blog Hop for a chance to win one of the two new digi images from Elisabeth Bell. AND... If you've ever wished you could be a Digi Bell, now's your chance! There are three Guest Designer spots to be filled and what could be better than the chance to play with these beautiful images every week?!

Thanks for visiting!

Jo xx

Challenges

Paper Take Weekly  -Something cute/aww factor

iCopic Challenge -Pastel colors

Stamping, Scrapping Challenge Central -Bling

Fussy Fancy Friday -Summer

Supplies

Image-Elisabeth Bell digi Little Best Friends

Cardstock-Copic X-Press It, Stampin'Up!

Paper-My Minds Eye

Punch-Martha Stewart

Flowers-Wild Orchid Crafts

Half pearls and sea shell embellishments from stash, Cheese Cloth, rick rack from Stampin'Up!

Copic Markers- SKIN E0000, E000, E00, R20,    SUITS R81, R83, R85, BG11, BG13, BG15

HAIR Y21, YR24, YR31, E35, C3, C5, C7, C9, 100     SAND E41, E31   BUCKETS C3

Fight like a girl!

This week for the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge we would like to see you create something following the theme "Animal Antics"

Our very generous sponsor this week is

The Stamping Boutique

winners choice of 5 digi images

I made this card with a friend in mind who is fighting a battle of her own. She is always in my thoughts and prayers.

I used "You knock me out" from TeddyBo"

I created the sentiment in Photoshop. I've never tried to share my sentiments before, but thought I would give it a try. I hope you can just click on it and save it. Put it into a word document to size it and print. Please leave me a comment letting me know if it works.
          

Now pop on over to Stamptacuar Sunday Challenges and see what the rest of the team has to inspire you!

Thanks for visiting!

Jo xx

Supplies

Image -TeddyBo "You Knock me out"

Sentiment -Computer Generated

Cardstock -Copic X-Press It, Stampin'Up!

Paper -the girls paperie

Ink -Stampin'Up! Cool Caribean

Flowers -Wild Orchid Crafts, leaves hand made

Punches -Stampin'Up!

Copic Markers-BEAR E41, E31, E33, E35,     CLOTHES BG11, BG13, BG15, BG18     

                         GLOVES R81, R83, R85, R89

Digi Bells July Release Blog Hop

It's Blog Hop time with this month's *NEW* digi release from the talented Elisabeth Bell and we have two!

Sweet Tooth and Sweet Tooth Window.

I hope you've come to my blog from Mary Lou's blog. If so you're in the right place! If not, then please go back to the Digi Bell's Blog so you're headed in the right Direction.

And now it's time to meet the newest member of Elisabeth Bell's Digital Collection. Isn't she adorable? I love the gumball machine. I have one exactly like this so I colored it just the same. You're going to love coloring this little gal up!

You have a couple of chances to win this month's Digi's

There will be 3 winners.

The first way is to hop through and leave some love at EACH blog. Two (2) different blogs from the hop list will pick one winner at random from the comments left.

The second way to win will be to do the hop, leave some love at EACH blog and then to make a card using this recipe...3 papers, 2 embellishments, 1 image...and post it on the Digi Bell Blog. You can use any Elisabeth Bell image from any company that she designs for. And that's all there is to it!

You have until July 29 at 9 PM

Now hop along to Janiel's blog and see what completely gorgeous thing she has created to inspire you.

Happy Hopping!

Jo xx

 

Stamps R Us Birthday Celebration!

Stamptacular Sunday Sketch Challenge

This week at Stamptacular Sunday Challenges we have a fun sketch for you to follow and of course, don't forget to use a stamp. Our fabulous sponsors this week are
Teddy Bo
and
Bunny Zoe's Crafts

This gorgeous image is from Teddy Bo and she's called Strawberry Picking. I thought these strawberries from Fred She Said Designs were a perfect match. Red Copics are kind of a new venture for me, but I'm pleased with how she turned out.

Check out the Stamptacular Sunday blog to join in on the Challenge and wait till you see what the DT has created to inspire you this week!

Thanks for visiting! Your comments make my day!
Jo xx

Supplies

Images -Teddy Bo, Fred She Said Designs

Cardstock -Copic X-Press It, Stampin'Up!

Paper -My Minds Eye

Ink -Peeled Paint Distress Ink

Flowers -Wild Orchid Crafts

Punches -Stampin'Up!, Creative Memories

Leaves -Hand made

Half pearls, Glitter Ritz, sewing Machine

Copic Markers -Teddy E41, E31, E33, E35     Clothes B91, B93, B95,   R27, R29, R35, R89     

Leaves/Grass YG91, YG93, YG95     Flower B00, Y06     Strawberries R21, R22, R24, R27, R29, R89 

A Summer Read

My post is quite late going up today, but it's my turn to create and share a card for the

Digi Bells Design Team.

I chose to use my favorite Elisabeth Bell Digi Image, A Tasty Read.

Challenges: Sketch Saturday -Sketch, Flutterby Wednesday -Open, Simon Says Stamp -A stitch in time,

A Spoon full of Sugar -Stitching, Creative Craft Challenges -Flowers, Whiff of Joy -Lace and Pearls

When I get a chance to sit down long enough my summer read is from author Nora Roberts and its called Chasing Fire. What's your recommended summer read?

Jo xx

Supplies

Image -A Tasty Read-Elisabeth Bell

Sentiment -Stampin'Up!

Cardstock -Copic X-Press It,  Bazil Basics

Design Paper -graphic 45

Ink -Stampin'Up Soft Sky, Versa Magic Sahara Sand

Flowers -Wild Orchid Crafts

Punches -Martha Stewart, Marvy

Lace from Marshals Fabrics, half pearls, sewing machine, Glitter Ritz

Copic Markers- SKIN E0000, E000, E00, E01, R20    HAIR Y21, Y26, E31, E35     SHIRT/BANDANNA R00, R01, R02   

                            PANTS BG000, BG11, BG13, BG15     GRASS/APPLE YG03, YG17, YG25,     STUMP E31, E33, E35, E41, E57  

Dragonfly Flight

I'm quite behind on everything this week! Earlier this week my Daughter had something unexpected come up so our two year old granddaughter has come to stay with us for a week or so. As a result the craft room door has been closed  most of the time and Mamma has been playing with dolls instead of stamps!

So on this beautiful Sunday Morning I have my laptop out on the deck so I can share my latest Elisabeth Bell card, while Callie is taking a bucket and inch by inch taking the water from my fountain and filling her little swimming pool. She should be busy for a while!

I've used this beautiful image from Elisabeth Bell called Dragonfly Flight and colored her with Copics and Prismacolor pencils. And check out the fab sketch from Magical Monday Challenge.

Challenges:Flutterby Wednesday -Open, Magical Monday Challenge -Sketch, Color me creative -Ruffles (copic), Totally Paper Crafts -Bingo (gems, flowers, die cuts or punches), Wags n'Wiskers -Summer time

4 Crafty Chicks -Stitching, Truly Scrumptious -Things with wings

The pool is slowly filling up and I need to go put more water in my fountain!
Thanks for visiting.
Jo xx

Supplies

Image-Elisabeth Bell's Dragonfly Flight

Sentiment-computer generated

Paper-lili bee design -Picket Fence

Cardstock-Copic X-Press It, Bazil Basics, Ranger

Ink Momento tuxedo black, Tumbled glass Distress Ink,Pinecone

Punches-Martha Stewart, Creative Memories

Flowers and pearl heart-Wild Orchid Crafts

Glitter Ritz,  gems, feathers, Stickles, Sewing machine for stitching

Copic Markers and Prismacolor pencils-  SKIN E0000, E000, E00, E01,     DRESS BV0000, BV00, BV02, PC932 violet,     WINGS BG000, BG11, BG13, BG15,     HAIR Y21, Y24, E31, E33, E35, E37,     DRAGONFLY YG03, YG17, YG25, B0000