Card Makin' Mamas #20

Card Makin' Mamas sponsored by Meljen's Designs this week!

And, we're introducing 4 new members to our Design Team!  What amazing talent!  Be sure to check out Ciska, Kitty, Deb and Mariska!!  And, don't forget to visit Jess and Lizzie, too :)

Our challenge these 2 weeks is:

For Someone Special!

Pretty easy challenge this week - anything for anyone special - just remember that we are the CARD Makin' Mamas, so your project really does NEED to be a CARD!  

I've designed a fun Get Well card for our challenge, using one of Meljen's Designs newer images, Doctor Bear.  The sentiment is a little hard to make out in the photo, so it says "I listen to the voices in my stethoscope"  Hoping that a silly sentiment brings a smile to a loved one!

An easy and fun challenge with a chance to win 4 free Meljen's images, what more incentive do you need to make a card this week?  You've got 2 full weeks to get an entry in, so have some fun!  I'm excited to see what you create!

I'd also love to enter this card into the following challenges

Paper Crafting Journey - Bling

The Ribbon Girl - Red, White and Blue

Fab 'n' Funky - Red, White and Blue

Totally Gorjuss - 1, 2, 3 (1 image, 2 oval die cuts and 3 bling)

Hugs, 

Dee

xoxox

Stampin' Up! Stamp Sets for SALE!

Edited - ALL stamp sets have been sold - Thanks for looking :)

Hi everyone!!

Thanks for stopping by today!  I know I don't have a card to share right now, but I will have a beauty to show you on Friday!

While you are here though, please check out my stamps for sale page, I have LOWERED the prices on all of the retired Stampin' Up! stamp sets that I am selling.  Some of these sets are hard to find, especially at these prices!!  I accept paypal and will ship to you!  Please just email me and I'll get them out to you asap!

Thanks again, and have a wonderful day!!

Hugs, 

Dee

xoxox

Bakers Twine

Love this stuff!!

And, The Ribbon Girl is giving away 55 meters of it!

Whoo Whoo!  I could use all of these colors!  I'm almost out of my green, and my pink went really fast!  Oh, and I just adore that red, white and blue!

So, I'm mentioning it here so that I can win, but none of you are allowed to enter, because I'm winning, right?  Right!  :)  LOL!!  Just kidding, go enter and good luck to you, too!

Stamptacular Sunday #108

Happy Easter everyone!!

Today we have a new challenge for you at Stamptacular Sunday!

This week's challenge is called…

“Pile-It-On!”

For this weeks challenge you will create a card that has at least FIVE layers! The images you use, the pattern papers you include, the colors you choose…all up to you! As long as there are at least FIVE layers (and some STAMPING)…it’s all GOOD!

We are sponsored this week by

MAGNOLIA-licious

with a prize of 2 Tilda mini stamps!

and

TEDDY BO

with a prize of 3 digi images of the winners choice!

Thanks so much to our amazing sponsors!

For my card today, I have used Easter Bunny Bo, a super cute digi image from Teddy Bo

Sentiment from scrapNfonts

Come play along with us this week for a chance to win those fabulous prizes!!

Card Makin' Mamas Inspiration

Our sponsor at Card Makin Mamas this week is Paper Makeup Stamps with a wonderful prize of a $15 Gift Certificate in their shop!  $15 can go a long way with all of the amazing word art options they have!  And, of course, the fairies!!

I've used Chelsea the Fairy on my creation for you today

I've kept with our challenge theme of Spring Colors and used this gorgeous patterned paper that I found in my stash and unfortunately I can't remember who made it!  But trust me, even though I covered most of it up, it's really pretty!!

Come play along with the Mamas!  There's still another week to get your entries in for your chance to win that $15 from Paper Makeup Stamps!

Meljen's Challenge #55 - Masculine

There's a new challenge and an amazing new release up on the Meljen's Challenge Blog today!

I had such a great time making this card!  The very first time I saw this little "Army Bear" image, I knew I wanted to give him a few supporting soldiers!  I also knew right away that I wanted to use the Desert Camo colors for them!  These guys remind me of 2 cute teddy bears that my Dad got me years ago - I have one in standard camo and one in Desert camo.

Our challenge at Meljen's this week is to make a masculine card, masculine colors, masculine theme - and this should work perfectly with all 5 of the new release images available today:

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope I've inspired you to create a masculine card today!

I'd like to enter this card into the challenge at:

Cute Card Thursday - No Text

Paper Sundaes - Texture

Craft Us Crazy - Fuzzy Animals

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Lots of Layers

Ribbon Girl - Colors - Red, White and Blue

Thanks to all the challenge blogs for always providing fun challenge and inspiring themes!

Have Fun!

Stamptacular Sunday #107

Two is better than one at Stamptacular Sunday this week!!

We've got 2 amazing sponsors and many of us on the Design Team have created 2 cards to share with you!!

Our first sponsor is:

MAGNOLIA-licious

with an awesome prize of

Mummy Edwin and Tilda with Jolly Roger MINIs

Our challenge is also MAGNOLIA-licious - In honor of our month-long April Sponsor, MAGNOLIA-licous, for this weeks challenge you will create a card or project with your favorite MAGNOLIA stamp(s)! There are hundreds to choose from so the possibilities are endless!

My card uses Ladybug Tilda (I know, again, I only have a limited selection of stamped images that have been sent by friends and I just love this one!)

I made this card last-minute and was very, very tired at the time... I didn't notice until I was adding the watermark to my photo that I used a LADYBUG image and CHERRY paper... oh well, right?  Cute image, awesome paper and fun rhinestones - it's all good!

I'd like to enter this card into the challenges at

 If The Shoe Fits: Recipe - 2 Die Cuts (image & mat), embossing (image and mat are embossed), clear bling (clear rhinestones)

Copic Creations: Fave Paper (my fave paper is the only I've ever used, and it's basic generic Georgia Pacific paper from Wallyworld.... I'd love to try some other papers, but for now, this is what I have)

Our second sponsor is the amazing ELISABETH BELL DIGIS!!

They are offering up a prize of 2 free digi images to our random winner!

Elisabeth Bell has kindly provided the Design Team with images to use and I chose to use "Little Best Friends".  My best friend LOVES the beach, so I was thinking of her while I made this card!  We've known each other for MANY years, but unfortunately, not when we were this young.

  

Fun challenge, great sponsors and awesome prizes - what more do you need to enter this week?  I look forward to seeing your creations!  Come join the fun at Stamptacular!

I'd like to enter this card into the challenges at:

 Drunken Stampers: Technology Sucks (no electricity used here, unless you count the lights in my craftroom!)

Cute Card Thursday: Weather Inspired - isnpired by warm, sunny beach weather!

Hugs!

Dee

Card Makin' Mamas #19

Card Makin' Mamas meets Paper Makeup Stamps!!

We are so excited to be sponsored by the wonderful Paper Makeup Stamps for this challenge!

I wanted to do something a little different this week, as much as I LOVE coloring these beautiful fairies, I wanted to try embossing one to make it stand out against the springy paper.  What I love is that this is a quick and pretty card and I had a lot of fun putting it together!

Our challenge at Card Makin' Mamas is SPRING COLORS - doesn't have to be Spring or Easter themed, it just needs to use the colors of Spring.

Paper Makeup Stamps is offering up a $15 gift certificate to our random winner!  Thanks Paper Makeup Stamps!!

Come play along with the Mama's this week - and don't forget, there are only a couple more days to get your entry in for our DT call - the last day to enter is April 17th.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Stamp Something - April Showers

Cute Card Thursday - Weather Inspired

Craft Us Crazy - Thinking of You

Crafty Purple Frog - Touchy Feely (glittery heat embossing)

Fab n' Funky - Spotty and Dotty

Digital Tuesday - Little Women

Have Fun!

Stamptacular Sunday #106

Oops!  Sorry for my delay in posting this!  I just got back from Disneyland and discovered that I forgot to schedule my post!!

We've got another fun challenge for you at Stamptacular Sunday this week!

This week's challenge is called…

“Girls & Swirls!”

For this weeks challenge you will create a card or project that’s full of GIRLS and SWIRLS! What you use or how you do it is up to you …Oh, and don’t forget to STAMP! Afterall, we don’t call this STAMPtacular Sunday for nothing!

Our wonderful sponsor is

MAGNOLIA-licious

and they are offering up an awesome prize of 2 mini Tilda stamps!

I've used Ladybug Tilda for my card today:

I'm excited to see your girly creations this week!  Good luck on winning a couple of new Tilda stamps!

Hugs,
Dee

Meljen's Challenge #53

Are you ready to color some Easter Eggs??

We've been coloring at Meljen's Designs already, getting ready for our 

EASTER INSPIRED

Challenge!

I've used Little Egg Chick and some fun new Easter Egg paper that I found a few weeks ago.  Such a fun, simple card!  I love the bright, springy colors!

Our new images this week are just perfect for our challenge!

So sweet!  Those little bunnies are just adorable!  Each of these images is available to purchase right now in the Meljen's Corner at Whimsy Stamps!

Come play along with us for a chance to win 3 free images!

Stamptacular Sunday #105

Time for another fun challenge at Stamptacular Sunday!

This week's challenge is:

“Buttons, Bling and BLOOM!”

For this weeks challenge you will create a card or project that has buttons, some sort of bling and FLOWERS! …Oh, and don’t forget to STAMP! Afterall, we don’t call this STAMPtacular Sunday for nothing!

Here's my card this week:

Flowered paper, cute little square buttons and just a touch of bling :)

Our sponsors this week are:

MAGNOLIA-licious

PRIZE: Tilda with Bike

and Edwin with Bike MINIs

AND

SIMON SAYS STAMP

PRIZE: $20 Gift Certificate

Such a fun challenge and such wonderful sponsors!  I hope you play along with us this week and good luck on winning a fabulous prize!

Meljen's Hippity Hoppity April Fun!

We're Hopping again at Meljen's Designs!  

It is Meljen's Designs FIRST BIRTHDAY!!  Can you believe it??  My how time does fly!  This has been such a fun and fantastic year and I am so proud and honored to have been a part of it since the beginning!

In celebration of our birthday, we are hopping and showing off some fabulous images from our favorite artist, Melissa!

You should have arrived here from the amazing Darsie - wasn't her project beautiful!  They always are!  If you didn't see Darsie, or the girls before her, you'll want to go visit Anita and start there!

Of course we will have some prizes!  What's a blog hop party without prizes??  So, be sure to visit all of our blogs and leave some love to be entered to win 3 free images!  We will have 3 winners!  You have until April 4th at 6am to leave comments and our winner will be announced in our Freebie post on April 4th!

Also in celebration, all images are 50% off - ALL DURING THE HOP!!  So, go visit the Mejlen's Corner at Whimsy Stamps and grab all the images on your wish list before Monday!  Like the one that I used today - Cherry Mouse!  Yup, that's right, he's 50% off, so you can grab him for only $1.50!!

Here is a little card that I made for our hop - I've got a Happy Birthday sentiment inside this one... it makes me think that little Mousie is giving his prized goodie to a good friend to celebrate!

I love cherry cards - the bright red and pretty spring green are so sweet!

Here is our blog hop list, just in case you get distracted by all the gorgeous creations along the way!

Anita

Audrey 

Cheryl

Darsie

Dee You're HERE!

Dianna

Jessica

Katja

Marlena

Melissa

Nicole

Robbie

Sandy
Meljen's Designs Blog

From here, you'll want to go visit Dianna and see what she has to share with you - I just know it's amazing and you're going to love it!

Have fun hopping!  Don't forget comments for a chance to win 2 free images!  Go ahead and tell me what your ALL-TIME favorite Meljen's Designs image is - I'd LOVE to know your favorites!

Card Makin' Mamas #18

Time to play along with the Card Makin' Mamas again!

This week we are challenging you to

EMBELLISH IT!

Show us your embellies!!

Our sponsor is Wink Wink Ink and they have kindly provided the DT with some gorgeous images to play with!  

Here is a simple but fun card that I've made using their Chickadee Border image

As soon as I saw this image, I knew I wanted to do something special with their little heart shaped tummies!  Glad I picked up a bunch of heart shaped brads at the CKC show this past weekend!  They fit perfectly and look so cute!

Come play along with us this week, we'd love to see how you use your embellishments!