My first award!

Yay! I was so excited to find out that I was given this award from Kerrie (aka Kez). It's my first award, Kerrie you're the best!! So here is what you need to do to receive this award:

1. thank the person who nominated you.

2. copy the logo and place it on your blog.

3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.

4. name 7 things abut yourself that people might find interesting

5. nominate 7 kreativ bloggers

6. post links to the 7 blogs you nominate

7. leave a comment on each of the blogs, letting them know they have been nominated.

7 things about me:
1. My favorite colour is purple
2. I studied Criminology in university
3. I LOVE history
4. I come from a big family
5. I don't like cold weather, but I live up north where winter is 6-8 months of the year (yuck)
6. I love "guy-type" movies and shows, like X-men and Smallville
7. I'm not the greatest at prioritizing (play before work, lol)

Now for my nominees:

Alica, Kristina, Tracey, Melanie, Deanne, Jacquie, Jennifer

Sunshine Sunday!

For this week, Sunshine's stamps challenged the DT to create a project with the same image as last week, but use paper piecing. I have to admit that I panicked, as I have only paper pieced once before, however I made the image bigger (the lovely thing about digi stamps) and decided to paper piece the ornaments and the holly leaves, but color the rest. I am quite pleased with how it all turned out in the end! It's hard to tell, but the pink and green papers that I used do have a swirled pattern in them, but it ended up being quite subtle, so I think if I try this technique again, I'll go with more obvious pattern in my papers. I also inked the sentiment with Close To My Heart Baby Pink.

Little Loud Stamps

I was playing around with Photoshop for these pictures and I'm happy that I've figured some things out :) I made these cards for our November grab bag swap (which is somewhat like a card kit swap). These cute stamps are called Little Loud Stamps from PaperWorks.

I also entered these into the following challenges:

Top Card: PaperWorks Sketch Challenge #10
Middle Card: Tuesday Morning Sketches
Bottom Card: StampTV Sketch

Sweet Pea Ornament

I found this wonderful stamp company called Sweet Pea Stamps and they make the most beautiful rubber stamps, very good quality and super reasonable prices. I decided to make an ornament, because I really liked the tutorial Deanne had up on her blog a while back and I wanted to give it a try. I coloured her with Copics and I painted the background with Shimmerz in the Blueberry Cobbler colour. I also used pearls from Basic Grey in the Aqua shades. I also entered this in this weeks Saturday Spotlight With Hidden Potential and Inky Impressions challenges to make an ornament. This is also my entry for the Inky Impressions DT Call. They have the cutest stamps and I'd love a chance to be on the team!

Copics: E000,E00,E11,E13,E17,E18,E19,E53,C9,G05,YG63,YG67,BG10,BG45,BG49,R20,
RV32,RV34,RV91,RV95,RV99

Sunshine Sunday

Here's my Sunday posting for Sunshine's Stamps. I really enjoyed working with this image and sentiment combo!

Materials:

Copics: C9,C7,C5,C3,R89,R85,R81,YG67,YG63,R29,R24,V17,V15,V12,YR23

BG Pearls

Nesties Ovals and Scalloped Ovals

Princess

Here's another card that I made at the VSN last weekend. I used a digital Image from Sassy Studio Designs. I LOVE their images, they're so pretty :)

Antique Christmas

Here's another VSN card I made. The challenge was to use the "Cracked Glass" technique. I also used the sketch from Card Patterns. The image is from Gina K's Holiday Cheer StampTV kit. I also entered this in the challenge at PaperWorks to make a Christmas card using non-traditional colors.

Sunshine Sinday!

This weekend I had a lot of fun playing over at SCS for their Virtual Stamp Night. There were 14 challenges in total and so far I managed to finish 9 of them :) This is one of my favorites and I used one of Sunshine's Stamps Christmas sentiments for it. I was supposed to make a Baroque style card using White, Cream, Gold and Black, a Border punch (I used a Bordabilities), ribbon and pearls.

On another note, today is the switch over day for Ildi Co's DT! The term 2 team is taking over so be sure to check my right sidebar for a list of the new teams blogs to check out :)

NOTE: A lot of people were asking about the die cut I used, so I thought I'd post it. I used the Nestabilities Labels 7

Holly Christmas

I made this card for one of the challenges over at Virtual Stamp Night on Splitcoast Stampers. The challenge was to CASE a card, change 2 things about it and then add ruffled ribbon and other embellishments. I choose to CASE THIS gorgeous card and I also am entering it into the PMS Sketch challenge for this week. This cute image is from Paper Makeup Stamps.

Blog Candy Alert!

Annabelle Stamps is offering their 3 new stamp sets and ALL of their new Sprinkles away as blog candy!! You have until Nov 22nd to enter, go check it out HERE!

Christmas Card for Noah / CCC #11

So this card was made for Noah, another little boy with terminal cancer who would love to receive Christmas cards for all over the world. For more info about Noah click HERE

Here is the address:

Noah Biorkman
1141 Fountain View Circle
South Lyon, MI
48178
USA

I also made it for our Crafty Critter challenge to use non-traditional Christmas colors.

This stamp is from PaperWorks new Christmas Freckles Collection. You'll notice I use these cuties a lot, I just love them :)

Materials:
Copics E000, E00, E11, E33, C1,C3,C5, Y08,YR07,R24, E18,E17,E13,B26,B24,B21
Snowflake Brad
Silver Brads
Glitter & Scor-Tape
Stickles
Flower Soft
Nesties

PLEASE HELP!

You all are such a generous group of people and were all so willing to help Jaimie and Paige by sending them cards of encouragement. Lets all do the same for this little 4 year old boy that has terminal cancer that I found out about from Stuffie. His wish is too get some cards from all over the world.

Colcoln Thurman
228 Lake view Dr.
Candenton, Mo 65020
USA

Please help spread the word!!

Winner Of The Snopals Release!

Thank you all so much for participating in our "Three's A Charm" Blog hop!! The winner of the 14 new Snopal images was randomly chosen with Random.org. It came up with #20, which was CARRIE!!

Carrie said...

Sooo cute Jenny! I love the snowmen. The stair step card is awesome and I love the ornament!

Congrats! Email Ildiko at super_ildi@yahoo.ca to claim your prize!!

In Remembrance

Here's my Sunday post for Sunshine's Stamps. Since Remembrance/Memorial Day is coming up I went with Soldier Bunny to make a card for that special day. I used the sketch from StampTV and the requirement from Digital Tuesday to use flowers.

Materials:
Copics E35, E31, E04, YG63,YG67,YR23, Y21, B02, C9, C7, C5, C3
CTMH Ink
Prima Flowers
Nesties
SU! Scalloped Circle Punch

SCROLL DOWN FOR THE THREE'S A CHARM BLOG HOP! LOTS OF PRIZES TO BE WON!!!

Three's A Charm Blog Hop With PRIZES!!!

The day has arrived for our "Three's A Charm" Blog Hop!! 3 fabulous Digital Stamp companies teamed up to show off their new releases and to offer everyone the chance to win some AMAZING prizes!!

Sunshine's Stamps is giving away their whole new set of Christmas Images and is offering a "Buy 2 get a 3rd limited addition image for FREE!!"

Ildi Co Is offering their whole line of Snopals (14 images in total) as a prize and also has a buy 2 get a 3rd image for FREE special.

The Stamping Boutique is giving away images as well as a set of COPIC markers!!

SO MAKE SURE YOU LEAVE A COMMENT ON EVERY BLOG IN THE HOP TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THESE TERRIFIC PRIZES!!!

I'll be choosing the winner for the Snopals images at random on Monday. Now on to my postings:

Snopals Shovel, Snopals Top Hat and Snopals Ski

Snopals Craft

Snopals Kiss

Snopals Mirror

Sunshine START HERE!!!
Kym
Ellen
Jerusha
Kylie
Tracey
Jenny YOU ARE HERE

Jacquie NEXT STOP

Nicole
PLEASE NOTE: Nicole had computer issues earlier, but is back online in the meantime Deanne had stepped in to help out, so after Jacquie's you can head to either Nicole or Deanne and then on to Melanie's.
Deanne

Melanie

Erin

Alica

Tracey M.
Christy
Rhonda

Maria
Vicki
Mary
Patricia
Stef

My Digital Delights Guest Spot!

I was so excited to be chosen as the guest designer for Digital Delights this week as I adore their images! They are so darn cute. They have lots of digital images and have just recently teamed up with Clear Dollar Stamps to bring you some clear stamps too!! For my first project I used "Maggie" and I pieced her unto the "Maggie Background". I coloured her with Copics and I sponged the sky and the grass with Close to My Heart inks (Heavenly Blue and Topiary). I then added some flowers that I found from an Etsy store with Kaiser flowers behind them. I also used a dew drop for the top corners.

Materials:

Copics R81,R20,E11,E00,E000,Y13,Y000,Y0000,C3,C1,C00,R29,R27,R24,BV11,BV00,BV0000,
B0000, E35, YR23, Y23

CTMH Heavenly Blue and Topiary Inks

Dew Drops

Kaiser Flowers

Etsy Flowers

For my 2nd project I decided to attempt to make a paper backpack, I found the tutorial HERE on Splitcoast Stampers. To make this I used Digital Delights "Alien Andy in Spaceship" image, which I coloured with Copics and added some Basic Grey pearls to his ship. I used Gina K Navy CS for the main part of the backpack and I used the SU! Stars wheel to make the pattern, which I then embossed with silver.

Materials:

Copics C3, B99, G24, B000

Eyelets

Ribbon

Silver Embossing powder

November Guest Designers For Ildi Co

Well am I ever NOT on the ball! I completely forgot to announce this months guest designers for Ildi Co!! So without further ado here are our wonderfully talented November guests:

Jennifer S
Helen
Deanne

Be sure to check out their blogs!

Spread the Love for Jaimie Hop

If you've come here from Elaine's Quixotic blog then you're on the right track. If not you can start at the beginning with Katharina Frei. This is the card I made for Jaimie to help send her some love and hope. The more people the send her cards the more hope she'll recieve. We're hoping that as many people as possible will contribute and there are even several vendors donating prizes to encourage participation. For all the details on how you can help Spread The Love for Jaimie, an 11 year old girl who was a victim of a horrendous act of violence that left her without a mother, or to know more about her story please go HERE.

For the card I decided to make for her I used one of the adorable images from the Little Loud Stamps new release over at PaperWorks. To make the gold borders I used scor-tape and sprinkled glitter over top.

Materials:
Copics C9,C7,C5,C3, E11,E00,E000,R20,B91,B93,B95,BV00,BV11,BV17
Stickles
Brads
Flowers
Gold Glitter
Scor-tape

Now hop on over Boni's blog for more love for Jaimie. And please help flood this girl with cards!!

Sunshine Sunday!

This weekend has been completely nuts and I have been running around like a chicken with a head cut-off, but thankfully I was still able to whip up a card and get it posted while it was still Sunday for Sunshines Stamps. I decided to work with one of their earlier images, just in case you needed reminding! This one is called Spacie from their High Flyers line. The sentiment is from Gina K's Holiday Cheer Stamp Kit.

Materials:
Copics: B26,B24,B21,B000,Y08,YR07,R24
Silver Embossing Powder
Nesties
Silver Ribbon