Snow Friends Warm the Heart

Good Morning and Happy Friday.

This is my last week as a member of the StampFairy DT. I have had a wonderful time working with Gerda and the rest of the girls but life has a way of getting in the way and I have made the decision to step down from the team.

What better way to go out though than to share with you a card featuring my favorite snowman. Gerda has created a fantastic new collection of images called George and Friends and these images are just so cute.

This image reminded me of a little snow couple and I have fashioned a card with Valentine's Day in mind accenting the image with hearts and flowers and lots of sparkle.

Be sure to check out the whole collection. You can find George and Friends here in the store this morning.

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Pink Elephant - Anything Goes

Do You Stack Up - Let it Snow

Southern Girls - Sparkle

Creative Card Crew - Snow Day

Little Darlings - Cold

On the Wings of Time

Good frosty morning to you.  It is soooo cold here today that I don't even want to think about going outside. Oh how I hate winter. Unfortunately I am still going to have to leave the house and go to work. Before I head off, I have another card to share with you today.

This card incorporates a new stamp that I had been wanting for oh about forever now and I picked it up on Boxing Day for an excellent sale price.  I have stamped it twice with Archival ink and the added some colour using Distress inks. The butterflies were cut from the second stamping and shaded with DI before attaching them with the tiniest pop dots that I have ever come across.  To highlight the main clock I have used glossy accents on the face and then added some of the clock hand from Tim Holtz.

Taking inspiration from one of Tim's 12 Tags of Christmas I have added a bookplate with the sentiment behind it and then filled it with Glossy accents to create a faux acrylic centre. It is hard to see in the photo but the result it creates is gorgeous.

I hope that you have enjoyed your visit. Have a great day and stay warm.

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Stamp And Show - Something Old (Distress Inks), Something New (Stamp)

CR84FN - Med. Blue, Orange and Yellow

Paper Sundaes - Something Old (Distress Inks), Something New (Stamp)

Tip Top Tuesday - Anything Goes

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Good morning, I am back with something new to share today.  I was inspired by a tag that I saw while blog browsing last week to make this set of cards. I wish that I could remember where I saw it but unfortunately I forgot to bookmark it.

Anyway, I have followed the basic style and layout that was used on the tag for my cards. I have heat embossed the floral Hero Arts background stamp and then used my Distress Inks with the emboss resist technique to achieve these rich rainbow colours.

I then heat embossed the butterflies on some patterned background papers and accented the images with more distress inks. The sentiments were heat embossed and then I have used my Distress blending tools to edge the blocks in Tea Dye to give them a slight vintage look and tone them in with the card.

I love how the simple design allowed me to put this set together quickly and I love the cheerful results.

Thanks for coming by and for all of your lovely comments they really brighten these gloomy winter days.

Be sure to stop back again tomorrow as I have yet another card to share, I am on a roll this week.

This set will be entered into the following challenges:

Pile It On - Anything Goes

Do You Stack Up - Rainbow of Colours

Crafty Cardmakers - Use it 3 Times

Time to Celebrate

Good morning, I have had a nice little blogging break over Christmas while I celebrated the holiday with family and friends. Today is New Year's Eve and that means that it is time to Celebrate. What will you be doing?

I have had a chance to play a bit in my craft room with all of my new Tim Holtz Christmas goodies and I have created a card suitable for the New Year's celebrations to share with you today.

Thanks for stopping by today, I want to wish you all a Happy, Safe and Health New Year.

See you in 2012!

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - New Year

Charisma Cards - Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss - Happy Something

We Wish You a Zingy Christmas!

Oh my goodness it has been a while since I last posted anything to my blog. Thank you all for coming by for a visit, it is great to have you here.  Somehow I started out so far ahead back in October with most of my shopping already done but somehow I have fallen behind and now there are only 4 days to go.

We have a new challenge for you this week on the ABC Christmas Challenge and this week our theme is

Z for Zingy Colours

We are sponsored this week by

Stamp and Create

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Bugaboo

The good folks at Bugaboo were kind enough to provide us with some great images for the challenge this week and I have coloured this super cute Snowman Polka Scarf up in some very traditional Fuschia Pink and Lime Green. How is that for zing?

I have paired it with these great papers from MME and some Coordinations cardstock in that great lime green which I have embossed and sanded to reveal the core colour. To finish off the front of my card I dug around in my stash and came up with some sparkly ribbon and buttons that matched the colour scheme perfectly.

I hope that you will join us for our challenge. I look forward to seeing your zingy creations. Don't forget to stop by the ABC Christmas Challenge blog and see the other fun, bright creations from the rest of the DT.

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Craft Your Days Away - Snowmen

Stampin for the Weekend - Christmas

Stamptacular Sunday - Dreaming of a Pink Christmas

Christmas Card Challenges - Non Traditional Colours

Countdown to Christmas

I want to share with you the new Barry's Countdown to Christmas collection.  He'sis my favorite Barry collection yet, all decked out for the Holidays and so darn cute.  And remember, everything in the StampFairy Shop is 50% off for the month of December, including these new images.  While you are there, don't forget to grab todays freebie which is the gorgeous ornaments.

Yippee, It's Almost Christmas

Good Morning, I have a quick post for this week's ABC Christmas Challenge to share with you this week. We have reached the letter Y, just a few more weeks to go.

Yippee, It's Almost Christmas

That is our theme this week which means that you can do anything you want as long as it is a new Christmas project.

We have three great sponsors this week.

The Fabulous Dustin Pike

who is offering

3 Dustin Pike digi images

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The lovely Heidi at Simon Says Stamp are offering one lucky entrant
A $15 voucher to spend in her store

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and

Karen's doodles

has a fantastic selection of designs, Digital and Rubber stamps
Our winner will receive 3 digis from Karen's doodles of their choice. 

I have been watching the 12 Tags of Christmas over on the Tim Holtz Blog and have decided to have a go at creating a tag of my own.

As I don't yet have any of the Distress Stains I have pulled out my Distress Inks and aged this tag in various shades of blue and then flicked the whole thing with a bit of water.  I have then stamped on all of my images and heat embossed the angel image using a blue metallic embossing powder which has a really pretty shimmer IRL.

I inked some ribbon to match and added a charm with some tinsel wire. The silver snowflakes are peel off stickers and the acrylic snowflake has been accented with flower soft to give it the look of real snow.

I hope that you will join us. I look forward to seeing your Christmas Creations. Be sure to pop over to the ABC Christmas Challenge Blog and see the rest of the wonderful DT creations.

Stamp Fairy Sketch and Birthday Peeker Fairy

Oh my goodness, I just realized that this did not post yesterday. 

This is week 2 of the current StampFairy Sketch Challenge and these week all of the DT have used the gorgeous Peeker Fairy that you can all win just by completeing the Blog Hop.

I have kept it simple this week using co-ordinating papers from a couple of Basic Grey collections.

I have coloured my Peeker Fairy to match the lovely reds and aquas in the papers and then matted her on a Doily that has been tinted using distress inks.

For the inside I have used the matching paper and the same punch to accent my little Birthday sentiment.

Don't forget that you still have until sunday to join us. I hope to see you there!

StampFairy Birthday Hop

We have a special post to delight you today. Stampfairy is celebrating its first birthday, so Gerda and the Stampfairies are hosting a blog hop, with a difference - EVERYONE who completes the hop will win a prize.

Gerda has released two very special collections showcasing two of her delightful characters.  These collections showcase the characters in 12 monthly themes throughout the year and the Stampfairies have each created a Calendar using some or all of the images.  Some of us are teasing you with only a month or two of our calendar, but other teamies will share the whole calendar if you're lucky!

Ensure you leave a comment on each teamie's blog and collect a letter from each teamie along the trip.  The letters are randomly placed but will spell a short phrase.  Once you have completed the hop, left your comments and collected your letters, work out the phrase and email it to Gerda (webmaster@stampfairy.com).  This will get you a Freebie image. Yes that is right, a Freebie image for everyone who completes the hop and emails the correct phrase.  And let me tell you a secret: the image you will receive is ADORABLE !!

So, lets get on with the hop.  

If you've arrived here from Martina's blog, then you're in the right place.  Otherwise, please pop back to the Stampfairy Blog to start at the beginning and ensure you don't miss anyone.

My calendar showcases Barry and I'm sharing my page for the month of December. This is actually the Barry that was intended for January but I thought that he looked like he might be at the North Pole and I've coloured him in Christmas Colours to use for December. I have chosen to make a simple wallmount calandar that I can pin to the bulletin board in my craft room by mounting the pages to a larger piece of cardstock for stability using brads. I have adde a ribbon bow for a simple decorative touch.

The next stop along the hop is Celine, but before you disappear, note down this letter 

 

  Now hop on over to the next teamie,

and don't forget to leave me a comment to ensure you qualify for your freebie.

Thanks for stopping by. The blog hop ends on Dec 31 so get hopping before the deadline.  If you get lost along the way, hop back to the main blog where there is a list of the full hop links.

Stamp Fairy Birthday Releases

Gerda has been busy making some wonderful new collections to celebrate the first Birthday of StampFairy. Be sure to stop by the store and see all the great new images and pick up the freebie. The best part is that all images are on sale, 50% off for the month of December.