DeNami Blog Hop: Summer!

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Happy Sunday! I hope you’re enjoying your trip through all of the fabulous creations on today’s DeNami Designs Blog Hop!

You should have arrived from Deb W.‘s blog, and now you’re visiting me (Suzanne Bier)! If you arrived directly onto my blog and want to start at the beginning, just visit the DeNami blog for the full list of hop participants!

Our theme for this month’s hop is SUMMER! 
Don’t forget to leave comments for ALL the participants as you hop along…TWO lucky commenters will each win a $20 mini shopping spree on the DeNami Designs web site!
For this hop, I customized a tutorial that I found online to make a smaller version that fits on a water bottle! It has a little pocket on the front, which is the perfect size to store drink mix packets for a picnic or other summertime fun!

Notes: To make this narrower version, I cut the card stock strip at 4 1/4″ x 11″, which will let you make 2 treat holders from one 8 1/2″ x 11″ sheet of card stock! The score lines I used are 1/4″ apart instead of 1/2″ as shown in the tutorial. I also border punched the top of the pocket before I stuck everything down.

DeNami stamps used: Surfer Chickie, Umbrella Garnish, Party Time Stamp Set.
The sentiment used on this card is from another manufacturer…I stamped it to show placement on this example.

(This size could fit four regular bottle drink packets…unfortunately, I didn’t have any of those, so I used the 2-quart size for my example!)

Your next stop on the hop is the super-creative Barbara Murphy! I’m sure she’s created something totally summer-ific for the hop! In case you want to start at the beginning, the full list of participants is on theDeNami Designs blog!

Don’t forget…you have until Monday, July 9, 2012, 11:59 pm PST, to leave comments on all the blogs (to be eligible for one of the two $20 DeNami mini shopping sprees).
Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you enjoy the rest of the hop!

Christmas Card Challenges: Sketch Challenge!

Happy Sunday! Hope you’re having a wonderful weekend! It’s time for a new Christmas Card Challenge! This week, we’re inspiring you with a sketch! 
Here’s my card:
supplies: card base, kraft cardstock (Papertrey Ink), patterned paper (My Mind’s Eye – Merry & Bright), image stamp (Gourment Rubber Stamps), sentiment stamp (Papertrey Ink), Copic markers, Stickles, twine (Trendy Twine), Spellbinders circle die, adhesive rhinestones.
All of our challenges are optional…the only “real” rule is that you must create a new Christmas, Holiday or Hannukah card, then link it up on our blog so we can stop by and leave you some love! 
It’s not necessary that you use a Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamp on your card, but we sure love it when you do! 
Don’t forget to visit the rest of the CCC team to see the fun and festive cards they’ve created this week: Alanna, Brigitte, Candace, Corinne, Dee, Katie, Leesa, Margo, Michele, Pat and Stephanie!
Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you have a wonderful week & don’t forget to link your entry on the Christmas Card Challenges blog! See you there!

Your Next Stamp – Colour Challenge!

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For my Greeting Farm Guest Designer intro post, please click HERE or scroll down! Thanks! 🙂
Happy Thursday! It’s my turn to serve as hostess for this week’s Your Next Stamp (YNS) Challenge!
Thanks so much to everyone who is playing along with our challenges on the YNS blog and on our Splitcoast forum! We love seeing what you create each week!
Are you ready for some colourful inspiration? This week, we’d like for you to create a card with the following colours: lime green, teal and pink!

Don’t be afraid to have fun with this combo…if you want to use a lighter (or darker) shade of these colours, go for it! 
(the cupcake is from the Cupcake Cutie Fhiona set):

Now, it’s your turn!!!!
Just link up your project for this challenge on the YNS blog or over at our Splitcoast forum by next Wednesday, July 11 at midnight EST. If you’re linking on the SCS Gallery, don’t forget our keywords: yns, yournextstamp and YNSC5!
We’d love to see your creations with YNS stamps if you have them! Even if you don’t have any yet, we’d still love for you to join in all the fun! AND don’t forget: one random winner will receive a $10.00 gift certificate to the YNS Store! How cool is that?
If you use YNS images on your entry, you may be chosen as our monthly “Rockin’ YNS Guest Designer”!!!! You’ll have your name in the spotlight and win a YNS prize pack! For all the details, check out the SCS forum!
Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this week’s challenge!

Guess What?

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I’m the July Guest Designer over at The Greeting Farm! How sweet is that?

Here’s my intro card, featuring the ever-so-adorable Do-Si-Do Anya….just released a few days ago!

supplies: card base, patterned papers (Basic Grey – Serendipity, aMuse Studio – pink gingham), lace (KaiserCraft), alpha and flower stickers (Simple Stories), stamp (Do Si Do Anya – The Greeting Farm), adhesive rhinestones, Copic markers, sewing machine, thread, foam tape.
I’m so excited to be a guest this month at TGF! I met Jessica at CHA in January…she is so super sweet, and when she asked me to guest design this month, I was so honored and flattered that I couldn’t say no!

I hope you enjoy my TGF creations this month! I’m so happy to share them with you! In addition to my Monday guest posts, I’m hoping to join in on some of the challenges this month, too! I hope you’ll join me here and on The Greeting Farm blog for some farm-fresh inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a fabulous 4th of July!

colourQ #144

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Happy Tuesday! It’s time for a new colourQ challenge!
Here’s my card … I actually colored the image this week instead of paper piecing…I drew and cut out the tie, though…it’s not part of the original image.
Supplies: card base, cardstock (SU Poppy Parade, SU Brocade blue, Papertrey white), patterned paper (Echo Park Dots & Stripes), twine (Trendy Twine), image and sentiment stamps (Some Odd Girl), mini heart punch, mini silver brads, Copic markers (R22 – fur, R24 – fur shading, R000 – ear fur, W1 – shadows). embossing folder (Cuttlebug). ink (Brilliance Graphite Black).
and here are our colours:

To be considered for this week’s colourQueen, make sure to link your creation at the colourQ blog by Sunday, July 8 at noon Central Time! (Don’t forget to display the challenge colors and link back to the colourQ blog in your entry post.)
Of course, the rest of the colourQ Royal Court have created some gorgeous projects with this week’s colors! You can see them on the colourQ blog or by visiting their personal blogs. (The links are to the right next to the thumbnail of this week’s challenge colors.) 
Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create with this week’s colourQ! 
If you’re in the United States, I hope you have a safe and happy July 4th celebration!

 

Christmas Card Challenges #31 – Monochromatic

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Happy Sunday! It’s time for a new Christmas Card Challenge, and this week, we’re going monochromatic!

All of our challenges are optional…the only “real” rule is that you must create a new Christmas, Holiday or Hannukah card, then link it up on our blog so we can stop by and leave you some love!

It’s not necessary that you use a Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamp on your card, but we sure love it when you do! My card uses various shades of green, and features Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps’ Christmas Tree Ruby!

I think the hardest parts of making this card were not coloring the image, and using all those shades of green! 

supplies: card base, patterned paper (Echo Park), sentiment stamp (Signature Christmas – Papertrey Ink), border punch (Fiskars), ink, colored card stock (Stampin’ Up – Old Olive), stamp (Christmas Tree Ruby – Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps), metal die (Spellbinders Labels 25), ribbon, buttons (from stash).
Don’t forget to visit the rest of the CCC team to see the fun and festive cards they’ve created this week: Alanna, Brigitte, Candace, Corinne, Dee, Katie, Leesa (who was our June Guest Designer and is our newest team member!), Margo, Michele, Pat and Stephanie!
Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you have a wonderful week & don’t forget to link your entry on the Christmas Card Challenges blog! See you there!

Drunken Stampers – On The Road Again

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Hi, crafty friends! I am running somewhat late with my Drunken Stampers post. I had this card made a few days ago, and somehow forgot to take a photo of it! Sometimes working ahead isn’t necessarily a good thing!
Our new challenge at Drunken Stampers is TRAVEL…whatever that means to you! Sunday is Canada Day and we’ll be celebrating Independence Day here in the U.S. on July 4. For many people, that means some kind of travel is in their holiday plans!
Whether your favorite mode of transportation is a car, a bike, a plane, roller skates, or something else, it can inspire your entry for this challenge!

Here’s my card:

Supplies: patterned paper (Simple Stories, Echo Park), cardstock embellishments (Simple Stories), sentiment stamp (Unity Stamp Co.), twine (My Mind’s Eye), adhesive rhinestones, folder tab die (My Favorite Things).
Ready to roll? Don’t forget to visit the rest of the DS Team for more inspiration: Chaitali, Donna, Elizabeth, Nat, Spike, and Steph!
Thanks so much for stopping by! 
Our deadline for this challenge is Friday, July 13th at 11:59 PST! You can link your entry at the Drunken Stampers blog! See you there!

Your Next Stamp Challenge #4 – A Sketch 4 You!

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Happy Thursday! It’s time for a new Your Next Stamp challenge! Thanks so much to everyone who played along with our “Anything Goes” challenge! We always love to see what you create!

Our latest challenge is based on this sketch:

and here’s my card, featuring Cupcake Cutie Fhiona:

I moved the squares up a bit and used a smaller rectangle for my main image to leave room for the sentiment. 
Are you ready? Come and play with us! Because we’re just getting started with our Splitcoast challenges, you don’t have to use a YNS stamp on your entry, but if you have some, we’d love for you to use them!
AND…if you use YNS stamps or dies on your entries this month, you may be our next ROCKIN’ Guest Designer! Want all the details? Check out this thread on our forum!
You can link your creation in your gallery on Splitcoast Stampers OR at the YNS blog! If you link your card on Splitcoast, don’t forget to include the following keywords (yns, yournextstamp, ynsc and ynsc4) so we can see your entry and leave you some lovely comments !!!
You have until Wednesday, July 4 to submit your entry…AND one lucky random winner will get $10 in YNS Bucks to spend in the YNS Store! We can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this challenge! (For all the challenge details, click here.)
Thanks for stopping by! I can’t wait to see your entry for this week’s YNS challenge!

colourQ #143

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Happy Tuesday! I’m back with a new colourQ challenge!

Hope you had a wonderful weekend! I spent some time catching up with a few of my favorite crafting buddies on a quick girls’ trip! It’s always fun to see them, but the time we were together passed by so quickly!

Here’s my card for this week:

Supplies: cardstock (Poppy Parade, So Saffron, Island Indigo, Basic Gray –  Stampin’ UP!), Spellbinders circle dies, Cuttlebug embossing folder, typed sentiment.
The card came together rather quickly, except for the sentiment. I was stumped! After much web surfing, I found this one! I hand-cut the heart and the pieces for the arrow based on pictures I found online.
and here’s our colourQ!

To be considered for this week’s colourQueen, make sure to link your creation at the colourQ blog by Sunday, July 1 at noon Central Time! (Don’t forget to display the challenge colors and link back to the colourQ blog in your entry post.)
Of course, the rest of the colourQ Royal Court have created some marvelous projects with this week’s colors! You can see them on the colourQ blog or by visiting their personal blogs. (The links are to the right next to the thumbnail of this week’s challenge colors.)
Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create with this week’s colourQ!

P.S. Don’t forget, there’s still time to play along with the current challenges at Christmas Card Challenges (use rolled flowers), Drunken Stampers (a colour challenge), and Your Next Stamp’s Splitcoast challenge (Anything Goes)!

Christmas Card Challenges – Rolled Flowers

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Happy Sunday! It’s time for a new Christmas Card Challenge! This week, we’d like for you to use rolled flowers on your entry!

All of our challenges are optional…the only “real” rule is that you must create a new Christmas, Holiday or Hannukah card, then link it up on our blog so we can stop by and leave you some love!
It’s not necessary that you use a Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamp on your card, but we sure love it when you do!
Here’s my card:
Supplies: card base, patterned paper (Echo Park – Winter Park Mini Pad), image stamp (Ellie Loves Lattes – Your Next Stamp), sentiment stamp (Snowbunny Lucy Set – Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps), flower die (memory box), Copic markers, ink (Brilliance Graphite Black).
(I’m also entering this card in the latest Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge!)
Don’t forget to visit the rest of the CCC team to see the fun and festive cards they’ve created this week: Alanna, Brigitte, Candace, Corinne, Dee, Katie, Margo, Michele, Pat and Stephanie!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you have a wonderful week & don’t forget to link your entry on the Christmas Card Challenges blog! See you there!