Inspired Stamps: New Release!!

Good Thursday, bloggers! I'm back after a bit of a break due to a full schedule at school, to bring you some of the new releases!. This card has two new stamp sets on it, His Little Ones Drummer Boy and Winter Sketches. I also used an older stamp set, the Background Stamps. Hope you like it, and be sure to drop by the Inspired Stamps blog to see all the other different styles the DT created with all the new releases. The new releases will be available in the online store tomorrow!

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Challenges Entered:

• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Keep It Clean and Simple

Karber Halloween Millie

Just a fun card I made for the upcoming Halloween celebration from the Karber Digi store that I Copic colored. I used a die cut that I cut on my Silhouette and that I thread some hemp cord and orange baker's twine through.  Inside of the die cut, there is a die cut circle that I did a stamp resist technique with some glimmer mist and distress ink.  I also used some burlap string to make a broom. The sentiment I stamped out with Claire's ABCs from Lawn Fawn. Hope you like it and thank you so much for stopping by my blog today!

Supply List:

Karber Witch Millie	*Lawn Fawn CLAIRE'S ABC'S Clear Stamps	*Silhouette CAMEO Digital Cutting Machine	*Tattered Angels GLIMMER MIST HOT CHOCOLATE Chalkboard Brown 14825	*Tim Holtz Distress Ink PAD VINTAGE PHOTO Brown Ranger	*Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING TOOL Applicator Foam IBT23616	Doodlebug 20 yard Twine: Tangerine
*May Arts NATURAL Twine String Burlap	Copics	Copic X-Press Blending Paper	Bazzill Kraft	*Hemptique NATURAL Hemp Cord Twine	*American Crafts Zing! CLEAR Embossing Powder 27170

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Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Entered into the following contests:

• Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Glimmer & Sparkle
• Karber digi Challenge: Use your favorite embellishment (twine!) & Karber stamp  
• Ribbon Carousel Challenge: Halloween 
• Cute Card Thursday: Lotsa Ribbon
• Stamp with fun challenge: herbst/autumn challenge

Karber DT Card of the Week: Aquarius!

This week for my Karber design team card I used the Aquarius digi for their Zodiac line. Isn't she cute with her Snorkel gear on? I added a die cut doily, some orange baker's twine, and some neat self sticky turquoise round sparkle embellishments. I edged everything with a Tim Holtz ink from his winter line. I Copic colored her and made her snorkel mask orange and her bathing suit aqua. I left out the bubbles as I ran out of room, sadly.

An all new Karber Challenge starts on the first. Be sure to enter!

Also don't forget that Karber has an all new Flickr Group, be sure to check it out! Periodically the owners of Karber will be picking random winners for prizes, as well as guest design team spots to those who upload to their Flickr group page!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Karber Digi Design Team Card of The Week: Balloon Leslie!

This week for my Karber Design team card I used Balloon Leslie, isn't she cute? I Copic colored Leslie and her hot air balloon and cut a small square of burlap for the basket. For the background I used Tim Holtz Distress Stain in Tumbled Glass and a Glimmer Mist Chalk mist in Peacock and then edged the edges in Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Stormy Sky. For the clouds I used Liquid Applique and a heat tool. Lesile and her Balloon were adhered with foam adhesives. For the finishing touch I rounded two of the corners with my Corner chomper doo-dad.

Copics Used:
Face: E00, E000, E11, R11, R20, R32
Hair: E25, E27, E47, E31
Balloon: YR02, YR04, YR07, YR61, Y000, Y00, Y02, Y06, RV00, RV10, RV02, R37
Shirt: BV0000 and I think BV08

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you have a wonderful week!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Rockin' Robin Combined Design Team Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Monthly Combined DT Hop hosted by Made Especially 4 You!!!

The outstanding talent of the Creative Cutter Room and Made Especially 4 You have joined together to bring you projects with a Rockin' Robin Theme.

The spotlight goes first to our Grand-Prize Sponsors...

A $25 Gift Certificate to Paper Piecings by Nikki online store.

A $10 Gift Certificate to the NEW Ginger Snap Scraps online store.

3 Birds on Parade Cartridge

 Rules for Grand-Prizes 

1. You MUST comment on every stop of the hop.

2. You will have until Sunday, April 15th to hop & comment.

3. Check Made Especially 4 You on Tuesday, April 17th to see who Mr. Random Number Generator chooses as winners.
4. Not required, but I would love for you to follow my blog!  Once I reach 200 followers I'll be having a huge giveaway that you won't want to miss! 

Now that all the details are out of the way, here's my hop project ....

This is a tent card with a Kraft base.  I took a digi from The Cuting Cafe and printed it using my Silhouette software.  Using your Silhouette software for printing digis you're going to use with die cuts helps a lot when it comes to sizing.  Copic colored the two robins and the tree branch and cut it out.  I cut out a large flag in the Crate Paper floral cardstock on my paper trimmer and adhered it to the Kraft base.  I then cut out a tree on my Silhouette on white cardstock.  Let me tell you, each and every leaf was hand colored.  Tedious yes, but I love the dimension it gave them!  I took the tree trunk and stamped Hero Arts' Designer Woodgrain rubber stamp on it in brown Memento Ink.  Then went over it with various brown Copics.   I then cut a strip of the same cardstock I used for the floral flag, but used the other side of it and stamped the sentiment from the new Lawn stamp set called Grand Greetings .  All the cardstock was edged in Hero Arts Wet Cement for continuity.

Copics used: B00, BG000, E31, E55, E25, E27, E55, YR02, YR07, C2, G14, G17, G000, G29, G99

It's time to get hopping. Remember the Grand-Prize rules! :)

Ashley – http://especiallymade.blogspot.com

Elaine – http://expressionsbyelaine.blogspot.com

Jessica – http://www.craftinandstampin.blogspot.com

Gaby –  http://www.gabyspapery.blogspot.com

Next Stop------>Tracy –  http://www.owlbecraftin.blogspot.com

Pam –  http://scrappinfabpam.blogspot.com

Tonya – http://ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com

Georgiana – http://carsonscricutcreations.blogspot.com

Beckie – http://justbcreativecrazy.blogspot.com
Cathie - http://www.creativecutterroom.com

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today and for hopping along!!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Karber Digi Design Team Card of The Week: Easter Jenny!

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This week I used Easter Jenny which also is on sale this week! Definitely go take advantage of the sale! Just about every Karber character has their own Easter image. Super cute!

I used my Spellbinders Wonky Frames die to cut and emboss this card. These are great to use with digis as you cut them after you've printed them, so there's no guessing if the image will be centered, which just makes things sooo much easier! I Copic colored Jenny and also made the grass with short strokes of the marker. Then I edged the grassy part with Peeled Paint Distress Ink and the sky portion with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. Then tied a piece of linen thread into a bow through a Pebbles flower button. I needed an easy card to make this week as I'm struggling with allergies. So glad I thought to use the Spellbinders dies with my Karber digi, made things go a lot quicker than fussing with paper piecing and cutting everything by hand!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Made Especially For You & Digi Darla Spring Fling Blog Hop!

Welcome to my blog, blog hoppers! You've probably come here by way of Dawn's Blog, if you haven't please check below for the entire list of the hop to make sure you see everyone's blog and are eligible to win!The two super talented design teams of Made Especially For You and Digi Darla have teamed up to display some amazing Spring themed projects for you today. There are also some outstanding sponsors who have graciously offered up some grand prizes!!

YOU MUST COMMENT ON EVERY STOP TO BE ELIGIBLE TO WIN. YOU WILL HAVE UNTIL SUNDAY, MARCH 18th TO HOP.

 WINNERS WILL BE POST ON BOTH MADE ESPECIALLY 4 YOU AND DIGI DARLA ON TUESDAY, MARCH 20th.

$20 to Digi Darla's Online Digi Stamp Store!!

A set of Whimisical Designs stamps: Everyday Sentiments.

Two pack bundle of 3GJ Crinkle Ribbon!!

A five piece set of handmade crafts pins from Jessica's Craft Shaque!!
$25 gift certificate to Paper Piecings by Nikki!  

 

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Here's my project for this hop using DigiDarla's Aviator Kitty 7 stamp. Isn't he adorable!??!! I just had to choose him for this blog hop! I know he's not technically a Spring image, but I thought if I added some giant fluffy clouds and some colorful birds it definitely turned it into an unconventional Spring card! :) Now how about some BLOG CANDY!!! Digi Darla so graciously allowed us to each give away the digi stamp we used on our projects to one lucky winner from each of our blogs!! Isn't that awesome!!?? To be sure you're entered to win make sure you're a follower of my blog (to do so just hit the blue "join this site" button on the right under my profile and above my current followers or up top to the left on the Blogger bar click the tab that says "follow") and leave a comment on this blog post. East Peasy! :) The next stop on the blog hop is: Michelle.  

If you are just starting out here on my blog or you lost your way the official blog list is just below:

Ashely
Eileen
 Beckie
 Karen
Jessica
Dawn
Gabrielle (You are here)
Michelle
Lisa
Tabitha
Georgiana
Denise
Abby
Chris
Pam

Don't forget to check Made Especially For You or Digi Darla on March 20th to see who Mr. Random Number Generator Chooses for the Grand-Prize Winners.

Before you go....

The challenge schedule each month:

1st Week: Create a card for the theme of the month using a certain item/product

2nd Week: Create a card inspired by the provided sketch

3rd Week: Create a card using three of a certain item

4th Week: Create a card using the specified technique

  

• Monday is always time for a new and exciting challenge.
• Craft 'n Chat Thursdays will have a handy new tip for you.
• Do You Speak Cricut Saturdays will have a new Cricut cart review in case you wanna try it before you buy it.
• Lucky Link-up is a monthly Cricut cartridge giveaway for those who link-up with us in the current challenge. And there will be extra entries for friends that you recommend when they link-up.

Monday every other week starts a new 2-week challenge.
There is always a freebie to grab and use..since you gotta use a DD image to play.
There is always an awesome image to earn by linking-up. So you could get 2 digis just by playing ;0)

Thanks so much for hopping along with me today!!!!

Inky and glitter fingers for all!
-Gaby

Sweet Stamping Treats, Sketch.

This is the sketch the Sweet Stamping Treats' design team was asked to work with this week. I tweeked mine a lil and made it rectangle just so I could send it to OWH.

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For my card this week I used the Spring Bunny digi for my image from SST's newest release. I colored the image in with Copics and the bunny's tail with a lil white snow making pen to give it a lil fluff! Such a great image that is totally customizable for Easter, Spring, or any kind of card really. Had a lot of fun with this sketch and the digi!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Karber Digi Design Team Card of The Week: Cute Japanese!

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This week's Karber digi design team card features Cute Japanese, she is indeed cute ...or as I like to say, Kawaii, which means cute in Japanese. :) After Copic coloring the image, I die cut a bunch of different shapes and layered them all on an A2 sized white card base. Cut a strip of paper, stamped the sentiment, cut flags at the end and added two self stick pearls. Such a fun card to make!

Also, be sure to stop by Karber's Blog and see how to win their newest clear stamp set release, Cute Strawberry! She's super kawaii and you won't want to miss this chance to win the set!

Thanks so much for dropping by my blog today!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Karber Digi Design Team Card of The Week.

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When choosing my images for my DT work one of the digis I chose was the Millie American Flag digi stamp. I chose it with the express purpose of making a card for Operation Write Home. Isn't she adorable? I stamped out a background of stars, cut a tag on my Cricut, and tied a bow with linen twine with a Tim Holtz star trinket attached. For Millie I wanted her to be her own girl, meaning she didn't have to wear red, white, and blue as I felt that would be way too matchy matchy. I colored her with Copics and colored a small paper flower I had with the same blue and purple as her dress. Then coated the flower in Glossy Accents to make sure it stayed 3D and didn't lay flat. Lastly adhered a purple gem in the middle for an extra touch of girly.


Don't forget to enter this month's Karber Challenge! There's a couple of days left, but then a new one starts so don't fret! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Sweet Stamping Treats $1 Digi Sale!

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Hello blog friends! This week I made a card with two of the images from Sweet Stamping Treat's $1 Digi sale. Be sure to head over to their blog and check it out, you won't be disappointed! Just click the image below and it will take you directly there! :)



This card features the lamb and the row of tulips from the $1 digi. I made a tent card with a scalloped edge flap. By taking two squares in the Silhouette software I made my own Polaroid die cut and cut it out in Kraft. I also used my Silhouette to cut out the two die cuts for the sentiment. For the lamb I used a Copic marker and my ever trusty snow making pen for his fur. I sewed on three buttons with linen thread and tied a bow for the largest one.

I hope this gave you a little inspiration for the Sweet Stamping Shop's $1 digi. Have fun with it and be sure to show me what you make!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Karber Digi Design Team!!

I am sooo pleased to announce I'm a member of Karber's digi design team!! Karber's super sweet stamps are adorable and work with so many different types of projects! They too offer prize challenges and you can use either their digi stamps, rubber stamps, or their clear stamps to enter! Please click the HERE to see their current challenge.

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This week I chose to make a Valentine card for my debut design team design using the Lollipop Leslie digi stamp. I'm a big fan of Fox's 'New Girl' show and knew exactly what I wanted to do with this image as soon as I saw it! Hello, adorkable!! If you have no idea what I'm talking about, definitely Google it! Basically it's someone who is an adorable dork. I love Leslie's huge glasses, they give her so much character! I wanted them to be big, red, and shiny! I Copic colored her in and printed a second Leslie so that I could paper piece her glasses with a two small circles of see through plastic underneath. You can't see it too well straight on in the image above, but you can see it in the picture below.

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I hope you love Lollipop Leslie as much as I do and enjoyed my take on an unconventional Valentine.

Inky and glitter fingers for all!
-Gaby

Sweet Stamping Treats Design Team!!

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Well I've been pretty inactive on my blog lately, though not at all inactive at my craft nook! Reason being is that I was lucky enough to get picked up on a couple design teams! Seeing as everything has to be hush-hush till the official announcements, I couldn't post anything I was working on. However, today I get to officially announce and post my very first project from the Sweet Stamping Treats digi stamp company!! You can find their store and blog by clicking here!

This week we were challenged to use their sweet stamps to make a Valentine card. I chose their super cute Tweet Hearts Roses digi. I cut two sets of two different sizes of smaller hearts on my cricut with different patterned paper. Then I layered them down and adhered them with tape runner glue. I wanted the Tweet Hearts Roses digi stamp to really stand out, so of course it went in the middle. I also punched a small heart in the bottom right and tied a piece of light pink twine through it. To balance the twine and heart out, I placed some mini red bling in the upper left part of the heart. Then I just adhered it to the other hearts with foam adhesives. Lastly I stamped a sentiment in memento black ink. Easy peasy and super sweet, err tweet! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Inky and glitter fingers for all!
-Gaby