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

Made Especially For You, Sketch Challenge

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This week at Made Especially For You the challenge is to make a card with the sketch below. I had some canvas bunting flags with grommets by Maya Road from an old Studio Calico kit I had that I never used. When I saw the sketch I went on a mad hunt to find them in my craft nook! When I finally found them I stamped an I, a heart, and a U on each flag in Stayzon ink. Then strung them up with linen thread to match the sketch. I cut a piece of scratch blue and polka dot paper and rounded the edges, again to match the sketch. After that I just did my own thing and rolled some roses from felt that I had left over from another project and adhered them with Glossy Accents. I felt they needed some leaves, so I cut some off a left over strip of Amy Tan fabric stickers. Then I made a flag and stamped the Happy Anniversary sentiment from Lawn Fawn. Because the roses and bunting took up a lot of the design of the card, I decided to not add the three embellishments at the bottom and I did faux white stitches instead to fill up the rest of the empty space. That's my interpretation of the sketch, can't wait to see how you interpret it! Make sure to stop by the blog and see how you can win a Cricut cartridge, too!!

Be sure to stop by the Made Especially For You and click their challenge tab to enter this week's Sketch Challenge. This week's challenge is sponsored by: Jessica's Craft Shaque! The winner will receive a set of decorative corsage pins!


Thanks so much for stopping by and showing some blog love! Be sure to come back on Friday for Made Especially For You's Spring Fling Blog Hop!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Inspired Stamps, Easter.

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Happy Thursday, fellow bloggers! This week the Inspired Stamps DT made Easter cards or Scripture cards. For my card this week I used His Cross for the Scripture and Fruitful Flourishes for the swirly embellishments. First I stamped out the Scripture and flourishes. Then I cut and embossed the cardstock using a Nestabilities die and my Cuttle bug. I edged all the papers with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo and my foam tool and adhered them to the white card base, with the die cut being adhered with thin foam adhesives. Lastly I added some self stick pearls.

I also wanted to share with you the Christian Art Journaling blog the owner of Inspired Stamps, Antoinette is doing for the entire month of March. Even if you're not a fan of journaling, it's a great blog to learn new and innovative techniques you can use with a bevy of different paper craft projects.



Thank you so much for stopping by!


Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Sweet Stamping Treats and a Giveaway!

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This week the DT was asked to make a card featuring the color green. I chose to use a digi stamp from the new March release called, Squirrel and Butterfly. This week the design team was asked to make a project that was green. My focal point was the green grass and the green doily I cut with my Silhouette. Don't miss out on the Tweet Sale at Sweet Stamping Treats which features all of their Tweet the bird stamps, they're super cute! If you have any questions please feel free to ask!

Now how about a giveaway and some blog candy??!

What's your favorite stamp from Sweet Stamping Treats? If you don't know then go check them out because Sweet Stamping Treats is giving you a chance to win your favorite stamp! You can also click the tags at the bottom of this blog entry and click on the one that says, "Sweet Stamping Treats" to see all the ones I've used.

To enter all you have to do is head over to Sweet Stamping Treats and take a look through their stamps. Links to the entire line of digital stamps are located on the right sidebar of their blog. Pick the stamp you like best, follow their blog, then come back here to my blog and comment on which stamp is your favorite! When SST gets to 200 followers there will be more prizes given away!

I will pick one winner from of the comments on this post to win the digital stamp that you commented about. You must be a follower of both my blog and Sweet Stamping Treats to win. The winner will be announced on March 20th!

Thanks sooo much for stopping by and I hope you have a super sweet day!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Karber Digi Design Team Card of The Week: Millie Umbrella!

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For this week's card I used Millie Umbrella. I chose her for my card this week for two reasons. One, she's adorable and such a cute stamp for Spring cards! Second, because she's awesome for newbies like me to learn shadows and shading with Copics! Because you instantly know all the shadows will be under the umbrella it makes it a lot easier to know where to lay down your darker colors. This was only my second go at shading skin tones, so please excuse the imperfections. Though I think even the Copic pros are always learning and evolving with Copics and their techniques. But if you're new to shading I couldn't think of a better image to try!

I finally got to use my new Dew Drops. I only had clear Dew Drops so what I did was drop some of my Ice Blue Copic refill ink into the tiny wells on the back of the drops and let it dry. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. :)

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Here's a front view of the card to show the sentiment and faux stitching a wee bit better.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Made Especially For You Challenge, St. Patty's Day & Twine!

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This week at Made Especially For You the challenge is to make a St. Patrick's Day Card with twine. I took a gnome stamp and cut off his pointy hat and adhered a Leprechaun's hat instead from Lawn Fawn's Hats Off to You. I made a background with Gel a Tin's Love Knots stamp by heat embossing it with clear embossing powder and running distress inks over it. Then I ran it through my Cuttlebug using a nestabilities die. Wrapped some green and white baker's twine around a piece of My Mind's Eye Lime Twist cardstock and tied a bow through a button. The sentiment was stamped with Lawn Fawn's Smitty's ABCs.
This week's challenge is sponsored by Meljen's Designs! The winner will receive four non-colored images of their choice!! I sure hope you give the challenge a go and enter! Make sure to drop by the Made Especially For You's Blog and get some inspiration from the Design Team!
Don't forget about our upcoming blog hop contest Made Especially For You has got running! You can check out the details about it HERE!

And last, but definitely not least:
Don't forget about this month's lucky link-up! Throughout the month of March, you have unlimited opportunities to win the Spring Fever Cricut cartridge being given away by our awesome Sponsor Coordinator and Sketch Designer, Beckie from Just B Creative Crazy.
Here are the guidelines for the giveaway:
- You will receive one entry for every card you enter in our weekly challenges (you can enter as many cards as you want for each challenge as long as they each have their own post on your blog)
- You will receive one entry for liking the Made Especially For You Facebook page.
- You will receive one entry for every friend you get to link up to one of our challenges (your friend must let us know in their post that they have linked up because of you, otherwise we can't count it)

The winner of the cartridge will be randomly chosen and announced on Monday April 2nd. This cartridge will also be featured in our Do You Speak Cricut? Saturday cartridge review on Saturday March 24th.

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Inspired Stamps, Shape Up!

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This week the Inspired Stamps design team was asked to make a card with one of their stamps that featured shapes. I chose to use the Fruitful Flourishes as my shape and His Little Ones: girl studying for the little girl. I made a boarder with some of the swirls from the Flourishes set. I stamped them in Versa Mark and sprinkled white embossing powder to heat emboss. Once the embossing cooled I ran Tim Holtz's Antique Linen Distress Stain over the embossing and the entire piece of white card stock. Once that dried completely I stamped individual words and phases from the same set in brown Memento ink in a semi-boarder. I colored the HLO girl with Copics and adhered her to the two rectangle papers I cut earlier with foam adhesives. Attached a flag with a button and linen thread to the bottom and then adhered to a white card base.

Thanks so much for dropping by and for all the blog support, I can't tell you how much it means to me!!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Sweet Stamping Treats

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This week's card features SST's Mouse Treat digi stamp. I Copic colored the mouse and paper pieced him to a die cut tag I splattered with mists and covered the edges with Tim Holtz Tissue Tape. I cut out the lollipop separately and coated blue baker's twine with Glossy Accents and coiled it around the lollipop. I liked that when it dried it looked glossy like a giant hard candy lollipop would look. Then I took two different colors of scrap chevron patterned paper and cut strips and adhered them down. Tied a bow at the top with linen thread and added a tiny flag with a sentiment stamped on it. I stamped "Happy Birthday" inside, I think it would be a cute card for a little boy's birthday.

Thanks so much for dropping by my blog today! I really appreciate it!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Made Especially For You Blog Hop!!

Spring Fling DT Team-Up Hop Promotion

THE EVENT:

The super talented design teams of Made Especially 4You and DigiDarla are teaming up to bring you a hop to be remembered!

March 16th we will showcase the Spring Fling DT Team-up. There will be prizes from several different sponsors and blog candy galore!

THE PRIZE:

We need you to help us spread the word. We don’t expect that your hard work should go without reward. So, here’s what is up for grabs…

2 Lucky promoters will win a $10 gift certificate to Sweet n’ Sassy Stamps. They have an awesome selection of digital stamps, rubber stamps, designer papers and twine.

THE GUIDELINES:

There will be 1 winner from each challenge blog represented. Made Especially 4You will have 1 winner and DigiDarla will have 1 winner. You may enter at both blogs if you like.

Promotion will run from March 1 to March 14. A winner will be announced on hop day, March 16th on each of the challenge blogs listed above.

What counts as a promotion entry?

IMPORTANT :  ALL COMMENTS MUST BE MADE ON THE PROMOTION POST ON THE CHALLENGE BLOGS ME4Y/DIGI DARLA. ENTRIES MUST BE IN SEPARATE COMMENTS TO COUNT. SIDEBAR, BLOG POSTS, AND FB SHARING WILL BE RANDOMLY CHECKED ;0)

1.) Post promotion in your sidebar with link back to either Made Especially 4 You or Digi Darla Challenge Blog, and comment on the appropriate blog that you have placed it in your sidebar. +1 entry

2.) Do a blog posting promoting the hop, and comment on either Made Especially 4 You or Digi Darla’s specified post that you have blogged about this promotion. +1 entry3. ) Share on FB, and comment on either Made Especially 4 You or Digi Darla’s specified post that you have shared about this promotion FB. +1 entry

 Now go start promoting……….Please and Thank You ;0) If you have any questions, please drop an email to Beckie Woodall at beckie_woodall at yahoo dot com