Teri and Friends Blog Hop Winner!

Hello my lovelies!

 

I’m popping in really quickly to let you know that I’ve chosen a winner (via random.org) of the Banner Up stamp set designed by Teri Anderson.  Without further ado, the winner is:

Congratulations, Jamie!!  I’ll be sending you an email to gather your mailing information!  In the meantime, I wanted to thank you all for the lovely comments.  You all made my day.

 

You still have one more day to comment on my Paper Smooches Pep Rally post (you can find it HERE) for a chance to win the new Hexalong dies!  So whatcha waiting for?!  Do it!!

 

Have a great weekend!  I’ll be back tomorrow to post the Paper Smooches winner!  TTFN!!

Teri and Friends Technique Tuesday Blog Hop!

Hello my lovelies!!

I have a very special treat for you today!  I was asked my the out-of this-world-amazing-designer, Teri Anderson, to join her and some of her other friends to share samples that showcase the FREAKIN’ ADORABLE stamp designs that she created for Technique Tuesday.  For those of you that are new to my blog, WELCOME! If you arrived here from Kim Kesti’s blog, you’re on the right track. If not, you’ll need to start at the beginning of the hop (Teri’s blog HERE) so that you don’t miss a thing! Oh, and there are prizes available at each stop along the way, so be sure and leave each designer some love . . . just sayin’! Heeheehee

Here’s a little bit about Teri and Technique Tuesday:

Teri started designing stamps for Technique Tuesday last Summer. She designed 30 plus stamp sets, 20 of which were released as part of their CHA-Winter release. She’s a card maker and a scrapbooker with a lot of love for card making so there’s a lot of card influence in her stamps!

Wait until you see these images – you’re going to love them as much as I do! Let’s get started, shall we?

I actually have two samples to share with you today.  My first one features one of the cutest stamp sets I’ve ever worked with – it’s called Happyville Cars!  Oh my gosh – this set has some of the cutest images ever, and they are just so fun to create with!  I stamped the car and the stop light in black ink, and jazzed up the stop light with some punched circles.  I colored “Stop” with a red marker and inked up the remainder of the sentiment with black ink, and stamped it onto a word bubble die cut.  Isn’t it too cute for words?

I had so much fun with the first card, I just couldn’t stop myself from creating another one!  This one features a couple of Teri’s new stamp sets – the sentiment is from Puffy Hearts and the images on the buttons are from the set called With Flair.  Flair is such a hot trend these days, so I HAD to create some of my own.  I picked up one of those goofy iTop thingies from Michael’s (if I didn’t have a 40% off coupon, I NEVER would have bought that dumb thing! LOL).  I stamped the three images onto copy paper (I needed it to be pretty thin in order to wrap around the button dealies) punched them out and did my best to wrap them around the button thing-a-ma-bobs.  They don’t look as great as real flair, but they look pretty good, right?!

Ready for some other amazing projects featuring Teri’s stamps?  Well, then here’s the full list of bloggers sharing her goodies:

The hop order is:

Teri
Joy
Kalyn
Donna
Kim
Karolyn<------THAT’S ME!
Lisa
Nina
Ashley
Britta

PRIZES!!!

I mentioned prizes earlier, right?!  Well, Teri has very generously offered up one of her stamp sets for each of the above blogs – I’m giving away the set called Banner Up.  All you have to do is leave me some love on this blog post before March 1st and I’ll draw a random winner.  Easy peasy, right?!

 

Well, that’s it for me today kids.  You’re going to want to click on through to Lisa’s blog, as she’s the next stop on the hop – no doubt she’s got more deliciousness to share with you all!  Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Please drop in again tomorrow, as I’ll have a Paper Smooches goody to share with you.  In the meantime, have a great day!

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #69–Embossing

Happy Friday, Friends!!

My oh my!  It’s been quite a week around here with closing on the new house, listing the old house, and all the chaos that goes along with both of those things!  But I did have a chance to get inky for a few hours, so that was an amazing stress reliever for me!

This week’s CAS-ual Fridays Challenge is one that is very near and dear to my heart – embossing!  I love embossing – both heat embossing and dry embossing – and you have the freedom to do both, if you like!  The delicious texture that both add to a project takes an okay project to whole new level, don’t you think?

As is always the case on the first of the month, Simon Says Stamps is our sponsor this week!  They’ve offered up an amazing prize for this week’s TGIF Winner, but you’ll have to click on through to the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge Blog to find out what it is.  Oh, and if you’re the TGIF Winner this week, you get to be our Gal Friday Guest Designer next month.  How fun is that?  Thank you, Simon Says Stamps!

As I said above, embossing is a technique that is my go-to wow factor for any project that needs a little oomph!  I especially love heat embossing . . . there’s just something about the richness of that slick finish that makes my heart go pitter patter.  I stamped this darling pendant light four times using VersaMark – three times on the card base and once on the banner panel.  I used white and turquoise embossing powders on all four lights.  Then I stamped the sentiment and heat embossed that with black embossing powder.  I popped the banner panel up using foam squares, and wrapped some coordinating baker’s twine at the top to finish it off.

PRODUCTS USED:
STAMPS:  Bright Idea (Technique Tuesday)
INK:  VersaMark (Tsukineko)
PAPER:  Lemon Drop CS (French Poptone), White Linen (Ellen Hutson)
OTHER:  Caribbean and Lemondrop Baker’s Twine (The Twinery), Black Baker’s Twine (Divine Twine), White & Black Embossing Powder (Zing/American Crafts), Tempting Turquoise Embossing Powder (Stampin’ Up!), Half and Half Die (PTI), Corner Chomper (We R Memory Keepers)

Before you go, be sure and stop by the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge Blog to see what the other Girl Fridays have prepared for your inspiration.  I’ll be spending the day with my adorable grandsons today while mom goes to the fair with her girlfriends.  It’s a beautiful sunny day, so I’m pretty sure it’s going to be a good one!  Hope your day and your weekend are amazing!  Thanks so much for stopping by!