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Saturday, June 2, 2012

Stampendous Saturday Summer Challenge!!!

Ready for another challenge with the Stampendous team? Throughout the month of June we are challenging ourselves (and you) to make a card, project, gift, altered item, or a bit of home decor that is related to SUMMER! That's right, we're celebrating the start of summer all month long!

I was so inspired this week by the Splitcoast Stampers Sketch Challenge, that I had to incorporate my Stampendous stamps with it.

Our theme this month is Summer and flowers are certainly SUMMER!

I stamped the flowers from Agapanthus Perfectly Clear Stamp Set with Versamark Watermark Ink and heat embossed with White PEARLustre embossing powder. The outlines of the Agapanthus was heat embossed with Aged Taupe Embossing Enamel.

I stamped the sentiment with Aged Taupe Embossing Enamel and cut around it. I adhered the sentiment to this beautiful taupe colored crochet lace.

I stapled the lace to the card panel.

Supplies:

Paper: Classic Solar Crest, Desert Storm (Neenah)

Stamps: Agapanthus Perfectly Clear Stamp Set (Stampendous)

Ink: Versamark Watermark Ink (Tsukineko)

Extras: crotchet lace (stash), White PEARLustre Embossing Powder, Aged Taupe Embossing Enamel (Stampendous), staples (Ranger)

Be sure to check out what my teammates have created for the challenge today!

Stampendous Impressions

Wendy Jordan <----ME!

Jennifer Ingle
Pam Hornschu
Janelle Stollfus
Taylor Usry
Kristine Reynolds
Tenia Nelson
Susie Moore

Don't forget, we want YOU to play along with us! Simply make a summer themed project of some sort and add the direct link for your project to our collection at the end of this post (or on the Stampendous blog) no later than Thursday, June 28 at 11:59 PM EST . You do not have to use Stampendous products, but we sure love it when you do! As an extra incentive for playing along, one lucky crafter (drawn at random) will receive this fabulous new Friendly Phrases Perfectly Clear stamp set:

As an even bigger incentive, if you use Stampendous products on your project, that entry will count twice, which increases your chances of winning! Due to shipping restrictions, the winner must have a US address. We hope you have a chance to play along with us (you an enter as many times as you'd like!) this month...Happy Crafting!

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Skipping Stones Designs Sketch Challenge #122

Good morning and WELCOME to Skipping Stones Designs Sketch Challenge #122!!

April is here and we have returning Sketch Artist Dina Kowel and Guest Design Team Members, Annette Allen and Veronica Zallis!!

We are going to have a lot of fun in April!! I can feel it. Let’s get this party started now!!

This week I was really eager to play with this older set from Skipping Stones Designs, but it is a set that I just received, Tropical Birthday!! It is such a fun set!!

A few years ago, my Mom and I took the vacation of our lives in Maui, so I knew that this set was going to make a Birthday card for her!! Her birthday is next week!!

It just so happened that this set and Dina’s sketch went PERFECTLY together!!!

The patterned papers I used for this card are from a fabulous paper crafting shop on Maui called Island Paperie! They make their own Hawaiian paper designs there. You can check their store online as well!!

The rest of the Skipping Stones Designs team has made fabulous creations this week. Check out their blogs and leave them some love…

and our Guests

Supplies:

Stamps: Tropical Birthday (Skipping Stones Designs)

Paper: Bazzill Basics Paper

Patterned Paper: Island Paperie

Ink: Copic Sketch Markers

Extra: Stickles (Ranger)

I can’t wait to see what you create with Dina’s sketch!! Link your creation to the Skipping Stones Designs Sketch 122 Mr. Linky, and you could win a FREE set from Skipping Stones Designs!!

Have a great week!

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Skipping Stones Designs Sketch Challenge #121!

Good morning Skipping Stones Designs lovers!!

Angi Barrs has provided ANOTHER fabulous sketch for you this week!!

Today I used Heartsong!! I love this set. In April, SSD has a big surprise for our customers, HEARTSONG 2!!!

I love this sentiment from Heartsong!!

I want to show off my Geo Die!! I have had this little beauty for a year and NEVER used it. I love it. You will have to check out their website, and see all the fabulousness!!

Angi’s Sketch

Are you ready now for some more Skipping Stones Inspiration??? Check out these chica’s…

Are you ready to win a stamp set from Skipping Stones Designs? Link your creation, using this week’s sketch to the SSD blog!!

We can’t wait to see what you will create this week!!!

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Skipping Stones Designs Sketch #109 Challenge!!

Happy New Year!!

It is soo good to be back in the land of blogging.

I thought that I was taking a bit of a break, but now that I am back at it, I missed it a bit!!!

Today Skipping Stones Designs is welcoming a new Sketch Artist and three Guest Designers that will be joining us all month long.

Here is our first sketch of 2012 from Pamela Young…

My card…

The sentiment is really small, here is a close up…

What a fun sketch!! Thanks Pam!!

Check out how the rest of the team used this sketch…

and our Guests…

Now it is your turn! We can’t wait to see what you can create with our sketch. Link up your creation to the SSD blog for your chance to win a FREE SSD set!!!

Have a great day!

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Season’s Greetings from Dreamweaver Stencils!!

Good morning!!

Welcome to Dreamweaver Stencils Sketch Challenge!

This week, Design Team Head Honcho, Pam Hornshcu challenged us to follow a sketch AND make a Vintage Christmas Card.

I don’t know how Vintage mine got but I did follow the sketch…

Here is my card…

If you remember my post from last week’s Dreamweaver Stencil Free Theme, you probably remember the “smoosh” technique that used with Dreamweaver Stencils Color Solutions Alcohol Ink. The card I made for today is the second piece to my smooshing. The left side of the card with the three panels, I die cut windows out from the card stock. I daubed Versamark on one side of the Branch and Berries Stencil (LJ900) and placed it onto Thermal Acetate from Stampendous, and embossed through the Vagabond Machine. Once the acetate had been run though, the area’s that I wanted to emboss with powder were now ready to sprinkle Winter Wonderland over and heat set. As you can see from the picture, only the branches are embossed.

The background of the “window” is a left over piece of last week’s smoosh creation. The background effect is simple. Drip a few drops of different colored Color Solutions Alcohol Ink onto a craft mat, add a drop of a metallic ink and place glossy cardstock, glossy side down onto the inks and push the paper around in the inks. If give a fabulous swirly effect.

The lacey scalloped circle die was cut out with blue metallic paper and I paste embossed with Silver Embossing Paste Season’s Greetings LL453.

Supplies:

Paper: Glossy (Ranger), White (Coredinations); Metallic Blue (craft stash)

Stencils: Season’s Greetings LL453, Branch and Berries LL900 (Dreamweaver Stencils)

Ink: Iceburg, Blue Velvet, Sizzling Silver Color Solutions Alcohol Ink (Dreamweaver Stencils)

Extras: border punch (Martha Stewart); Canadian Blue Glitter Ritz (Elizabeth Crafts); die (Spellbinders), thermal acetate, Winter Wonderland Embossing Powder (Stampendous); Silver Embossing Paste (Dreamweaver Stencils)

Thank you for stopping by today. Please stop by the other team member’s blogs. You can find the blog roll to the right of this post.

Have a great day!!

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Skipping Stones Designs Sketch Challenge 106 & Featured Sets of the Month Blog Hop!!!

CLICK HERE To see the Laura Weed Birthday Celebration

Welcome to Sketch Challenge #106 and a Blog Hop to feature many of the wonderful Texture Sets from Skipping Stones Designs! If you just came from JoAnn’s blog, you are in the right place. If you just happened along my blog today, start at the beginning of the hop at Skipping Stones Design. The entire hop order is there and you can hop from blog to blog with ease.

Here is the fabulous Jen Del Muro’s sketch..

My card today was super fun to make. I teamed up Timeless Textures, a bit of Pumkin Seeds Sentiments and Canvas Corp.

This month Skipping Stones Designs is featuring their texture sets. The following sets are on sale all month for $12.49…

Timeless Textures

Pumkin Seed Sentiments

Here is my take…

I used Black Stripes on Ivory cardstock from Canvas Corp and SSD Timeless Textures Texture stamps. The “Happy Birthday” sentiment is from SSD Pumkin Seeds. It is hard to see in this picture, but all of the mat cardstock and ink are a deep chocolate brown, almost black. The die cut frame is the Fleur Di Lis from Spellbinders.

Be sure to hop along and leave comments on all the fabulous designers’ blogs. This month we are welcoming Tosha Leyendekker, Kendra Sand and Windy Robinson to our team as Guest Designers! Jen Del Muro will be providing all the fabulous sketch inspiration this month including the sketch we're using in today's hop!

Head over to our December Sponsor’s blog, Canvas Corp for some more Skipping Stones Design inspiration!

Skipping Stones Designs

Wendy Jordan <—Me!!

See you tomorrow!! Thanks for stopping by!!!

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Skipping Stones Designs Sketch Challenge #105

Oh my goodness, I can’t believe it is December already!!

We have a brand new sketch this week and Jen Del Muro as our December Sketch Artist!!

Here is her first fabulous sketch…

and my creation…

This month Skipping Stones Designs is teamed up with Canvas Corp to showcase their fabulous paper crafting products and how GREAT they work with Skipping Stones Designs stamps!!!

Today I used Skipping Stones Designs Holiday Cats with Naughty or Nice on Kraft patterned paper from Canvas Corp. I stitched the darling Mini Kraft bags from Canvas Corp to the base of the card stick and adhered two cut out medallions from the patterned paper. I colored the darling kitty with my Copics and added the “Santa Approved” medallion with the tiny green cloths pin.

Take a peek and the Canvas Corp blog and see how they have been using our stamps and the rest of our fabulous team…

and Our Guests…

Thank you for stopping by!! I can’t wait to see what you create this week!!!

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Skipping Stones Designs Sketch Challenge #103 & BLOG CANDY

Hey blogging friends!

It’s that time again…Sketch Tuesday with Skipping Stones Designs!!

We have another great sketch this week by Chan Vuong…

Here is my rendition…

I have been meaning to ink up the SSD All Star set for sometime now. As I sit at my desk this week…I thought…YES…this is the week!!

I simple stamped all the images, colored them and added the sentiment!! Preetty easy!!!

Please play along with the rest of the team and link up your creation using Chan’s sketch on the Skipping Stones Design blog for your chance to win a FREE SSD set next Wednesday!!!

Check out how our November Guests and Design Team members interpreted the sketch…

Jennifer Ingle (Moxie FABBER of the Year…in my book)

I am only TWO followers away from 300!!! Please pass my blog along to your friends!! As soon as I hit 300 followers, I will be giving away FREE stuff from all of my favorite companies…Stampendous, Skipping Stones Designs and Dreamweaver Stencils!!!

Pass It On!!!

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Dreamweaver Stencils Dream Team Sketch Challenge!!!

Good morning and welcome to Dreamweaver Stencils Dream Scheme Thursday post!!

Today we are challenging you to play along with our sketch challenge!!

Today I completed two cards, using four stencils!!

Here are the stencils used today are Houndstooth, Large Damask, Happy Valentine’s Day and Tolle Heart.

The result…

The third photo shows the metallic sheen that two cards have. Stampee Crafts Metallic foil, brings your cards to life!!

The supplies that I used today were…

Garnet Metallic Stampee Crafts Foil
Dry Embossing Machine with Stamping Details Rubber Mat
Embossing Ink and Embossing Powder
Hot Laminator

To get started, I dry embossed all of the cardstock that needed to be dry embossed. I love to emboss my Dreamweaver Stencils with the Vagabond by Sizzix, but all die cutting machines on the market can be used to dry emboss metal stencils. If the proper formula is used, embossing metal stencils is just as effective as using an embossing folder.

The stacking method that I use with the Vagabond is platform, metal stencil, card stock, Stamping Details Rubber Mat and two acrylic plates.

Once the card stock was dry embossed, I left the Dreamweaver Stencil in place and started stamping my embossing ink all over the exposed area’s of the stencil. This process is going to allow embossing powder to stick to the area’s that the embossing ink to sticking too.

The area’s of my card that are dry embossed and then heat set with powder are the Damask background and the Hounds tooth panel.

The focal point of my two cards, Tolle Heart and Happy Valentine's Day were also dry embossed with the Vagabond machine, embossing ink was placed over their exposed area’s and sprinkled with Stampee Crafts Bonding Powder. I heat set the bonding powder and placed a sheet of Garnet Metallic Foil over each image, placed it in between a folded sheet of copy paper and ran it though a hot laminator, a quilting iron would also work well. The heat mixed with the pressure heats up the bonding powder, to allow the metallic foil to stick. After the heating process, peel off the foil and where your bonding powder was applied, foil will stick. It is important to remove all excess bits of bonding powder. Some of it you can’t see and then foil will stick there. It is permanently adhered also. Scraping it off, doesn’t work!!!

You can may see small areas on my project that I have covered up with white gel pen.

If you want a bit more information on Stampee Crafts Metallic & Holographic Foils you can see an review that I wrote shortly after Winter 2011 CHA HERE.

Have you ever thought you’d like to join the Dream Team?? Now is your chance. Dreamweaver Stencils is having a 2012 Design Team call. Not only are the products you get to work with AMAZING, you will meet some amazing gals that will inspire you every day!!! I encourage all levels of crafters to apply. No special skills necessary. Get all of the information on how to apply HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today. Please take the time to visit the other members of the team’s blogs. You will find a blog roll to the right of this post. Don’t forget to link your creation to Dream It Up, Lynell Harlow’s blog!! I can’t wait to see your creation!

Have a great day!!!

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Skipping Stones Designs Featured Set of the Month Blog Hop!!!

Welcome to Sketch Challenge # 102 and Blog hop to Feature our Stamp Set of the Month, Rustic Tiles! Rustic Tiles is a versatile set, that you are about to see from our Design Team. If you just came from JoAnn’s blog, you are in the right place. If you just happened along my blog today, start at the beginning of the hop at Skipping Stones Design. The entire hop order is there and you can hop from blog to blog with ease.
Be sure to hop along and leave comments on all the fabulous designers’ blogs. This month we are welcoming Jimmi Mayo, Betsy Veldman and Jessica Griffin to our team as Guest Designers! Chan Vuong will be providing all the fabulous sketch inspiration this month including the sketch we're using in today's hop!

Here is my card….

and Chan’s sketch…

This was such an interesting sketch. I was able to use Rustic Tiles, a set of six stamps. One of the stamps resembles a snowflake. I simple stamped in the new Distress Ink Festive Berries (limited edition for winter from Ranger) around the edge. I only used half of the stamp to create the border. The sentiment is from Wise Men. The sentiment is horizontal, so I broke it up with tape and stamped individual words.

Did I mention that Rustic Tiles is on sale this month for $12.49!! What a steal!!!

Now for the hop…

You have reached the end of the hop, run back to Skipping Stones Designs to join in the fun of our weekly sketch challenge. You could win a FREE stamp set for playing!!

Thanks for stopping by today!! I hope you have a great day!!

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Skipping Stones Designs Sketch #101

Good morning!!

Welcome to Skipping Stones Designs Sketch Challenge 101!!

Chan has really gave us a beauty this week!!!

Here is my card…

and Chan’s Sketch….

Today I used the stamp set Skipping Stones Designs Brrrthday. The set has some great snowflakes as well as some amazing sentiments.

I stamped all of the snowflakes in Versamark Embossing Ink and heat embossed each one with sparkly, transparent embossing powder. I also stamped the sentiment with Versamark and heat embossed with Ivory embossing powder.

On the back of the panel that I stamped the snowflakes, placed 1/4'” double sided Be Creative Tape. The take is how I adhered my Creative Impressions Blue Swirly Organdy ribbon before stitching it with my sewing machine. I repeated the same step on the opposite side of the panel.

This month Creative Impressions has been nice enough to gift each of the members of the Team with a bag of goodies ranging from ribbon to brads. You will see how creative our team is as you check out their blogs and see how they have interpreted Chan’s sketch as well as the fun goodies from Creative Impressions!

and our Guests…

Supplies:

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Marina Mist, Very Vanilla (Stampin’ Up)

Ink: Versamark (Tsukineko), Marina Mist (Stampin’ Up)

Ribbon: Denim Swirly Organdy Ribbon (Creative Impressions)

Embossing Powder: Silver Dust, Ivory (Stampendous)

Please play along with us this week for your change to win a FREE Skipping Stones Designs set.

Random.org picks our winner each week!!

We can’t wait to see what you create!!

Have a great day!!!

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Skipping Stones Designs 100th Sketch Challenge!!

WOW!! Skipping Stones Designs has hit a milestone!! Today is their 100th sketch challenge!!!

This month Chan Vuong has agreed to create our sketches, so you know they will be fabulous!!!

We also have an awesome line up of Guest Designers….Jimmi Mayo, Betsy Veldman and Jessica Griffin.

This month Creative Impressions was kind enough to gift all members of the SSD team with a bag of fun embellishments and ribbons. Check back each week to see how the gals used there Creative Impressions on their creations!!

The great part about this card was that I was able to use our sketch challenge for a birthday card for my Husband. I used the Tough Guy and Grunge sets. The twine on the border is from Creative Impressions.

Here is the sketch….

Supplies:

Paper: Soft Suede, Very Vanilla (Stampin’ Up)

Stamps: Tough Guy, Grunge (Skipping Stones Designs)

Fiber: Twine (Creative Impressions)

Ink: Soft Suede (Stampin’ Up); Walnut Stain (Ranger)

Check our what are fabulous team has done with Chan’s sketch…

and our Guests…

I am so excited that we are at 100 sketches!! If 30 people play our sketch challenge this week, I will give away ANOTHER stamp set to a participant in our challenge!!! Pass it along.

Link your creations to the Skipping Stones Designs blog!!

We can’t wait to see your creations!!

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Dreamweaver Stencils Dream Team Sketch Challenge!!

Good morning!!

Welcome to Dream Scheme Thursday!!!

Our Dreamweaver Stencil challenge for you this week is a sketch challenge!!

Here is my take on Kim’s sketch…

Here is the sketch …

I started my project by choosing three pieces of card stock, red, green and kraft. I paste embossed a 6x6 sheet of each with our Damask Background Stencil with Transparent Embossing Paste.

While the paste was still wet, I sprinkled transparent glitter over the top. The glitter will stick to the embossing powder as it dries.

I chose to emboss 6 x 6 sheet of paper, because this stencils dimensions are 5.5 x 5.5. I have quite a bit extra for a few more Christmas cards.

While my backgrounds were drying, I “slathered” the back of Candles (LM 119) with Hawaiian Coconut Soap to prevent the stencil from sticking to the double sided adhesive paper that I attached it too. Once I had my stencil in place, I started placing the desired colors of glitter where I wanted it on the focal image.

Once I had all of my desired colors in place, I cleaned up the area of excess glitter with a Glitter Magnet. I didn’t want to have any excess “glitters” lying around, they would adhere to the exposed area of the adhesive paper once I removed it from the stencil.

I covered the entire piece of Double Sided Adhesive Paper with Transparent Glitter. Once I had desired coverage, I used the glitter magnet again over the image to clear the colored glitters.

I matted my "Double Glittered Candle” on a few background pieces of cardstock, cut my background papers to the desired size and adhered them to the card base. I stamped Season’s Greetings onto a tag and adhered it to the base of the card with ribbon.

Last, I adhered my focal image with dimensional stickers.

It seems that I wrote a bunch of steps, but both of these techniques are very easy.

We hope you play along with our Dream Team this week and link your creations to Dream It Up. We can’t wait to see what you create!!

Last week, I had promised a tutorial or video this week. I haven’t forgotten!! It’s only Thursday!!!

Take the time to hop over to the other team member’s blogs. There have some fantastic eye candy for you!!

Have a great day!!

Supplies:

Cardstock: White, Red, Green (stash); Kraft (Canvas Corp)

Stencils: Damask, Candles (Dreamweaver Stencils)

Glitter: Transparent (Stampendous)

Stamps: Stampendous

Ink: Stampin’ Up

Extras: Transparent Embossing Paste (Dreamweaver Stencils); ribbon (Creative Impressions), tag (Stampin’ Up), jewel (Creative Impressions)

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Skipping Stones Designs Sketch Challenge 99 and a BIG Thank You!

Good morning!! Here we are again, the last sketch challenge of October!

That means we have to say a *BIG* Thank You to our fabulous sketch artist, Cristina Kowalczyk and our Guests, Andrea Ewen, Tammy Tutterow and Karen Christensen!

All month long these gals have been rocking the Skipping Stones Designs creations!!!

I am here to share another fabby sketch that the ENTIRE Design Team loved and made fabulous creations with…

Here is my card…

I used Sentiment Frames and our release for October Christmas Song.

Please check out all the fabulous inspiration from the rest of the SSD team. You can find a complete blog roll to the right of this post!

I hope you will have time to play along with us this week and throw your creation in the hat to win a FREE set of Skipping Stones Designs stamps!!

I can’t wait to see what you create!

Have a great day!!

See you tomorrow…

Supplies:

Paper: White(Georgia Pacific), Gold Metallic (The Paper Cut)

Stamps: Sentiment Frames, Christmas Song (Skipping Stones Designs)

Extras: Die Cut (Spellbinders); Garnet , Jade PEARLustre Embossing Powder (Stampendous); Gold Border Stickers (Elizabeth Crafts Designs); Liquid Pearls (Ranger)

Have a good day!

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Skipping Stones Designs Sketch Challenge 98 !!

Good morning blogging friends!!

Today we not only have a new sketch challenge for you, but some of the Design Team members have made creations with one of two of our Featured Sets for October, Christmas Swirls and Wise Men.

Here is Christina’s sketch..

and my rendition….

Christmas Swirls and Wise Men are both on sale this month for $12.49 each. What a steal for these great sets!!!

Please take the time to visit all the Design Team members blogs and our guests….

and our Guests…

Thanks for stopping by today!! I hope you have a wonderful Fall day!!!

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Skipping Stones Design New Release Blog Hop!!!!

Welcome to Sketch Challenge #97 and the release of Christmas Song. If you just came from Wendy Price’s blog, you are in the right place. If you just happened along my blog today, start at the beginning of the hop at Skipping Stones Design. The entire hop order is there and you can hop from blog to blog with ease.

Cristina’s sketch this week is out of this world….

Here is my card…

Be sure to hop along and leave comments on all the fabulous designers’ blogs. This month we are welcoming Karen Christensen, Andrea Ewen and Tammy Tutterow to our team as Guest Designers! Cristina Kowalczyk will be providing all the fabulous sketch inspiration this month including the sketch we're using in today's hop!

You have reached the end of the hop!! Now rush off to your craft room and and create something fabulous with Cristina’s sketch. Link it up at the Skipping Stones Designs blog for your chance to win a FREE SSD stamp set!!

Have a great day!!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Skipping Stones Designs Sketch Challenge 96!

Good morning!! Welcome to the first week of October!!

Just like each and every Tuesday, we have a new Skipping Stones Designs has a new sketch challenge for you to play along with. The cool part about the FIRST week of the month is the introduction of our new Sketch Artist and Guest Design Team Members!!!

This month all of our sketches have been drawn by Cristina Kowalczyk and joining her as guests are Andrea Ewen, Tammy Tutterow and Karen Christensen!! See their full introduction on the Skipping Stones Design blog!

Here is this week’s sketch…

My rendition…

I am so in love with Cristina’s Clean and Simple style!! I tried soooo hard from placing the Liquid Pearls on it and the scalloped border, but I just had too. I just had to keep adding STUFF!!!!

With October being Breast Cancer Awareness month, I HAD to use Cancer Schmancer this week!!! This set means alot to me!! When this set was released last month, I made a few cards that I just loved. I sent them to the Cancer Treatment Center of America in Goodyear, Arizona to give to Breast Cancer patients. Here are those cards...