Dreamweaver Stencils Dream Team Color Challenge

Good morning!!

Welcome to Dreamweaver Stencils Dream Team Color Challenge!!

Today the Dreamweaver Team is playing around with Black and White!! 

I created a card using Dreamweaver Pearlescent Embossing Paste and the Nativity (LL554) stencil.

Using removable tape, I adhered the metal stencil to cardstock and applied paste with a Palette Knife.

I smoothed the Pearlescent Paste with a Paste Spreader (LM2010).  Once the paste was dry (about 30 minutes), I stamped the sentiment, corner punched the cardstock and added some pearls.

Paste embossing is such a fun and easy technique.  If you’re interested in a PDF version of this technique, please email me (wendyjo72@gmail.com) and I would be happy to send it over to you.

This simple technique can be used with any metal stencil.   An easy technique for you to try while trying out for Dreamweaver Stencil’s Dream Team DT Call.  You can get all the details HERE.

Be sure to take a look at all the Designer’s blogs today.  You can see the full Blog Roll at the right of this post.  While your at it, run over to Facebook and “like” our new page.

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…

Jingle

JoAnn Valderama

Kandi Phillips

Karen Baker

Katie Gehring

Shannon Teubner

Stephanie Mino

Taylor Usry

Wendy Price

and our Guests…

Chan Vuong

Jimmi Mayo

Betsy Veldman

Jessica Griffin

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!!

 

Last Week to Play Along Team Stampendous for the CAS challenge!!!

It's Saturday again, and that means the Stampendous team is playing along with our monthly challenge again! This month we are looking towards the holidays AND trying to keep it Clean and Simple. That's right - we are making Clean and Simple (CAS) holiday cards!!

Our challenge to you this month is to join us in making CAS holiday cards. We want to help you get into the holiday spirit, so this month we are giving away a Cling Jumbo Sparkle Joy set to a random winner. You don't have to use a Stampendous image or products to play along, but we sure love it when you do! You have until Thursday, November 3 at 11:59 PM EST to add your link to the linky tool, and we'll draw a random winner. You can enter as many times as you'd like.

Also, did you know Stampendous is offering FREE shipping on all orders $50 or over (to US/APO/FPO addresses)?! Use the promo code FREESHIP and stock up on some goodies!!

I really kept it “clean & simple” this week!! I cut my cardstock to the desired sizes and stamped my Stampendous Christmas Greeting sentiment and Manger Scene stamps with Versamark Embossing Ink and sprinkled white embossing powder over the top and heat embossed. I adhered all layers of cardstock together and the card was complete!!

Supplies:

Paper: Brick, Kraft (Bazzill Basics); white (Canvas Corp)

Stamps: Manger Scene CRP137, Christmas Greetings CRG119 (Stampendous)

Extras: rhinestones (craft supply); white embossing powder (Stampendous)

I have been LOVING this Clean & Simple challenge!!! Please play along and link up your creations at Stampendous Inspirations!!

Check out what these Stampendous Team Members have been up too...

Pam Hornschu

Wendy Price

Taylor Ursy

Melinda Gleissner

Kristine Reynolds

Stampendous Impressions

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

A Few Cutie Cards….

For a change, I decided to post a few cards that I made, just for the fun it. 

These cards aren’t Design Team requirements or anything.  I recently became a Sales  Representative and an a Certified Instructor for Copic Markers. 

I have started several clubs in my sales area, where I teach a Copic technique class each month. 

Here are a few cards we will be creating in class for Hair & Skin tones.

I used Stampavie’s “Sarah In the Snow with Kittie” by Tina Wenke for this card. Besides the coloring, I die cut out the forest green frame and inked it with white pigment ink and sprinkled Crystal Embossing powder on it for a “snowy” edge.

Supplies:

Paper: Green, white (Bazzill Basics)

Patterned Paper: Holiday Style Collection (Bazzill Basics)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, White Brilliance Ink (Tsukineko)

Markers: NO, N1, CO, C1, C3, R0000, R22, R24, R27, R00, YR00, YR02, E31, E50, E25, 100, BG000 (Copic Sketch Marker)

Dies: Scalloped Oval, Oval (Lifestyle Crafts)

Stamps:: Sarah in the Snow with Kittie (Stampavie)

Extras: Crystal Embossing Powder (Stampendous), brads (Creative Impressions); holly ribbon (May Arts); flowers (Prima)

I should also add that I never really got into coloring the darling little people images that are all over today, until I stared coloring with Copics.  Sooo fun!!  I am reaally enjoying myself!

Here is a card that I stamped with Susanna’s Custom Art and Card Design’s “Peeker’s” Collection.  If you haven’t heard or seen these darling images, I highly recommend!!

Unfortunately I mailed off this card and in the back had all the markers I had used on the image.  Double Dang!!!

Here is a supply list, none the less…

Paper: Marina Mist, Whisper White (Stampin’  Up)

Stamps: Hey Birdy Peeker (SCACD); Cling Jumbo Pine Drift (Stampendous)

Border: Scalloped Border (Sizzix)

Ribbon: Denim Swirl Organdy (Creative Impressions), twine (The Twinery)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark (Tsukineko)

Extras: Crystal Embossing Powder (Stampendous); button (craft supply)

Thanks for stopping by today!! 

I had a great time making these cards and I loved sharing them with you!!!

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)

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!

Stampendous Saturday Challenge …

This is my second post for today!! Please read this post and then you will run into my Haunty Halloween Blog Post!!

It's Saturday again, and that means the Stampendous team is playing along with our monthly challenge again! This month we are looking towards the holidays AND trying to keep it Clean and Simple. That's right - we are making Clean and Simple (CAS) holiday cards!!

Our challenge to you this month is to join us in making CAS holiday cards. We want to help you get into the holiday spirit, so this month we are giving away a Cling Jumbo Sparkle Joy set to a random winner. You don't have to use a Stampendous image or products to play along, but we sure love it when you do! You have until Thursday, November 3 at 11:59 PM EST to add your link to the linky tool, and we'll draw a random winner. You can enter as many times as you'd like.

Also, did you know Stampendous is offering FREE shipping on all orders $50 or over (to US/APO/FPO addresses)?! Use the promo code FREESHIP and stock up on some goodies!!

Don’t you love this Stampendous Cling Eiffel Noel?

The focal image was stamped in Versamark Embossing Ink and heat embossed with Detail Gold Embossing Powder. A moment after the embossing powder cooled, I colored the holly leaves and poinsettia petals with Spica Glitter pens by Copic.

I die cut the frame from a Spellbinders die and placed small dots of Red Liquid Pearls around the edges.

Easy and so pretty!!!

I hope that you will find the time to play along with us. Just a one more week before we pick a winner!!

Please take a few minutes to visit the other members of the Stampendous Team that played along with our challenge this week!!!

Wendy Price

Taylor Usry

Wendy Jordan

Pam Hornschu

Cyndi Bundy

Stampendous Blog

Have a great day and link up your creations here to enter to win our fabulous Stampendous prize!!!

Haunty Halloween Blog Hop!!! *WITH PRIZES*

Hey Hoppers!!

It’s almost HERE!!! Halloween!!! Yipppeee!!

If you just came from Wendy Price's blog, your are in the right place. If you just happened upon my blog today and would like to view the hop in it entirety, you can start at Cyndi Bundy's blog.

Today two of my favorite stamp companies, Skipping Stones Designs and Stampendous are sponsoring our fun little hop with free stamps and free stamp sets. You can see the list of sponsors and the prizes you can win at the bottom of this post!!

I started of my “Halloweenie” celebration by using this week’s Sketch Challenge at Skipping Stones Designs. Our sketch was drawn by the wildly talented Cristina Kowalczyk.

Here is my card…

and our sketch…

Please take the time to play along and link your creation to the Skipping Stones Designs blog. A random participant will receive a FREE SSD stamp set.

To throw your name in the hat to win Halloweenie or a whole slew of other fun prizes, please leave a comment here and all along at the hoppers blogs.

You don’t see a lot of Halloween projects on my blog, but this little Stampendous Cling Pumpkin Pair, got the best of me, and I had to use him multiple times. I even formualted a Copic Class with it.

This is a 3x3 stretched canvas background with patterned paper. The focal image is a stampbord like material.

I easily stamped the Pumpkin Pair with Stazon onto the Stampbord. I then started painting the image with Tim Holtz Distress Stains. I LOVE the end result!!!

I added a Maya Road zipper around the edge for interest and colored the teeth of the zipper with YR04 Copic Sketch Marker.

This card was a blast to make!!

The whole top of the card is sooo shiny!! I wish you could see it in person!!

I stamped the sentiment from Stampendous Stretchy Spooks (SSC1056) set and heat embossed with White Embossing Powder. Stampendous’ Boss Gloss has a fabulous dauber tip. I was able to apply embossing ink by simply turning the bottle upside down and rubbing it all over the paper. Once I achieved the coverage I was looking for, I sprinkled Marcasite Embossing Powder (EP214) over the entire front of the card.

I stamped my focal image on a piece of die cut paper. I “colored” in my image using a Pointalism technique. To finish off the card, around the edge of the focal image I place different sizes of Black Holograph Dot Sparklers by Stampendous.

Now hop over to Berenice Reardon's blog for some "knock your socks off " eye candy!!

To eligible to win prizes, you must leave comments on each hoppers blog post!!!

Enjoy the hop!!!

Cyndi Bundy

Pam Hornschu

Suzi McKenzie

Jingle

Krissy Fossmeyer

Alison Heikkila

Wendy Price

Wendy Jordan

Berenice Rendon

Lynn Mercurio

Maria Levine

Lee Kellogg

Stampendous! Blog

Sandie Dunn

Tanya Johnson

Beth Raney-Thomas

Mary Collins

Lea Kimmel

Angelique Nederpel

Betty Roberts

Taylor Usry

AND we have TONS of fabulous Halloween prizes from our wonderful sponsors!

Stampendous! ( 5 winners... 1 Halloween bg cling stamp each winner..Crowscape, Graveyard, Beware Gate, Castle Gate, Pumpkin Fence)

Karber Digital Designs...2 digis to one winner

Skipping Stones Design...Halloweenie set

Smeared Ink (5 single digis...1 each to 5 winners? or 5 to 1 winner?)

Strange Skin...1 set of choice (except Zombies)

Jens Digi Stamp...(5 images to one winner)

Simply Betty Stamps...($10 Gift Certificate)

La-La Land Crafts ($10 Gift Certificate)

Dreamweavers Stencils: 3 prizes: each is 4 stencils, 2 brushes, with 3 technique sheets each!

Dream Team Thursday with a *NEW* Dreamweaver Stencil product!!!

Good morning!!

Today I am so excited!!! I spent all day yesterday playing around with a *FUN* new product that Dreamweaver Stencils just came out with. Color Solutions Artist Grade Alcohol Inks.

These aren’t just your regular run of the mill alcohol inks. They are a deep, vibrant colors, that can be lightened and thinned by adding a Alcohol Ink Thinning and Cleaning Solution also by Dreamweavers. These alcohol inks have more “open” time, meaning that the ink will dry slower and give you more time to add layers or thin out your color if you decide. There’re Gold and Silver Metallic colors that are rich and SHINY!!!

I will be posting a tutorial next week here and you never know…maybe a video!!

Today I used Color Solutions Iceburg and Sizzling Silver on top of Glossy White Embossing Paste…

I started by paste embossing Snowflakes( LJ819), Gothic Snowflake (LL396) and Antler Snowflake (LL399) stencils with Glossy White Embossing Paste.

Once the paste was dry, which was about 30 minutes, I replaced my clean, dry stencil on top of the dried paste. I applied Iceburg and Sizzling Silver Color Solution with an applicator and a piece of felt. I daubed Color Solution over the Glossy White Paste, through the metal stencil. I repeated the last step with my large snowflakes.

Once I reached my desired color, I removed the stencil and set aside the front card panel for a few minutes to make sure it was dried completely.

I adhered my larger snowflakes to the front of the card panel and attached a ribbon.

Do you use alcohol inks? If so, you would love to work with these fabulous deep, vibrant colors!!

Thank you so much for stopping by today and checking out my creation!!!

You can play along with our Free Theme challenge at the Dream It Up blog. Please link your creation there for your change to win a Dreamweaver prize!!!

Please check out the other Dream Team members blog today. You will see the blog roll on the right of this post!!

Thanks for stopping by today!! Have a good one!

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….

Jingle

JoAnn

Kandi

Karen

Katie

Shannon

Stephanie

Taylor

Wendy P

and our Guests…

Cristina

Tammy

Andrea

Karen

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

Stampendous Saturday Continues on with our Clean And Simple (CAS) Holiday Card Challenge

Good morning!!!

It's the first Saturday of the month, and that means it's time again for a new challenge with the Stampendous team! 

We are looking towards the holidays AND trying to keep it Clean and Simple.  That's right - we are making Clean and Simple (CAS) holiday cards!!  You'll see a few team members showing off more than one card today; some chose to make one CAS and then take that design and showcase how to "step it up".  Others chose to make sets of CAS holiday cards that could be given as gifts or used to make a dent in the Christmas card list.

I chose to stamp up a FUN new Christmas Set, Cling Jumbo Holly Holidays…

In addition to the fabulous sentiment with this set, it also had a great border stamp…

I love the Cling Jumbo Stamps that have the larger sentiments.  They are easy to stamp and as you can see, take up most of the front of your card with the beautiful script.  For this week’s card, I stamped the sentiment with embossing ink  on a piece of patterned paper and heat embossed with Alexandrite PEARLustre Embossing powder.  I matted the sentiment panel and placed some brads. 

Our challenge to you this month is to join us in making CAS holiday cards.  We want to help you get into the holiday spirit, so this month we are giving away a Cling Jumbo Sparkle Joy set to a random winner. You don't have to use a Stampendous image or products to play along, but we sure love it when you do!  You have until Thursday, November 3 at 11:59 PM EST to add your link to the linky tool, and we'll draw a random winner.  You can enter as many times as you'd like.

Do you need some more CAS Stampendous inspiration?  I know just the gals…

Pam Hornschu

Taylor Usry

Wendy Price

Melinda Gleissner

Kristine Reynolds

Stampendous Inspirations

Have a great weekend!

Supplies:

Paper: White (Kelly Paper Co.); Baby Bell (Bazzill Basics)

Patterned Paper: Mistle Toe & Pear Paper Pack (Basic Grey)

Stamps: Cling Jumbo Holly Holidays (Stampendous)

Ink: Versamark (Tsukinekp)

Extras: brads (Creative Impressions); Alexandrite PEARLustre Embossing Powder (Stampendous)

Skipping Stones Designs Featured Friday!!

Good morning!!  Thanks for stopping by today!!

This month, Skipping Stones Designs has TWO featured sets of the month, Christmas Swirls and Wise Men.  Both of these sets are on sale for the month of October for $12.49.  STEAL!!

I followed along with this week’s sketch challenge and used Christmas Swirls…

I stamped the focal image with embossing ink and heat embossed with Detail Gold Embossing powder.

I then stamped the sentiment on vellum with embossing ink and heat embossed with Detail Gold Embossing powder.  I place the sentiment strip over the first star.  I repeated the first step and stamped the star on vellum, heat embossed again with Detail Gold embossing powder.  I cut out the star and popped it up with dimensionals.   For interest, I applied white and gold Liquid Pearls around the image and sentiment.

Next week, for our sketch challenge reveal, some of the members of the Design Team will be making some fabulous creations with Christmas Swirls and Wise Men.  Please check it out on Tuesday!!

Thanks for stopping by today!!  I hope were inspired to get out your SSD stamps and join our challenge!! 

Supplies:

Paper: Marina Mist (Stampin’ Up), Vellum (Bazzill Basics Paper)

Stamps: Christmas Swirls (Skipping Stones Designs)

Ink: Versamark Watermark Ink (Tsukineko)

Extras: Detail Gold Embossing Powder (Stampendous); Gold & White Liquid Pearls (Ranger)

Dreamweaver Stencil Color Challenge with the Dream Team!!

Good morning!!

Today the Dreamweaver Stencils Dream Team is creating with my FAVORITE color combination!!!  Pink & Black!!  Love it…anyway you try it!!

Here is my card….

I had a great time with my Fleur Di Lis (LS66) and Thank You (LG691) stencils.

I started by paste embossing the Dreamweaver Stencils Fleur Di Lis Stencil with Glossy Black Embossing Paste on the left panel of the card.  I then paste embossed the Fleur Di Lis stencil with Dreamweaver Stencils Glossy White Embossing Paste and sprinkled Dreamweaver Stencils Pixie Blush Metallic F/X on the paste while it was still wet.  I set all my embossed images to dry.

When the white paste was dry, I then paste embossed “thank you” with Glossy White embossing paste. 

Once I assembled the layers, I trimmed the edges with Black Diamond and Pink Stickles.  The Fleur Di Lis stencil was edged with Silver Liquid Pearls.

Supplies:

Cardstock: Pink Pirouette (Stampin’ Up); Black (CTMH)

Stencils: Fleur Di Lis, Thank You (Dreamweaver Stencils)

Extras: Embossing Paste (Dreamweaver Stencils); die cut (Spellbinders), Liquid Pearls, Stickles (Ranger)

Please take the time to visit the rest of the Dream Team today and see how they used Pink & Black.

There is a full blog roll on the right of this post.

Have a great day!!!

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!

Cristina Kowalczyk

Jingle

JoAnn Valderama

Kandi Phillips

Tammy Tutterow

Karen Baker

Katie Gehring

Shannon Teubner

Andrea Ewen

Stephanie Mino

Karen Christensen

Taylor Usry

Wendy Price

Wendy Jordan

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!!

Zander Zone Blog Hop & Auction

If you haven't had a chance to check out a fun Blog Hop and many auction items for sale, please check out this post. It is for a young man of 17 that was just diagnosed with Throat Cancer.

Check out my post here...

Zander Zone Blog Hop & Auction!

Stampendous Challenge Saturday!!!

It's the first Saturday of the month, and that means it's time again for a new challenge with the Stampendous team! This month we are looking towards the holidays AND trying to keep it Clean and Simple. That's right - we are making Clean and Simple (CAS) holiday cards!! You'll see a few team members showing off more than one card today; some chose to make one CAS and then take that design and showcase how to "step it up". Others chose to make sets of CAS holiday cards that could be given as gifts or used to make a dent in the Christmas card list.

I love making Clean and Simple cards!!! This morning, I made five of these cards!!!

Like I said above….this card is EASY PEASY.

I stamped my focal image, Stampendous Cling Key Note (CRP128) on kraft cardstock with Versafine Vintage Sepia pigment ink. After stamping, I colored the holly leaves and berries with color pencil. I then tied a ribbon with a button. Simple.

Our challenge to you this month is to join us in making CAS holiday cards. We want to help you get into the holiday spirit, so this month we are giving away a Cling Jumbo Sparkle Joy set to a random winner. You don't have to use a Stampendous image or products to play along, but we sure love it when you do! You have until Thursday, November 3 at 11:59 PM EST to add your link to the linky tool, and we'll draw a random winner. You can enter as many times as you'd like.

Take a peek at what the rest of the Stampendous Design Team and Blog Stars are creating for this month's challenge

Taylor Usry

Melinda Gleinsser

Pam Hornschu

Krissy Fossmeyer

Stampendous Blog

From The Zander Zone Blog Hop & Auction

Please scroll down (after you read this post ) to see my Dreamweaver Stencil Thursday Post....

Welcome to the Xander Zone!! You are in for quite a trip through todays Blog Hop and Auction. Our dear friend Betty Roberts, owner of Simply Betty Stamps has just found out this week that her 17 year old son Christian has Stage 1 Throat Cancer. He will be having surgery next week and many months of Therapy to follow. (To read more from Betty on what’s going on please go HERE)

Betty’s DT and the Crafty Sprouts DT along with a few friends have come together today for the From the Xander Zone Blog Hop and Auction! If you are stumbling into this hop please head to Crafty Sprouts to catch the beginning of the hop!

If you hopped here from Zeni's Blog then you are right on track!

As you hop along today you will see cards created with Xander, the first in a new series to be released called “From the Xander Zone”. He is available with a donation to Betty’s family. Christian will be undergoing Surgery next week to remove his tonsils and then the thrice weekly Therapy will begin on the tumor. His therapy could last for many months.

There is also a contest running through October 16^th and Christian will pick a random winner who will receive the whole collection! The details on the contest are at the SBS blog.

As you hop today you will also see many cards and projects up for Auction. In order to make a bid on an item leave a comment on that person’s blog with your offer AND your name and email address. Please remember that it might not be you who gets the winning bid, so check back if you really want it! Unfortunetly due to the high costs of international postage, I won't be accepting any bidders from outside of the United States.

At the end of the Hop (Tuesday night October 11^th at 9pm EST the auction will come to a close. Winners will be sent a Paypal invoice and the Winners will be announced on the Simply Betty Stamps blog. Please note that we are asking for timely payment, with 48 hours of the announcement on Tuesday morning or the runner up will be chosen. This is for the simple fact that Betty’s family needs this money as quickly as possible for all of these unexpected and out-of-pocket needs.

Today I am offering this 14 x 14 stenciled chalkboard, that I hand painted, stenciled and colored.

I started with a Natural Wood 14 x 14 Memo Board from Canvas Corp. I painted the frame with acrylic paint, when dry, I stenciled with the Dreamweaver Black Eyed Susan stencil and Regular Embossing Paste all around the edges of the frame. Once all edges were stenciled and pasted, I set aside to dry. Once the edges were dry, I replaced the stencil over the images and added pigment ink to where I wanted color on the flowers. I added a few embellishments and the frame was a success. Inside of the frame is "chalkstock" by Canvas Corp. You could also slide a dry erase board in the top of the frame.

Betty and her family will appreciate all donations and proceeds from the auction. You can send cards and donations also too:

Christian Ford

P.O. Box 132314

Big Bear Lake, CA 92315

From here please hop over to Rebecca!

If you get lost along the way, here’s the hop order!

Crafty Sprouts

Cyndi

Kristi

Suzi

Zeni

Wendy

Rebecca

Vicki

Alison

Raven

Lea

Lelia

Sandra

Nicole

Elsa

Cheri

Carley

Linda

Pam

Susan

Simply Betty Stamps

Betty's family, and all of the Hop Participants hope that this auction will help raise money to help with all the upcoming expenses that they are about to succumb. I am keeping Christian and his entire family in my prayers!!!

Dreamweaver Stencil's Dream Team Thursday

Welcome to Dreamweaver Stencil Free Theme Week!!

On Monday, October 10th, our fabulous neighbors to the north, Canada,  will be celebrating Thanksgiving.  I decided to share an easy Thank You card I made a while back.

I sprayed the background Hounds tooth Stencil (LJ913) with Margarita and Blueberry Milkshake Memory Mists and placed watercolor paper over the top if the stencil and ran it through the Vagabond Machine.  As you can see the Memory Mists left a nice impression on the paper.  When that was dry, I paste embossed over the Hounds tooth design with the Flourish Stencil (LJ896), with translucent paste.  While the paste was still wet, I sprinkled blue and green glitter over the paste.  The Thank You Stencil (LG691) sentiment stencil has six “thank you” sentiments.  It is a great all around stencil.  I paste embossed “Thank You” on blue paper with Glossy White Embossing Paste.

Please take the time to stop by all of the Dream Team’s blogs today and leave them some love!!

You will find a complete blog roll on the right of this post. 

You can also play along with us and link your stenciling creation at Dream It Up.  We love to see what people are making with their stencils!

Happy Thanksgiving Canada!!!!

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...

We would love to see your take on Cristina’s sketch. Please link up at the Skipping Stones Designs blog for your chance to win a free stamp set!!!

Take a peek at all the great projects that the SSD team has made today…

Jingle

JoAnn

Kandi

Karen

Katie

Shannon

Stephanie

Taylor

Wendy P.

and our Guests…

Cristina

Andrea

Tammy

Karen

Have a great day!!!

World Card Making Day!! Stampendous October Challenge!!!

Happy World Card Making Day friends!!

Today Stampendous Design Team and Blog Stars are celebrating World Card Making Day with a fun, new challenge!!

It's the first Saturday of the month, and that means it's time again for a new challenge with the Stampendous team! This month, to kick thing off and celebrate World Card Making Day, we are looking towards the holidays AND trying to keep it Clean and Simple. That's right - we are making Clean and Simple (CAS) holiday cards!! You'll see a few team members showing off more than one card today; some chose to make one CAS and then take that design and showcase how to "step it up". Others chose to make sets of CAS holiday cards that could be given as gifts or used to make a dent in the Christmas card list.

Our challenge to you this month is to join us in making CAS holiday cards. We want to help you get into the holiday spirit, so this month we are giving away a Cling Jumbo Sparkle Joy set to a random winner. You don't have to use a Stampendous image or products to play along, but we sure love it when you do! You have until Thursday, November 3 at 11:59 PM EST to add your link to the linky tool, and we'll draw a random winner. You can enter as many times as you'd like.

Here is my Clean And Simple card…

This card is easy enough that ANYONE can make it!!!

I stamped the GORGEOUS Stampendous Poinsettia Corner and Stampendous Perfectly Clear Christmas Wishes with Tsukineko Versafine Black Onyx. I quickly ran a heat tool over the quick drying pigment ink. Once I was satisfied that the ink was dry, I colored it with Copic Sketch Markers.

I REALLY enjoyed making this Clean and Simple card. Fun!! I know that I am going to enjoy this months challenge!!!

For some fabulous Holiday Clean and Simple inspiration, check out our Design Team and Blog Stars posts today!! Then, run off to your craft room and celebrate World Card Making Day with a Stampendous challenge..

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Taylor Usry

Cyndi Bundy

Krissy Fossmeyer

Jenn Dove

Wendy Jordan

Wendy Price

Lynn Mercurio

Melinda Gleissner

Piali Biswas

Suzanne Czosek

Laura Davis

Rachel Sztonyk

Stampendous Blog

We can’t wait to see you Clean And Simple creation. Link it up to our In Linkz here or on the Stampendous Inspiration blog.