Word Card Making Day Winners!

Random.Cara picked #1 and #174---Yes...two winners!

Congratulations to Judy Anderson who said "Oh oh oh I love these books. I save them and take them when I go on vacation. Hubby drives and I get to peruse the books. So put me in the drawing" and to Cassie who said "Thanks for the opportunity to win a copy of this magazine. Your work is beautiful!"

Please email your address to me so I can mail the Papercrafts Special issue "Cards, Gifts & More" to you BOTH!

Thanks!

WCMD Activities---Touch Lives AND WIN BIG!

Well, as you know TODAY is World Card Making Day!

If you are looking for some WONDERFUL ways to touch a few lives AND enter to win some great prizes---check this out!

MAKE a CARD & Make a Difference with Gina K Designs

Gina is hosting a card drive for our military overseas. This cause is near and dear to my heart as my husband serves in the Army. Check out her post about it HERE to be entered to win---

(1) $250 shopping spree at Gina K. Designs

(1) Box of Copic Ciao makers of your choice

(3) $50.00 Gift Certificates for Gina K. Designs stamps

(5) Stamp sets

Find out all the details on Gina's blog!

Stamper's Can Make a Difference- Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

Touch the lives of others by creating cards for those who could really use a lift. Check out Korin's heartfelt post HERE and enter to win a $100 gift certificate just by participating!

Now, I have to share this with you. Our friends lost their 13 month old daughter Anna last week. She passed away very suddenly and it was just so shocking...I am still so shocked. I desperately wanted to ask everyone to send cards but I felt felt like I would be burdening everyone because I was in the middle of the card drive for Alzheimer's caregivers. So, I asked for prayers--thinking that would be easy enough for people to do..... Yesterday, out of the blue, Korin emailed me to ask if I thought having a card shower for this family would be a good idea. (smiling...God is good!)

The kindness of stampers NEVER ceases to amaze me....

Coming soon---Update on Alzheimer's Donation and Heart to Heart Card-raiser. IT's AMAZING!!!

Happy World Cardmaking Day!!! Spread the LOVE!

Season's Greetings

Hello everyone! Happy Friday. Whew---this was a busy week with two releases!
I will post a lot of my release samples soon---but I am catching up on some housework and family time this weekend. (I will be back to post details about the WCMD activities AND the PC magazine blog candy winner!)

But first, I wanted to share this simple holiday card with you. I used the Ornate Seasons image from Inkadinkado. I stamped the image another time and cut the bird out and added some Shimmerz Paint (rustic red) to it so it is super sparkly in real life!


Here is another view of the card:

Materials used: Ornate Seasons (Inkadinkado); Cranberry crisp ink (SU!); Cardstock-very vanilla (SU!); Designer paper-Basic Grey Fresh Snow (Blitzen Collection), Basic Grey Silent night and pinecone brown (Figgy Pudding);buttons; hemp (Hobby Lobby); Oval Nestabilites (Spellbinders); Cuttlebug (Provocraft); Cropadile; eyelets (Making Memories); Sakura Stardust Gellyroll pen; Shimmerz Paint (rustic red); Corner rounder punch (Creative Memories); dimensionals (Stampin' Up!)


You can find this stamp and tons of other fantastic stamps, embellishments and supplies at Stamper's Dream Store!

Thanks for stopping by!

Gina K Designs Preview Day 3

Today, I am happy to share my sample using two of the new sets (by my friend Melanie!) that will be released by Gina K Designs TONIGHT! This month she designed a floral set that will knock your socks off. It is called A Year of Flowers. To go with it, she is releasing a sentiment set called Say It With Flowers, filled with words and phrases that work beautifully with the flowers!

Here is the card I created for tonight:

I really wanted her gorgeous flowers to be center stage so I made the card very muted...using whites and gold for most of the design. To mimic the cloisonne look, I stamped the flowers on watercolor paper and embossed them in gold. Then I watercolored the flowers and attached them to the card.

I think the light background forces your eyes to those gorgeous flowers....Awesome Mel!

Materials used: Stamps-Say it With Flowers, A Year of Flowers (Melanie Muenchinger for Gina K Designs), French Script (SU!); watercolor paper (Stampin' Up!); cardstock-white, gold, river rock (SU!); ink-river rock, old olive, riding hood red, real red (SU!); gold embossing powder (SU!); heat tool (SU!); Versamark (SU!); corner rounder punch (Creative Memories); gold brads (SU!); oval punch (SU!); Spellbinders Tag Trio; Cuttlebug (Provocraft); ribbon (May Arts); dimensionals (SU!).

Be sure to check out the fabulous samples made by the other designers:
Melanie
Jessica
Emily
Cathy
Lee
and, of course, Gina!

Hope to see you at the Gina K Release party HERE tonight from 7-10 p.m. central time for sneak peeks, giveaways, challenges, contests and more!

Thanks for stopping by!

MFT Release TONIGHT and Gina K Preview Day 2

Double duty today!

First, I want to share with you a new set from My Favorite Things that will be released TONIGHT after the release party from 9-11 p.m. Eastern time. This month there are SIX new sets being released, plus a new storage system for your MFT stamps that you are gonna love!Head over to the MFT forum to find out all the details and to find out how YOU can be the next MFT Guest Designer.

For this project, I used a new image by Stephanie Fizer called Peppermint Cats.

Instead of using it as it was---I cut out the kittens after I stamped them (and cut out the tails that were dangling down) and then reattached them to create this ornament. I used some liquid applique for the snow on the bottom. The little hearts are punched out of gold cardstock and are adhered to the background and also to the top of the tin.

I used my cropadile to attach the ribbon and added one more star to the top to carry along the star theme.
The cats are popped out on dimensionals so there is a lot of depth to the inside scene.

Materials used: Stamps-Peppermint Cats (Stephanie Fizer for MFT Presents); Copic markers; cardstock-white, red, brushed gold (SU!); Cropadile; tin; ribbon (Stampin' Up!); liquid applique; larger star punches (SU!); tiny star punch; gold brad (SU!); dimensionals (SU!).

And here is the new set from Gina K Designs called Winter Foliage. It is the Free with Three set (you get this free this month when you purchase three other sets). I love the images in this set and chose to make a circular chipboard tag for my first project.

I also used some of the new luxurious ribbon that will be available on Thursday as well.

Here is a close up of the tag. I added snow glitter all over the pine cones after I stamped them and clear embossed them. They have a lot of sparkle in real life.

Gina will be releasing the new sets after the release party HERE on Thursday night from 7-10 p.m. (central time). Hope you can join us for some games, prizes and more peeks at the new sets and new embellishments that will be added to the store!

Materials used: Winter Foliage (Gina K Designs); Circle chipboard tag (Stampin' Up!); ribbon (Gina K Designs); ink- choc chip, close to cocoa, old olive, riding hood red (Stampin' Up); clear embossing powder; Versamark; Heat tool; glitter (Dollar Store); liquid glue pen; jumbo eyelet (SU!); sponge; silver cord (stampin' Up!).

Check out these blogs to see more peeks at the new sets:
Asela
Joanne
Jessica
Melanie
Emily
Cathy
Lee
Kurtis
And of course, Gina!

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Thanks for stopping by!