Life....Enjoy the Ride......{TAWS} {Post #2}

This is my 2nd post for this morning....if you are looking for my Trendy Twine/ Little Scraps of Heaven Cross Promo card please click

HERE

Good Morning Everyone!!

It is my DT day over at

The Alley Way Stamps

and I have a card to share that I made and entered into the 

PaperCrafts Stamping Royality contest. 

I didn't win and totally didn't expected to but I wanted to show you what I entered....

I used these stamp sets from TAWS~ Kid'n Caboodle, Background Check and All About You

   

And came up with this.......

Such a great sentiment and totally words to live by!

So here is a close-up of all the stamps I used from these 3 sets. I paper pieced the boat using MME Moments 6x6 paper pad, of course my sewing machine for some stitching and some Tim Holtz Broken China distress ink for the waves. My sentiment was stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and I added a bit of copic marker coloring to the star and flag.

Well that is all I have for you. I hope you have enjoyed my card and please make sure to check out my Trendy Twine post.....

It's a super adorable card if you ask me :)

Happy Saturday everyone!!

Enjoy the weekend!!

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Entering this into the following challenges

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

DL Art~ May Linky Party
Simon Says Stamp and Show~ Little Paper

TAWS Be Re-Inspired Challenge #24

Good Morning and Happy Friday!!!

(if you are looking for my Trendy Twine GIVEAWAY~ click HERE)

It is Re-Inspire time over at

The Alley Way Stamps!

Our challenge is this fun inspiration photo...

yours to interpret anyway you want

So once you create a project using any TAWS

come link it up over HERE

(don't have any TAWS stamps....did you know there are freebies you can check out HERE)

The Top Pick will be hand picked and will receive 1 free stamp sets of their choice, and a badge to proudly display on their blog.

One Random winner will receive 1 free stamp set of their choice, and a winners badge to proudly display on their blog..

Here is my card and hopefully some more inspiration.....

I used the colors green and blue from the photo as my inspiration as well as the green lines running through the picture.

I wanted my card to have the sentiment as the front and center so trying a new technique (at least for me)

I stamped the sentiment from All About You using Memento Tuxedo Black ink as well as Midnight and Moss ColorBox Ink. I am sure there is an easier way to do this but I ended using inking each section then stamping the whole image. It took me several tries....because either one color didn't stamp clearly or one color ended up mixing with another....BUT after all the tries I finally got it to stamp to where I was happy with it :)

Once the sentiment was completed I matted it on Bazzill card stock and ran some decorative stitching around as a frame.

Pulling out my container of washi tape I added this fun pattern along the bottom and to cover the edge I added some green buttons from my stash.

So what do you think??? I hope you like my card and are inspired to play along!

Well that is all I have for you today!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope to see you play along in our challenge!!!

And Have a GREAT Friday!!!

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Entering this into the following challenges~
DL Art~ Linky Party
Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

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It's Your Day Enjoy w/TAWS

Good Morning everyone!!

It is my DT day over at The Alley Way Stamps and I have another card using one of the new release stamp sets for this month.

If you have not checked out February's new release you can do so HERE!

They are super adorable!!!

So for my card today I wanted to play along with the sketch for this week over at

Seize The Birthday as well as the color combo challenge for Dynamic Duos

 
And here is the card I came up with. I hope you like it!

The challenge over at Seize the Birthday was to follow the sketch but to also make a masculine birthday card. I knew right away that this adorable robot from the Lighter Than Air stamp set would make a GREAT boy birthday card. What we tend to forget is that the outside of the card does not have to have the traditional "Happy Birthday" sentiment. I know I always write inside the card "Happy Birthday"....So with that said I thought that the sentiment I chose for the outside fit the card perfectly! What do you think??
It is from this month's release stamp set~ All About You
The Challenge for Dynamic Duos was another beautiful color combo~ Tempting Turquoise and Basic Black. I ended up coloring my robot image with those color combos and my paper from October Afternoon happened to be a very similar match as well. The "dessert" option for this weeks challenge was "clouds" and my card does not have actual clouds on the card itself but the "scene" I created was taken in the clouds...LOL!

Supplies Used:
Paper~White, Black
October Afternoon~Rocket Age
Stamps~ The Alley Way Stamps~ All About You, Lighter Than Air
 
Ink~ Memento Tuxedo Black
Copic
Cuts/Dies~ Rocket~
Silhouette Store
Other~ Sewing Machine
SU Bling
Glossy Accents

You know there is always a lot going on over at TAWS

~our Be Inspired Challenge

~TAWS freebie's HERE

~TAWS FB page HERE where we love to see your creations!

and

~the store where you can purchase all these adorable stamps HERE

That is all I have for you today!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT day!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Seize the Birthday~ Manly Birthday

Dynamic Duos~ #40

DL Art~ Linky Party

Everyday is An Occasion~Linky Party

You and Me....We Click!

Good Morning everyone!!
I have another new release card to share from 
The Alley Way Stamps!
If you have not checked out February's New Release you can do so HERE!
They are super adorable!!!
So for my card today I wanted to play along with a few challenges

and I came up with this....

I hope you like it! 

Supplies Used:
Paper~ White and Black (Stash)
MME~ Lime Twist
Stamps~ The Alley Way Stamps~
All About You, Framed

Dies~ Provocraft heart
Ink~ Memento Tuxedo Black
Others~ Trendy Twine~
Cherry Cupcake
Stampin Up~
Jewels

You know there is always a lot going on over at TAWS

~our Be Inspired Challenge

~TAWS freebie's HERE

~TAWS FB page HERE where we love to see your creations!

and

~the store where you can purchase all these adorable stamps HERE

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT day!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

CAS(E) this Sketch~ #13

Dynamic Duos~ #38 Real Red/Pretty in Pink

My Sheri Crafts~Valentines

Paper Issues~Fawning over You

Simon Says Stamp Challenge~Anything Goes
The Pink Elephant~Photo inspirations

TAWS~ February Release Blog Hop

Good Morning 

and 

Welcome to the February New Release Blog Hop

 with

The Alley Way Stamps!

There are 3 super adorable stamp sets being released this month

Tiny Treasures

All About You

Spring Has Sprung

and you have the chance to win all 3...

(all the information on how to win is down at the bottom of my post or on TAWS blog)

You should be coming from the very talented

Audrey

if not you will want to head on back to

The Alley Way Stamps Blog,

You don't want to miss any of these fun projects!!

For my card I used this week's sketch from 

Retro Sketches

and came up with this....

Do you ever have a card you just LOVE the way it turns out? Well that is how I feel about this one :) I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

I used My Minds Eye~Moments paper pack ...I think my new favorite!!!

I knew I wanted to use this sentiment from the new release~ All About You and thought it was a perfect match to the balloon from last month's release~ Lighter Than Air!

I did a bit of sewing and lots of laying and paper piecing

and

with a button from my stash and some In the Navy Trendy Twine...

Tada!!

You are now off to see 

Kim

but before you go here is how you can win....

One person will win ALL 3 NEW SETS!! 

YEP!! So if you want that person to be you.. all you have to do is comment on the hop! 

Here are ways you can win.. You can pick and choose which ones you want to do.. but the more you comment, the more chances you have to win.. 

1-Comment on The Alley Way Stamps Blog

2-Comment on ALL the DT girls blogs 

Alison

Annette

Arielle

Audrey

Jessica~~ ME~~

Kim

Melissa

Stacey

3-Post about it on facebook or your blog

4-Like us on Facebook (HERE)

(leave a comment here and separate comment for each of the other things that you do on TAWS Blog)
You have until tonight, Jan 31st by 10:30 PM TAWS time to leave comments.

BONUS!!
This is a fun mini set that is yours FREE when you spend $40.00 or more during the month of February! Nothing to do but shop.. this little guy will be added to your package..

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT day!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Retro Sketches~#48
Paper Issues~ Fawning Over You
Simon Says Stamp Challenge~ Anything Goes