Sunday Stamps 200th Celebration

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and I'm so excited because it's our 200th challenge! To celebrate this milestone each DT member is giving away a prize on their blog to a random comment that is left during the challenge period. Monika will be our blog for international winners so if you live outside of the US make sure and comment on her blog!

For our 200th challenge we have a great sketch from Monika! I took the sketch pretty literally and used a digital stamp from Power Poppy called Gerbera Daisies. I also have a clear stamp set with this image but went with the digital version so I could enlarge it to fit on my card the way I wanted it too.  I used some DSP from SU for my background, I liked how the yellow flowers of the paper looked against my image and the green striped portion went along perfectly with the sketch!

Stamps: Gerbera Daisies (Power Poppy digital stamp), Dynamic Duos: Glads and Gerberas (sentiment, Power Poppy)

Paper: Old Olive (SU), Neenah Solar White, Delightful Daisy DSP (SU retired)

Ink: Old Olive (SU), Printer Ink

Copics: Y02, Y04, Y08

YG03, YG63, YG67

T1

Accessories: MFT Blueprints 20 and 30, dimensionals

So what prize am I offering up as a way to say thank you? I have this fun Mama Elephant Christmas set with matching dies plus 2 Distress Oxide Ink pads!!

 One random comment will be chosen and the winner will be announced with our Top Picks on March 23rd. Visit all of the DT blogs to see their creations and then leave a comment for a chance to win on each respective blog but don't forget, Monika will be the only blog choosing a winner from outside the US!

Amy K.

Annette E.

Claire B.

Heather H.

Heidi B.

Lisa J.
Melissa G.
Monika R.

Getting Text-y for Jingle Belles

This week over at the Jingle Belles blog they want us to make text the focus of our project. This one stumped me, I had a hard time with it for some reason.

I went through my paper stash and found this paper from Carta Bella that has the words from 'Twas the Night Before Christmas on it. After staring at it for a while I cut out a panel with a stitched die and then used a die from Stampin Up to cut out the houses. I then took a stamp of Santa flying through the air and stamped that above the houses. I used red to keep with the theme of the text on the paper, with a brown border behind the text panel.

Hollyberries and Bookmarks

This month for the Power and Spark Challenge at Power Poppy Stacy Morgan is the hostess and she wants us to create small projects, anything less than 4". I decided to go with bookmarks for my project, using the Hollyberries Digital Stamp set. I love Christmas and I love to read Christmas themed books during the holiday season so I thought bookmarks would be something fun and different.

I used Word to position and size the image and then lined up my die to cut out the hollyberries. I colored them in with my copics and then once I was done coloring I cut out the same bookmark shape in red and green cardstock to adhere to the back of the image panel. To finish it off I looped some ribbon through the top of the bookmark.

Stamps: Hollyberries (Power Poppy)

Paper: Old Olive (SU), Cherry Cobbler (SU), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Printer Ink

Copics: G40, YG25, YG66

R37, R59

E15, E18

C1

Accessories: Cuttlebug, MFT Tall Tags Die, retired SU ribbon in Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive

Friday Mashup 200th Celebration Challenge!

We are so excited to be celebrating our 200th Challenge at the Friday Mashup and we want to say a Huge Thank you to all our fans who have supported us! In honor of our fans we are giving back with a 200th celebration Blog Hop and some Fabulous Prizes from Ellen Hutson, Newton's Nook, Lawn Fawn, SugarPea Designs and more! 

This week's challenge is Create a project using your TWO favorite Mashup Challenges together on one project! 

We have Two very Special Guest joining in the fun... Sandy Allnock & Jennifer Jackson from Newton's Nook have both created Mashup's for us! 

Head over to the Friday Mashup Blog for more Info and to Link up and Hop along or you can link up in the Inlinkz below.

For my card I chose challenges #109, use the sketch and make a pair of cards, and 121, use polka dots and the word 'happy'.

This week's Mashup Challenge:

Create a project using your TWO favorite Mashup Challenges together on one project!

1. Use 1 element from each of your Two Favorite Challenges together.
2. or Use both of the elements from your Two Favorite Challenges together. 

You can find a list of all the Friday Mashup Challenges here and we also have a Pinterest Board here. 

Stamps: Cheerful Critters

Paper: Baked Brown Sugar, Whisper White, Strawberry Slush DSP, Pistachio Pudding DSP

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Strawberry Slush, Pistachio Pudding, Blendabilities Crumb Cake (light)

Accessories: In Color Sequins, dimensionals, sponge

An InLinkz Link-up