I'm Sick

Just checkin in, thought I should mention that I am down for the count right now, but really, REALLY hope to feel better soon so I can get back to my crafty things!!

hugs, stephanne

Somebunny Loves You Magnolia Card

Hello there,
finally back in my craft room and I have a new creation to share with an older Magnolia stamp. I'd been eyeballing this stamp for quite some time so I am totally excited to have her here!!


I coloured in distress inks, the paper is K & Co and I have used laces and a heart doily for my layering, I sanded the edges of the paper down and then went over it with scissors as well, the die cut is also Magnolia, as is the sentiment banner. The flowers and goodies are from my ever-growing stash, the gems are Recollections and the stamen is from Wild Orchid Crafts.


Here's another angle to show those flowery details!!


Friday Sketchers
Cupcake CraftI Love You
Just Magnolia Love You
Magnolia-Licious HighlitesHearts, Pink, Silver, White
Magnolia Down Unda' Distressing/Destressing

Thanks for popping by,
I hope you've enjoyed your weekend!!
hugs, stephanne

Mollie Mittens comes out to play for our TFWC mid-month reminder!!

Hello my blogging buddies,
how have you been?
Long time, no blog, right?
First I storm my blog with a post a day for 2 weeks, then disappear.
Way to be consistent, eh?
The weather has been far too delightful to stay burrowed down in my craft room, and the to-do list way too long (after these past weeks of mega-card making marathons) I don't know how the women who post and comment daily do it. But I am amazed...

Anyhoo, I do have a purpose for being on tonight,
I want to share with you all a card I made for our
mid month reminder post at
The Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenges
where our challenge this month is BIRTHDAYS
and our sponsor, the delightful Tickled Pink Stamps!!
Kellie has also added an additional prize to the line-up,
one of the adorable Mollie Mittens kittens drawn by Marina Neira
(did I just hear you say kitten mittens?)
so please do pop over and check it out.
We're the perfect excuse for you to use those cute little animal stamps you bought on a whim and don't know exactly what to use them for!! Use them for a birthday card and come on over and enter it at our challenge.
Geez, I'm getting all used car salesmen on you guys.
Enough of that, here's my card.



I used the adorable Mollie Mittens Sitting from TPS, she's coloured with distress ink pads, then popped up on a circle and scallop and doily combo, the delightfully pretty paper is by K & Company from their Paper Dolls stack, and the banner is a Magnolia stamp, butterflies punched with a Martha specialty punch. The "bling" is Recollections and the stickles is Diamond.


I'll pop this in at:
Charisma CardzSpring has Sprung
Dutch DareSparkle, Glitter, Bling
PaperTakePuttin on the glitz

Thanks for stopping by tonight,
have a splendid weekend!!
hugs, stephanne

Whimsy Stamp Blog Hop Candy Winner Revealed

Hello stamping friends,

Random Number Integer has done the hard part here, and the numbers have spoken, #15, Lillian, you are the lucky winner of the Grand Prize Candy, courtesy of Denise and Whimsy Stamps, please contact Denise at whimsystamps@gmail.com and please put HOP WINNER in the subject line.

On behalf of myself and Whimsy Stamps, thank you so much for all who hopped along with us and happy stamping!!!

hugs, stephanne

Honk honk, get on board the TPS Lil All Sorts blog hop!!

Hi there {PINK} Fans,

There's a good chance that you are on the tail end of our Tickled Pink Stamps Release hop, and that means you have hopped over from MAGALI'S BLOG, and may I add, WELCOME to my blog!!! If you have just stopped by for a visit and would like to join our hop, please head over to AMY'S BLOG to begin from Square One.

The lovely Kellie is away for a few days but that doesn't mean that things stop here at Tickled Pink Stamps. We've had a FABULOUS week of previews with 6 gorgeous new characters being introduced to you and we've been blown away by your wonderful comments! AND we've had a surprise FREEBIE for you too - what a week!

So today is the day you can grab these cuties for yourselves from the shop at 5-6pm today HERE - but before you do the DT has one last chance to showcase them for you with our RELEASE DAY BLOG HOP!

And as always Kellie has some AMAZING prizes on offer - and how do you have a chance to win??? You leave us a comment here at the end of the hop and at each stop along the way.

Prizes (please note the two Wilfred images are ONLY available in digi)

1st - Full set of release in digi and/or rubber
2nd - 1 Wilfred, 1 Lil Fox and Kira
3rd - 1 Lil Fox and 1 Lolita/Lad

Here's the hop order for you - and don't forget to leave some love as you hop along because there are surprise prizes along the way too.

Amy

Angela

Debbie

Emma

Fran

Jane

Karen

Kylie C aka Brown

Kylie K aka Blondie

Magali

Stephanne

YOU ARE HERE
Yani

Cathy Lee

and then back here to the TPS Blog

For my project, I used the darling Emilio, who will be in store today at Tickled Pink Stamps!! as well as a sentiment from the recently released Pink Valentine set, I've coloured in distress inks, and the paper is by DCWV. The laces and ribbons are from my ever-growing stash, as are the flowers. The flowers were glimmer misted and those pearls are by Kaiser.



I used the sketch at Sketch Saturday (i'm either up really late or really early, you decide, lol!!) I'll be swapping this photo out tomorrow, night pictures stink!! Okay, new day, swapped the pics.



So now, please do hop along to YANI'S BLOG and see what sort of sweetness she has in store for you!!!

Thanks for stopping/hopping by,
stephanne

Hey Animal Lovers, there's a new guy in town at Tickled Pink Stamps!!

Hey there lovely bloggers,
I have been quivering at the knees with anticipation
about our newest lil fellas to join the line up at
TICKLED PINK STAMPS!!
This is Sir Rupert designed by Christina Dees,
and you can find samples featuring Sir Rupert
and his furry pal Emilio
over at the Tickled Pink Stamps Blog!!


Doesn't he look distinguished with his glovers and fancy socks, lol!!! What a cute little guy he is!! I've coloured him in distress inks with touches of prisma pencils I've used the recently released sentiment and die cut by Ann Vento for TPS, you can find that HERE.


I thought I would place him in a soft vintage setting, he looks like he appreciates the more refined things in life, hehehehe. The papers are a mix of K & Co. (floral) and Pink Paislee (plaid), the big flower is by Prima, the rest of it's from the ever-growing stash!!

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope you will come back this weekend as we are having a Tickled Pink Stamps Release Blog Hop, and you know what that means, PRIZES, PRIZES and more PRIZES!!! Hot diggity dog!!!

hugs, stephanne

Whimsy Stamps Release Party- Your final stop!!

Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps February new rubber release BLOG HOP!

We have 16 gorgeous new Whimsy Stamps plus 2 new fantastic dies to show you today! These new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. We also have our wonderful special guests joining us for this hop - Beate Johns, Deb Routledge, Chris Dark, Jacque Beddingfield, Tracy Payne, and Elaine Hughes!

The Whimsy Stamps DT have been sneak peeking these fabulous stamps for the past 5 days, so if you missed them be sure to hop on over to the Whimsy Inspirations Blog for some more fabulousness!

Here is a full list of the wonderful new rubber stamps and dies being released today:

5 stamps / stamp sets from Crissy Armstrong
Fragrant Rose ~ Darling Daisies ~ Smell the Flowers ~Valerie's Spring Rain ~ Fancy Bench

3 stamps from Meljen's Designs
Balloon Mouse ~ Baby Bunny's Bottle ~ Spring Sitter Bunny

4 stamps from Kenny K
Uptown Angel ~ Star ~ Lady Raven ~ Vicki LeeVicious

4 stamps / stamp sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Postage Stamps ~ Birthday Postage Stamps ~ Balloon Sentiments ~ Birthday Wish List

2 dies
Postage Stamp Die ~ Balloon Set Dies

If you would like to participate in the hop and you didn't arrive here from
Vanja Stevanovic's blog,
please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Chris's blog.

The hop starts today (Wednesday February 9th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday February 16th at noon EST.

For this hop we have 6 different prize draws! We have not one but TWO grand prize draws, so two lucky hoppers will win a large selection of new release stamps. Grand Prize 1 will be for those who help us advertise the hop, and Grand Prize 2 will be for those who hop along with us. Also, we have 4 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can enter to win a new release stamp! I'm not going to tell you where they are, so if you haven't found them you'll just have go back to the beginning and start hopping! Now, you can see that I am a Grand Prize stop, heehee, but there are loads more goodies to be found, so please do CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Chris's blog..

For my blog hop creation I used the adorable Valerie's Spring Rain by Crissy Armstrong and a stamp and cancellation from the Postage Stamps set by Ann Vento.


I've coloured with distress inks and prisma pencils, the papers are by October Afternoon, and the doily, laces, ribbons and flowers are from my stash.


I'm going to pop this in at the following challenges:
Crafty Catz Tartain or plaid
Cupcake Crafts Seeing Red




Here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

Chris Olsen
Donna Smith
Tracy Payne
Beate Johns
Crissy Armstrong
Simonne Clay
Deb Routledge
Crystal Irwin
Debbie Eastman
Ann Vento
Denise Lynn
Annika Ryan
Iris Wiechmann
Erin Bailey
Jacque Beddingfield
Vicki Parson
Lori Pachkowsky
Marley van der Heijden
Elaine Hughes
Patricia Garcia
Chris Dark
Vanja Stevanovic
Stephanne MaraverYou are here!!

So if you have already gone and visited my uber-talented design team sisters and our amazing array of special guests, then you have earned yourself the opportunity of winning this delightful array of rubber goodness from our latest release:


And which images does this GRAND PRIZE include?

Darling Daisies
Postage Stamps
Fancy Bench
Uptown Angel
Birthday Wish List
Spring Sitter Bunny
Lady Raven
Balloon Mouse

How fantastic is that??? Please leave your name with Mr. Linky AFTER completing the hop, and don't forget to leave me a comment as well. Again, you have until noon on Wednesday, February 16th to join us:




Thanks so much for hopping along with us today!!
On behalf of myself, the rest of the amazing Design Team,
and Whimsy Stamps, have a wonderful day
and Happy Stamping!!!

hugs, stephanne

Day 5 of our Whimsy Sneakers, Anything Goes!!

Hi there and welcome to my blog,
yep, the posting continues as I share with you
a creation I made for our Whimsy Stamps
Anything Goes previews.


I've used the gorgeous, soon to be released Smell the Flowers image by Crissy Armstrong, I googled Bambi for colouring pointers and then got to work with my distress inks!! The paper is by Moxxie and my flowers were glittered in Diamond stickles. I folded down a square doily to frame the image and added a bit of lace and pink organza.


Please stop by the Whimsy Inspirations Blog to see what the talented design team have created with these gorgeous new stamps and get ready, we are having a blog hop on Wednesday, you won't want to miss it!!!

hugs, stephanne

Whimsy Sneak Peeks - Day 4

Hello my friends,
and welcome to day 4 of our sneak peeks for
WHIMSY STAMPS
Today are we are showcasing our newest
sentiments and die cuts
by the talented Ann Vento of
Raindrop Echo Designs!!
Please head over to the
Whimsy Inspirations Blog
to see the creations the design team have made,
they are amazing!!!


I have used stamps from the Birthday Postage set and the new die cut that fits perfectly along these stamp shapes to create my faux-envelope card. I have also used a soon to be released image from Melissa Jenkins called Balloon Mouse. Seems sort of plain for a card, eh, but really fancy for an envelope!! I plan to write or stamp the recipients name onto the card like you would do with a letter when the time comes to give this card away.



Thanks so much for stopping by today!!!
I appreciate it!!
hugs, stephanne

It's Yaaaaaaaaarrrrr Birthday, TPS preview

Hello hello hello!!
Yes, I have been a busy little bee
making lots of samples lately!!
Today I get to share with you a new image
from Tickled Pink Stamps'
Lil AllSorts range, Pirate Frankie!!


He was total bliss to colour, I actually spent way too much time shading and then cutting this cutie out, but it was very therapeutic, I hope the end result shows it, lol!! I utilized inspiration from Ila of Artfully Ila when creating this. I'd coloured up me hearty no problem, but when it came time to put him on a card, I wasn't sure what to do, so when I saw a recent card she made with all her clever embellishments and elements, I felt relieved!! Sort of a starting point for my own project, thank you Ila for being so awesomely talented!! Also from TPS are those pearl flourishes, you can find them in store HERE.


Please head over to the Tickled Pink Stamps Blog to see what all my design team sisters have created with our newest cutie pie!!

hugs, stephanne

Whimsy Stamps MelJen sneaky peeky

Hello everyone!!
I am about midway through my craft-a-thon,
seems everything happens at once around my blog, lol!!
Today I have the pleasure of sharing a sneak peek
from the upcoming MelJen release at
WHIMSY STAMPS!!



These gorgeous new stamps will be available for purchase soon, in the meantime, enjoy our sneak peeks!! Please head over to the
Whimsy Inspirations blog,
where links to all of the ladies who have made sneaky samples are available for your viewing pleasure, lol!!


I've used the Spring Sitter Bunny by the amazing Melissa Jenkins, she's coloured with distress inks and layered up with foam dots, the papers are basic grey and the dies used are by magnolia.


I tried really hard to use the colours over at Colour Create this fortnight, they are yellow, white and green, which you can see I strayed a bit, but since it was my starting point, I am going to enter it over there, Cupcake Crafts is hosting an Old MacDonald challenge, I think you would find bunnies and cotton lace curtains on a farm!! And I will pop this in at PaperTake who are hosting an anything (with flowers) goes challenge!!

Thanks for stopping by, I'll be back tomorrow with some Tickled Pink Action!!
hugs, stephanne

The Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenge 6!!

Hi there and welcome to my blog!!
It is the first Friday of the month,
which means that we fuzzy wuzzians reveal
our next challenge to you all, which is
BIRTHDAY WISHES!!!
So make a birthday card with an animal on it,
and then head over to
The Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenges
to enter your project for a chance at a fun prize!!
And thanks to all of you who helped make our previous challenge such a success!!! I saw so many beautiful projects and cute images, I can't help but feel the need to go shopping for stamps!!



We are sponsored by Tickled Pink Stamps this month, and Kellie has graciously allowed we Fuzzians the pleasure of creating with her Pink Pets!! You haven't seen this guy around and let me tell you why: he's not been released yet. In fact, Sue and I are revealing this stamp for the first time tonight!! It will be released within the upcoming week at Tickled Pink Stamps, but for now, you're gonna have to wait, lol!! Wait for Wilfred. Thanks Kellie, for sponsoring us this month!!


I coloured in distress inks, of course, and the papers are October Afternoon (plaid), TPC Studio (stripes) and Fancy Pants (spots), I've used some yummy flowers and ribbon along with a computer-generated sentiment and some Tim Holtz stuff, don't know what it is called, but it is cool!!

And tonight I thought I would share with you a picture of my little helper Ellias!! He has gotten over his shy phase and has turned into a ham!! He saw the camera come out and ran right over to lend a helping hand!! Here, he is showcasing yesterdays card (scroll down a bit) for us, heehee!! Thanks buddy!!


Thanks so much for stopping by!!
I hope you will be able to stop by our Fuzzy Wuzzy Blog,
the girls have crafted up some delightful eye candy
to help inspire you to get out your critter stamps!!

hugs, stephanne

I Ruff you!!

Hi there friends,
thanks for stopping by today!!
Still freezing here in Kansas,
piles of snow and ice all over the place,
the kids have been out of school all week...
Anyhoo, enough about that, we all know it's cold,
it is winter after all, lol!!
This cute little pup by MelJen will help warm things up!!
You can find the adorable Lovey Pup at
WHIMSY STAMPS!!


Ive coloured in distress inks, the papers and flowers and punches and well, everything, is just a big mixture, I am sorry but specifics are escaping me right now. The sentiment is by TICKLED PINK STAMPS and I really do love the set, a sweet lot of sentiments that can be used for love cards, friendly cards, hello cards and everything in between!!


Thanks so much for stopping by!!
hugs, stephanne

Whimsy Stamps sample mixes with the new sketch at CLP !!

Hello hello hello, and welcome to my blog!!
Is it freezing and cold where you are?
We are expecting to awake to a blanket of snow,
then to have blizzard-like conditions follow, joy....
But uhhhh, nothing is going to stop this Untamed Love image
from warming your hearts, hehehehe!!

It is now February, and that means it is time
for a new sketch by the amazing Chelsea,
you can find it HERE at the CLP Monthly blog.
Gurlee Girl is sponsoring this month with
a $20 certificate for one lucky winner,
along with the opportunity to be selected as
a guest designer for an upcoming challenge!!
Please do go and check it out,
the sketch and samples from the DT are fabulous!!



I have used the wonderfully detailed Untamed Love rubber stamp illustrated by Crissy Armstrong for Whimsy Stamps. I've coloured the image in distress inks and then cut it out and placed it over another of the same images. The papers are K & Company and Graphic 45, glittering gorgeousness is Diamond Stickles.



Have you stopped by the Whimsy Inspirations blog lately?
We have new samples from the design team posted every day to help showcase and inspire with delightful Whimsy Stamps, I hope you will stop by for a looksie!!

I'm going to pop this in at Charisma Cardz Valentines/Love challenge and
PaperPlay's Layer It Up challenge

Thanks for stopping by!!
I have lots to share with you in the next coming week or so,
so I hope you will keep me in mind while you do your hopping!!
Stay warm, stephanne