Sensational Sunday: Sympathy

Good morning and welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links.

One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to be in a monthly drawing for a $20 Loves Rubberstamps Gift Voucher! We will draw the winner of the Voucher the 1st Sunday of each month from all the comments left on the design team blogs! Remember, you have until 8:00 pm CST Saturday to leave your comments!

Here is my creation for today, featuring some Prickley Pear goodness!

Supplies:

Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps - Country Church
Blending Cardstock
Copic Markers
Glitter Dots
White Grosgrain Ribbon
Distress Ink
Mono Multi (of course!)
Red Liner Tape
Dimensional Foam Dots

Loves Rubberstamps Sensational Sunday Blog Hop List:
Laura Love - Loves Rubberstamps Blog
Dangina Martinez

Nina AKA PaperDaisies

Lydia Evans - Video Designer

Denice Bartucci

Rebecca Billard

Wendy Nicola Jackson

Nick

Jennifer Greco (that's me!)

Pam DeChellis

Loves Rubberstamps Store

So from here, your next stop is Pam! Thanks for stopping by today, be sure to comment for your chance to win! I'll see you back here in a day or two with another great project to share. Happy stamping!

Sensational Sunday: Dream Big

Good morning and welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links.

One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to be in a monthly drawing for a $20 Loves Rubberstamps Gift Voucher! We will draw the winner of the Voucher the 1st Sunday of each month from all the comments left on the design team blogs! Remember, you have until 8:00 pm CST Saturday to leave your comments!

Here is my creation for today, featuring some My Favorite things FUN - Encouragement, Congratulations, "Just Because"...this fits ALL of those categories! I love this set!

Supplies:

My Favorite Things - Chalkboard Greetings Too
My Favorite Things - Sentimental Flourish Die
Blending Cardstock
Distress Ink
Mono Multi (of course!)
Red Liner Tape
Dimensional Foam Dots
Bo Bunny Paper
Swiss Dots Embossing Folder
Double Circle Stitched Die
Fabric Tape (Target)
Distressor
Button (vintage)
Card Candy Dots

Loves Rubberstamps Sensational Sunday Blog Hop List:
Laura Love - Loves Rubberstamps Blog
Dangina Martinez

Nina AKA PaperDaisies

Lydia Evans - Video Designer

Denice Bartucci

Rebecca Billard

Wendy Nicola Jackson

Nick

Jennifer Greco (that's me!)

Pam DeChellis

Loves Rubberstamps Store

I used a sketch (Papertake Weekly) and a color challenge (ColourQ #297) today:

 

Challenges for this card:
Papertake Weekly - Take Your Pick (sketch)
ColourQ - #297
Catch The Bug - July: Anything Goes
Sister Act - #113: Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday We're Going Dotty (3 of 5)
Your Scrapbook Place - July Anything Goes (1 of 3)
Sugar and Betty - July: Anything Goes (1 of 3)
Crafts Galore Encore - July Anything Goes (1 of 3)
One Crazy Stamper - June: Anything Goes (1 of 5)
Inspiration Destination - #40: Anything Goes
Scrapper's Delights - July Anything Goes #46
Sisters of Craft - July: Anything Goes (1 of 3)
A Gem of a Challenge - #148: Red White and Blue
Just Us Girls - #300: Word (Congratulations)
Art By Miran - #35: Anything Goes (3 of 3)
Jo's Scrap Shack - #95: Anything Goes (1 of 3)
STAMPlorations - July: Stamping and Distressing (1 of 3) {distress ink, distress main image panel edges)
Craft and Smash - July: Say It With A Sentiment
Repeat Impressions - Red, White and Blue
Paper Sweeties - Red, White and Blue
Crafting with an Attitude - #5: Anything Goes (1 of 3)
Sassy Studio Design - DTBST #288: Red, White and Blue
DLART - #159: Red, White and Blue
Crafty Creations - #292: Red, White and Blue
Creative Moments - #71: Embossing (dry) (3 of 3)
Penny's Papercrafty - #234: Anything Goes (3 of 3)
One Stitch at a Time - #240: Red, White and Blue
Create and Inspire - #25: Anything Goes (1 of 3)
The Pink Elephant - #305: Anything Goes
Eureka Stamps - #147: Red, White and Blue (2 of 3)
Crafting With Friends - #1: Anything Goes (1 of 3)
Crafts 4 Eternity - Red, White and Blue
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - #318: Embossing (dry) (1 of 5)
Brown Sugar - #153: Red, White and Blue (1 of 2)
Clear It Out - Your Favorite Item (3 of 3) - uh huh, it's buttons. I buy them at thrift shops sometimes or garage sales, I have JARS of vintage ones alone with all the theme pack ones from Basic Grey, Kaiser, Doodlebug, etc. etc. etc... this one is vintage, plus of course my awesome little candy self-adhesive ones in the bottom corner.

So from here, your next stop is Pam! Thanks for stopping by today, be sure to comment for your chance to win! I'll see you back here in a day or two with another great project to share. Happy stamping!

Sensational Sunday: TGF 50s Sweethearts

Good morning and welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links.

One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to be in a monthly drawing for a $20 Loves Rubberstamps Gift Voucher! We will draw the winner of the Voucher the 1st Sunday of each month from all the comments left on the design team blogs! Remember, you have until 8:00 pm CST Saturday to leave your comments!

Here is my creation for today, featuring 50s Sweethearts from The Greeting Farm

Supplies:

The Greeting Farm - 50s Sweethearts
Blending Cardstock
Colored Pencils and Gamsol
Nestabilities
Memento Ink
Mono Multi (of course!)
Red Liner Tape
Dimensional Foam Dots
Metal brad flowers
Colored cardstock from Stampin' Up!

Loves Rubberstamps Sensational Sunday Blog Hop List:
Laura Love - Loves Rubberstamps Blog
Dangina Martinez

Nina AKA PaperDaisies

Lydia Evans - Video Designer

Denice Bartucci

Rebecca Billard

Wendy Nicola Jackson

Nick

Jennifer Greco (that's me!)

Pam DeChellis

Loves Rubberstamps Store

So from here, your next stop is Pam! Thanks for stopping by today, be sure to comment for your chance to win! I'll see you back here in a day or two with another great project to share. Happy stamping!

Sensational Sunday: Monochromatic Vintage!

Good morning and welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links.

One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to be in a monthly drawing for a $20 Loves Rubberstamps Gift Voucher! We will draw the winner of the Voucher the 1st Sunday of each month from all the comments left on the design team blogs! Remember, you have until 8:00 pm CST Saturday to leave your comments!

Here is my creation for today! I have always been a huge fan of Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps, I designed for them for a few years (I had to leave for personal reasons - family/kids/time, I was soooo sad!).  Since they are carried in the Loves Rubberstamps store - well, what a great excuse to pull them out and play!

Supplies:

Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps - Music Printers
Blending Cardstock
Nestabilities
Memento Ink
Mono Multi (of course!)
Red Liner Tape
Dimensional Foam Dots
May Arts Ribbon
Karen Foster Metal Key
Colored cardstock from Stampin' Up!

Loves Rubberstamps Sensational Sunday Blog Hop List:
Laura Love - Loves Rubberstamps Blog
Dangina Martinez

Nina AKA PaperDaisies

Lydia Evans - Video Designer

Denice Bartucci

Rebecca Billard

Wendy Nicola Jackson

Nick

Jennifer Greco (that's me!)

Pam DeChellis

Loves Rubberstamps Store

So from here, your next stop is Pam! Thanks for stopping by today, be sure to comment for your chance to win! I'll see you back here in a day or two with another great project to share. Happy stamping!

Sensational Sunday: Ride to Live

Good morning and welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links.

One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to be in a monthly drawing for a $20 Loves Rubberstamps Gift Voucher! We will draw the winner of the Voucher the 1st Sunday of each month from all the comments left on the design team blogs! Remember, you have until 8:00 pm CST Saturday to leave your comments!

Here is my project for today! It's that time of year... Also with Father's Day coming up I'm getting into the mood for some masculine cards! These stamps are from Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps.

For this card I used Viva la Verve sketch #5 for May::

Supplies:
Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps - "Motorcycle" and "Ride to Live"
Blending Cardstock
Memento Ink
Mono Multi (of course!)
Red Liner Tape
Dimensional Foam Dots

Loves Rubberstamps Sensational Sunday Blog Hop List:
Laura Love - Loves Rubberstamps Blog
Dangina Martinez

Nina AKA PaperDaisies

Lydia Evans - Video Designer

Denice Bartucci

Rebecca Billard

Wendy Nicola Jackson

Nick

Jennifer Greco (that's me!)

Pam DeChellis

Loves Rubberstamps Store

A few great challenges for this card!
Open Minded Crafting - #37: Inspired by a Song {I would say that this is an easy one if a person wanted to guess along before I say what the inspiration song is for this card...but if I actually stop to think, there are a lot of possibilities!! It's Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf. ROCK ON!}
Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Father's Day or Masculine
Inspiration Destination - #35: Anything Goes
Crafting From the Heart - #61: Anything Goes
Crafter's Cafe - #118: For the Boys
DoubleClick Skittles - #23: Father's Day/Masculine
Mod Squad - Masculine
Tuesday Throwdown - #246: Anything Goes

So from here, your next stop is Pam! Thanks for stopping by today, be sure to comment for your chance to win! I'll see you back here in a day or two with another great project to share. Happy stamping!

Sensational Sunday: Rock On!

Good morning and welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links.

One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to be in a monthly drawing for a $20 Loves Rubberstamps Gift Voucher! We will draw the winner of the Voucher the 1st Sunday of each month from all the comments left on the design team blogs! Remember, you have until 8:00 pm CST Saturday to leave your comments!

Here is my project for today! I had SO much fun with this one. When I first saw this sketch I was a little nervous (you know how I feel about "crooked" panels, hehe) but I really REALLY love how it turned out! These stamps are from Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps.

For this card I used Viva la Verve sketch #4 for May::

Supplies:
Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps - Flourished Guitar
Blending Cardstock
Memento Ink
Mono Multi (of course!)
Red Liner Tape
Dimensional Foam Dots

Loves Rubberstamps Sensational Sunday Blog Hop List:
Laura Love - Loves Rubberstamps Blog
Dangina Martinez

Nina AKA PaperDaisies

Lydia Evans - Video Designer

Denice Bartucci

Rebecca Billard

Wendy Nicola Jackson

Nick

Jennifer Greco (that's me!)

Pam DeChellis

Loves Rubberstamps Store

A few great challenges for this card!
Open Minded Crafting: #37: Inspired by a Song (I always have Pandora or iPod on when I craft and I listen to a lost of classic rock. When I see this card I think Rolling Stones -- a little Sympathy for the Devil)
Inspiration Destination - #34: Anything Goes
Sister Act - #107: Anything Goes
Left of Center - #79: Black, White, and one other Color
Little Miss Muffet - #112: Anything Goes

So from here, your next stop is Pam! Thanks for stopping by today, be sure to comment for your chance to win! I'll see you back here in a day or two with another great project to share. Happy stamping!

Sensational Sunday for Guys

Good morning and welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links.

One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to be in a monthly drawing for a $20 Loves Rubberstamps Gift Voucher! We will draw the winner of the Voucher the 1st Sunday of each month from all the comments left on the design team blogs! Remember, you have until 8:00 pm CST Saturday to leave your comments!

Here is my creation for today! I have always been a huge fan of Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps, I designed for them for a few years (I had to leave for personal reasons - family/kids/time, I was soooo sad!).  Since they are carried in the Loves Rubberstamps store - well, what a great excuse to pull them out and play!

I had some awesome inspiration for this card - I used Viva la Verve sketch #2 for May, along with the color challenge from The Male Room this week (#10). I always love a good sketch and/or color challenge! Especially sketches. Something about working within the constraints of the layout - my favorite kind! Here are the pieces:

Supplies:
Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps - Irish Blessing
Bo Bunny Paper
Blending Cardstock
Memento Ink
Buttons
Mono Multi (of course!)
Red Liner Tape
Dimensional Foam Dots
Colored cardstock from Stampin' Up!

Loves Rubberstamps Sensational Sunday Blog Hop List:
Laura Love - Loves Rubberstamps Blog
Dangina Martinez

Nina AKA PaperDaisies

Lydia Evans - Video Designer

Denice Bartucci

Rebecca Billard

Wendy Nicola Jackson

Nick

Jennifer Greco (that's me!)

Pam DeChellis

Loves Rubberstamps Store

A few great challenges for this card!
Inspiration Destination - #33: Anything Goes
Sister Act - #106: Anything Goes
Creative Fingers - #80: Anything Goes
Creative Ladybirds - #3: May AG (1 of 3)

So from here, your next stop is Pam! Thanks for stopping by today, be sure to comment for your chance to win! I'll see you back here in a day or two with another great project to share. Happy stamping!

Sensational Sunday with Prickley Pear!

Good morning and welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links.

One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to be in a monthly drawing for a $20 Loves Rubberstamps Gift Voucher! We will draw the winner of the Voucher the 1st Sunday of each month from all the comments left on the design team blogs! Remember, you have until 8:00 pm CST Saturday to leave your comments!

Here is my creation for today! I have always been a huge fan of Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps, and since they are carried in the Loves Rubberstamps store - well, what a great excuse to pull them out and play!

The photo didn't really show the background and the glitter shine I added to all the silhouette flowers that weren't colored with Copics, so I took another that was zoomed in to the right side of the image to show a little bit of that sparkle.

Supplies:
Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps - Floral Garden
Copic Markers (love 'em ALL!)
Zig Clear Glitter Marker
Bo Bunny Paper
Blending Cardstock
Memento Ink
Button
Mono Multi (of course!)
Red Liner Tape
Dimensional Foam Dots
DCWV Glitter Stack scraps

I had some awesome inspiration for this card - I used the current Mojo Monday sketch (#396) after I flipped it on its side, along with the color challenge from the Color Throwdown this week (#341). Here are the pieces:



Fun, right? These are my two favorite challenge types, so I'm just thrilled to get them in this week during my stampin' sanity time!

Loves Rubberstamps Sensational Sunday Blog Hop List:
Laura Love - Loves Rubberstamps Blog
Dangina Martinez

Nina AKA PaperDaisies

Lydia Evans - Video Designer

Denice Bartucci

Rebecca Billard

Wendy Nicola Jackson

Nick

Jennifer Greco (that's me!)

Pam DeChellis

Loves Rubberstamps Store

A few great challenges for this card!
Verve May Inspiration Challenge - Let It Bloom
Jo's Scrap Shack - FFC#87: Anything Goes
Inspiration Destination - #32: Anything Goes
Kitty Bee Designs - #47 In The Garden
Sister Act - #105: Anything Goes
Digi Chooseday - #18: Anything Goes
Stamp and Create - May Flowers
Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - #79: Anything Goes with twist of Flowers

So from here, your next stop is Pam! Thanks for stopping by today, be sure to comment for your chance to win! I'll see you back here in a day or two with another great project to share. Happy stamping!

Sensational Sunday with Sk8r Boi

Good Sunday morning, everyone! It was announced last week, but with my parent's visit I didn't share on my blog: I have joined the crew over at the Loves Rubberstamps store for a summer design team tour! I'm super excited about it! There are SO many amazing products in the store, the hardest part is choosing WHICH amazing image, gorgeous papers and fantastic diecut to use on my projects! I guess that's a pretty good problem to have, huh? ;)

Loves Rubberstamps has a weekly inspirational blog hop every Sunday, as well as a challenge every Tuesday. Check things out, explore the blog and those of my design team sisters, and play along with us on Tuesdsays! I would love to see your themed creations (and yes, of COURSE, you can win prizes!!). So without further ado...

Welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links.

One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to be in a monthly drawing for a $20 Loves Rubberstamps Gift Voucher! We will draw the winner of the Voucher the 1st Sunday of each month from all the comments left on the design team blogs! Remember, you have until 8:00 pm CST Saturday to leave your comments!

Here is my creation for today! I got to dig through and play with some stamps that haven't seen daylight in awhile, how fun is that?!

Supplies:

The Greeting Farm - Skater Ian

Copic Markers (love 'em ALL!)

Bo Bunny Papers

Blending Cardstock

Memento Ink

Button

Mono Multi (of course!)

Red Liner Tape

Dimensional Foam Dots

I had some awesome inspiration for this card - I used the Viva la Verve sketch #1 for May, and the color challenge from Crafty Catz this week (#277) - so perfect for a boy card like this! Here are the pieces:

Loves Rubberstamps Sensational Sunday Blog Hop List:

Laura Love - Loves Rubberstamps Blog
Dangina Martinez
Nina AKA PaperDaisies
Lydia Evans - Video Designer
Denice Bartucci
Rebecca Billard
Wendy Nicola Jackson
Nick
Jennifer Greco (that's me!)
Pam DeChellis
Loves Rubberstamps Store

So from here, your next stop is Pam!  Thanks for stopping by today, be sure to comment for your chance to win! I'll see you back here in a day or two with another great project to share. Happy stamping!