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!

Loves Rubberstamps #159: Anything Goes

Good morning stampers! It's Tuesday, and that means a new challenge is up over at the Loves Rubberstamps challenge blog! Challenge #159: Anything Goes. Doesn't get much easier than that! There are prizes to be won, so get out your toys and play along with us! 

Here is my creation for today's challenge, using these great stamps from PPRS. 

Supplies:

Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps - Bird With Floral Trail and Many Thanks

Blending Cardstock

Vellum
Brads
Memento Ink

Mono Multi

Red Liner Tape

Challenges:

Suzy Bee - #87: Make it Floral
Crafting From the Heart - #67: Anything Goes
Inspiration Destination - #41: Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today, I can't wait to see your creations for our sentiments challenge over at the Loves Rubberstamps challenge blog! I'll see you back here very soon with another great project to share. Happy stamping!

Sentimental Sunday: Owl Notes

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 Rubber Stamps fun!

Supplies:

Prickely Pear Rubber Stamps - Flourished Owl and Just A Note
Blending Cardstock
Nestabilities
Memento Ink
Mono Multi (of course!)
Red Liner Tape
Dimensional Foam Dots
Bo Bunny Paper

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

Challenges for this card:
613 Avenue Create - #130: Anything Goes
The Crafting Cafe - June: Black and White
Crafty Boots - Black and White

Crafts Galore Encore - June Anything Goes (2 of 3)

One Crazy Stamper - June: Anything Goes (2 of 5)

Paper Creator's Crafts - #39: Anything Goes (2 of 3)

Inspiration Destination - #39: Anything Goes

Fresh Brewed Blog - Anything Goes (3 of 5)

Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Anything Goes (3 of 5)

Love To Scrap - Anything Goes (2 of 3)

Mema's Crafts Challenge - June: Anything Goes (2 of 3)

Scrapper's Delights - June Anything Goes #45

Sugar and Betty - June: Anything Goes (3 of 3)

Your Scrapbook Place - June Anything Goes (3 of 3)

Sisters of Craft - June: Anything Goes (2 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: 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!

Loves Rubberstamps #155: Spots & Dots

Good morning stampers! It's Tuesday, and that means a new challenge is up over at the Loves Rubberstamps challenge blog! Challenge #155: Spots & Dots. Doesn't get much easier than that! There are prizes to be won, so get out your toys and play along with us! 

Here is my creation for today's challenge, using these great stamps from PPRS. I've got dots all over on this project! :)

Supplies:

Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps - Live, Dance, Laugh and Flowerbox

Copic Markers

Blending Cardstock

Paper Flowers
Washi Tape
White Pen
Memento Ink

Mono Multi

Red Liner Tape

Dimensional Foam Dots

Challenges for today's card:
Creative Craft Cottage - #41: Flowers
Inspiration Destination - #36: Anything Goes
Open-Minded Crafting - #38: Doodle
Through The Purple Haze - June: Bright Colors (#2 of 3)
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes (#1 of 2)
613 Avenue - #127: Anything Goes/Card for BFF
Sister Act Card Challenge - #109: Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #11: Anything Goes
Crafting From The Heart - #63: Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today, I can't wait to see your creations for our sentiments challenge over at the Loves Rubberstamps challenge blog! I'll see you back here very soon 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!

Loves Rubberstamps #151: Add A Sentiment

Good morning stampers! It's Tuesday, and that means a new challenge is up over at the Loves Rubberstamps challenge blog! Challenge #151: Add A Sentiment. Doesn't get much easier than that! There are prizes to be won, so get out your toys and play along with us! This week's sponsor is Lacy Sunshine - I *adore* her images! Someone is going to be very happy after this challenge week!

Here is my creation for today's great challenge, using this pretty silhouette flower arrangement from PPRS. I thought the main image panel was a bit too bare, so I changed my plan for the sentiment and added it directly to the blush layer above the flowers.

Supplies:

Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps - Flower Silhouette

Copic Markers (love 'em ALL!)

Blending Cardstock

Memento Ink

Button

Mono Multi (of course!)

Red Liner Tape

Dimensional Foam Dots

I used Viva la Verve sketch #1 again for May (you know I LOVE the Verve and Mojo sketches!!!):

Challenges:
Verve May Inspiration Challenge - Let It Bloom
Come and Get It - Got Flowers?
Eureka Stamps - #140: Flowers
Great Impressions - Celebrate Spring
Digi Chooseday - #19: Flower Power
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #85: AG w/Twist of Flowers
Crafting From The Heart - #59: Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - #261: Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today, I can't wait to see your creations for our sentiments challenge over at the Loves Rubberstamps challenge blog! I'll see you back here very soon 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!

Radient Rain Flowers

Happy Saturday! I hope everyone is having a good weekend! I am hoping for some stamping time over here!

I thought I'd share another card I made using the Radient Rain sprays from Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps. I demo'd these sprays for Nicole at a convention here in town last fall. Unfortunately, LuminArte, the company that makes the Radient Rain products, is going out of business {or maybe already has}. There are similar products on the market though - Glimmer Mist from Tattered Angels is one option; it works the same way, from what I have heard {I have not used it personally though}. It also has a lot of color options.

Anyway, I made this card by taking a piece of cardstock that I had sprayed with different colors of the Radient Rain and stamping the flower over the top of it. I colored it with colored pencils. All images on the card are from Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by today!

CBC58 - Inspiration Challenge

Are you ready to be INSPIRED? Check out the awesome book cover for the even more awesome book, New Moon. That was our inspiration for this week's Belli Challenge, keyword CBC58. Do you love it?? I think this is a great inspiration piece! Here is my interpretation:

Now let me just say this is the WORST PHOTO EVER!! I took it down in my stamp room where the lighting is not ideal for photography {to put it nicely}. I will try to retake the photo when we get some light in the upstairs of the house. I think that probably the shiny rose-colored paper was not helping matters either. ;-)

All images from Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps. I heat embossed these silhouette flowers using white EP, then I used a blender pen to pick up the dark rose color from my Shimmer Chalk Jewel Tone set and went over and added some color here and there to the white flowers. {This technique is called Pastel Embossing}. It gives a very soft look. I also heat embossed the sentiment in white EP on black cardstock and used circle and scallop circle punches to make the layered piece. The white dots were done with a white gel pen. I added black photo corners and my yummy velvet ribbon along the bottom and I was all set! Truly, this looks much better in person, but I had to post SOMETHING this morning so you get this until I can fix the photo, heehee.

A reminder -- today is the last day to enter my Ribbon Blog Candy by leaving a comment on THIS POST. I'll be drawing the winner Thursday morning -- come back then to see if you've won!

Ok, that's it for now. I'll be back in a little bit with another project made using a sneak peek of April's new release images from Pink Papery Studios! Thanks for stopping by this morning - be sure to stop back!

MTTSC10 - Thoughts of Spring

Tuesday today! Time to see what Miss Madelynn has in store for us for Twinkling Tuesday...

There it is! MTTSC10 - can you believe it's been ten weeks already??! Wow, time flies! This was a great sketch, clean and simple, and Madelynn said we could add a front image panel if we were so inclined, which I was. :)


My colors are Certainly Celery, Apricot Appeal, Old Olive and Soft Sky. I took this gorgeous new image from Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps {Paris Spring half sheet} and colored right on the rubber with my Stampin' Up! markers in order to ink it up. I did this because I wanted the tree parts to be Celery, the birds to be Apricot, and then when I was done I went back and added touches of Olive to the tree to give it a little more distinction. When I was satisfied with the coloring, I "huffed" onto the stamp to remoisten the ink and then stamped right on the white cardstock. I made a horizontal line for the ground and did the sky with my cloud template. The grass was made by sponging with Celery and Olive ink.

Woo hoo! Not nearly as complicated as I made it as I was creating, I have to say. *g* If you'd like to play along, we'd love to see your work! Be sure to link up your creation on the TT blog, and add the keyword "MTTSC10" when you upload to SCS or PCP so we can find your creations. Be sure to visit the rest of the Twinklettes {links on my left sidebar} for more fun with this sketch.