Did you know Stampavie have a new range of stamps – The Laurence Collection.  And what a collection of cuties it is.  My new DT stamps arrived yesterday and I had to ink this little cutie up right away.

I have used Cosy Christmas and have coloured the image with Copics.  The paper is Fancy Pants Mince Pie left over from last year.  I have applied Glossy Accents to the baubles but it’s not showing up in the picture.

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Hi Everyone!  It’s my turn to post today and I want to share a couple cards that I had lots of fun making.  I enjoy cutting out images and popping them up to add dimension to my projects. I also love to put a focal image out of the ” box” for added interest. If you look closely at my first project with Lynnette Collecting Her Vegetables you will see that I cut out extra vegetables and popped them up to add depth to the garden.  

For my second project I cut out Siku and Shiya to pop up over festive holiday designer paper with a snow storm in the background that I created using a tiny brush, white craft reinker and white embossing powder.  I used white watercolor paint to color the fur trim on the jackets.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Its my turn today to show you a card. I made a card with a image from the Gillian Roberts collection Crush on You.

I have coloured this image with the Distress ink : Tattered Rose, Forest moss, Dusty concord, Spiced marmelade, Vintage photo.

Hope you all have a nice day

Hugs

Marga

So which are your favorite animals? I LOVE turtles and I was so happy when Stampavie released Rachelle’s cute “Playtime” turtles. Are they cute or what? They remind me on our turtles Willy and Yoshi. They were looking like these two guys, one small and the other one big! Unfortunately our Willy (the bigger one) died in January 2009.

I used wonderful Bazzill cardstock and Cosmo Cricket pattern paper for my card. Of course I had a baby card in mind when I colored this image. But then I thought that I don’t need a baby card now and I made a “normal” greeting card. The German sentiment means “love”. I stamped it onto a QuicKutz tag and added it with foam pads and Scrapper’s Floss. I also added Nellie Snellen flowers and branches which I punched out.

I colored the cute turtles with my Albrecht Duerer watercolor pencils from Faber-Castell. Don’t you think that they have an autumn touch? *lol*. But I like how they turn out and I hope you’ll like them, too.

I have such an unexpected treat for you all today…

Yep, the adorable new images arrived on my doorstep this morning! {Don’t tell anyone, but I very nearly kissed the poor postman when I realised what he was handing over…}
I couldn’t resist inking up this darling little pair – they stole my heart when I first saw them! – and whipping up a card to share with you all
If you haven’t checked out the new Christmas 2010 designs {where’ve you been?!} go do it now!

Here we are back with our 29th Stampavie Challenge! Thank you so much for joining our 28th SAV Challenge! It seems that our last sketch was a little bit too difficult.

Of course we have a new winner! Congratulations to Yenni who won our last secret prize. Please e-mail me with your full name and address so that we can send out your secret prize soon.

As you know we are offering secret prizes with every bi-weekly challenge! It’s so much fun and who don’t love secrets? So come on and join us today or until August 7th 12:00 pm (CET) at the lastest to be entered for our next secret prize!

Here we go with our 29th challenge which is “Hot/Summer”. Please make a hot/summery card or project using at least one Stampavie image. You have time to join in the fun until August 7th 12:00 pm (CET).

There are only a few rules to follow:

• use a Stampavie image for your work
• leave a comment with the direct link to your posting (not only to your blogaddress)
• please link back to our challenge in your posting

Here are the inspirations our design team came up with:

Alma

Bev

Jay Jay

Marga

Niki

Anyone who knows me, will be well aware of my complete uselessness when it comes to planning ahead for Christmas. I’m the one still making Christmas cards on December 24th…
So no-one could be more shocked than I by the fact I have one card made already…

Isn’t this Gillian Roberts Penguin just the cutest? I’ve teamed it with a snowy fence stamp I had, a simple sentiment and some bright and funky MME papers {and a LOT of glitter, but that doesn’t really show up in the picture!}

So how’s everyone else doing with Christmas cards? Are you a last minute kinda person like me? Or do you {eeeeeeek!} have them all made already?!
I’d love you to let me know

Before I get to my card, have you seen the new Stampavie Christmas images that are coming?  Adorable!  Be sure to check them out!

It has been way too long since my Sarah Kays got inky!  They’re so fun!

I drew the sun shape, traced it on my card and cut it out.  Then I stamped the sweet Sarah Kay image on the front.  This one is called Lynette Collecting Her Vegetables.  The circular shape is the cardfront and the back of the card has the “rays”.

Some sponging, doodled stitches, and Stickles finished off the edges.  I was happy with how it turned out, but I wished I would have cut around the Sarah Kay image and popped her up on the front because that way I could have embossed a pattern on the sun.  Next time! 

I hope you have a fabulous weekend!  Enjoy the sun!

Today I have a Sarah Kay card to share with you.

I think I went OTT with this card (so what’s new!)  I have used Magnolia papers and distressed them then stitched them then applied Diamond Stickles around the edges of the paper.  I also distressed the paper doily and the flowers. 

I wrote the sentiment after stamping and distressing the heart stamp then applied Diamond Stickles to this as well.  The flowers didn’t miss out on being distressed, they got the Walnut Stain distress ink treatment too lol.

The colours used on this image – Quiet Moments by Sarah Kay for Stampavie are:
Boy Hair: E77, E74, E71, E70
Girl Hair: E49, E47, E25, E21
Clothes: BG11, BG10, BG000, BG94, E53, E51, E50, E000
Book: E70, E40
Skin: E11, E01, E00, E000
Cat: C5, C3, C1, C0
Shadow: W5, W3, W1, W0

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs

I have been having lots of fun this week playing in the Splitcoaststampers Dare to Get Dirty Challenges. If you’re a Fan Club Member this is your chance to play along with Dirty Girls, past and present, in a ton of fun challenges.  If you’re not a Fan Club Member, this is the perfect time to become one!  You can get all the info here.  There are 33 challenges to choose from – play one or play them all.

I made this card for a challenge called Embrassing White Space.  Leaving lots of white space around an image is really a challenge for me.  I always want to add grass, trees or some type of background scenery to make the image pop to life.  More is always better as far as I am concerned.  I sort of proved myself wrong with Adele and her basket full of apples as they seem to pop right off the all white background. Sarah Kay’s little girls are absolutely adorable images that can definitely stand alone and be the center piece of any project.

I hope you take time to pop on over to Splitcoaststampers and check out the special week of challenges.