Hello everyone,

After one year of creative posts and inspiring cards, Claudia Rosa has announced her decision to leave the Stampavie Design Team. We’d like to thank Claudia for all her great contributions during these past 12 months, and wish her lots of success in her future projects!

We will shortly be announcing a public call for a new DT member to join our Stampavie family, so watch this space!

Very best regards,

Heidi and Stuart Johnston

I hope you are all coming back everyday.. cuz you are going to be seeing LOTS of new images and cards here!!

This is “A Lollipop for Suzan” I just love this one.. he he I love all the Sarah Kay. But hey this one has candy in it! I colored with my Copics and high lighted with white gel pen.

For my card I started with a Bazzill Bling pink card stock then used scraps of a Core’dinations green card stock as mats for the DCWV Sweets pattern paper and the image. Love these papers candy and glitter what could be better? I ran a Papertrey Ink dotted ribbon through the image, and white gel pen stitched the edges. Then I stacked a whole bunch of flowers and buttons on the corners.

There are 8 new Sarah Kay images being released any day now.. so make sure you LSS gets their order in quick!

Thanks for visiting!

HUGS

Hello and happy Wednesday!  Can you believe that it’s July already?  The summer is flying by and we are finally getting nice weather.  I hope we have nice weather for the 4th here in the US!  I also want to wish my Canadian friends a Happy Canada Day today!

Along with the arrival of summer weather, there’s a bunch of fun new images coming soon to Stampavie!  This new Sarah Kay image is called Elodie In Her Garden.  She is just the sweetest and so much fun to color!  You can check out more samples of the very soon to be released Sarah Kays right here on the Stampavie DT blog. 

Have you seen the other new images?  There will also be a collection released very soon by a new illustrator… The Cute Critters Collection by Tina Wenke.  They are also a-dor-a-ble!  I can’t wait to stamp some of those too! 

Be sure to scroll down and check out the samples of the new images coming soon!

For this Sarah Kay card, I used a few different patterns of paper from the Making Memories Chloe’s Closet collection.  I cut three strips that were 1 3/4″ x 4″ and taped them together.  Then I cut a wavy edge along the side and layered a different pattern of paper underneath.  I cut my main image out with my Mega Curved Rectangle Nestabilities, keeping the image more toward the left.  And then I cut the right side of the main image again, in a wavy pattern to match the edge of the layers.  The wavy edges were cut with a Creative Memories Decorative Trimmer.

Have a great day and be sure to check back for more sneak peeks of the new Sarah Kays!

I would like you to meet Wedding Squirrels by Tina Wenke!! Is this just the cutest little wedding couple you have ever seen? This entire collection is so adorable – you really are gonna have to have all of them – really take a look at them HERE See told you.. you want them all don’t you!! Well they will be in stores late July..

I colored the happy couple in their little shell car with my copics and with chalks – high lighted with a white gel pen.

For my Card I used DCWV Garden party collection – such beautiful papers! I used a Stampin up ribbon punch to run a matching satin ribbon through the image, I inked the edges of all the papers. And then went through my box of flowers… and picked four that matched the papers – jewelry spacers and mini brads with Martha Stewart Frond punch leaves all stacked in the corner. Three buttons in the top corner in the same shades. And the sentiment is one of my Cloud 9 epoxy stickers on white card stock inked as well.

Thanks for looking – I have to hurry off… there are more of these images to color and I am so excited to do them!!!

HUGS!

I really love the happy new stamps from Tina Wenke and I choose this cute mouse for a card!
I have placed a card before, but lost the text … LOL … and I’m not a blond!! So this time I tried the ‘preview’ before placing … such a good idea! Because I almost forgotten to upload the card.
Maybe I must change the colour of my hair?

I used Doodlebug papers and my new Koh I Noor pencils to color the image.
It’s always hard to take a good picture … it’s really brighter.

Welcome to Stampavie Challenge #07! We are more than happy about your support! A big thank you to all who joined in the fun of our 6th challenge.

Of course we have a new winner! Congratulations to Chris Foster. Can you please contact me with your full name and complete address so that we can send out your prize as soon as possible?! Thank you!

As you know we are offering secret prizes with every challenge! It’s so much fun and who don’t love secrets? So come on and join us today or until July 12th 12:00 am blog time (means French time) at the lastest to be entered for our next secret prize!

Here we go with our 7th challenge which is “A recipe”. Please make a card or any other selfmade item using at least one Stampavie image and our recipe for your card. Of course you can add some brads, charms, etc. to your card but it’s more difficult if you will try to use our recipe only.

Our recipe:
3 Flowers
1 Ribbon
2 Buttons
Embossing

You will have time to join in the fun until July 12th 12:00am blog time (which is French time).

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 cards the Design Team came up with:

Christine (GD June 2009)

Jay Jay

Jessica

Michelle

I was so excited when I heard new Sarah Kay images were coming out. I love all of  the Stampavie images – but Sarah Kay images seem to really touch me, reminds me of my childhood - my grandmother even.  And I am sure like most of you I have been just dying for new ones to ink and play with – well the wait is no more!! Cuz really soon they will be available for you to ink and play with too! I don’t even know they name of  this one yet – but as soon as I saw that little kitty and her hair braided up on her head I knew that was the first one for me to color – and the perfect  project was fellow Stampavie DT member JayJay and I’s personal challenge to make more 3-d items.

This is a heart box template from http://www.create4fun.nl/    Now it was hard to photograph, I need to add something to hang things from in my photo tent! Anyway I cut out the template from I believe My Minds Eye papers, the only name I can find now on my scraps is TresJolie – I think that was a line of theirs.

 

Stampavie’s new Tina Wenke – Cute Critters Collection is so much fun to color. I just had to make another card with one of the cute new images. It’s hard to choose one of all the wonderful new images first, but this is definately one of my really fave images. As I took a closer look to this one I thought it would be perfect for a baby card. So here is another Tina Wenke preview from me to you:

This is “Mouse in Nutboat”. Isn’t it the cutest for baby cards? My card is for a little baby boy and I used Stampin’ Up! “Le Jardin” pattern paper and Bazzill cardstock for it. The little text on the PP says “Bonjour” to welcome the new little bundle of joy.

Now here is the whole image for you. Isn’t this baby mouse cute? And did you see that tiny little fluff toy the mouse is holding in it’s arm? I’m head over heels in love with this one!

If you wanna see the whole new Tina Wenke line you can take a look at Stampavie’s new Tina Wenke – Cute Critters Collection here.

Did you already hear the news we have here at Stampavie? Soon there will be a new stamp collection release called “Cute Critters” designed by Tina Wenke. Tina is our newest designer! Wecome at Stampavie Tina! I really love the new images and what a luck that I’m living in Europe so I am the first of us who can show you a little sneak peek of one of the new stamps that will be available soon.

This is “Mouse and Rabbit with Sunflower” from Stampavie’s new Tinka Wenke – Cute Critters Collection. How cute are these little critters? Oh I’m so in love with them!! Look how sweet they are gardening their big sunflower. My card’s layout is simple because I wanted to show you the new image in total.

Here are the cuties again. I hope you’ll like my coloration-idea! So what do you think? Will you love these critters as much as I do? You should come back soon for more sneak peeks of  our new Tina Wenke – Cute Critters Collection!

Edit 27.06.09: Wanna see the whole Cute Critters Collection? Have fun watching all the cute new images!