Hello again! I hope you enjoy our 40 days of CHA samples as much as I do. It’s so exciting to see all the wonderful CHA projects day after day, isn’t it? And with them the new Stampavie collections which are absolutely a must-have for us stampers.

Today I have a Penny Johnson sneak peek for you, the image is from her new collection and called “Sweet Dreams“.

As soon as I saw this image between all the stamps I knew that I would make a blue card with it. How cute is that little girl holding her candle in the night? And she is sooo tired! I used blue Core’dinations & light yellow Bazzill cardstock for my card. The pattern paper is from Darcie’s Country Folks. The image has been cut out with rectangle Spellbinders. For the word “dream” I used the oval Stampin’ Up! punches. I added some green ribbon, punched a border with one of my EK Success border punches and added some QuicKutz stars after I inked the edges in brown with glittery brads. All the blue cardstock’s egdes are sanded.

I used Albrecht Dürer watercolor pencils from Faber-Castell to color the image. For the cheeks I used pink blending chalk and added some freckles with a white gel pen. The white dots on her hat are made with a white ZIG chalk pen.

So have you been enjoying the 40 days of Samples from the Stampavie DT BLOG? It is really awesome to know every day there is a new sneak peak posted from one of the DT – And today is my day! Day 22 – And I am showing off some Helz Cuppleditch images! I really ended up having quite a few of these cards made for CHA… 5 of the 10 new images released!

This first is Ruffles Puppy Spring Basket – I just love Ruffles.. he is so adorable – Since I am showing off 5 cards in one post – I won’t go into normal details on each card of what I used or how I made it, but please shoot me an email if you have any questions about a product okay?

I was so happy to see a cat in the Spring/Summer release this year! I love Ruffles.. but every good dog needs a cat too! This is Coco Cat Flowers – Really fun with those tiny little bees smelling the flowers!

And speaking of characters.. Loopy Lops is new for 2010’s Helz collections! There are three Loopy Lops images in this release, this is Loopy Lops Strawberry Fair! I bet she wins the blue ribbon for her jam! LOL mmm Strawberry jam is my personal favorite!

Also in this collection are some really wonderful “art” image. For those cards you don’t want to be quite so cute. You know what I mean? I love this one Celebration Table. Perfect for a wedding – anniversary – or birthday!

There are two plant images, really gorgeous art! And wonderful for a sentimental or sympathy card – I just love floral images – this one is titled Floral Planters. Just a simply beautiful image.

Remember please shoot me an email at michelleo@hughes.net if you have any questions about my cards and the products I used -

And I hope you are enjoying our samples.. pop back tomorrow as Jay Jay will be here showing off Penny Johnson!

HUGS

Morning all
First off, I must apologise for how poor these photos are – I know I have better ones lurking around on my computer somewhere, but I can’t find them!
I have a Sarah Kay peek for you today…

This is “Adele Enjoying Fresh Apples”. I’ve popped her onto a triangular gatefold kinda card (is there a proper name for this?!), which opens up to reveal…

”Jean-Luc playing ball with Claude” – cute huh? I really should have coloured Claude to look like one of Bev’s gorgeous little spaniels shouldn’t I?!
That’s it from me today – Michelle’ll be here tomorrow with some more pics for you

Hello Everyone,

It’s my turn again to share my CHA sample, and today I’m sharing a card I made with a cute little Tina Wenke image – Wish upon a star

The stars are cut from a Sizzix die and have been coated with Beadazzles Disco Ball beads.  The sweet sentiment is by Rachelle Anne Miller

That’s all from me today, tomorrow Leann will be showcasing some more samples for you.

hugs

Bev x

Hello Everyone. Today is Day 19 of Stampavie’s 40 days of CHA samples. Today I’m sharing a few projects with a couple of the new Gillian Roberts images.

My first project is a card with the image Picking Cherries. I coloured it with the Prisma Premier pencils.

The next image is Teddy and me. It’s a great image and I made a bag so I can give my present in it.I coloured this image with the distress inkt.

The next image is Looking at you.  This image I coloured with the Prisma Premier pencils

The next card is made with the image In the park. She has a lovely smile on her fase that makes everyone happy. I coloured it with the Prisma premier pencils.

Now I have made a little box with the image Skateboard dude. Within this little box I have done a candy. So you can treat somone. This image I coloured with the Derwent Coloursoft pencils.

I hoop you come back tomorrow to see the Samples of day 20 from Bev.

Hugs

Marga

Hello everyone!  Today is Day 18 of Stampavie’s 40 days of CHA samples.  And today I’m sharing a few projects with a couple darling images by Penny Johnson.  They are so sweet.

My first project is made with Love Bubbles.  The couple is so adorable and so much fun to color. I stamped the image on watercolor paper, painted with a brush using water and reinker and cut them out to pop up on the crisp white background.  I love the pink multi loop  bow and think it is the perfect embellishment for these lovers.

Here’s a closer view.

My second project is made with using a sweet little girl image called Penelope.  I stamped the image on watercolor paper and created a  delicate soft green and yellow scene around her. I loved painting this sweet image and especially the floral bouquet. The  amethyst and white frame and white multi loop seemed the perfect way to finish this card.

If you look closely you can see the hint of sparkle on the flowers.

Check back tomorrow to see what Marga has to show you.

Hello!  Today is Day 17 of Stampavie’s 40 days of CHA samples.  And today I’m sharing a few projects with some of Tina Wenke’s new mice images.  So cute!  :0)

This first card is one of my favorites that I made for CHA.  Partly because I love the bright, cheery colors and also because clear cards are so fun to make! 

At the time, I didn’t have any clear acetate that was heavy enough for the card base so I recycled an empty clear box (that once held paper flowers, I think).  The piece wasn’t quite as tall as I’d liked so that’s how I ended up with the designer papers on the bottom.  ;0)  The sentiment is from the Rachelle Anne Miller collection and fits the card perfectly, don’t you think? 

Next, I decorated a little favor bag that I picked up at Target a few years ago.  Gotta love those clearance buys!  lol.  These little bags are so easy to alter.

This little mouse is making me wish for warmer days so we can hang our hammock outside again! 

And last for today, here’s a sweet mouse with a sunflower. 

For this card, I started with a sketch…Mojo Monday’s #113.  Then I added some brads to each corner of the main image and wrapped a piece of linen thread around them and tied it to make a frame.  The butterfly was punched twice and layered, with the top wings folded upward.

I hope you’ve been enjoying our 40 days of Stampavie samples!  Be sure to stop by again tomorrow!

Hello, today I am going to show you the samples I have made with the adorrable stamps from Sarah Kay. The new stamps from Stampavie are all so beautiful, I love them! I like to give my cards a Vintage look and I sure hope you will like them.

The first card I want to show you is made with a stamp called: Isabella with Puppy CoCo. As you can see, the stamp is so cute.

Now you can see why I directly fell in love with this stamp.

The next card I want to show you isn’t less cute. I think the whole collection of Sarah Kay this year is so adorrable. This next stamp is called: Lynette collecting her vegetables.

I had much fun making these cards for the CHA 2010. This stamp with the little boy is called: Jean-Luc playing ball with Claude. This is one of the favourite stamps of my sons, who often pay me a visit when I am working on my cards.

The last card which I have made with the stamps of the new Sarah Kay collection is called Zoé gazing at the Butterfly.

I sure hope you have enjoyed looking at my cards! Don’t forget to look tomorrow for day 17 from our 40 days of samples.

Hugs,

Monique.

Hello! I’m back home from CHA in cold Germany *brrr*. I really miss all the wonderful palmtrees and the sun in California! Today it’s my turn again and I want to show you my CHA cards I made with some of  the new Gillian F Roberts images.

This is “Being together” and I decorated a paper gift bag with it. The cardstock is Bazzill and the pattern paper is Chatterbox. I love the colors! And how cute is this image? Oh I really like Gillian’s teddybears! I added tan jute ribbon, pink flowers with matching spacer and brads and pink gemstones to the bag’s layout. The sentiment is from Rachelle Anne Miller, it is perfectly fitting into the SU oval punches.

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“Daisy Chain” is also cute, isn’t it? I really enjoyed coloring. By the way, there was a comment on my last previews were someone asked me which color medium I’m using for my images. I’m using the Albrecht Dürer watercolor pencils from Faber Castell. You’ll also find a watercoloring tutorial on my blog. For my card’s base I used Bazzill cardstock, the pattern paper is Imaginisce. I added some borders punched with one of the big Martha Stewart punches, different flowers, pink gemstones, pink ribbon and wonderful beige Tilda ribbon. The sentiment is from Rachelle. I used different Spellbinders for the sentiment and the images and faux-stitched around the image.

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Yes! There are also some really cute boy images coming with our new release. This is “Soccer Crazy” and they loved this image at CHA! I also like it alot and I really enjoyed making this card after I found matching colors. The cardstock is SU, the pattern paper Imaginisce again. I used Spellbinders for the image, a Martha Stewart punch for the blue border and a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the kraft border. I added green ribbon, a little blue Bazzill button with green Scrapper’s Floss and alot of QuicKutz grass and flowers . Rachelle’s sentiment is punched out with oval SU punches again.

Hello – just home from CHA, it was an amazing show – all of the new spring/summer images were very popular!

I thought you might like to see the four of us in our booth…

Stuart – “Me” – Jay Jay and Heidi – this is on the last day, we were all worn out, but very happy about a wonderful show! And the amazing time we had the 10 days we were together!

So now to a sneak peek for you  – one of the new Penny Johnson images… I just love it. This is Rosie Rabbit…

My card is pretty simple, a green Bazzil Bling card stock, with scraps of pink and green papers – I wanted a lace border around the image, love those Martha Stewart corner/border punches, they really are fun to work with. I sewed down everything. For a band across the middle I found a small piece of really wide green ribbon – And then I suddenly remembered this sentiment stamp I have had forever! Too perfect!

Make sure to check out the other sneak peeks at the Stampavie DT/Blog… we are in our 40 days of samples – to show off all the wonderful new Spring/Summer releases!!

Now to go and put my feet up and rest a bit… LOL!

HUGS