Just Because

This is the matching card that goes with the hardware tin i have created. I love this image.. it will also make very cute baby cards.

You can read more about this card and the blog candy i have on my personal blog: Pretty Pressings.

hugs and thanks for swinging by today on STAMPAVIE’s DT board!

Claudia

Altered Hardware Box

I have prepared this box to give away on my 1 year blog anniversary. The winner will get a matching card and the altered box below. Inside of the box are several pieces of Hardware from the Stampin up Hardware boxes in all 3 colors (brass, antique and silver) those pieces are not available anymore. Most of them you have seen on my cards before.. i really love them and i have purchased several boxes before they got retired. STAMPAVIE has also kindly sponored two stamps (new Rachelle Ann Miller stamp and a Christmas Sarah Kay

stamp) for my candy. If you like to play along please come and visit me on my blog Pretty Pressings

Stamp: Sarah Kay by STAMPAVIE

some may recognize the tin.. it is usually kind of like a turquoise blue - i spray painted the tin first with metal gold and than added the K&Company paper to the top and glued the ribbons on.

Thank you for looking i hope i could inspire you to not only use those fabulous images on cards.. they make fabulous altered gift items as well

Hugs Claudia

A sneak peak of coming Sarah Kay-

I adore this adorable image, and a sneak peak of what will soon be available! That doll just reminds me of my sisters Raggedy Ann doll… I didn’t have one, but man sharing a room with her I saw alot of that doll. This cards sketch is from this past weeks Magnolia Vs. Stampavie challenge Blog. If you haven’t checked it out you give it a try! Fun challenge with great prizes. And we get a chance to use our favorite Stampavie Stamps!

I have colored with Copics, and white gel pen. The pattern papers are all from K&Company’s Classic K Collection. I sewed down the half circle and used lace and ribbon for the band across the top. Then placed Prima flower and fun flower shaped buttons.

Thanks so much - and for more details you can visit my personal blog Donkey Smiles.

HUGS - MichelleO

Chit Chat

Iam sure you recognize this image… the very cute Sarah Kay image is water colored and the the snowflake DP is raised with pop up dots so the card has more like a frame feel to it. Hard to see on this picture but i used lots of twinkeling H2O colors to make it sparkle.

If you would love to win 2 stamps (1 Christmas Sarah Kay stamp and 1 Rachelle Anne Miller stamp) kindly sponsored by STAMPAVIE… please come and vist me over on my personal blog: Pretty Pressings

Image: Sarah Kay by STAMPAVIE
DP: Cosmo Cricket
and oh my goodness the silver corner pieces are sent to me by Carole
Coloring: Twinkeling H2O and Stampin up reinkers

Please do not copy the pictures of this site and use it online or for card submissions. Designs here are shared for your inspiration. Thank you

Sweet Dolli

I love to watercolor the Sarah Kay images! I heat embossed the image first with black detail embossing powder and than colored the image with Stampin up reinkers in. On the bottom of the horizontal patterned paper i used a Martha Stewart punch that embosses and punches at the same time - i think the pattern looks nice with the corner die cuts from the Cuttlebug.
Stamps: Sarah Kay from STAMPAVIE

Spring Blossoms

Here I am again with a blooming Sarah Kay card. It’s one of the new images called “Spring Blossoms” which soon will be released. I really like this one and had to use it before I will start with my Christmas cards now!

stamps: Sarah Kay “Spring Blossoms” by Stampavie, Sentiment by Stampin’ Up!
inkpads: Memories Black, SU Olive
papers: Stampin’ Up!
accessories: Ribbon, Lace, Silk Flower, Paper Flowers, Brads, Martha Stuart Doily Lace Punch, Fastenator, White Schimmerz
pencils: Albrecht Dürer Watercolor Pencils, White Gel Pen, Olive Pen

Best Friends Forever

What do you think about Christmas cards in untypically colours? I thought it would be fun to use the gaudy Christmas papers from Papermania and one of the new Sarah Kay images that soon will be released. I hope you’l like it.

stamps: Sarah Kay “Best Friends Forever” by Stampavie, Sentiment by me
inkpads: Memories Black, Ancient Page Chocolate
papers: Color Core CS, Papermania Patterned Paper
accessories: Ribbon, Paper Flowers, Brads, Gemstones, QuicKutz Mistletoe and Scalloped Photo Corners
pencils: Albrecht Dürer Watercolor Pencils, White Gel Pen

Wacky Prize Giveaway - updated

(first posted 26th October)

Participate in the wacky prize giveaway and be in with a chance of owning the brand new stamp First Kiss from Sarah Kay before it’s available in the stores!

The Wacky Prize Giveaway is fun and easy.  To take part, simply email us a picture of you, a friend or family with a card made using one of our stamps in the most original manner you can think of.

Anna, aged 11, diving with Sarah Kay

All entries that we receive will be shown in a blog gallery and judged by Heidi, founder of Stampavie.  The wackiest entry will win this fantastic goody bag including the First Kiss Sarah Kay stamp :

Send your entries to gallery@stampavie.com before midnight Paris-time 2nd November.

Be creative, be original, be wacky!

Update!

Check out these great entries

From Moni in Germany

From Dominique in Germany

From Mel in USA

Lien from Netherlands

Silke from Germany

Sonja from Germany

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Country Girl

Here I am again with one of the new Sarah Kay images. Many of you know that this image have been sold in the beginning of this year by another manufacturer, but they stopped production. So what a luck that Stampavie got the okay to produce this wonderful image again!

stamps: Sarah Kay “Country Girl” by Stampavie, Sentiment by LeLo-Design
inkpads: Memories Black, Brilliance Sky Blue
papers: ColorCore & Bazzill CS, My Mind’s Eye PP
accessories: Lace, Sheer Ribbon, Prima Flowers, Scrapper’s Floss, Brads, 3d Pads, Corner Punch
pencils: Albrecht Dürer Watercolor Pencils, White Gel Pen, Lightblue Fineliner

Sarah visits the Zoo!

So this weeks challenge at the Sarah Kay Challenge Blog is to use Animals with Sarah. There are so many wonderful images that already have animals in them, so really the challenge is wide open! But I wanted to bring in an animal to mine, and found a wonderful giraffe ribbon head from Offray!

I started out by stamping my Sarah Kay image and coloring her with my Copics and cut her out with my Fiskars fingertip craft knife. I then stamped the Magnolia Brick wall stamp and colored it with Copics as well, then cut it out. I cut a piece of the cloud pattern paper from Cosmo Cricket and pulled lots of my Catseye inks and my Rubbernecker Kitty Kit Cause for a scene stamps, these are fabulous little nature items to build a background… I adore these! I worked them, and created the tree and the ground in lots of colors.

My giraffe head is attached with glue dots, then the wall with pop dots. The Sarah Kay is then attached 1/2 with pop dots and 1/2 with adhesive so she looks as if she is standing on the corner of the wall. I added a few tiny Prima flowers to the grass, and then needed a sign for the Zoo… otherwise we wouldn’t know why there was a giraffe with his head over the wall. I found a Martha Stewart journal tag, I thought the cut outs around the edge looked a little like fancy iron scrolls, I hand wrote the word Zoo.

I hope it brought a smile to you, as I had a blast with this one!

HUGS

MichelleO

www.donkeysmiles.blogspot.com