♫ happy birthday to you!!!! ♫ ♥

Hello friends!  The design team has an *extra-special* post today!  Heidi, the owner of Stampavie, is celebrating a birthday this week.  And since she is just the sweetest person to work for, we all wanted to send her huge birthday wishes!   

Heidi, we hope you have a fabulous birthday! 

Love, your Stampavie family ♥

from Anna Maria…

from Anne…

from Marga…

from Tracy…

from Diane…

from Michelle…

from Bev…

from Leann…

from Niki…

from Kittie…

from Jay Jay…

from Alma…

from Monique…

 Have a sweet day, Heidi!  ♥

So it was my turn again to try to inspire you. This time I have decorated a paper bag for a Christmas present. Are they not cute these adorable penguins?!

Lovely bright colors and glittery stars brighten up a plain bag.

I ‘ve colored the image -A pile of penguins with Copics and distressed the edges with Tumbled Glass

Wishing you all a great weekend!

Hi! How are you? Do you enjoy your summer? I hope so! I enjoy my summer days and I’m making Christmas cards *grin*. I just couldn’t resist to take the cute new Teddie’s stocking image from the newest Laurence collection. It’s so much fun to color these cuties! And you don’t have to wait a long time anymore until the new Stampavie Christmas stamps will be available at your local or fave store.

I used Bazzill cardstock for the card’s base and Basic Grey Eskimo kisses pattern paper. I have to say that it wasn’t easy to work with this white background. I really needed hours until I found the right embellishments to finish this card. I used some Prima Flowers, brads, a Martha Stewart pine border punch, Scrapper’s Floss, small buttons and a Bosskut die cut for the card. I faux stitched around the card’s edges with a brown glitter pen.

I colored the image with watercolor pencils and added some accents with a white gel pen and I took a Tombow pen for the shadow around the image. Isn’t this bear cute? I love it! There are three more of these cuties in the new release beside a ton of other cute images. Do you already have some on your “must have” lists?

Hi to all

Today it´s my turn to show you a further project. I loooooove the snowmen “A magical christmas” of the new Penny Johnson christmas collection and it´s so much fun to colour this image

Heute bin ich wieder dran, Euch ein weiteres Projekt zu zeigen. Ich liebe die Schneemänner “A magical christmas” der neuen Penny Johnson Weihnachtskollektion und es macht so viel Spaß dieses Motiv zu colorieren:-)

I love it to use bright colours for christmas cards, so I combined a little bit unusal with classical christmas colours. I think the snowmen paper  and the cute image are matching so good together! Finally I added a little bit glitter on the borders. And I have to agree with Leanne I ´ve never had so much christmas cards in August, but the images are so cute, that it´s so wonderful to create winter projects in August

Ich liebe es bei Weihnachtskarten richtig leuchtende und kräftige Farben zu verwenden, so habe ich hier  ungewöhnliche und klassische Weihnachtsfarben miteinander kombiniert. Ich finde, das Schneemannpapier passt so gut zu diesem süßen Motiv. Zum Schluss habe ich noch ein wenig Glitzer an den Rändern angebracht. Und ich muss Leanne beipflichten, ich hatte auch noch nie so viele Weihnachtskarten im August, aber diese Motive sind einfach so putzig, dass es auch im August schon so viel Spaß macht, Winterkarten zu kreieren.

Thanks for having a look and have a wonderful day

Danke fürs Vorbeischauen und habt einen wundervollen Tag

Hugs,

Alma

Hey everyone
I have another Christmas card to show you all today – I’ve never had this many Christmas cards made by August before!

This is Star Gazing from the new Laurence Design line – it’s not really suprising I have so many cards made already when I have images this sweet to colour, is it?!

Enjoy your day

I just love this cute image from Stampavie called Bobby and Me.  It’s perfect for boy cards.  We don’t have a dog, but I was still thinking of my son when I was creating this card.   The image just reminds me of him.

I colored the image with copic markers that coordinate with the patterned papers I chose from Basic Grey’s Max and Whiskers line.  After die cutting the image, I left it in the nestability die and sponged around the edges with some orange chalk ink.  The sentiment is from a CTMH set.

Have a great week!

Niki

I have to make many Christmas cards every year. So I always start early. And with the new Christmas images from Stampavie its fun to play and make new cards.This card is made with the image Snowy & Rudolph from the Penny Johnson colletion.

This image I coloured with the prisma pencils and around the image i used chalk. With a little stickles in the stars.

Hugs

Marga

Hello!  Today we have an extra post for you.  

We haven’t been posting on Sundays lately.  But the design team has been having so much fun with the two new Christmas lines being introduced, that we decided to have a “Sunday Extra”!  I hope you enjoy the cards we have to share today.  And I also hope they inspire you to “get inky” this week and create some Christmas cards of your own!

If you haven’t checked out the new Christmas stamps yet, you can view the new images here.  I can’t choose a favorite….I adore them all! 

Here’s an adorable card by Bev.  She used the Penny Johnson image called Chic Shopping.  Don’t you love the sweet colors here?  I want that pink coat!  :^)

I also used the Sky Blue color for a popped-up frame but I paired it with some dark green for my snowy scene.  I used the Laurence Design image called Star Gazing.

 You may have noticed this card by Marga on the Stampavie home page.  She used the Penny Johnson image, Snowy Cuddles.  The soft colors here add so much to the “feel” of the card….don’t you want to squeeze those snow people? 

And here’s something else to squeeze….Laurence Design’s Merry Bear!  Alma colored him so wonderfully…I think anyone young or old would love to see him in their stocking on Christmas morn’!

And who wouldn’t love to find this beautiful tag by Anna Maria on their gift?  She used the Jolly Holly! image by Penny Johnson.  I love all of her accents in red!

And last, but not least is a wonderful card by Kittie using the Dearest Deer image by Penny Johnson.  Kittie’s scene is just charming.  And look at the intricate cutting around the horns and legs!

Thanks for popping into our Stampavie DT blog.  I hope you liked our “Sunday Extra”!  Who knows…maybe we’ll do it again sometime. 

Have a great week!

Happy weekend!  We finally got a bit of rain the other day and the temps are more enjoyable now!  It has been an unusually hot summer here!

In the summertime we drink lots of homemade iced tea.  But today my project is a little gift of hot tea.  I made this several months ago but couldn’t share it until now.  It’s a great project for any time of the year, though, and fall weather will soon be upon us!

I made a little tea bag book and here is the front cover.  I used the adorable Mouse In Teacup image by Tina Wenke.  It is so fitting for this project!  The image was cut out and popped up with dimensionals.

Here is a picture of the spine.  I couldn’t resist adding a little charm to dress it up. 

The inside has a piece of patterned paper that is scored, folded, glued and punched to make 2 little pockets for the tea bags.

I hope you like this project and will try it too!  I first made this type of tea bag holder about 5 years ago and at that time I drew up some directions for it.  Click on the link below to see how to make this Tea Bag Book yourself!

Tea Bag Book

It is my turn to make a post today, and this is my first card for Stampavie.

When I got the stamps from the new relase, I had to ink up this adorable Santa at once. I colored with Distress Ink and added some Glossy Accent and lots of Stickles, Star Dust. I have distressed the edges with Tea dye and Vintage Photo.