Thursday, August 25, 2011

Winners!

Winners from our August blog hop .......


From Barb's blog, Barb's Best Creations, our first winner is Karen M., and her blog Stampin' Perfect Peace.

From Cassie's blog, A Day in the Life of a Homeschooling Mom, our second winner is Maria Matter, and her blog Joyful Stamper.



Congratulations to both of you!!!!


Have a terrific Thursday and a great, big, beautiful tomorrow!


~*Shell*~


Sunday, August 21, 2011

Clear Dollar Stamps August Blog Hop!


Welcome to the August edition of the Clear Dollar Stamps Monthly Blog Hop!!! This month, we bring you A Few of Our Favorite Things. :) You should be coming here from seeing Karen's beautiful work. If you didn't, you'll want to start back at Clearly iStamp to get in on all the amazing blogs in the hop - and to get as many chances as you can to win!!!


This was a very difficult theme for me. I have SO many 'favorite' things - scripture, paper crafting, photography, children and many other things in my life. But, I finally settled on my old standby ... MUSIC! It's always there for me ... always soothing me .... encouraging me .... lighting the fire of my mojo .... reminding me of my faith ... making me laugh .... letting me cry. Music surrounds me in all that I do. I don't know what I would do without that precious gift that God has given me. So, I used music for my card.


And this is the inside of the card. I wanted to spice it up a little and make it special.

Card Recipe :

stamps - Sweet Symphony
paper - black, white, music dp
ink - black, white
Copics - R46
accessories - Elegant Accents Dies, black brad, music brads, ribbon, flowers, pop dots, corner rounder



Now, what are you suppose to do?? Well, after you comment on my blog, you need to head right on over to Laurie's fabulous blog!

What's can you get out of the deal??

PRIZES: 2 lucky winners will each receive a $10 gift certificate for the CDS store for purchase of clear or digital stamps ONLY.

WINNERS: Winners will be randomly chosen from comments received on two DT member blogs. Winners will be announced here, as well as on the CDS blog, Thursday, August 25th.



Comment, comment, comment! Don't miss a chance to win!


Hope you have a wonderful Sunday and a great, big, beautiful tomorrow!


~*Shell*~


Friday, August 19, 2011

Clearly Inspired ... #34

Another great challenge today! It's one that is very close to my heart, too. Today's Clearly Inspired Challenge is to use scripture on your project. Ah ... the Word of God. I love using scripture, and it thrills me that Clear Dollar Stamps has so many beautiful scripture stamps in their collection.



I have had a LOT going on lately and really wanted to find a scripture that would help me feel quiet and calm, so I chose one from the Scriptures of Peace set. The doves are cut out and adhered using pop dots. I also put some flat adhesive on the bottom of them to allow their wings to pop out more. They were actually sprayed with Sheer Shimmer Frost, as well. The beautiful die cut that the scripture is on is from the Elegant Accents Dies. Gorgeous set of dies. I just love using them.

Card Recipe :

stamps - Scriptures of Peace
paper - Powder Puff, white, dp
ink - black
Copics - none
Accessories - Elegant Accents Dies, pearls, pop dots, Sheer Shimmer Frost


Now, it's your turn!! Get to work on your projects using scripture and link them to the Clearly Inspired Challenge. I can't wait to see what you create!!


Challenge details .....

-Challenges are now going to be on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month, and you'll have 2 weeks to finish each challenge.

-Challenges can use any stamps or digis from any company

-Only one entry per person per challenge and please no back posting

-Prizes will be given away after both challenges for the month. The number of prizes is determined by the number of participants for the month. For every 20 entries there will be a $10 gift certificate for stamps or digis up for grabs. (For example if over the entire month there were a total of 60 participants in both challenges, there will be 3 $10 gift certificates and 3 of the featured digital images to give away. . .that's a total of 6 winners in that example.)

-We will also be giving away a featured digi image....one for every 20 entries!


Have a fantabulous Friday and look forward to Sunday - our monthly blog hop!!! Our blog hops are always so much fun - and another chance for you to win!!!





Oh, yeah, and don't forget - have a great, big, beautiful tomorrow!!!

~*Shell*~

Friday, August 05, 2011

Clearly Inspired ....

I just love Cassie's Clearly Inspired Challenges. She's so creative with them and they really help to jump start my mojo. This week, the challenge was Things with Wings. We were to create something using an image of a creature with wings.

I chose to go with a subtle image this time.

I have really been enjoying the the clean and simple look on cards recently. To me, the clean and simple style just shouts "CLASSY!" What do you think??

Card Recipe:
stamps - A Time For Tags
paper - wild huckleberry, tropical mist, white
ink - rose
Copics - BG10
accessories - Blooming Bouquet dies, Cuttlebug, folder, wild huckleberry ribbon, pop dots, circle punch.
technique - CAS



So, here's the deets on the challenge -

-Challenges are now going to be on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month, and you'll have 2 weeks to finish each challenge.

-Challenges can use any stamps or digis from any company

-Only one entry per person per challenge and please no back posting

-Prizes will be given away after both challenges for the month. The number of prizes is determined by the number of participants for the month. For every 20 entries there will be a $10 gift certificate for stamps or digis up for grabs. (For example if over the entire month there were a total of 60 participants in both challenges, there will be 3 $10 gift certificates and 3 of the featured digital images to give away. . .that's a total of 6 winners in that example.)

-We will also be giving away a featured digi image....one for every 20 entries!


So, get to work on those challenge entries. You DO want to win, right??! Head over to Clearly iStamp and get all of the info!



I hope things are going great for you and that you have a great, big, beautiful tomorrow!!!



~*Shell*~