Double Hopping!

Hello Hoppers!!

The Woodware DT is so excited to show off our new partnership with Stamping Scrapping so we're doing a Double Hop with the both DT!!  And to celebrate the double hop, there's double the prizes of course!! How can it get any better?

Join both teams as you hop back and forth viewing their creations that highlight both Woodware USA and StampingScrapping.com stamps. Be sure to leave a comment on all the blogs for the chance to win a prize!  Each company will choose a winner from those who leave comments on their respective team members blogs.

For my card today I used 

 

WWUSA set:  Invitation Elements

 



AND

StampingScrapping's Spellbinders Matching Stamps set: Fancy Accents






The hop starts at the StampingScrapping.com team blog at 10pm on Wednesday, April 27th, and it will end on the Woodware USA team blog. You have until 11:59 pm on May 1st to complete the hop. The winner will be announced on our blog on Tuesday! Please be sure to leave your email address, so that we may contact you!

Here is the hop order:

StampingScrapping.com

Alicia Ekermans  

Anary Baumgarth

Anne Harada  YOU ARE HERE

Billie St. Clair

Dawn Knight

Cindy Close

Harriet Skelly

Dawn Saenz de Viteri

Kerry Urbatch

Janine Blackwelder

Nancy Bush

Karen Stark

Suzanne Schmidt

Leanne Garner

Sheri Willshire

Wendy Stamey

Stephanie Hester

Wini Bell

Woodware USA

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

FYI - Earth Day

Hi All,

The For Your Inspiration Challenge today is in honor of "Earth Day"!  Fabulous photo, right?  If you would like to join in the challenge for an opportunity to be a Guest Designer and earn the right to post the "Lovely Lotus" badge, please join in and link your creation to the FYI Blog!  Any art medium is welcome! 

Here's my card, simple but totally inspired by the photo!  It's all punching and the sentiment is Woodware USA "Mixed Greetings" set.  Easy peasy!!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Itty Bitty Cupcake

Hi there!

Here's my card for this week's Woodware Challenge -- Diecuts and Punches!  This card uses probably the largest Nestie I have and the smallest punch I have!  (Look at the close-up below, you'll see tiny punched flowers under the half-back pearls.)

Mixed Greetings

The tiny cupcake in the middle is an image from the "Mixed Greetings" Woodware set.  Just a great set to have, lots of unique and useful sentiments along with coordinating images. 









For this card I only used the image on the outside.  When it comes time to give it away, I'm sure one of the greetings from the set will go on the inside.  The DP is Cosmo Cricket "Togetherness" 6x6 pad.






And don't forget!!  Please be sure to pop in at the Woodware USA Blog this week to play along for a chance to win a free WWUSA set!  It's almost time for this month's drawing!! 

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Girlfriends!

My Woodware Challenge card for this week is another new set by Jennifer Garant called "Girlfriends Live Well"! I used just the sentiment from the set and lots of shabby embellishments!

The DP is My MInds Eye "Life Stories" collection.  I used both the printed flowery side and the reverse side of the printed DP because the back side is a craft paper color.  The flowers are Paper Blooms by Kaisercraft and the ribbon is Decorative Trim from Hobby Lobby.  The pink stamens are also from HL, just some I picked out from their flower arranging section at the store.  Not sure who makes those.

The challenge this week is the popular "Anything Goes" so anything you create this week can be submitted for this challenge!  All the deets over on the Woodware USA Blog!!  As always, there's a free WWUSA set to be won and a chance to be a Guest Designer along with the rest of the DT!  We'd love to have you!!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

For Your Inspiration! Challenge #3

 Hello Friends!

This photo is the inspiration piece for this week's For Your Inspiration Challenge!  I loved the color theme and the seaside inspiration, so this is what I came up with.

The DP is DCWV Green Stack, decorative trim from Hobby Lobby, and a Nestie label stenciled with TPC Studio Aqua ink.  The image is Inkadinkadoo stamped in Blue Bayou.  Oh...and I had to toss in one of my little Tim Holtz die flowers!!







So what what inspires you in that photo??  Create whatever it inspires you to do and share it with us on the FYI blog!!  This challenge is open to all crafters and any medium can be used to express your creativity!


Link up to the blog and win a chance to be a Guest Designer and this blinkie for your own Blog!  See who won our last challenge and meet our Guest Designer is for this week!!





I hope you'll join us!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Funky Chicken!

Hi Everyone!

My Woodware Challenge card for this week is the new set by Jennifer Garant called "Deuce Roosters"!  These guys made me smile, just had to have them!!

The challenge is to make a monochromatic card, so I went with browns and a white neutral, easy peasy!  I love browns!  I stamped the image with Versafine Onyx Black ink and used almost all my brown Copic colors!  The DP I used for layering is from Jennie Bowlin's Brown Transferware Mini papers -- super cute paper; 4x4 versions of her big 12x12 patterns, perfect for square cards!

Hope you'll join in this week's challenge over on the Woodware USA Blog!!  As always, there's a free WWUSA set to be won and a chance to be a Guest Designer along with the rest of the DT!  We'd love to have you!!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

She Shells See Sells

Hello Everyone!

It's the weekend at last and I'm hosting the Inspiration Challenge over on SCS!  Yay!!  This week the webstore for the challenge is "The Outer Banks Trading Group".  I don't know how I stumbled upon this website but I stayed to look around because it brought back memories of one of our best vacation spots ever many years ago!!  This is a photo of DH and me on said vacation on the Outer Banks of NC, clearly having a wonderful time, enjoying this fabulous 3-level ocean front home we rented along with family and friends!!  Some day we'll go back... until then, it's a great memory and a fun challenge opportunity!




And about that Challenge...I chose this simple photo of a framed sea shell because...yes... it reminded me of the fun TH Flowers I've been obsessed with making this past week!

 



I made one plain white accordion flower, sponged over the top lightly with Color Box Creamy Brown and Dark Brown ink and added a neutral colored prima and a brad.  I ran a square panel through my Big Shot with a bubbly looking Cuttlebug EF, layered onto brown and white CS, and finally adhered my flower to the center of it!

Come on by and join me in this weekend's challenge!! I'd love to see what inspired you from the Outer Banks Trading Group website!!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!