Blog Candy Winner

It's February 1st and I have been blogging alittle over a month now. What fun I am having! I want to thank all those of you who have become subscribers, followers and regular readers. I hope you are enjoying my cards and would love to see an occasional comment or email.

I put all the subscribers email addresses in a bowl, and after mixing well, my husband picked the following email address as the winner of my BIG box of Blog Candy:

cardsbylori@gmail.com. You are the winner! Lori- contact me via email with your complete name and address and I will get your package of goodies out to you!

Stamping smiles, Karen

Get Sketchy #23 and Raisin Boat

 

Love the simple but effective sketch on this week's Get Sketchy challenge. I used rented stamps again from Raisin Boat (see earlier post and www.raisinboat.com).

Love this set for guys: "It's a Guy Thing". A recliner, a remote and sports on TV- that's a perfect day for most guys I know, so these images are great for them. I stamped the recliner on a white piece with a piece "out of the box'. Stamped again on patterned paper and paper-pieced it. Rounded the corners of the white piece and doodled lines and dots around the edge. Stamped the remote on kraft paper, cut out and attached with mounting tape. Stamped the sayings and put together - easy and fun for most any guy.

Stamping smiles, Karen

Stamp Simply and Raisin Boat

 

Stamp Simply's challenge this week was to use hearts and the color red. That gave me a chance to use my first rented set from Raisin Boat. What is Raisin Boat? Check out this article:

http://host.madison.com/wsj/business/article_4ea04110-b897-5b4c-916b-826383092413.html

and then go to their website www.raisinboat.com.

I have signed up for their trial membership (two sets a month) after I saw all the cool stamps on their website that I could rent and use and return if I want or keep at a reduced price. Talk about great service- I signed up and two days later I had my first two sets in my queue along with the postage free envelopes to return them when I was done. I also got a free stamp with my order- a very cute heart with flowers that I will show you on another post.

This first card is using their "Playing Cupid" set. I wanted to make some more Valentine cards for my blog as this holiday approaches, but didn't want to necessarily buy any more sets for this once a year love day. But now that I have the set and love some of the images, I may have to keep this one:)

The round border images on the bottom are circle stamps I stamped and punched out and covered half with a pink strip with two more Raisin Boat images and Cuttlebug "with love" border embossed image. Two cute hearts on a string are added to the sides. The floral heart was stamped on white in red and then cut out and embossed with a Nestie heart. Cut the circle and scalloped circle with Nesties too and attached sticking up over the top of the card.

Stamping smiles, Karen

Cute Card Thursday #97

 

Cute Card Thursday's Challenge this week is to use flowers on our cards. The card I am posting has a beautiful flower stamp by Paper Inspirations. I have stamped the flower in Stazon on glossy paper, then pounced on color with a large bristle paintbrush. All layers were cut with nestabilities.

Stamping smiles, Karen

Believe Card and Request

 

Today's card is one I made with some favorite stamps from The Angel Company (who I used to represent) and some patterned paper. Love that silhouette stamp and the swirly "believe".

I added a Followers feature on the side of my blog. If you have been enjoying my blog and/or subscribe, please take a minute and add yourself as a follower. I dream of being on some design teams and I hear they check to see how many followers are listed on your blog before deciding to ask you to join their team. So I would greatly appreciate it if you would become a "follower".

February 1st is coming soon! I am drawing my Blog Candy winner from the subscribers at that time. Be sure to subscribe if you haven't already done so! Thanks for sharing my

Stamping smiles, Karen

Love Valentine or Wedding Card

 

This is a little fancier version of a card I had done for a challenge this weekend. I layered it on a red card, added some pearls, added corner stickers and used the "love" stamp from Stampin'Up. I think it would make a nice wedding card anytime or a Valentine for the one you love for the holiday coming up.

Stamping smiles, Karen

MMSC38 It's a Boy Card

 

I used the sketch from this week's Midnight Madness challenge (the more casual one:) to make this card. I also used all the materials given to us for our stamp club's challenge. The darling duck stamp is from a new line of stamps designed and sold at The Stamp Shoppe here in Weston WI. I paper pieced him. The circle is co-ordinations paper so after cutting and cuttlebugging, I sanded and the blue dots came through. The saying stamp is Stampin' Up.
Added a few buttons and the cute diaper pin and it is all done.

Stamping smiles, Karen