YOUR NEXT STAMP NEW RELEASE BLOG HOP (GUEST DESIGNER)

Hello, I have been asked to be a Guest Designer for Your Next Stamp this month!

(thanks for having me guys xx)

Are you enjoying the blog hop so far?
 I hope you're going to like the little project I came up with using the new Silly Love Monsters Stamp!

Not everyone likes smushy cards on Valentines Day and these little guys are great for those who want to create a more comical card!

I stamped the monster on to natural coloured cardstock with grey ink and coloured it with Caran D'Ache Pablo pencils.  As with my Copic work, using a pale ink gives your images a hand-drawn appearance when complete.

The sentiment, also from the Silly Love Monsters set was stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder.
I chose a pink mount to match the monster's own card, before adhering the whole piece on to a square, top folding kraft card base.

Now, we have a special treat for you today.
YNS are giving away a $25 YNS Gift Certificate - all you have to do is leave a comment on the blogs you visit for your chance to win.

.....and don't forget the code below to qualify for 20% off your purchase in the store

Thank you for dropping by today on this blog hop.
Happy Colouring

An InLinkz Link-up

Paperbabe Stamps Blog Hop

We are very excited to announce a guest artist in the Paperbabe Stamps family and to celebrate we are having a little blog hop...

The very talented Chris Dark has designed a collection of beautiful Garden Fairies Stamps, the Butterfly Catcher, Butterfly Emerges, Butterfly Fairy, and Musical fairy, they are a larger set and each includes a beautiful sentiment.

To add extra fun to our blog hop... we are offering up a prize! 

of the whole garden fairies collection to one lucky winner.

Here are the details:

• A winner will be chosen at RANDOM from any of the designer's blogs and the PaperbabeStamps Blog to win.
• Just leave a comment on any of the designer's blogs listed below or the Paperbabe stamps blog for your chance to win! (you do not need to comment on all blogs to qualify but it increases your chances) 
• Deadline: You have until midnight on Sunday, 2nd April to leave a comment.
• Please check the Paperbabe Stamps blog on Wednesday, 5th April to see if you are one of our lucky winners.

Here's a sample from me...

Today, we’ve enlisted some super talented designers to inspire you with ideas on how to use these beautiful new garden fairies! Hop along for lots of fun and inspiration! 

Chris

Kim
Delphine
Terri
Kerrie

Carole C

Trish

Carol

Jane

Paperbabe Stamps

Have fun on the HOP!

Thanks for dropping by my blog, are you enjoying the hop? Please don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win the entire collection of stamps.

MIC Advent Calendar Winner

As you may recall my final post for the

Make it Crafty Design Team was the Christmas Advent Blog Hop

 

my prizes were:

 

Snowball Fight Digital Stamp Set

Snowflakes Chipboard Embellishments

 

 

 

Lorianna

(http://loriannascorner.blogspot.com)

 

Woo hoo, congratulations!!

 

Lorianna please contact Zoe HERE with your details so she can get your prize to you!

 

Thank you to everyone who kindly took the time to leave a comment, I hope you had fun playing along with us and congratulations to all those who won a prize!

 

Hugs

Make it Crafty Christmas Blog Hop - DAY 2

Believe it or not

there are now only 23 days until Christmas!

 

The MiC gang and our Special Guests thought it would be fun to have a 'grown up' advent calendar as we count down the days til Christmas full of inspiration and crafty goodness!

 

Each day a sneak peek will be revealed on the MiC store blog with a link for you to follow

 "to open the door"

 

All you have to do is stop by the store blog each day to open the next door!

 

 

PLUS Zoe has Christmas Candy full of lots of crafty goodies that you don't want to miss out on!

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL

AS I HAVE A PRIZE TO GIVE AWAY TOO!

 

You will have a chance to win the Make it Crafty goodies that I have played with today!!

 

all you have to do is leave a comment on this post

for your chance to win:

 

SNOWBALL FIGHT DIGITAL STAMP SET

SNOWFLAKES CHIPBOARD EMBELLISHMENTS

 

The comments will stay open until the 31st of December
and the winners will be announced in the New Year on the MiC store blog.

You can join us for all 24 days - giving you 24 chances to win some MiC goodies!
 

.....and don't worry if you join us late, simply go back to the start and catch up!

 

This is what I have created with my MiC goodies!

SUPPLIES:

Snowball Fight - Make it Crafty

Snowflake Chippies - Make it Crafty

Word Art by Box of Colours

Faber Castell Polychromo & Caran D'Ache Pablo coloured pencils

Kraft card

Silver paper

Recycled Parcel Paper

Frost Points - Stampendous

Snowflake peel offs - Craft Creations

Stickles Diamond Glitter Glue

Frost White ink - Color Box

 

This creation has been a real labour of love, taking 5 days to complete!

Having created the basic scene with the digital stamps in Word

 I finished it off by drawing in the background by hand!!

 

But I did not stop there!

 I could not find a suitable background paper so I created my own with the aid of the parcel paper, white ink and snowflake stamp

and

my own sentiment in Photoshop Elements!

 

 

Now it is with sadness that I have to let you know this is in fact my final creation for

Make it Crafty 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Zoe and the rest of the team for having me

and wish them all the best for 2013

 
 

And as it is nearly Christmas
I thought I would post my seasonal word art as a freebie

 

 

 

Now don't forget to leave a comment below before December 31st and stop by the Make it Crafty Store blog to 'open the door' to the other inspirational projects!

Thanks for playing along with us and I would like to wish
you all a very
Merry Christmas

 

 

Crafty Hugs

Simply Betty Stamps and Make it Crafty Blog Hop

Well hello there, you should have arrived here from my good friend SANDIE

Make it Crafty and Simply Betty Stamps
are really excited to be bringing you the combined Hollywood Release!

Simply Betty Stamps
has a range of characters from Betty Monroe, through to Action Chris the movie director!!

Make it Crafty
has a range of background scenes perfect to switch and match with your famous characters!!


Now I know you've hopped on over to see our creations,
so I shall not keep you waiting any longer.....

Images used:

Betty Monroe - Simply Betty Stamps

Red Carpet - Make it Crafty

and like any star Betty just loves a close up!

....but are you ready for the Copics........brace yourselves....

Of course we are going to have heaps of fun with this theme and June 1st & June 2nd we will be showcasing our stuff and then June 3rd we're bringing you a fun guessing game... Will you be able to guess the movie??  We'll be giving you some clues to help!!

Join us for the two inspiration days and leave a comment along the way for your chance to win a selection of new images.


There will be FOUR winners each day receiving a surprise character with matching background digi stamps.

Then on June 3rd, guess 6 out of 12 movies correctly and you will have a chance to win:
  

Grand Prize

A DVD Movie of your choice

PLUS the whole collection of MiC & SBS digi stamp Hollywood release images.

Second Prize
The whole collection of MiC & SBS digi stamp Hollywood release!

Can't wait?!!
But we know some of you just can't wait so both Betty and Zoe are offering you 25% off
their Hollywood collections between June 1st and June 3rd!

Click Here for Simply Betty Stamps & Click Here for Make it Crafty!

We hope you have lots of fun with us this weekend!!!

Todays Blog Hop Stops:
Suzi 

 Ruby
Delphine
 Lelia
  Sandie
  Jane (me)
 Betty
Bettina
 Cyndi 
Alyce
 Barbara
  Alison 

Okay dokey, time to hop along and say hello to BETTY

Thanks for calling by today

Crafty Hugs

3 Companies - 1 Blog Hop

Not one, Not two but THREE COMPANIES have come together to bring you a fantastic collection of images, sentiments and even matching embellishments to get your creative minds flowing with ideas!

WHO ARE THEY??
If you have been following the lead up to our big release then you may have taken a stab at guessing who we are.
If you guessed...

Whimsy Stamps, Make it Crafty & Little Miss Muffet Stamps!

Then you are correct!! Woot!

Now as you can imagine there are HEAPS of prizes to be won but before all that, join us on our incredible inspiration hop where the talented girls from our teams share different ways you can combine our products.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

With it being Valentine's Day, of course the theme has an element of love... whether it be friendships, a thank you or even a romantic kiss in Paris... you are sure to feel the love all round.

So if you have just popped by to say hi and stumbled into this hop you may want to

START AT THE BEGINNING!

Otherwise you should have arrived from ELLIE

Details:

Make it Crafty 

 Paris Elements & N2 Fancy Collection chippies

Little Miss Muffet Stamps

 Krill the Gargoyle, Penny Farthing, Elisabeth Louise Hatter

Whimsy Stamps

Thanks a bunch notables 2

Close ups:

This image was coloured using both Copic and coloured pencil

PRIZES & SURPISES & A CHALLENGE!!
Make sure you comment along the way for a chance at winning a few extra goodies and once you reach the end, we'll share all the details on the prizes you can win and we even have a fun challenge you can enter which could win you a feature in the upcoming Whimsy Magazine! Wooohoo!

Did we just hear you scream?
"I LOVE THESE PRODUCTS AND I WANT THEM NOW!"

haha - they are awesome right? Our ideas just exploded!!
Well they are available RIGHT NOW!!
Whimsy Stamps Store | Make it Crafty Store | Little Miss Muffet Stamps Store

So where to next you ask??

JUMP on over to my friend SARAH

Hugs

Oh and before I forget I'd like to enter my little Parisien project into the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - free and easy February

CES Challenge - #72 Lots of layers

One stitch at a time - #100 Anything goes

Crafters companion - Anything goes

Make it Monday - Anything goes

Make It Crafty Christmas Blog Hop with Blog Candy

Welcome one and all!

Hee hee, the Design Team have temporarily taken over  the blog whilst we celebrate Zoe's birthday today, yep that's right.......

Happy Birthday Zoe!

To commemorate this joyous occasion, we're so excited to bring you a
Birthday Blog Hop with a Christmas theme!!!

The Design Team wanted to celebrate Zoe's Birthday in style so there's lots of inspiration, prizes, freebies and even a gallery album for you to post your own birthday greetings to our Zoe.

This is one hop you don't want to miss!

Zoe has some fabulous new Christmas images that were released today and we've been working really hard to produce some amazing cards to show them off!

From today until Sunday, 2nd October she is offering 15% off ALL digi stamps in the Christmas Category HERE

But the fun doesn't stop there!
 every Design Team member on the hop is giving away

****BLOG CANDY****
You'll have two weeks to leave a comment on this blog post and I'll be posting my lucky winner here on Friday, 14th October.

Oops, nearly forgot....................we've got yet another surprise for you!!

We contacted one of Zoe's artists (S.H) and she's very kindly drawn us this gorgeous party girl for the occasion - how cool is that!

Introducing "Party Girl Zoe"

We wanted to make sure that everyone was included in our celebration so we're giving her away as a FREEBIE to everyone who wants to join in with our celebrations!!!

All you need to do is create a new project using a Make it Crafty image or chippies and upload it into the Gallery HERE by 12th October.

Then email Barbara here with a link to your project to claim her!

So are you ready for some Christmas inspiration?  

Time to sit back, relax and enjoy the myriad of inspiration from the Design Team:

Jane (ME)

Jen

Viv

Angela

Annika

Delphine

Elaine

Tracy

Debbie

Maria

Beccy

Carole

Barbara

Well you've come to the right place as I'm your first stop, oh yeah!

Image:

Make it Crafty New Christmas Digital Image

"Elf Delivery System" available HERE

Paper:

Craft Creations

Misc:

Quickutz Britannia Alphabet, Circles and Stars

Cuttlebug corner die

Make it Crafty Fancy Ribbon Sliders

Ribbon from stash and sewing machine

Copics:

For me this is a double celebration!

Why?

Well, believe it or not

Jane's Box of Colours Blog

will be celebrating it's 1st Birthday on 4th October!!!

So, I've decided to give away this

***BLOG CANDY BUNDLE***

to one lucky reader

BLOG CANDY BUNDLE

Ribbon, Foiled die cut greetings, Wishes elements, Silver and Gold peel-offs,
Blank Jigsaw, Beads, Mini Jigsaw pieces, White gel pen and over 30 charms

Thank you for dropping by, don't forget to leave a comment on this blog post for your chance to win the  

BLOG CANDY BUNDLE

 you have until 12th October!

Now it's time for you to hop on over to

JEN

 

Whimsy Stamps/Make it Crafty Blog Hop

Whimsy Stamps & Make it Crafty have come together to create a fun Urban Themed digi collection!

Ann Vento has whipped up her magic and designed an incredible collection of
funky wall sayings, city landscapes and of course a range of super cool street signs.

Check out the Sentiments collection HERE

Make it Crafty is trying something new offering all the different elements for you to build your own urban backdrop.

Check out the Urban Street Collection HERE

Then of course, what better characters to incorporate into such a scene than the fabulous KennyK rubber stamps available from Whimsy Stamps!

Our incredibly talented Design Teams have had a blast playing with all the different elements to bring you LOTS of inspiration!

We have broken it in to TWO HOPS
HOP A Starts HERE & HOP B Starts HERE!

There will be a winner for EACH HOP and if you hop your way through BOTH, you’ll go in the draw for the GRAND PRIZE TOO!

HOP A & B Winners will each receive a $15 voucher from both Whimsy Stamps and Make it Crafty

GRAND WINNER will win our full Urban Digital Collection
4 Digi Sentiment sets by Ann Vento & the Urban Elements Collection from Make it Crafty

You are currently on

"HOP A"

 and should have arrived from Lisa

 

MIC Urban Street Collection, Kenny K - Club Kid, Whimsy Urban sentiment.

and here is the pen-pic

  

Your next stop on

 "HOP A"

will be my pal Vicky

 but before you go please make sure you leave a comment below!

You have until August 21^st 8PM Australian QLD time to make your way through the hops!

Have fun!!!

Note to diary - visit Jane's blog on Sunday!

......................and this is why

So come back tomorrow for some awesome blog hop fun with

Make it Crafty

&

Whimsy Stamps

Have you hopped?

Have you completed the

yet?

If not - you still have time to play along with Dustin and his crew

ends tonight at midnight (USA Mountain Time)

START HERE

(Blog Hop image made using Bear ABC)

Whilst you're here, would you like to take a peek at the last few images I have been playing with?

Ducky set

It doesn't matter whether you say Hocus Pocus or Izzy, whizzy, lets get busy, this duck is pure magic!!!  Yep, it's official I'm completely quackers!!  Sorry, but duck jokes abound with this set - they're cute & they're quirky (or is it quacky?)

Basketball Dragon set

Did you honestly think Dudley wouldn't make an appearance!  He's taken up basketball and by the look of things he's pretty good at it!

I merged several images with yep you guessed it Photoshop Elements. Oh the fun you can have with digis..........

Farm set

As a farmer's wife, I couldn't end this post without an image from the Farm set.  

(This is a merged image)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

If you want to enter my Blog Hop Draw you need to make sure you've left a comment on THURSDAYS (21 April) blog post - and if you like what you've seen today then by all means leave a comment here. 

I do hope you've enjoyed yourselves. May I take this opportunity to thank you all for playing along & wish you a very Happy Easter.

Hugs

Blog Hop/Blog-Iversary images cont......

Hello again, did you have fun yesterday on the blog hop?

If anyone visiting my blog today didn't join in there is still time, you have until midnight, Saturday April 23 (USA Mountain Time) - have a go, don't be shy, you never know you may be one of the lucky prize winners!!

START HERE

Now I promised you yesterday that I'd have more images to share with you, so here they are:

52 Digis set

Dustin is known to his Crew as the "Sheriff", with his trusty Deputy (Jenn) keeping us in line!!  So when I saw this image in the 52 Digi set (available HERE) I knew I wanted to use it on a card to celebrate Doodledragon Studios 2nd Blog-iversary.

If you look carefully you'll see the backing paper is made using lots of Dustin's digis, old and new - they were merged together using Photoshop Elements.

I coloured him using Copics and gave it an aged look with chalk inks.

Happy Blog-iversary Boss!!!!

Hippos set

Can you imagine the size of the tree these Coconuts came from!!!

Monkey Travel set

G'day to you all - isn't he the cutest!

Copics again folks, and this monkey is bit of a globe trotter - with outfits from around the world - there's even a British Guardsman ( I wonder if he'll be attending the Royal Wedding next week?)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

If you want to enter my Blog Hop Draw you need to make sure you've left a comment on THURSDAYS (21 April) blog post - and if you like what you've seen today then by all means leave a comment here. 

Well, I think that's all for today - if you're really, really good I may just have a few more up my sleeve (or on my laptop) that I'll share with you tomorrow.

Happy crafting & if you've not given digi stamping a go before, go on, be a devil - try it.......