Sensational Sunday Blog Hop + CANDY

Good Morning Stampers!

Welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links. One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to be in a monthly drawing for a $20 Loves Rubberstamps Gift Voucher! We will draw the winner of the Voucher the 1st Sunday of each month from all the comments left on the design team blogs! Remember, you have until 8:00 pm CST Saturday to leave your comments!

I can't believe April is here already! Seems like this year is flying by so far! With this being the first Sunday of the month we need to draw our March $20.00 Gift Voucher winner! This time the winner of from Denice's Blog....March 8th week... and the winner drawn by Mr. random is: 

Here are your random numbers:

10

Timestamp: 2015-04-05 01:35:20 UTC

Who is: Teresa Kline who said: this is a sweet card, I luv this darlin image...soooo fun! so glad you played along with Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge! sparkle & shine *~*

Congratulations Teresa! Please email: lovesrubberstamps@yahoo.com by April 11th to claim your prize.

Before I show you my project for today I wanted to let you know that we will be posting a DESIGN TEAM CALL for our Design Team term that starts May 1st and runs through August 30th. We will have the details and how to try out for the team on our Tuesday April 7th Challenge. You do not need prior design team experience to apply. We would love to have you try out! 

Today I wanted to create a scenery style card. I love sponging sky backgrounds and making outdoors scenes for my cards and I don't do it as often as I would like. Today my card was inspired by the outdoor scenes that Delphine creates. I have always admired her little outdoor scenes that she creates and I really love how she does her grass area to give the scene depth. So I read through a few of her tutorials and tried a scene of my own :) 

 

I don't think it turned out too shabby for the first time I tried this style. I really like how my grass area turned out...I tried something different with the sky and clouds and I am not sure I am really loving that part...but it may still grow on me - LOL! 

I didn't have any of the colors that Delphine uses in her tutorial so I had to use a mix of my copics and spectrum noir markers for the scene. I was pretty irritated because many of my spectrum noir markers were dried out! Some I had never even used yet and I am not happy about that! I have always kept them in a cool environment with no temperature extremes so I don't know why they are dry. So I was even more limited on my color choices because I had to find markers that worked! GRRRR! 

For my clouds I am awful at drawing the cloud shapes so I decided to use the cute cloud image in Paper Smooches Forest Whimsy set by stamping just the tops with Memento London Fog ink. It was darker than I wanted it to be so I ended up swirling my white gel pen over it and then blending that with my finger to try and tone it down. I also added clear wink of stella over my clouds for some shimmer. I want to try and find a really pale light gray ink to try this again because I don't want it to be as noticible, but I do love the cloud shapes in this stamp set. 

My sentiment panel is created using papers from the Prima Optimist paper pack which I will be listing in the store soon. 

Here is a closer look at my scene...

That sweet little girl is the Blush Babette image from The Greeting Farm. I really love the images from this collection. 

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to mark your calendars to check out our Design team call on Tuesday!

Now let's hop along and see what the Design Team ladies have in store for you...

Laura - Loves Rubberstamps Blog - You are here...

Dangina

Nina
Lydia

Blankina
Denice
Rebecca

Thanks for stopping by!

Laura!

I will be entering this in the following challenges:

The Greeting Farm - Farm Fresh Friday - Have clouds or rain 
Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes
Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes
Stempelsonne - Anything Goes
Creatalicious Challenges - Anything Goes
Emerald Fairies - Sprimg Flowers or Easter
Live & Love Crafts - Signs of Spring
Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes with a sentiment
Kit & Clowder - April Challenge Flowers
Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers	Blush Babette Rubber Stamp	Forest Whimsy Clear Stamp Set	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
Memento Ink Pad Rich Cocoa	LONDON FOG MEMENTO INK PAD	Mini Ink Blending Tool	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Broken China
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad PEELED PAINT	Wink of Stella Christmas Sparkle Brush Glitter Marker Set	Copic Markers	Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers
Copic X-Press It Blending Card	Best Glue Ever

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