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Hi Stampers!

Are you all done with your Christmas shopping? I have just a couple more things to get and then need to do a little holiday baking I think :) One thing I know I need to make but shouldn't because they are soooo hard to stop eating is some oreo mint truffles. YUMMMOO! I will let you know what I end up making :)

Today we have a really pretty and festive card from Olivia! She used a gorgeous stamp from Wild Rose Studio's Annabelle's Christmas Collection called Annabelle with Sledge.

Isn't this gorgeous? This stamp line intimidates me a little bit because off all the details but Olivia colored it up beautifully! I love the added spots of bling in the tees, and the ground. Those beautiful papers are from the Festive Collection from Authentique. Turned out so pretty.

Well, I am off to pack a couple of orders so I can get them out today and then will be going to my Weight Watchers meeting. Wish me luck because I don't feel like the scale is going to like me this week! But I am hoping for a pleasant surprise!

Have a wonderful day all!
Laura

Sensational Sunday Inspirations & BLOG CANDY!

Hi Stampers!

Welcome to our Sensational Sunday Inspirations post!

First I would like to say... HAPPY VETERAN'S DAY!
Thank you so much to all of the service men and women and their families for all the sacrifices they make for us to enjoy the freedoms we have. Words can never express how grateful we truly are!

Our random winner of last week's BLOG CANDY GIVE-AWAY according to mathgoodies.com is...

Comment #6 - Yvette whose comment was - Inspirational work! Great cards!


Congratulations Yvette! Please send me an email at lovesrubberstamps@yahoo.com and I will send you your code for a $5.00 gift voucher to the Loves Rubberstamps store.
Remember... EVERY SUNDAY... you will have the chance to win a gift voucher to the Loves Rubberstamps Store.... just for leaving a comment on the post! Winner will be chose with random.org and will be announced on the following Sunday's post!

To try and win a $5.00 Gift Voucher - Just leave a Comment on this Post - that's it - nothing else!!

To try and win a $10.00 Gift Voucher - (we will check these)
                                       1. Be a FOLLOWER of this Blog
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                                       3. Be our fan on Facebook
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Today I have another special announcement before we see the gorgeous projects from our Design Team!

The Cutting Cafe has an AMAZING give-away of SIX... yes I said SIX free files that are perfect for your December projects! Regina is a very sweet and talented lady and I am very honored to be a part of her awesome Design Team. Her files are so fun and easy to use! I absolutely LOVE them and I know that you will too! Please visit her post to check out this amazing special and to download your files. She will be offering this deal through November 17th!

The Cutting Cafe is also sponsoring our challenge this week at Loves Rubberstamps Challenges! Be sure to show us what you are creating...this week is Anything Goes!

Now on to today's blast of inspiration from our talented Design Team! Here we go....

Katie Skiff

Paper Smooches - Circle of Honor

I had to start with Katie's project because it is so perfect to honor our service men and women! I love this layout and the deep, rich blues in that paper with the kraft. What an adorable way to accent the ribbon with the bit of twine too! Simply beautiful!

Lydia Walker

Paper Smooches - Happy Camper

Paper Smooches - Perpetual Bliss

Spectrum Noir - Browns

OMGosh!! This is the cutest! Lydia placed her little critters on springs so they actually wobble and bounce around like they are jammin' out to some great music - LOL! I would be wiggling my card all day! They are getting DOWN with Karoke! Now obviously this bear is better singer than I am because his deer friend is there listening to him. My screeching clears rooms so I only sing in the car, when I am alone, or with the kids when I want to embarrass them so they say.... "MOM! SERIOUSLY!" LOL! I love this card!

Marcy Dangcil

Sweet Pea Stamps - Ching-Chou Kuik Collection - The Serene Night

WOWZERS! This is a stunning tag! Marcy did a beautiful job coloring her image and adding all those gorgeous pearls, bling and fibers for texture! I love the little heart charm on top too. I have been a huge fan of this collection for a long time and am so glad that we were able to add it to the store! Such beautiful designs!

Kelli Hull

C.C. Designs - Sweet November Noelle

This is such a pretty CAS design! I love how Kelli just added a touch of highlights to the wings and the dress and let that beautiful image be the star. This shows how you can even keep your colors really simple and still have an elegant and beautiful card.

Shanna Shands

My Favorite Things - My Balloon

My Favorite Things Die-Namics - Mini Rolled Roses Die

My Mind's Eye - Papers

This is so pretty! I love the colors and how Shanna matched the purples in her image with her papers. Such a cute layout and those mini roses are gorgeous! This would make a sweet card for a lot of different occasions, you could just add different sentiments.

Olivia Marmara

Sweet Pea Stamps - Elisabeth Bell Collection - Jack-O-Lantern Tea

This is so pretty! I love those soft pretty blues and how the lace and pearls add an elegance to this card. Reminds you of a super fancy tea party! Olivia colored her image perfectly to match those gorgeous papers!

Olivia Marmara -

Candle 1 - Wild Rose Studio - Annabelle's Christmas Collection - Feeding Robins

Candle 2 - Saturated Canary - Candy Canes

These are soooo cute and would make a perfect gift for any person on your Christmas List! Olivia did an awesome job coloring her images and adding stickles to the design before transferring them to her candle. Have you ever wondered how do make these? Well... you are in for a treat because Olivia has created an easy to follow picture tutorial on her blog showing you how to do it!

I hope you enjoyed today's amazing projects! Be sure to leave a comment so you are in the drawing for next week!

Happy Stampin!
Laura

Sensational Sunday Inspirations & BLOG CANDY!

Hi Stampers!

Welcome to our Sensational Sunday Inspirations post!

Our random  winner of last week's BLOG CANDY GIVE-AWAY according to random.org is:

Here are your random numbers:

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Comment #1 - LYDIA ... whose comment was - My gosh !! Everyone did a fab job on our very first SSI xxx love you girlies and off to leave you a bit more!! Great blog candi .... I've left a comment !!

Congratulations Lydia! I will send you your code for a $10.00 gift voucher for being a Super Fan!

Remember... EVERY SUNDAY... you will have the chance to win a gift voucher to the Loves Rubberstamps Store.... just for leaving a comment on the post! Winner will be chose with random.org and will be announced on the following Sunday's post!

To try and win a $5.00 Gift Voucher - Just leave a Comment on this Post!

To try and win a $10.00 Gift Voucher - (we will check these)
                                       1. Be a FOLLOWER of this Blog
                                       2. Be a FOLLOWER of The Loves Rubberstamps Challenge Blog
                                       3. Be our fan on Facebook
                                       4. Add our Blog Candy Badge to your blog
                                       5. Leave a Comment on this post to show love to the DT and let
                                   us know that you are our "Super Fan" 

Now on to today's blast of inspiration from our talented Design Team! Here we go....

Katie Skiff

The Greeting Farm - Latte Anya

My Mind's Eye - Miss Caroline Dilly Dally Designer Papers

I LOVE this card that Katie created! It is super cute with the colors she chose! Her image is colored perfectly to match the designer papers. That metal flower bling on her hat is the CUTEST! I really love the layout that she used too which is from I ♥ Sketches. Beautiful job Katie!!

Shanna Shands

Whimsy Stamps - Wee Stamps Collection - Silver Fairy

OMGosh I don't even know where to start! When I first saw Shanna's card I was blown away by how beautiful it is! Those colors are gorgeous! Shanna did an awesome awesome job coloring her image! Those flowers are so pretty with this color scheme too! This is my absolute favorite card that I have seen created with this stamp! Stunning creation Shanna!!

Marcy Dangcil

Wild Rose Studio - Bella Collection - Bella With Flowers

Wild Rose Studio - Bella Collection - Bella 6x6 Paper Pack

My Favorite Things - Die-Namics Butterflies Die

Spellbinders - Scalloped Circles Die

Memento - Tuxedo Black Ink

This is the sweetest card EVER! When Wild Rose Studio first came out with the Bella Collection...this image was my super favorite! Marcy did a GORGEOUS job coloring Bella and her flowers! It matches the paper perfectly and it hard to tell that it is colored, it looks like it should be a printed piece! Her coloring skills absolutely blow me away! When I grow up I want to color like Marcy does - LOL! I love the sweet butterflies and the gorgeous flowers that she added as accents too!

Lydia Walker

Gourmet Rubber Stamps - Sealed With a Kiss

Wow! I love this! This is a simply beautiful clean and simple design that still packs a big WOW! Those long fishtails are stamped with sayings from this same set as well! I love the gold embossing on the edges of the main panel and the ribbon adds that classy, elegant touch!

Olivia Marmara

My Favorite Things - A La Modes Collection - Bundle of Baby

This is such a cute Welcome Baby card! I love these colors and Olivia paper pieced her Mom perfectly! I love the way that Olivia stamped the sentiment! That layout is perfect and the twine around the panel creates the perfect touch!

Holly Flores

La-La Land Crafts - Popsicle Marci

OMGosh this is so CUTE! This is one of the projects that Holly got to do when she took her class with Irina Blount. How lucky was Holly? THE LUCKIEST - LOL! This is such a pretty card with the soft summery colors and all of the accents. Holly's coloring on her image blows me away on this! Love all the dots on the hat and pants! That balloon die is gorgeous and is from La-La Land too! We will be adding their dies as a preorder soon!

Kelli Hull

Saturated Canary - Isabella

This is just gorgeous! I love the deep, rich colors that Kelli used to color her Isabella! That fun, funky feather is the coolest accent too! I love the design, a simple layout that really showcases the image! This totally makes me want to try and Cha-Cha but I would probably throw my back out - LOL!

I hope you enjoyed today's inspirations from our Mega-talented Design Team! I LOVE my team and couldn't ask for a better group of ladies to work with!

Be sure to leave a comment and tell us what you think of today's projects... you could be next week's lucky winner!

Happy Stampin All!
Laura

DIY The Legend

Good late evening stampers!

So sorry for the late post - these night shifts are kickin my hiney! I had my post scheduled and I hit save instead of publish :(   GAHHH!

So without further ado here is today's fabulous card from Holly!

Holly used the super cool stamp set from Wild Rose Studio called DIY Legend. Doesn't this make AWESOME masculine cards? I love that Holly kept with this week's theme for the Loves Rubberstamps Challenge which is a color challenge this week of Black, Turquoise & Yellow. Holly does this color scheme brilliantly in this card!

Have a good night/good morning all!

Laura

Ahhh...Adorable Milton!

Good Morning Stampers!

Guess what today is? Our very first Loves Rubberstamps Blog Challenge with our new Design Team! YAY!

Here is the card that I made for my Inspiration project for this week's challenge - ANYTHING GOES...



The image I used is from Wild Rose Studio and it is called Milton with Lily. I love Milton...he is sooooo cute!  I am super excited about my card today because I have been experimenting with Hybrid Coloring and I have to say, I am really lovin the results! Hybrid Coloring is when you mix markers with colored pencils to color your image.

To color my Milton I used my Spectrum Noir Alcohol Ink Markers to color my entire image first. Then I came back and used my prismacolor pencils to do a little shading in the center of the flower and a little bit of the darkers shadows on my bear. I also used prismacolor pencils to add the pink to his cheeks. Then I just blended the pencil using a dry tortillon or paper stump. The grass and the shading around the image is all done using my prismacolor pencils and gamsol to blend.

This is only my second time trying this technique and it is fast becoming a favorite! Here is a closer look at my Milton image...

The sentiment is from the Flourishes Stamp Set - Apple of My Eye. I added some dots of glitter to the center of my flower and a few highlights with my white gel pen. I stamped my image using India Ink  on Crafter's Companion Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock for Alcohol Markers.

I used this Bellariffic Sketch from Stamping Bella for my card layout:

Hope you liked my card today :)

Please come and join us in our Blog Challenge... You could be the lucky winner of a gift voucher for up to $50 to use in our store!

Also don't forget to become our facebook fan... we will be giving away a gift voucher for $100 to our store each time we hit 500 new fans!

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Stamping!
Laura

My Sunday Shares

Hi Everyone! Hope you have been enjoying your weekend...mine has went too fast as usual :) I found a couple of the CUTEST cards to share with you today from two amazing artists!

The first of my favorites for this week is an adorable card created by Shelby Thomas. She has an incredible blog called Color Of Happy . I can tell you from first hand experience that her blog is appropriately named because she makes the most adorable cards AND she is amazing at copic coloring. Her cards just pop with bright colors and will leave a smile on your face. It did mine!

Here is one of her cards called Plant Kindness. She used one of my FAVORITE images from the newest company to join our product line, Crafty Sentiments Designs. I am proud to say that right now we are the only store in the United States that carry this line! The image that Shelby used on her card is a new Spring 2012 release called Primrose Garden Flowers . Take a look...

Doesn't this cutie just make you smile? Be sure to visit Shelby's Blog, Color Of Happy and see some more of her fabulous creations!

The next talented artist I came across is Eva and her blog is called, Crafting This and That. Her adorable card uses another of my favorite stamp lines, Wild Rose Studio. Her card uses the cutest elephant on the planet...BELLA! Bella is also the name of my Ja-Tese so of course anything named Bella is adorable :) Eva's card uses the stamp called Bella's Birthday and she used the matching 6x6 scrapbook paper called the Bella Paper Pack. Here is Eva's card, that is called Bella's Birthday ...

Another cutie that just makes me smile! Eva did an AWESOME job coloring her image. I love the soft colors and her white gel pen and stickles she used to add the bling to her balloon. Please be sure to visit Eva's blog and see some more of her eye candy!

I hope you enjoyed today's shares and they put a smile on your face as they did mine! These two ladies are very talented and I really appreciate them both allowing me to share their incredible designs with you! Thank you so much Shelby & Eva!

Hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekend :)

Happy Stamping - Laura

P.S. if you are wondering what my adorable Bella looks like here she is...she was being silly and wearing her glasses :)