The Stamping Bazaar Guest Designer - Week 2

I'm back with another cutie to share with you from the Stamping Bazaar. I think this is absolutely my favorite image that Marina has ever drawn! He is Marvin with Candy Apple. He is available now in digital, but will soon be available in rubber as well! Thanks for letting me play along with TSB this month!

You can't really tell from the picture, but the "candy" on the apple is coated with Liquid Glass - which made it look good enough to bite into! I used some great Halloween ribbons from Really Reasonable Ribbon - Swiss Dots grosgrain orange with black and the Bats.

Flower Soft's challenge this week is Furry Critters - now I don't know that a bat would be the first little animal to pop in your head - but he is just so cute! I added black Flower Soft to highlight some areas, which really added that extra little touch. Be sure to pop over and play along - and you could win your choice of 3 colors of Flower Soft!

Challenges:
Crafting Life's Pieces: Sketch

Thankful

I have some very exciting news to share with you - I have been asked to join the Heartfelt Creations Design Team!!!! I feel so thankful and blessed to be a part of this team. If you are not familiar with this company, let me just say, you are going to love it! And don't be surprised when this is the Next Big Company! HC designs the most wonderful stamps and exclusive Spellbinder dies to match them! Oh my goodness. I saw them for the first time at CKC - Charlotte, and it was love at first site! My official term will start October 1st, but I just had to start sharing with you.

My project today is a layout - and I have to say it is my most favorite layout - evah! Are you checking out that fabulous 3-D Sunflower? Yep, that was made with Heartfelt Creation's Aztec Gold Sunflowers 2 - and this one uses Spellbinders Blossom 2 (bet you already have that nestie at home - so now, all you need are the stamps!)

I wanted to try my hand at My Mind's Eye sketch for the month - and the theme was "thanks". I really didn't have a picture that expressed how I envisioned this layout, so my sister and I took my 4 year old nephew out to a historic little church, near where we live. We had so much fun taking pictures of him - and we captured this shot, that I think really shows a thankful heart. He had so much fun throwing the leaves up in the air and watching them fall back down.

Thank you for looking!

Challenges:
My Minds Eye: Sketch/Thanks
Practical Scrappers: Ribbon
The Town Scrapper - We're in Stitches
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Fall colors
Alota - DIY flowers
Lexi's Creations - use a photo
Spoon Full of Sugar - anything goes
ABC - "d" Distressing
Crafty Creations - Falling Leaves
Creative Inspirations - 2 or more stamped images (layered, stamped sunflowers)
The Pixie Cottage - Fun and Games
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Grunge

Shape it!

Hi! This week at the Beary Scrap we decided no squares or rectangles! There are lots of other shapes out there - and we would like to see them. Whether it be a card, layout or altered project - show us some shapes!

When I saw that the Whiff of Joy Challenge for their GDT was to make a Wine Tag - I thought that would be the perfect shape to experiment with. I used papers from MME - Laundry Line and found a vintage wine label on line. I used Spellbinders Labels to add some shape to my edges - and finally added an adorable Norma Fickel image - Wee and Drum.

I hope that you enjoy seeing the Beary Scrappy Gals get out of our boxes this week! and we hope we inspire you to do the same.

Challenges:
Whiff of Joy - GDT - Bottle Tag
Whiff of Joy Monday Challenge - layers

Blog Hop with Karen's Doodles

Karen's Doodles is hosting a blog hop today along with our weekly challenge. Visit each team member's blog and leave a comment. We will be awarding random prizes of digi images chosen from the people who comment. If you arrived here from Dorte, you are on the right track. If not, start at the Challenge blog for a list of the DT members in hop order. In addition to our normal 3 winners, the Design Team will also pick a favorite entry who will be invited to join us as a Guest Designer for the month of October.

For my card, I used the new Apple of My Eye - what a great image for Fall! I colored my lace with Glimmer Mist so it would match my Graphic 45 papers.

And now it is time to continue on with the hop by visiting the very talented Joey! But before you go, there is one more twist, if your name is chosen as a random winner and you have entered into this week's Lace challenge, your prize will double! And don't forget, if you get lost along
the way, you can always return to the Challenge blog for a
complete list of blogs to visit. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, September 28th.

Full List:
Lori Ng
Annita Pedersen
Chris Sather
Dee Morris
Emily M - Junior DT
Dorte Nielsen
Gini Cagle (You are here)
Joey McKelvey
Sydney - Junior DT
Kelly Schelske
Kirsten - Junior DT
Mariska van der Linde
Joris - Junior DT
Nancy Cappelen
Pernille - Junior DT
Peri Hill
Tanja Jokela
Tracy Jackson
Sandy Hulsart

And now it is time to continue on with the hop by visiting (name of person below you on the list) But before you go, there is one more twist, if your name is chosen as a random winner and you have entered into this week's
Lace challenge, your prize will double! And don't forget, if you get lost along
the way, you can always return to the Challenge blog for a
complete list of blogs to visit. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, September 28th.

Challenges:
Sketch Saturday: sketch
Wee Memories: scallops and string
Paper Sundaes - fall colors
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Fall colors