Donna Salazar Guest Design Team!

I am so excited!!! I found out I am going to be a guest designer for Donna Salazar!

Guest Designers for the 2011 - 2012 Design Team

USA Guest Designers (listed alphabetically)

Gini Williams - North Carolina

Jan Hennings, Iowa

Lynn Forsythe - New Hampshire

Mandy Harrel - Oregon

Rhonda Van Ginkel - Minnesota

Terre Fry - Arizona

International Guest Designers (listed alphabetically)

Beverly Cunningham, New Zealand

Danielle Aubroeck - The Netherlands

Erika Taylor - Canada

Leticia Seki - Brazil

Sandi Smith - Canada

Wendela Lam - The Netherlands

Chapel Road Stamps Inspiration

I have a super easy card to share with you tonight using a couple of stamp sets from Chapel Road/ Class Act. The fancy part of my card is the embossed background that was made with a Cuttlebug folder. After it was embossed and inked, then I used some Webster's Pages paper to back the opening. I stamped several butterflies from the Butterfly Square set in a shade slightly darker than my paper. Then, I stamped over the top of those with my birthday sentiment from Birthday Abermarle set. The silk ribbon bow was attached using a star charm pin.

Be sure to mark your calendars for the last Friday of each month. That's when we have the Chapel Road challenge ( and there is a prize to be won!)

Challenges:
Shabby Tea Room: Birthday
Bling it On : Anything goes with a charm
Simon Says Stamp Challenge : Birthday
Flourishes : Butterflies
Top Tip Tuesday : Birthday
Simon Says Stamp and Show: Stars
ABC - Birthday

Speed Challenge!

There is nothing like being sleepy and ready to go to bed, and then you see that one of your favorite stamp companies is having a speed challenge - and the card has to be posted by tomorrow morning. Well, I guess sleep is over-rated anyhow! So, I used one of my lovely Flourishes stamp - and I'm really hoping I will win some more to play with!


Challenges:
Flourishes: Speed Challenge

PSA Essentials Luck of the Irish Blog Hop

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Welcome to the 2nd stop on the PSA Essentials Luck of the Irish Blog Hop. Do you have any special plans for the day? I'm making Reubens tonight with home made corned beef - yum! Well, you will certainly want to include this Blog Hop on your list of fun things to do today, because Libby is offering a fantastic prize. To play along and enter to win “The Luck of the Irish”, hop to each of the blogs and leave a comment telling the designer what you like about her work. Leave a comment on the PSA Blog and also become a follower (if you aren’t already!) She will choose one lucky person at random to win a custom stamp, 3 Peel & Stick packs, 2 inks & 1 alignment tool. That’s a retail value of $150 – good luck!

For my card I used a St. Patrick's stamp set from Flourishes. I picked out my cardstock first and then realized how great it looked with the Echo Park - For the Record paper laying on my desk. I guess it was a "little luck of the Irish" to just happen to match so perfectly!

Your next stop on this hop, is my sweet friend Jeanne. You only have until 12:00 am on 3/18 to enter - so you might want to get hopping!

Just in case you get lost along the way, here is the full list for the hop. Good luck!

o HOST: PSA Stamp Camp: www.psastampcamp.blogspot.com

o Gini Cagle: http://ginicagle.blogspot.com/

o Jeanne Streiff - http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/?p=14037

o Jessica Morales: http://www.kinderstampo.com/

o Kandi Phillips: www.kraftykandikrafts.blogspot.com

o Kim Moreno- http://www.livingthecircuslife.blogspot.com/

o Linda - http://pkod.blogspot.com/

o Lisa Silver - http://silverstamping.blogspot.com/

o Mara Campbell - http://www.loveyourmotherearth.blogspot.com/

o Marie Ramirez - http://www.absosweetmarie.blogspot.com/

o Michelle Bertuzzi: http://jirokenscrapbookcorner.blogspot.com/

o Sharon, Prima - www.prima.typepad.com

o Stephanie Jones - http://pinkstarcreations.blogspot.com/

o Tracy Shultz - http://whoistracy.com/myhead

Challenges:

Flourishes: Cut Above the Rest (die cut edge)

Dream

When my husband asked me to make something cool to decorate his classroom, I decided this banner would be a great inspiration piece - DREAM. It's really very sparkly in person - lots of layers of Smooch! The flowers are from the fantastic new Spellbinder's dies by Donna Salazar - Carnation Creations. I added some netting between the layers. For the leaves, I achieved a really shabby look by cutting them from Grunge paper, then painting them with Crackle paint in Shabby Shutters and then spritzing it with Smooch.

Challenges:
The Shabby Tea Room: Birthday Bash Celebration/Banner
Canvas Corp Banner contest

Flower Soft Hop - $50 Prize!

Welcome to another Flower Soft Hop. Today,The Flower Soft team will be showing you fun ways to use Flower Soft Card Toppers.You should have arrived here from my talented friend Debbie Seyer's blog. If not, you may want to go back to the Flower Soft blog and start there- you don't want to miss leaving a comment on any of the blogs, because...

One lucky blog hopper who comments on all the blogs will win a $50 Flower Soft gift certificate so comment on every post along the way!

The blog hop will remain open until Tuesday March 22^nd. The winner will be announced on the Flower Soft blog on March 23rd.

If you get lost along the way please visit the Flower Soft blog where there will be a complete list of the Flower Soft Hop participants.

I used a topper from the very pretty collection - Country Village. You can build great layers in just a few minutes with just a few snips of the scissors and some foam adhesives. Add a little Flower Soft in Sweet Pea and Meadow, and it's like magic!

Now you will want to head over and see what gorgeous creation the sweet Cibele Glazer has to share with you!

Heartfelt Creation and Scrap-Mart Blog Hop

I hope you have been enjoying all of the lovely Heartfelt Creations projects this week! I know I have been inspired everyday.

I wanted to share an altered box with you for my stop on the hop. Heartfelt Creations Dies and Stamps are so versatile - they are great not only for cards, but also layouts, home decor, altered items - really anything that you can think up!

Here are my details:
HCPC 3375 Flora Grande 1 PreCut Set
HCPC 3374 Flora Grande 2 PreCut Set
HCD 711 Decorative Dutch Iris Die Set
Spellbinders Blossom 3

Other: Maya Road Chipboard box; Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist; Smooch ink (gold); clear embossing powder, Stickles glitter glue.

To make my own designer paper, I took a page from an old phone book and randomly stamped one of the smaller Flora Grande stamps over the paper in Versamark ink. I embossed with clear embossing powder and then sprayed it with Glimmer Mist. I cut and measured the paper to wrap around the box and glued it on.

The top of this box had a heavy vellum insert. I stamped the flower image on this as well. The flourish was cut from the Decorative Dutch Iris die set, and had accents of gold Smooch in added along the edges.

For the flower, I used 3 sizes of stamps, and cut two of each size. After these were stamped and cut, then I colored the white watercolor paper with Glimmer Mist. I shaped the petals while they were damp, then let dry completely before assembling with dimensional adhesives. I brushed on a thin layer of Stickles and added a pearl to the center.

I hope you have been inspired with this hop! Here are the rest of today's participants.

Karen Walker

Gini Cagle (You are here now)

Linda Payne
Dee Jackson

Chapel Road Stamps Inspiration

I have another card to share with you today using Chapel Road Stamps. I began by stamping the Butterfly Square onto white watercolor paper. I added distress inks over the image in Antique Linen, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, and Black Soot. I put a few drops of Dusty Concord re-inker into a mini-mister and sprayed over the image. I stamped a second image, and colored the butterfly using Aquarell watercolor crayons. I cut this butterfly out and attached it using dimensional adhesives.

Thanks for looking!

Heartfelt Creations Dutch Iris Collection - Release!

Can you believe it's time for another release from Heartfelt Creations? I am always so thrilled to receive my DT box with the new releases - they are always just amazing! I really love this collection and I know you will too. Please hop over to the blog to see the inspiration from the rest of the DT- and also if you leave a comment on the Heartfelt Creations blog, you will have a chance to win this entire release!

What a Catch 12 x12 Layout - This is a picture of my grandmother throwing her bouquet in the early 1940's. I just stumbled upon this photo recently and loved all of the vintage details of the picture.
HCPC 3376 Distressed Leaves PreCut Set
HCPC 3374 Flora Grande 2 PreCut Set
HCPC 3375 Flora Grande 1 PreCut Set
HCD 711 Decorative Dutch Iris Die
Spellbinders Nested Leaves
Spellbinders Blossoms 3
Spellbinders Square Grand Nestabilities
Spellbinders Grand Caliber
Other: GCD Paper, Dusty Attic Chipboard,Webster's Pages Sparklers,Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Smooch (gold), embossing powder, GCD ChipArt tools, Meyer's vintage Glass Glitter
Flowers: Stamp one image per size for each flower onto watercolor paper. Cut using the Blossom 3 die set, and with scissors, cut the petals apart towards the flower center. Spray with Glimmer Mist to color and crumple. Straighten each flower back out ,shape and dry. Use tacky glue to add glass glitter to the edge of the petals. Assemble flowers with a dimensional adhesive between each layer. Add a sparkler for the center.
Leaves: Stamp and emboss the leaf images using gold embossing powder. Cut the leaves with the Nested leaves die set. Color using Smooch Spritz (olive). Shape the leaves using an embossing stylus. Allow to dry and add to page using dimensional adhesives.
Other: Cut flourishes from the Decorative Dutch Iris die set, and add as desired around the layout. Color chipboard with gold Smooch and glimmer mist. Stamp the sentiment into the chipboard using the Sparrow font ChipArt alphabet set . Add vintage metallic ribbon and arrange as shown.

6 x 6 card
HCPC 3371 Dutch Iris Oval PreCut Set
HCPC 3373 Dutch Iris Medley PreCut Set
HCD 711 Decorative Dutch Iris Die
HCD 710 Decorative Oval Window Die
Scalloped Square Grand Nestabilities
Grand Caliber
Other: Bazzill cardstock; Patterned papers: GCD Studios, CTMH; Cuttlebug embossing folder, Copics ( V0000, V91, V93, V95, V99, Y19, YG91, YG93, YG97); Distress Ink - Dusty Concord; Kaisercraft pearls, May Arts Ribbon, Flowersoft
Stamp and color the Iris Oval - and cut out. Stamp just the flower head and one bud from the Dutch Iris Medley set. Cut out using the Dutch Iris Die and color. Add Flowersoft for the center of the flower. Attach these to the oval base using dimensional adhesives. Run olive cardstock through the Grand Caliber using an embossing folder. Ink the edges and embossed area with the Distress ink. Cut and emboss a Decorative oval window die and use to frame the oval Iris. Cut a gold mat using the Scalloped Squares Grand. Assemble all of the layers adding dimensional adhesive as desired. Add pearls to finish the card.

5 x 7 card
HCPC 3372 Dutch Iris Frame PreCut Set
Other: Bazzill cardstock, GCD designer papers, May Arts ribbon, Berol Prismacolor pencils, CTMH White Daisy Pigment ink
Stamp the Iris Frame using white pigment ink on black cardstock. Allow to dry. Color the image using colored pencils. Cut and mount on layers using dimensional adhesive. Add ribbons as desired.
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5 x 7 card
HCPC 3372 Dutch Iris Frame PreCut Set
Other: Bazzill cardstock, GCD designer papers, May Arts ribbon, Berol Prismacolor pencils, CTMH White Daisy Pigment ink
Stamp the Iris Frame using white pigment ink on black cardstock. Allow to dry. Color the image using colored pencils. Cut and mount on layers using dimensional adhesive. Add ribbons as desired.

Beary Scrap sketch and a Thank You!

It's time for another version of this month's sketch at the Beary Scrap. Since we are celebrating our one year birthday, we wanted to thank all of our loyal followers - you all are the best! So, this thank you is for helping make our first year so successful.

I got to break into my Echo Park For the Record paper. I really love it! I inked all of the edges using Distress Ink. I just think this pulls a card together. The rose was made using Glimmer Mist, Vintage German Glass Glitter (brown) and the Spellbinders/ Donna Salazar Rose Creations die set. That gorgeous pearl flourish is from Zva Creations (which will soon be appearing at TBS!)

Be sure to play in our challenges this month for our huge birthday bash prizes!