Alota Rubber Stamps Blog Hop!

Hi everyone and welcome to the Alota Rubber Stamps blog hop.

The hop started at Helene’s Alota Rubber Stamps Blog, so if you didn’t start from there you may want to head over there now so that you can start at the beginning of the hop. You don't want to miss anything and believe me there is lots to see!

Today the Design Team are featuring stamps from the new “Under The Arbor Collection” which were design by the new artist Lisa Michaels. These stamps are all available individually and are available to purchase from Alota Rubber Stamps NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are also welcoming two brand new members to our design team, Andrea Pierron and Ria Van Son, I am sure you will love their creations.

My project today uses “Bunny Blossoms”, isn’t it a sweet bunny! I decided with Easter just around the corner to create a Chocolate Box Holder to use as an Easter Gift. I stamped the bunny onto scrap white card and cut it out and attached it to my circle using foam tape.

Here is the inside of my chocolate box, both sentiments included on this box are also from Alota Rubber Stamps.

Want to receive 20% discount from your entire Alota Rubber Stamps order …. then enter the code ALOTALM10 when you place your order between 7th March and 12th March.

Well that is about it from me for today, now it is time to hop on over to the brilliant Birgit Edblom's blog and see what awesome creation she has to share with you today.

Enjoy the rest of the hop and thanks for dropping by!

Stamps: Bunny Blossom, Somebunny Loves You & Easter Greetings – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Brown; DP

Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Oval Punches; Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copics

Puppy Love!

Hi everyone, and happy Sunday to you all, yes it is already Sunday for me down here in Australia! I hope you are enjoying a wonderful weekend.

My card today is another sneak peek at one of the new stamps that will be released by Alota Rubber Stamps on Monday 8th March. This time round I used the “Puppy Love Girl”, isn’t she a sweetie!

The layout of my card uses a recent “Sweet Sunday Sketch” (SSSC57), this is a great layout to use up some of those scraps, although I must admit I didn’t use scraps to create this one hehe!

I will be back tomorrow (Sunday 7th March 10pm EST) with the rest of the Alota Rubber Stamps Design Team for our blog hop to celebrate the release.

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Design Team to see what they have come up with today.

Stamps: Puppy Love Girl – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Brown; Blue; DP

Other: Black Ink; Brown Grosgrain Ribbon; Blue Button; Foam Tape; Copics

Greetings!

Greetings everyone,

It’s day 2 of the sneak peeks for the new stamps to be released by Alota Rubber Stamps on Monday 8th March. My card today uses the new “Umbrella Girl“ stamp, this so reminded me of oriental that I had to use some of my new designer paper on this card. The Greeting’s Sentiment is an older stamp also by Alota.

It’s also time for another challenge over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. Of course being a new month means we also have a new hostess which this month is Barbara Anders. This week, Barb has challenged us to add some paper piercing to our cards/projects. I added my piercing to the top left hand corner of my red panel of my card.

I used last week’s SFYTT sketch challenge for the layout of my card, although I did flip the sketch so that the image could go on the other side of my card.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

• Barbara Anders
• Cindy Haffner
• Jessica Diedrich
• Jessie Rone
• Joanne Grzelak
• Joycelyn Turner
• Lori Boyd
• Lynda Benden
• Mercy Kerin
• Robin Willis
• Vicki Garrett

I will be back again tomorrow with yet another Alota Rubber Stamps sneak peek to share with you all.

Stamps: Umbrella Girl; Greetings Sentiment - Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Black; Grey; DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Oval Nestabilities; Black Brads; Black Grosgrain Ribbon; Red Button; Foam Tape; Copics

Boy and His Dog!

Hi everyone,

Welcome to day 1 of the sneak peeks, of the new stamps to be released by Alota Rubber Stamps this Monday 8th March. Alota Rubber Stamps will be releasing 9 brand new stamps from a new designer, Lisa Michaels.

This cute little boy wheeling his dog around in the wheelbarrow is called “Puppy Wagon“. I used my copic airbrush to create the sky and grass.

The layout of my card uses a sketch posted by The Sweet Stop last Sunday, (SSS45).

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Design Team’s blogs to see what they have created using the new stamps. I will be back again tomorrow with another sneak peek to share with you all.

Stamps:  Puppy Wagon - Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Brown; Mustard; DP

Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Brown Brads; Brown Grosgrain Ribbon, Green Button; Foam Tape; Copic Air Brush; Copics

Bunny Babies x 4!

Hi everyone,

It’s Thursday which means it is time for another challenge with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Being a brand new month means we have a brand new hostess for our challenges, which is Tosh Leyendekker.

For our challenge today Tosh has given us an Inspiration challenge, not my favorite type of challenge but I won’t complain too much hehe. It is probably pay back for that monkey card I made her create last year *wink*.

What I saw when I looked at the picture of the food which is below, was 4 separate sections (plates) sitting on a larger layer (plate) …. so I turned my inspiration into a sketch … my favorite type of challenge hehe!

I am just loving these Alota Bunny Babies so decided to use those to create my card and seeing there were girl and boy bunny babies went with a pink and blue color theme.

We would all love to see what you create using this picture as your Inspiration.

Don’t forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

• Tosh
• Charlene
• Cindy
• Joanne
• Shirley

Stamps: Bunny Babies – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Blue

Other: Black Ink; Flower Fantasy Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Foam Tape; Copics

I’ll Be There to Hop & Shop!

It’s release day over on MFT Stamps, which means it is time to join the MFT Stamps Design Team for another "Blog Hop and Shop!".

The hop started at Kim's (MFT Lady) blog so if you didn’t start from there you may want to head over there now so that you can start at the beginning of the hop. You don't want to miss anything and believe me there is lots to see!

My first card today uses one of the new Jolinne stamp sets, Love You Jolinne $15.95 which you can find over on the MFT Stamps store here.

One of the things I love about this stamp set is the different look you can give the stamp by either add the grass around the rock or leaving it off. The grass comes as two separate stamps is and very easy to stamp onto the rock without having to mask the image. I stamped Jolinne onto my card and after adding the grass I airbrushed the green for the grass area and the blue for the sky. The pink button used on the front of my bow is also available from MFT Stamps, Scoop o'Buttons - Chocolate Kiss Collection.

Here is the inside of my card, using one of the sentiments that is included in the stamp set.

My second card today uses one of the new Pure Innocence stamps called PI 4 Leaf Clover. Again the button used on my ribbon is from the Scoop o'Buttons - Chocolate Kiss Collection and I also used Glittered Garnishes - Chocolate Kiss in the top right hand corner of my card.

I used the Mojo Sketch Challenge Mojo127 for the layout of this card, and paper pieced the girls top and pants.

Here is the inside of my card, I used one of the sentiments from the set and also stamped the little girl again in the lower right hand corner of my card.

Well that is about it from me for today, now it is time to hop on over to the marvellous Melody Rupple's blog and see what awesome creation she has to share with you today.

Enjoy the rest of the hop and thanks for dropping by! Don't forget to leave comments on all the blogs, you never know who may be giving away blog Candy!!

Stamps: Love You Jolinne; PI 4 Leaf Clover – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Brown; Pink; Yellow; Origin DP – Basic Grey; DP

Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Square Nestabilities; Oval Punch; Brown & Green Grosgrain Ribbon; Buttons; Glittered Garnishes; Scallop Trim Border Punch; Foam Tape: Copic Airbrush; Copics

Pretties Wednesday Sketch!

Hi everyone,

It’s time for another Pretties Wednesday Challenge & Blog Hop. If you didn't hop onto my blog via Christi Thorsen's blog then you might want to hop back over to the very start of the blog hop which is at Christie Ortman's blog.

It's the beginning of the month which means that it is time for another sketch challenge! I hope you enjoy the sketch I have prepared for you all today.

The stamps the design team are using on our card/projects this week are Always In My Heart and Cuddle Me. Both these stamps sets are available for sale this week at 20% off the normal price.

My card uses “Always In My Heart”.

Want to play along with us
How to Enter: Create a card/project using the challenge above and any Paper Pretties stamp set(s) you have. Upload your project to the Paper Pretties gallery. Please include it in the Weekly Challenges category and use keyword PWC93.

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Paper Pretties Design team to see what they came up with for this challenge.

• Christie Ortman
• Julie Masse
• Jana Weaver
• Jackie Rakoski
• Christi Thorsen
• Frances Byrne (you are here!)
• Heather Lee-Reppen
• Wendy Bond
• Kristy Ketterlin
• Jane Matsumoto
• Jennifer Greco

Now to continue on the hop you need to head on over to Heather Lee-Reppen’s blog to see what she has created for this week’s challenge

Stamps: Always In My Heart – Paper Pretties

Paper: Cream; Brown; Pink; DP

Other: Black Ink; Oval Nestabilities; Pink Buttons; Foam Tape; Copics

Who’s That Birthday Girl????

Hi again,

I have another MFTeaser to share with you today, this time using the new WTG set for this month, which is called “Who’s That Birthday Girl?” This set along with all the other stamps to be released this month will be available from MFT Stamps after the release party tonight, Wednesday 3rd March.

This is a fun set …. besides having the girl carrying the birthday cake, there are a number of different sentiments included in the set. Also birthday candles in the shape of numbers so you can create an aged birthday card for whatever age your heart desires. Normal candles to add to the cake and some more tiers for the cake.

Recently when I was checking out the new blog posts in my Google reader I came across a post by Heather Summers on how to create a Three Tier Slider Card … well as soon as I saw this it reminded me of the cake the girl is holding and of course I had to create one myself. I adapted the measurements to suit my image and stamps as hers is much smaller then mine … but they are easy enough to adapt for whatever purpose you want.

For my top photo you can see the card closed. I paper pieced both the cake and the dress. I added the candles “3” & “4” to the top of the cake. My eldest DD is turning 34 this year so I will probably give this to her.



Here is my slider card with the second tier showing. The sentiment used in the second tier is from the new “Clearly Sentimental about Birthdays” set which is another of the sets to be released tonight.


And finally here is my card with the third tier showing, see how it looks like the three tiers of the birthday cake the girl is holding!

Don’t forget to visit Kim’s blog any time after 11AM EST to get the list of which Design Team members are also featuring this set on their blogs today.

Stamps: Who’s That Birthday Girl – MFT Stamps

Paper: Cream Perfect Paper Panels – MFT Stamps; Pink; Red; DP

Other: Black Ink; Scallop Trim Punch; Tab Punch; Grosgrain Ribbon; Button; Foam Tape; Copics

Have A Bright Sunshiney Day!

Hi everyone,

It’s time for another Wednesday Stamp Club over on the MFT Stamps Member Forum of SCS.

Each Wednesday, (with the exception of the week prior to the release for the next Guest Designer contest) someone from Team MFT will post an idea, project, sample or more to inspire our creativity. On the 1st Wednesday of each month Cindy Haffner and I will be bringing you our sketch challenge.

This month it is my turn to host the challenge! For my card I couldn’t go past using one of the new “Pure Innocence” stamps that will be released tonight (3rd March) by MFT Stamps. This set is called “Sunshiney Day” ….. doesn’t it make you think of spring!!!!!!

Here is the inside of my card, using the sentiment that is included in the set.

And of course let’s not forget the sketch.  For more details on this challenge don’t forget to check out this week’s Wednesday Stamp Club thread over on the MFT Stamps Member Forum of SCS.

Stamps: PI Sunshiney Day – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Yellow; Pink; DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Pink Grosgrain Ribbon; Yellow Button; MS Butterfly Border Punch; Butterfly Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Foam Tape; Copic Airbrush; Copics

 

You Make My Heart Sing!

Hi everyone,

Are you ready to see another MFTeaser???? Today the MFT Stamps Design Team are featuring the new Jolinne Stamps that will be released by MFT Stamps this coming Wednesday 3rd March. This month there will be two new stamp sets from the Jolinne range to be released.

My card today uses the new “Heart Sings Jolinne”, isn’t she a cutie, I love those heart shaped music notes! This is actually a mini set. I paper pieced the image using the same designer paper that I used for the base of my card. The button I attached to my bow is from the Scoop o'Buttons - Chocolate Kiss Collection, which is also available from MFT Stamps.

 

Here is the inside of my card, using the sentiment which is also included in the set.

Would you like to see more of the new Jolinne sets. Then hop on over to Kim’s (MFT Lady) blog to see the list of which design team members will be featuring a card/project on their blog today. Kim will have the list posted to her blog at 11am EST.

Check back here again tomorrow when I will have even more MFTeasers to share with you.

Stamps: Heart Sings Jolinne – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Brown; DP

Other: Black Ink; Brown Grosgrain Ribbon; Pink Button; Brown Candy Dots; Scallop Trim Border Punch; Foam Tape; Copics

Maarvelous Darling!

Hi all!

I have one more Pretties Peek to share with you today. This is a preview of the newest stamp of the month which is called “You’re Maarvelous Sophia”, isn’t she just fabulous!!!!! What little girl wouldn’t love to get hold of some of Mum’s clothes and play dress up!

Did you know that Paper Pretties have new stamps that they released  today!!!!!! You will find them all over in the Paper Pretties store.

All the design team will be posting something from the new release on their blogs today, so you might want to head on over to them all and check out what they created.

• Christi Thorsen
• Christie Ortman
• Heather Lee-Reppen
• Jackie Rakoski
• Jana Weaver
• Jane Matsumoto
• Jennifer Greco
• Julie Masse
• Kristy Ketterlin
• The Paper Clip
• Wendy Bond

 

Stamps: Maarvelous Darling Sophia – Paper Pretties

Paper: Cream; Pink; DP

Other: Black Ink; Modern Label Tag Punch & Die; Grosgrain Ribbon; Pink Button; MS Deep Edge Border Punch; Pearls; Foam Tape; Copics

 

An Alota Sketch Challenge!

Hi everyone,

Yes it is me again … it sure has been busy around here today LOL! Of course the 1st of the month means that it is challenge time over on the Alota Rubber Stamps blog. Our challenge hostess this week is Birgit Edblom. Birgit has a wonderful sketch challenge for us all to play along with.

Want to play along???? you can use any stamps you want, although if you have Alota Rubber Stamps we would love to see them on your cards.

You have until the 15th March (11.59 pm US Pacific time) to complete this challenge, you can enter as many entries as you wish for a better chance of winning!!! You have a chance of winning some wonderful stamps if you card/project is selected randomly from all the entries received.

I had so much fun with this sketch that I couldn’t stop at just the one card! For my first card I used Alota’s new “Lucky Leprechaun Man” & “Lucky Lucky Lucky Sentiment”, just perfect for those St Patrick’s Day cards which is just around the corner. I did flip the sketch to suit the layout of my image I wanted to use.

Here is the inside of my card, for this I used Alota’s “Pot of Gold” & “Irish You Sentiment”.

St Patrick’s Day Card Recipe:

Stamps: Lucky Leprechaun Man; Lucky Lucky Lucky Sentiment; Pot of Gold; Irish You Sentiment – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Green; Origin DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; Green Brads; Tag Punches; MS Ironworks Border Punch; Foam Tape; Copics

For my second card I used one of the cute Bunny Babies and sentiments from the new “Bunny Babies Unmounted Plate”, these are just sooooooo adorable! Again I flipped the sketch, but in a different direction to the first card I created.

Here is the inside of my card, using the sentiment included in the unmounted plate I used on the front of my card. Of course I just had to get that bunny border onto my card somewhere too hehe!

  Here is the sketch if you want to play along. We would love to see what you created so don’t forget to leave a link to your card over on the Alota Rubber Stamps blog.

Recipe For Bunny Babies Card:

Stamps: Bunny Babies – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Brown; DP

Other: Black Ink; Brown Grosgrain Ribbon; Pink Button; Curly Label Punch & Die; MS Grass Border Punch; MS Bunny Border Punch; Circle Punches; Foam Tape; Copics

You’ve Got Mail!

Hi everyone,

I have two more MFTeasers to share with you all today in readiness of the MFT Stamps new release to be held this coming Wednesday 3rd March.

Today the MFT Design team are featuring the “Pure Innocence” range, there will actually be five Pure Innocence stamps sets that will be released this week!

For my first card I used the “Happy Mail” set. I paper pieced the girls dress using designer paper.

Here is the inside of my card, I stamped just the mail box from the main image and added the sentiment on the left side of the card.

 

For my second card I used the “Boy & His Dog – Dog Gone Cute” set … the name of the set says it all, cause this set is dog-gone cute!!!!!

I used Mercy’s Tuesday Sketch challenge (MTSC62) for the layout of my card.

And here is the inside of my “Dog-Gone Cute” card, using one of the sentiments from the set.

Would you like to see more of the new Pure Innocence sets. Then hop on over to Kim’s (MFT Lady) blog to see the list of which design team members will be featuring a card/project on their blog today. Kim will have the list posted to her blog at 11am EST.

I will be back tomorrow with more MFTeaser’s to share with you all!

 

Stamps: Happy Mail; Dog-Gone Cute – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Green; Rust; Black; Origin DP – Basic Grey; Devonshire DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Scallop Trim Border Punch; Oval Punch; Circle Nestabilities; Grosgrain Ribbon; Buttons; Green Candy Dots; Foam Tape; Copics

Hey!

Hey there everyone … don’t those Mondays come around fast!!!!!!!!!!! Not that I mind so much cause it means that it is time for another challenge over on The Pink Elephant blog.

This week the challenge is to add the color green to your color combo! Pretty easy don’t you think!

Our sponsor this week is Claudia and Company

Claudia has started a brand new stamp business and asked our very own Lori Boyd to design a line of stamps which she has called the Puddle Jumpers ….. these are available to purchase now.

Each of The Pink Elephant Designers were given a different Puddle Jumper to use to create our cards for today. The stamp I got to play with is called “Emma” isn’t she just a cutie!!!!!!!!

It’s not hard to find the green I used on my card hehe … I think I have more then covered this challenge. It gave me a good excuse to grab my new Origin Basic Grey Designer paper which I just love!

Don’t forget to check out The Pink Elephant blog to see what the rest of the design team have created this week.

Stamps: Emma Puddle Jumper – Claudia & Company

Paper: White; Yellow; Green; Origin DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; Yellow Grosgrain Ribbon; Green Button; MS Grass Border Punch; Green Brads; Scallop Trim Border Punch; Oval Punch; Foam Tape; Copics

 

Ciao!

Hi everybody,

It’s day 2 of the MFTeasers, in preparation of the release of the new stamp sets which are all due to be released by MFT Stamps this coming Wednesday 3rd March.

Today the Design Team are featuring two of the new stamp sets that will be released, these include: “Joyride” and “Clearly Sentimental About You”.

For my card today I used the new “Joyride” stamp set … what a fun set and look at that adorable little puppy watching the girl drive away! I stamped my image twice, once on the white card that I used for the base of my image and a second one on white scrap which I cut out to mount over the top of the first. *Tip* always color your bottom image at least around the edges where it can be seen when you turn your card at an angle, it looks so much better. I also used my copic airbrush to create the road and the sky on the base card.

Here is the inside of my card, I added one of the other sentiments included in the set and also one of the two pieces of luggage also included.

Before you go .... don't forget this month's MFT Stamps Guest Designer Challenge. This month the challenge is to incorporate vintage book text or sheet music into your creations. Challenge entries will be due Tuesday, March 2, by 10 pm EST. To be considered, upload to SCS using keyword: MFTGUESTDT0310. The winner will be announced in the release party thread on March 3rd by 8:45 p.m. EST.

Want to see even more MFTeasers using the two sets that the Design Team are featuring today, then hop on over to Kim’s (MFT Lady) blog to see the list of which design team members will be featuring a card/project on their blog today. Kim will have the list posted to her blog at 11am EST.

Stamps: Joyride – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Purple; La Di Da DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Pink Grosgrain Ribbon; Purple Button; Foam Tape; Copic Airbrush; Copics