Category: Guest Designer

Guest Designing At Challenge Up Your Life With Downhill Snowman

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i had a lot of fun creating my second card as a guest designer for Challenge Up Your Life and the snowman theme for challenge #83.

penny black downhill snowy copyright linda @ snailzpace.wordpress.com-1

i love snowmen! i have so many snowmen stamps but i used an older penny black wood stamp, new to me but never used, called skiing snowman from 2004.

i painted everything with twinkling H2Os, watercolour pencils and, for the first time, i played with some of my new Schmincke watercolour paints. definitely a learning curve because i’m so used to my twinks; they have different qualities – transparency, staining and lifting that i’ll eventually get used to.

i finished off this card by adding white flocking to the hat and a glitter mat around the image panel.

so pop over to the challenge to play along with a snowman of your choice!

thanks for popping by.

Guest Designing At Challenge Up Your Life

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i’m so excited that as a November winner i was invited to join Challenge Up Your Life as a guest designer for the two challenges in January.

shimmer sheetz embossed copyright linda @ snailzpace.wordpress.com

the theme for the next two weeks, for challenge #82, is to create a project using an embossing folder so i embossed this very shiny blue Elizabeth Craft Designs Shimmer Sheetz and coloured with permanent markers. to finish off, i added a sentiment and matted it with the shimmer sheetz and some purple mirri. the biggest challenge was taking a good photo without my or my camera’s reflection.

thanks for popping by.

Bundled Up

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it’s tuesday and time for a new theme at the Loves Rubberstamps Challenge – use lace and it’s sponsored by Crafty Sentiments Designs. this is my last GDT card and i’d like to thank laura love, owner of Loves Rubberstamps, for inviting me and holly flores for being a great DT Coordinator; it was a lot of fun, i was challenged and it was a great learning experience.

Supplies i used on this card:

My Favorite Things Die-Namics Dainty Lace Border Die
My Favorite Things Die-Namics Let It Snowflake Die
Polar White Diamond Range Flower Soft
Stampendous Frantage Embossing Kit Vintage
Distress Ink pads
Twinkling H2Os (coming soon!)
Inkssentials Ink Blending Tool & Foam
Tombow MONO MULTI LIQUID GLUE
Crafty Sentiments Designs
Kaisercraft paper

i watercoloured this cute Crafty Sentiments Designs image with distress ink pads and twinkling H2Os and lightly sponged the green dotted paper with distress inks. i added flower soft, frantage and my favorite things die-namics dainty lace border and let it snowflake dies. there are some fabulous prizes on offer, plus a chance to be a guest designer for a month – just put GDT if you’re interested. you can read all the rules and find some amazing inspiration by the DT at the challenge blog – i hope you’ll play along! thanks for popping by.

Hugs

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it’s tuesday, so it’s time for a new challenge at Loves Rubberstamps Challenge Blog; this week’s theme is to CASE yourself or a design team member and it’s being sponsored by Aurora Wings. i cased one of my clean and simple hedgie cards:

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but i used this sweet critter image from the Penny Black Hugs Clear Stamp Set available from Loves Rubberstamps and i watercoloured with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads and twinkling H2Os (coming soon!). i love pink and green together and i love the pretty patterns in the Wild Rose Studio – ANNABELLE’S MEADOW PAPER PACK 6×6 Patterned Paper. i used Tombow MONO MULTI LIQUID GLUE to attach the Memory Box Alphabet Die letters

check out the Loves Rubberstamps Challenge Blog for the fabulous DT creations and remember – you can use any stamps and products that you would like, you can enter as many times as you want and just add GDT after your name if you’d like to be considered for a guest designer position – i’d love for you to play along too!

i’d like to submit this to these challenges:
CAS on Sunday – challenge #25 lovely dovey
great impressions – something new (new papers)
graph’it marker – anything goes

thanks for popping by.

Extreme Fun

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kennyk

Kenny K Extreme Stamp
Echo Park – A Boy’s Life
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads
Tombow MONO MULTI LIQUID GLUE
 Derwent Inktense Pencils

it’s time for a new challenge at Loves Rubberstamps Challenge Blog; this week’s theme is to use something metal on your project and it’s being sponsored by Kenny K. i’ve used this Kenny K Extreme Stamp, available in rubber from Loves Rubberstamps that was so much fun to colour; i used distress ink pads and derwent inktense pencils and added some picture frame hangers.

you’ll want to pop over to the Loves Rubberstamps Challenge Blog to check out the fabulous creations the DT have made and remember – the challenge is open to everyone, you can use any stamps and products that you would like, and you can enter as many times as you want – how easy is that?! i’d love for you to play along too! thanks for popping by.

Loves Rubberstamps Guest Designer

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I’m very excited to have the opportunity to be a Guest Designer for the weekly Loves Rubberstamps Challenge for January; Laura, the owner, and everyone on the design team has made me feel very welcome.

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Items Used:
Wild Rose Studio – BELLA’S BIRTHDAY Clear Stamp 
Wild Rose Studio – ANNABELLE’S MEADOW PAPER PACK 6×6 Patterned Paper
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads
Tombow MONO MULTI LIQUID GLUE
Penny Black sweet wishes 30-104
Memory Box Simple Banner
Ranger Archival Black Ink
Ranger Diamond Stickles
Twinkling H2Os

this week’s theme is anything goes, so i chose to make a side-step birthday card with bella that i coloured with distress ink pads and twinkling H2Os. click here to the distress ink pads page and you’ll find a distress ink colour swatch chart to download. tip: i attach one inch squares of watercolour paper to the chart to make my colour swatches.

the challenge is open to everyone, you can use any stamps and products that you would like, and you can enter as many times as you want – how easy is that? there are some fabulous prizes to be won – vouchers to the loves rubberstamps store and a prize from this week’s sponsor the cutting cafe, plus a chance to be a guest designer – just put GDT after your name. i hope you’ll play along! thanks for popping by.

Guest Designer At Scrapbooker’s Paradise

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i’m excited to be the guest designer this week at the playing in paradise challenge, which is to take your inspiration from this photo:

under the sea photo
card with an under the sea theme
i used the colours and theme to create this card for my husband for father’s day. the shells were stamped, coloured with distress inks, cut and popped on foam tape. the sea is painted with distress inks, which was covered on the bottom with embossing powder and enamel. finally, i added some cheesecloth, twine and a flourishes sentiment and tag. you’ll want to check out the inspiring DT creations at the scrapbooker’s paradise blog and i hope you can play along. thanks for popping by.

One Crazy Stamper Guest Post – Buzzing By

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Card with Inky Antics Bumbly Bee
this is my final card for my guest designer spot at One Crazy Stamper. this little cutie is from the same inky antics bumbly bees clear set that i used on this card. i coloured with distress inks, used my favourite marianne creatables flourish leaf die and finished it off with a sentiment from the same set, a ribbon and bow. i’d like to thank lora, one crazy stamper owner for this fun opportunity and jacilynn, for being a great DT Coordinator and for all the kind words. thanks for popping by.

One Crazy Stamper Guest Designer – May

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i am so excited to be a guest designer for one crazy stamper, a canadian store that is both bricks and mortar and online – you’ll love the customer service and very fast shipping! this is my card for this month’s mother’s theme; this little cutie is an inky antics image from OCS that i coloured with distress inks, covered her wings in stickles and added a vellum flower and bow. check out the OCS blog for some lovely inspirational cards; you have a month to join in! thanks for popping by.

Inspiration Challenge Guest Designer Card

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blue and pink floral bouquet with pink bow and lace trim on bottom of card
i’m excited to be a guest designer for the inspiration challenge at splitcoaststampers this week. i’ve either been away on weekends or too busy to play, but i love the challenge; stephanie is the hostess with the mostest and always finds interesting sites for us to visit. this week we’re browsing the liberty london site, where i found my inspiration in the colours of this fabric.  i watercoloured with distress inks, added stickles to the flower centres, some lace and ribbon and sponging and i was done. thanks for popping by and hope you get a chance to play along.