Birthday Blog Hop for Christy!

We are hosting a very special "birthday" blog hop this month! 
Our Super-Manager, Christy celebrated her birthday yesterday (no joke!) We hope you hop to all the DT's blogs and see their lovely birthday inspired creations they design for Christy.

You need to start at The Stamping Boutique Blog and work your way through the group! Please post on each blog to be in the draw for the FREE images!

The hop will run from April 2nd 12AM EST and you will have until April 3rd 6PM EST. After that time, the comments will be tallied and the winner will be randomly picked.

Here is the hop list:

The Stamping Boutique Blog 

Melissa

Amanda (You are here!)

Aletha

Christy

Colleen 

Collette 

Crystal 

Dardi 

Dawn 

Heide

Jeannie

Jennifer 

Kecia 

Marie 

Michelle

Miranda 

Rhonda

Sara 

Stacie 

Suzi McKenzie 

Imagine...

I was cleaning out my files tonight and I came across this...I think it's beautiful! It's one of my favorite songs...although I don't watch Glee, this is an extraordinary version of this classic tune!

200 posts and cupcakes!

This marks my 200th post! Anyone want something free?? 

I'll be giving away some goodies to a randomly drawn winner!

Just post a comment here by April 4th 5pm EST and I'll draw a winner that night!

To celebrate my 200th post, I think we should have a cupcake!

This is another Clear Dollar Stamps creation! I LOVE this set! It had 5 different cupcakes/muffins! You should head on over to the CDS store and get your set today! (plus they're pre-coloured so the shading work is done for you!)

Still here in La-La Land!

Here's a Sweet Dreams Marci card this time! 

I love the simplicity of this card. 

It's very simple. Very clean. Well matched. 

And thank goodness for pre-coloured images! YAY!

Thanks for letting me share!

I'm in La-La Land!

Okay so I discovered a new company while placing an order for my store! La-La Land Crafts! They have the cutest images. I just can't get enough! And the best part is, they have both acrylic AND rubber stamps! Yay! I've ordered some rubber stamps for my store so watch for that announcement soon!  The pre-order list is up on the IASC blog if you want to check it out!

Anyways, I was linking this up to the LLLC customer gallery and thought I'd post it here to share! :D This photo was taken what seems like years ago...(my DD is not even 3 yet so this photo is MAYBE 2 years old!) Anyways, the colours in the photo and the colours of the papers I wanted to use from Basic Grey just seemed to flow together nicely and the Sweet Dreams Marci image from LLLC was PERFECT! PLUS she's got a panda in her hand...that makes the image for me! I'll be ordering more pandas for sure!

Thanks for letting me share!

Challenge #3 at The Stamping Boutique!

It's challenge time again at The Stamping Boutique...and this is my layout for this challenge! We had to make our own flowers. So, seeing I already make these for my store, I decided to use my Button Blossoms for this layout. They are customizable to match your papers. You can match whatever you'd like!

I've been DYING to scrapbook this picture. So when I saw these papers, I knew which picture I would use! 

The stamp from TSB is the spool! I cut it a bit to wrap the floss around it...and the stems are handstitched too with Bazzill stitching templates. 

Here's a close-up of the flowers and the spool. 

Go on over to the TSB blog and see what the other DT have created!

Gift Bag Donation for Zeal for Teal Crop - April 30th!

This is one of my donations for our Zeal for Teal crop (we're still looking for donations BTW if you are a business and would like to sponsor us for door prizes/silent auction items - shameless plug there! Or if you are wanting to sign up as a cropper, please let us know soon...we're almost 90% full! That's almost 100 people!)

So this is what I'm donating for a silent auction item. I wanted to represent the 3 INCREDIBLE design teams I'm on! I LOVE designing for each of them! It's so exciting!

The first set is from Clear Dollar Stamps.

These are two more cupcakes from the newest release!

This one is from Sassy Studio Designs - 

Tinkerbell is from the March release. (March 12th)

This one is from The Stamping Boutique. 

These are two separate images. 

I just love that he's wearing a pink shirt 

and not complaining about it! (wink wink!)

And lastly, this is created using my Cricut.

The sentiment on it is cut from the Sweet Treats cartridge.

Of course, the button blossoms are from In A Scrap Creations (my store!)

Thanks for taking the time to look at my creations. I put my heart and soul in my work and I hope it pays off in the end.  I hope this brings in a good amount of money for Ovarian Cancer Canada.

Welcome to the CDS March Zoo Blog Hop!

Happy Sunday everyone! Glad you're out "hopping" today!

So, I have a funny story about my card I made for today...this card is actually based on the CIC#24 sketch that I posted on Friday! Oopsy me! I did this card with the sketch thinking it was for the CIC Challenge...then remembered as I was putting the Stickles on that the Hippo was for today's ZOO theme! DUH! So, I made my real CIC Challenge card! AND I already had this one done for the hop! 

I rotated the sketch 45 degrees so everything fit...it was a great sketch to use! That's why I wanted to use it twice!

Here's the rest of the blog roll...check out what the rest of the design team has created! Thanks for stopping by today!

If you are starting here at my blog, go back to the beginning and start at Lori's blog!

Lori

Cassie

Barb

Sarah

Shell

Linda

Amanda <-- You are here!

Lisa

Jasmin

Christi

Laurie

Stacy

Jerusha

Trudy

Nancy

Jan

This is what you can win!

 2 lucky winners will each receive a $10 gift certificate for the CDS store!!!  The winners will be randomly chosen from comments received on two DT member blogs.  Winners will be announced on the CDS blog Wednesday, March 23rd.

CIC #24 for Clearly Dollar Stamps

It's CIC Challenge time at Clear Dollar Stamps again!

I used the same Bunny Slippers set as last time! 

This challenge is a sketch challenge

The papers and the sentiment (in black) are from the set.

The flower is cut out on the Cricut and is Basic Grey paper..and the sentiment in the middle is a rubber stamp! :D The green buttons are Basic Grey as well and the bunny button is from my stash! :D

I hand-stitched the leaves using a Bazzill Stitching template.

The winner will be announced at the end of the month! The more people that participate the bigger the prize!!

Here are the details of the CIC challenges:

-Challenges are now going to be on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month, and you'll have 2 weeks to finish each challenge.

-Challenges can use any stamps or digis from any company

-Only one entry per person per challenge

-Prizes will be given away after both challenges for the month.  The number of prizes is determined by the number of participants for the month.  For every 20 entries there will be a $10 gift certificate for stamps or digis up for grabs.  (For example if over the entire month there were a total of 60 participants in both challenges, there will be 3 $10 gift certificates and 3 of the featured digital images to give away.)

-We will also be giving away the featured digi image....one for every 20 entries!

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

 Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy St. Patrick's Day! 

Have a green beer for me! 

I'm thinking spinach for supper! (my kids will love me!!)

 I'll be back later on to blog more! 
I've got some DT projects to post!!!

And Happy Birthday Aunt Sue!