Society of Stampaholics

2016 Hero Arts Hostess Alumni Blog Hop

 W E L C O M E,   H E R O   A R T S   H O P P E R S!

As you know, the Hero Arts Hosti have been busy playing, and today marks the second of a two-day blog hop featuring fabulous stamps from the new 2016 release and winter catalogue!

 

 

I'm extremely fortunate to be sandwiched between two British beauties: Sally Sherfield and Cathy Andronicou!

 

LAST HOP STOP FEATURED:

The fantastic and fabulous card art of Sally Sherfield!

 

 

S U P P L I E S:

Cardstock: Canyon Clay, Plum Pudding, Stamper's Select White, Summer Sunrise (Papertrey Ink); Stamps: Halloween Trimmings Stamp & Cut, Zig Zag Background (Hero Arts); Inks: Canyon Clay, Harvest Gold (Papertrey Ink), Wilted Violets (Ranger), Onyx Black VersaFine (Tsukineko); Pen: Zig; Accents: gems (Mark Richards), hemp (Hemptique); Adhesives: Stick-It Double-Sided Adhesive, Tombo Tape Runner

 

I N S T R U C T I O N S:

1. Make 4¼" x 5½" card base from Canyon Clay cardstock.
2. Cut 4" x 5½" Summer Sunset cardstock panel and stamp sentiment with Harvest Gold ink.
3. Stamp candy corn with Canyon Clay ink; stamp spider and web with Onyx Black ink.
4. Draw line from web to spider.
5. Stamp Zig Zag Background with Wilted Violet ink on white cardstock for mat and trim to 4⅛" " x 5½".
6. Layer and adhere stamped image panel to mat and then to card.
7. Apply Stick-It Double-Sided Adhesive to Plum Pudding cardstock and die-cut sentiment.
8. Remove Stick-It backing and adhere die-cut sentiment above and to the right of the stamped sentiment so the latter is like a shadow.
9. Adhere gems.
10. Tie hemp into bow and adhere; place gem in bow's center.

 

P R I Z E S   F R O M   H E R O   A R T S

In addition to seeing some great inspirational ideas, Hero Arts will be awarding the following prizes:

• One $25 shopping spree to the Hero Arts online shop (winner will be randomly-drawn from comments left on the participating Monday blogs and Hero Club Blog);
• One $25 shopping spree to the Hero Arts online shop (winner will be randomly-drawn from comments left on the participating Tuesday blogs and Hero Club Blog);
• One bonus prize of pre-selected product from the Hero Arts online shop (again, winner will be randomly-drawn from the  Monday blog comments and Hero Club Blog); and
• One bonus prizes of pre-selected product from the Hero Arts online shop  (again, winner will be randomly-drawn the Tuesday blog comments and Hero Club Blog).

Leave a comment at every stop each day to boost your chances of winning! (Please leave your comments by 11:59 p.m., PST, on Sunday, October 30, for a chance to win.)

(Also, word on the street is that some of the Hosti are offering prizes on their blogs, so there are even more goodies to win!)

 

NEXT HOP STOP FEATURES:

The tremendously and uber-talented Cathy Andronicou!

 

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

Deborah

Memory Box Blitz: Summer 2015 Release

Hello, Stampers!

The latest Memory Box release has been unveiled and we're having a blog blitz from Monday, April 13, through Friday, April 17, on the Design Team blog, Outside the Box!

You have until Sunday, April 19, at 11:50 p.m. EST to leave comments on blog posts at Outside the Box for chances to win prizes. Winners will be announced on Outside the Box on Monday, April 20. 

 

M Y   P R I Z E

The prize you can win by commenting on my blog post at Outside the Box (not here) is the die set I used for my card today: the new Open Studio Circle Forest Scene die set! (Is it not the cutest?) You get two large dies of rolling hills with trees, two house bases, two house overlays, a front door for the larger house, six trees, and three clouds! 

Check it out:

And here's what I made with this fantastic die set:

S U P P L I E S

Memory Box: Open Studio Circle Forest Scene die set, cardstock, 6" x 6" Sprout  patterned paper (retired) and Vanilla Bean Morocco; Poppy Stamps: sentiment from new Hope and Thanks clear stamp set; Inks: VersaFine (Imagine Crafts), Spring Moss, Blueberry Sky (PTI); Accent: brad (Basic Grey), ribbon (Offray); Other: foam dimensional tape

 

I N S T R U C T I O N S

1. Die cut large/tall treeline circle three times: 1 each from green and blue cardstock and 1 from coordinating patterned paper.
2. Die cut small/short treeline circle twice: 1 from green cardstock and 1 from coordinating patterned paper.
3. Trim trees from all the cardstock circles and edge top of circles (where the trees used to be) with green ink.
4. Stamp sentiment on small/short treeline circle.
5. Adhere green cardstock circles to matching patterned paper circles.
6. Edge bottom of blue circle with blue ink, turn so the bottom is now at the top and the trees are pointed downward (you can trim off the trees if you like).
7. Adhere large/tall treeline circle to bottom of blue circle (see TIP below).
8. Adhere small/short treeline circle to front of large/tall treeline circle with foam dimensional tape; make sure to include small pieces of tape behind the trees.
9. Die cut house overlay and clouds from white cardstock and house base from patterned paper.
10. Adhere house overlay to base and then adhere house to card with foam dimensional tape.
11. Edge bottom of clouds with ink and adhere two to sky. Adhere third cloud with foam dimensional tape.
12. Wrap card with ribbon and tie bow. (I tied mine upside down on purpose because I liked the way the tails filled in the negative space.)
13. Snip prongs from brad and adhere to center of bow with glue dot.

T I P S

I don't have a circle die large enough to create the top of the circle (sky), but I discovered I didn't need one! Die cut the the larger of the two treeline dies on blue cardstock, turn it upside down (trees pointing downward), and temporarily tape it to a grid - so the top of the circle is on a horizontal grid line, and the sides at its widest breadth are aligned with vertical lines (it will fit perfectly within a 4"-wide square).

Now take your largest treeline die cut and place it over the bottom of the upside-down circle of sky. Slide the treeline circle up the blue circle until both the circles together fit exactly within a 4" x 4" space on your grid. Adhere the bottom green treeline semi-circle to the sky semi-circle and - Voila! You now have a perfect circle.    

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

Deborah

Winner of the Hero Arts Hosti Hop

If you were here on February 17, you know I was the first stop on the three-day Hero Arts 2015 Spring Catalog Blog Hop with the Hero Arts Hostesses (say that three times fast). And if you were here to see that, then you also left a comment entering you to win goodies from Hero Arts and this lovely stamp from me:

The hop has ended, the comments were read, (thank you so much to everyone who left one!) and all that remains is to draw a winner to receive this splendid Tropical Background stamp....

(The suspense is killing me!)

According to random.org, the winner is...

And the 11th comment left was made by...

Ava Sloane!!!

Ava, please contact me by March 7, 2015, to claim your prize! If I don't hear from you, I'll have to redraw, so drop me a line, chica!

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

Deborah
 

P.S. See if you were one of the Hero Arts winners.

Hero Arts Hostess Hop

The Hero Arts Hostesses have been busy playing, and today marks the kick-off of a three-day blog hop featuring the new 2015 goodies! As of today, you can purchase all of these products at Hero Arts!

This is the first stop on the hop, but if you want some more information about the hop and available prizes, Check out the introductory post at the Hero Arts blog.

P R I Z E S   F R O M   H E R O   A R T S:

In addition to seeing some great inspirational ideas, Hero Arts will be awarding prizes from randomly drawn blog comments, so leave a comment at every stop each day (including each day’s starting post at the Hero Club Blog) to better your chances of winning! Also, several of the Hosti are offering prizes on their blogs. (So there are even more goodies to win!)

P R I Z E   F R O M   M E:

I'll be awarding this dramatic cling stamp from the 2015 Spring Catalog, Tropical Background (CG659), to a randomly drawn commenter:

Leave a comment here by 11:55 p.m., EST, on Tuesday, February 24, 2015, to be eligible to win the above stamp. I'll do a random drawing and announce it here on my blog on Friday, February 27.

I made a few cards (tossed quite the salad, you might say - pun intended). ;~D

S U P P L I E S:

STAMPS: Stamp Your Own Salad (CL833), Thanks (DC102); DIE: Thanks (DC102); PATTERNED PAPER: Garden Variety Mini-Deck (Cosmo Cricket); INK: Green Hills (Hero Arts), Key Lime (VersaMagic Chalk), Orange Zest (PTI)

T I P:

Stack three die cuts to make your own version of a chipboard element - it's a great way to create depth and dimension!

And here are two mini-cards; I like to use this 3.25" x 3.25" size when I'm gift-giving.

S U P P L I E S:

STAMPS: Stamp Your Own Salad (CL833), Envelope Pattern (S5507); PATTERNED PAPER: Garden Variety Mini-Deck (Cosmo Cricket); INK: Green Hills, Field Greens, Lime Green (Hero Arts), Rhubarb Stalks (Memento), Pinefeather (PTI); EMBELLISHMENTS: buttons, gems, hemp (Hemptique)

T I P:

The Cosmo Cricket patterned paper didn't come in a beet shade, so I used the Hero Arts Envelope Pattern background stamp along the side of my card instead. This stamp works great with the style of these veggie stamp drawings!

NEXT HOP STOP:

the one... the only... my super-talented, Rockin' Retreat Roomie...

Kelly Booth with Lovin' the Life I Color!

Thanks for stopping, and have a blessed day!

Deborah

 

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 Have you signed up for the Card Chain Challenge this month?

 

March, '15, Card Chain Challenge Sign-Up

Time sure flies when you're having fun, and it's already time to sign up for the March Card Chain Challenge - yowza!!!

(If you're unfamiliar with this card exchange challenge, I've got a brief explanation near the bottom of this post or you can check out the Rules and FAQ's.)

This Month's Prize

This  month's prize is brought to you by Stampendous! It's the Perfectly Clear Stamps Hot Air Scapes:

Challenge Directions

Make a card using at least one of the following four options. (You can actually use two, three, or all four options, but you are only required to use one of them.)

Color Palette  

's the 

These colors are your guideline - exact matching is not necessary.

OR

Sketch

OR

One of the following themes: – Easter  or  Trees  or  Friendship

OR

One of the following products: Watercolor Paper

Sign Up Deadline

You have until Friday, March 6, 2015, 11:55 p.m., EST, to sign up below and email me a photo of your card (please include a link to your blog/photo gallery). Please sign up using your first name and your state, province or country. EX: Ann from Texas; Betty from Ontario; Cathy from Wales; Darla from Italy.

Reveal Post & Winner Announcement

All of the cards with links to their creators' blogs or online photo galleries will be revealed here on Wednesday, April 1, 2015.

Come play with us and join the ranks of participants from more than 25 countries who've made and mailed more than 1,500 cards! I hope to see your name here!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

Deborah

About this challenge. This is an international card exchange - you send a handmade card to the person above you on the list, and you receive one from the person below you on the list. If that's not enough of a win-win, I also randomly draw a prize winner each month. I do a reveal of all the cards with links to the challenge participants' blogs or online photo galleries - which is a great way to get new traffic. Please read the Rules and FAQ's if you want to play along. :~D

See example. If you want to see a past CCC reveal, go here.

Total cards exchanged as of February 1, 2015: 1,510.

Memory Box Blog Blitz - New Spring Fling!

Greetings, Card-Lovin' Ladies!

The Memory Box Blog Blitz at Outside the Box for 2015 Spring release started yesterday, and, my word, but it's amazing!

And if the eye candy wasn't enough, there are, of course, some terrific give-aways from the new release!

The blitz extends through Friday with two posts per day. You have until 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, January 18th, to leave comments on the posts at Outside the Box, (not here) from which winners will be randomly drawn and announced on Monday, January 19th.

I was feeling drawn to a monochromatic palette, and my favorite color in the Memory Box paper collection is Thistle with Robin's Egg right behind it, so I decided to play with those colors, using two of the new dies (Florina Corner and Cascada Butterfly Trio).

(I feel like I was a little heavy-handed with the colored pencil and am going to make this card again without using it. I'll report back on my findings!)

S U P P L I E S

Memory Box dies (Florina Corner, Cascada Butterfly Trio, Danke), cardstock (Thistle, Robin's Egg) and patterned paper (Thistle Distressed Dots & Morroco); Ink (Tsukineko); Colored pencil (PrismaColor); Accents: gems (Mark Richards), trim (Michaels); Other: foam dimensional tape

Don't forget, we're double-posting at Outside the Box during the blitz, so check out Laura's post later today at 3:00 p.m. EST. (Leave a comment on every post and your chances of winning go up significantly!)

 

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

Deborah

Memory Box & Poppystamps Blog Hop

Welcome to Day Two of the Memory Box and Poppystamps blog hop!

YOUR LAST HOP STOP: Kay Miller's My Joyful Moments

Soooo... not only is there eye candy galore, but there are also prizes to be won!

You have until December 10 to leave a comment here. Winners will be selected at random from comments left at the Design Team posts and will be announced December 15 on both the Memory Box and Poppystamps blogs. Get the deets.

By the way, in case you didn't know it, Dave Brethauer (the owner of, and designer extraordinaire for, MB and PS has opened an online shop: Birch Press Design. You should definitely check it out - some killer merchandise up in there!

One of the apron designs at Pirch Press Design.

Today's winner will receive the Birch Press Design Apron Winner of her choice – Memory Box and Poppystamps will each pick one winner.

For a second chance to win, like Birch Press Design on Facebook and share the post about the hop. One person who does both will win a prize!

So before we go on, I got some 'splainin' to do.

I teach at IUPUI and the University of Indianapolis, and we're in the final week of classes, so I'm losing my mind (as I do every semester around this time). Being sleep-deprived, I totally forgot our hop theme is tags and treat-wraps... and I made a card instead. (Oh, the humanity!) However, I made a Christmas treat box/place card a few months ago, so I'm going to repost that here and hope you (1) missed it back in July; or (2) saw it but had totally forgotten about it. 

Okay! Here's my card:

S U P P L I E S

Poppystamps dies: Small Curious Cat, Village Lantern, Christmas Baubles; Memory Box dies: Woodland Tree Silhouette, Cottage In The Woods, Alphabet Soup ; Paper: white cardstock (Memory Box), glitter paper (American Crafts), vellum; Accents: pearl (Mark Richards); other: Frosted Lace Stickles (Ranger)

And here's my treat box:

S U P P L I E S

Memory Box Dies (Advent Calendar, Buttermilk Carton, Frosted Pine Tree, Frosted Spruce Tree, Small Flock of Doves) and Stamp (Snow Flurry); Cardstock: Desert Storm (Neenah); Ink: Frost White Pigment (ColorBox); Accents: gems (My Mind's Eye); Ribbons: Martha Stewart, generic lace; Other: foam dimensional squares, mini-glue dots, ScoreTape

Your next stop is Marybeth Lopez's Marybeth's Time for Paper.

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

Deborah

Today's Hop Order (in case you get lost):

Memory Box 

Poppy Stamps  

Kay Miller 

Deborah Nolan

Marybeth Lopez  

Jeanne Jachna

Pam Sparks

Lezlye Lauterbach  

Patty Tanuz 

Zuzana Obert

Jean Okimoto