A Very Merry Holiday Steampunk Blog Hop | Holiday Cards

Welcome to my Very Merry Holiday Steampunk Blog hop!! I have collected a talented group of crafters and artists who all share a love for all things Steampunk! We are celebrating Winter Holidays Steampunk style! I can't wait to see what everyone has brought to the hop! So let's get started!!!

I chose to create a few holiday cards that could also be little pieces of art for the winter. I started with these beautiful FREE steampunk snowflake papers created by co-blog hopper Amanda for her online digi store AJs Digi Shoppe--available here.

I created the definition images below and printed them on top of the pink snowflake paper. I created an embossed strip with a Provocraft gears emboss folder and Stormy Sky Distressed Ink. I added Maya Mist Pearl to the Purple, ripped the edge  and created a 3×4¼" base to build my metal gear and washer snowflake. I added bling to the focus snowflake and created two more smaller flakes for the card. The base and the mat as well as the definition were all edged in Stormy Sky. You can download the definitions to use in your own art by right clicking on the definition and saving it to the file folder of your choice on your computer.

I hope you enjoy my projects. Please hop over and check out the other participants projects and leave them some love. Several are offering giveaways as well! Have a wonderful holiday and a joyous New Year! I will be back in the new year with a whole new schedule of blog hops! See you soon!

 

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AJ's Digi Shoppe Post | Owl Love

Go by the AJ's Digi Shoppe blog to learn what fun papers and stamps I used from Amanda's great collection of digital products!! I just love these owls and papers! I hope you enjoy my card! Thank you for stopping by!

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Crafty Ribbons Blog Hop & Challenge #10 | New Beginnings!!!

If you are looking for my Weekly Challenge post for Delightful Challenges, click here.

Wow, can you believe Christmas is over and we are into January which means it’s time for the sales and Crafty Ribbons started their mega sale on the 3rd January where there are lots of fabulous ribbons at fantastic prices so to celebrate we’re having a blog hop with lots of prizes available. We also have a new challenge this time, Gina is hosting.....

New Beginnings 
[new baby, new job, new home...new life]

We'll draw a random winner for both the blog hop and challenge and we’ll have the top 3 as usual. You can get all the details and lots more ideas from the Design Team over at the main site. I am sharing with you today a Welcome Little One card for the birth of a baby girl. 

I chose this darling girl bear grosgrain with the pink bows and flowers to accent my hybrid card. The card features new papers from AJs Digi Shoppe. I created a layout with small squares of each digital paper on screen and then matted it with a white square and a Pink Rectangle to give the impression of paper piecing. I then also created a separate block with my sentiment that once printed could be attached with foam squares to give the layered effect. 

I finished my card by attaching the ribbon straight across the front with glue. I then created a simple two loop bow being sure to twist the printed grosgrain so that the image stayed on top. I attached the bow with Beacon 3-in-1 Craft Glue and adhered the entire card front to the card base. Thank you for looking!

for complete rules on how to enter the Crafty Ribbons Challenge, check the blog. 

This challenge prize is a Bev's Ribbon Bag! [contents may vary]. 

Crafty Ribbons Blog Hop

Along with this challenge, we are having a Blog Hop. You can get the full list of blogs over at Crafty Ribbons Challenge. At each stop there'll be a word to collect and a candy draw. I've got these gorgeous ribbons to give away--♥♥♥these!

I'm giving away the Tartan Ribbon Pack!!

To be in with a chance of winning this you just need to leave a comment at the end of this post saying your joining us on the blog hop... Each stop will have a word which you should collect to make a phrase.

You should have arrived here from Bonnie's Blog Pink BonBons ..... My word is TO. At the end of the blog hop you should have 12 words, work out the phrase and leave it in the comments back at Crafty Ribbons Challenge. The blog hop will run until 6pm on 18th January 2012 and the winner and the winners of each of the Design Teams Candy will be announced with the start of the New Challenge on the 19th January 2012.

Your next stop is Gina's Krafty Place. If you lose your way you can go back to Crafty Ribbons Challenge to get the full list. Good luck everyone. The winner of the Crafty Ribbons Blog Hop Phrase contest will receive this yummy prize--good towards the purchase of Crafty Ribbons of YOUR CHOICE!!!

Sale

Crafty Ribbons Sale runs all of January!! Take advantage to these great deals!!!

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AJs Digi Shoppe Post | Warm Winter Wishes Shaker Card

It's no secret that the owls are some of my favorite stamps that Amanda created for AJs Digi Shoppe...and this Gingerbread paper, well, you should be getting used to it by now! HA! I just LOVE it! 

For this last week before the Holidays, I wanted to make a few more cards for friends and family and thought this fun shaker card would be awesome. Hop on over to the AJs Digi Shoppe blog to learn how it came together and see some details...there's even a link to the trees I made for the background of the scene!  Thank you for stopping by! Warm Winter Wishes to you and yours!!

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AJs Digi Shoppe DT Post | Christmas Tag with Ducks!

Hop on over to AJs Digi Shoppe Blog to see how I constructed this fun To/From Tag for gift giving that can double as an ornament! I love the new Gingerbread papers and this cute little duck just makes me feel all festive! Thank you for stopping by!

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Festive Friday #21 | Speckled Snow with AJs Digi Shoppe Digis

Welcome to Festive Friday #21!!! ONLY 1 MORE after today! The Festive Friday Blog Hop is hosted by Terri Sproul. This bi-monthly blog hop features Holiday cards from many talented card crafters as we get our Christmas cards ready early this year.
If you reached this stop from Becky's blog BC Designs , then you are in the right spot! If you would like to start from the beginning, you can return to Terri's blog

This card is made with a FREE Digi Stamp available through AJs Digi Shoppe--Amanda, the owner, is also a Festive Friday hopper! I cropped the free digi so I could make individual "stamps" to randomly place in a publisher file. Once I was happy with my placement, I printed out my snowflake paper on vellum. I then took a variety of wintry colored BIC Mark-Its and began stippling around the snowflakes on the back side of the vellum until I like the feel of it. I then flipped my snowflakes back over to gloss the front with Sakura Hobby Crafts 3D Crystal Lacquer. I love how the vellum came out. To finish off my card I attached the vellum to a piece of Kraft Card stock with white eyelets and added a fun printed grosgrain.

Thank you so much for stopping by!! I hope you enjoyed my card! Now back to our regularly scheduled hop! The next stop on the hop is Laura Fisher's blog. If you get lost on the way, the entire list is below!

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AJ's Digi Shoppe Posting | Monster Hair Bow Clip

Sam picked out this cute Candy Corn Monster from AJ's Digi Shoppe for me to create her a Monster Hair Bow Clip for my Design Team Post over at AJ's Digi Shoppe Blog. Hop on over to the blog to check out how I made this super easy project! Sam loves it! I hope you do too! Thank you for looking

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AJs Digi Shoppe Posting | Trick or Treat Ghosty

Thank you for stopping by! I just love Amanda's Turtle Digis and new SpiderWeb Papers from AJs Digi Shoppe...This week I also took the opportunity to play with some new toys from Sakura Hobby Crafts and Crafty Ribbons! Disappear on over to AJs Digi Shoppe Blog and learn how to create this simple background--it's not spooky...I promise!
I hope you enjoyed my card!

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Festive Friday #17 | New Toys

Happy Friday everyone!! It's time for the Festive Friday Blog Hop hosted by Terri Sproul again. This bi-monthly blog hop features Holiday cards from many talented card crafters as we get our Christmas cards ready early this year.

If you reached this stop from Becky's blog BC Designs , then you are in the right spot! If you would like to start from the beginning, you can return to Terri's blog

I titled this week's challenge New Toys as on my card I used two of my new toys to complete the project. If you follow my blog you know I recently added to my Design Team accomplishments; I've become a Design Team Member for both the Sakura Hobby Crafts Blog and the Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog! I'm very excited and honored to be on all 4 design teams. My other two design teams are digital design teams and so my treasure from Digital Delights by Louby Loo and from AJs Digi Shoppe come to my email! When I receive the new releases, my family can attest, I squeal out loud as I'm always so excited to start using the new images and papers.
Well...waiting on snail mail to get your new toys is agony BUT...what fun toys I got this last week!!! Ali and Tony at Crafty Ribbons in the UK sent me a wonderful parcel full of yummy holiday ribbons of all varieties...for this card I chose this cool Twill Merry Christmas printed ribbon...it is the PERFECT size to fit across the card! I have TONS of ribbons to play with and this was my very first small project with my 1st new toy!! We are pampered with this design team! I love all the ribbons and can't wait to share many more projects with them!!!

Later that same week I received a smallish box from California--from Sakura Hobby Crafts! Inside was a huge bottle of the 3D Crystal Lacquer that you already know I love and that brings the shine to the eyes of my digital and traditional stamped cards! I also used the 3D Crystal lacquer as an adhesive for my prisma glitter for the glistening snow. Also inside was a surprise that I will reveal next week AND some 3D Crystal Color Lacquer which was perfect for coloring the bows on my House Mouse Stamp! I love it because it is completely transparent and just colored! I love this product and how easy it is to use the little tubes that it comes it! They are perfect for pinpoint application and the tube, while it seems not much bigger than say a BIC Mark-it, it has an ENORMOUS amount of product in it that will no doubt last me quite a while! Super fun! The folks at Sakura and our DT Leader Terri certainly spoil us too!

Thank you to all the folks responsible for all of my Design Teams, it is an honor and a pleasure working for each of you and with my teammates!! I couldn't be more thrilled!! I love what I get to do for you and I hope it shows. 

Thank you so much for stopping by!! I hope you enjoyed my card! Now back to our regularly scheduled hop! The next stop on the hop is Laura Fisher's blog. If you get lost on the way, the entire list is below!

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AJs Digi Shoppe Posting | You had me at GRRR!

Thank you for stopping by! I made this card for my husband using AJs Digi Shoppe digital stamps and papers....fly on by the AJs Digi Shoppe Blog to learn how I did it and enjoy other projects made by the talented AJs Digi Shoppe Design Team! I hope you enjoy my card!

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AJs Digi Shoppe Posting | SOAR! with Mama Owl

Fly on over to AJ's Digi Shoppe Blog to learn how to make this easy card with Amanda's ADORABLE digis and BEAUTIFUL paper! WHOO wouldn't want to receive this for a Back-to-School/Encouragement card?!?!

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AJs Digi Shoppe Posting | Mrs. Frankenstein Bookmark

I LOVE Amanda's new Owls that she released at AJ's Digi Shoppe yesterday!! Mrs. Frankenstein is just too cute for words. I knew when I saw her she need to be done up in FELT! Fly on over to the AJ's Digi Shoppe Blog and see how I made her!

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A Holiday Challenge Announcement and an AJ's Digi Shoppe Holiday Card!

As many of my friends know, I start thinking about the holidays in July and August. I have an annual tradition of getting prepared for my families holidays by working through The Holiday Grand Plan over at OrganizedHome.com. Each year I've included more and more handmade items in my gift giving list. Last year I was pleased to say that all gifts from me were handmade. This year I am challenging all of you to do likewise! We're going to have a challenge starting the 25th of July!! On the 25th of each month through November, I am going to post the monthly blog post where you can link up and share the handmade gift items that you are making for family and friends. You may enter as many times as you like for the month as long as each link is a different gift item. Full rules will be listed on the post on the 25th along with a badge to put on your blogs!

Since we're thinking about the holidays....I want to share with you this fun holiday card I made using an AJ's Digi Shoppe design from the My Little Brother collection! Hop on over to AJ's Digi Shoppe Blog to check out my card and how to make it! Thank you for looking! I hope you enjoyed the card!

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AJs Digi Shoppe Posting | Get Well Soon!

This week I started officially my new Design Team job at AJs Digi Shoppe making a bi monthly posting for Amanda's Digi Shoppe Blog! For this week I made this darling get well card! Hop on over to AJs Digi Shoppe Blog for the details and become a facebook fan!! You'll love her digital stamps!

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Gill's for the Love of Pink Blog Hop!

If you are looking for the Digital Delights' It's a Celebration Blog Hop, look here.

 

First of all...HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GILL! In celebration of Gill's 41st birthday, she is hosting this fun blog hop in honor of the LOVE of the color PINK!!!


If you happened upon this blog while surfing around in blog land, you might want to start at the top of the hop to learn how to win some wonderful prizes! Gill's blog is here. If you arrived at the hop from Jacki's blog then you are in the right spot!

For my project today I chose to make Gill a birthday card using my friend Amanda Marks' Birthday Digi stamps and new Stripes Digi Paper from her store AJ's Digi Shoppe! I love the fun and whimsy of Amanda's digis and I know you will too! Stop by and check out her new store and sign up for the newsletter to get all the news and special edition free digis!

Stamps: Birthday Digital Stamp Set
Cardstock: Bazzill Basics and Striped Paper Pack
Markers: BIC Mark-Its
Accessories: Bling



Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my card!
The next stop on your hope is Haidee!!

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Design Team Announcement | Happy Birthday USA Card

It is my extreme honor to announce my role on the AJs Digi Shoppe Design Team! My friend Amanda Marks has designed a wonderful set of digital stamps and I am so proud to join her team on its maiden voyage! Congrats Manda! I'm excited for you!


Today I'm using one of my favorite sets: Patriotic Ducks! This set includes the 3 duck images you see on my card and the fireworks bursts. The Happy Birthday Sentiment is one of several free images Amanda has available here.

DIGITAL STAMPS USED : Happy Birthday USA Sentiment and Patriotic Ducks Set

CARDSTOCK : Bazzill Basics

MARKERS: Stampin' Up Stampin Write Markers & Blending pens

ACCESSORIES: Crystal Bling and popdots

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoy my card!

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Memorial Day Cards

This weekend I had the awesome pleasure of participating in the Operation Write Home Memorial Day Blog Hop--in preparation for that I hop I prepared SEVERAL cards but because I wanted to follow the rules of the hop, I only posted the one card. The hop had over 140 stops and was MASSIVE but awesome to see all of the talent in one spot.
So, on to the cards! The first is a new favorite designer of mine--her name is Amanda and she has a new shop at AJs Digi Shoppe! Her images are unique and cute and I can't wait to see what else she brings to the digi shoppe! This card is using one of her sweet ducks! I hope you enjoy my card!

The second card is using another of my favorite designers for digis--this is from Wendy's [aka Louby Loo] collection!! This is Private Peter--he's probably one of my favorites in her collection of digis at Digital Delights by Louby Lou! I have recently been named a Senior Designer for Delightful Challenges--the challenge Design Team at Digital Delights! I'm having so much fun with Wendy's digis too! I hope you enjoy my card!

I hope everyone had a peaceful Memorial Day! Thank you for stopping by!

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Making Halloween Cards Challenge #1 | 3D Popup Card & AJ's Digi Shoppe Opens!

This week I'm joining my friend Fab at Making Halloween Cards Blog in his first challenge: 3D Popup Card! This is a great bi-weekly challenge that will focus on one of my favorite holidays- HALLOWEEN!! For this card since it was the 1st of a challenge, I attempted a new popup card type and used my friend Amanda's new monster and celebration digitals from her brand new AJ's Digi Shoppe.

For this card I combined elements from her monsters set and from her celebrations set to make a Monster Bash invitation. I followed Vince and Fab's directions on how to make their version of the easel card~thanks guys! I love these little monsters and I hope you enjoy my card!

Halloween Easle Card up

Halloween Easle card closed

Images were colored with Staedtler watercolors and the Stampin Up Blending pen, Cardstock is Bazzill Basics and Stampin Up. Offray Ribbon, Cuttlebug diecuts, Diamond Glaze and Zots glue dots added embellishment to the card! The details of an event could be included on the inside of the card and concealed by the easel stand.

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