You Float My Boat

Today is my last day as the Artist of the Month over at Our Craft Lounge.  I've had such a blast playing along with the challenges and the OCL images.  You'll be seeing so much more of them on my blog going forward as I've gotten so many awesome sets to work with.

Thank you to the gals over at OCL and to Kendra for the opportunity!

So since the Christmas holiday is now under our belts,  you should be bouncing back to a normal schedule (hah!!!  how about we do that next week?) I thought I'd roll right into Valentine's Day working with the newly release set Smooth Sailing.  This is one of my most favorite sentiments for Valentine's Day and I love the sailboat and light house in this set.

I combined this with the OCL97 Challenge which was a sketch and I turned it to fit my image and scaled down my card size just a little.  I used the current color combination over at SplitCoast Stampers for this card as well.

Hope you all had a great holiday and that you will join us over at OCL for the current challenge.

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Card details:

Stamps: Smooth Sailing from Our Craft Lounge

Cardstock: Pear Pizazz, Cameo Coral, Basic Black, Neenah White

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic markers

Embellishments: spellbinders circle nestabilities, dimensionals, dyed seam binding

GGSC94: First Snow

Today over at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations is First Snow.  I had a lot of fun with this challenge on my days off last week, I was on a creating frenzy.

I had so much fun, I have 2 cards to share to you, both similar layouts and colors.

This first card is based off a sketch from Skipping Stones Designs and I also used one of the wonderful tutorials from Katie Gehring.  I adore this pleating ribbon and how it turned out although it did take me just a little while to complete.

 

The image I used is a digital image from Torico.  I added some platinum sparkly fluff to the snowman's hat.  This color scheme was based off the Playdate Cafe Challenge #110 but then realized I left one of the colors off so I created a 2nd card with all the correct colors.

I love how this card turned out, I used these awesome new supplies (to me) that I received from Cindy Lyles at StarLit Studio.  I won them from participating in the Hope You can Cling to Challenges over on SCS.  These are the Fancy Tags 2 and Want2Scrap Nestabling.  

I've been working with the Our Craft Lounge images and love this little seahorse from Sea-Sons Greetings and it fit perfectly in the frame of the Fancy Tags.

The papers I seem to be turning to a lot these days for all my holiday cards is from Echo Park Season's Greeting collection which Pumpkin Spice Shop carries and is holding a design team call now.  They carry the 6 x 6 paper packs that I love to work with when making cards.

Want to join us at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations?  Just link up here.

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Card #1 details:

Stamps: Little Snowman Digital Image from Torico

Cardstock: Basic Grey, Cool Carribean, Neenah White, Echo Park Season's Greetings

Inks: Copics

Embellishments: Dare to be a Diva Red from Clear & Simple Stamps, Platinum Sparkly Fluff from Our Craft Lounge

Card #2 details:

Stamps: Sea-sons Greetings from Our Craft Lounge

Cardstock: Brilliant Blue, Real Red, Cool Carribean, Neenah White, Echo Park Season's Greetings

Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress, copic

Embellishments: Want2Scrap Nestabling, Fancy Tags 2 Spellbinders Nestabilities, Sugar Sparkly Fluff

Stampotique Blog Hop

 If you have arrived here from Jo Capper-Sandon's blog you are the right place.  If you have just come across, you may want to jump over to beginning at Kira's blog.

Announcing new images and new artists are always exciting here at Stampotique Originals and so we are thrilled to announce our newest artist, Kira Nichols.  Kira has designed some very unique monsters and kitties for her first line of stamps and our design team has had the opportunity to play with the stamps before they are released to the public.

For my card I used Kira's new Hug Monster 4007, love his face...looks so innocent.  I think this would make a very cute Christmas card.  I added the Merry Everything sentiment as it just seemed perfect.

Want a chance to win some of Kira's new images?  Hop along with our designers as well as our special guest, leaving comments along the way, for your chance to win some of Kira's new images.  We will randomly draw a winner from one of the blogs and announce the winner with our next challenge.

Make sure to leave comments along the way and a randomly chosen commenter will win some of these new stamps.

  From here you will want to visit our special guest, our newest artist at Stampotique, Kira Nichols.

Below is a complete list in case you go off the beaten path and need some redirection.

Kira Nichols

Kaz Boughton

Jane Wetzel

Gez Butterworth

Valerie Wilson

Maria Sabina Raita

Lisa Somerville

Jo Capper-Sandon

Kim Howard<----you are here

Nellie van Leeuwen

Vicki Garrett

Willy Anderson

Kate Crane

Monique Verbeek

Joanne Wardle

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Card details:
Stamps: Happy Everything 5262 and Hug Monster 4007 from Stampotique Originals
Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Echo Park Season's Greetings, Confetti White
Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress, copics
Embellishments: Spellbinder Nestabilities, Kaiser Craft Dec. 25th jewels