Monday 19 September 2011

Guest Designer for Stamps R Us!

YAY! I am very honoured to have been chosen to be Guest Designer over at Stamps R Us! :)

This time the challenge has a BIRTHDAY theme, so a nice and easy one to join in with ;)

The challenge is also a special 'Operation Write Home' (OWH) event.
OWH is an organization that sends handmade cards to US armed forces in Iraq & Afghanistan for them to write home on.
Once you have made your card, and if it is suitable to send to one of the dedicated shippers (for example - NO GLITTER allowed), please consider passing it on to them, where it will be very much appreciated.
All details can be found on the Operation Write Home website. Thank you.



The challenge is sponsored by The Paper Shelter
who have a generous prize package for one lucky winner, could it be you?

The Design Team and myself were kindly given free images to use on our cards (Thank you!), here's what I made with mine...


printed 3 times & coloured with Promarkers, then layered in places.
The pretty background paper is by Echo Park (little girl)
The sentiment is a SeeD's stamp, and I punched out the tab shape and made the flowers and the rounded corners using a mix of punches.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
MMCS challenges - happy birthday
Passion for Promarkers - beary special
Sweet Stampin - flowers
(I won last weeks sweet stampin challenge with my teenager card..YAY! thanks girls xx)


Here's my second card...

also printed 3 times & coloured with Promarkers, then layered in places.
I used a pair of shaped scissors and my cropadile to alter the 2 layers of cardstock around the image.
The background paper is My Mind's Eye (Stella Rose - Hattie)
and the green paper is by Sizzix (little sizzles - country)
The brown strips are just card scraps, but I thought it worked somehow by layering/weaving them through the green paper.
The sentiment was printed off the computer.
 I wanted to add embellishments too, and thought that a sheriff's badge would look good, but I don't have any, so the little stars punched from copper coloured cardstock will do instead.

I would like to also enter this card into the following challenges:
Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
Prairie Fairy Fridays - snips & snails
Stamptacular Sunday - use a sentiment
Kaboodle Doodles - lots of layers


Thank you for stopping by today and I hope to see your entries for this weeks Stamps R Us challenge :)

20 comments:

  1. Congratulations on your guest spot designing for Stamps R Us! Your cards are wonderful and it's great to have you on board :)

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  2. Congratulations on your GD spot. Now why did your first card immediately make me think of Fluff I wonder!!!! hugs Mrs A.

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  3. I just love BOTH of these wonderful cards! So cute in their own way. Of course I lean more toward the little cowboy since I AM from Texas after all! LOL
    So glad you were selected as our Guest Designer for this week and really enjoy all your fabulous work.
    Lynn

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  4. Love em!!! Congratulations on your GD spot, you rock! hugs Jilli x

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  5. Beautiful cards!
    Many thanks for joining us at Cute Card Thursday this week!
    Have a great day, happy crafting, Debxx

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  6. Congrats on your GDT position hon, fabby cards too, love em both!
    xxx

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  7. Wonderful card! I love your coloring and adding dimension with that cute bear! Thanks for joining us at MMCS birthday challenge.

    Shelby

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  8. These are both so DARLING!! 8-) So glad you could be our Guest Designer, Really Love your Wonderful creations! 8-)

    Hugs
    Shannon

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  9. Hi Jo, what a gorgeous card. I love the image (the dimension looks fantastic) and your colouring is perfect. Thanks for joining us at PFP this week. Hugs, Denise x

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  10. Wonderful image layering! Thanks for joining us at Kaboodle Doodles!

    Kath
    Blog: “Let’s Get Scrappy!”

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  11. Congratulations on your Guest spot! So happy to have you join us at Stamps R Us. Both of your cards are just too cute!
    Jo xx

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  12. Both lovely cards. Super cute images and love the colours you've used. Thanks for joining in at PFP :o) Lisa x

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  13. Absolutely adorable cards and those stamps are just too cute!! Love the layouts you chose too!

    Thanks for playing along with us at "Prairie Fairy Fridays" and good luck! :D

    Hugz,
    xx Tracey xx

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  14. fab card, love the layout and the image is so cute!!

    Thanks for joining us at Sweet Stampin this week.

    Fi
    x

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  15. Wow! I was expecting one card and got two and both are fabby. You've totally rocked both of them, all the details you've added look great. Well done you and well done on your GD Spot. :) Big hugs. xxx
    P.S. Dunno why the forst card made Mummy think of me...

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  16. Two lovelies, Jo! Fab fun images and beautiful colourwork and design. It's a pleasure to see you at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge this week! Hugs, Lesley

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  17. Thank you for all your kind comments :) xx

    Faye, I was wondering that too? LOL ;D

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  18. Love that cowboy card. What an awsome colour combo and design.It works well with that image. Thanks for playing at Kaboodle Doodles this week and good luck. Hope to see you back monday for a new challenge. Bettina x

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  19. Love that cowboy card. What an awsome colour combo and design.It works well with that image. Thanks for playing at Kaboodle Doodles this week and good luck. Hope to see you back monday for a new challenge. Bettina x

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  20. I love your flowery card, great layout and perfect for the Sweet Stampin challenge this week - thanks for sharing with us. Congrats on your guest spot too! Wedgie xxx

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