TSG MOABH - Happy Mail

Welcome to the 2^nd annual Mother of All Blog Hops sponsored by There She Goes Clears Stamps!If you’ve arrived here from Lee Murphy's blog, then you are in the right spot!If not,you will want to start back on the There She Goes team blog in order to find out what you need to do to be eligible for the prizes we are offering!  (valued at approximately $400!!!)

For my card today, I've used the sets called "Special Delivery" and "My Little Friend".  I wanted to show the versatility of the TSG sets in that you have the ability to combine so many sets to make a fantastic card.   My inspiration came from the new MME paper "Lime Twist: Fly a Kite" line that I managed to snag at my local stamp store yesterday.  Perfecto, I tell ya!! I think it was fate.... The images were stamped (had to do a little masking as well) using Versafine Onyx Black ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. I then watercolored the image using my Tombow Markers. The layout has been inspired by this month's Sketch for You to Try over at Jen del Muro's blog. (I say inspired because I changed the bottom circle to a rectangle to fit my sentiment and added a cloud to cover up a little boo-boo). 

Now hop on over to Judy Rozema's blog for more amazing eye candy!!!

Got Wine?

Happy National Scrapbooking Day, Skipping Stones Design style!! We have put together a Blog Hop with our past and current FABULOUS designers.  I'm so honoured to be invited back as part of the SSD crew for this blog hop!!

If you just happened to stumble upon my blog today, you're  smack dab in the middle of this hop, start at the Skipping Stones Design Blog for the entire hop list.   If you just arrived from Sarah Martina Parker's blog, then you are right place!!

 

For my scrapbook page today (can I just say I am soooooo not a  scrapbooker so this was no easy feat...), I decided to use an old photo of my hubby and I taken the summer after we got engaged at the Childress Vineyards in North Carolina. I've used the SSD set called Margarita Birthday which appropriately had the wine glass (is it half empty or half full....) and stamped it down the side of the page with Close to Cocoa ink.  I then used various sentiments from the set above and below the photo. 

 

 

  Hop along and see all the fabulous Scrapbook pages made with Skipping Stones Design stamps!!! I promise you will like what you see!!!!

 

 

Keep hopping along, run off to Wendy's blog!!

Leave a comment on each blog (some are giving away prizes) and when you have finished, go back to the beginning at Skipping Stones Design and leave a comment, telling us what you thought of the hop. One lucky commenter will be chosen Wednesday, May 11th to win the Skipping Stones Design may release stamp set!!!

The biggest BLD release.. ever...

WOW!!!  You'll want to check out the  BLD website.  The line of Puddlejumpers are now exclusive to By Lori Designs so this is our biggest release ever..... You can buy them as a bundle here or on their own.  We'll be featuring the new ones early next week!!!

Fun, fun, fun



Happy Day Everyone!!

 

We have some super exciting news here at By LORi Designs!

We have gone EXCLUSIVE!!

That's right from now on you will only be able to find your beloved Puddle Jumpers, Lollipops and Sugar Sticks Digis at By LORi Designs!!

Yipppppeeeee!!

 

Now what does that mean?  It means that May will have the biggest release ever!! 

All the Puddle Jumpers are coming home and you will be able to purchase all the Puddle Jumpers that Lori has drawn HERE at BLD!!

Isn't this fun and exciting!?!?!?

 

Hop back over tomorrow for our big release!

RCC1 - Inspirational Ribbon...

See that badge??? Isn't it cool? Yup, Corinna McGregor has started a Challenge blog called the Ribbon Carousel Challenge Blog in honour of her Ribbon Carousel which is a fabulously amazing Ribbon Storage System (which I must say is the best ever for ribbon lovers like me).  And guess what!!! Corinna has not only asked me to be on the design team but to be the "First Mate" aka Team Co-ordinator and I must admit this is an honour considering the rockstar Design Team that Corinna has assembled to be the "Carousel Crew". 

Today is the first week of the challenges and Tuesday will be our "Challenge" day on a weekly basis. 

For this week's challenge, we want you to get "Inspired".  The Ribbon Carousel is gorgeous!! So we've decided to see what inspires you by it.

Is it the Black, white, and a pop of colour?  Is it the ribbons on the Carousel (monochromatic)? Or those polkadots?  Or even a combination of the colours? 

Can you tell what inspired me?   LOL... I love colour and I rarely shy away from it... I love the bright vibrant ribbons in the inspirational photo combined with the polkadots as well as the stripes.  So I pulled out some older Echo Park DP, this cute Stella called "Suck it up" from Stamping Bella and coloured her up with my Tombow Markers.  If you know me at all, you'll know that I use the phrase "Suck it up Princess" on a regular basis so this Stella is definitely me.  I thought this would be a fun card for someone who needs a little bit of encouragement.  And of course, I used my handy dandy Baker's Twine on my card (after all, this is a Ribbon Challenge blog so you knew it was going to be somewhere).  The layout has come from this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge that I have flipped on it's side so that I could use this image. 

*** Please remember that your creation must have ribbon, bakers twine, jute twine, lace (basically anything that comes on a spool). 

We’d love for you to participate!!! Make sure you link up with us using InLinkz at the bottom of the post on the Ribbon Carousel Challenge Blog. If you are uploading to an only gallery make sure you use the keyword RC1.  Remember – that you don’t need a blog to participate in our challenge.  Each week we will have a “Top Spool” !!

TSG105 Flower Fun

May.... I can't believe it's May already....  And with all those showers we had in April, I'm sure there will be plenty of pretty flowers in May here.  Let's hope so anyway!!!  And what better way to celebrate May with flowers... 3D flowers, that is!  This week's challenge at There She Goes is brought to us by Tammy, one of our new Trendsetters and can I say one thing?  That girl has talent!!!  She wants to see your use of gorgeous and versatile 3D flowers. You can use poofy flowers, diecut flowers, Primas, felt, or crocheted flowers…let your imaginations run wild! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

I've been using a lot of 3D flowers lately so I decided, I wanted to something a little different and so some clean and simple stamping.  I followed this week's sketch over at the Clean and Simple Blog (aka Fall to Layouts) although I put my sentiment in the lower right hand corner instead of the upper left.  Just had to be a rebel.... LOL... Actually, I had looked at the sketch yesterday and in my silly little head I was certain the sentiment was in the lower corner.  Oops.... I've stamped various flowers from the TSG set called "Polka Dot Blooms" in SU Inks (Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise, Soft Sky, Old Olive and Pink Piroutte).  I then added a sentiment from the set called "Everyday Greetings".  I stamped the Old Olive flower again and embossed it with clear embossing powder before cutting it out and popping it up (that's my 3D flower). To add a bit of interest, I decided to add a little bit of bling to the center of each of the flowers.  Love it!!

We'd love for you to participate in this challenge.  All you need to do is create a card using 3D flowers and link it up using the InLinkz at the TSG blog.  If you upload to an online gallery, remember to use the keyword TSG105.  Don't forget that the random winner will win $5 to the TSG store and someone has the opportunity to be in the Trendsetting Spotlight. 

On another note, don't forget about the "Out with the Old" Sale.  This is a great way to get previously released sets at a discount and who doesn't love a discount? 

Thanks for dropping by and have a wonderful day.