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Leading Lady at Winnie & Walter week 1 + Giveaway

I am super excited to have been invited to be Leading Lady for October at the Winnie & Walter blog. I discovered Winnie & Walter right around when they started and has been following the blog and loving the stamps ever since. I was ridiculously happy when Shay asked me to be Leading Lady and waited (not very) patiently for October. The former Leading Ladies have been such an inspiration to me, as well as the Talent. I hope you will visit the blog to see the rest of my creations and also look at all the other posts there. AND as if that isn't enough, it's World Card Making Day and they always have the best inspiration over there.

So let's get on to the fun stuff. The projects. I instantly thought of the idea to do negative coloring. I wanted to try to mask the stamped images and color only the background. I used a few different kinds of coloring and it turned out really fun! I really love to make backgrounds and this technique is perfect for playing with colors. 

For my first card I did a fall theme. I love the leaves in In Bloom: Renee's Leaves and they look perfect in all colors. The sentiment is from Happiest of Holidays with Evelin T Designs. The  Essentials: Audrey Cutaways  is a perfect set of dies, I reach for it all the time, I used it to cut out the tags for the sentiment. 

If I were you I would hop on over to the Winnie & Walter blog for two more projecs, more information on how I made them and last but not least all the fun inspirational WCMD events.

Winnie & Walter has been super generous and given me a $30 gift certificate for their shop to give away to one of you (a coupon code which does not include shipping & handling), so in the end of the month after all my five posts are up I will give it to someone who has commented on one of my Winnie & Walter posts during the month. My last post is on October 29 and I will draw a winner one week after that on Nov 5th. I will select a comment from one of the five Leading Lady posts here in the blog.

So that's it from me for this first week. I can't wait to show you what I made for next week. See you then! 

 

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The Coffee lovers holiday blog hop is over, and what a blog hop it was. Hundreds of lovely creations and I have still not had time to see all of them. I'll have coffee creations to see all through the holidays I think ;) 

I had a little blog candy here on my blog and I just picked the winner with the help of random.org. I was so happy to read all the comments on my card and I'm so glad you all stopped by and took the time to leave a comment. 

And the winner was Terri Burson, please check your inbox for the details on how to collect your prize. 

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I decided to take part in the Coffee Lovers holiday blog hop. It sounded right up my alley, I can't live without coffee.You can find the linkup with all the blogs here http://tsurutadesigns.blogspot.com/

 I will give away a blog candy on my blog too, read more about it in the end of this post.

I came up with an idea at the last minute and made it in the middle of the night. I wanted to make a shaker card using real coffe beans as shaker material. And I wanted to add glitter. Don't ask me why but everything need some glitter, right? So here is my card.

Here are a list of all the wonderful companies sponsoring this blog hop. Wow! Lots and lots of generous companies. Lovely! 

17Turtles	Veronica Zalis	Chris Franco
Add a Little Dazzle	Butterfly Reflections Ink	Color Cast Designs
Create a Smile	Hero Arts	Kraftin' Kimmie
Kreative Kymona	Latina Crafter	Neat & Tangled
Newton's Nook	Pickled Potpourri Designs	Poppystamps
Reverse Confetti	Stamp Academy	Stamp Simply Ribbon Store
STAMPlorations	SugarPea Designs	Sweet 'n Sassy
The Alley Way Stamps	Two Paper Divas	Verve Stamps
Whole Wild World	Your Next Stamp	Paper Smooches

 

17 Turtles:  $15 Store Gift Card

A Muse Studio/Chris Franco:  Cup of Good Cheer stamp set

Add a Little Dazzle:  $25 Store Gift Card

Butterfly Reflections Ink:  Prima Coffee Break

Color Cast Designs:  Coffee Lovers kit

Create a Smile:  Monster Party stamp set

Hero Arts:  A Little & Today's Special stamps/Cup 'O Joe Shadow ink

Kraftin' Kimmie:  $25 Store Gift Card

Kreative Kymona:  Fancy Mug Giveaway

Latina Crafter:  Cafe Wood Veneers + $25 Store Gift Card

Neat & Tangled:  Warm Wishes stamp set

Newton's Nook:  $15 Store Gift Card

Paper Smooches:  $25  Store Gift Card

Pickled Potpourri:  $7 Store Gift Card

Poppystamps:  Tea Cup Stack Die

Reverse Confetti:  $15 Store Gift Card

Stamp Academy:  2 classes

Stampin' Up/Veronica Zalis:  $20 Store Gift Card

STAMPlorations:  $10 Store Gift Card

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store:  Coffee Cup Prize Pack

SugarPea Designs:  $20 Store Gift Card

Sweet 'n Sassy:  Pick Me Up Clear stamp & die set

The Alley Way Stamps:  Tea Par-tea stamp set

Two Paper Divas:  Your Warm My Heart stamp set

Your Next Stamp:  $20

Verve Stamps:  $25

Whole Wild World:  Coffee before Talkee mug

 

●●Sponsorship prizes are eligible via random draw from linked hop participants only●●

 

Now I want to give something away too. I have an Etsy shop selling cut files for electronic die cutting machines like the Silhouette Cameo and Portrait. I would like to to give away three cut files in SVG and PNG format of your choice from the shop to one person leaving a comment on this blog. If you don't have a blog please remember to leave some sort of contact information to make sure I can get in touch if you are the winner. You can find the shop here: http//etsy.com/shop/prettycraftystuff. You can also join the facebook page where I have another giveaway at the moment. http://facebook.com/prettycraftystuff

The winner will be announced when the blog hop ends at Sunday, Dec 14th. I hope you have fun and get lots of inspiration on the hop! I'll be hopping along :)

 

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DESIGN in PAPERS bloghop

This post is in swedish, sorry to my international readers!

Hej och välkomna till DESIGN in PAPERS kick-off, tävling och blogg-hopp!

Äntligen får jag avslöja en av mina scrappiga hemlisar som jag gått och burit på ett tag nu.  Jag har den stora glädjen att få vara med i det sprillans nya och galet talangfulla designteamet för DESIGN in PAPERS. DESIGN in PAPERS är grossist, så om du som privatperson vill köpa någon av våra produkter så hänvisar vi till våra återförsäljare. Men inspirationen ska du såklart inte missa för det kommer massor av den varan i bloggen.

Nu har du chansen att vinna fina priser från DESIGN in PAPERS genom att delta i blogg-hoppen och/eller LIFT-tävlingen. Mer info om tävlingen finns i DESIGN in PAPERS blogg http://www.designinpapers.se/. Du kan även vinna en liten RAK genom att kommentera på min blogg, mer info om det längre ned.

Har du följt blogg-hoppen ska du ha kommit hit från Maries blog. Har du kommit vilse eller om nån länk inte funkar så har du dem samlade här:

Alex

Birgitta

Marie

Maya (du är här)

Petra

DESIGN in PAPERS

Jag fick den underbara serien Wanderlust från Studio Calico att jobba med. Serien består av en riktigt rolig blandning av stilar, allt från grafiska mönster till "handmålade" motiv i härliga färger. Jag har gjort ett par kort för att visa hur snyggt det blir att kombinera papper i serien.

Det första kortet kombinerar mjuka konstnärliga färgduttar med grafiska illustrationer i svartvitt. Jättesnyggt ihop!

På det andra kortet har jag kombinerat papper som är mer lika i stilen. Inte lika stor kontrast gav ett mjukare resultat.

Material:

• American Crafts Dies Amy Tan Plus One
• Studio Calico Wanderlust 12x12 pad
• American Crafts Roller Stamp - Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm
• Studio Calico Essentials Natural Wood Veneer Shapes - Stars
• Tonic Studios Funky Tape Runner
• Fjäder die (privat)

Du har också möjlighet att vinna min egen RAK som jag lottar ut bland de som besökt min blogg och kommenterat. Lämna en kommentar innan midnatt den 22 mars så har du chans att vinna lite blandade godsaker ur DESIGN in PAPERs sortiment.

Hoppa nu vidare till Petras blogg och se vad hon har kokat ihop för fint!

Tack för att du tittade in och happy hopping ;) Lycka till!

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Det finns väl alltid nån som är sugen på lite gratis grejor??? Jag hade lite dubletter av distressdynor och ett par Stickles som låg och skräpade i lådorna. Dynorna är inplastade och i färgerna Black Soot, Vintage Photo, Scattered Straw och Frayed Burlap. Sticklesen är oanvända och i färgerna Turqoise och Black Diamond. Sen var CiLi in Papers snälla och sponsrade mig med häftiga Salvage Stickers från Tim Holtz och Pop it shapes. Var inte det toppensnällt???

Vill du vinna? Klart att du vill! Vad ska du då göra för att få dessa godsaker? Jätteenkelt! Lämna en kommentar här under inlägget och du är med i utlottningen. Lämna ytterligare en kommentar med en länk till din blogg där ni berättat om candyn och länkat hit antingen i ett inlägg eller i sidebaren så får ni en lott till. OBS! Lämna alltså TVÅ kommentarer om ni vill ha båda lotterna så blir det lättare för mig att dra en vinnare sen. Lämnar ni bara en kommentar så blir det bara en lott. Easy peasy :) Senast lördag den 26 mars vill jag ha din kommentar så drar jag en vinnare söndag den 27e.

I min sidebar hittar ni en lite mindre bild om ni vill ha till er blogg :)