Saturated Canary Rubber Stamps New Release & Candy

I am so excited to participate in todays blog hop for Little Darlings, to celebrate their new Winter 2012 Collection of Saturated Canary Rubberstamps. I am so excited that Angie invited me to be part of this event, with the rest of her fabulous Design Team. If you came from someone else blog, you might know already that some girls participating in the hop are able to raffle a stamp to one of you who leaves a comment. 

I am excited to be able to give one of you a stamp from Little Darlings Saturated Canary Line (more infos at the bottom of my posting)!
Thank you Angie! So keep on hopping besides seeing the new images and great cards along the way you can enter your name to win even more stamps.
Some of the new images which you can all purchase right now in RUBBBER, you might recognize from Krista’s line and some are brand new but all are as always super cute, whimsical, sweet and sexy. Speaking of sexy… I went a bit different on the sentiment for my card today…. My husband came up with this idea and I went with it. However…. if you prefer a more generic sentiment “your friendship warms my heart” or “Warmest Wishes On Your Birthday” “Sending you warm wishes”, “Get well soon” are just a few possibilities!

I did to list this card in a little bit over on Etsy, if you like it.
THE SENTIMENT CAN BE EXCHANGED TO ANYTHING YOU LIKE IT TO BE – just leave a message at the checkout box or email me.

Here are some supplies I used on my card
Little Darlings – Saturated Canary line “Cocoa ”
Papers: Basic Grey

Again you can pre-Order TODAY!!! NO WAIT an other week or longer, swing over to Little Darlings Rubber Stamps and everything is right there for you to order TODAY.

ALSO DON’T FORGET TO leave you name if you like to win “Sketchie” as Rubberstamp

Below is the Hop order...so saddle up cause you're in for a ride make sure to visit them all as more candy can be won along the way

Alyce Keegan , Debbie Jennett, LoopyLou, Rebekah Lane, Vicky Pass, Alberto Gava

Angela Wood, Sheri Willshire, Bev Rochester, Caroline Sears, Claudia Rosa (ME), Sharon Caudle

Jane Kyle, Janiel Corley , June Nelson , Krista Smith, Maria Therese Hatløy, Mindy Baxter

Poppet, Ruby Montes, Sandie Dunne , Sara Winter, Angie Hunt

Happy Hopping Everyone!

Warm Winter Wishes

Hello, thank you for visiting me today!

I would like to show you an other shaker card, this time with the cute skating couple. At first I was concerned if I could fit this image into a circle to construct the shaker but it worked out at the end.

So glad the photos turned out all right! It is never easy to get a good shot of the card front. I have either the daylight lamp reflecting in the acetate or glitter makes the foil look cloudy or the acetate looks “bumpy”.

The card was ordered by Pamela, she wants to give this card to her husband. I thought this sentiment my friend Tammi made is perfect for this romantic picture.
I guess that’s it the blurb what I used is as always at the bottom of this posting. Hope you liked my card I was able to show.
With Love

Stamps: Lili of the Valley “ice skating”
Sentiments: grunge Postmark stamps “Lili of the Valley”, Sentiment: Whimsy
Design Paper: Maja Design – through Timbroscrapmania
New designs are now available to order!

Dies: Magnolia – Snowflake, tag, Spellbinders grand, Spellbinders grand scallop, Spellbinders circle
Embellishments: Bakers twine (white brown), gauze, glitter mesh (Michaels), Pearl twigs (Dollar store), 4 inch paper doily, silver glitter cardboard, glitter, acetate, mounting pads
Coloring: Copic Sketch, Prisma Color pencils
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz – vintage photo and Walnut stain

winter pocket card

Hello thank you for visiting me today.
I have an other pocket card to share. This card was so fun to make – it does take a little extra time and this card turned out to to be quite heavy with all the double matting and embellishments but since the little Penguin is so quickly colored in, its okay to spent the time you are saving on coloring to work a little extra on the base. Just for those days you are just not feeling like you want to color.

I hope the photos show the concept of the card – the picture is just loosely tucked into the pocket in the front and once you pull it out, there is a hidden message behind the circular shape – construction is just like you would make a circular card base.

Supplies used:
image: Lili of the Valley “Snow Cute Penguin”
sentiment inside: A5 Verses - Lili of the Valley
sentiment outside: Stampin up
Dies/punches: Stampin up (nesting tag punches), Spellbinder circular dies, spruce tree die – Magnolia
Coloring: Copic Sketch
ink: Memento tuxedo black
Design Paper: BoBunny 6x6
Embellishments: Gauze, variety of flowers, gem stickers, Stickles, bakers twine in black/white, large plastic snowflakes (Michaels), white seam binding ribbon, silver glitter mesh ribbon (Michaels)

Lili of the Valley Animal Blog hop

Lili of the Valley Blog Hop – win the all new stamps!
Good morning crafters, thanks for stopping by! Today we’re holding a Lili of the Valley sneaky peek blog hop to celebrate the launch of their new Christmas Animals and Sentiment stamps!
There are 10 of the cutest animals and 4 sets of Christmas sentiments; they will be available to buy on the Lili of the Valley website from midnight tonight and don’t forget you can also get their gorgeous new patterned paper pads on there too
The fabulous Design Team are all taking part, you just need to ‘hop’ from one blog to another following the links and leave a comment on each card. We’ve used all the stamps between us so hopefully we can give you lots of ideas and inspiration for using the new designs.
We don’t know where the prizes are so make sure you visit every blog. We will let you know on Friday which were the ‘lucky’ blogs and 2 winners will be drawn at random from the comments that were left on those cards.

Prize 1; 4 sets of the brand new Christmas sentiment clear stamp sheets, 1 each of the new designs, worth £50.00
Prize 2; The full set of the new Christmas animal rubber stamps, worth £45.00
Here's a list of all the blogs taking part and remember you will need to visit them all to be in with a chance of winning;


Anne
Bev
Claudia Rosa  (me)
Dawny P
Dena
Elise
Fleur
Gretha
Katarina
Lena Katrine
Lou
Moni
Pops

supplies:
Stamps: Lili of the Valley Penguin with flower
sentiment: Handwritten notes by Lili of the Valley 
Paper pad Lili of the Valley “Frosty Greetings”

Various: dies by Magnolia through Sir Stampalot and Memory box die

 

VIEW MY GENTLY USED RUBBERSTAMPS SALE HERE

Christmas Animals LOVT peek

Hello girls, first I need to apologize! I said I would post the winner of my Magnolia candy yesterday and the posting did go online.
So here without no further delay XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX you please email me toXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX your postal addy?! You have won the candy Thank you so much for all your sweet comments I was happy to read them and I will try to post a stamp here and there.

Well, well.. my kids just got picked up by their grandparents from Canada to spent a week there, before school starts for them. Wow.. I will have a full week all for myself whooohoo!! So this weekend I will help my husband laying the hardwood floor in the basement but than I have like 5!!! I feel dizzy without any alcohol hahaha. Definitely want to use some of this time with my stamps. I have the feelings since I came home from Germany I have to squeeze stamping time in all the time and I have not even had a chance to play with my new images. This one is from the forthcoming Lili of the Valley “Christmas Animals” I am sure you saw already some samples. I am not quite there yet to make 100% Christmas cards, so my cards for now are more “Winter” and inspired and fit in the “card for all occasions” section. I think I will get there eventually There are some really sweet images in this new collection and most of all.. some are going to be so easy to color in – perfect for those last minute cards or little gifts to decorate – cause really who can spent 1 hour coloring to decorate like a bunch of gift boxes?

Gee… I was chatty today.. you can tell already – I  am in “relax” mode hahahaha

Supplies:
Stamps: Lili of the Valley Christmas Animals 2012 release – Teddy with Penguin
Sentiment: Stampin up
Papers: My Minds Eye “Merry Joyeux”
Supplies: Plastic snowflakes (Michaels), Flowers, bakers twine, wide pink grosgrain ribbon (Stampin up), gems,  glass glitter, Stickles
Dies: Magnolia snowflake, stars all through Sir Stampalot
Coloring: Copics, Prisma Color Pencils,
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Hugs and see you soon

LOVT peek ~ one for the boys

Playing catch up with my stamps :-x soooo hard to choose images.
Since my last LOVT was a pale pink card I went for a boy card next.
Hope you like it! Tomorrow I will pick my Magnolia blog candy winner – you will have 24 hours to respond, so please come and read tomorrows posting if you entered.

PS. I just noticed that a gem came off while I took the photos I have replaced it on the card but did not re-take the pictures.

Hugs.

Stamps: Lili of the Valley “ My little tree”supplies:
Papers: Magnolia “blue Christmas Holly”
Embellishments: Gems
Dies: Tim Holtz Alphabet die, Magnolia Tree die, Cloud and Flag die, Edwins lace border die
Coloring: Copic Sketch
Cardstock: Copic Express
Ink: Memento
other: Acetate sheets, Mounting pads, glitter for shaker card, fake/false snow paint, twine, Paper Flowers

Everything can be found over at Sir Stampalot!

Cute new LOVT’s

wow.. the new Lili of the Valley’s are most adorable. I finally got a chance to make a selection of my favorites and get them lead out on my craft table to find papers that work with them. Mind you… my basement is not near as finished… all my Christmas supplies are tucked in the container. I was promised by the time I am back home its all been taken care off…. I think it will still take til the end of September. This image is called  “Snow Queen” and it is shipping already!

Luckily this Magnolia quilt paper fits quite nicely with the round snowflakes on the image and the blue paper from the wedding line pulls the “cold” into the layout I was looking for.
The big scroll was cut from silver chipboard… I have my die for a while now – I searched high and low and its not available for us in the USA but you can find it at Timbroscrapmania (I saw it in Barbara’s shop while I was there). The flowers I use are from my local Dollar store.. they are a bit pricier than if I ordered with Wild Orchid Crafts but its just convenient to grab a bag or two while aim there.

The inside is as always decorated as well. I used a really beautiful shimmery grey panel to add the handwriting to the card. A white gel pen will do the trick (but the panel can be easily removed) The opposite side has the full scroll heart shape, also cut from silver chipboard. Some corners and the flowers have “frosted” petals with Glass Glitter.

Thanks for visiting me today.

I am going to have a little Magnolia candy up on the weekend… 2 Maggies from the current Autumn Collection if you are interested are up for grasp.

hugs

Claudia

heart to heart–hand in hand

Hello friends… finally I feel iam getting back to normal. The kids are both back to school and Halloween is over. Geee… sewing for Lucas a Ninja head mask and a sword cover was a pain in the behind, but he looked really “cool” .  Today I would like to show you a card made with a image that has been requested and I must say I have a hard time explaining in English how special this one had turned out for me. This image is back from early 2009 (New Years Collection) when some other great card makers like Ila, Bea or Inge were still with me on the Magnolia Design Team. Sooo very much has changed since than, and while coloring my memories were coming back about all the beautiful cards they make.  I remembered  about how excited I was when I got my very first Inge card using this image – OMG! She colored Tilda’ s coat blue a really stunning card. Now I own like 3 or 4 of her artwork.

Stamps: Magnolia Tilda and Edwin on ice– Design Pauline
Stamp available through Sir Stampalot

Supplies: Basic Grey paper pad
Crochet ribbon and silk ribbon through The Ribbon Girl

giant flake (Michaels) , Sentiment: Stampin up – sooo cute … I loved it with this image but I can not recall the set it came in, Flowers- Wild Orchid Crafts, Cheese cloth from stash. quik kutz corner die

well.. I let you go.. I hope you enjoyed my little card for today. Thank you for taking time to see me
with love
Claudia

quickies with minis

Hi there.. today I finally post the little frames I made about 2 weeks ago. I confess… I was not too happy how the pictures turned out and I felt bad posting them on my blog.
I was like… damn.. I make for years so many projects how can I not take a picture BEFORE I adhere the image behind the acetate?????  Now you probably think.. why did you not take them out again lol… well.. clever me, decided to totally glue the frames shut from the back and add my personal seal over it because the frames have to go to Sweden as part of my DT commitment.

Here is a shot of the entire Magnolia girls. I must say.. it does look really sweet that bunch of vintage frames and the images in them. Even glitter I added with Stickles or the Twinklets do show quite well..

Stamps: Design Pauline – Magnolia Sweden
Mini Magnolia stamps available for purchase at Sir Stampalot

Soooo… aaanyhooow… the cute frames can be found at Michaels in the Dollar bin and as you can tell the size is perfect to use with the Mini Magnolia’s. I have picked up a few more – thought they would look cute in a little girls room as well..

Thinking of you

Hi there.. today’s card is for Cute Card Thursdays Challenge were we have a sketch up to work with… I think this card could also work for Lili of the Valley’s challenge “White and Aqua”. Check it out … fabulous prizes are to win on both challenge sites.

If you have a look at the lates  Lili of the Valley images you could think they are mostly aimed to use on  Christmas/New Year cards but, I would like to show a “Thinking of You” card using one of the latest release. I always need cards like that in my drawer to sent to somebody!!! The new line of stamps has some really sweet images to cover this occasion too and altho the image is so sweet… look how different and mature it can look with darker papers. I could see myself sending this card to a male!!

Ps.: the sentiment has been cut out of some scrap pieces of heavier cardboard (left pieces of the Hanglar envelope bag) covered in Distress crackle paint – left to dry, sponged with Distress inks and stamped with black Stazon. Supplies can be found at Cute stamps and Cards

Stamps: Lili of the Valley “Fishing Buddies”

Take care

Luv Claudi – as always your comments left for me, make me happy

Shining Star

Hi friends… quick posting My oldest son Lucas is turning 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! today. OMG…where did the time go???? We have had a great time yesterday preparing cupcakes for his class mates.. we decorated them all our self with colored icing, sprinkles and glitter icing lol I was telling him it looks like fairy dust. Must say.. I am going to to this now every year… sometimes I purchased the cakes in the store because they just look more uniform… but seeing him so proud on what he had done for his friends… you can not top this.

Stamps: Lili of the Valley “Christmas Bears Presents” 
Sentiment: Lili of the Valley
Papers: Stampin up
Dies: Spellbinder & Magnolia through Cute Cards and Stamps or in England through Sir Stampalot
Other: fake snow, gel pen, Stampin up horizontal ribbon slot punch, stars (Michaels)

Danke liebe Sonja fuer deine Lili of the Valley Kartenbestellung dieses Motiv war wirklich eine Freude zu colorieren!

I was so happy to read your lovely comments on my Saturated Canary Design cards!! Very sweet.

See ya.. as always lots of
Luv Claudia