CDAC Progressive Challenge! - Eighth Round: First Entry

The eighth round of the Crafter's Digital Art Center Progressive Challenge has begun and the theme is "Animals Hold Our Hearts!". This part of the challenge will run from December 1st, 2011 til December 14, 2011.

Follow this link and read about the prize.
This is my first entry for this round, used the image by Just Some Lines:

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• CDAC Progressive Challenge #8: Animals Hold Our Hearts

Thanks!

Love
Julia

The Stamping Boutique "Thrifty Christmas-Making Handmade Gifts" Blog Hop!! Winner

Just a quick post to let you know who is the winner from my blog from The Stamping Boutique Blog Hop this weekend.

Thank you all who participated and hopped with us.
The winner is commentator number 24:

Edwina!!!

Edwina said...

"I love all your gifts! The gift box with the hidden tray and ornament is so pretty! I wish I knew how to make this. The jar of cookies and candy are wonderful! I love the way you decorated them. The journal/ mini notebook are a great gift for a teenager. I enjoyed seeing your gifts. Thank you for sharing. Edwina Brown edwinabrown@comcast.net"

Congrats!
Please contact Christy at: micahzane@yahoo.com by December 18th to claim your prize, if not claimed by then, I will re-draw a new winner!
Hugs
Julia

Christmas cards...

During the past days I've been making christmas cards and have not had the time to share them, so here are some of them.
The first one has an image by The Stamping Boutique:

Image: Happy,happy snowman 

I am entering this card in the following challenges: Challenge 112: Anything Goes at Crafty Catz, Challenge 86: It's Beginning To Look a lot Like Christmas! at Raise the Bar, Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! at Winter Wonderland and  Inspirational Photo # 97at  Just Add Ink.

This card features an image by Michelle Perket Studio:

Image: Snowman with Heart

I am entering this card in the following challenges: Clean & Simple HOLIDAY at Our Craft Lounge.

This next card is a sweet one, the image is from The Stamping Boutique and the sentiment is from the Ippity stamp set Warm Wishes:

Image: Candy Land Winter Lollipop

This last card features an image by Designed 2 Delight:

Image: Winter Bear

I am entering this card in the following challenges: Glitter at Frosted Designs and Challenge 39: "Make it Shine (Glitter)" at Mami Doodles.

Thanks!

Love,

Julia

"Thrifty Christmas-Making Handmade Gifts" Blog Hop!!

Welcome to The Stamping Boutique’s:

"Thrifty Christmas-Making Handmade Gifts" Blog Hop!!

We are very excited about the holidays and know for many money is tight this year, but that doesn’t mean you cannot give great gifts! Our Elves, oh I mean design team have been busy in their workshops coming up with some fabulous projects to help you with those last minute gift ideas. What better way to show you than to have a BLOG HOP!!!

You won’t want to miss this hop and because we know you are all busy getting all the preparations done for the holidays, this hop will run all weekend. The hop starts today, Friday, December 9th @ 12:01 am (CST) and runs until Sunday December 11th @ 11:59 pm (CST).

If you have hopped over from Audrey's blog, then you are in the right place. If you just happened to stop by and would like to join our hop from the beginning, please go to Christy’s blog and follow along for a chance to win some AMAZING blog candy along the way and PRIZES at the end.

Each designer along the way is featuring a project that showcases a digital image from The Stamping Boutique Store. Be sure to visit all the design’s blogs and leave a comment (we will be checking). Each designer will be giving away (1) FREE image from our store to one random commenter.

Once you have finished the hop, make sure to leave a comment on The Stamping Boutique Challenge Blog for your chance to win a $25 gift certificate for our store. Remember to be eligible for all prizes, YOU MUST COMMENT ON EACH STOP ALONG THE WAY!

Today I will share four handmade gifts, all made with love.

My first gift is a set of treat box with secret trays inside and an ornament:

Image: Snowman-Bring it on!!!

My second gift is a cookie jar:

Image:  Gingerbreadman with Buttons

The next gift is a glass container filled with candies:

Image: Chubby Snowman

My last gift is a set of journal and mini-notebook:

Image: Smoochie the Cutie Patootie

I hope you are inspired by this projects, they are really economical and the best part is that they are filled with made with love!!!

Next stop by Jessica's blog, to see what she has in store for you today.

Below is your hop order in case you get lost along the way:

Christy D
Jen S
Rhonda
Stacie
Ali (Dragonlady)
Sandy
Melissa
Sue
Audrey
                                  Julia ***You are HERE***
Jessica
Lawren
Miranda
TSB Challenge Blog

Thanks!

Love,
Julia

Non traditional colors at The Stamping Boutique

Hi everyone!
The Stamping Boutique has a new challenge:

Non-Traditional Christmas Colors.

I used Serenity and colored her in beautiful tones of blue, purple and yellow.

The background panels were inked with distress inks and embossed.

Come and join the fun!

Thanks!

Love,
Julia

New Challenge at Paper Creations Ink!!!

We have a new challenge at Paper Creations Ink and the theme is "Bling it on".
I loved working with the images created by Miranda Van Den Bosch, for this challenge. Miranda is one of our DT members and she is the sponsor for this challenge.
For my card, I used  the image: Present Fairy and colored it with non traditional christmas colors, well almost, I did color the shoes and the ribbon red and the gift box is green, ... I love red shoes.

Miranda has drawn 3 wonderful fairy images for Paper Creations Ink! These beautiful images that the Design Team has created with are going to be given away as our prize for this challenge. Please visit Paper Creations Ink to see the wonderful images.

Our MONTHLY sponsor is Crop Stop! We are so excited to share with you the wonderful prize that Crop Stop has offered to ONE lucky winner, a $30.00 gift certificate to their online store! How cool is that? In order to be eligible for this wonderful prize, you must enter BOTH December Challenges to win! (We wanted to extend a HUGE "THANK YOU" to Haylie-Jo owner of Crop Stop!)

I can't wait to see your creations.

Thanks!

Love,

Julia

Christmas ornaments!!!

I've been planning on doing this ornaments for some time now and guess what, I finally did.
The cute image is from The Stamping Boutique. Added some beads, jute and ribbons for the finishing touch.

I really had fun creating this ornaments and will make additional ones to add to my presents.
I am entering this ornaments in the following challenges:

• Paper a la Mode December 3 - December 9 - Christmas Ornament at The Outlawz
• Challenge #111: The colours of Christmas with the option of Sparkle at Crafty Catz
• Challenge #119. Gingerbread at Order of the Opus Gluei
• Challenge #15, Happy Holidays at Through the Craftroom Door

Thanks!

Love

Julia