Hello and welcome to the CardMaker Magazine and Sunny Studio stamps blog hop. You should have arrived from Gini Williams Cagle’s blog. If you happen to get lost along the way, you can find the blog hop order and links below.

For today’s blog hop, we are all getting into the Christmas spirit – and let’s face it, it is only about 7 weeks away. I used the adorable Snow Kissed stamp set, along with the Birthday Smiles stamp set to create this cute little scene.

Giveaway:

Sunny Studio Stamps is kindly giving away two stamp sets to two lucky winners over on the Sunny Studios Blog. Use the Rafflecopter to enter. Mendi is also having a 20% off sale. Just use the code word “CARDMAKER” (valid until Saturday the 14th of November, Noon PST).

 

Blog Hop order

CardMaker
Melissa Bowden
Chitra Nair
Audrey Tokach
Mendi Yoshikawa
Heidi Criswell
Stacy Morgan
Elise Constable
Gini Williams Cagle
Marion Vagg  <——– You are here
Jennie Harper
Sunny Studio Blog

Your next stop on the hop is Jennie Harper. Thanks for visiting.

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Hello. Today I have two cards up on the Jane’s Doodles blog using three of her stamp sets – Doodle Flowers, Doodle Flowers II and Stripes and Dots. I created the backgrounds on both of these cards using the stripe stamps from the Stripes and Dots set and three shades of dye ink. I overlapped the stamping and double stamped some of the stripes to create the background. I love how the inks blended together and it looks as though I have used more than 3 colours on each card.

Once the backgrounds had dried completely, I stamped various floral images from the Doodle flowers sets with VersaFine Onyx black ink, then added in some white gel pen detailing. I think I like the blue/green one. Which one do you like best?

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If you are looking for the Jane’s Doodles Blog Hop, go here.

Today I’m popping in with a card and tag that is up on the Sunny Studios Blog using the School Time stamp set. Being a teacher myself I know that little cards and gifts are very much appreciated, as it is certainly not just a 9-3 job.

I found these little treat tubes at my local discount store and they were perfect to put large Jaffas in (orange flavoured chocolate if you hadn’t heard of these before – one of my favs). I love the shiny apples – some Wink of Stella brush glitter pen and a coat of Glossy Accents.

Make sure you check out the Sunny Studio blog as there is so much going on over there – lots of daily inspiration.

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Hello! Today is the release blog hop for Jane’s Doodles Stamps and we are also welcoming three new DT members. You should have arrived from Ange’s awesome blog.

You are going to love the latest release as it is one very stinkin’ cute stamp set indeed! Check it out.

Winter Wishes

First up is a fun card using most of the critters in the set. I created my own window with a craft knife and a cutting board.

And because I think all the characters in this set are cute, I couldn’t leave the snowman out – so I gave him a card all to himself, drinking a hot cup of chocolate with marshmallows! Both cards use sentiments from another Christmas set called Warm Wishes.

GIVEAWAY:
Want to win some prizes? Jane is generously giving two stamps of your choice from the store to one lucky winner. Just leave a comment on all the blogs along the hop for your chance to win.

Blog Hop order:
Jane
Ange
Marion <—– You are here
Milka
Carisa
Tracy (Guest Designer)
Vesna (new Design Team member)
Neha (new Design Team member)
Vika (new Design Team member)
Jane’s Doodles

Thanks so much for stopping by. Your next stop on the hop is Milka.

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It’s starting to feel a little bit like Christmas on my blog today, with these fun tags using some Jane’s Doodles stamps. Christmas will be here before we know it, so I am getting in nice and early! These were really quick and easy to make – I think I may need to make some more experimenting with other colours.

It’s a little hard to tell, but the scarves are sparkling with some clear Wink of Stella. I love that pen!

You can head to Jane’s blog here to check out my post, and while you are there check out lots of other inspiration from the design team.

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Hello. I hope you have had a fabulous Monday and a great weekend. I’ve just had 2 very lovely days with my Mum, two sisters and my niece in Sydney. We went to see Matilda on Sunday night and it was a brilliant show! I’m back home now and feeling tired, but I’m on holidays, so I’m going to take things very slowly!

I’m popping in with a couple of Jane’s Doodles cards that were over on the Jane’s Doodles blog recently.

First up is this floral card and I love how easy it was to create. I white heat embossed the image from Spring Blessings onto coloured card stock and then did some simple colouring with Copic markers.

Next up is this hello card that uses the Jane’s Doodles Mom set. Lots of fussy cutting, but I find that quite relaxing. And I also used some patterned paper. Go me!

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