"Oh, for the love of CHOCOLATE!"

What a super fun challenge it is this week at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge! Who doesn't love chocolate? I created the template for this jumbo candybar box-card myself and think it turned out pretty cute! The sentiment inside the card says, "Wishing you all the good things in life...friendship, happiness and chocolate!" PERFECT!

I definitely want to start making these as birthday cards for friends and family. Pretty simple, cheap and something different! What do you think?

Pink, Green and Brown...

that's the challenge this week over at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge. This week the sponsor is Bearly Mine Designs...a wonderful place to buy Craft CD's jam-packed with tons of wonderful digi-papers. Oh, and I can tell you first hand how wonderful the papers are because Donna, the creator of Bearly Mine, was generous enough to give all of the Stamptacular Design Team members several designs to use on this week's challenge. Both of the pattern papers used on my card for this challenge are from Bearly Mine...fabulous, aren't they? It was so much fun using digi-papers for the first time ever...Thanks Donna!

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Sketch

This week's challenge at the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge was so much fun! I just love when I have a cool sketch to work from.

Here's my take on the sketch. Thanks for taking the time to come and visit me!

"Mums, the word!"

This week at the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Blog the challenge is a tribute for all Mothers! The challenge was to create a project in honor of all the hard work, compassion and unconditional love that a MOM gives each day!

This week's sponsor of the challenge is Sketching Stamper and they were kind enough to allow each of the Design Team members use one of their floral digi-stamps for our project.

Anyways, here's what I came up with...

"Charmed, I'm sure!"

This week's Stamptacular Sunday Challenge is called, "Charmed, I'm sure!" The requirements were that you had to include at least one charm on your project. This was a tough one for me! I had NO clue what in the world to do with a charm or how to include it onto my card. I'm not completely satisfied with the final result and am really contemplating on tearing the card apart and starting over. Who knows what I'll end up doing but for now...here it is!

I just love Precious Moments!

These images are just that..."PRECIOUS"! When I was a teenager I started collecting the actual figurines but then, as I got older I discovered that I am not really a knick-knack fan! I am just not a collector of things that just sit around my house and collect dust... Now, don't get me wrong, I do still think they are absolutely adorable but have discovered that they use to make Precious Moments rubber stamps! I sure do wish I could find a ton of them to add to my collection without having to pay the unbelievably outrageous price that they sell for on e-bay! Good grief!

Anyways, I have a couple of them and decided to make a Get Well Card with one of them...

I created the image with a 3-D effect. I popped up several different areas of the image and really like how it turned out! I wanted to use ribbon this card but really didn't have any that matched so I thought and thought about what other embellishments I could use on this card and came up with absolutely nothing. Suddenly, I noticed an empty tape runner on the side of my desk and realized that the rolled up spool, that use to contain the sticky stuff for a tape runner, was actually crystal clear and not sticky at all! So, I decided to cut a section off and see if I could turn it into ribbon. Guess what? It works and I love how it looks! You can even stamp on it with Staz-On!

Black and White + ONE

The theme for this week's Stamptacular Sunday Challenge is "Black and White + ONE". The requirements are that you are only allowed to use black, white and one other color for the project that you create. Oh, and you also MUST use some form of stamping somewhere on your project! If you know me at all you KNOW that I absolutely love working with black and white so this challenge was right up my alley! However, I also tried to make it a bit challenging for me so I used the color RED. Anyone who knows me also knows that I absolutely HATE the color red! So...this was quite the challenge! I decided to make something decorative, other than just a card, that I could send a cocoa packet in. Here's what I came up with. It's a little box about 1/4" in depth that has a card inside with a hot cocoa packet adhered to the back...Sorry about the poor photos!

This is for the Birds!"

This week's challenge at the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Blog is called "This is for the Birds!" For the challenge you are required to create a project that incorporates at least ONE bird, and, of course, stamping!

If you know me at all you know that I haven't been a lover of any of the bird stamps that have come out so this challenge was quite the challenge for me!

Anyways, this is what I came up with! I'm fairly happy with the final results and think it looks much better in real life than it does here in this photo. I clear heat embossed the flowers on the Cancer Cannot poem and for some added dimension I heat embossed the birds and cut each one out so I could pop them up off of the card.

Thanks for taking the time to look...

NEW BEGINNINGS...

are always exciting! And...I can tell you, today's debut of the new Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Blog is no exception! The Design Team and I have been working really hard, over the past several weeks, to make sure everything was in place so that today was just PERFECT for all our visitors!

This week's challenge is called "New Beginnings" in honor of our brand new challenge blog. We have tons of exciting, unique and fun challenges planned and I'm sure there's something to peak the interest of EVERYONE! So, please, check out our challenges every week! Each Sunday, at 6:00 AM (EST) we will post a new challenge for the week. The rules are simple...follow the theme provided, create an ORIGINAL project made specifically for our challenge, post it on your blog with a link back to our blog, leave a comment with a direct link to your blog to make it easy for us to find you AND make sure you use some sort of stamping on your project! Voila...it's that easy! Once you've followed all the rules, you'll be entered into a random drawing to win a fabulous prize!

Don't forget, if you enter at least THREE times during any given month you'll be entered into the contest to be our Guest Designer for a month! As a winner, you'll receive an award banner to post on your blog letting all your friends know you've won AND you'll be invited to be a featured designer on our blog for an entire month! Now...who wouldn't want that?

Anyways...enough of the boring stuff...

Because today is our special debut, we've planned several fun activities for anyone to participate in throughout the day. So...be sure to check out our blog often today, participate in the fun and you could be the instant winner of a fabulous prize!

Hope you'll join us for our weekly fun! Can't wait to get to know you and see what you create!

Here's my submission for today's challenge: New Beginnings

Blog Candy Give-Away!

I have had a bit of time to blog hop today and thought I'd share with all of you the wonderful Blog Candy Give-Away that I came across.

Lis-Trations Art and Design Company are giving away the Spring Elisabeth Bell collection and a signed 9x12 print from either the Sweet Art Colour or Sweet Art Ebony series! What a fabulous prize to win!


Good luck!

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge!

The wait and suspense is almost over! Only two more days until the debut of the Stamptacular Sunday Challenges begin!

It seems like forever ago the announcement to find the PERFECT Design Team was posted and now...the fun is just around the corner! We have tons of fun and unique challenges planned and hope that our challenge blog becomes one of the most successful on the internet.

There's guaranteed to be a favorite challenge for everyone...all are welcome to participate no matter what your creative level is! The only stipulations to play along are that you MUST use some type of stamping on each project you create and your submissions MUST be original and specifically designed just for our challenge!

It all begins on April 5th, 2009 at 6:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, so please check us out at http://stamptacularsundaychallenge.blogspot.com and join us for our first challenge! In honor of our new adventure, we'll also have lots of other fun and prizes going on throughout the day too! So, be sure to stop back often to help us celebrate our "New Beginning" and to ensure you don't miss out on any of the activities!

Can't wait to meet you!
Priscilla

I know it's been quite a while...

since my last post but I really do have a good excuse! Honest!

I've been extremely busy trying to get everything ready for my new challenge blog Stamptacular Sunday Challenge, that will begin posting on April 5th. I am so excited about beginning this new journey and have the absolute BEST Design Team ever! They, too, have been working very hard and are just as excited as I am! So, please add us to your blog, make a habit of stopping by to visit us each week and join in all the fun we have in store for you!

On top of all this, my family and I have been going through quite a struggle. It seems like it's always something and when it rains, it pours! I won't bore you with the details but please just know that I'll be back in full force after the launch of the challenge blog, if not before!

Anyways, I just wanted to touch base with all of you and let you know that I appreciate your continued support and all the visits to my blog!

Hugs,
Priscilla

House Mouse Challenge #27

This week's challenge was to use CHIPBOARD. Well, I don't generally buy chipboard because I have no clue what to do with it. The only thing I could come up with is this chipboard coaster calendar. Nothing fancy but hope it counts anyways!

Looking for Design Team Members!

Thank you for visiting the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Blog! We will be launching our first challenge on April 5th, 2009.

But, before then I am looking to put together the perfect Design Team! As a DT member you will be required to:

* Submit a completed project weekly, via e-mail, following the challenge requirements, no later than the Friday before the challenge is posted to the blog!
* Take excellent quality photos of your completed projects.
* Post positive comments on ALL participants' blogs sometime during the week of the particular challenge they participate in.
* Be an active DT member of our Sunday Challenge Blog, share with me any and all challenge ideas you may have and want to see as one of our blog challenges, and HOST challenges, if needed.
* Help to find sponsors willing to donate prizes for our challenges (this can be friends, companies or yourself)
* Be open and honest with me when you feel there's a problem or something needs to be addressed or anytime you just want to chit chat.
* ENJOY participating and being part of my DT!

ALL ACCEPTED DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS MUST AGREE TO AND FULFILL A SIX (6) MONTH COMMITMENT!

If the above sounds like something you would like to be a part of and you're interested in becoming a Design Team member for our Brand New Sunday Challenge Blog, PLEASE e-mail me 2-5 samples of your BEST work...at least ONE of your submissions MUST be something other than a greeting card and ALL submissions MUST contain stamping! No scrapbook layouts, please!

Please e-mail your submissions to misscill@yahoo.com by midnight February 27, 2009 to qualify. Accepted Design Team members will be notified no later than Friday March 6th, 2009.

Good Luck,
Priscilla

Magnetic Fridge Notepad

Here is the results of a SWAP I joined. The SWAP was to create an altered magnetic refrigerator notepad. It just so happened that I got several magnetic calendars from the dentist office the other day and decided to use them as the base for my notepads. It worked out really well, at least I think! Besides, on the backside of the notepad is a 2010 calendar and a list of all the holidays. Anyways, I just covered the front of the magnetic calendars with pattern paper, made a small scallop topper for the notepad and stamped on the paper to give it a decorative finish. VOILA! It was quick and easy! I sure hope the recipients think they turned out nice.

House Mouse Challenge #25

I am so excited to have been able to play this week! This week's challenge was a sketch and boy was it a fantastic challenge and so much fun to create! Thanks for the inspiration!

Paper Piecing...

Hi everyone...I haven't been creating much lately but thought I'd share with you some of my paper piecings that I've created in the past. Paper piecing is a ton of work BUT...for me, it's very
relaxing. Click on each image and you'll be able to notice that each individual section has been created from a piece of paper. Drawn and cut to the exact shape that I needed to complete the final image.

Perpetual Calendar

Before the holidays I was working on a couple of calendar layouts for a SWAP that I was in. I was responsible for creating April, July and December. So far I've shared the April and July layouts and many of you have been patiently, or NOT, waiting for me to post my December creation...

Well, here it is...

Birthday Wishes

Here are a couple of Birthday cards that I created to go inside of a paint can gift set. I absolutely love how they turned out and will definitely be using this idea again! They were so quick and easy!

Thank you...for your friendship!

I know you always hear me talking about a group that I'm in, Scrappin' In Toledo, well...in December we had our annual Christmas Crop. Boy was it a blast! We always have tons of activities, prizes, and an abundance of yummy food! Not to mention that most of us are able to get together all in one place to hang out, chit chat and have a great time! Anyways, this year one of our activities was a Shoebox SWAP. Everyone attending the crop created a card, provided all the materials and put them in a shoebox for each person at the crop to duplicate one of their creations. Then, at the crop all of the shoeboxes were put in one area and during the crop we all had the opportunity to sit down and make each one of the cards. When we were all finished we had about 14-16 cards that were all made and ready to be sent to someone special throughout the year! What a GREAT idea...well, in theory anyways. Unfortunately, we ran out of time and not everyone had the time to complete all the cards...BUT...it was still FUN!

Here's a look at the card I made and prepared the supplies for.