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To be in the drawing for this candy please follow me if your not already, put this picture with the link to this post in your sidebar and leave me a comment here! this is what is included, September stamp of the month-What A Pane-no longer available. My Little Ballerina set of 10, Playful Pixie's set of 8 (all stamps are from my line at CDS except the SOM), 4 bottles of stickles in red, silver, gold and patina. 1 yard each of 9 ribbons, jeweled brads 15 large&15 small circle, 15 square and 12 star shaped from eyelet outlet(the same maker of SU jeweled brads). 150 micro mini brads in silver, gold and shades of red, blue, green and yellow. Cosmo Cricket Early Bird 6in. pad. Good Luck! *DRAWING WILL BE ON NOVEMBER 28!*

First ever Clearly Inspired Challenge Starts Today! Yipee!!!

It's Friday, time to relax, kick back and have some fun! Clear Dollar Stamps has made some changes to our challenge. The Weekend Color Challenge was fun but is no more, we have said good bye and we think moved on to bigger and better things! The challenge is now called Clearly Inspired Challenge and will be held at Lori's Blog, Clearly I Stamp. It is a bi-monthly challenge and the theme of the challenge will vary! How fun is that?! It could be an inspiration challenge, color challenge or sketch. This time the theme is Give Me 5, in celebration of Lori's 5th year in business! It is open to using whatever stamps you choose from any company(of course we love to see you use CDS). On the Friday following the challenge she will post a winner by random draw and there will be a prize of a CDS stamp set of your choice!! You can get more details on her blog.
On my card I have used as many of 5 elements as I could I have 5 flowers, 5 ribbons and used 5 colors (not counting white!). I really wanted to use 5 panels but couldn't make it fit. :( Just use you imagination and incorporate 5 into your card or project any way you would like! I also wanted to put my card in the
Etsy Inspired Challenge which I found through Heather's blog. This week the inspiration was Vivaka's store which I found that I LOVED!!! It is the sweetest handmade felt Art Toy's. One look and I was inspired. You have to see them. This is my first time playing along and it was a lot of fun. So I had to use one of my Patchpal's because they look stitched and work so well with lot's of fun color which Vivika's is all about. I also took some inspiration from the felt (which I have a secret love of and have TONS in a stash in my studio) and made some felt clouds and some flowers to mix with my SU felt flowers. I hand stitched the grass panels and sun in the same stitch you use on felt also. I also found a fun challenge called the Dutch Dare Card Challenge requiring you to use felt this week that was just perfect for my card so I'm entering it there! The whole scene is paper pieced on SU dp and the Patchpal Skunk from CDS is water colored with markers on water color paper.

Splendor of the Season

I wanted to show you a card I did with a verse from one of last months releases called Christmas Blessings it comes with 10 beautiful verses and sentiments that are all about reminding us of the true meaning of Christmas and make doing quick and elegant Christmas cards simple. You could do one like this in about 15 minutes minus the sewing. I had a hard time editing this card because I think the computer doesn't do so well picking up this shade of green and red accurately and glitter is always hard so I think it is much prettier in person with the sparkle from the glitter and metallic thread, but you guys know how that is. The dp I used from the Laundry Line by MME was also a key element on this card and the jeweled brads, the star shaped one is available at CDS (there is a package of these in my blog candy!) Thanks for looking you guys have a great week! I'll be back Friday with a new post and some fun news!!! Oh AND I almost forgot Lori McCroscky is having a huge 5 year birthday celebration with prizes so you don't want to miss that over on her blog!!!

Meowy Christmas! Post Redo

Aghh! THANKS TO MY FRIEND CAROLYN I KNOW THAT THIS ORIGINAL POST WASN'T ALLOWING COMMENTS SO I HAVE FIXED THE PROBLEM. SOME HTML ERROR. Sorry I'm posting so late but I had to reaarange my post and move the joy card so I lost all of my sweet comments on it. :( I hope you have all had a great week so far and enjoyed all of the many previews out there, I'm so glad you have been checking in to see mine! This card I was really happy with the way it turned out for a few reasons. The stamp set is special because it was inspired by our cat Kitty Kitty, While I was having the baby my husband gave him away, he was sooo hairy the baby would have ended up with hair all in her mouth, yuck. He was also feisty and liked to attack anything that moved (including small children)! He has a good new home but I did love him. So it is an homage to Kitty Kitty. Also this cosmo paper is one of my new favorites. It's in my blog candy too! And I got to design this sketch for the MMSC this week who I happen to be sponsoring, so please go check that out. They have lots of fun happenings over there. Unfortunately with so many responsibilities and kids out the yin yang(LOL!)(does anybody really know what that is?I have a guess but if you know please do tell! LOL!) I just don't have the time to give it 100%. I stepped down and will miss it but I'm sure I'll be back to play along when I can! Links to the other gorgeous cards made by the cds dt are: Cassie
Candy
Stacy
Tricia
True
Laurie

I've Got Joy! :)

Hello everyone hope your week has been jolly and full of joy so far, hee hee! today is the second day of Sneak peeks at CDS and I have a new release to show you. This one is called Jolly Joy, it is a set of 12 for just 7.99. I really wanted a very versatile, whimsical easy to color in set to do some quick cards and little treat bags and tags with this holiday season. So I came up with this set, you can use the stocking and wreath alone or together to spell out JOY but it also comes with a candy cane, bow, and ornament so you can also spell out the word JOLLY, I have a sample started with that one too for later. Or those too can be used alone to do a quick tag or mini card. I've also started on those! This one's been a lot of fun to play and get colorful with. There are several words for making phrases included in the set. You should really see some of the fantabulous samples made by the rest of the dt! Thanks for stopping by, You can see the whole stamp set and other samples by Candy on Lori's blog hereHere are their links:
Angela
Cassie
Trudy
Laurie
Tori

Sneak Peeks Day ! New Patchpals!

Hey guys! Are you ready for some sneak peeks, ready for Christmas. I know I am... sort of, not sure my pocket book is ready! But I'm definately ready for some Christmas crafting so anyway on to my stamp for today. I'm previewing one of the stamps in my new Patchpals Set called Patchpal Reindeer, that's because their is a reindeer in this set and I can't wait for you to see him. I used some dp from Hobby Lobby layered with some SU textured cs, sewed it up, stamped the image in memento and colored it in with my new *prisma's* and used heat and stick to pile on the glitter! You can see the full set on Lori's blog here along with some cute samples by candy and the other sets previewing today. And here is the list of the other dt previewing this one, and as usual they all did an awesome job on them, cute cute samples you'll want to be sure to see!
Cassie
Katie,
Sarah
Laurie
Trudy

Kiss The Cook!

Weird huh? Me posting twice in one day? I know but CDS sneak peeks start tomorrow so I'm running out of time to show you the cute stamps that came out this month so I gotta get busy. This one is the newest Charliene, I have a good friend that I knew would love this one so I had to have it! And luckily it went perfectly with this card I had previously designed in papers from the Laundry Line by MME. I thought the papers and buttons all looked kinda homey like a hot cherry pie! MMM right? Enough with the corny, this awesome set was designed by Laurie Wilson of course and comes with lots of cute little baked goods and different sayings.The entire set of 13 is only 7.99 and is called Baking With Charliene. I'll see ya later with some sneaks! Oh and I'm going to try my best to get some yummy blog candy posted in the next day or so so check back!