Saturday, January 12, 2013

Crazy for Shapes!!


 Betty Wright is our January challenge host over at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog!   The second week challenge she has for us this month is about Shaping It Up!


Shape it Up!   
Anything but a standard A2 or 
square card! We want to see
    you shape it up!

Here's one using the new Johnny Guitar from Totally Stampalicious newest release!! ALL STAMP SETS are STILL only $5 for our Inventory Blowout!!


We'd love for you to play along...just remeber to link your blog or on-line gallery project up using the inLinkz provided back at the C4C Blog!

Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Totally Stampalicious New Release and Blog Hop!


Welcome to the January NEW RELEASE and BLOG HOP!! 
This is the 9th Stop of the Totally Stampalicious Blog Hop!
If you didn't arrive here from my super-awesome pal, Becky's Blog, then head back to the TS Blog so you don't miss out on all the fab eye-candy!!

We have FOUR new stamp sets from our fabulous Bugaboo line by artist
As always we're going to give away some prizes to a few of our lucky hoppers...wanna see what YOU could WIN just by commenting on everyone's Blog?!!!
1st Prize - ALL FOUR NEW SETS
2nd Prize - $15 Gift Certificate
3rd Prize - $5 Gift Certificate

ALL FOUR NEW SETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW AT

Oh but wait...it get's even better...
ALL STAMPS are on SALE for only
$5.00
We are having a HUGE Inventory Blow Out sale and will be retiring MANY of our sets so get 'em while you can!

So I decided to color up this little monkey from our Balloon Critters set...this is just ONE of TWO awesome images on this set!


Here's Super Dottie lookin' ready to kick some serious butt!!! 
Here's the best part....the sentiment....what woman can't relate to this???!!!


So now it's time to head on over to Splitcoast Stampers to see what our incredibly talented
Sue- aka Coffeestamper 
has come up with!!


Here is the entire line-up just in case you get lost along the way!

Monday, December 10, 2012

Hello and Happy Monday!
The Totally Stampalicious Blog is having an ANYTHING GOES challenge this week and I thought I could probably manage to make something to go along with that theme! LOL!!

So I decided to play with one of the images from our BRAND NEW DIGI LINE!
These adorable little guys are the Caroling Penguins!

Totally Stampalicious is also having a DESIGN TEAM CALL right now...
Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!

Friday, November 30, 2012

C4C165 Snowmen!

We have our first 
 challenge of December for you, and today we want to see some 
SNOWMEN!

So I kinda cheated and pulled out some 'pre-made' snowmen to make these adorable little tags (Yes I'm tooting my own horn by calling them adorable). But seriously...I've had these guys just sitting around, all neglected and unloved for YEARS!!!!! I think it's about time they've seen the light of day! 


The only paper I had that matched was some watercolor paper, so I used a sizzix die to cut them and then embossed them with a snowflake ef! I then just matted them on to co-ordinating colored cardstock...added another little tag to write on and voila!!

Feel free to play along, just remember to link your project back to the C4C Blog!

Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!!

Thursday, November 29, 2012

New Release and Blog Hop!

You've reached the 8th Stop of the Totally Stampalicious November New Release and Blog Hop!!
If you didn't arrive here from Becky's Blog, be sure to head over to the TS Blog so you don't miss a thing!
We have FOUR new stamp sets from our fabulous Bugaboo line by artist
As always we're going to give away some prizes to a few of our lucky hoppers...wanna see what YOU could WIN just by commenting on everyone's Blog?!!!
1st Prize - ALL FOUR NEW SETS
2nd Prize - $15 Gift Certificate
3rd Prize - $5 Gift Certificate

ALL FOUR NEW SETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW AT


Here is the ADORABLE dude from our Mons-Terrific set...sooooooo SWEET!!!

And here is the fresh and fabulous Winter Girlz! I am just lovin' her outfit!!


But wait we're not done!! Check out the NEW DIGI LINE from Totally Stampalicious!! When you purchase these little cuties, you will receive the colored image, the uncolored jpeg and png file! We hope you're going to love them just as much as we do!!

Caroling Penguins DIGI

Christmas Dog and Cat DIGI


Santa and Reindeer DIGI


Santa with Champagne DIGI



Now it's time to hop on over to Sue's Gallery at Splitcoast Stamper's to check out her AMAZING creation!!

Here is the entire line-up just in case you get lost along the way!



Friday, November 23, 2012

Put a Bow On It!

I'm back again with my last challenge of the month for Crazy 4 Challenges!
(ok I'm not really here...I've gone down to Vegas with a bunch of my peeps for a little weekend get-away to celebrate my BFF's 30th B-Day but I'm here in spirit)
And YEP! I'm still in the Christmas Spirit! My final challenge for the month of November is to 
PUT A BOW ON IT! 

So I created this card to look like a present with a sweet little Deacon Elf Tag that hangs loosely from the BIG RED BOW!




 If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C164. Don't forget to head back to the C4C Blog and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see it too.

Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!!

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Black Friday Psycho Shoppers!

is having a 
HUGE BLACK FRIDAY SALE!! 
For 24 Hours only ALL STAMP SETS will be $5!
This is MADNESS!!! 
No! Not really...we just want to reward all our loyal customers (and entice new ones!) with a fabulous ONE TIME SALE!!!

From 11:59 pm EST Thusday 22nd - 11:59pm EST Friday  23th
And if that's not enough, we are going to PRE-RELEASE the FOUR New Stamp Sets!! That means they will be available to you before their official release the following Thursday!

Oh LOOK!! Here's a sneaky peek at one of our new sets now

Stella Psycho!



This stamp set comes with a few more sassy sentiments that will have the lucky recipients of your creations gettin' their giggle on!!

The sketch is from Stella Says Sketch
I'm also entering it in the Through the Craft Room Door Anything Goes challenge as well!

Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!

Friday, November 16, 2012

So I'm still hosting the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog and I'm in the Christmas Spirit and still trying to get ahead for the holidays! 
I like to make my own GIFT TAGS to adorn the gifts that I give, so my challenge to you all this week is to 
CREATE A TAG! 
Either a gift tag or a tag on your card...just some sort of TAG!

I started having all kinds of fun with my punches and stamps and created FOUR different tags! I must admit I had a MOJO MELTDOWN in between, but a good night's sleep fixed that and I found myself refreshed in the morning!!




 If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C163. Don't forget to head back to the C4C Blog and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see it too.

Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!

Friday, November 9, 2012

Christmas Carol Inspired!

Happy Saturday!
I'm the November Hostess over at the Crazy Challenges Blog and this week I thought it would be fun to put the Christmas Carols that always seem to get stuck in our heads this time of year, to good use!!
Create a card Inspired by one of 
YOUR Favorite Christmas Carols!!

Here's one of my faves...the line I sing most often these days seems to be 'Oh the weather outside is frightful...' Stella here has the right attitude though....check out the inside of the card, or 'punchline' if you will! ;-)


And here's the punch line....



We'd love for you to join us! Just post your Christams Carol Inspired creation to your blog or on-line gallery and link it back to the C4C Blog using the InLinkz provided!! Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

3 of a Kind!

So we've had a couple of days of bad weather (not hurricane bad, just some freezing rain) here which, although I don't love it, I can at least see the silver lining and that means more time at home....which means time to play in the Craft Cave! 

 This week's awesome challenge over at the Totally Stampalicious Blog is to create THREE CAS cards using the same stamp but a little differently on each card! Join us and play along...we love to give away prizes and because this is a more 'difficult' challenge there will likely be only a few players to choose from!! Don't forget that if you use OUR stamps, we will DOUBLE the PRIZE!!

 I decided to pull out this adorable Clyde stamp from our Totally Stampalicious Bugaboo Line and color him up a lil' bit differently for each card!



I chose not to put any sentiments on these so I have them at the ready for emergency Birthday, Thank You, Get Well, etc!! I think you can see how versatile our adorable Clyde is!!!!

Thanks so much for stoppin' for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!!

Friday, November 2, 2012

C4C161 Anything But a Card!

Happy Saturday! It's my turn to be the Hostess over at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog and I decided to start off with one of my FAVE challenges.... 
ANYTHING BUT A CARD!

I found this adorable gift card holder on Pinterest by Julie Davison
and, as I'm making an effort to actually DO some of the things I find on Pinterest, I thought I better give this easy project a try! 
For instructions on how to make the SUPER EASY gift card holder click HERE
I always think that if you're going to give a generic gift like a gift card (no offense to gift card givers out there...I LOVE to receive them... I just know that some people think it's an 'effortless' gift) then why not 'snazzy' it up with a little chocolate in a hand-crafted box-type-thingy! The box I created here is a particularly simple one as I really don't have a whole lotta spare craftin' time *sniff* these days! :-( 
You can find an AWESOME tutorial for that favor box at SCS! Here's the link!


And here is what the inside Card Holder looks like...created from the SU! Two Tags Bigz Die! 

This was all kinds of fun to make and I'm going to be making more for all the gift cards I'll be giving out this year!!!

Wanna get a little Crazy and play along? Just post your Anything but A Card creation to your blog or on-line gallery and link it back to the C4C Blog so we can get a chance to have a peek!!!

Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!

Friday, October 26, 2012

C4C 160 Sketch Challenge


It's the last challenge of the month over a the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog and Jessie Rone, our October Hostess, treated us to this AWESOME sketch!!


I used our Winter Bird Friend from the Totally Stampalicious Bugaboo Line! The blue polka dot ribbon was my starting point for this card! I found it in 'blue ribbon jar' and had to use it!! LOVE it!


We hope you'll play along with us...just be sure to leave a link to your blog or on-line gallery back a the C4C Blog using the inLinkz provided!

Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!

Friday, October 19, 2012

C4C Color Challenge

It's challenge time again at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog!
 Jessie Rone is our hostess again, and this week's challenge is carrying on with our Halloween-ish theme, but  before we get to that...a word from our sponsor, hehe!

This week's challenge is being sponsored by Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps!!!

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They are offering up 2 Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps as our prize.

So, for this week's challenge, I have decided to do a color challenge. The colors are:

Orange/Black/Purple

So here's my creation using a Stella Digi from Bugaboo stamps!!


That's some more ribbon from Ribbon Carousel...LOVE it!!
The sentiment is one you can look for NEXT YEAR from Totally Stampalicious when we turn this lady into a Clear Stamps set!

Well that's it from me today!! Be sure to play along with us! Just leave a link to your creation over at the C4C Blog!

Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!

Friday, October 12, 2012

C4C158 Sweet Treats

Halloween is drawing closer and this week, our challenge Hostess with the Mostess, Jessie Rone is challenging all of us to create a SWEET TREAT over at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog!

There are no limits to this, so whether it's a treat holder, an image involving candy, paper with candy on it, or just the word sweet somewhere, any or all will do!!


So I settled on making a box with some treats in it!! I wrapped a scrap of black paper with some cheese cloth I happened to have lying around and  inked it up to make it look 'old and dirty'!! I kept this very simple!



 I was still having fun playing around so I decorated a few of the chocolates that I'm going to fill the box with!! Again, I wrapped the 'mummy' chocolate in cheese cloth...I'm pretty sure the other little guys are self-explanatory LOL!! (circle punch, SU! owl punch)

If you'd like to be along, just post your project to your blog or on-line gallery and then link it back to the C4C Blog!

Friday, October 5, 2012

Hooray for Saturday!!! Not only do I not have to set an alarm, it's also a LONG WEEKEND up here in Canada as we celebrate Thanksgiving on Monday! (although I will be celebrating today and tomorrow as well WOOHOO!!) 
And as it that isn't enough to be happy about, we have a NEW challenge with a NEW Hostess this month over at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog!   Jessie Rone has creating a card or project using OUR FAVORITE HALLOWEEN CHARACTER! Pretty hard to pick if you ask me because I like 'em all...vampires, black cats, Frankenstein, pumpkins, goblins, ghouls...well I think you get the point!! 
Anyhoo...I decided on this frighteningly adorable Bobblehead Witch from Bugaboo Digi stamps!!


This was ridiculous amounts of FUN to color!! All that awesome RIBBON and TWINE is from Ribbon Carousel!!! Totally Stampalicioius did a Blog Hop with them last September and I absolutely LOVE their stuff!! 
Well that's it from me today!!
Feel free to play along with us...just remember to link it back at the C4C Blog!

Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!!

Friday, September 28, 2012

C4C156 Leaves!

Happy Saturday to you all on this fine Fall Day! Over at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog, our Hostess, Andrea Murdoch, is challenging us to use LEAVES on our card or project!!

While flipping through my stamps, I came across Hunter Gus, who I KNOW resembles many ladies' husbands/brothers/sons etc...if not in looks, as least in attitude!
So I thought I'd color him up and throw a little camouflage around him! In hindsight, I wish I had used different kinds of leaves but this will just have to do! Lol!


Well I guess that's it from me today!! 

We'd love for you to join our challenge over at the 
C4C Blog...just be sure to leave a link there so we know where to find you!

Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

C4C155, RC72, and Stampalicious Monday!

Well Life got a little crazy for me these last few weeks and I just couldn't make time for crafting but TODAY I finally got to play!!
High Hopes Stamps sponsored Crazy 4 Challenges a few weeks back and fellow C4C Team Member, Andrea Murdock, sent me this AWESOME image so I just had to color it up and bring it to life! This week's C4C Challenge is to create a Thank You card or a Thanksgiving inspired creation!!

That gorgeous ORANGE SEAM BINDING is from Ribbon Carousel....AWESOME!! I'm entering this into the RC72 Challenge as well!!

And last but not least, the Stampalicious Monday challenge this week is to use YOUR FAVE FALL COLORS!!

Well that's it from me today!!! 
Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!!

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

New Release Blog Hop with Ribbon Carousel

Totally Stampalicious has teamed up with the awesome peeps over at Ribbon Carousel and we're celebrating 
BRAND NEW RIBBON 
and 
 BRAND NEW STAMPS
with an AWESOME

If you didn't start over a the Ribbon Carousel Blog then be sure to head back on over there so you don't miss a thing!

Now, lets talk prizes! 

The Ribbon Carousel will be giving away a $20 gift certificate to the Ribbon Carousel Store and Totally Stampalicious will be giving away their 4 newly released September stamp sets!  Enjoy the hop and be sure to leave some blog love along your way to be eligible for the prizes!  Winners will be announced Saturday night at 8:00 PM EST.


Now here are my cards featuring some absolutely SCRUMPTIOUS ribbon to go along with our brand new Balloon Kidz Girl...there are all kinds of fun sentiments that fit inside the ballon!!! This purple taffeta is GORGEOUS!!!

I made this bookmark for my son using Johnny Skateboard and some green seam binding that I dampened, wrinkled, heated and inked to make it super masculine for 'oh-so-manly' 8 year old! LOL!!


Now it's time to hop on over to Danielle Daws Blog to see what AWESOME-NESS she's got for you!!

Friday, September 7, 2012

It's another Happy Saturday and I don't know about where you are but our weather here is AMAZING!!! Highs of 25 and all kinds o' sunshine!!
Anyhoo...we have a super fun sketch comin' at ya from the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog and we have the wonderfully talented Andrea Murdoch to thank for it!!

SO I pulled out this sassy Stella for my take on the sketch!!!



If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C153. Don't forget to head back to the C4C Blog and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see it too.

Friday, August 31, 2012

C4C152 - Color Challenge!

It's another Happy Saturday over at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog!
We've got a Freaky and Fun color challenge for you this week!
ORANGE  PURPLE  and  GREEN

I pulled out some of my Halloween stamps and settled on this set from SU!!



Thanks so much for stoppin' by to check out my card!!
We;d love for you to play along! Just be sure to link your card back a the C4C Blog using the InLinkz provided!!