DeNami Blog Hop - Bright, Bold, and Beautiful

Welcome blog hoppers, you've reached the DeNami Blog Hop for the month of August...

You should have arrived from the lovely blog of the talented Dana Seymour.

Here are the details of the 'hop....

When: The blog hop starts on August 12th at 6 AM, PST. However, you have until August 13, 2012, 11:59 pm PST, to leave comments on all the blogs (to be eligible for a prize).Why: To be inspired by fun DeNami Design creations and also the chance to win mini shopping sprees on the DeNami Design website!

Prizes: We are giving away THREE $20 gift certificates to our website! We'll be giving away one gift certificate to a random participant (DT members not eligible) and then we'll also be giving away TWO gift certificates to TWO people who comment along the hop!

Here is my contribution...in honor of the final day of the Olympics today...

I didn't have a plain chickie to put on my Olympic podiums, so I blocked out the butterfly and net on the Chickie and Butterflies stamp, but, if interested, either of these two DeNami stamps would have saved some work -- B90 Chickie or A103 Barnyard Chick.

Here's a link to the "stamping/coloring on glitter" technique that I used to make the rings.

Materials:

Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, Neenah - Solar White

Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black and Gray Flannel, Versamark, DeNami - Chickie and Butterflies, Large Dot Swirls, All Star Greetings Stamp Set

Cutting/Embossing: Gold Embossing Powder, Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Circles and Rectangles, Cookie Cutter - Square Die

Misc.: Random markers to color on top of glitter, Copic markers, jewel embellishments, Stickles, Glitter Ritz (Microfine) - Transparent, cool highlights, dimensional adhesive

 

Thank you for stopping by (don't forget to comment for a chance to win a prize)...and you are off to Barb's blog, where something truly fantastic awaits your viewing pleasure!

Random Cards and the Ravellenic Grand Finale

Ravellenic Games 2012

Knitting project finally finished!!

What made this an Olympic Challenge? The seaming - beginner at it and really dislike seaming, and it takes me along time to get it how I like it (multiple tries and at least one day's worth of work).

Little Jockey Wrap
Needles: Size 3 and 6
Yarn: Sublime Baby Cashmere Merino (3 sk of MC and 2 sk of CC)
Size: 1-2 years 

And some cards...

A gift set:

Materials:
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Lilac Posies; TH Distress Inks - Tea Dye, Amuse Studio - Cranberry and Evergreen, Hero Arts Shadow Ink - Stonewash midtone; WPlus9: Fresh Picked
Cutting/Embossing: WPlus9 - Folk Arts Floral Dies, Fresh Picked Dies

And, a random Halloween card -- not sure what put me in the mood to make one of these!!

Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, Neenah - Solar White
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Faded Jeans, Paper Smooches - Falling for You, DeNami - Happy Halloween
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Ovals, Corner rounder
Misc.: Prismacolor pencils, gamsol, twine from the Twinery, googley eyes

CAS-ual Fridays

Here's this week's challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays...

CFC65: Create a Clean And Simple Square shaped card

Here's my square-shaped card:

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Amuse Studio - Evergreen, TH Distress Ink - Antique Linen, Hero Arts Shadow Ink - Stone wash mid-tone, WPlus9 - Fresh Picked
Cutting/Embossing: WPlus9 - Fresh Picked Dies

CPS

This week's sketch over at CPS...

Here's my card:

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White, misc. Bazzill cardstock, Nook&Pantry - Strawberry Shortcake
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, TH Distress Ink - Tea Dye, Amuse Studio - Evergreen and Cranberry, WPlus9 - Fresh Picked
Cutting/Embossing: WPlus9 - Fresh Picked companion die
Misc.: Dimensional adhesive, burlap strand

CAS-ual Friday's

Here's this week's challenge over at CAS-ual Friday's....

CFC64: Clean And Simple projects featuring things you'd see in the sky

Here's my card: 

Materials:
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Paris Dusk, Love Letter, Lawn Fawn - Many Thanks and Claire's abcs, DeNami - E137 Small Cloud and E146 Parachute Chickie
Misc.: Copic markers, prismacolor pencils and gamsol, dimensional adhesive, stardust stickles

Lawnscaping One-Layer Challenge

Lawnscaping's Challenge #39---- 

HOW TO PLAY:

**In order to be eligible to win, these rules MUST be followed.

To play along and be qualified for the prize, you must do the following:

• Be a follower of Lawnscaping
• Create a NEW PROJECT based on the challenge, link our challenge AND inspiration photo to your post and add your direct link to your post or online gallery to the Inlinkz.
• TURN OFF WORD VERIFICATION 
• You many combine a total of 3 challenges with your entry as long as the other challenges are not the same theme as ours.  You may enter the challenge a maximum of 3 times!
• You have until Wednesday, August 15th to submit your entries!

Here's mine:

Materials: 
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Lawn Fawn - Critters in the Burbs and Plus One
 Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Rectangles
Misc.: Xmas red stickles, prismacolor pencils

Hero Arts August Scramble

I had so much fun last time, I decided to participate again in Hero Art's 90 minute scramble.

This was the challenge - hosted by Emily Leiphart:

Today’s challenge involves creative sentiments and you have a few options!
(1) mix and match two or more different sentiments to create a new one
(2) use part of an existing sentiment
(3) use an alphabet set to create your own sentiment

And, here's how the scramble works:
You have 90 minutes to make a card and upload it to your photostream. Tag it with 'quickcard45'
Please use at least one Hero Arts Stamp
Please add the picture of your card to the flickr thread - here's how: copy the URL of the card in your Flickr photostream and paste it between the square brackets [URL of your card here].
Add it to the Hero Arts group so everyone can see it.


Here's my card... created, photographed, and posted within 90 minutes to the Hero Arts flickr group.

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Hero Arts Shadow Midtone - Pool, Hero Arts - CL382, CL443,  Cling Large Lotus Background;  Lawn Fawn - quinn's ABCs
Misc.: Glossy Accents, dimensional adhesive, pearl embellishments, copic markers