I'm hosting HSC34

I'm the host this week for the Hanna Stamps Challenge, on the Members forum on SCS. This week's challenge is my first sketch challenge. I actually figured out how to design a sketch in Photoshop Elements and it wasn't that hard.

Here is my sketch:


And here is the card I made with the sketch:


Be sure to check out the HSC34 gallery to see whatever one else has done.

I know its been awhile since I posted on my blog but work has been really busy and I haven't had the energy to stamp. It's really hard sometimes to use the left brain all day and then come home and get the right brain flowing. I'm an engineer for an oil and gas company not sure if everyone knows that so I spent my day with numbers and meetings. I'm on another course next week for some software training then Ian and I are going to Cleveland from the 21st to the 28th (our 1st anniversary is on the 29th!) as he has a training course and I'm tagging along then I come back and spent the 29th and 30th at an offsite meeting for work .... and it's October then. WOW! Because of all this I suspect I am going to be a little absent this month. I think I'm really going to miss stamping this month.

Supplies
Stamps: Ballerina Sophie, Sentiments all by Hanna Stamps
Ink: Memento black, Copic Markers
Paper: Europhia, lavendar lace, regal rose, certainly celery, PTI white
Accessories: Prima, Scrapbook sally brad, SU soft sky ribbon, designer label punch

Introducing Ballet Sophie G!

I am so excited to finally be able to put this card up on my blog as I made it a month ago in preparation for the day that this cute little moose would be released! Hanna Stamps along with ecletic Paperie will be releasing this stamp with our release on Friday, September 5th. The proceed will be going to cancer foundation in honor of a friend of Daisy and Joy who's little girl has cancer. More details to follow later this week on the members forum at SCS.

Other news from Hanna Stamps!

Hanna Stamps will be celebrating it’s 1st “Hanna-versary” on 5th October. To celebrate this exciting event Hanna Stamps will be having a 1 month long contest.

For every $50 you spend, throughout the month (1st September to midnight 1st October) your name will go into a drawing, the lucky winner will have their choice of the Copic Air Compressor, or the $200 shopping spree in the Hanna Stamps store.

During our release party on Thursday night Oct 2nd, we will video tape Hanna picking the winning name out of a jar.
We are going to have weekly give aways during the entire month of Sept. So stay tuned here or on the Design teams blogs for these great prize give aways!

Don't forget to join us this Thursday 4th September in the Hanna Stamps Members Forum for our release party starting at 9pm EST.

Supplies
Stamps: Hanna Stamps
Paper: all PTI
Ink: Memento, Copics
Accessories: PTI ribbon

She's having a baby .....

Sophie G is having a baby - NOT ME! However, my good friend Carmen is 13 weeks pregnant so I made this card for her using the sketch challenge from a few weeks back, SC186. This Sophie G stamp was released on June 20 with the other Riley moose stamps from Hanna Stamps. I am off to meet Carmen this afternoon for afternoon matinee, we are seeing The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2.

I spent yesterday afternoon stamping with my friend, Nancy at her house. We each only got one card done but we got a lot of chatting in. I am going back to her place on Thursday evening for the monthly Calgals meet up however, I better get my challenge card done as it was my challenge and I'm not done yet. I won't hear the end of it if I don't have my card with me!

Supplies
Stamps: Hanna Stamps
Paper: Bella Rosa - Stampin' Up, Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss, Pink Piroutte, PTI white
Ink: Memento Black, Copic markers
Accessories: Kaiser pink flower, Imaginasce pink brad, SU old olive twill

Hanna and Sophie!

Here is my first sneak peek into one of the newest sets to be release from Hanna Stamps on Friday. Passport Hanna is on her eay to Paris.

Make sure to check out all the cards by the design team in the SCS gallery: HSDT.



This little card was made with my nestabilities to get the scallop square. Sophie G is a wild thing. I really do love all these new Moose stamps that Kristi has put out with her illustrator. I'm excited to see what we will get for Christmas - image Merry Chris-moose! This card was made for the Friday challenge on the Hanna Stamps forum, HSC10 - where Shelly challenged us to use BLING!

Supplies (Passport Hanna)
Stamps: Passport Hanna (release 4/4) - Hanna Stamps, Words - Impression Obession, French Flair Background - SU
Paper: perfect plum, certainly celery, pale plum, staples 110#
Patterned paper: SU (retired, forget the name!) but was from Spring 2007 mini
Ink: copic markers, brilliance graphite, perfect plum, elegant eggplant
Accessories: Bazzill Blossom and Cha-cha bling brad color called Petty Cash, Mowed Grass dew drops, Mike's dollar bin ribbon

Supplies (Sophie G)
Stamps: Bikini Sophie - Hanna Stamps
Paper: Bazzill Bling, (colors: diva, feather boa, in the pink), staples 110#
Ink: copic markers, brilliance graphite
Accessories: Cosmo cricket sticker, Amanda blue flowers, Creative Imaginations pink rhinestone brads