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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Create A Smile Blog Hop

Hello Everyone! I am so excited to be here to share a new stamp company, with a new stamp release, with you today!

Create A Smile is a new stamp company in town - their first stamps were released in July 2014. The stamps are made of high quality photo-polymer and produced in Germany. They will for sure make you smile!

These are the facts:

Create A Smile is releasing three sets TOMORROW! You can find their store at www.createasmilestamps.com, the stamps will be available for purchase at 8am CET (2am EST).

You should have arrived here from the very talented, super sweet Linda Trace's Blog

Here are the two sets being released:

Whimsical Wheels

Penguin Party

Here is the card I created for the hop using Whimsical Wheels:

I used digital images that Christine Drogt, the owner and designer of Create a Smile, sent to me. They may be off a little in size as I did use a digital image. I tried my best to get them to be true to size. I love this little train set. I added a third car to it. I wanted one to hold the sentiment and another to hold the hearts. I drew in the train tracks with a black fine point pen and highlighted it with a silver colored pencil.

I went for clean and simple on this design because this train is just too cute to not be the entire focus of the card. Christine does an AMAZING job at designing these stamps. There are so many uses and sentiments to go with it. It's not just for little boys. ;)

I masked off the car before stamping some hearts into it (the hearts aren't in the set sorry), I added some waterfall stickles to those adorable puffs of smoke. I also resized those in photoshop. Isn't this set just adorable? Wouldn't you LOVE to WIN a set?

You can win a 12,50€ gift-certificate for the Create A Smile store - all you need to do is hop along and leave comments on all the fantastic and inspiring stops (one comment per person, per blog please!). We’ll pick random winner from all the comments - so the more blogs you visit (and leave a comment on) - the more chances you have to be a winner!

You have until Saturday September 12th, 8am CET (that's 2am EST). The winner will be announced on the Create A Smile Blog on Sunday (September 13th)

Enjoy the hop!

Now hop on over to the very talented Samantha Mann. At any time during the hop that you get lost or find a broken link the list is below.

Create A Smile

Therese Calvird

Linda Trace

Michelle Liimatainen<<<<<YOU ARE HERE

Until next time....

Michelle

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Party Animal

Hi I am so excited to share today's card. The reason for this excitement? My friend Christine Drogt has started her own line of stamps. I am a huge fan of Christine's work. Not only is she talented...she is one of the sweetest people I know! Her images are adorable and you can get a couple of them in digital format right now to play with. Just head over to the Create A Smile blog and right click them to save the image and create away. While you are there make sure to click over to her Facebook page, click LIKE and then click GET NOTIFICATIONS. You won't want to miss all she has planned.

Now for today's card....I chose her little monster. I love him. He is just fun! I decided to import him into my Silhouette Studio and create a cut file with him. I cut him out of DCWV glitter paper.

I used silver, green and purple glitter paper & some googly eyes to bring him to life. Seen as this card is for a graduation party I decided to add some party flair to him. I took a paper straw, cut it down and cut strips of the silver, green and purple glitter paper. I filled the end of the straw with glossy accents and then I wrapped the strips around the end of a hole poker to give them curl and stuck them in the straw. I added 2 pieces of Washi tape to the bottom and some Hero Arts sentiments to finish it off. The stars are left over stars from the new Hero Arts die Star Die.