AND THE WINNER IS...

For THE WORLD CARD MAKING DAY BLOG HOP

 SPONSORED BY DIGISTAMPS4JOY!  

The Winner of Sonia in Wintertime is

 CHARLENE MITCHELL!

Digistamps4Joy Blog Hop

Welcome to our WORLD CARDMAKING DAY Blog Hop!

This hop truly is a travel around the world kind of card making day hop! You have arrived at Angela’s blog, in Oklahoma, USA! But look around because the designers of this team are located all around the world!

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma- United States

Digistamps4Joy is running a Blog Hop from 4 – 9 October 2012 to celebrate World Card Making Day on the 6th October. Each and every stop in our hop is offering a randomly drawn prize of one digistamp from Digistamps4Joy, and with 12 blogs in this hop you “could” win 12 different images! So come on in, meet our fabulous Design Team, and have some fun!

If you landed on my page first, I am Angela then just carry on down the list, and from the top again till you are back at my blog OR start at the top at the Digistamps4Joy blog, and work your way through to the final stop (Ursula’s blog). The hop order is indicated on each blog, so you will not ‘get lost’!



Digistamps4joy (starting blog)
JEN
AMANDA
ANGELA (You are here!)
BERNI (YOUR NEXT STOP)
CHARLENE
DESIRE
ELENOR
MARGY
KAREN
KARIN
URSULA (last blog)

Here is the card I am showcasing for the DS4J Blog Hop.

Digi Image "Sonia In Wintertime" by Digistamps4Joy

The image Sonia In Wintertime from Digistamps For Joy was colored with Copic Markers.
Hair: E35, YR21, & YR20
Reds: R22, R24, & R27
Headband and Boots: C5, C7, & C9
Skin Color: E000, E00, E11
Cheeks: R20
I used flower soft for the hand mitten, and for the bottom of the coat. The snowflakes were punched with a Martha Stewart Punch, the winter trees were punched using a border punch by EK Success, tossed in some doilies and a few resin Christmas items!


And here is the DS4J image that you could win on my blog

RULES FOR ENTERING THE RANDOM DRAW
Please read carefully - we do not want you to miss out!

1). Be/become a follower of THIS blog 

2.) Leave a Comment below.

So that IS easy isn’t it!!

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Your next stop will be the California Girl with the greatest smile, the talented delightful designer, BERNI.

The Hop will end at 6 am (Central African Time) on Tuesday 9th October. 1 AM Central US Time.
The full list of winners will be announced on Thursday 11h October on the Digistamps4Joy blog. 
Each blog will also indicate its own winner on 11th October.

Sunday is a Funday!

Digi is "Peekaboo Baby"

It is New Release Sunday at Digistamps4Joy! Another adorable image drawn by our very own talented artist Jen Leeflang!

Isn't he adorable! I paper pieced the blanket and colored his face hair and skin with Copic markers. I used flower soft to give the edge of blankie a fuzzy feel.

Challenges Entered:

1. The Ribbon Girl Blog- Boy

Sketch Challenge at Stamping Dragon Designs

Today begins my first challenge as a designer for Stamping Dragon Designs! I am so excited to play with these outstanding digis! For this weeks challenge it is a sketch and I decided to paper piece my digi choice "Ellie" and stick on a jiggly eye with lashes to give her that extra feminine touch.

I know a couple of little girls that adore elephants and the these colors together. I had them in mind when I was creating my card.

I hope my card has inspired you to go take the challenge at Stamping Dragon Designs! There are many more wonderful cards created by this very talented design team! Come play along and enter for your chance to win some amazing prizes!

Digistamps4Joy TGI Fridays!

Thank Goodness It's Friday at Digistamps4Joy!
Sneak peak at the Friday Freebie only available at DigistampsForJoy  for two days!


Much Hugs & Craftiness!

You've Been Tagged!

Digi by Digistamps4joy "Corset And Frills"

Digistamps For Joy is challenging you to make a tag or use a tag with a Digistamps4Joy image in your project for Challenge #52.  For my tag I used the image Corset and Frills by the very talented artist and designer, Jen Leeflang.

We sure hope to see your project or creation in the challenge at Digistamps4Joy Blog Challenges.

Challenges Entered:

1. Crafting For All Seasons: Costumes/Dress Up
2. Diva's By Design: Texture 
3. Scrapalicious: Tag
4. 
   

Stamping Dragon Designs

Stamping Dragon Designs Newest Designer! My entry to become a designer for Stamping Dragon Designs was approved! I was informed today that I was accepted to be on their team! I am so excited! I just adore these images and I know these are going to be such fun to create with! I am looking forward to creating and sharing with you more cards plus challenges using these wonderful images! 

Thank you so much Janette for this opportunity!

Here Lil' Piggy!

Oh my goodness I just love this little fella I was given from the Crafters Digital Art Center's Progressive Challenge! I loved Charlotte's Web as a kid and this little piglet reminded me of the story in which I adored as a child. As soon as I seen it I thought he's perched for some reason  and instead of Charlotte the spider, he's perched for a butterfly that has landed on a Quilled flower. He also was the perfect rounded shape and space I needed to practice for my Copic Class 1,the light source with my Copic Markers. :) 

Challenges Entered:

 

New Release Sunday!

Digi "Herbette" by DigistampsForJoy

 Yay! It's Sunday! That means its time for a New Release at Digistamps For Joy! This week I chose to show you Herbette, by the very talented Jen Leeflang, isn't she precious! I really enjoyed coloring her and couldn't stop! You should check out the rest of the Design Teams picks of the week for this Sundays New Releases!!

Challenges Entered:

1. Challenges For Everybody: Anything Goes Ends Oct 12th
2. Creative Inspirations Paints: Anything Goes Ends Oct 6th
3. Joanna Sheen Challenge: Down in The Garden 
4. Platypus Creek Digitals: Pearls & Lace 
5. Sunday Stamps: Color Challenge 
6. The Crafty Pad Designs: Floral 
7. A Gem Of A Challenge: For The Girls 
8. Hiding In My Craftroom: Freestyle
9. ATC's Cards With Attitude: Anything Goes 
10. Crafty Catz Weekly Challenges: Ribbon & Lace 
11. Stampin' For The Weekend: Feeling Floral 
12. Paper Play: Flowers & Lace
 

 

Challenges Entered:

1. Dream Valley Challenges: Go Pink
2. One Stitch At A Time: Butterflies or Buttons Ends Oct 6
3. Card Caravan: 7 Things (4 Pearls, 1 Ribbon, 1 Butterfly, 1 border punch) 
4. 2 Sisters Challenge Blog: Use Your Favorite Stamps 
5. Crafts For Eternity: Child Theme 
6. Totally Paper Crafts: Pretty Pastels 
7. Forever Friends: Anything Goes

Best Friends Valentines

Digi By Sandi Huggett

CFC Challenge at the Outlawz Offers free images for joining... this is one of Sandi's Images! I colored this image with my Copic Markers and created a nice Valentines for a dear friend.

All The Leaves Are Brown at Digistamps4Joy

Digi at Digistamps For Joy

 Digistamps For Joy has another fun image and challenge for you! This week the theme is All The Leaves Are Brown! If you want to win some of these wonderful images from these talented artists at Digistamps4Joy then you must come play in the challenge! We are on Challenge #51, we hope to see you there!

Winner Winner Frog Hoppin Dinner!!

Hello there my crafty blog hopping friends! Thank you so much for visiting my blog and participating in Sean & Regina's September blog hop.  I hope you enjoyed seeing all of the Spooktacular creations from the blog hosts and were inspired to make some spookilicious Halloween cards.

Okay it's that time for what you all been waiting for....

 (Regina? Drum Roll Please...) (What? You don't play drums?) 

Well okay then the winner is...

Donna

Congratulations !!!

You are the WINNER of $25 Gift Certificate to OOZAK!!

Thanks again everyone for your support and the next blog hop will be next month, October 19th.
Please plan on joining us.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

It's Blue Bird Of Happiness Day!

Digi Image of birds By Di's Digi Downloads

Another Unique Holiday to celebrate today! For my latest challenge theme at The Outlawz I have challenged you to celebrate BLUE Bird OF Happiness Day!  Don't have a blue bird just have the word Happy in your greeting that's it!

Challenges Entered:

1. Shopping Our Stash Challenge 70: Fur or Feathers (animals or bird

   2. Whoopsie Daisy Challenge: Things With Wings  

   3.Take A Word: Blue

 

Digistamps4Joy New Release Sunday!!

Sailor Suit DigistampsForJoy

OH MY GOODNESS! 

DO you know what day it is??? I do! If you don't, now you will! Today is New Release Sunday for Digistamps for Joy!! Isn't this digi image just the sweetest little sailor outfit you ever seen! I must say I think it is! If you want to have this image to you need to go to the Digistamps4Joy online store and get yours, don't stop there because they offer so many more images you will love! Happy Shopping!

Challenges Entered:
Challenges For Everybody
The Paper Girls Challenge: Baby
Tammy's Scrappin Corner: Design A Kiddie Card

S & R's SEPTEMBER BLOG HOP

WELCOME TO THE SEPTEMBER BLOG HOP!

“Haunted Hop”

Hi everyone!
 Thanks for playing along in our September blog hop!

 The Blog Hop with Sean and Regina is featuring cards and sentiments celebrating HALLOWEEN this month! Halloween was always such a fun, spooky holiday growing up! I remember the excitement building up to pick out our costumes  and then the fun school Halloween parties to the furious finale….trick or treating! Then the late night sugar rush from eating the loads of candy you struggled to carry home. Good times! There are more great times to be had this Halloween, how is that you ask? Keep Reading!

 Join us on our haunting hop! Each host/hostess will have a card creation posted that is his/her representation of what HALLOWEEN means to them. 

OUR BLOG HOP SPONSOR! 

Scrapbook Stamp Society is our blog hop sponsor! The overall winner will receive digi’s from our sponsor. Please visit them at http://scrapbookstampsociety.com/index.php?! Also some of our blog hop host/hostess designers will be offering blog candy as prizes on their blog sites, so please do not forget to visit his/her blog (and leave a comment) to be eligible for bonus blog hop prizes! 

CARDS SAMPLES FOR OUR BLOG HOPPERS! 

Happy Halloween Card 1
For this card I used a Stampin Up Bat punch, Martha Stewart Punch for the blood, Sentiment Anita Be Stampin, Cuttlebug Haunted House Embossing Folder, and a rubber wood mounted Mummy stamp

Happy Halloween Card2
For this card I crop lifted off the internet I used a tan card, attached strips of white torn paper till it looked like a mummy and added googley eyes! I thought it was a great simple way to make a Halloween card that I just had to share!

My favorite part of Halloween was the candy. I remember wearing a boys costume one year by the time my mother took us shopping for costumes all that were left were the unwanted costumes. I was He-Man that year. Most houses had no clue I was a girl till I turned around and they seen my long blonde locks of hair. I am sure being a "girly" girl, I wasn't to happy at the time but you do what you have to in order to get lots of goodies! 

Spooky Halloween Treats

Minty Spider Treat Supply List

Special Thanks to Stampgoddess for sharing her YouTube tutorial on the treat box.

LET'S GET HOPPING.....

Now it is your turn to blog hop with all of our friends! 

The rules are simple: 

1. Leave a comment on my Sean's blog first (and become a follower to enter a chance to win the grand prize from Scrapbook Stamp Society)! In addition, I am giving away some BONUS BLOG CANDY! 

2. Go down the list of blogs visiting all of them (see below). Leave comments on their blog pages to be eligible for bonus blog candy from select blog hosts. The blog hop hosts offering bonus blog candy will indicate that he/she has a bonus blog candy prize so read their blog post carefully. Each blog will have the name and blog address for the next host/hostess in line for the blog hop. Our number 2 on the list is Regina at http://cardsbyregina.blogspot.com (The next blog will be Zenita’s and so on). 

3. At the end of the hop, a random winner will be chosen for the Blog Hop Grand Prize from our sponsor and select blog hop hosts for Bonus Blog Candy. The deadline for leaving comments is Monday, September 24, 2012 at 8pm CST. Winners of the Grand Prize and bonus Blog Candy will be announced Tuesday, September 25, 2012. 

The Blog Hop hosts/hostesses are as follows: 

Sean Fetterman     

Regina Hardy        

Zenita Smith         

Lori McAree           

 Angela Bonnano   -- You are Here! 

Patti Gilliam           

Michele Smith        

Jennifer Restivo     

Nancy Leppek        

Nancy Mullins       

Madeleen Field     

Roxie Nitti  
   Linda Brace Drozd
         

I HAVE TREATS! Muhahahaha!

******** BONUS BLOG CANDY HERE ******** 

Please follow my blog if you have not done so already and leave a comment to be eligible to win $25 in surprise blog candy here! 

Thank you for visiting my blog. Now, go to Patti's blog!

The Outlawz Come Back!!

Okay so I fell a few nuts short from the tree.. or whatever that old saying is...lol!  Those that know me already knew that! I have returned to my team at The Outlawz Greetings Challenges! I know you all missed me the few days I was away! ;)

I have plenty of time for work at my hubby's business, and can still share my craftiness all around! Thank you all for the wonderful farewell and even more so thanks for allowing me to return so soon while my chair was still warm and spinning...lol!

I look forward to seeing you all in the Greetings challenges!

What's On My Desk?

What's On My Desk? Well as I type this I hear little kids chanting "What's On My Desk?!!"  It's like my own theme in my head of course to my post to boost up my energy and write it with enthusiasm. :D

Yesterday, after having lunch with my hubby at our favorite Mexican joint in town, we headed over to one of my NEW favorite stores of all time... lol.. Bed Bath and Beyond!! I know I don't get out much! But I will tell you the very few times I make it to this store I see SOOOO much I want to buy! My husband was with me and he's worse than I am.. somehow he ended up with a Soda Making Machine! Just when we are trying not to drink soda and have as much soda pop in the house...lol! Oh well it makes him happy. He said he always wanted one... lol! The Root Beer's not bad. It's likes Shasta Root Beer in my opinion, he swears it's just like A&W so I won't burst his bubble. :)

So any hoot! Guess what is just right across the parking lot from Bed Bath and Beyond? Paper Arts! My local scrappers supply store! Oh yes! I wish I stopped there first! I felt so bad for as much we spent at the last store that I was just getting what I needed sticky tape stuff. I ordered some from BenFranklin stores online on Sept 8th, still have not received it, I couldn't do any paper crafting! So I stopped in Paper Arts and on my desk you will see on top of my tiny green shopping bag, my new sticky tape! I have never tried it but the owner of the store gave me an entire tutorial right then and there on all the sticky stuff I  bought. I felt odd with hubby right behind me but I didn't want to be rude, she was eager to teach me and I am eager to learn! Luckily his phone rang so he stepped outside. As I was checking out I seen it something I have been wanting to try and still haven't! Liquid pearls! AAAAAAaaah! I am so happy! Already used it on my newest project that I am working on. It's on my desk, on top of my paper cutter.

On my desk you will also find another rather large package going out, Flat Stanley waiting to go site seeing, peeking out behind my hand crafted clay name plate that Deanna, a dear friend, she made for me back in high school days. Peeking behind it is my newest Crafter's Digital Art Center Digi of a piglet for the Progressive Challenge! It is getting messier by the minute! Wait till my next posting! Lot's of projects going on in the future! Lots of messes to make! Weeeeeee!

Flat Stanley Arrives in Edmond!

It's a Bird.. It's A plane! No it's FLAT STANLEY! He came all the way from Indiana, courtesy of Zade! We are going to take him around town and show him some sites! Stay Tuned for Flat Stanley's Adventures!

What's On My Desk?

Tonight I wanted to try something new on my blog to fill in some of that dreaded blog space  you know the space between blog posts! Well who is willing to show off their desks after crafty time fun? I cleaned mine up tonight so I guess I cheated by posting my finished cleaned up version, but who wouldn't want to start their first messy desk post with a nice clean desk. You'll see as I make future posts of "What's On My Desk?" what kind of mess I get into during crafty time fun! I thought it might be fun to share so let's see what happens! :D

On my desk tonight, I have my donated cards to send to Trina my newest Martha Stewart Living Magazine, my newest card in purple that I made to apply for a designer position ando On my corkboard you may see a card you made if your a friend or blog follower of mine that has sent me a card! I decided to post them on my cork board as inspiration. I have more to pin so maybe in the next photo you will see a card you made for me. ;)

I had a hard time being able to get a picture taken of  What's on my desk tonight I had a visitor that wanted to be the center of attention... 

 

The Outlawz DT Farewell

I have been a designer for the Outlawz for a year and a half. I really loved being the Greetings Challenges team leader and loved the feedback from all the participants of the challenges.

This week I got a feather up my you know whatsa and decided to step down from the Greetings Challenge that I helped build to what so many crafters love today.  I'm not sure what I am going to do with my spare time now, I guess I should start on that much dreaded word called "work."  The bookwork for hubby's business has been building up to say the least... giggles! I would say that with all that has went on in my life the past few months its a few months behind. The accountant would sure appreciate my getting caught up on the stuff. Eeek! 

I must say though that stepping down from my team was the hardest thing next to coming home to fire damage that I have done all year. It seriously broke my heart yesterday telling my husband that the one crafty thing he knows I love I stepped down from. I broke into tears but my emotions this month got the best of me on my decision to step down. I want to thank all of you ladies at The Outlawz for your sweet remarks, you really made my day today reading all the sweet comments.

Sometimes you feel alone behind that computer screen and all along I let it slip me that all of you my friends, crafty colleagues, and followers have been there for me. Sometimes it takes a whirlwind of emotions to find out that you weren't alone after all. Thank you all again for these wonderful words....

Cindy Potentier

Ohhhh Angela, will miss you hun, hugs :(

Jo Ham, DT

Angela, so sorry to see you go. You will be missed. I wish you all the best. Please stop by every so often

Teresa Arsenault, DT

 I hope we will still see your face around here, Angela, because we will miss it bunches. :(

Sandra Dow DT

Angela, may the sun always be upon your face and the wind at your back, take care.

:)S

Theresa Lee, DT

 So sad to see you leave us Angela, but I wish showers of blessings for you and your family!

Cheri Weston, DT

Best of luck to you, Angela.  I'll miss seeing your smiling face here among the DT here.

Sandi Huggett, DT

Angela you will be missed, but good luck in all your crafting endeavors.

pat.crank

Angela, sorry to hear that you are leaving, but good luck and hope to see you around!

Sandra van Blaricum,DT

We will miss you Angela!! good luck on everything!!

 Laurian Macdonald, DT

Angela so sorry to see you leave, good luck and my very best wishes! I hope you will pop in and see us sometimes.

Roxann Suits, DT

Awww, Angela, I will miss your smiling face!  Good luck in whatever you endeavor.

 

Jen Leeflang   

We'll miss you here Angela - but I am sure we'll be seeing a lot of you still!

 

Sheree Taylor DT 

We are really going to misssss ya Angela!  If you step down... I sure hope you hang around!!

 

Brenda Turner, DT 

I am sad to see you go Angela :-(  I wish you all the best and hope that you will still come by and play with us.

 

Emily Thubbron 

Angela, we will definitely miss you.  You have done a wonderful job.  Thank you for all the time and effort you put into the challenges.  May God bless you.

Dawn C, DT 

Sorry to see you go Angela :(
Anne Fenton DT
Sorry to see you go Angela...hope to see yu around blogland.
  Sharri Seffens, DT
Angela - Sorry to see you go. I hope you pop in to say hi and let us know how you are doing!

CDAC Progressive Challenge #2

Digi Image by Priscillastyles

Here's the newest image for the Progressive challenges at CDAC! I am loving these wonderful images to play with! I had fun practicing with my Copic Markers on this Halloween Easel Card!