Thanks A Bunch

Hi Everyone!!!  I am here today on this wonderful Friday with a little Inspiration.  I thought I would share a card I made with you today.

 I used a stamp from the Popcorn Bear Collection called "Thanks A Bunch" stamp set. Check out the great selection of Popcorn the Bear stamps, you will want them all.

Here is my finished card:

I stamped my image onto Premium white CS and colored it in using my wonderful Spectrum Noir markers. I used TN4, TN3, TN2, TN1, DG3, DG2, DG1, PP3, BP1, BP2, OR1, CT3, CT1, GB1 to color my image.  I made a criss cross card today.  I took a 12x12 piece of white card stock and cut it in half so I have 2 6x12 pieces.  I then scored each in half to create 2 6x6 cards.  I took and cut each one on a diagonal to create the criss cross.  I attached both together to create the card.  I added some DP and a die cut for my finished image.  For my insert, I cut a piece of pink CS to 5 1/2x 5 1/2 and then added a piece of white CS cut to 5 x 5 and stamped my sentiment on the top of the white CS.  I added a piece of folded pink CS for my tab between the pink layer and my white layer.  Insert into your finished card.  This is such a simple, but great card to make.  Give it a try......

 
Keep checking  Crafter's Companion  for the new releases that are happening all the time.

See you all next Friday with another creation, until then, Happy Stamping!!!!!

The Crafter's Companion Birthday Blog Hop

Welcome to The Crafter’s Companion Birthday Blog Hop

I'm so happy you could join us and hop along today. We are celebrating Crafter's Companion's birthday with this fun hop. The blog hop starts today August 6th and ends at midnight pst on August 10th. 

There is going to be an awesome prize that you will definitely want to try to win so let's get started.

First you need to be a follower of my blog and of the Crafter's Companion informational blog. You must be a US Resident, leave a comment on this post AND find the "secret" letter on each design team member's blog that spells out a "secret" phrase.

**My letter is "e".**

When you have all the letters for the phrase, you will then email the phrase to Bindy at bindy@crafterscompanion.com. When the hop is over Bindy will use Random Generator to pick the grand prize winner. And what is that grand prize you ask?!!

How about a $100 gift card to the Crafter's Companion online store!!! WOO HOO!!

 If you came here from Chrissie's blog then you are on the right track if not you might want to start at the beginning on Carolyn's blog.

To interest you along the way, I made a card using "Popcorn the Bear Party Time".  My image is colored using the Spectrum Noir markers. These are some really great markers at a really great price.  Check out the whole range of colors.....

 I added a banner that says "Party" across the top of my card. I also dug out my bright partying color cardstock.  Love this bright green.....

 And my finished card:

I have a giveaway on my personal blog too so be sure and follow me and leave a comment while you are here. I will draw a random winner for my personal blog giveaway and post the winner's name on August 11th. Here is what someone will win just for visiting me today...the Popcorn the Bear - Party Time stamp set!!

Here is a list of the DT you will need to visit on this hop:

Carolyn LaBille http://mspetuniascrafts.blogspot.com/

Cheryl Caldwell-Nyboer http://www.capturingamomentintime.com/

Chrissie Tobas http://harvestmoonpapiere.blogspot.com/ 

Dawn Bennett http://dipndotscreations.blogspot.com/(you are here)

Dawn Lotharius http://www.dawnscraft.com/ 

Denise Coulter http://lalasworldblog.blogspot.com/

Janette Garcia http://lajanette.blogspot.com/

Kathy Krech http://kathysdouble-k-krafts.blogspot.com/

Lisa Hunt http://kycrafter.blogspot.com/

Marge Dady http://www.cacklincrafter.blogspot.com/

Stacy H-W http://scrapwithstacy.blogspot.com 

Stephanie Lee http://blog.artycarty.com

Taylor Usry http://taylorusry.blogspot.com

Trena Brannon http://trenastampinhq.blogspot.com/

 

Now you need to head to see Dawn L. Good luck and have fun!!
Again the letter you need to collect from me is "e".......

Don't forget to collect all the letters and create the phrase in order to win the awesome prize mentioned above.

Thanks for stopping by.

Thinking of You....

Hello everyone!! I am here on this wonderful Friday with a very simple Card that uses "Popcorn Bear Thinking of You set". I hope you enjoy it.

 Popcorn the Bear is stamped onto Ultra Smooth cardstock and colored using Spectrum Noir markers.  I matted my Popcorn the Bear with a very light yellow cardstock and mounted him onto Kraft cardstock.  I added little Souffle the duck up in the upper left corner over top of my sentiment.   I also added a corner embellishment in the lower left corner.  A very simple card. 

See you all next Friday!!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Dawn B

Inspiration Monday - Mother's Day

Hello everyone, this is my first time sharing for Monday Inspiration on the Crafter's Companion Challenge Blog! I'm so excited to be part of this creative group of stamp artists!

This month's theme is Mother's Day, I went back and forth about what stamp to use, there are so many gorgeous stamps that Crafter's Companion has that will work great with this theme.  In the end I decided to go for the Popcorn Bear, this is one of my favorite stamp lines. This cute Popcorn Bear is from the "Floral Delight" Popcorn Bear stamp set in the Platinum collection.

My bear is colored with Spectrum Noir alcohol ink markers.  I added one of the sentiments from the stamp set.  My frame around my colored image is a die and the gorgeous double frame around the first frame is also from a die that I cut apart and placed piece by piece to achieve the double layered look.  I added a leaf flourish and a few handmade flowers in the lower left corner.   As a finishing touch I added a few pearls around my frame that I threaded white ribbon through.

I hope I gave you all some great inspiration to dig out those Crafter's Companion stamps and enter our great April Mothers Day Challenge. 


Do you want to know what stamp set we are giving away this week?!?  We are excited to get to give away one of the new Sheena Douglass -A Little Bit Different stamp sets - the Oh Duck set.  I just love these whimsical stamps and I know you will too. 

To enter to try to win this stamp set you need to be a follower of this blog and leave a comment on this post. (US Residents only)  You have until Thursday April 5th 8pm PST to enter.  Winner will be announced on Friday, April 6th.

Challenges Entered:
Paper Pretties - Use lots of layers 3 or more

Thanks for stopping by and looking!!


Dawn B

Bunches of Love

Hello Everyone!!!  Hope you all are having a great week so far. With the release of so many of the new stamps collections, the older stamps are not getting used as much.  This week we are taking a break from the sneak peeks, so I decided to dig out my Popcorn Bear stamps. Today I am using one of the Popcorn Bear stamps from the Floral Collection called "Bunches of Love". I really like these Popcorn Bear stamps, they are just so darn cute and cuddly.

 
My card today is done in purple, this is my youngest daughter's favorite color.  My bear is colored with alcohol ink markers and I used a die to cut out my colored image.  My card base is 6x6 and I used my Ultimate tool to score my card.  This tool is really great and can be used for so many different things, take a peek and see for yourself.  I added some lace and ribbon and a few pearls.

Don't forget to go to the Crafter's Companion website to see all the awesome new stamps that they have, and while there, don't forget to check out the cute and cuddly Popcorn Bear stamps as well.

Don't forget to check out our Challenge Blog for the new January "Anything Goes Challenge" this month.  You will be inspired by all the awesome creations the DT has done, so dig out your Crafter's Companion stamps and supplies and let's see what you can come up with.  You will have a chance to win an awesome stamp set from Crafter's Companion.....


Thanks for stopping by !!!!

Dawn B

Crafter's Companion January Challenge

Happy New Year Everyone !!!!!

This is my first post for the Crafter's Companion USA Challenge Blog and I'm pretty excited about it.

This month's challenge is to use a Crafter's Companion Stamp and our theme is "anything goes". We want you to just go wild. Make whatever you want!! You can make a card, layout or altered item.

This months prize is the same as last month cause unfortunately there weren't enough entries.  The prize is  The Humphrey the Elephant Christmas Collection CD and three stamp set of your choice from the the Humphrey the Elephant Christmas collection!!! This new CD collection contains 2 CDs with over 2,500 elements!

 

Here is my creation for the January Challenge of Anything Goes:

I used the Crafter's Companion Popcorn Bear stamp set called "Someone Special".  This is an image that I have had colored for a while and never turned it into a card as I wanted to hold onto it.  It turned out soooo well.  When I heard about the DT call that Crafter's Companion was having, I talked myself into turning it into a card.  I was shocked when they contacted me about being on their wonderful DT.  This Popcorn bear was colored using 8 different browns and somehow I kept all the strokes to make it look like real fur.  My grass needs some work, but overall I really like how it turned out.

So get out those Crafter's Companion stamps and start creating for this challenge and you could win an awesome prize.

Make sure you go to the Crafter's Companion USA Challenge Blog to get all the details of how to enter, etc....

Thanks For Stopping By,

Dawn B