Big News!!!

Okay, if you follow my blog you know that I have been competing in a challenge to be a Guest Designer for a two month period for Hanna Stamps. Initally there was a challenge open to anyone who wanted to be a Guest Designer. This group was narrowed down to 15 incredibly talented participants. This group of 15 were sent an image that we had to use for our next three projects, two cards and one project that was not a card. The final project was posted last Saturday.

The Guest Designer list was posted today on the Hanna Stamps Guest Designer Round 2 Project 1 forum. I was not chosen to be a guest designer..... I was offered a full-time Design Team position. I could not believe my eyes when I got the email asking me if I would be interested in the full-time position. No Brainer!!!!!!!!! Of course. I am so excited to be a part of such a super talented Design Team. Lauri, Virgo5 on SCS, was also chosen as a new DT member as well. Lauri was a GD for Hanna Stamps last month and participated in the Round 2 projects as well.

I have made some new acquaintances and new friends through this wonderful means of auditioning for a Guest Designer position. A fun way for some of us to strut our stuff and get noticed....it seems to have worked for me!!!!!

Okay, Just wanted to share my super exciting news.

Before I forget, If you are the praying type my good friend Cathy Tidwell, DT member for GinaK Designs went to the hospital with shoulder pains early yesterday morning. Turns out that she had a heart attack, has a blocked artery, and pneumonia. Please say a special prayer for Cathy and her speedy recovery.

See you all tomorrow, I have been down at my daughter's and drove home 4 hours tonight in a rain storm. I am a little tired.

Night,
Cathy

Hanna Stamps Guest Designer Round 2 Project3

Okay, this is the final project for the Hanna Stamps Guest Designer Round 2 challenge. This has been sooooo much fun and I have met some wonderful gals I'll never forget. Enough about them :) onto my Relax with Sophie Moose Spa Products.

The Sophie Bubblebath image by Hanna Stamps was stamped onto T-shirt iron on transfers for the towels and basket band. The bottle labels were created using printable window film and the images were stamped on and colored with copic markers.

Here is a closeup of the top of the basket so you can see the bottle products:

Here is what is included in the basket.
1.upper left clear acetate pillowbox filled with potporri and tied with silver cord
2. left middle white bath scrunchie with Sophie Moose Spa scallopped circle label
3. lower left front Sophie Moose Spa body spray Sweet Pea
4. lower front Sweet Pea Sophie Moose Spa shower gel
5. Lower front right side of basket two hand towels with Bubblebath Sophie Iron On Decal was attached
6. On the towels is a little Bath Salt scoop
7. Clear Acetate pillow box filled with potporri is right under the handle on the right side of the basket
8. A bar of Sophie Moose Dove soap with a Bubblebath Sophie decal
9. Sweet Pea scented hand lotion bottle with Bubblebath Sophie on label
10. top of basket on the right side, white bottle of hand lotion with Bubblebath Sophie label
11. left top of basket is a bottle of Sophie's Moose Spa bath salts with Bubblebath Sophie label
12. there are 2 additional pillow boxes tied with silver cord one with round make-up pads and the other with cotton balls.

The panel on the front of the basket was created by ironing 3 of the iron on transfer images to a strip of white cotton to which I sewed a strip of ribbon top and bottom long enough to tie on the side with a bow. I added a bright pink button between each Bubblebath Sophie Image and my basket was complete.
Wouldn't you love to go to a Bubblebath Sophie Moose Spa Retreat in your own private spa. Yeah, your own bathtub.

Be sure to check out all the other final projects by this Wonderful group of ladies in the Hanna Stamps Forum on Splitcoast Stampers. I would love to hear your comments.

Thank you so much Kristi and Vicki for giving me this opportunity to have a ton of fun and show off a little!!! I wish everyone the best of luck, but you all know I want to be in the top 6 as much as you do :) Can't wait to go see what everyone else has created.

Have a great night and Saturday.

Cathy

Ahhh..Serenity! Hanna Stamps Guest Designer Challenge project #2

Ahhh...Serenity! Time for ME! was what I thought of when I created this card for the Hanna Stamps Guest Designer project #2 for Round2. {say that 3 times fast :) } Here is Bubblebath Sophie:

Much mental debate went into making this card but I am very happy with my final result. Sophie and the tub were colored with copic markers. Cut out circle with Spellbinders plain circle die and sponged with Tim Holtz distress inks worn lipstick and vintage photo before removing the die circle.
The scalloped dies were also cut with spellbinders scalloped circle dies as well as the dp circle in between the scalloped circles.
To match the circles to the flowers on the dp they were sponged with Tim Holtz vintage photo ink as were all the pink edges on the card.
The butterflies were punched with the Martha Stewart butterfly punch from cs that had already been embossed with a cuttlebug vintage folder. The corner punches are both on the same punch from EK and I love that when you layer them like this the solid color shows through like it was cut out. Use your imagination..... work with me here :) Tiny half pearls were added to the body of the embossed butterflies which were layered just off-set of the colored butterflies beneath them.
A beautiful piece of white dotted swiss ribbon tied with a double piece of ribbon in my ever faithful knot bow :) and two coordinating prima flowers with a gold rimmed half pearl finish the card. Two small half pearl give the bathtub bubbles some dimension and sparkle.
When the card elements were all complete I knew I wanted to add a sentiment but where? Nothing that I thought of seems quite right so in a moment of madness (only because I had the whole card assembled and glued) I decided to use my new Just Rite alphabet and add the Ahh...Serenity to the colored image. Could have been a real disaster but ya gotta do what ya gotta do right? I love being able to make my own phrases using the Just Rite stamps.

What do you think?

The other girls will have some wonderful projects on their blogs as well as Split Coast Stampers galleries. To go the Guest Designer link in the forum click here.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

I would love it if you left a comment either here or in the SCS gallery :)

Cathy

It's Friday...that means....Friday Hanna Stamps Challenge

I have really enjoyed being able to do the Friday challenges at Hanna Stamps challenges on Friday :) Here is my card for the Friday Challenge this week being hosted by Vicki whose son is celebrating become an official Teen ager, 13. It just so happens that it is my son, Charlie's birthday today as well, so a double Happy Birthday to you both:

Ice Cream Riley from Hanna Stamps was colored with copic markers and I added colored sprinkles on the ice cream cone with my Atyou spica glitter pens (I have red and green ) then I cut out the ovals and sponged them with Tim Holtz distress ink.

The dp is a free digital download from GinaK Designs StampTV and the original dp was pink so I changed the color in Picaso Photo editing to blue, I like the way it turned out and much more masculine! I layered the ice cream dp on white and then brown cs for the card base.

The sentiment at the top, Sweet, is mosiac tiles that I got at Michaels and are just a bit smaller than the wooden scrabble tiles that I love, so they worked on this card. The Happy Birthday to you is a Just Rite stamp.

3 coordinating buttons were added and my masculine teen birthday card is ready to send.

Be sure to check back tomorrow as I have my card project #2 for the Hanna Stamps Guest Designer Round 2 post.

Have a great day! See you tomorrow bright and early!!!

Cathy

Project 1 Hanna Stamps Guest Designer Round #2

I am so excited and nervous to be finally showing my card for the first official post of the Hanna Stamps Guest Designer Round#2 finals -Project 1. Without further chatter from me here is Bubblebath Sophie, a not yet released stamp, from Hanna Stamps:

I think a good name for this project is "Relaxing Reflections". The floor and wall were drawn in by hand and highlighted with copic markers. The "wallpaper" of duckies was created by just inking the duckie and water on the stamp, colored with copic markers and highlighted for sparkle with a Sukura stardust pen. Sophie and the bathtub were colored with copic markers and the bubbles were highlighted with the stardust pen and then covered with crystal effects.

The picture below shows the glitter on the bubbles and glass of bubbly. It is soo hard to photograph sparkles on a card.

The mirror is vellum that I stamped the Sophie image as a mirror image and colored it with copic markers as well. The frame is a Cameo frame and I drew the mirror base by hand.

The extra bubbles were created by using a hot glue gun and creating my dots on a cookie sheet. I tried waxed paper first but they stuck :). They really add a lot of dimension as you can see in the following picture where you can see the images are popped up on double mounting tape squares too.

The coordinating ribbon tags and buttons with matching thread highlight the main colors of the "spa" room. A Tim Holtz fragment tag, and my first project is complete.....Now...What to do for next week?

I would love if you left a comment and let me know what you thought of my card or if you wonder how in the world I made it to round 2 :)

You can check out my competition by going to the thread I linked at the top of the post. I can't wait to see what everyone else came up with.

Off to upload my project in the Splitcoast Gallery and Project 1 Forum .... breathe, breathe, breathe :)