Blogger's Challenge--Use Designer Papers

This week's challenge is to showcase the use of Designer Papers. A wonderfully nice lady gave me a whole bunch of these cardboard holders. They are designed to hold 4 x 9 brochures. I have so many ideas to use these with. Plus I will be decorating some up to use for brochures for our CROP walk and our church and School! I am running really late for an appointment so I do not have many details. I used Bella Blue paper and thought this would make a great teacher gift, I will attach a matching pen on the side. This was my first attempt and it is not as great as they can and WILL be, lol!

Thanks for stopping sorry for the quick post.
Mary Jo

Three Clover's Thursday Challenge Week 32

Welcome to this week's Three Clover's Thursday Challenge.

This week Kerry challenged us to make a card with numbers on it. I have had this paper with all the number for quite some time and finally found a use for it! I thought it would be fun to make a card for someone who don't want to admit their age. You know the ones who say they are 29 for years and years, lol. (like me) I think it is kind of cute, if I do say so myself.



Stamps, Teeny Tiny Wishers, On You birthday -- whatever stamp is non Stampin Up!
Paper: Real Red, Basic Black, Whisper White, Crushed Curry, non Stampin Up! DP
Ink: Basic Black
Other: Circle scissors plus, black marker, word window punch
Be sure to check out what the rest of the team has done for this challenge, they always have rocking samples!

Thanks for stopping by AGAIN today, lol
Mary Jo

Brand New Challenge!

Come on and play along!

I am so excited about this new challenge! It will be so fun to have tons of 100% current samples shown by set. Don't you think? Here is the basic idea of the challenge. The challenge will be called Technostamper's Super Set Sampler Challenge (T3SC1). In honor of my love of Stampin Up stamps I will be doing this new challenge. The idea is that each week I will pick a set and make two cards with the set to start us off and hopefully inspire you to use the set too. I realize that you will not own all the sets that I do but you will get tons of fabulous ideas to share with your friends/customers. And of course you may fall in love with the set and realize you HAVE to have it! So I hope that you will play along on week's that you have the featured set, and visit on week's that you don't. Soon we will have so many wonderful ideas to use with our sets. The catch to this is that ALL SAMPLES MUST BE 100% CURRENT STAMPIN UP! SAMPLES. It is a challenge after all but I know you are all up for it. Are you in? I will be giving a $5 voucher each week for SU product --redeemable through me. You can accumulate them up to $25 before spending. So you will want to play as often as you can to earn lots of free stuff of your choice.

To be eligible to win the gift voucher you must do the following....

1. Use 100% current Stampin Up products (if it is current by you and not in the US you will need to state that in your post.
2. Use the FEATURED SET OF THE WEEK.
3. Post a direct link to your sample on Mister Linky below
4. Post by midnight Tues. night. (EST.)
5. The sample does NOT have to be stamped now it can be one you already have done.

I will do a re-cap of all of the samples and announce the winner right before I post the new challenge. The links will be kept open though so you can add to them any time you want--you just will not be in the contest if you are after the deadline. For this week--T3SC1 challenge we are going to use ......

Annimal Stories
This was one of the first sets I purchased from the new catalog and I have only used one stamp one time so thought this was a good one to start with.

Here are my samples.
I used the SCS sketch challenge for today too! And of course I had to use chalks on one to fit the Latenightstampers challenge-only so much time to fit all of these challenges in!

I had so much fun with this simple card. I don't do much with Halloween but thought this little guy would be cute--not scary!

Stamps: Animal Stories, Cheap Talk, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Basic Black, Whisper White, Razzleberry Lemonade DP, Holiday Lounge DP
Ink: Basic Black
Other: circle punch, chalks, daubers. black marker, scallop border punch.

This next one is for a little guy who is having a birthday this week! This is such a cute set, I combined it with the Tall Tales DP

Stamps: Animal Stories, OnYour Birthday, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Brilliant Blue, Tall Tales DP
Ink: Brilliant Blue, Versa Mark
Other: white embossing powder, circle punch, white gel pen

I hope you are inspired to add your samples to Mister Linky below!

Happy Stamping!
Mary Jo

More ideas with our chalks!

Yikes I had such a headache the last day and a half I did not even post. Sorry. Still have one but not as bad so I will be catching up today--again, lol. Here are three more samples for the Latenightstampers weekly challenge to use our chalks.

The first on is also for the clean and simple challenge on SCS. I used the chalk to accent the focal panel and color the leaf and chestnut.

Stamps: All Holidays, Lovely As a Tree

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, To The Nines Specialty, Tall Tales DP

Ink: Basic Black

Accessories: chalks, daubers, buttons, marker

This next one uses the Chalk Embossing technique. I think this is such a fun technique. You use a Versamarker and pick up your chalk color to color your image. When you are done coloring you can clear emboss the entire image. Very pretty effect! All three flowers are done with this technique.

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral

Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Basic Black, Razzleberry Lemonade DP

Ink: Basic Black

Accessories: chalks, versamarker, clear embossing powder, wide oval punch, tags sizzix die, 5 petal flower punch, Black marker And this next one uses the chalks to create the background sky. I used Beate's Weekend sketch challenge for the layout. Tried to keep it simple.

Stamps: Thoughts and Prayers

Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Razzleberry Lemonade DP

Ink: Basic Black

Accessories: chalks, daubers, brad, fusion flowers, black marker

Come on back later for my Brand new Challenge! I will be starting a new challenge today called Technostamper's Super Set Sampler Challenge. In honor of my love of Stampin Up stamps I will be doing this new challenge. The idea is that each week I will pick a set and make two cards with the set to start us off and hopefully inspire you to use the set too. I realize that you will not own all the sets that I do but you will get tons of fabulous ideas to share with your friends. So I hope that you will play along on week's that you have the featured set, and visit on week's that you don't. Soon we will have so many wonderful ideas to use with our sets. The catch to this is that ALL SAMPLES MUST BE 100% CURRENT STAMPIN UP! SAMPLES. It is a challenge after all but I know you are all up for it. Are you in? I will be giving a $5 voucher each week for SU product --redeemable through me. You can accumulate them up to $25 before spending. So you will want to play as often as you can to earn lots of free stuff of your choice.

See you in a bit with the first Featured Set!

Mary Jo

Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge 88

Wow, this week just flew by! Welcome to another week of my Technostamper's Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge. We are on week 88! I hope you will play along with us this week. Thanks to everyone who played last week, if you didn't see the fabulous samples they are re-capped in the post just before this one. Great cards.

Lets get started right away--I actually have two cards made for this sketch but one will have to wait until Wednesday Night since it also fits my Three Clover's Challenge --yea, Kerry it is already done!

Here is this week's sketch.

and my card which I combined with the Latenight Stamper's Weekly Challenge. This week we are using Stamping Pastels on our projects--come on over and play along with that challenge too!




Stamps: Medallion
Paper: Real Red, Whisper White, Christmas Cocoa Specialty
Ink: VersaMark
Other: brads, pastel, daubers, hand held punch, finial press embossing folder, rub ons, chocolate chip marker.

Here is another sample for your inspiration. I love this card.

This fabulous card is from Kim at Kim's Basement Stamper
This is such a terrific Halloween card, don't you think? Be sure to head over to Kim's blog to see the inside of this card too--adorable!












I hope you choose to play along this week. If you do upload a card on line for this challenge please use the keywords TSSC88 and then come on back here to leave a link on Mister Linky below!

Thanks for stopping by and joining my challenge.
Mary Jo