dream, hope, believe.

Hello everybody!!

I figured I would jump on really quick, before heading to the park and show you a card I made using Hope and Dream image and sentiment from, From The Heart. 

When I first saw the image, I automatically thought mixed media, but since I am not to skilled in my mixed media abilities, I stuck to my comfort zone!!!  LOL

I am using this weeks sketch too!!  Thought it was a perfect collaboration between the sketch, colors and image.  

 This is the inside of my card using the sentiment that comes with this beautiful image. 

Like I said earlier,  I am using this weeks sketch over at FTH #19, click HERE to join the weekly fun and a chance to win some free images.

Hugs, 

Calypso

SweetStamps #118

Hello sweeties-

How is your week going so far? 

LOL...Well it's only Tuesday...lets enjoy the rest of the coming days with a new challenge. 

Today, at SweetStamps out theme challenge is:

ANYTHING GOES

Have you seen the new SweetCut Dies from SweetStamps?

OMG....Yes...OMG...They are amazing.  I mean seriously.

These dies cut so well and are so cute too!!!

The SweetStamps Sweeties,  are all doing the "Anything Goes" Challenge using and the SweetCut Dies. 

I promise you, you will want to see these creations. 

For my project sample today, I went clean and simple, using "Flourish Medallion" 

I used my Silhouette to create my box.  

Using the "Flourish Medallion" die, I cut 8 pieces out of white cardstock. 

I cut 4 squares that would fit perfectly behind the medallions.  I applied double adhesive tape and then applied my new and favorite glitter: Glitter Ritz: Peacock Blue.  I then glue the cuts on top of the the glittered squares and applied to the top of the box, along with bling for the center. 

I also made 4- 4x4 mini cards, that fit perfectly inside the box. 

The centers of each card was created using the same glitter: Glitter Ritz: Peacock Blue, only this time it's been placed on the top of the die cut.  It really pops and on the white background. 

You really don't want to miss the creations, created by the rest of the DT.

They are really and truly amazing!!!

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Join our weekly and monthly challenge

You can use any stamp on your challenge entry, but if you use a SweetStamps image, you will get two entries into the giveaway! To enter the challenge, please add the URL to your actual blog post or online gallery to the InLink at the end of the post. Please do not link to your main blog, we want to be able to find your post to leave you comments. Also, please link back to the SweetStamps blog.

Remember, you can only enter the challenge one time, use a SweeStamps image to get an extra entry in the challenge. Please limit the amount of challenges to 10 (including SweetStamps). You must link back to SweetStamps on your blog post.

Next week's challenge #119 is:

FLOWERS

Our monthly challenge, can be found HERE

Theme is:

FLIP FLOP CARD

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Hugs, 

Calypso 

Hey Gorgeous!

Hi everyone-

This week has been a very long, exhausting and refocusing type of week.

Sometimes people and situations happen that make you take a step back and think.

Make you think of redoing your priority list and really figuring out the importance of life. 

I don't want to bring you all down, but this card is created with a purpose.

It is for my sons' friends mom, who has lung cancer. 

A beautiful woman, with a bald head and a BIG heart.

A dedicated mother, wife and friend. 

The dress form was created using Spellbinders dies tulle and Sage seam binding from Inspired by Stamping Store. 

I created three layers, with the repeated pinch, fold and glue motion. 

The top of the dress form is created using two layers of the same crochet lace. 

The bling around the hip area is from Prima Marketing: Crystal Sheet.  Love this stuff, cause you can cut as much or as little as you want.  The resin flower is a brad from The Girls' Paperie. 

I also had a need to add a feather, but the feather I had did not have the point. 

So I cut a pinch from further down and grouped them together and glued. Love how it looks!!

The 'Hey Gorgeous' is from the Spring Blossoms, stamp set. 

This is the inside of the card. 

I used a sentiment from Trendy Circle Sentiment Stamp set, which is one of my favorites. 

The textured paper, really didn't allow for a smooth image, but it's still readable.

I added an oval bling, which I found in my stash from Want2Scrap.

I had to show you a close up of this next picture, instead of trying to explain it. 

Do you see the glitter in the back of the dress form?

I stamped Delicate Doilies, using a glue ink pad. 

Once it dried I sprinkled some fine glitter over it. 

The look is very subtle, but so pretty in person. 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Cardabilities Sketch #75

Di's Digi Designs: Show Us Your Bling

Bugaboo BINGO Challenge: Brad, Die Cuts and Ribbon

Heck Of A Challenge: Fashion

Tammy Scrappin Corner #62

Hugs, 

Calypso

Scribbles Designs Challenge #5

Hello buddies!!

Today at Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog, we have a new monthly challenge for you to join in on.

This months theme is:

Celebrate Mom or A Special Woman With Flowers

My card is very green, with a splash of red!! :) 

Today, I am using Carl I (heart) you.

When Sandy sent me this image, I was had colored him right away. 

I LOVE her frog images!!!  This one has hopped his way to the very top!!  :) 

I know that Mother's Day is over, but you can never have too many cards for a special lady in your life. 

It can be for a girlfriend, sister, auntie...or just because. 

You have to check out what the rest of the DT has created and meet our new DT members, as well as GDT members.  Lots going on, so come on by!

I would like to enter this card on the following challenges:
The Crafter's Cafe #16

Hugs,
Calypso

SweetStamps Monthly Challenge

Hello again-

Hope your Tuesday morning is off to a great start.

Today at SweetStamps, it's time for our monthly challenge.

This months challenge is:

Flip Flop (Swing) Card

I have only made this card once before and I really loved the way that card came out, but I thought it was a little too big.  You can check it out HERE. So this time around I did scale things down a little!! :) 

I found a cut file at the Silhouette Store, which worked out perfectly.

I am so pleased with the results of my card today!

I love the colors and so very cute Baby Bear stamped image, which is paper pieced, using the same Teresa Collins: Tell Your Story paper, that I used throughout the card. Do you see that intricate die behind the bear?

That is SweetStamps newest and greatest items.  It's their SweetCuts Die: Mini Medallion.  These babies cut like butter....The piece just fall out after just one run through the machine.  Now I LOVE that.

This is the other side of the card when opened.

I used a beautiful sentiment called, Taking a Moment.

I added two flowers, which again are part of the new SweetCuts Dies:  Mini Flowers 2

Here is a close up of my paper pieced Baby Bear and part of the medallion.

So there you have it, a Flip Flip A.K.A. Swing Card. 

You can find a tutorial HERE.

Really hope that you will take the challenge this month and join us.

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Join our weekly and monthly challenge

You can use any stamp on your challenge entry, but if you use a SweetStamps image, you will get two entries into the giveaway! To enter the challenge, please add the URL to your actual blog post or online gallery to the InLink at the end of the post. Please do not link to your main blog, we want to be able to find your post to leave you comments. Also, please link back to the SweetStamps blog.

Remember, you can only enter the challenge one time, use a SweeStamps image to get an extra entry in the challenge. Please limit the amount of challenges to 10 (including SweetStamps). You must link back to SweetStamps on your blog post.

Next week's challenge #118 is:

ANYTHING GOES

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I would like to enter the following challenge:
Crafting by Design
Stampin Royalty #176
Silhouette Challenge #1
Hugs.
Calypso

SweetStamps #117

Good morning friends-

I hope that all my beautiful, strong, devoted and creative lady friends had an amazing Mother's Day.

The boys took me out of the house and kept me off my phone!!! :) 

We had an amazing day and I am so blessed to have an amazing husband and 3 amazing boys.

Today we have a new challenge for you to part take in at SweetStamps. 

This weeks theme is: 

SPRING

When I think of Spring, I think of fruits.  I love taking my kids to the farm to pick strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, tangerines...etc.  So with that thought in mind, check out my card.

Isn't she just the cutest thing!!  

Please meet, Strawberry Bear.  She is not new to SweetStamps, but she is new to me. 

I pulled out my dusty Prismacolor Pencils and took sometime to color her.  It's been a long time since I have colored with my pencils, so you will see I did get a little heave handed in a few spots...oops!

I love the results and i am loving my pencils again!:o)

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Join our weekly and monthly challenge

You can use any stamp on your challenge entry, but if you use a SweetStamps image, you will get two entries into the giveaway! To enter the challenge, please add the URL to your actual blog post or online gallery to the InLink at the end of the post. Please do not link to your main blog, we want to be able to find your post to leave you comments. Also, please link back to the SweetStamps blog.

Remember, you can only enter the challenge one time, use a SweeStamps image to get an extra entry in the challenge. Please limit the amount of challenges to 10 (including SweetStamps). You must link back to SweetStamps on your blog post.

Next week's challenge #118 is:

ANYTHING GOES

Our monthly challenge, will start in the 15th.

Theme is:

FLIP FLOP CARD

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I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Paper Playtime #10 (yellow brad in center of flower)

Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge #10

Hugs.

Love YOU

Good morning!!

HAPPY MOTHER's DAY, to all women out there!!

I hope that you all have a beautiful day with your loved ones. 

Which brings me to today's challenge over at Sentimental Sundays. 

This weeks theme is:

FOR A SPECIAL WOMAN

We are being sponsored by Delicious Doodles this week and had the opportunity to play with some of their gorgeous images.  I chose to work with Fairy Fae.

I really enjoyed coloring this image and putting this card together. It has more layers and elements than I normally do, but I love it.  My cardstock is from Bazzil and my patterned paper is from MME: Lost & Found 2: Breeze.  I used a lot of dies on my card too. 

Lots of Cherry Lynn Design dies.  I am loving my newest addition, Lady Kate Edger.

I LOVE this new dies and I can't wait to add the other 2 to my collection!!! My flowers were cut using Tim Holtz distress cardstock.  LOVE IT!  First time using it and I LOVE it. 

Here is a close up of the flower cluster, created using Memory Box: 

All my butterflies are covered in glitter, black pearl ink and the wings painted with crackle paint. 

I really tried doing  a lot on this card and I hope I didn't over do it. 

So whether you are making a card for Mother's Da or for your best girlfriend, we would love to have you share it with us this week.  Make sure to visit the blog and check out the amazing cards they created for that special woman on their lives.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Sketch N Stash #113

Cheery Lynn Designs #79

A Gem Of A Challenge #79

One Stop Craft #228

Pumpkin Spice #19

Hugs,

Calypso

Love

Good morning everyone-

Are you ready for tomorrow?

Do know what your husbands/boyfriends/kiddies are getting you or preparing for you?

Our are you like me, it's just another day and enjoy it with your families.

Well whatever you do or have done for you, enjoy it and preserve the memory.

I want to share a cute little card that I made using For You Mouse, by From the Heart Stamps

This image is this months Stamp of The Month Freebie.

 Play along with the challenge by purchasing the image. Then you can enter the challenge and receive next month’s digi free. OR if you spend $10 in theFrom The Heart Stamps store this month, you can enter code 4YOUMOUSE to receive this as a free gift. (Make sure your purchase doesn’t include this image or you will receive 2). 

Isn't he just the cutest?  I really like him. 

He is perfect to give away for any occasion and person.  I think we will be giving this one to grandma tomorrow, from the boys. I think's a cute little gesture card for Mother's Day.

I used my very neglected paper pad by EP: For The Record 2.  Also pulled out an old embossing folder that I have not used in ages; Craft Concepts: Daisy Do.  I think it works really well with the printed paper. My ribbon is from May Arts, it actually has a little shimmer around the edges of it.  

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Tuesday Morning Sketches #197

Pinspirational Challenge #56

CropStop: Make an Impression

Hugs.

IBS Release Day and more...

Hello...hello!!

Today is the day.

RELEASE DAY!!!!! 

All those amazing and beautiful stamps are now available for purchase at the IBS Store.

• Free Shipping will be available on all orders over $20. This will start

on the 10th and be available for only 48 hours. May 10th at 7pm to

April 12th at 7pm Brisbane time only.

• All 7 stamp sets plus Die will be offered as a bundle for a 10%

discount.

And there is more!!!

Hugs,

Nazeema "Calypso" Bastian

IBS May Release: Fancy Labels 2

Good morning!!

Today is the last day for Inspired by Stamping, May Release party.

Our last set being showcased today, is my absolute favorite. 

I am showcasing Fancy Labels 2 for you today. 

I wanted to keep my card clean, simple and the focus directly on these frames. 

"Oh la la!" is right!!!  

I stamped an embossed the frame on navy cardstock and embossed it with clear embossing powder. 

I stamped it again on cream cardstock, embossed and cut out the inside oval.  Stamped the sentiment, which is from Big Notes in French, one our new releases this month.  These new sentiments really make a statement and can be paired with any of the IBS Frame collections. 

Check out what the rest of the team has created for you. 

Fancy Labels 2 

Joanna

Kendra

Irit

Pam

Colleen

Calypso

Shea

Small Fancy Labels 2  

Joanna

Tina

Deb

Leah

Cindy

Vicki

CONTEST!!!

May 10 will be our release day party. The May release will be available for purchase at 7 pm Brisbane time (2 am PST, 5 am EST). Inspired By Stamping will be offering free shipping for 24 hours after the release (for orders over $20) AND if you purchase the May  Bundle, you will receive an automatic 10% discount at checkout. (Please use the free shipping code MayRelease at checkout.) 

May 6th-May 10th Inspired by Stamping will be giving away a $25 gift card to the store EVERY DAY on Joanna's Blog! Leave a comment to win. One comment per person per day.
Hugs.

Nazeema "Calypso" Bastian