Great Impressions and RC Blog Hop!

The Ribbon Carousel Crewmates are teaming up with the talented designers from Great Impressions to bring you a blog hop overflowing with crafty goodness!

 

  

We got to play some super fun stamps from Great Impressions AND some ribbon and twine from the Ribbon Carousel, of course!  

 I've used Dotted Winter Tree stamp image and True Joy of the Season sentiment stamp from Great Impressions and Silk Ribbon from Ribbon Carousel

I used Pan Pastels to colour, papers from my stash, Memory box dies and a pretty stick pin.

 

 

Here’s a little about our sponsor:

Deone and her husband Ken started Great Impressions in 1984. They started their journey by doing craft shows around the country and then in the 90's decided to sell wholesale. After that they decided to start selling in small retail stores and the original "Stamp of the Month" was born. The next step was opening an online website so that purchasing Great Impressions stamps would be even easier which is where the company is today. We hope that you will visit our website and our blog where we feature a new DT project each day and have a monthly challenge.

Now, lets talk prizes!   

Hop along with us today and leave some blog love for our Ribbon Carousel Crewmates and the The Great Impressions DT to be eligible to win one of the 2 prizes up for grabs!  We'll select 2 random commenters from 2 randomly selected designer blog, so be sure to spread the love around!

The Great Impressions prize is a $25 Gift Certificate, and the RC prize is a $25 Gift Certificate to the RC store! 

Ready to Hop?!

Clearly Besotted Stamp Winner

I nearly forgot to draw a winner for the Clearly Besotted Stamp Winter Jasmine, my head has been so full of cold that I simply forgot, that is the downside to my meds, I just can't fight off infections, hence a cold bug lasts forever.

So without further ado the winner of

Winter Jasmin is

June Nelson said...

Wow Jak its beautiful and what a gorgeous little cutie too just love it hunnie big huggies

June xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

22 November 2012 06:35

Please contact me with your details June and I'll pop the stamp in the post for you.

 

Floods in the North East of England–Ragged

Well it has been a cold wet dank week in my little part of the world, floods during the night kept our fire service busy and my daughter partner could get out of their estate so hopefully the worst is over.

As I’m feeling a little ragged this weekend with the dreaded cold bug I thought Ragged Maggie by Mo’s Digital Pencil would be quite an apt image for me.

I have to say although she is named Ragged Maggie she is the sweetest little thing isn’t she?

She’s as snug as a bug in a rug, Coloured with Copic markers and Prisma Pencils, Ribbons and twine from Ribbon Carousel and Harvest Lane by Simple Stories paper kit

Letraset Metallic Marker Winner

Wow so many entries for this and I know the winner will be thrilled with them.

As they are water soluble you are going to be able to create loads of different techniques as well as be able to use them to write sparkly messages inside your Christmas cards.

Thank you to all that entered and shared the blog candy over the world wide web.

the winner is ……

Judi said...

What a GREAT tutorial Jak,really helpful!
Thanks SO much for the chance to win some of these pens, they look really cool.
Judi

19 November 2012 18:03

Congrats Judy, if you can contact me with your details I will forward them to Letraset to send you your prize.

Snorer Sufferers

As some of you know I was once at my wits end with my husband Chris snoring, I used to lie in bed praying for him to stop, I even got quite tearful, night after night, week after week, month after month and year after year, it was relentless. I would shout at him during the night, I would sometimes hop into bed with my daughter to try to grab a little sleep.

It was just as bad for him too as he was constantly tired too, the trouble was he didn't just snore but he also held his breath, my pains would flare and we were a right grumpy pair.

Eventually he agreed to get checked out at the sleep clinic and after a few checks it came to light that he had sleep apnea, his oxogyn levels were dangerously low during the night due to not breathing and holding his breath.

They decided he needed a CPap machine for sleeping. Basically a mask for when he sleeps that produces positive pressure to keep his airways open.

Guess what? It really works, he goes on a regular basis to have the machine serviced and we even take it on holiday with us, it's like his bible, he panics if we have a power cut.

This is the machine and mask, he has been using his for years now, this is a new one after his old one went in for a service and this one is totally silent, the old one just had a low hum but never kept me awake.

 

So if your partner snores so bad it keeps you awake and has you both totally shattered, get them along to the doctors and referred to the sleep clinic.

Sweet dreams.

 

Winter Jasmine–Clearly Besotted Stamps

I stumbled upon a new stamp company and I have to say they have some gorgeous stamps.

I’m using Winter Jasmine on my card today, Stephanie from Clearly Besotted Stamps has kindly given me the same stamp to do a blog candy with. I have to say that they stamp clean and crisp and are brilliant to work with.

 

Coloured with Copic markers and Prisma pencils and teamed with papers from a stack i got from Ribbon Carousel.

I also used some icicle stickles for fur and ice and a Martha Stewart Edge punch.

All you need to do to enter the blog Candy is pop over to the store here and subscribe to her news letter then leave me a comment below.

What a Whopper–Tall Cake

Laced with Vodka too, now that is some serious baking going on.

The Vodka Cake Recipe has been doing it’s rounds on Facebook so I thought it would be the perfect accompaniment for my image today.

My image Tall Cake is by Mo’s digital Pencil is simply dripping with ice frosting in pink blue and lemon and sparkled up with a bit of glitter.

I’m using this for an adult card so I thought the Vodka Cake recipe would be very apt, dotted papers in icing colours velvet lace and twine from Ribbon Carousel and a button from my stash and layered up in true cake fashion onto a Kraft base card.

Fall Spirit challenge–Ribbon Carousel Crew

Today the girls from Ribbon Carousel are doing a reminder Fall themed challenge and you could win a Ribbon Carousel of your own so be sure to join in here

For my Card I picked Kai from Mo’s Digital Pencil the Crushed ribbon and the Vintage seam binding ribbon from Ribbon Carousel

I coloured the image with Copic markers then framed it with punched out leaves and coloured them with Pan Pastels.

Now don’t be scared and hop over and see the rest of the Crews cards