Crop Stop Color Challenge!

This week at Crop Stop Challenge Blog the challenge is to use 

3 or 4 of the fabulous colors in this photo:

These are some of my favorite colors to use these days!

Card Supplies from Crop Stop: 

Couture Creations Embossing Folder

 Spellbinders Blossom & Lacey Pennant Nestabilities

 Helmar ScrapDots

Core'dinations-Tim Holtz

Did you see that Crop Stop is having a Creative Team Call? 

It is a great team!  Go on...apply today!  

Crop Stop Creative Team Call!!!

I thoroughly enjoy being on the Crop Stop Creative Team

and highly encourage you all to try out!

CROP STOP CREATIVE TEAM 2012-2013

CropStop is looking for 4 committed team members to bring inspiration and creativity to our site through card and layout projects.

The Creative Team call is open to all. We welcome international submissions.

The Creative Team term is September 1, 2012 - February 28, 2013

Deadline for submission is August 21, 2012

(Submissions received late will not be considered)

PLEASE SUBMIT to Cropstop@cropstop.com

Name

Address

Phone Number

E-mail Address

Link to your blog(s)

List of current and/or past Design/Creative Team positions (Team experience is not required)

Tell us about yourself and why you want to be a part of our team in a paragraph or two.

Send a total of 3 projects that best display your crafting style.

We reserve the right to share your submissions in our Crop Stop Gallery even if your are not invited to join our Creative Team. Please be sure you are sending projects that you are willing to share with others.

As a Crop Stop Creative Team member you will be responsible for creating 4-5 projects every other month for use in our CropStop Challenge Blog. (Subject to change depending on number of members)

Submit all work on time to be used on the Crop Stop Sketch Challenge Blog and participate on the blog as required.

Post projects on your personal blog and link products used from the Crop Stop Store.

Work with other Creative Team Members to help promote the Crop Stop Store.

Register on the Crop Stop Forum (to be used for Creative Team communication)

Participate with the CropStop Team Group Page on Facebook

You may be asked to send in physical projects for use in store displays and exhibition booths.

Creative Team Members will receive a great discount as compensation along with occasional free product to be used on projects.

The Crop Stop Creative Team Blinkie for blogs and signatures.

More details will follow upon being invited to join our Creative Team

WEBSITE: http://www.cropstop.com/

Make It Masculine

I am not a big maker of masculine cards.

I should be as the list of men and boys in our everyday life just keeps growing. 

This week it was my turn to decide the callenge at Crop Stop Challenge Blog.

I am challenging you to make a masculine card. Boy or Man?  Your choice!

I am loving the look of Kraft papers with bold colors lately.

Maybe having a grandson after years of only having daughters

inspires me to use the bolder colors?  

I embossed a Tim Holtz Kraft Tag with the Retro Circles Embossing Folder.

The fun accents on the tag are Candi-Dots.  Have you seen them?

They come in so many colors and even a few patterns. 

Crop Stop Supplies: 

Candi Dots - School Days

Momento Ink

Cart-Us: Retro Circles Embossing Folder

(see the 10% off coupon code on my sidebar for CropStop)

Upload your masculine challenge project to CropStop Challenge Blog.

Guidelines can be found on the blog.  

NSD Challenge at Crop Stop!

In honor of National Scrapbook Day, CropStop challenges you to a SCRAPLIFT!

This is a two week special challenge.

Today, May 5, 2012, is National Scrapbook Day. National Scrapbook Day was started in 1994 by Creative Memories and is celebrated on the first Saturday every May. Since 1994 paper crafters everywhere celebrate their passion for scrapbooking and other paper projects on this day. Who knows, maybe this will be a national holiday some day!

To celebrate this awesome day, the CropStop Creative Team challenges you to scraplift one of their posted projects found on CropStop Challenge Blog.  Choose your project, create your own version of it, and link it at CropStop Challenge Blog. The winner will be chosen by random draw on May 20th and posted in the blog on Monday, May 21, 2012.  Prize is a $20 Gift Certificate to the CropStop Store.

This is the card I shared for CropStop's NSD Scraplift Challege:

Follow these simple guidelines to qualify:

1. Enter a newly created project that scraplifts one of the pictured projects.

2. Label your project with your name and link it using the link tool at the bottom of this post.

3. Give the name of the person/project that you have scraplifted in your blog post.

Challenge deadline is Saturday, May 19, 2012 at midnight, U.S. East Coast Time.


Hop on over to CropStop Challenge Blog to see what other wonderful creations we challenge you to scraplift & this week's Embossing Challenge!

Emboss This!

I have new found love of embossing.  

I really love the texture an embossed image adds to a project.

This week's challenge at CropStop Challenge Blog is to emboss.

Dry emboss, wet emboss, de-boss.  Your choice!  

My example for this week's challenge includes both dry and wet embossing.  

 Since I only wanted part of the card dry embossed, I placed the Cart Us "Roses" 

embossing folder over 2/3 of my card base before running it through my Big Shot.

To wet emboss I stamped my image with Versa Mark and evenly spread

grainy black embossing powder over the stamped image.  I used my

 handy-dandy heat gun to heat set the image.  

Crop Stop Supplies:

Cart Us Roses Embossing Folder

Tim Holtz Movers & Shapers - Tags & Bookplates

Sizzix Framelits

Momento Ink

Versa Mark

Crop Stop has an amazing supply of embossing folders & is the only supplier 

in the U.S. of Cart-Us and Couture Creations folders.  I love the sharp 

crisp images you get from the Cart-Us folders. The Couture Creations

are awesome because they are 5" x7"!  I even have a 10% off coupon

on my side bar for Crop Stop if you NEED to have these awesome folders.  

Be sure to upload your challenge project to CropStop Challenge Blog.

Guidelines for prize eligibility can be found on the blog.  

A Bright & Sunny Card

Good morning!  I am wishing for a bright & sunny day today

here in Maine.  We have gone from 80 degrees and sunny to 

30 degrees and snowy within a week's time. Brr.....

 Guess I will have to settle for sharing a bright & sunny card 

 card with you all today.  It is a good second choice!

 

Have you used La Blanche Silicone Stamps before? 

Although I had seen them and fell in love with them at CHA,

 this was my first time using one on a card.  They are just fantastic! 

The intricate detail of the stamp is mind blowing and the 

stamped image came out perfect the first time stamping. 

This week's challenge at Crop Stop Challenge Blog is to create a bright card, layout,

or project.  Whatever is your favorite works for us! 

I kept my focus on bright colors in my card for this challenge. 

Crop Stop Supplies:

La Blanche Silicone Stamp - Typewriter

Hero Arts Frame Cuts - Ticket

Momento Ink - Tuxedo

Momento Ink - Bahama Blue

Ruffle Edge Trim - Turquoise

A 10% off coupon code for any purchase at Crop Stop

is always available on my blog side bar. 

I have also linked up with these other challenge sites:

Party Time Tuesdays: Anything Goes

Divas By Design: Stamp Something

Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes 

May you have a bright & sunny day!

Flourishing....

This week's challenge at Crop Stop Challenge Blog 

is to use flourishes on your project. 

I found some old Maya Road chipboard flourishes tucked away in my stash.

They were easily embossed with a Sizziz Embossing Folder, 

spritzed with mist, and then swiped with a white ink pad.  

For the cute little birds, I used my brand new Tim Holtz Distress Markers.

They work like a charm. Oh, the colors!  

Prize eligibility rules for this week's Crop Stop Challenge can be found 

on the blog. Don't forget that the March "National Craft Month" 

Challenge is going on until the end of the month!

Crop Stop Supplies:

Tim Holtz Distress Marker

Hero Arts w/ Sizziz Framelits

Sizzix Embossing Folder

Scor-Pal

Butterflies!

Spring is almost here in Maine. The warmer weather has been upon 

us this week and I am not complaining, not one little bit.  

Butterflies are just one of the lovely signs of spring.

This week at Crop Stop Challenge Blog we are celebrating butterflies.

For my card I used the following Crop Stop supplies:

Becky Fleck Office Supply Dies

Cart Us Diamond Embossing Folder

Momento Ink - Tuxedo

Sheer Yellow Ribbon With Dots

Crop Stop Challenge Blog is also celebrating National Craft Month

throughout March with a shaped card challenge.  

  

Rainbow of Color

Today's challenge at CropStop Challenge Blog is to use a

"rainbow of colors." Simply meaning, use four or more colors.  

The colored Candi Dots inspired this card.  

Have you used them yet?  

They are a simple, yet fun way to accent.  

Crop Stop Supplies:

Ink Essentials Craft Tags #8

Hero Arts- Ticket Frame Cuts Die

Hero Arts - Frame Cuts Stamps

Momento Ink - Rich Cocoa & Paris Dusk

Candi Dots

Core'dinations Cardstock

(there is a 10 % off coupon code on my side bar for Crop Stop)

Go on over to Crop Stop Challenge Blog to check out 

the DT great examples. I bet you will be inspired to 

create with a rainbow of colors!

Challenge guidlelines can be found here.  

Have a colorful day! 

A Little Shabby

  I am always in awe of those artists who excel at Shabby Chic.
The layers, the textures, the prettiness. 

This week's challenge at Crop Stop Challenge Blog is to create a project that is "Shabby" in style.  

For my Crop Stop DT example I embraced a couple of elements of shabby.  

The flower was made by cutting book pages using Blossom 2 & Dahlia from Spellbinders Dies.  I spritzed them with mist, scrunch them, and then layered them.  

Crop Stop Supplies:

Cart-Us Roses Embossing Folder

Tim Holtz Caged Bird Die

Spellbinders Dahlia Die

Spellbinders Blossom Two Die

Tim Holtz Crackle Paint

To be eligible for the Crop Stop prize be sure to upload to the blog!

The rules for participation can be found there. 

Don't forget to use the coupon code on my sidebar for 10% off any purchase at Crop Stop!

You Can Quote Me On That!

This week's challenge at Crop Stop Challenge Blog is use a quote on your project. 

I collect quotes I find online in my Pinterest and others in one of my altered notebooks.

You never know when you will need an appropriate quote!

My quote is an Irish Blessing meant to compliment the little butterflies.

Crop Stop Supplies:

Spellbinders Butterflies

Tim Holtz Decorative Dies Strip by Sizzix

Cuttlebug: Polka Dot Embossing Folder

Liquid Pearls: Buttercup

Sizzix Big Shot Extended Spacer Platform (13in)

Sizzix Decorative Strip Cutting Pad (13in)

Core'dinations: Tim Holtz Distress Collection

Be sure to upload your project to Crop Stop Challenge Blog to be eligible
for the prize drawing of a $15 gift certificate to Crop Stop.
On my blog sidebar you can always find a 10% off
discount code (CTKND-2) any purchase at the Crop Stop store.

Go For Gold!

I am a silver girl.  Yep, love silver.

So when I had to design a card for this week's "Go For the Gold"

challenge at Crop Stop Challenge Blog I was a little stumped.

I'll be honest, I created four cards (yes, four) before I was

completely happy going for the gold.  

I chose to pull out my gold craft paint and use it as an accent color.  I ran the dress form through my Big Shot using the new Brocade embossing folder from Craft Concepts. Once embossed, I ran a thin layer of gold paint over the raised brocade design and spritzed it with a little blue mist. 

This Crop Stop Challenge runs through next Wednesday.  You can find prize eligibility guidelines at Crop Stop Challenge Blog.  

Crop Stop Supplies:

Core'dinations Paper: Tim Holtz Distress Collection

Spellbinders Dies: Labels Four

5th Avenue Glam Embossing Folder: Grunge Dots & Brocade

Zots 3-D

You can find a 10% discount code to Crop Stop on my side bar!  

Going In Circles

Today's challenge at Crop Stop Challenge Blog 

is to create a layout or card in the shape of a circle.  

To shape my card I used my very old CM circle cutters. I am pretty sure that they were the first tools I bought for scrapping.  I don't have it in my heart to get rid of them because I use them more than many of my newer techy tools.

Crop Stop Supply List:

Core'dinations Cardstock: Tim Holtz 

Spellbinders: Nested Pennants

 Couture Creations: Heavy Duty

 Hero Arts w/ Sizzix: Bicycle

Dew Drops

Momento Ink: Rich Cocoa

Zots

There is plenty of time to create something for this Crop Stop challenge because it is up for two weeks! You can find the challenge guidelines on the Crop Stop Challenge Blog.
There is a Crop Stop Design Team Call going right now, too!  

More Embossed Cards

Today I am sharing two more cards made with the World Fair Collection 

embossing folders by Couture Creations.  You can find them at Crop Stop!

I kept these cards CAS to showcase the embossed images.

I love the balloon images from the Ascension embossing folder.

The detail is so crisp and just pops on this coral colored Core'dinations cardstock. 

I just lightly sanded the embossed image for contrast.

I have uploaded this card for the ABC Challenge.  

This card is so seriously masculine!  That is one of the things

I love about this collection of embossing folders.  

To make this card I aligned two colors of Core'dinations cardstock

in the Replacements embossing folder then ran it through my Big Shot.

The two different colors aligned perfectly on my card. 

The blue paper was embossed on the textured side and the red paper

was embossed on the smooth side giving it some textural contrast.  

Today's new challenge at Crop Stop Challenge Blog is a music theme.

Be sure to check it out!

I know that my blog has been filled with cards, cards and more cards 

lately. I promise tomorrow I will showcase a layout.  

I still do those. Really!

World Fair Collection

This weekend I had some time to play with a couple more 

of the World Fair Collection of embossing folders 

by Couture Creations that I received from Crop Stop.

The Vintage Dressmaker embossing folder is just divine! 

For this card I used the debossed side.

Using a light hand, I covered the folder in teal pearl accents

and then ran it through my Big Shot.

The teal just peeks around the wings and dress.

The Heavy Duty embossing folder is perfect for masculine projects.

Even my husband thought it was pretty cool!

Don't forget that there is a 10% off coupon code 

on my side bar for any purchase at Crop Stop.  

Anywhere You Go

"Anywhere U Go" was created for Moxie Fab World's 

Get Inspired by Home Decor Challenge.

It just so happens I got a package from Crop Stop about an hour ago.

In the package was several new embossing folders 

from Couture Creation's World Fair Collection.

They are a limited edition & will definitely be a favorite.

Can I just tell you how awesome I think they are?

I love that they are 5x7 folders!

I love how that the embossing is so crisp!

The "World Map" folder was just what I needed to do Moxie's Challenge.

To create the card I ran grey Core'dinations paper through 

my Big Shot with the World Map folder.

I then inked the embossed image with green & blue Momento 

Ink to get it an earthy feel.  My sentiment is from my Dymo. 

It whipped up in no time at all!

Crop Stop Supplies:

Core'dinations Paper: Tim Holtz Adirondack

World Map Embossing Folder by Couture Creations

Memento Inks: Bahama Blue & Cottage 

New, New & News!

It is a new month filled with new challenges, a new facebook page,

and a new Design Team for me!  

NEW:

This week's challenge  at Crop Stop Challenge Blog is

"Punch Your Way Around the Holidays." We challenge you to use

your punches in a holiday project (card, layout, altered).

This month's designers at CS created wonderful pieces to inspire you.

Haylie-Jo has lots of new stuff in the Crop Stop store, too!

 Just in time for your holiday shopping.

NEW:

I created a Facebook page just for my scrappy goodness, ideas, 

and things that inspire me.  Please go "like" my

Scissors, Spatulas, and Sneakers Facebook Page! 

NEWS:  

I am excited to announce that I made the Scrappy Chics Design Team.

Scrappy Chics is a kit club with fabulous kits sent out monthly.

I highly recommend you check out these kits!  

You will start seeing my designs for them in January.  

Happy December!

So Thankful!

I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving!

I'd like to thank each and everyone of my blog followers.

You all inspire me to create and share.  

Crop Stop Supplies:

Graphic 45: ABC Primer Paper Pad

Spellbinders Dies: Labels, Nested Pennants

Tsukineko Memento Ink: Black

Ranger Distress Ink

This week's challenge at Crop Stop Challenge Blog

is approriately a "Be Thankful" challenge;

create a "thank you" card or "thankful" layout.

Upload your thankful card or layout to Crop Stop Challenge Blog

by Wednesday @ 11:59 PM EST to be eligible for this week's prize.

Don't forget!  A coupon code for 10% off at Crop Stop can always 

be found on my side bar under the Crop Stop logo.  

Happy Thanksgiving!

White Out!

It is a white out at Crop Stop Challenge Blog this week!
The challenge is to create a project that is all white.

Going a bit ouside my box, I created this monochromatic white 

wall hanging with lots and lots of Grunge Board & Grunge Paper,

Spellbinders & Tim Holtz dies, white paint and glitter. 

I really like the look of the white embossed image on white paper.

Clean & crisp!

Upload your all white card, layout or altered to

  Crop Stop Challenge Blog

by Wednesday at 11:59 EST to be eligible for this week's prize drawing.

Don't forget the 10% off Crop Stop coupon code is always on my sidebar. 

Crop Stop Supplies~

Spellbinders:Blossom Two, Dahlia, Butterflies, Labels

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder: Polka Dots

Sheer Satin Ribbon: White

Versamark Resist Ink Pad

Claudine Hellmuth Mulit-Medium: Matte

Have a Great Day!

I have a new love.  Stamp sets and die cutting sets that match! 

Hero Arts and Sizziz really made this card easy with their

coordinating Bicycle set I got from Crop Stop.

This week's challenge at Crop Stop Challenge Blog is
to create a card using your national colors.
Here in the U.S.A. that is red, white, and blue.
Upload your creation to Crop Stop Challenge Blog
by Wednesday at 11:59 PM EST to be eligible for the prize drawing.

Crop Stop supplies used for "Have a Great Day:"
Paper ~ Co'redinations Tim Holt Adirondack Collection
Stamps & Die Cut ~ Hero Arts w/ Sizzix
Ink ~ Memento: Bahama Blue