A new sneak peak from the new Unity May KOM!

Hi everyone,
Here's a sneak peak for you from the May KOM from Unity. I get sooooooooooooo excited when I have a stamp featured as a sneak peak! eeeeeeeeeek! LOL!
Have a beautiful weekend friends! :D
Tracey

SCS Virtual Stamp Night tonight!

Come join the VSN Pirate Party. The fun begins on Friday, April 29 @ 6:00 PM EDT with one challenge posted each hour for a total of 5 challenges. You can find all the challenges and details here: Virtual Stamp Night .You have until Monday, May 2 @ 8:00 PM EDT to post your projects to be eligible for the pirate booty. If you're a Splitcoaststampers' Fan Club member, you can see two of the challenges now in a sneak peak here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums....eak-peeks-f321/

Audrey the flower girl.

It's been such a long time since I've drawn "My Little Audrey" TSB designer, Collette Landwer, requested and Audrey flower girl with a ring of flowers in her hair and an empire dress (LOL!) and I couldn't resist. I've kept her pretty simple. I thought she'd be easier to work with that way. What do you all think? Do you like all the sparkles around the images that I put? or would you rather have them plain? or a happy medium?

Tracey

Challenge #5~Winged Things!!~Inlinkz is Up!

Good morning everyone! I hope that all of you had a nice holiday weekend. We had a very very nice Easter this year with lots of family. Being gone for 4 years really made us appreciate the time we have with family and good friends!

I'm going to start off with our winner and Top 3 from Challenge #4!

Winner Challenge #4

Gails Crafty Goings On



Gail shoot me an email with your choice of 5 images!!! Congrats!!! april_lower@yahoo.com

It pays  to use a TSB image....Gail got entered 2 times and ended up being the winner!! Woohoo!!

Top 3

Kym

Nann's Keepsakes

Mimi

Scrappers Anonymous

Suzi

Sugar N Spice My little Haven

Ladies be sure to grab and display your badge!!

Challenge #5

Winged Things

This can be ANYTHING that has wings. I thought it would be perfect for spring now that all the "winged things" are starting to come out. You can even use angels or fairies, bee's, butterflies....whatever you have that has wings!!!

DT's Fab work:

Collette:

She used one of Tracey's newest images and added this fanastic butterfly!

Amanda:

I really love this look. That DP looks like real jeans! And a very pretty bird for her winged thing!

Michelle:

These colors blow me away! They are sooooo pretty and the coloring...wow! And she added butterflies too as her winged thing! AND....she used some of Tracey's new digi papers for her background and butterflies!! I'm gonna be grabbing that!

Miranda:

BEAUTIFUL butterfly!! That is so delicate and pretty! But we can't leave out the wonderful image!

Stacie:

Well....I'm just not even sure what to say about this. I mean I'm blown away by this card. I don't like to be byass because I really do love all the DT's creations EVERY week but this week....I think Stacie went above and beyond with this. You really need to enlarge this image so you can see all the details in those feathers!!! Great work Stacie!!!

Okay, that's it for this this challenge! Please, take note...if you want your entry to be counted you MUST link ONLY that post not your entire blog. It's very hard for us to search your blog to find the post that is for TSB challenge! I really don't want to miss out on any of your fantastic projects so be sure you linking only that specific post!!! Thanks!

Inspiration & Where to Find TSB?

Here are some wonderful projects for all occassions from the design team to inspire you to create!

Where can you find The Stamping Boutique this week:

04/21 Hanna and Friends- Theme is pink and brown, although we were told challenge was Easter.  So here are some great easter cards for your viewing pleasure!

04/21 Creative Inspirations- Theme: Digi Day- use anything digi

04/25 Cupcake Craft - Theme: Fluffy Bunnies! Bunnies and Easter themes are optional, but the project must have some kind of 'fluff'' on it. (i.e. pom poms, flower soft, fibres, tassels etc!) 

Here are a couple of bunny samples from Christy Dillman- she made her PEEPS sparkly & fluffy using embossing powder and for her layout she used sparkly flufy on the inside of ears and polka dots!

04/26 Creative Card Crew- Theme is Child's Play

Freebie for our Fabulous Followers Day!!!!

I hope you all love Cynthia as much as I do. She's named after my mom!
If you've missed her, make sure to become a follower so you don't miss another one!
Tracey

Dilly-Dally

Here's a silly one- Dilly-Dally! LOL! I was just playing around a little with this one. I thought I'd do something fun and whimsical. I feel like I should do something heavy, symbolic and very artistic now. Just to balance the scales.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Tracey

Just some flowers...

I wanted some flowers for a scrapbook page I'm going to do, so these are what I drew. I'm not sure what the ones are called. I don't usually draw flowers so it was something a little different.
Have a fabulous weekend!

Tracey

My card I made with my Unity "Itty Bitty"

I made this card with the "Itty Bity" that I designed called, "Nature" It says, " Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of it's own." -Charles Dickens. Thanks so much for looking and have a super wonderful afternoon!!
Tracey

Aud Sentiments Blog Hop

Make sure to hope along with Aud Sentiments this week, as The Stamping Boutique was honored to be selected by one of their designers as a their favorite!  So head over to Ali's blog to see her project and to join the hop!

Get well Beary soon!

Good morning,
I hope everyone had a nice weekend.
It's going to be rainy here all week. (boo!)
I hope you all like my little boo-boo bear. I think someone took good care of him and he's all snuggly and feeling better. :D
Have a super day!
Tracey

Freebie for our Fabulous Followers!!!!

Monday again! Which means that it's freebie day for our fabulous followers. It's only available for 24 hours so make sure to become a follower so you don't miss a single freeie! Happy freebie day!

A little image.

I thought that a maypole would be fun to draw. I hope you like it. It's pretty simple.
This weekend is turning out pretty crummy. windy and cold. Yuck! What happened to the beautiful spring weather?
Oh! I'll give a little update on my Snickers. (my wiener dog who had the kidney stones removed) she's back at home and get's to sleep in mommy and daddy's bed. :D She's moving around a lot better today. It was so sad yesterday. My heart was breaking. Well, I guess everyone doesn't want to hear all of this. To wrap it up, she's doing fine and is snoring right next to me as I type.
Have a wonderful weekend my dear friends.
Tracey

April Miscellaneous Cards

Paisley Peacock

hi everyone,
I think I'm about paisley'd out for now. LOL!
I have to take my little wiener dog to the vet to schedule surgery to have kidney stones removed. :( I didn't know dogs had kidney stones! My poor little Snickers!!
Well, off we go. Wish us luck!
Tracey

Challenge #4 and Winners!!!

Good morning everyone and welcome to another Tuesday challenge at TSB! I want to thank all of you that participated the past two weeks for challenge #3 we had a FABULOUS turn out!!!!

Let's get right to our WINNERS for challenge #3

CHALLENGE #3 WINNER

Davi

Alstromeria's Artistry

That's a pretty fantastic handmade flower!

Davi, shoot me an email april_lower@yahoo.com with your 5 image choices!

Winner was picked by random.org

Challenge #3 TOP 3

Dorcas

Dorca's Designs

Iulia

My Adored Adorables

Teri

Teri's Crafty Creations

Ladies be sure to grab the badge and display it on your blogs...you deserve it.

I must say this was VERY HARD this time around to pick a Top 3. There was some amazing projects out there and beautiful works of "art"!!!

OKAY....now on to the Challenge!

CHALLENGE #4~COLOR CHALLENGE

Here is what the DT came up with for you!

Miranda:

Now that is a yummy piece of cake....don't you think? The best part of this cake is....there are NO calories and there is a prize inside!!!

Amanda:

She thought her page wasn't very good but I wouldn't agree with that. I love all the distressing of this

Stacie:

Stacie used one of Tracey's newest images.....soooo cute! I love that die cut/border!

Heide:

Super sweet....love her coloring and the shades of the colors she used! And wonderful flowers.

Okay, that's it. As always, you may enter 2 times, the challenge runs for 2 weeks and be sure to enter your project into the monthly contest as well...gives you more opportunites to win images AND you might even win a guest DT spot!!!

Freebie for our Fabulous Followers!!!!

It's that day again! Available for 24 hours only!
Make sure to become a followers and never miss a single freebie!!
Have a super Monday my friends!

Girl walking on the beach.

Not the most creative title but, I like the image. I"m anxious to work on her to see if I can get the water right. I think I'll use colored pencils. It looks pretty challenging. There's a lot of water to color.
I hope everyone is having a terrific weekend. It's so pretty here in Indiana. Warm and sunny! Yay!
Have a wonderful evening!!!!

Tracey

Last post of the day! Seriously!

I just had to draw another Paisley Mermaid. I had so much fun with the first one. I hope everyone is having a nice evening.

Tracey