New Birthday digi set!

I just finished this and had to post it. I wanted to share it with everyone. I'm so bad about waiting and having image releases. I hope everyone likes it and is having a terrific weekend!
Tracey

Aletha Williams using "Aletha"

The amazingly talented Aletha Williams made this creation using her namesake, "Aletha".
I just fell in love with it. "Aletha" is the greek goddess of truth. I thought it was just perfect for this image. The image can be found in our store http://thestampingboutique.com/and the background image is Ippity/Unity and can be found here http://www.alethajanesgotippity.blogspot.com/
This image is also great for Mother's Day.
Have a wonderful evening friends,
Tracey

Dutch Dare Card Challenge Sponsor

It's a Celebration over at Dutch Dare Card Challenges and this week marks their 105th challenge.  So to celebreate this AMAZING accomplishment, they are having a blog hop with lots of prizes up for grabs inclduing FREE digis from The Stamping Boutique!

The challenge is all about celebrations, make projects that "celebrate things in your lives"- the possibilities are endless on this one new house, job, baby, birthday, anniversary, etc. Now to lead off the celebration the TSB team made some wonderful celebration projects to inspire you!

Digital Tuesday Sponsor

Time for you to raid your button stash for this week's challenge at Digital Tuesday sponsored by 

The Stamping Boutique.  The challenge is "Button Up"- Use a few buttons or a lot of buttons, just be sure there is a button somewhere on your creation.

 

 Kecia has created this super sweet card using Patch.  Wonderful coloring and a perfect sentiment to compliment the image, not to mention all those fun buttons! Check out her blog for all the details!

I'll Pretend to Hug You Until I See You.

Good morning,
I drew this little thing last night while watching TV with my husband and stepson. I have no idea why I'm into these little whimsy quotes right now. They're just so much fun to draw. This was the 4th image I drew yesterday. I drew 3 for Unity and then this one. I was on a roll. I love days like that! I kept trying to work on my chart for my Prisma class and some stuff for my Copic class but, drawing kept calling me back. Sketching and drawing is my first love by far. I'm just not happy if I'm not working on a drawing.
Thank you so much for stopping by!! :D
Tracey

(if you'd like, take this image and start your own work of art! ) :D

Everyboady Art Challenge

Join us this week as we also sponsor the challenge at Everybody Art Challenge. They are a blog for every style of art and are happy to see your creations, whatever you will do, if you create something "cute" or "non cute", all of it is allowed and welcome.  The challenge this week is "Happy Birthday" so grab those birthday images and get to creating a special gift for someone getting ready to celebrate their special day!

Freebie for our Fabulous Followers!!!!

We've decided to offer a weekly image to our fabulous followers. Make sure to become a follower so you don't miss a week. It will only be available for 24 hours. :D :D :D

Stamp With Fun Sponsor

"Think Spring" because that is the challenge at Stamp With Fun Sponsored by The Stamping Boutique this week! We are finally getting some spring temps here in my area and I know that soon I will see all those beautiful flowers popping up!  So why not grab all those fun spring images and papers and create a project for this challenge, one lucky person is going to win 5 FREE image of their choice!

Now please meet Andrea Cloutier, she won a guest designer spot in the Monthly contest!  See why it pays to submit those TSB projects, you could be a winner too!

Hi, I'm Andrea and absolutely love crafting in general having started at a very young age. Drawing was always a passion, using colored pencils, crayons and paper to pass the time growing up. I redrew album covers, colored in numerous coloring books and even wrote to penpals across the whole country! The mailman was my best friend!! To this day, I love getting good ole snail mail, well everything except bills of course.

I have been rubber stamping since 1997 and scrapbooking since 1998. I really can not find a specific word to describe my style – I just love to work with any product to see what I can come up with! I love color, texture and tools, so Copics, ribbon and punches are usually used somewhere in everything I make. Cards and scrapbook pages are my usual suspects with ATCs, Inchies and altered projects thrown in. I love sharing with fellow crafters, so let’s all have some fun!

Now check out what the team has created for this challenge:

 

Today we are going you to challenge you to do something with those digi images that you may have never done before, so you won't want to miss this challenge we are sponsoring at C.R.A.F.T. Challenges.  OK what we would like for you to do is "paper piece" with your digis.  Now don't freak out if you have never done this as here are a couple tutorials to help you.

Paper Piecing Tutorial by Julie @ C.R.A.F.T.

Paper Piecing Tutorial from Tiffany's Doodles

Now for your inspiration from Michelle of The Stamping Boutique team and the C.R.A.F.T. team.

Where to find The Boutique this week!

Our plan to take over the internet world seems to be coming true this week, as you can find The Stamping Boutique all over sponsoring many wonderful challenge sites!  Our fabulous design team has been working their fingers to the bone creating projects to share with you!  Not to mention our fearless leader, Tracey, has put some more new images in the store!

Alright up first how about a little "glitter and gems" to start things off with a bang!  Then head on over to

One Stitch at a Time to join the challenge.  Up for grabs are 5 Digis of winner's choice!

Are you ready to PARTY? Well then you want to head over to The Shabby Tea Room as they are celebrating their 1st birthday with a HUGE celebration and we are excited to be one of many sponsors!  For all the info on the celebration and challenges, click here to join the fun!  Up for grabs are 5 Digis of winner's choice.

Crafty Cardmakers has invited us to sponsor one their "Spotlight challenges" this week. What is a spotlight challenge? They will challenge you to look at various ways of using a technique, product or style so it could be looking at making your own flowers and embellishments or using paint on your designs. They are designed to be a little more of a challenge than the norm around blogger as we feel that is the best way to learn and develop your skills is to actually step out of your comfort zones and try new things.

So for this week's Crafty Cardmakers Spotlight Challenges you are to "make your own background/designer paper". Be that the inky way or the digital way, so long as you start with a blank sheet in front of you and make papers of your very own then its a pass! Its so rewarding making your own unique backgrounds and trying something you may have been putting off for a while so come and take the plunge and see what you come up with! Up for grabs 5 Digis to one lucky winner!

With Spring fast approaching that means Mother's Day is just around the corner, so why not get ahead and make a lovely project for those special ladies in your lives.  Crafty Creations

challenge this week is just that, show us all those mom inspired projects!  Up for grabs are 5 Digis of winner's choice! 

Now what are you waiting for go spread the TSB word and enter those projects for your chance to win FREE images.  Don't forget our monthly contest and TSB Challenge #2 for additional chances to win images!

I Follow My Dreams...

Hi everyone,
This is just a little doodle that came into my mind that I thought I'd draw. She was so much fun! I think I'm going to do another one! LOL!
Have a wonderful evening!
Tracey

Challenge #2~Sketch + Green

Welcome everyone to challenge #2. Thank you so much to everyone that joined us for our first challenge and I hope you all have come back to join us again!

Before I get to the challenge I am going to announce the winner picked by random.org:

Winner for Challenge #1 

#18

The Navy Wife

Congrats....shoot me an email to claim your images!!

april_lower@yahoo.com

And be sure to grab the button on the sidebar to add to your blog!!

Now for the Top 3 picks, which I must say was very hard!!! You ladies really "brought it" for our first challenge!!!

~TOP 3~

Anita

Just a Pigment of My Imagination

Chris Olsen

Twinkles Glow with Stamps

DQ
Queelister's Place

Girls grab the Top 3 button and add it to your blog...you deserve to show off your winning!

 

Okay....I have to apologize for this being so late today. I was totally finished, getting ready to add the linky thing and guess what?! My stupid internet went out.....how FRUSTRATING!!! So I lost EVERYTHING after this point.

So, with that being said...let's get on with the challenge!!!

FYI: You can enter 2 projects per challenge. You will be entered 2 times if you use a TSB image or a scrapbook page AND if you use a TSB image AND do a scrapbook page you will be entered a total of 3 times..woohooo! The challenge run for 2 weeks so you have plenty of time join us!

CHALLENGE #2

Sketch + Green

Your project does not need to be all green, I just want to see green some place on your project!

Are you ready for this? I mean I have some major inspiration for all of you today. I'm not sure you can handle it......but here you go:

AMANDA:

Wow... now how lovely is this? I love how the focus is on the photo and the title...warms my heart!

CHRISTY D. :

Holy Moly...this is awesome right? I mean Kalie should be proud of her image today...look what Christy did with it! I love the embossing on the circle!

Guest DT for March ANDREA:

What a pretty picture for spring. I just love this DP as well. And wow...I have been bragging about Andrea and this "techinque" she has with acetate and lots and lots of glitter on her images!!! Perfect!!!

COLLETTE:

Well, looky here...a new Easter image from Tracey. Doesn't this just make you want to run out and buy some peep's??? This card is super yummy!!!

DARDI:

So, I'm in awe of this image. I actually asked Dardi what she used to color her image in and she told me she used the computer...what?????? Doesn't this totally look hand colored? It's so light, and flowing and shaded so nicely and done on the computer! I am wowed by that! And look at that border...so pretty with the ribbon going through it.

Guest DT for March HANNAH:

Now that's a moose!!! Her coloring is so great and I just love the circle...really looks like this moose is just hanging out in the middle of a field with a flower!!!

PAT:

Lil' Miss Audrey is pretty popular today! Look at this great card...I just love the little crocheted flower with buttons in the corner.

STACIE:

See why I said Audrey was popular?? Another adorable card using her! I just love the contrast in the color of the ribbon and that buckle...just love that gold!

JENNIFER:

I just love to see some of the older images being used. This image is from the Medival collection and what a cute little princess...I just love how she's the total focus of this card! Pretty Pretty!

MIRANDA:

I'm not even sure what to say besides FANTASTIC!!! I mean really...I love this image and I love how she used a bit of glitter on the tiny fairies (you can see better if you enlarge the image) and that DP...it looks like one layer being torn away and another one is underneath.

Wow...so I think I'm done! Goodness...this was the longest post EVER....doesn't help that it took me 5 hours to get it published! UGH! Dang technology! I hope you all will be joining us over the next two weeks for our challenge and have a wonderful St. Patrick's Day!!!

Aletha

Good morning everyone,
I have a new "Enchantment" image today. I thought it would be nice for Mother's Day.
It's cold and rainy here in Indiana. A perfect day for crafting so I think I'm going to make my niece a birthday card. I hope everyone has a wonderful week!
Tracey