Happy Birthday Christy!

We are hosting a very special "birthday" blog hop this month! 
Our Super-Manager, Christy celebrated her birthday yesterday (no joke!) We hope you hop to all the DT's blogs and see their lovely birthday inspired creations they design for Christy.

You need to start at The Stamping Boutique Blog and work your way through the group! Please post on each blog to be in the draw for the FREE images!

The hop will run from April 2nd 12AM EST and you will have until April 3rd 6PM EST. After that time, the comments will be tallied and the winner will be randomly picked.

Here is the hop list:

The Stamping Boutique Blog (YOU ARE HERE!) 

Melissa

Amanda

Aletha

Christy

Colleen 

Collette 

Crystal 

Dardi 

Dawn 

Heide

Jeannie

Jennifer 

Kecia 

Marie 

Michelle

Miranda 

Rhonda

Sara 

Stacie 

Suzi McKenzie 

Happy Hopping!

Check us out, we are featured in ScrapStreet Magazine!

Have you heard of ScrapStreet Magazine?  Well if not you will want to check them out as they are an online magazine chalked full of wonderful inspiration and ideas.  We are so excited as we have a feature article in their April edition, so hurry over and check it out here (make sure to scroll through pages as we are in pages 4-12) and see many wonderful projects from the ScrapStreet team!

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it." -Marilyn Monroe

When I saw this quote, I knew I had to do something with it. This is what I came up with. I hope you like it.
Have a fabulous evening friends.
Tracey  :D

Quirky Crafts

 

We are once again sponsoring the challenge over at Quirky Crafts and this week the challenge is to create a twisted easel card and/or Mother's Day gift.  You still have time to enter and you will want to check out the spectacular projects from the QT team here.

 Suzi  has created this wonderful card using Audrey's Picnic.  

Don't you just love those handmade flowers and pretty color pallet?

Collette has created this delightful card using Bunny Egg.  Nice vibrant colors (love that orange) and added texture to polka dots on bow make this card a real treat!

Challenge #3 and Winner

Please let me apologize again for being late...I promise this is not me, I have some serious jet lag. Wow....we have been home for 5 days and I'm still having the hardest time getting up in the morning. My kids however...wow...they adjust so quickly and easily, it's amazing. We are so very happy to finally be back in the states and seeing our family after a very long 4 1/2 years.

But you didn't come here to listen to my life story right?! So on with the good stuff!

Winner from Challenge #2

Lawren

Ahobby-Holic

Please be sure to stop by her blog and leave her some love for her fab card!

Winner was picked by random.org

Lawren please shoot me an email at april_lower@yahoo.com to claim your prize!

Top 3

Crafty Fairies Blog

Anna R.

Gramma's Room

Congrats ladies....grab the button below and display it on your blog...you deserve it!!

Awe....okay....now we are ready for the challenge

Challenge #3

Handmade flowers

Handmade by YOU!!! I want to see those wonderful, creative, handmade flowers. You can make them any way you want; paper, fabric, punches, ribbon....you name it you can do it!!!

Here is what the DT came up with:

Amanda:

How fantastic is this layout! This just pushes you right into spring!!! And look at the image she used....I just love how she wrapped "real" thread around it!

Collette:

Look at this lovely handmade flower!!! How fabulous it is!! Stunning coloring on this one too!

Hannah:

Mmmmmmm.....rolled flowers....these have become so popular lately and they are sooo cute!!!

Love this very springy card!

Michelle:

Wow...those flowers are beautiful...I need to ask her how she made those! love that DP!

Miranda:

What a stunning card. These colors are so pretty and lush! All the different directions and DP...stunning! Oh and she cut out that entire image...wow...that must have taken some time! And did you notice that AJ has a personalized shirt on...how cute!

Stacie:

Yummmmmmyyyyyy.....these colors are soooo great! The flowers look fabulous with those nice bright colors and the water really does look like it's dripping off the umbrella.

Jeannie:

These flowers are just stunning....that silky ribbon is just so lush and pretty! Beautiful!!!

Thank you ladies for joining us last week and I hope you all will be back for this challenge. The challenge runs for 2 weeks so plenty of time to join in!

"Thoughts"

Ok, indulge me a minute. This image is one of artistic images that probably won't sell but, that' ok. I drew it for me. I call it "Thoughts" because it represents how most of my thoughts are loving and kind but, once in awhile. "oh my!" My kids, or something will just set me off and I just lose it. These are the swirls. I could have made them a little crazier but, I didn't want it to be too nuts. Anyway, that's the thought process behind this image. There's probably some peri-menopausal issues behind my madness but, we won't discuss that. LOL!
This was my mood at 4am this morning and thank you so much for listening to me ramble. :D

Tracey

Princess Jennifer Latte the Pirate

Good morning,
I wanted to share a new Princess Jennifer Latte. PJL the Pirate! She's a special request for Virtual Stamp Night (VSN) at SplitCoastStampers. The mini VSN is April 29 with the main event being May 20-21.
Our fabulousTSB host is Michelle Single. Caffeine & Stamps
Happy Tuesday!
Tracey

Fabulous Followers Freebie!!!!!!

It's a new week and new freebie!
This will only be available for 24 hours so if you like it, grab it!!!
Have a super week friends!

Tracey

New digital paper at The Stamping Boutique!!!

Good morning everyone,
I have some exciting news. Jen of  JLJ Designs  has designed some amazing digital papers to match our Cynthia fairies. I'm so excited about this!!!! They come in 12 x 12 or 8 1/2 x11. I hope everyone has a chance to check them out. Jen did a bang up job. Way to go!!!!!!!

Have a super day!!
Tracey

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!