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!

Where is TSB this week?

Do You Stack Up? This a wonderful challenge site that we are sponsoring and the challenge is "Yellow."  Check out what the TSB design team has created uses all the many shades of yellow!

Case Study has graciously invited us back to sponsor again this week and just wait until you see the awesome card created by Silke Ledlow this week that Andrea and Suzi used for inspiration.

Also this week at One Stitch at a Time the theme is "New Baby" and the OSAAT team has created some spectacular projects! Stacie, TSB Designer, has also created this adorably sweet card for the challenge.

This week over at The Crazy Challenge the theme is "Easter", so head on over and show us all the cute projects you have made using bunnies, eggs, and yummy delights!

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

Man, why can't I make a card????????

I wish I could make ONE card like my designers do. Mine are always so plain. So boring. I try to spruce them up but, then they just looked like a first grader did them. uggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess I'll stick with drawing. :(
Tracey
(The bendy part in the middle is where the pop-ups smooshed down when the scanner shut)

March Monthly Challenge Winners-Redraws for Uncliamed Prizes

March Monthly Challenge Winners as selected by Random.org  are as follows:

Random Winner  is True Random Number Generator Min: 1  Max: 64  Result: 48 Anne

Guest Designer for May is True Random Number Generator Min: 1  Max: 64  Result: 2 Linda B

Most projects was a tie between  Miranda and Colleen both with 8 projects posted! 



Also we have a couple redraws for prizes that were never claimed :

February Monthly Contest True Random Number Generator Min: 1  Max: 87  Result: 71 Emma


January Follower winner: Janet



Congrats to you all, make sure to grab your winner badge on sidebar.  Please email me at micahzane@yahoo.com to claim your prizes!

Paisley Mermaid

Another newbie for today!
She was so much fun that I think I may do more.
Have a super day everyone!
Tracey

The Birthday Fairy!

I drew this little fairy last night. I really need to start working on images to work for boys. I have two sisters and two daughters. No boys anywhere. I just don't know how to relate to boys. What are boys into these days???

Where is TSB this week?

We are sponsoring several challenge sites that you will want to check out for your chance to win FREE images!

Drunken Stampers- challenge is "to sponge your own background"
Card Cupids- challenge is "dots and stripes"
Top Tip Tuesday- challenge is "Thank You"
Critter Sketch Challenge- challenge is "fancy folds"

The Princess and the Pea

I worked on this today and thought it came out pretty cute. I hope you all like her too.
Perfect for all of our little princesses out there. :D
Have a wonderful evening!

Tracey

Our Winner is...

Our birthday blog hop winner is............

JACQUELINE!! yay! Woohoo! :D 

Jacqueline, can you email Tracey with your choice of (3) images from The Stamping Boutique?

Thanks for participating everyone! We hope you join us for our next TSB event!

Attention artistic divas!

I have a quote/image today by Cleopatra. I love this quote. My husband so didn't get it.

"Fool! I could have poisened you a hundred times if I could have lived without you."
                                                                                                                -Cleopatra
Isn't it great? I just loved it. I hope you all enjoy it also.

Have a wonderful evening!
Tracey

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!