Challenge #24- Use Teal or Turquoise

Happy Monday Crafty Friends!!

Welcome to Eureka Stamps' 24th Challenge!

We are really excited that you have Joined us this week!

Thank you so much to Everyone who joined us for our challenge last week!! We really loved seeing all the beautiful creations!! 

Our Winner For Challenge #23 Via Random.org is:
 83. DebbieM 

Congratulations! Please Email Tina with the words Eureka Challenge Winner in the Subject Line! Please go to the Eureka Stamps Site & Pick out the two digital Images of your Choice! 
* Also, don't forget to Grab the Winner Badge from our Side Bar for for your Blog!!

Our Top 5 Entries For this Week Are:
in no specific Order
 93. Rebecca    
 8. Berni C  

 47. An  
 20. Judith  
 14. Scrappellen  

Congratulations! Please Grab The Top 5 Badge From our Side Bar to Display on your Blog!

**** The Prize for Winning Our Challenge is 2 Digital Images from our Store of YOUR Choice. However, if you play and Win with a Eureka Stamps Image, You will win Your Choice of 5 Digital Images****
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THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE IS:

Use Teal or Turquoise

Our Fantastic Guest Designer 

for January  Diane Ahlers

I've been married to my best friend for 36 years and we raised three pretty great kids and just welcomed our first grandson. I work full time as a Special Education Secretary in an elementary school. It's been a wonderful life so far and now that our children are grown it's time to have fun. My husband just got into making guitars and I got into making cards. I started with stamping, but very quickly fell in love with coloring digital images. When I found Copics I was in heaven! I'm learning a little more every day. My Blog is  http://ahlers5.blogspot.com/

Here is Diane's fabulous card featuring Images:
digi47501 Best Friends & digi24605 I Cherish 

 We'd Like to Thank Diane for a Wonderful Month with us!! We really appreciate all her gorgeous Creations & hope she's comes back to visit really soon!! Please stop by her BLOG & leave her some love!!

Here is some inspiration from our Design Team!! 

Karen 

Showcasing Image digi4203 Sm Cake 

 

Sandra

Showcasing Image digi56401 Hummingbird Birthday 

Cheryl

Showcasing Image:   digi31202 Baroque Square

Louise 

  Showcasing Images: digi20801 Butterfly & Sunflower & digi4305(475) Happy Birthday Script 

Soma

    Showcasing Image: digi47501 Best Friends

Sara

    Showcasing Images: 1001 Heart Flowers in Frame & digi1101 Be My Valentine

Kristie

     Showcasing stamps: 6301(447) Peacock Feather & 9004(557) Happy Anniversary

 

Jackie 

 Showcasing Image: digi2006(424) Rainy Day Duck

Vicky

Showcasing Image: digi13201(462) Celebrating Kitty 

Tina 

 Showcasing Images:  digi42001 Shy Girl  & digi24406 Love is in the Air

Suzi

digi47501 Best Friends & digi24605 I Cherish 

Paula

  Showcasing Image: digi27504 What a Wonderful

  Marji 

Showcasing Image:  digi31602 Lovesick Kitty

Joann - Sassy Raggedy

Digi 35702 Rose Border & Digi 32204 I Am The Vine

For full details on the designers' cards you can click on their name which is linked to their blogs! We love to hear from you, so you are always welcome to visit, we would love to receive your comments!

Reminder:

To play along with us, please post a direct link to the card/project on your blog using inlinkz and link back to our challenge from your blog! 

You can join in as many other challenges with ours as you like! You can only enter our challenge a MAXIMUM of 3 times per challenge. Please do NOT backlink to other cards you have previously Posted.

If you are interested in Joining us for a month long Guest Designer Spot, Please put GDT next to your name on your entry! 

Thanks Again For Playing With Us!

Eureka Stamps is Sponsoring Artistic Inspirations

Eureka! Stamps is sponsoring a Artistic Inspirations this week

Come join the fun over on this challenge blog for a chance to win 5 Eureka! Stamps digital stamps of your choice!

Artistic Inspirations Challenge

We hope you will join us as we support Through The Craft Room Door's fun challenges and we look forward to seeing your creations.

Happy craftin !

Eureka Stamps is Sponsoring Crafter's Cafe

Eureka! Stamps is sponsoring a Crafter's Cafe this week

Come join the fun over on this challenge blog for a chance to win 5 Eureka! Stamps digital stamps of your choice!

Crafter's Cafe Challenge

 

We hope you will join us as we support Through The Craft Room Door's fun challenges and we look forward to seeing your creations.

Happy craftin !

Bodacious Backgrounds

It's Wednesday, and you know what that means - time for the Techniques and Tutorial Team to step up to the plate.

Deb here today with a tutorial on background stamps. I love me a good background stamp cause you can always create designer paper (DP) in colors that match your project, even if you don't have a store-bought paper that works. I particularly love Eureka background stamps because you can often match up background images with focal images. Check out the project  below.

This card features Eureka's Filigree Background 39201 and Large Filigree Heart 24601. See what I mean by matching background and focal images?

Let me show you how his card came together. First of all, cut a base card from Stardream metallic cardstock at 5 1/2 by 7 1/2 inches - yup, that's a pretty large card. I like Stardream because it's substantial enough to hold up to the weight of multiple layers without sagging when you try to display the card.

I selected a piece of smooth, cream card, just a bit larger than the finished size I had in mind. After inking up my background stamp with black VersaFine ink, I stamped it off on a piece of scrap paper (to give a lighter colored impression) before stamping on the right of my cardstock. I try to line up my stamp with the paper keeping in mind where the actual image begins so I can place the second image pretty much in line with the first. And I repeated that whole process on the left. You can see the fine line between my two impressions. I try to do better than that but, in this case, that was good enough due to the card design I had in mind.

As you can see in the photo above, I cut a piece of Recollection metallic cardstock in a gunetal grey and decorated the bottom edge with Spellbinders Classic Edges 2. I then cut a 2 1/2 inch strip of the gunmetal paper the width of my cream background. I cut the scalloped border with the Spellbinder, and embossed the whole piece with a Cuttlebug Hearts folder. All layers were then adhered.

Another piece of the cream cardstock was stamped three times with the focal image, twice in Distress Worn Lipstick and heat embossed, and once in Distress Festive Berries and heat embossed with a sparkle powder.

I wanted to pop up my focal images so, as you can see in these two photos (above), I cut a heart with my Cricut from scrap card and traced a heart shape around my focal images then hand cut them.

I adhered the darker heart to a piece of the gunmetal card and hand cut around it to create a small border.

The two pink hearts were adhered to the card, and I used pop dots to attach the middle heart. A bit of ribbon and along with Liquid Pearl and glitter glue dots completed the project.

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Above is another project using the same background technique. This card measures 6" square. For this project, I used Eureka's Heart Background 57901, Love Potion Bottle 35802 and, for the inside, Cascading Hearts 14707

Below, you can see how the background and inside images looked.

That wraps up today's tutorial. As always, I look forward to your comments.

Don't forget to scope out what my Techniques and Tutorial partner, Joann, aka Sassy Raggedy has presented today on the QKR Stampede Blog. And remember you are always welcome at my personal blog Paper Crazy Lady. See you next Wednesday!

Eureka Stamps is Sponsoring Through the Craft Room Door

Eureka! Stamps is sponsoring a Through the Craft Room Door this week

Come join the fun over on this challenge blog for a chance to win 5 Eureka! Stamps digital stamps of your choice!

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge

Their fun challenge this week is

Anything Goes

We hope you will join us as we support Through The Craft Room Door's fun challenges and we look forward to seeing your creations.

Happy craftin !

Challenge #23- Anything Goes

Happy Monday Crafty Friends!!

Welcome to Eureka Stamps' 23rd Challenge!

We are really excited that you have Joined us this week!

Thank you so much to Everyone who joined us for our challenge last week!! We really loved seeing all the beautiful creations!! 

Our Winner For Challenge #22 Via Random.org is:

 21. CraftyGirl  

 

Congratulations! Please Email Tina with the words Eureka Challenge Winner in the Subject Line! Please go to the Eureka Stamps Site & Pick out the two digital Images of your Choice! 
* Also, don't forget to Grab the Winner Badge from our Side Bar for for your Blog!!

Our Top 5 Entries For this Week Are:
in no specific Order
  19. Christy Sugiarto  
 9. Mian Hahne  
 3. Elizabeth H.  

 15. Cheryl F  

17. Papersniffer   

Congratulations! Please Grab The Top 5 Badge From our Side Bar to Display on your Blog!

**** The Prize for Winning Our Challenge is 2 Digital Images from our Store of YOUR Choice. However, if you play and Win with a Eureka Stamps Image, You will win Your Choice of 5 Digital Images****

**** Check out our Weekly Tutorial!!! This Week: Bodacious Backgrounds****

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE IS:

 ANYTHING GOES 

Our Fantastic Guest Designer 

for January  Diane Ahlers

I've been married to my best friend for 36 years and we raised three pretty great kids and just welcomed our first grandson. I work full time as a Special Education Secretary in an elementary school. It's been a wonderful life so far and now that our children are grown it's time to have fun. My husband just got into making guitars and I got into making cards. I started with stamping, but very quickly fell in love with coloring digital images. When I found Copics I was in heaven! I'm learning a little more every day. My Blog is  http://ahlers5.blogspot.com/

Here is Diane's fabulous card featuring Images:
digi 3601(545) Flower Basket & digi 4809(195) In My Thoughts

Here is some inspiration from our Design Team!! 

Sandra

 digi40403 Happiness Like a Butterfly 

digi58901 Large Lacy Butterfly

Jackie 

 digi13803(463) Girl Balloon Holder

digi4305(475) Happy Birthday Script 

Cheryl

digi14204 Soccer Girl

Karen 

 digi5903(412) Best Friend

digi24605 I Cherish 

Paula

 digi11601 Cupcake Wreath

Kristie 

24601 Lg Filagree Heart

Sara

 digi25405 Puppy Peeker

digi25402 Kitty Peeker 

Soma

 digi11806 Granny Balloon

Vicky

  digi5302(551) Don't Panic 

   

Louise 

digi24801 Dragon Blowing Candles 

digi15107 Roars with Fun 

  Marji 

digi2906(416) Cat Present

Suzi

digi34503 Seasons Border 

digi35402 Season of Change

Tina

digi11504 Michael Angel 

digi4605 I Miss You

For full details on the designers' cards you can click on their name which is linked to their blogs! We love to hear from you, so you are always welcome to visit, we would love to receive your comments!

Reminder:

To play along with us, please post a direct link to the card/project on your blog using inlinkz and link back to our challenge from your blog! 

You can join in as many other challenges with ours as you like! You can only enter our challenge a MAXIMUM of 3 times per challenge. Please do NOT backlink to other cards you have previously Posted.

Thanks Again For Playing With Us!

  

Eureka! Stamps Sponsoring Some Fun Challenges

   Eureka! Stamps is sponsoring  a few New Challenges this week

Come join the fun at these challenge blogs  for a chance to win 5 Eureka! Stamps of your choice!

Seems a Little Sketchy

 

 

They have a fun sketch to play along with

Tammy's Scrapin Corner

 

Their fun theme this week is

Red and/or Hearts

We hope you will join us as we support their challenge and we look forward to seeing your creations.

Happy craftin !