Skipping Stones Design

Happy Tuesday everyone!!!  You are in for an amazing treat!  Yesterday you got to know a little about Ashley Cannon Newell. We are SO lucky to have her as our Sketch Artist this month!!!  Now you get to experience her design talent first hand.  Here is her versatile and fun sketch:

This sketch will make you feel like a pro~ seriosuly this is one you’ve gotta try. Not convinced yet?  Take a look at what our A~mazing guest did with it.

This month’s talented guest designers, are like an allstar papercrafting lineup.  Their work is amazing, and sure to inspire.  Yet met them yesterday, now see their take on Ashley’s amazing sketch:  

Ashley

Teresa

Sarah

Lea

I am So excited to show you the following cards.  This is your first look at our FANTASTIC new Design Team.  I feel so lucky to have such a talented group of ladies to work with!  They will be here to inspire you with their cards, share tips and tricks, and so much more.  Here is their first post together as the Skipping Stones Design Team:

Amy

Ann

Barb

Brenda

Gladys

Jennifer

Kandi

Tammie

Wendy

Now it’s your turn to get inky with us!  Common and play along! This weeks winner will get $7.25 off of any stamp set in the store, along with a badge for you blog!

Also please help me give a warm welcome to our amazing guest, and our new design team.  A winner from the comments will also be selected to win half off any stamp set in the store.   We love your comments! 

Hi everyone!

I’m back today to share some special announcements and our winners from our sketch challenges!

I’m so excited to tell you about some of the new things that will be happening on the Skipping Stones Design Blog! For starters, here are some of the weekly things we’ll have happening for you, starting next week!

Mondays: Meet and Greet Monday- the first Monday of every month you’ll meet our new Guest DT for the month, and also our Guest Sketch Artists! The Stamp Tramps section of the website will also be updated so you can get to know our current DT a little bit better!

Tuesdays: SSD Sketch Tuesday

Wednesdays: Winners Wednesday

Thursdays: Tips and Tricks Thursday ** coming next week!

We have some other great ideas coming for Friday and Saturday that we can’t wait to share with you in the coming months! In the meantime, we’d like to tell you about a special Blog Hop we’ll be doing on 9/15.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Skipping Stones Design would like to give back to that cause. More details will be coming out, but a certain “Bras” set (hint: what comes after Bras #1?!) will be our featured release during the hop, you’ll find out more about the discounts going on, what SSD is doing to further our donation to the Susan G. Komen foundation, and how YOU can also be part of giving back to this charity!  Not only that, but we’ll continue to give back into October with another new set designed specifically to “stamp out cancer” and even more! I hope you are as excited about this as I am!

Now for our winners from the last two sketches! Random.org has given us two random winners, but all of the cards were exceptional and I am blown away each week by your creativity! I’m so excited to see all of your beautiful creations each week, so keep them coming! If your name and number are listed below please contact Heather regarding your winner badge and your $5 off certificate!

Sketch #38 – #4 – Laura Cox
Sketch #39 – #1 – Debby

Congrats winners!

Monday kicks off a brand new week so please stop by again!

Have a great day! Kandi

Last week we had a record number of participants in our Sketch challenge.  SO to celebrate I chose Two winners!!!

They are:

#1Laurel S

#12 Allison

Please contact me to get your $5 prize and your badge!

I am So excited about our new release this month.  Everything came together so perfectly.  I not only love the sentiments but I love how they look too!  This was the first time I payed someone to help design the “word art” Kryssi Ng did an amazing job, don’t you think????   Here is another sneak peek at “Always Here”:

Wow! Time flies when you havin’ fun!  I can’t believe the kids are going to be back in school in 3 weeks or so.

I also can’t believe how far behind I got on announcing winners of the sketch challenges!!!

So let’s catch up on that first.  IF your name and number are listed below please contact me regarding your winner badge and your $5 off certificate.

Sketch #34 winner is #5 Agata

Sketch #35 winner is #3  KC

Sketch #36 winner is #4 Amy

I am so excited to see how many people entered our sketch challenge this week.  I am also thrilled to be giving you a sneak peek at a stamp set that has a very special place in my heart.  We will be releasing it for sale in two weeks time.  Here is an up close look at “always Here”

Looks like I got a bit behind in announcing winners from the sketch challenges, so two are going to be announced in this post today.

I used The Random generator to choose  winners from the following sketches:

Sketch number 32 winners are

Teresa Kline from “Enjoy the Va. Sunshine”

True Random Number Generator Min:

Barb Gmitro Best From “Barb’s Best Creations

The winner from Sketch #33 is

Silvia Mabie from Mabie Stampin

* Just a note The Inlinkz is still open for another 15 hours on this challenge. If I get a total of 3 more links  before the cut off timethis after noon I will pick another winner.

Now about the Prizes: Normaly the prize is a badge and $5 off of any stamp set in the store.  However last week I made a boo-boo in the post.  I mistakenly said $10 off and a badge.  See what I get for working too much, and sleepin’ too little *blush   So the winners from this post will get the $10 off of a stamp set along with the badge.  If you are a winner please contact me with your email address so I can send you your goodies:0)

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners and THANK YOU to all who have been entering the challenges!!!

Last week we had  4 wonderful stampers (+ 1 awesome DT member) who entered our 1st Inlinkz challenge.
I’ve decided to celelbrate by giving all 4 entrants $5 off any purchase in the storeand a challenge badge.

It’s not too late to enter this week’s challenge *Wink *Wink

Here is sketch SSD 032:

Here are the bigger versions of  their cards show in the order they were entered:

 Laura Cox:

Tenia Nelson

Barb Turpin

Denise M.

Congratulations! 

Please contact me with your email addresses so I can send you your badge and the coupon code for $5 off!

We have a WINNER for SSD028 Sketch challenge!

There is still time to enter your link in the comment section for sketch SSD029….
Entries/links are accepted for each sketch challenge until Mondays @12:00 mountain time!

This is Sketch SSD028 by Teri Anderson:

I had a blast with it .  I created this card with “Fangs and Fur” (to be released on June 29th) ,Bo bunnies Mamaratzi patterned paper, and bling is from Prima.

Our Sketch challenge WINNER is Cheri Sinclair from Graphicat creations! Cheri  won $5 off of any stamp set and an award badge for her blog, all for just creating a card and joining the challenge!  Congratulations Cheri!

Will YOU be our next winner?

I used a random number genorater to pick the winners.  

These were the numbers and the winners: Please contact me with your address and I will get your loot out to you asap;0)

11Pam Spradlin

13Amanda D- creatively amused

47Rufus

Since I didn’t specify which post to comment on and a lot of people commented on the announcement post I picked one from those as well:

6Jo

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