Skipping Stones Design

Good morning!

Today, I am delighted to introduce you to the newest stamp set in the Skipping Stones family, Victorian Christmas!  Victorian Christmas is an elegant set that you can reach for time and again for all of your holiday stamping needs!  Cards, tags, decor, this little stamp set packs a punch.

Just wait until you see the amazing cards made by our design team and last month’s guest designers!

JJ Bolton created this stunning card in blue and white with just a touch of shimmer. Placing the tree in the die cut negative and the sentiment banner backed in gold is pure genius!

 Miriam’s traditional holiday color scheme of red, gold and green is anything but with the addition of glitter and woodgrain.  Love!

Stephanie had a fresh take on the set in shades of green and aqua.  I love the gems in blue and white and the glittery snowflake is the perfect accent!

Judith opted for rich golds and purples tempered with a palate of white.  I don’t think CAS has ever looked so opulent!

Glenda created this dazzling card in shades of merlot, gold and evergreen.  I love how the embossed panel echos the scrolling in the tree.  Brilliant!

Wendy was able to hang her ornament from a tree in this CAS card.  I love how she added the double score lines.  It really enhances the design without taking away from the focal point.

Our new release celebration continues tomorrow with a super fun blog hop featuring Victorian Christmas as well as some of Skipping Stones other festive holiday sets with a sketch that could come in very handy this time of year.  Curious?  Stop back tomorrow to see more!

Until then friends, have a great Monday!

Katie Gehring

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 2 of our festivities celebrating Skipping Stones’ newest release, Cheers!  Today, our design team and guests are showcasing our newest set along with a new sketch challenge from Kim Kesti!

Be sure to hop along and visit each designer’s blog for lots of ideas for using the new set and new sketch! Here is our hop order for today:

When you are done hopping, be sure to come back to the Skipping Stones Blog and link up your take on this week’s sketch challenge.   We have just a few simple guidelines for our sketch challenges:

1. Do not link more than five total challenges (including this one).

2. Create a NEW card based on the sketch (no back linking).

3. You do not have to use SSD stamps, but we LOVE when you do!

4. Link up with a DIRECT link to your post in the linky below!

And don’t forget to have fun! One lucky winner will be randomly selected from all participants to win a free stamp set of his/her choice! Hooray for free stamps! We are looking forward to stopping by your blog soon! Have a great day and thank you for stopping by!

Good Monday Morning!

Thank you so much for stopping by this morning!  We are so excited to be showing off Skipping Stones new release for September- Cheers!  Cheers is a fun set that celebrates friendship and good times with signature Skipping Stones humor.   Check out the awesome card our team created with Cheers!

Megan Aaron

Katie Gehring

Tesa Broman

Judith Gowdy

Stephanie Mino

Karen Baker

Wendy Price

Rochelle Washington

Fun, right?  How about some of those sentiments?  They will definitely make your friends LOL!  Tomorrow, we will be back with a special blog hop using another one of Kim’s amazing sketches and Cheers!

See you then!

Katie

We are SO excited to be release Sassy Cats 2 Today!!!  This is a SUPER fun set and the Design Team and our guest designers have done some AMAZING work with it!  You are NOT going to want to miss this fun hop!

Be sure to hop along and leave comments on all the fabulous designers’ blogs.  This month we are welcoming Cyndi Bundy and Barb Turpin  to our team as Guest Designers! Kazan Clark will be providing all the fabulous sketch inspiration this month including the sketch we’re using in today’s hop! Don’t forget to play along and link your card using the sketch here for a chance to win free stamps! Please combine with no more than 5 total challenges, no other sketch challenges, and post a direct link to your post below. You do not have to use SSD stamps, but we LOVE when you do!  Here is the sketch for this week:

AND…not only are we releasing this way fun set, BUT the Tweet Heart Sale has been EXTENDED!!!  Buy ANY three stamp sets and you will automatically receive the YET TO BE RELEASED Heart Song 2 Absolutely FREE!  It’s a beautiful set that will not be available for purchase until APRIL, so be the first to get yours and get it for FREE!!!

Here is a card that Jingle created using Heartsong 2:

Here is a card Heather(owner) created using Sassy Cats:

Wendy J.
Karen
Kazan
Shannan
Cyndi
Taylor
Kandi
Barb
Wendy P.
Stephanie
Jingle
JoAnn
Katie

Here is a look at the complete set of Sassy Cats:

Welcome to Sketch Challenge 89 and the release of Everyday Blessings!

Here is the awesome sketch challenge SSD #89.  Didn’t Teri Anderson do a great job?

I was SO bummed that I didn’t have a chance to try this great sketch out.  I’ve been so busy with Blogs 4 boobies that I didn’t have a chance to play along this week :0(.  But our guest and DT did a great job with this sketch.  Here is the hopping order:

Teri Anderson   http://terisplace.wordpress.com/

Be sure to hop along and leave comments on all the fabulous designers’ blogs.  This month we are welcoming  Karen Baker, Maureen Plut, Stephanie Mino and Kryssi Ng to our team as Guest Designers!  Teri Anderson will be providing all the fabulous sketch inspiration this month including the sketch we’re using in today’s hop!

Here is a look at the stamp set we are releasing today.   It’s called everyday blessings.  A big thanks goes out to Kryssi Ng who did all of the word art on this set. Didn’t she do a fabulous job?

Now it’s your turn to play along at home!  You could win a free stamp set of your choice!!!

We have another amazing sketch for you today from the talented and lovely Teri Anderson.  Her sketches are so easy to work with and so inspirational! This week’s sketch is no exception.

Here is Teri’s take on the sketch which I just A-dore!!!

Now we have our amazing guest and their FANTASTIC takes on this week’s sketch:
Here is Karen Baker who used Victorian Summer:

Next we Have Kryssi Ng Who used the peacock feather from Victorian Summer:

Next we have Stephanie Mino who put Coffee #1 to work for her humorous card:

WE also have Maureen Plut who used Healing Wings:

The Stamp Tramps also did a GREAT job with this sketch:
Here is Amy who used a sentiment from Coffee #1:

Barb Combined a sentiment from Everyday Blessings (will be release on Tuesday Aug 16th~check below for a sneak peek) she also used the roses from Victorian Summer to create a nice patterned paper for the background:

Brenda Combined Everyday Blessings and Pumpkin Seed Sentiments for her card:

Gladys Used Everyday Blessings:

Jingle put Coffee #1 to work for her card:

Kandi Used Sassy Shoes:

Tammie Used Friendly Fruit:

Wendy used Everyday Blessings:

Speaking of Everyday Blessings I promised you a sneak peek of it didn’t I. Before I show you this set I need to thank Kryssi Ng for doing such a great job with the word art/font work on this set!!!
OK here it is and it will be available starting a week from today:

Now here is the code to get FREE SHIPPING THIS WEEK ONLY: enter freeship at checkout and you will pay nothing for shipping ANY SIZE order.
I also wanted to let you know that BLOGS 4 BOOBIES our annual fundraiser for the Komen Foundation starts on the 15th of August!!! That is less than a week away!!!!
There are 3 ways to help:
1. SHOP WITH US: SSD will donate $2 for EACH stamp set sold starting AUg 15th through the end of Blogs 4 Boobies
2. BID ON CARDS from your favorite designers: We will have a 3 day blog bounce(hop) where EACH and EVERY card will be auctioned off. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Komen Foundation!!! We will have instructions on how to use the comment section to place a bid on starting on Aug. 15th
3. TALK ABOUT IT: Tell other stampers/crafters about our fundraiser and get them to join in on the fun(draising). Post on your blog,talk about it with your cropping buddies, help us get the word out!!!

Now it’s your turn to try out this incredible sketch. I know you will Love it as much as we did!!! You could win a FREE set of your choice!

Here is another fantastic sketch from the A-mazing Kim Kesti! 

Here is my take on the sketch. I used some Bo Bunny paper and poped up the medalion.  I will have to put up picts of some of the other projects I did using this versital and beautiful set.  I think it is destined to become a bestseller!

Check out what the other designers did with this amazing set!!!  Be sure to hop along and leave comments on all the fabulous designers blogs.  This month we are welcoming Kim Kesti, Karen Baker and Karen Christensen to our team as Guest Designers! Kim will be providing all the fabulous sketch inspiration this month including the fantastic sketch we’re using in today’s hop!

Head over to Kim’s blog for some more Skipping Stones Design inspiration!

Latisha Yoast http://crafteebee.blogspot.com/

Hello bleeps
We’ve got a great sketch for you today! It’s from the talented and lovely Latisha Yoast who you met yesterday:

Plus a sneak peek at the funny new set Dogs Volume #1 later in the blog post ;0) Here is Latisha’s awesome take on the sketch using heartsong:

Here is Dina K.’s breathtaking take on the sketch using Always Here and Timeless Textures:
Here is Karin aka Peppermint Patty’s super cute take on the sketch using Dandelion Dreams:

Next we have the Stamp Tramps. Their creations this week are sure to inspire:
Amy Starts us off using Timeless textures and Sentiment frames:

Then we have Brab using Green birhtday for her groovy creation:

Next up is Brenda who used Dandelion dreams for her breathtaking card this week:

Gladys uses Dogs v 1 and gives us a great sneak peek using one of my favorite sentiments “Sit happens”:

Jingle impresses us with her use of shoes and some pretty cute papers in her creation this week:
Kandi also did some pretty cute work with the shoes and timeless textures:

Tammie used Healing wings in her inspirational creation this week:

Wendy Jordan used Pumpkin seed sentiments and Friendly fruit for her super cute creation this week:

Here is your sneak peek at “Sit happens” or Dogs Volume #1:
It will be available for purchase on the 14th of June.
Now it’s your turn to try the sketch: You could win a stamp set before it’s available for purchase:


I hope you all have a great week and have ton’s of time for stamping and creativity!

Take care,

Heather

New “Sassy Shoes” are here today, we are having a blog hop to celebrate their release!!

 Celebrate friendship with the help of “Sassy shoes” are our newest and sassiest stamps yet…

In honor of our newest release we are having some VERY SPECIAL SAVINGS……  Buy ANY3 stamp sets and get one FREE.  This works if your double it( buy 6 get two free) and yes we have even had people triple it (buy 9 get 3 FREE).  Any way you look at it, it’s a GREAT DEAL!!!  Just enter ONE FREE  at checkout time.

If you have any trouble with the savings codes or abnormally high shipping charges ( we are working out some bugs) just email me your order @ madebyme33@hotmail.com  I will throw in free shipping for your troubles with the codes or the shipping charges.   

Now for the Amazing Daneille Flander’s sketch of the week:

I cheated a bit on my interpretation but I thought it followed the heart of the sketch design.

If I have more time I am going to go back and cut our the shoes and color them with tombow markers.

Below is the blog hop order:

Be sure to hop along and leave comments on all the fabulous designers blogs.

You are here @ Skipping Stones Design.  Next you should go to Danielle’s blog:

Danielle Flanders…..http://danielleflanders.blogspot.com/

Amy Tsuruta…http://tsurutadesigns.blogspot.com/

Wendy Price…http://paperinkandsmiles.blogspot.com/

Jennifer Ingle…http://justjingle.blogspot.com/

Brenda Weaver…http://sweetpapertreats.wordpress.com/

Gladys Chia…http://gladyschia2010.wordpress.com/

Wendy Jordan…www.papertherapy-wendy.blogspot.com

Kandi Phillips…http://kraftykandikrafts.blogspot.com/

Barb Turpin…http://barbsboys123.blogspot.com/

Tammie Beaton…http://alwaysinking.blogspot.com/

Ann Kranitz….http://stampwithme-ann.blogspot.com/

Don’t forget to  participate in our sketch challenge this month. The winner of this week’s sketch challenge will win a shiny new SSD Stamp set!!

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