Skipping Stones Design

PMS(Purchase More Stamps) sale starting Sunday the 15th…..going through Sunday the 22nd at midnight.

I am running low on the inserts that I package my stamps with…so I am having a big sale to help raise money for the new ones.  My bill is your gain, and you can save some big time money!!!!
The more you buy the more you save.

Here is how it works

Buy 1 set and save 5% Enter PMS1 at checkout

Buy 2 sets and save 10% Enter PMS2 at checkout

Buy 3 sets and save 15% Enter PMS3 at checkout

Buy 4 sets and save 20% Enter PMS4 at checkout

Buy 5 sets and save 25% Enter PMS5 at checkout

Buy 6 sets OR MORE and SAVE 30% on every set you buy-no limit!!!

Enter PMS6 at checkout

That way if your husband asks how much you spent you can turn around and tell him HOW MUCH YOU SAVED!!!  And if you want a set to make him a card I have the perfect one.  Here is our newest release Gunge #2:

***If you have ANY troubles getting the coupon codes to work just email me your order and I will turn around and send you a pay pal invoice that reflects your savings.

Welcome to the Rustic Tiles Blog Hop! That’s right, folks, today we are featuring the GORGEOUS Rustic Tiles set , which is currently on SALE! We also have a new sketch for you to play along with for your chance to win a set of FREE Skipping Stones Design Stamps!

Welcome to Sketch Challenge # 102 and the showcase of our Featured Stamp Set of the Month, Rustic Tiles! Rustic Tiles is a versitile set, that, my friends, you are about to see from our fabuous Design Team. Our hop begins today on Chan’s blog, our fabulous Guest Sketch Artist. The entire hop order is there and you can hop from blog to blog with ease.

Be sure to hop along and leave comments on all the fabulous designers’ blogs. This month we are welcoming Jimmi Mayo, Betsy Veldman and Jessica Griffin to our team as Guest Designers! Chan Vuong has been providing all the fabulous sketch inspiration this month including the sketch we’re using in today’s hop!

Also, for every comment you leave along the way, you have a chance to win the Sassy Snow set from Jingle! So, be sure to leave your comments on each blog for your chance to win!

AND…don’t forget to play along with our sketch for another chance to win the FREE Skipping Stones Design stamp set of your choice! One winner is chosen at random from all those who link up a card created based on the sketch above. You do not have to use SSD stamps to be entered, however, we love seeing them if you have them! Spread the word by linking up to Skipping Stones in your post! Have fun!

Head over to Chan’s blog to get started on today’s fabulous hop!!! Below is the entire hop order just in case you need it!

Chan Vuong
Wendy Price
Jingle
Jessica Griffin
Katie Gehring
Shannon Teubner
Betsy Veldman
Kandi Phillips
Karen Baker
Jimmi Mayo
Stephanie Mino
Joann Valderama
Wendy Jordan

Have fun and don’t forget to leave comments along the way and link up your card based on this week’s sketch!

This is Jingle here and I don’t know about you, but I find that it is about time for me to start thinking about making my Christmas cards. Particularly after telling my husband (on my OWN suggestion) that I *might* make them for all of his students.  He teaches 8th grade.  He has just under 150 kids.  What was I thinking?  HA!!!  But, after seeing the great inspiration cards that the Skipping Stones Team and Guests have put together for you today, I think I am ready to go!!!  Let’s start out with our fabulous sketch by Cristina!

Yup.  It’s pretty fabulous.  Just say’n. And these are the two sets that we are featuring today. Each of these sets are on sale for October so get them now so you will be ready to go for your holiday cards!

Let’s get started with our Guest Designers for this month!

Tammy

Karen C.

Andrea

And here is what the Stamp Tramps have come up with for this week!

Wendy P.

Taylor

Wendy J.

Stephanie

JoAnn

Karen

It’s Karen’s birthday today, so stop by her blog and wish her a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Katie

Kandi

Jingle

WOW! So…I’m ready to make some stuff, how about you? Don’t forget to check out Christmas Swirls and Wisemen, as they are BOTH on sale right now!

Now it is YOUR TURN! Create a card based on this week’s sketch. You can use any supplies you have. We love to see you using SSD stamps, but they are NOT required to participate in the challenges! YAY! Be sure to mention that you are participating in Sketch #98 and link back to this post in your blog post! This is a great sketch and I can’t WAIT to see what you guys come up with!

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

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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OK so you’re probably wondering why I would call a sketch 74.5

We are actually between sketches thus the “.5″  :0)

So I thought it’d be fun to have a week of “Designer’s choice” Sketches.

We do have an AMAZING sketch Artist this month… you will meet her on Monday:0) But until then everyone has a Free choice week!  That is right you can enter any card using any past sketch that you like.  You can even create your own sketch.  How fun is that?

But first I have to tell you how to save 20% off your entire order.  All you have to do is enter the code “save20″ when checking out and you will have 20% taken off your order.  This Sale is good until next Tuesday at midnight!  So if you have been wanting a few of our stamps now would be a great time to snag them and get a great deal!!!

So here is the card from Danielle Flanders our special Guest and sketch Artist for the month of May.  You may know her form her incredibly popular blog “Homespun with Heart”. If you don’t know her we will be introducing her officially in less than a week.  Until then Enjoy her wonderful style in this card made with Dandelion Dreams:

Our second special guest has played along with us before.  She is one of my all time favorite guest so I had to invite her back again.  I am excited to tell you that Wendy Price is back for another month.  We will tell you more about her on Meet and Greet Monday next week.  Until then you should check out her blog  Paper Ink and Smiles~ and enjoy this Supah Dupah Card made with Timeless Textures:

The DT did an amazing job picking their favorite past sketch or doing their own sketch!!! Here are the amazingly talented ladies of SSD:

Ann Used “You Know You’re Gettin’ Old”

Amy put “Sassy Snow” to work:

Brenda created a card using Dandelion Dreams:

Gladys put Green B-day to work in her card:

Jingle used Sentiment Frames:

Kandi used Dandelion Dreams this week:

Wendy also used Dandelion Dreams:

Now it’s your turn! This is our first ever Designer’s choice week. The rules are…There are no rules. You can use a past sketch or make up your own sketch. We will be giving away Shoes Volume #1 to the winner! Win them before you can buy them!

Welcome back to another fantastic sketch from our amazingly talented Guest Sketch Artist, Laurie Schmidlin! It’s our last sketch from Laurie and we want to thank her and our wonderful guests Mona Pendleton and Diana Fisher for their rocking cards! Although the good times are ending with our guests, we still wanted to let to have a little celebration sale from being chosen as Moxie’s stamp of approval on Thursday! The code is Mox20 and it will take 20% off your whole order!!!! This sale will continue through next Tuesday at midnight.

Now, let’s get to the amazing sketch and cards!

Laurie used Healing Wings and Sentiment Frames

Diana used Cupcake Cutie

Mona used Heartsong

 

Now, here’s our always fun DT sharing their creations!

Amy used Coffe Vol #1

Ann used Healing Wings

Barb used Cancer Schmancer

Brenda used Cancer Schmancer and Timeless Textures

Gladys used Healing Wings

Jennifer used Sentiment Frames

Kandi used Coffe Vol #1

Tammie used Gray Hare Birthday

Wendy used Cupcake Cutie and Sentiment Frames

We’d love to see what you can do with this fabulous sketch and we’ll be back later with the InLinkz tool so you can upload your creations!

It’s finally here the day so many of you have been waiting for! Green Birthday is Finally available for purchase. This is one of the most anticipated releases that we have had all year long….

Not only is it for sale today but you can get it for FREE!  Buy any 3 stamp sets and get a 4th for FREE!!!  Just enter 31FREE at checkout… Don’tcha just love that word FREE!!!

So here it is one more time Green Birthday: A HUGE Thank You goes out to my DT coordinator Kandi for doing ALL of the font work on this set!!! Didn’t she do a FABULOUS job???

Here is Heidi’s awsome sketch for this week:

Here is my take on the sketch:

Now today is also a blog hop to celebrate the release of Green B-day.  Here is the hopping order:

I am just so thrilled about how thing are starting off so great this month.  I thought I should celebrate by doing something I have never done before! I am offering $2 off of any stamp set in our store!  This offer is good through next Tuesday(March 8th) at midnight. Enter 2OFF when checking out.  So if you’ve been eyeing a stamp set in the store now is the time to grab it!!! 

 Speaking of the stamp store I want to give you a peek at a stamp set called “Green Birthday” It is a Funny one for sure, and it will be in the store as of Midnight March 15th. So here is your first look at a soon to be released set:

We have a “funtaststic” sketch for your crafting pleasure this week. Heidi Blankenship did a wonderful job on this month’s sketches!  She will have you coming back the next few weeks for sure! 

Now if you are the lucky winner next weds. You will win not one but TWO stamp sets at half off!!!
Here is Heidi’s Breathtaking card based on this week’s sketch: She used one of my favorites “Always Here”

We have an abundance of talent and inspiration for you this week. Here are our fabulous guest you met yesterday and their takes on this super fun sketch:
Lindsay with Coffee #1

I LOVE the little starbucks label she used!!! It’s one of my favorite subtly funny stamps we have.

Michele combined “Cupcake Cutie” and “Pumpkin Seed sentiments” for some creatively Cute cupcakes!

Vanessa Combines “Heartsong” and her elegant style for her beautiful creation:

Now you won’t believe the super cute and inspirational takes the stamp tramps had on this sketch.
We’llstart with Amy who inked up “heartsong”:

Ann chose to go with Dandelion dreams and a beautiful color scheme:

Barb made “heartsong” look great:

Brenda Used 3 different background sets and the bird from “Garden Stamp Kiss” in her texturerific card:

Glady’smade some darling flowers with the texture form “Pumpkin Seed sentiments”:

Jingle inked up “Chick Chat” for her Cheerful Card!

Kandi Combined “Sentiment Frames” and “Frills” for her elegant creation:

Tammie used “Always here” to create her elegant blue card creation:

Here is what I came up with…I HAD to paper-piece this purse with this paper from My Minds Eye. The line is called  Stella and Rose and I am in LOVE with it.

Now it’s your turn to play along at home.  You could win TWO sets of your choice at 50% off ! I can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Good morning blog peeps, thanks for checking in for the release of our newest stamp set “Pumpkin Seed Sentiments”

FOR THE NEXT 7 DAYS this set will be on SALE for $12.49!!!  I LOVE this new set so much I think everyone should have it!  So I am offering it a a sale price for the first 7 days.  The price will go back up to $14.49 on Wed. Feb. 23rd 

Now next month we are coming out with a hilariousnew set.  So I thought this month would be good to do a fantastic new must have background set.  So today we are rolling our “Pumpkin Seed Sentiments”  I LOVE LOVE LOVE this set. 

 It can do a delicate background, a grungy background, and you can even make a background with two different colors if you are feeling like mixing things up a bit!  This is a must have set!!! I call it pumpkin seed sentiments because it looks like a quilt that I have made called a… you guessed it Pumpkin Seed Quilt.  I hope you enjoy this set as much as I have.  It is a great set to get inky and creative with.  I am so excited to show you what the girls have been up to on this hop:

 Here is my  contribution to the hop.  It was inspired by Tamie’s creation last week and this week’s sketch~ of course.

 I used some Close to My Heart papers, a prima flower, pearls and of course Pumpkin Seed Sentiments. I didn’t stamp it perfectly but it still is a charming and delicate background.  Check out what the talented ladies of SSD and our guest have come up with.  Leave comments along the way as you never know who has blog candy;0)

I’ve had more than a few people ask how subbing in Kindergarten went… I not only survived but I actually had a blast with the little people!  I had so much fun that I have subbed two more times since then( this time in 4th grade). Not many people know that in my former life before becoming a mom and starting a stamp company( once upon a time) I was a 4th grade teacher ( 2 years in Texas) and 5th grade teacher(1 year in Colorado).  So there is my little trip down memory lane, and a little more background info that you may not have know about a particularly sassy stamp designer.

Here’s your chance to give the sketch a try: