1 week from today the Gray Hare sets and Chick Chat sets will be available for purchase. 

To celebrate we will be having a design team blog hop! 

Here is a look at the entire set called “Gray Hares”available on March 16th!

 

Here is the amazing Sketch number 15 from Sgt. Stamper:

She used gray hares to make this adorable card:

Mary Giemza worked her “Copic magic” on this lone chick from Chick Chat. I Love how she made the flower out of cut and embossed Nestabilities (scalloped circle). She crinkled them up a bit and inked to edges and viola – it is so cute! If I have time to make a card tonight I am so going to try that!!!

Next is Michelle’s take on the sketch. She used Chick Chat for one, and Gray Hares for the other:

Now here is the entire set called “Chick Chat” it also will be available for purchase on the 16th of March.

Here is how Erin used Gray hares for this darling card:

Here is the inside too:

Angela used Gray Hares as well to make this fantastic card: I am loving her darling background! 

Here Chelsea used Chick Chat to make her “Cheerup chicka” card:

Now who wouldn’t love to get that card in the mail.

Here is Kandi’s take on the sketch. She made this yummy looking cookie card with a mix of stamps from the following sets:buns and crunches, and chocolate volume 1:

Here is a colorful card from Jackie Pedro using an unrealsed Bra stamp set…

Here is a colorful card from Sankari, she used Chick chat and one of my favorite sentiments on that set:

 Here is Peggy’s wonderful creation.  She used Buns-n- Crunches to make this stylin’ journal.

I hope all these great cards inspired you to give  this sketch a try. Since I am done writing this post a smidge before midnight I am off to give it a try myself!  Maybe I’ll share what I came up with. That is, if I don’t fall asleep while making it ;0)

I can only imagine how hard it would be to get a glue dot out of your hair. 

 On second though maybe I’ll go to sleep, rather than risking finding out about glue dots and hair the hard way.

Before I go one more last important annoucement : 

FREE Stamps ALERT!

There is a special bonus next week….  

 “Sassy Snow” (a $14.50 value)yours for FREE

Just buy “Chick Chat”and”Gray Hares”+ one more set of your choice=FREE Sassy Snow!

Release date -unknown

 *I wrote this fun variation on the snowman poop poem.  Now you can use it for Winter birthdays, as well as little gag Christmas gifts. I also get a kick out of the sassy snow woman.  The other snow person is sweet and happy kinda the opposite of “miss sassy” up top!

Be sure to come back next week for the Design team hop!!!  We will have some random blog candy to give out. Until then…

Happy Stamping!

Heather

 I want to thank you all for your amazing support in this effort to raise money during the hop(e) for Haiti. 

The money was donated to the Red Cross.  So not only will it go to help those in Haiti, it will also help the survivors of the Chille Earthquake as well.

Here is how the money stacked up:

Ebay auctions of stamps and amazing designer cards. Brought in:$328

*this donation included the shipping charges as well as the winning bids

*Each of the unsold cards were purchased by SSD for $5 -because We LOVED them;0)

The $2 donation for every stamp set sold during the two week fund raising period added another $ 178

The Grand total of money raised and donated was an amazing

$ 506

I was so excited to reach our goal for this fundraiser! 

From the bottom of my heart Thanks you to all the participants ans supporters.  We couldn’t have done it without you !

Our next fundraiser will be in September/October. 

All proceeds will go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

We will also be releasing a new volume of the Bra stamp sets during that fund raiser!

 The fundraising for Haiti is going to continue until Sunday at Midnight!!!

The response was so overwhelmingly positive~ We decided to continue the fundraising for another 6 days! 

For everystamp set sold, Skipping Stones Design will donate $2 to the Red Cross and their efforts in the Haitian relief effort. This donation per set will continue till Sunday at midnight!

Now here is the last sketch from the amazingly talented Belinda Chang.  We are going to miss her creative and fun sketches around here!

 Kandi Phillips put “Dandelion Dreams” to work in this cheerful creation:

 Mary Giemza used “Rustic Tiles” to create this lovely Irish blessing card:

Chelsea Van Wyk used and unreleased stamp set “Poppin’ By” to create this colorful card:

Peggy Russell used “Healing Wings” to create this beauty:

Check back next week for:

1. A new sketch challenge from our March “Sketch Artist” Jami Bova aka”Srgt. Stamper”

2. The announcement of the grand totall of money raised for Haiti

3. To find out who our two Design team guest are for the month of March

4. More sneak peeks at our new March stamp sets….. 

Due to very Popular demand- yes I am giving into peer-pressure- Free donuts are back till Sunday at midnight.  That’s right not only do you get to see this hilarious set, but it can be yours for FREE with purchase of 3 stamp sets…..This offer is good while the donuts  last, or until Sunday February 14th at midnight.

As you all know Belinda Chang is our amazing sketch artist this month.  Here is Belinda’s fabulous sketch #11:

It is 6:00 a.m. and my computer, and I have had a rough night. I wish I could send it to a time out and make it behave!!! So today, I will be a woman of few words due to exhaustion ;0) Here are the amazingly talented Stamp tramps and guest:

Michelle Giraud  with “Well Behaved” and “Margarita Birthday” below.

Heather Timmins- that’s me. I Used “Dandelion Dreams” and a Faux Watercolor technique that I learned Kim Teasdale’s Class at MCC.

Mary Giemza with the special free donut stamps ;0)

This is from Peggy Russell using “Well Behaved”

Belinda Chang with Rustic Tiles and Cupcake Cutie

Erin Grotegut with “Dandelion Dreams” and a sentiment from “Cupcake Cutie”

Angela Thomas with “Chick Martini”.

Chels. VanWyk with “Well Behaved”

Kandi Phillips with “Cupcake Cutie” I must add a congratulations to Kandi on her multiple cards that were chose for publication ;0)  Way To Go Kandi!!! We are very proud of you !

Next Tuesday you do not want to miss out on our Hop(e) For Haiti:

~All the cards that you see on the hop next Tuesday are up for auction. We will have the link to the auctions on the website by Tuesday night.  The auctions end Sunday night and here is the best part. 100% of the money from the auctions will be donated to the Red Cross to help with their amazing efforts in Haiti.

~Two dollars of every stamp set sold during the week of the hop will be donated to the Red Cross As well!

~The number of famous and amazingly talented bloggers will blow your mind!!!! Were are looking at over thirty.  Check out Jen Del Muro from I heart to stamps, Karen Giron from Sunday Sketches, Jami Bova(Stamp Happy),Kim Teasdale, Amy Scheffer, Bev Rousch, Latisha Yost.  So many more amazing ladies are joning us in our efforts to raise money for a Great Cause!!!!!

January Guest “Sketch Artist”: Amy From

Pickledpaperdesigns.blogspot.com

Here is Amy’s Amazing sketch #7:

Here is her card, it looks good enough to eat! It also ties into our Free donut give away…how perfect is that!!!

As always I am amazed by her talent.  The layers, colors and images on this card are just SO perfect! Thanks for the inspiration.

Here is Chelse Van Wyke’s Exciting card!!!

Peggy Russell did this darling card!

Angela’s Thomas did this Stylin’ card!!!!

With the stamps from well behaved…you got a peek last week.  I did take down that peek so don’t go thinking you’re crazy if you can’t find it.  This weeks peek will only be up until Sunday, then it will come down too!

Here is Michelles card, I Love the map background for the Prince who won’t ask for directions!!!LMBO!

Here is Kandi’s cute take on this sketch!

Here is Amanda’s card… the other stamp reads “when you can have buns of cinnamon” it is a sneel peak on a soon to be released stamp set!

Erin’s  card will be posted shortly…..

To celebrate the success of our first blog hop ,and to thank you all who participated it it I though I’d give away Free donuts.  That’s right not only do you get to see this hilarious set, but it can be yours for FREE with purchase of 3 stamp sets…..This off is good from Now until Saturday at Midnight while supplies last;0)

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

Also From Bevs blog:

From Kim Teasdales Blog:

Just a quick note to thank you all for stopping by and checkingout the hop!!!  I will post the winners of the blog candy sometime this evening…Thank You so Very much for all the postivie feedback and enthusiastic comments!!!  It warmed my heart and made me SO happy to hear such wonderfull things from everyone!

Hugs,

Heather

Welcome to our first ever blog hop !

We are celebrating with 25% off all of our stamp sets today and tomorrow only! Simply enter the code 25off when checking out, and enjoy the savings!

We are also giving away tons of blog candy ! 4 stamps sets will be given away on this blog.  3 of them are pre-release sets so you only get a peek!

The winners will be chosen by a random comment generator.  So just leave a little love(comment) and you are entered to win!  But the fun is only strating here.  Throughout the hop there will be blog candy galore!!!!

Prepaire to be entertained, inspired, and awed  by the amazingly talented ladies participating in this hop.  We have fresh new talent mixed in with many Dirty Dozen and dirtty dozen alumni members. 

Speaking of  talent  I am Thrilled to  introducing out two newest Design Team Memebers.  They are Amazing Michelle Giraurd of twisted-chick.blogspot.com and Fabulous Kandi Philips  of  kraftykandikrafts.blogspot.com. We are so pleased to have you as the newest addition to the Stamp Tramps:0)

  Also I am very pleased to announce that Angela Thomas is officially our DT coordinator.   Make sure to leave some love on their blogs. 

 Here are the blog hop PARTICIPANTS in order:

ANGELA THOMAS http://www.sparkleandbling.blogspot.com/

AMY SCHEFFER http://pickledpaperdesigns.blogspot.com/

KIM TEASDALE – http:// paperintheworks.blogspot.com 

ERIN GROTEGUT http://www.inkysmiles.blogspot.com/

BEV ROUSCH http://bevithia.blogspot.com/

CHELSEA VAN WYCK http://www.scraptasticvoyage.blogspot.com/

JEN DEL MURO http://iheart2stamp.com/

BELINDA CHANG http://cadnileb.blogspot.com/

KANDI PHILLIPS http://kraftykandikrafts.blogspot.com/

DEB FELTS http://withastampandasong.blogspot.com/

HOLLY MCMILLEN http://toyzhaven.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/

MICHELLE GIRAUD http://twisted-chick.blogspot.com/

LATISHA YOAST http://www.crafteebee.blogspot.com/

AMBER HIGHT http://stampingscrapbooker.blogspot.com/

PEGGY RUSSELL http://beautifulgreetings.blogspot.com/

DEBBIE FISCHER http://debbiedee.blogspot.com/

AMANDA GAUER- SEWELL http://inkspirations.blogspot.com

Skipping stones Design – http://http://www.skippingstonesdesign.com- when you come back

here see below for Amy Sheffer’s Fantastic sketch and my little card……

Every Tuesday we have a New Card sketch from our monthly guest “Sketch Artist”.

We are lucky enough to have the Amazing Amy Sheffer from Picklepaperdesigns.blogspot as our Guest this month.  She came up with this fabulous card sketch:

Now here is the card I made using the sketch.  I must make the disclamer here that I am the “color out of the lines” type.  Actually to be truthful, I am the “color the girraffe purple and the hippo green” type.  Just ask my poor kindergarten teacher.  So it is no surpirse to me that I didn’t follow the sketch exactly- but I loved it, and tried to do it the justice it deserved! The bigest change I made was to just flip it on it’s side. 

The stamps Skipping Stones Design “Healing Wings” set

Ink: Tulip (CTMH) &Walnut (Tim Holtz)

 The solid paper:Papertrey,

Patterened paper: Basic Grey.

Other Materials: 

prismacolor penciles

 prismatic glitter

 fine glue pen. 

Corner punch(for circle) Martha Stewart

Ribbon: Making Memories (sold a few years back)

I owe a big thank You to Angel Thomas who helped organize this hop.  Also my hat is off to Kim Teasdale for inviting many of the DD members and alumni to participate. Last but not least a HUGE “THANK YOU” goes out to ALL the participants in the hop.  Your talent and blogs are such and inspiration to me.  All of the above have my heartfelt gratitude!  What a way to kick of 2010~

Heather

To celebrate our first hop, all stamp sets are 25% off on Tuesday and Wednesday only!

We are also releasing the anxiously awaited ”Coffee vol #1″ stamp set!  Make sure to grab one before they are all gone!!!! 

January Guest “Sketch Artist”: Amy From

Pickledpaperdesigns.blogspot.com

We are So thrilled to announce that Amy will be providing amazing sketches for our Skipping Stones Sketch Tuesdays!

I’ve been a fan of Amy’s amazing sense of design and talent for quite some time.  If you don’t follow her blog yet you will have it  bookmarked by the end of the month, if not sooner:0)

How to Win Blog Candy:

Four lucky winner will be selected by the random comment generator.  Each will receive one of the unreleased sets.  Also I’m happy to announce the Bra set is back in stock as of Tuesday.  Although there are a limited number of them available.

Blog hop on Tuesday:

Tuesday will be our first ever blog hop.  Please join us for an amazing stamping tour of some of the best blogs on the web.  There are many Dirty Dozen (current and alumni)and some new fresh talent as well. The bloggers also have blog candy to give away…..