Winner of Digistamps4Joy Blog Hop

The Digistamps4|Joy Blog Hop is now over, and here is the winner of the digistamp on this blog ...

Commenter #13 - YANARA

This is the digistamp you have won. Please email me at info[at]digistamps4joy[dot]co[dot]za with your name and the name of this blog, so I can send the image to you.

Bunny Magic

The list of ALL the winners is available on the main Digistamps4Joy Blog.

NOW

 I have a small candy available to one commenter on this post - a packet of 100 various sized white flowers which can be spritzed or chalked up in any colour. These are perfect for your cards or scrapbook pages. The '100' is in celebration of the 100 challenges at Digistamps4Joy. I will post internationally so feel free to comment if you are outside South Africa!

Thanks for playing with us!

Digistamps4Joy 100th Challenge and Blog Hop

 

Digistamps4Joy is celebrating it's 100th Blog Challenge "CELEBRATION" with a Blog Hop running from 3-16 September 2014, a free digistamp, digistamps as prizes on all the blogs, and random prizes after the 17th!
The first challenge on the brand new DS4J blog was on the 23rd February 2012, and as a big THANK YOU to all of you, we are holding a BLOG HOP where you can win many prizes, including more of our fabulous digistamps! We have some new releases which we are showcasing as well as giving away previously released digis to some lucky followers.  

BLOG HOP

The Blog Hop is running from 3 Sept. 8am South African time to 1600 (4pm) on Tues.16 September. The full list of winners will be announced on Thursday 17th September on the main Digistamps4Joy blog and my winner on my blog here. 

You have arrived at Margy's blog in PRETORIA, South Africa! I am the owner of Digistamps4Joy and am absolutely delighted to share in this celebration! I have been privileged to work with so many wonderful ladies on my team, and I look forward to the next 100 challenges.
This is the prize on my blog - the cute "Bunny Magic" digistamp, and here is the card I made with it.

 

The main DS4J blog is giving away 100 REWARD POINTS to one lucky winner, which can be spent in the Digistamps4Joystore! Now isn’t that a fabulous prize?

  

RULES FOR ENTERING THE RANDOM DRAW ON MY BLOG

Be/become a follower of THIS blog

Leave a comment under THIS post

The next blog in the Hop is PAT , or you can start at the beginning at the Digistamps4Joy blog, and work your way though to the last blog. The full hop order is listed on the main Digistamps4Joy blog.

FREE DIGISTAMP
I am giving this digistamp "My Ballgown" as a freebie to all Kit and Clowder Facebook members from 3-8 September. Rules are posted on the K&C page.

CHALLENGE # 100 - CELEBRATIONS
Don't forget, you can still enter the DS4J Challenge #100 "Celebrations" running for the whole month of September.

AD HOC PRIZE
There will be ad hoc prizes given away on all the DT blogs after the main HOP is over , and also on this blog. These will only be available after the 18th Sept to 30th September.

Come back here on the 18th for another surprise!

It was fabulous meeting you all, and your next blog is PAT

New digistamps 2nd June 2013

TWINS

I drew two separate little baby rompers for the new releases on Sunday 2nd June. While deciding on what sort of card to make, I had a wild thought - 'hey, what about a card for 'twin babies' - one boy, one girl"! So I merged the two png files in Word, printed out the image, and coloured it up with my SN pens. Then I took the SN Blender pen and created little 'dots' of bleached out pink spots on the girl's romper. The blender pen gave such a lovely soft look to the pink, and I love it!

This is a centre-stepper card. I cut a paper doily in half, stamped/chalked one half blue and the other half pink. Added an adhesive plastic lace to the bottom of the card, and then remembered I still had all these little pink and blue dummies and nappy pins, bought for my daughter's stork party! Glad I never turfed them out! A little ribbon and cord here and there, glitter glue on the girl's smocking, and the card is complete.

The digistamps are called  'Girl's romper" and "Boy's romper"

New items used - digistamps, plastic lace
Old items used - cardstock and DP from stash, glitter glue, baby embellishments, doily
Aud sentiments challenge blog - anything goes
Rhedd and Rosies - ribbons 'n lace
Chalk n stock - anything with chalk goes
Crafty ribbons challenge - circles and ribbon

New digistamp at DS4J (28 April 2013) - SPRING

Yes, I'm a little late in posting this card, but "better late than never" as the saying goes. I actually made this card for this 28th April but forgot to post it. Just too many things on my mind at the moment.

So here it is. It is a sentiment I drew for the shop to celebrate the start of spring - in the northern hemisphere of course! Here at home we are heading into winter, and I've already put my winter sheets onto the bed.

 The digistamp is called  'Spring sentiment",and I tried to capture the feeling of new blooms, blossoms, and new life. The digi is coloured with my alcohol pens. Something slightly different. I glued a piece of acetate to the inside of the card then cut out the front in scallops so that the acetate shows through. Some of the flower embellishments were then glued to the acetate.

New items used - digistamp
Old items used - cardstock from stash, acetate, flower gems, flower embellishments
Crafty calendar challenge - blooms
Pumpkin spice - flowers
Sugar creek hollow - flowers
Annabelle stamps - anything goes

FREEBIE FRIDAY at Digistamps4Joy

There is a super duper FREEBIE going up for grabs for 2 days (3-5 May) at the

Digistamps4Joy SHOP. 

Run over there and grab the freebie quickly. You will have to have an account at the shop, but this is free and easy, and no obligations for further purchases. Then click on the Freebie category on the left hand side, add to cart, check out, choose a payment method (you will not have to pay!!!), and confirm the order.

Tulip basket

This digistamp is perfect for Mother's Day which is around the corner, or for entering the current DS4J Challenge (Women are Special). I dare you to head on over to the DS4J Blog and see what the DT have made with this image!

New digistamps at DS4J - Ooh-la-la

Not sure what was going through my head when I drew this digi, but it probably had something to do with most of the new digistamps being released this Sunday at Digistamps4Joy, being wedding related! Either way, this is what evolved, including the spotty border! I have called this digi 'Ooh-la-la", and after I coloured in her shoes and the spotty border in a vibrant red, the rest of the card sort of just 'evolved'.

No embossing or glitter, but I did use two MS punches to create the lacy border and the lace strip. The red ribbon at the bottom of the card was in my stash - funny I never saw it before! Digistamp is coloured with SN and Copic pens.

New items used - digistamp
Old items used - paper from stash, ribbon.

Challenges entered
Hiding in my craftroom - freestyle
Sweet stampin challenge - oh so girly
Clearly inspired - anything goes

New digistamps at DS4J - Wedding Bouquet

The majority of the images for the 31st March 2013 release ended up being wedding images! This is the one I drew called 'Wedding bouquet". The digistamp was inspired by my Sister-in-law's own wedding bouquet, and my colouring is in line with the same colours of flowers she had in her bouquet.

The embossed paper behind the image is made with a new embossing folder from Couture Creations called "Washed away". I found the shiny pearls in my local craft shop, and the daisy ribbon and blue bow are both from my stash. Image is coloured with SN and Copic pens, and tiny dots of glitter added to the gyps flowers.

New items used - digistamp, embossing folder, shiny pearls
Old items used - glitter glue, ribbon, paper from stash.

Challenges entered
Di's digistamps - flowers
My Sheri Crafts - spring has sprung
Totally gorjuss - something blue

New digistamp at Digistamps4Joy - Angel Angie

I believe in angels and so this little drawing is in line with that thinking. The new image is one I drew for Digistamps4Joy and is called "Angel Angie". 

I used a LOOOOT of bling on this card! The punched border behind the image is made with a new MS punch I bought, and the diecut leaf and swirl are both from new dies. The pearl and pearly leaf are both from Blueberry Bear, and the flowers from the stash. Image is coloured with SN and Copic pens, and lots of glitter glue added.

New items used - MS punch, leaf and swirl dies, pearls and pearly leaves
Old items used - glitter glue, flowers, paper from stash.
Challenges entered
Brown sugar - anything goes
Clearly inspired - anything goes
Dilly beans - glitter
Jelly park - pretty pastels

New digistamp at Digistamps4Joy - Gretel's house

This is one of those 'nice-to-look-at-but-can't-eat' drawings! I have always loved sweets, but have recently had to cut all sugar out of my diet, so this is a bitter-sweet card LOL! The new image is one I drew for Digistamps4Joy and is called "Gretel's house", and I merged it with another DS4J image called "Let's go".

The punched border behind the image is made with a new MS punch I bought, and the red ribbon is threaded through a ribbon punched border. Not much else except for a bit of card candi and some glitter on the sweets. Images are coloured with SN and Copic pens. I hope this card is 'sweet' enough!

New items used - MS punch, digistamp
Old items used - glitter glue, ribbon, paper from stash, card candi.
Challenges entered
Creative inspirations - anything goes
Avenue 613 - anything goes
One crazy stamper - anything goes
Nana Vics 4th challenge - anything goes
Robyns fetish - food or drink

Get Together event

Digistamps4Joy and Shelly's images have been celebrating a 'shared' challenge on Paper Craft Planet. The two group owners (myself and Shelly) each provided one free image, and the requirement is that BOTH images must be used and made up on one card. This is the side-step card I made with the two images viz:
"Egg basket" from Digistamps4Joy and "Peter" from Shelly's Images.

All the images were coloured with my SN and Copic pens, edges chalked to create depth, and a white gel pen used to create highlights. The sentiment and background papers all come from a free scrapbooking kit at Scrappy Nats.
If you have not downloaded these 2 Group images yet, head on over to Paper Craft Planet to the Digistamps4Joy group and get the voucher code and instructions! All entries are to be posted in both group discussions.
New items used: free easter egg images from online colouring pages, Scrappynat kit
Old items used: digistamps from DS4J and Shelly's Images, glitter

Challenges entered with this card.
Chalk-ah-lot - easter with chalk
Creative inspirations paint - anything goes
Glitter n sparkle - animals
Kenny Ks krafty krew - anything goes
Hobby cutz - Easter

A new DS4J digistamp used for embossing

This digistamp "He is risen" is another new one I drew and is in my shop Digistamps4Joy.I decided to do something quite different this time. I printed out the black/white image onto plain white paper, put this on the light table with a piece of gold vellum on top of it, then traced over all the lines with a white gel pen!

Why, you ask? Well the reason is I wanted to see if I could create a pergamano image from the digistamp, and normally in the pergamano craft, you first trace all lines with white ink, then go and do the embossing and rubbing on the back of the image. Pergamano is a craft that requires a LOT of patience and good eyesight, and this card took me quite a while to rub out and prick! But it actually worked!! So, I have now used a digistamp as a pattern for Pergamano - howz that!!

 

Here's a close-up of the 'fish' shape and words.

The edge of the shape around the image was created by laying a wavy-edged oval shaped die on top, then tracing around with the white gel pen, and pricking and pricking and pricking around the edge until the outside piece of vellum could be torn off. The curvy line near the edge is embossed from the back by hand. The rest of the card is made up of a piece of white paper that I bought ages ago, with all the stitching and gold glitter on it. I punched 2 butterflies from the same gold vellum paper, added small gems, cut and folded the triangular shapes at the left, glued some glitter card inside, and finished off with a large gem.

 

New items used - new digistamp
Old items used - white embroidered paper from stash, gold vellum from stash, gems.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Avenue 613 - anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody - anything goes
Creative inspirations paint - anything goes
Glitter 'n sparkle - bling it on
Sweet pea stampers - use a digistamp
Lady Annes - anything goes + sentiment

 

New digistamps at Digistamps4Joy (24 Feb.2013)

This digistamp "The empty Cross" is one of the new ones I drew and is in my shop Digistamps4Joy. As a Christian and an animal lover, I combined the two into one image.

 

I thought I would give this new fold a try after seeing it in the latest local scrapbooking magazine. Unfortunately not all the measurements were provided, so I ended up having to resort to some basic mathematics and my trusty ruler (with one flop cut). It's actually a very pretty fold once completed, you just have to be careful about the top papers that you cut them smaller than the base of the card, otherwise the card will not fold up! I think I would also have preferred to make the 'spine' a little wider so that the card stands better. mmm, will have to look into those measurements again!

I diecut around the image, chalked the edges, and coloured the image with H2O pens. The bling on this card is the gold peel offs (including a ribbon peel off) and the diecut swirls out of glitter card (very difficult to get through the diecutter). I then added some pastel pink and maroon roses, and curled the stems. The embellishments were quick to add, it was all the cutting and resizing of the papers that took ages!

New items used - new digistamp, background Christian paper, and roses
Old items used - dark maroon paper from stash, peel offs.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
All Sorts Challenge - animals
Catch the bug - color challenge
Paper Creators - all things flowery
Sparkle and glitter with Rick - all things I love
Stempel sonne - bingo (I used flowers, lace & sentiment)
Sweet pea stampers - use a digistamp
Chalk 'n stock - anything goes, just use chalk
Lady Annes - anything goes + sentiment

 

New digistamps at Digistamps4Joy

I used one of my new images in the Digistamps4Joy store called "Dropping in". 

 

I embossed the dark blue background to create a texture, diecut 2 different sizes of ovals, chalked these up, then raised some with foam tabs to create the clouds. I added the image - coloured with SN pens - a skrink plastic bird I made ages ago, a piece of washi tape, and some card candi. Note: NO BLING - a first for me LOL!

New items used - washi tape, new digistamp
Old items used - dark blue and light blue papers from stash,card candi, skrink plastic embellishment

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Colour Me creative - colour + texture
Hiding in my craft room - scraps
Brown Sugar Challenge - anything goes
Lady Annes - anything goes + sentiment
Creative Corners - for the boys
CCEE Stampers - weather
Hanna & friends - anything goes

 

New digistamps at Distamps4Joy - Snow Angel Alfie

Phew, but this has been a hectic week! In fact, it feels as if I am still trying to catch up from the 1st January this year!!! This was one of those 'quick' cards as I really did not have time to spend a lot of time on it. I used one of my new images in the Digistamps4Joy store called "Snow Angel Alfie", and as I'm mad about teddies (collect them, make them, receive them as gifts!), I thought it was time I actually drew one!

I used some new green and brown alcohol pens I recently purchased from Blueberry Bear here in South Africa, embossed some white paper then diecut it, added a small white paper doilie and some glitter, and a string of pearls.

New items used - alcohol pens (green and brown)
Old items used - paper stash, pearls, doily

I am entering this card into the following challenge:
Avadares - St Patricks or green

FREE digistamps at Digistamps4Joy (February)

There are TWO super FREEBIES going up for grabs for 3 days (1-3 February) at the

Digistamps4Joy SHOP. 

Run over there and grab the freebies quickly. You will have to have an account at the shop, but this is free and easy, and no obligations for further purchases. Then click on the Freebie category on the left hand side, add to cart, check out, choose a payment method (you will not have to pay!!!), and confirm the order.

The first free image is a flat box that JenLee our main artist at DS4J put together. The second freebie is actually a set of 5 sentiments, 5 tags, and a bee - all ready for Valentine's Day - designed by yours truly! Here is my project using both the freebies. I made a pink box, then used my Pergamano tools on the top  vellum sheet, added a stand-up heart with a sentiment, a bow, a punched border with my brand mew MS punch, some flowers, and gems.

Now all I have to do is fill it with some yummy chocolates, and then find someone to give it to!

AND NOW FOR SOME FABULOUS NEWS .......

Digistamps4Joy is running a mini competition on their Facebook page...... use the freebies, enter your card/project in the draw before 14th February, and you could win FIVE digistamps!

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
Crafty ribbons challenge38 - anything goes with ribbon
Little Miss Muffet challenge53 - hearts and flowers
Milk Coffee challenge - valentines
Moving along with the times - punch it out
Crafty Creations challenges - anything but a card
Rubys Rainbow - valentines
Stamp with Sarah Kay - liebe/love
CSAYL - anything goes

New releases at Digistamps4Joy - 20 January 2013

This is one of my new images in the Digistamps4Joy store called "Flamingo pair". I went with an olive green and cherise/pink colour scheme, coloured the image with SN pens, made a folded flower from double sided paper with a MS punch, and added a few pearls. Fairly simple, but I love the end result of this card.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Allsorts - flower power
CMC - your favorite colour combos
Krafty hands - new beginnings
Stamp your life - new beginnings
Chocolate coffee cards -for the birds
Crafts 4 eternity - punch it
Fairytale challenge blog - my newest stamp (mein neuester stempel)
Crafty calendar challenge - what's new
CDAC - anything goes

New releases at Digistamps4Joy - "Spotty Queens"

Sometimes I amaze myself at how much I can get done in one evening! I not only had to get all the new images into the Digistamps4Joy store, prepare the DS4J blog, but also managed to make 3 cards. It doesn't always go like this though LOL!

This then is my first card to show off a new release at Digistamps4Joy. I used one of FIVE (yes 5!!) new butterflies that I drew. This one is called "Spotty Queen", and while it is not the real name of this butterfly, I am of course allowed to use a little artistic licence!

 I made a different card, but basically only because I was looking for a certain shade of cardstock, and found a piece where I had already punched out a window - and voila, here is my 'peek-a-boo' card! The image is on the inside of the card, and just peeps through the window when the card is closed.

The background image is also a DS4J image called Bluebell log.  I printed out 2 x butterflies and flipped one horizontally, then placed them on top of the log at different angles.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Allsorts - dies and punches
Card Makin Mamas - anything goes
Brown Sugar - butterflies
Drunken stampers - all that glitters
Dis Digi Designs - new techniques

New releases at Digistamps4Joy - Hibiscus

My second post to show off some of the new releases at Digistamps4Joy on the LAST Sunday of 2012.
I used an image that was drawn by Jen, one of the artists at DS4J, and it is called "Hibiscus". An easy image to colour in and I decided to go with really bright pink/cerise colours, and show this off on a totally black background. The image on the gatefold card is coloured with my SN pens. I added LOTS of glitter glue on the flowers, and closed the card with a flower button and some green cord.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Hiding in my craft room - freestyle
Drunken Stampers - all that glitters
Crafty Mess - show some sparkle

New Releases at Digistamps4Joy - Merle

This post is to show off some of the new releases at Digistamps4Joy on the LAST Sunday of 2012.
I used an image that was drawn by Jen, one of the artists at DS4J, and it is called "Merle". A gorgeous image, and I enjoyed making up this card. The image is coloured with my SN pens, and then I added 2 new diecuts I recently purchased, and a punched border.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Hiding in my craft room - freestyle
Drunken Stampers - all that glitters
Crafty Mess - show some sparkle

This is the last challenge for 2012 at Digistamps4Joy - Challenge #57 - 

"There's something magical about Christmas". 

I made a twisted easel card with the DS4J image called "Christmas tree 3" from the Digistamps4Joy STORE and coloured it in with SN pens, then added lots of "bling". Do pop into the DS4J BLOG and see what the other DT members have created for this challenge, and then enter YOUR creation in the InLinkz to put yourself in line for winning a prize!