WWYS #82: Glamper Greetings

Hi everybody! It's Monday and I'm back to share another fun What Will You Stamp Challenge with you. This week we have been challenged to use this adorable set from the holiday catalog...  Glamour Greetings! I really had fun watercoloring the camper and in case you didn't know you can stamp the camper in different ways.  I chose to add the crosshatching to the bottom of the camper and stripes to the top but you can leave it plain if you like. I chose bright colors for my camper and used my favorite sentiment from the set.

Here's a side view so that you can see the distressed and sponged edges of my paper. I also embossed the background to give it a bit more texture. Those little trees are so adorable! The original image has a star on top of the tree but I cut it off so that it was more of a forest tree than a Christmas tree.

"Not all who wander are lost." This is so true and I really love this quote from J.R.R. Tolkien. I had fun mussing up the background behind the camper and I use Gorgeous Grunge for the first time in quite a while. 

If you haven't already seen this set check it out! There are so many fun little images that you can use to decorate the camper and create background scenes. 

Do you have this stamp set? If you do then please play along with us over at the What Will You Stamp challenge blog. Just add your own creation to our page and you could earn the chance to be one of our guest designers! Alright that's all for today. If you are interested in purchasing any of the products that I have shared here today please click the link below to head my store. If you have any questions I would love to help you out so please leave a comment or shoot me an email at mariawillis@hotmail.com  I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

Have an amazing day!

-Maria

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December Stamping Friends Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stampin Friends Christmas Blog Hop! If you just arrived from Raquelle Clifton’s Blog, thank you for continuing with the hop! Don’t forget to click the Previous button to check out Raquelle's amazing creations.This month we are excited to have three Awesome Guest Hoppers that you should definitely check out!

Maria Willis: You're Here!

Twila Davis

Barbara Welch

I used Christmas Cuties for both my card and project this month. It's such a fun set and I really didn't use it enough this holiday season. This little Christmas elf is pretty adorable and I had a lot of fun coloring and watercoloring him (Real Red and Cucumber Crush). 

Here's a close up of this little Christmas Cutie and the million layers of this card-Lol! Seriously, this card is THICK but I love the depth it has. 

Here's what the inside of my card looks like. With so much going on on the outside of the card I had to fancy up the inside too!

My Christmas project is a bag I made to give my niece a gift in. I'm starting a fun tradition with my nieces where I give them charm bracelets! My Godmother did this for me and it was so special to me. I still have my bracelet and all of the thoughtfully gifted charms and I thought it would be a wonderful way to celebrate life's special moments with my nieces. Well, what better way to give a special gift to someone you love than in a beautiful handmade gift bag. I made this cute little gift bag for my niece using another stamp from Stampin' Ups! Christmas Cuties set. It's hard to tell from my photos but this bag has a soft and sparkly feel to it.

Here's a close up of the angel. In this picture you can see that the angel's wings, sash and halo are sparkly. I used Wink of Stella in gold on her halo and Wink of Stella in clear on her wings and sash. I'm so happy to say that SU will be carrying Wink of Stella in these two colors starting in January. It's a pen with a brush-like tip that allows you to add just the right amount of sparkle to your projects without the mess of glitter. I absolutely love it!

I used a doily from the Tag Bag kit (they're a bit smaller than the regular doilies) and lined the top of my bag with Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper. I topped the bag off with a beautiful bow, a mini silver paper clip, and, a pretty tag also lined with glimmer paper. 

That's all I've got for today. Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you'll keep hopping along to see what the rest of these amazing stampers have created. Before you go...

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If so, then join the fun and play along with our Scavenger Hunt Mystery Giveaway! All you have to do is visit every blog on this blog hop and leave each of us a comment. Then send a list of everybody's favorite holidays to happystamper508@gmail.com by midnight this Sunday, December 20th. If you are the lucky winner you will receive a gift from every single hopper... That's 13 gifts! What are you waiting for? Good Luck! My favorite holiday is... My birthday week (Yes, really. Somehow it always gets dragged out over a week and it is so awesome!!)! 

Next up on our hop is the talented Elizabeth Jeanne Thatcher! 

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Mandy Reedyk 

Raquelle Clifton 

Maria Willis: You Are Here 

Elizabeth Jeanne Thatcher: NEXT UP!  

Siara Acdal

Barbara Welch 

Deana Benson  

Cheryl Piotrowski  

Andrea Pancrazio 

Twila Davis 

Kirsteen Gill  

Lisa Altman 

Andrea Tracy-Tucker  

Tina Riddle 

WWYS #42: Snow Place

Woohoo! It's Snow Place week over at What Will You Stamp this week! I love this set! I decided to use the fun little penguin and dress him up all fancy. I embossed him in black then embossed some silver buttons and a red bow tie for him. I like the pop of silver, rhinestones and fancy vellum on the Basic Gray and Pool Party background. It's pretty but not too over the top.

I used a lot of dimensional on the different layers of this card. I love dimension! The background is embossed to give the card a little more texture.

This stamp set is so fun! Aside from the penguin I used you also get two snow men and so many different ways to dress them up! There is also a matching frame lit set so you never have to cut these images out if you don't want to!

Check out what the rest of our design team has made over at What Will You Stamp for this week's challenge. If you have this set I hope you'll join in the fun! Have a great week!

-Maria

WWYS #41: Embellished Ornaments

Happy Monday! Here we are again with another challenge over at What Will You Stamp?! This week we are stamping with Embellished Ornaments! I've been wanting to watercolor with this stamp set for a while now and I got my chance this past weekend when I was camping. Unfortunately I forgot my heat tool and my Big Shot so I heat embossed this ornament using a toaster! Thank goodness it worked! I watercolored using my aqua painter and wasn't happy with how my paper turned out... but, I thought the ornament came out looking pretty so I decided to cut that out using my ornament framelits and go from there. I layered Island Indigo, Gold Foil and Fancy Vellum underneath my ornament. I tied a bow using the gold cording trim and heat embossed my sentiment in gold on vellum. 

It's hard to tell in the big photo but I also gave the whole ornament a bath in Wink of Stella (clear)! I'm so excited because I've just discovered that I love Wink of Stella (I can't believe I hadn't ever used it before!) and now that SU will be offering it in their upcoming catalog it will become one of my favorite "go-tos." In case you are new to Wink of Stella like I was, it's a pen with a brush-like tip that allows you to get just the right amount of shimmer and shine without the mess and hassle of glitter. It's seriously awesome!

This stamp set really is so pretty. I only used the one ornament on the front of my card and one of the sentiments on the inside. I'll have to ink this set up again soon. The framelits that come with this set are just beautiful too.

I hope you'll head on over to the What Will You Stamp Challenge Blog and check out what the rest of the design team has created this week. If you have this set I hope you will play along with us!

Have an amazing week everybody and I hope you are enjoying your holidays!

Bye for now!

-Maria

WWYS #40: White Christmas

It's What Will You Stamp Monday again and this week we've got a White Christmas challenge for you! This week I decided to go small and make a couple of 3"x3" cards. These are so great when you want to write someone a quick note and a tag is just not quite enough. I always make sure I have a stash of Stampin' Up! 3"x3" envelopes as they make it easy to complete these cute little cards. 

For this card I used quite a few of the stamps from this set. I love that this set allows you create different scenes by piecing them together the way that you like. 

I followed up my stamping by adding a little color with my Real Red Stampin' Write marker and... DRUM ROLL please!! Wink of Stella in clear! Never heard of Wink of Stella? I hadn't either until just recently but check out my amazing little snowman-See all of that beautiful shimmer? That's the magic of Wink of Stella and it's coming soon in Stampin' Ups! 2016 Occasions Catalog. I've used Clear here and it will also be available in gold! 

I stamped the inside of card and topped if off with a cute little bird. Here's the whole White Christmas set. So many fun little stamps to use!

If you're interested in seeing some more amazing projects using this set be sure to head on over to What Will You Stamp to see what the rest of our design team has made. While you're there I hope you'll decide to join us and enter one of your own amazing projects for a chance to be our guest designer in an upcoming challenge. I can't wait to see what you will make! Until then have an amazing week and I will see you soon!

-Maria