Roses Challenge Winner

The winner of SweetStamps.com's Challenge #123 Roses is...

Sandie L

Congratulations!

Please contact me for your winning prize of a $20 shopping spree at shop.SweetStamps.com.

Thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge, we hope you had fun and will join us again — we have a NEW technique challenge every month, along with a weekly challenge each Tuesday!

Happy stamping!

Roses with Guest Designer Elizabeth Hart

Hi, its Elizabeth from Maryland bringing you flowers from SweetStamps. The first stamps that I bought from SweetStamps were flowers (fuchsias). And since flowers are my favorite thing to color I was thrilled that this challenge was about "Roses".

Then came the really hard part - selecting a stamp with roses because SweetStamps had so many and they were all so lovely! I finally selected this one (vertical roses/7035H) since it really made the blossoms a prominent feature.

I used lots of shading techniques with Copic Markers to color the roses and make them realistic. I also cut them out and remounted them to provide more depth.

So join us this week with your rose creation. And, of course my special heartfelt thanks to the SweetStamps team for the warm welcome and the opportunity to showcase their fabulous stamps this month. 

- Elizabeth H

Roses with Guest Designer Donna K

Hello Sweet Stamp friends!

Donna K with you today sharing my card using 

Roses 

as part of this week's challenge here at SweetStamps.

When I saw "roses" as the challenge I immediately went looking for rose stamp images and then I came across this gorgeous tea cup ... with roses on it! I knew that was "the" stamp for this project.

I used the Tea Cup Medium 866 stamp, die cut it into an oval shape and added the coral scalloped matte. I used 3D adhesive to pop up the die cut image and Copic pens to shade the roses in the perfect shade of coral to match my embossed background papers and ribbon.  

I kinda love this delicate, feminine look and I hope you do as well.

Be sure to link up your Rosy project to this week's challenge too!!

Thank you so much to the amazingly talented Design Team of SweetStamps for having me the past few weeks.  I have really enjoyed posting with you and each challenge has been a fun, new adventure for me. 

~Donna K - Created by Donna K

Challenge #123 Roses

It's been a traveling week! So far, we've been in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina and South Carolina! Almost to our final destination: Orlando, FL. (If you're in the Orlando area, be sure to stop by StampFest this weekend!)
Now onto this week's challenge...

 Roses

I think we have quite a selection of beautiful rose images in our store (along with other floral images). Check them out here.

Don't forget to come back tomorrow (Wednesday) and Thursday to see some more rose creations by our June guest designers: Donna K and Elizabeth Hart!

Here to inspire you are some rose beauties from our DT Sweeties: 

Annette Andersson

*Calypso Bastian*

Carolyn LaBille

DeNetra Bates

Denise Paxton

Erika Selander

Irena Kowalczyk

Irit Shalom

*Jacqueline Hill*
Jackie made a GORGEOUS card, but it's a new stamp she drew that hasn't been released yet, so you'll have to wait a little while longer before we can share it with you - and all the other beauties she drew - trust me, it's worth the wait!

Karrie Snider

*Kendra Sand*
I've kept Kendra busy with behind-the-scenes stuff for our DT girls,
sorry to deprive you of her creative talents, but she is focused on getting the new releases set up so we can share more with you :)

Lisa Lahiff

Monica Edwards

Roxie Glaza

*Shelly Schmidt*

 

*Tamara Morton*

We'd love to see your rosy creation (cards, tags, scrapbook pages, and altered art are welcome), so come and join the fun! You could win a $20 shopping spree for goodies at SweetStamps.com's online store by playing along in our challenge! Click here for our complete Challenge Rules.

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Our current Monthly Technique Challenge {Chalkboard Technique} runs through July 14th. Check out the monthly challenges here.

 Happy Stamping! Have a super sweet week!