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Sentimental Sundays #10: Celebrations!

Happy Fourth of July to everyone in the US! I hope you're all enjoying the holiday weekend with some good ol' BBQ and fireworks :)

This week at Sentimental Sundays, we are challenging you to create something with a celebration theme in honor of our country's independence. This doesn't have to be anything patriotic - it can be for a birthday or anything that is a cause for celebration. Speaking of patriotism, though, I want to point you over the Cheryl's blog because she's giving away a freebie sentiment set for the Operation Write Home blog hop that they are holding.

I didn't have time to create something for this week's Sentimental Sundays challenge, but the design team have some eye candy over for you at the Sentimental Sundays challenge blog. The rules of the freebies have also changed - the sentiments will be available for one week and then they will be taken down and sold at the Raindrop Echo Designs Digital Sentiments at Whimsy Stamps. Grab them before they're gone!

Sentimental Sundays Weekly Freebie:

Celebrations
Click here to go to the blog & to get the download link

Freebies will now only be available for one week!

Grab them before they're gone!
A special thank you to those who link back to the blog when using these sentiments!

Sentimental Sundays #9: Lift Someone's Spirits

Even though the days are longer, the Sundays seem to get here so quickly! Welcome, everyone, to another Sentimental Sunday. This week at Sentimental Sunday, our theme is: encouragement and support.

Have I mentioned how lucky I am to be able to be surrounded by the gals at Sentimental Sundays? We have challenges there every week, but I am only asking them to create for two challenges out of the month, but guess what? They all created something for this week's challenge! They really are a great bunch :) Make sure to head over to the Sentimental Sundays Challenge Blog to see the fantastic creations by the design team and to grab the freebie.

For this week's challenge, I've created two cards. The first card is for the Crafty Creations Challenge (We want to see you shine) and the Allsorts Challenge (Embossing). The second card is for the CAS-tastic Challenge (yellow, blue, neutral) and the Papertake Weekly Challenge (sketch). The lighting was bad and the DP on the second card really is blue!! It just seems to be showing up as black : /

Both of them use sentiments from the "Amongst the Stars" digital sentiment set that will be released on July 1, 2010 at the Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection Store. Make sure to tune in for some sneak peaks of the new images by the Whimsy Stamps design team starting June 28th!

Sentiments: Whimsy Stamps Amongst the Stars Digital Sentiments set (releasing July 1); Paper: BasicGrey; Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug, Pendant die, Stickles

Sentimental Sundays Weekly Freebie:

Kimberly's Sentiments
Click here to go to the blog
A special thank you to those who link back to the blog when using these sentiments!

Sentimental Sundays #8: Your Favorite Sentiment(s)

Hello all! I hope that everyone has had a good weekend so far :)

Today I actually have a sample for your for for Sentimental Sundays! I missed last week because it was just way too hectic and I didn't have a card done in time. This week, the challenge is super easy: use your favorite sentiment(s). On my card, I've used two: "Love U" and "You make life beautiful." I guess I've been feeling lovey dovey lately, lol. The image is one of my favorite images from Whimsy Stamps called Love U Mice. The sentiment is also from the Whimsy Stamps Marriage Sentiments digital set.

Image: Whimsy Stamps Love U Mice; Sentiment: Whimsy Stamps Marriage Sentiments digital set; Medium: Distress Inks; Paper: BasicGrey Sugar Rush; Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Fancy Tags, lace

This card is for a few challenges:

Sweet Stampin - Clean and Simple
Crafty Catz - Shaped Cards
Totally Gorjuss - Sugar and Spice
Lots To Do - Quotations
Cards & Things - Sketch

As always, I've created a freebie sentiment for this week's Sentimental Sundays challenge. Below is a preview, but you have to head to the blog to get the link!

Sentimental Sundays Weekly Freebie:

An Assortment of Sentiments
Click here to head to the blog
A special thank you to those who link back to the blog when using these sentiments!

Sentimental Sundays #6: New or Neglected Stash

Thank you for joining me for another Sentimental Sunday!

This week at Sentimental Sundays, we have a stash challenge for you to take up: use your new or neglected stash. Either use something you've just recently added to your stash of goodies or something you've forgotten about, but you just "had to have" back then.

For this week's challenge, I've used some new papers given me to by the lovely Denise and used my neglected buttons and hemp cord. I paired it up with a sentiment from the Daddy's Heartbeat Digital Sentiment set from Whimsy Stamps. The glue was still wet when I took this picture (see the buttons?) - sorry about that!

Make sure you head over to the Sentimental Sundays blog to see all the wonderful creations that the DT have come up with!

Sentiment: Whimsy Stamps Daddy's Heartbeat Sentiments; Paper: Wild Asparagus; Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, buttons, hemp cord

Want to grab this freebie?

Head over to Sentimental Sundays to get the download link!

A special thank you to those who link back to the blog when using these sentiments!

This card is for a few of challenges:

The Cuttlebug Spot - Dad and Grad
Creative Craft - Ribbons and Bows - Hope the hemp cord counts!
Tuesday Taggers - Touchy Feely Texture
Delightful Sketches - Texture
CAS-tastic - Focus on Sentiments - Of course I had to join this challenge :)
Hand Full Of Stamps - Hats Off to You
Stampin' B's Design Team - Masculine Card
Stamp Something - Something Digi
Frosted Designs - Buttons
Etsy Inspired - Shop: Howbeadyful - I used this as my inspiration
Card Patterns - Sketch 67

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #4: Get Well

Can you believe it? It's already Sunday and time again for another Sentimental Sundays challenge! When I started this challenge blog, I didn't think I would have this much fun, but finding such a great team to work with really has made it more wonderful than I thought it would ever be. I'm really happy about how everything has turned out so far :)

Anyway, enough of the sappy stuff. This week's challenge at Sentimental Sundays is Get Well Creations. Make sure to head to the blog to grab the freebie sentiment set you see below and also to see the design team's creations and to enter the challenge!

Want to grab this freebie?

Head over to Sentimental Sundays to get the download link!

I've created a card using a sentiment from the Get Well Soon Sentiment Set from Whimsy Stamps. I used my Nestabilities on tissue paper and used the poofy flower technique. I got these BEAUTIFUL papers from Denise.

Sentiment: Whimsy Stamps Get Well Soon Sentiments; Paper: SEI; Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Shapabilities, pearl, MS border punch

This card is for a few challenges:

Clean and Simple Stamping - FTL 91
Oh-la-la Challenges - Bright and Cheerful
Papertake Weekly - Say it with flowers
Quixotic Challenges - How Sentimental
Charisma Cardz - 3D
Stamp Something - 2 of Something - 2 leaves :)
Stampin' for the Weekend - To Cheer
Kah-Wink-E- Dink - Make your own embellishment
The Crazy Challenge - Something New - new papers from friend
Stampavie and More - Flower Power

It's my one year blogoversary!! Candy + Freebie

I can't believe this blogging thing (and cardmaking hobby) has been going on for one year now!

One year ago, I posted my first project which was a Mother's Day word album (see below) and now, Mother's Day is again right around the corner and I find myself reflecting on all the wonderful things that have happened in just one year.

My first posted project:

Lots of things have changed in my personal life as well as in this crafting journey. I was in love with my Cricut when I first got it and even though I hardly use it now, I want to go back and create things like that word album. There's so much to celebrate about! I've been lucky enough to "meet" new people and join fantastic design teams, I've accumulated a ridiculous amount of stamps, and I still learn new things everyday.

To celebrate, I have a freebie sentiment set and a small blog candy prize to give away.

The freebie sentiment set is called: Be Yourself. I've learned to be free with my crafting and enjoy it so much more now. I still remember Lindsay's comment, which was to do what I want and forget about what others might think. Thanks, Lindsay, even though you'll probably never read this. I've been lucky enough to have had so many wonderful, inspirational crafters who create such beautiful things!

Be Yourself Sentiments: Download Link

Blog Candy prize:

Three stamps from Whimsy Stamps (Spring Stepping, Whimsy Owl, Water Lily), bouquets of Prima flowers, various lace

You will also get these as digital prizes:

ALL of my sentiments from the Whimsy Stamps Raindrop Echo Designs Digital Collection (23 total)

Thank you Denise for giving me a chance!

3 Meljen's Designs images of your choice from the Meljen's Designs store.

Thank you Melissa for offering this prize!

To enter the blog candy, all you have to do is post the candy on your sidebar and link back to my blog (http://raindropechodesigns.blogspot.com/) then leave a link (either your entire blog or your blog post) in Mr. Linky below. I would love for you to be a follower, but that's not necessary. This blog candy will close on May 30th, which is the day that I applied to be on the Kaboodle Doodles DT (here was my entry); Kaboodle Doodles turned out to be my first every design team :)

Thanks for looking and for spreading the word and a very special thank you for all of you who have inspired me. Good luck to everyone!

Happy Earth Day - Freebie sentiment set

Happy Earth Day everyone!

Please remember that many of the things we use for our crafts can be recycled. Maybe you can set aside a different trash can for all recyclable materials so that it's easier for you to separate them. Maybe you can use those reusable bags a little more. Whatever it is, every little bit counts. Below is a freebie sentiment set for you to use if you want. Enjoy, and have a wonderful day.

Download Link

For The Troops Sentiments Set Freebie

Just popping in to quickly share a For The Troops Sentiments set I created. I was thinking about the Memory Day holiday coming up and I thought maybe this would give everyone a head start on making some cards for the military men and/or women in your lives. My brother is in the Navy and he'll be leaving again soon so I had him in mind, too.

I hope you enjoy these sentiments! Some of the dingbats are from the Stillframes font which you can find here.

For The Troops Sentiments - Download Link

FREEBIE Thank You Sentiments

I'm just popping in to quickly share another freebie sentiment set. Make sure to come back tomorrow for another Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection sneak peek!

Thank You Sentiments freebie - Download Link

FREEBIE Sympathy and Friendship Sentiments

See, what'd I tell you? I told you I would forget to post up some freebies! I'm posting up some more sentiments sets that used to be sold at Paper Maniac and I'm posting two this time to make up for not posting anything for such a long time.

If you like these freebies, make sure to check out the Whimsy Stamps Digital Stamps line when it opens! Our grand opening will be April 12 so stay tuned! We will have some wonderful images from Katie Sowa (our Whimsy Animals Collection artist), Crissy Armstrong (you all know her already) and sentiments from me (I think you know me, lol).

Have a wonderful weekend!

Friendship Sentiments Set - Download Link

Sympathy Sentiments Set - Download Link

Time for another FREEBIE! Dog Sentiments

Most of you guys know I'm a HUGE dog lover so to celebrate dogs, the weekend, and life in general, I'm giving away this Dog Sentiments set as a freebie. I would love to see any creations you make with it!

As before, the set includes all 7 sentiments in transparent PNG, non-transparent JPG, and a whole sheet of the sentiment ready to be printed out in JPG, PNG, and PDF formats. Enjoy!

Click here or click the picture below to be taken to the download page

As a recap, my husband and I have four dogs and here are their mug shots :) Yes, that last one sleeps with a stuffed animal in his mouth. Weirdo.

Time Sentiments FREEBIE!!

Hello again and happy Friday!! I was looking over some of the sentiment sets that I made for Paper Maniac (when the store used to offer digital downloads) and decided to start gradually giving those away as freebies. At least I hope I can remember to do that, lol. Today I'm giving away the entire "Time Sentiments" set. You will get all sentiments and "image" as transparent PNG, non-transparent JPG and the full set in a 8.5"x11" JPG, PNG, and PDF file ready to be printed and used.

To download, click on the picture below or click here to be taken to the download page. Enjoy!

Time Sentiments

Oh, and if you like freebies, make sure to check out my post below to get some free digis from Melissa!

Word Art FREEBIE

Gosh, I haven't given out a freebie in a while. Sorry about that! This freebie is a sentiment that didn't make it onto the Whimsy Stamps Oval Snippets set, but I think it's still a good one :)

Just click on the image to be taken to the download page. Download includes transparent PNG and non-transparent JPG versions of the sentiment in 300 dpi resolution. If printed without resizing, sentiment is approximately 3" x 2.5" Enjoy!

Click here to be taken to the download page

New digital designs at Paper Maniac + FREEBIE

Hi everyone! I can't believe that we're heading into the weekend already. I'm so glad we are!

I just wanted to share with you some new digital designs out at Paper Maniac. I hope you like them :) The Halloween set is currently on sale for only $2.45 so grab it while you can! I'm giving away the "Mind Your Mummy" image/sentiment below. Just click on the picture to be taken to the download page.

The Worldwide Christmas set has a few images as well as "Merry Christmas" in 7 different languages. The sentiments are perfectly sized so that all you need to do is open them up an image editor and move them into the blank ornament.

Enjoy!

Halloween Set - on sale for only $2.45

Worldwide Christmas - $2.50

FREEBIE image: Mind your Mummy from the Halloween Set
(click picture to be taken to the download page)

Pile it On! Sunday and FREEBIE

Things are finally slowing down a little here and I'm finally getting to catch up on all the things on my to-do list. Even though the list is still long and that I'm sure I'm forgetting to put things on there, I'm chugging along.

It's Sunday again and that means another Pile It On! Challenge! This week, we want you to play along with us in a COLOR POP challenge: use black, white, and one other color. I always struggle with color challenges EXCEPT this one. I absolutely love doing these kinds of cards. We also have a wonderful sponsor, The Cutting Cafe. The butterflies are from the Social Butterfly set and the sentiment is from Time Sentiment set by me, which is currently being sold at the Paper Maniac Digital Designs section.

I'm giving away the sentiment I used on this card as a digital freebie. Scroll down below for more info.

Challenge: Black, White, One other color
Sponsor: The Cutting Cafe

Images: The Cutting Cafe Social Butterfly set; Raindrop Echo Designs for Paper Maniac; Paper: The Angel Company free BW download; Tools: CB and Nestabilities; Accessories: rhinestones

Pile it On! - Black, White, and one other color
Digital Delights - Sketch #6 (I flipped the sketch counterclockwise)
ABC Challenges - D is for Die Cuts (Nestabilities)
Paper Blooms - Bling (rhinestones)
Stamp Something - Favorite Embellishment (ribbon)

FREEBIE Digital Sentiment in PNG format
(click image to be taken to the download page)

Time Sentiments set available at Paper Maniac

Included in the set: Full sheet of all images in transparent PNG, non-transparent JPEG, and PDF. These full sheet files are ready to be printed out on letter size (8.5"x11") paper and cut; Six individual transparent PNG images; Six individual non-transparent JPG images

Paper Maniac GRAND OPENING!!

I can't believe it's finally here!

Paper Maniac Grand Opening!

Patti and all the DT members have worked very hard to make this happen and now it's finally time for the Paper Maniac store to open its doors to you! I've spent many hours trying to make digital sentiments while co-coordinating the DT and now, the big day has finally come to reveal what all the hard work has gone into.

First, there are a few announcements that might interest you

From now until September 6, get 15% off your ENTIRE purchase.
Coupon code GRAND15
Orders over $75 receive free shipping!

From September 1 to September 15, if you register at the store and add things in your wish list, you will be entered to win the WISH LIST CANDY. See details below!

We currently have a blog hop going on with a chance to win the candy below and yes, that is the Unity 100% Happy August store kit. Go to this post to be taken to my Paper Maniac blog hop post.

We are launching our bi-weekly challenge blog today with a chance to win a $10 gift certificate for entering our challenges! Go here for the challenge blog: Paper Maniac Challenges or click on the blinkie (which you also can grab at the blog). Some of those who have visited me know I love challenges so I'm really excited about this one!!

I am also giving away one free sentiment from my Happy Birthday Circle Sentiments set below. It includes a high-quality, 300dpi transparent PNG image and non-transparent JPG image. Just click on the "Download Here" link or click on the picture and you will be taken to the download page. I will try to offer one sentiment from different set every couple of week so check back often! You can purchase this entire set at the Paper Maniac store HERE.

Download Here

Happy Birthday Circle Sentiments Set

I am also personally offering a $10 gift certificate to the store for all comments left on this blog post. No need to become a follower, but I would appreciate the love :) Winner will be chosen on September 7.

Now, time for my Grand Opening card!

All stamps, paper, and accessories used to make this card can be purchased at the store! Stamp: Unity 100% Happy store kit; Paper: Bazzill, Paper Trey Ink; Accessories: ribbon, Robin's Nest Christmas Dew Drops; Tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Copics

So what are you waiting for? Start browsing the Paper Maniac store to see what the big deal is all about! Also, make sure you visit the other DT's blogs to find some amazing inspiration!