A Final Walk with EAD Designs

 Recognize these ?

It's what got me hooked on a company called

 And now what a bittersweet post to share.

Today bring us the final day we will be blog hopping

together as the designers of EAD Designs.

EAD has decided to close it's doors as new opportunities

are on the horizon.

It has been my pleasure to be a part of such a fantastic

company and a very creative team.

If you are here by way of the hop, you will have made

your way here from

Judith's blog Jay Gee's Nook

If you would like to say farewell to each designer,

you'll want to stop by the

EAD Blog

and make sure you leave a note along the way.

For my final post, I thought I would take a walk

down memory lane by revisiting some of the

projects I created during the past 10 months

as an EAD Designer.

Technically, this collection of cards and tags was created

just prior to coming on board as a designer, but they've always

been some of my favorites.

You can read the original post HERE

Here are some fairly Clean and Simple designs that were created

along the way for a variety of occasions.

To see the original posts, you can click each of these links:

Shake Rattle & Roll

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

Fall

It's Tea Time

Here are snippets of some fun and very different designs

using a variety of EAD Stickers.  I always enjoy adding embellishments

to my cards and these designs were perfect for that.

I created this one during the London Olympics and loved adding

the bling to the Eye.  The original post is HERE

I added a lot of elements to these sweet little Stickerz

and created a very flat, but dimensional card.

You can see how it was all completed HERE

Finally . . . I can't finish off the day without something for

Halloween.  Even though these projects were shared most

recently, I thought it would be great to end with these.

Who wouldn't love this colorful guy outside their back window ?

You can read more about this card HERE

and finally . . .

Everyone's favorite little green guy trying to escape

just reaching for that big blue gem !  You can find this card HERE

HAPPY HALLOWEEN !

I've appreciated all the Mondays you've spent during our

Designer Blog Hops with EAD Designs.

I'll miss our dates, but I'm sure something will fill those

days soon.

Until then, please make sure you stop by my creative teammate

Rose's Blog My Happy Place

I know she has something pretty fabulous for you !

Thanks for coming by and walking down memory lane

with me and I hope you'll leave a little love before you go . . .

The Play Date Cafe Color Challenge

It is time for another challenge over at

The Play Date Cafe

We had a great time last week offering

over $300 in prizes!

They will all be announced on Friday.

It's a tough week as we say goodbye to one of our

Senior Designers, Ruby McGuire.

Ruby has been inspiring our players since

joining our team in early 2010.

She is pursuing a wonderful profession in

life-coaching and has to give up some of her

creative teams to do so.

We are so happy for her career path

and will miss her tremendously . . .

 

We are super-excited this week as

is joining us as a sponsor.

We are also happy to welcome

Paper Crafts Magazing 'Go-To' Gal

Teri Anderson

as our Guest Designer this week !

So stop on by and make sure to play !

We'd love to have you !

Pretty Amazing!

Welcome back to The Open Window !

I am back with the honor of being a Guest Designer for

I blogged yesterday about this amazing news and

hope you will scroll down and check out that post.

Today the sneak peek is the 'Truth Is' set.

Can you just see all the CAS {and more} possibilities ?

I really did stay very Clean & Simple to make this card happen.

Just a variety of inks and Wa-La ! ! !

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps are the finest quality, photopolymer stamps 

made in the USA. 

There are five sets to the brand new release.  

Each day of the release, you will have a chance 

to win the featured set !  

All you have to do is head to the store blog and leave a comment

on each of the sneak peek posts to have a chance to win.

You can most definitely go back and comment on posts you may have missed,

so that's great news.  You have until 11:59pm EST, Wednesday Oct 24th to

comment for a chance to win. Click HERE to get all the details.

Winners will be announced the following day and the stamps will

be available for purchase on Friday from CAS-ual Fridays !

You can also play along with the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge

to have a chance to win the entire release!

 It's been a joy to celebrate this new venture with my

friend Michele & all her designers.

I hope you will check out all the amazing projects from her team.

Thanks for stopping by once again . . .

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: Gina K Designs

Stamps: Truth Is by Skipping Stones Design

Ink: A Muse Studio

Embellishments: gems from Little Yellow Bicycle

 

Peace on Earth with The Craft's Meow

I am so happy to be back sharing a beautiful preview

of one of the newest releases from

This set is called 'Christmas Cheer'

by Mabelle R-O

I love this CAS set !

When I saw those trees, I knew I wanted to create a baker's twine

landscape, so that's what I did.

I rolled my adhesive and layered my twine using

'Shore & 'Honeydew' twine from The Twinery.

I stamped the trees & snowflakes along with the

frame & sentiment, all from this set.

I chose a variety of gems to decorate the trees.

Make sure you pop by

 The Craft's Meow Blog

and check out the fabulous-ness

from all of the designers.

TCM is giving away a new release set

each day and today, you have a chance to win this set! 
Make sure you leave a comment

on the blog for a chance to win!

In Our Thoughts Project Recipe:

 Patterned Paper:  baby blue check from A Muse Studio
Stamps: Christmas Cheer by The Craft's Meow

Ink: A Muse Studio

Embellishments: baker's twine in Honeydew & Shore
by The Twinery
gems from Recollections & KandCompany

An Exciting CAS Day Indeed!

What an exciting day!

I've got two three fabulous things going on today

so buckle up !  It's going to be fun!

Imagine my surprise when a birthday gift arrived

at my doorstep with five brand new stamp sets

in the package !  They were from my dear friend

Michele.  If you've visited my blog for any length

of time, you will know she was a designer over at

The Play Date Cafe and from there, we worked on

The CAS-ual Fridays Challenge together.

She has now taken the BIG LEAP and started

her own stamp line based on the terrific

CAS concept and I am honored to be a part of it

as a Guest Designer !

This set is called 'Calm & Gentle' and I absolutely love

these trees.

I just got this new 'Cathedral Lace' punch from Martha Stewart

and I thought it made a great fence.

I just 'dressed up' the trees with tiny gems.

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps are the finest quality, photopolymer stamps 

made in the USA. 

There are five sets to the brand new release.  

Each day of the release, you will have a chance 

to win the featured set !  

All you have to do is head to the store blog and leave a comment

on each of the sneak peek posts to have a chance to win.

You can most definitely go back and comment on posts you may have missed,

so that's great news.  You have until 11:59pm EST, Wednesday Oct 24th to

comment for a chance to win. Click HERE to get all the details.

Winners will be announced the following day and the stamps will

be available for purchase on Friday from CAS-ual Fridays !

You can also play along with the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge

to have a chance to win the entire release!

In the meantime, I am also celebrating the

FINAL DAY

of our 3rd Anniversary Celebration over at

Over $300 in prizes from our sponsors and all

you have to do is play along !  Create something

using our color story above.

For all the details, make sure you visit The Cafe today !

I will see you later today with one more post and more

new stamps to preview.

Thanks for your visit today !

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: Gina K Designs & American Crafts

Stamps: Calm & Gentle by CAS-ual Fridays Stamps

Ink: Slate from A Muse Studios & Teal Zeal Memento by Tsukineko

Embellishments: gems by Recollections

Tools: Cathedral Lace punch by Martha Stewart Crafts

corner rounder punch by Fiskars

  

Celebrating 3 Years at The Play Date Cafe !

This sentiment says it all !

We are celebrating over at

Where has the time gone ? ? ?

Just three short years ago, my UK bestie

Sarah Anderson and I shared this challenge with the world

and we never looked back !

{by the way . . . she will be joining us on Monday, Oct 22nd}

There have been many, MANY changes since then

but the challenge remains the same.

To interpret the colors as YOU see them

and enter whatever type of project you'd like.

With celebration comes more changes beginning

with a whole new look !

We would love for you to take our brand new badge

and place it on your blog with a link to The Cafe.

During the next 5 days, our designers will be visiting blogs

watching for our badge.  Randomly, we will hand out prizes

when we see it.  Help us reach 2,000 followers and even

more prizes will be awarded !

Along with that, we have amazing sponsors who will be

sharing 15 prizes for our weekly winner & honorable mentions.

You'll find all these details and even MORE SURPRISES

over at The Cafe.

This week's colors are some of the boldest we've ever had !

I chose to take a very simple route putting them together using flowers

from Prima & a beautiful gem flourish from Zva Creative.

The sentiment is from FarmHouse Paper Company.

I hope you will make plans to join us for each of the next five days

as we celebrate.  We would love to have you *LIKE* us over

on Facebook and follow along on Twitter @ThePDCC

I want to say THANK YOU to all who have supported our challenge.

Whether you are a brand new, a long-time player

or just peek in for some inspiration . . .

It's all possible because of YOU !

Project Recipe:

Patterned Paper: Rondelle by Prima from StopandScrap.com

Stamps: Sugar Hill Autumn by Farmhouse Paper Company

Embellishments: gem flourish by Zva Creative

flowers by Prima

Countdown to a Celebration!

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EAD DESIGNS BLOG HOP

Hello !

I'm back again with an uber-quick post.

I didn't have a chance to share the card I created for the current

challenge over at The Play Date Cafe due to a minor accident

involving my husband Paul last Wednesday evening.

I chatted with several of you over on Facebook, but long story short . . .

We were at Home Depot searching for some finished wood to use

as a base for our brand new 60-gallon freshwater aquarium.

The clerk asked Paul to help him move a few of the sheets

and on sheet #2, Paul lifted his head and cut it open on a metal

bracket above.  Needless to say, stitches were put in and the

evening got away from me.  Well, the rest of the week into

the weekend got away from me.

He is doing well now and I thank you for your kind

thoughts, messages and prayers, both on facebook

and via email.  It is always such a blessing to know I am

in a community of caring folks.

So here is this week's challenge

and here is my interpretation

I love this new paper from Prima's Rondelle collection.

As soon as I got my 6x6 pad in from StopandScrap.com,

I knew I wanted to use it for this challenge.

I created my frame using a Spellbinders die & matching

pearl Nestabling from Want2Scrap. I used a fab tiny print

stamp from Glitz Design and stamped it on the diagonal.

The sentiment is from PTI.

I really hope you will make plans to join us this Thursday, October 18th

as The Play Date Cafe celebrates it 3rd Anniversary.

We will party for FIVE days with . . .

alumni designers

 fabulous sponsors

and

great surprises

We are working hard to reach a milestone

2,000 follower mark

and prizes will be involved !

So I hope you will stop by and sign on to follow

{if you aren't already}

because we'd love to have you !

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: Gina K Designs & American Crafts

Patterned Paper: Rondelle by Prima

Stamps: Glitz Design & PaperTrey Ink

Tools:  Fancy Tags Two die by Spellbinders, Big Shot

Embellishments: Nestabling by Want2Scrap

gems by KandCompany

Celebrate!

It is Monday indeed and time for this week's

If you are hopping with us, you will have come by way of

Judith's blog Jay Gee's Nook

If not, it's only a few steps back to join us from the start at the

EAD Designs blog

Last week, the sad announcement was made that EAD

would be closing their 'web' doors this month.

I will miss my Monday visits via our blog hop  : (

This is such a fun, geometric Stickerz set from EAD called

'Your Birthday'

I love the idea of bold, black graphics with red, don't you ?

I kept this really clean and SIMPLE for sure, as I used

Bazzill's swiss dot cardstock, so no embossing for me !

I embellished with the additional gems and that's it !

I also used this set on my Halloween card a couple

weeks ago and thought I would share it here, just in

case you missed it.  I love the 'bubbles' !

You can read all about it HERE

Here is the terrific set I used

 

It's time to send you on your way to

Liz's blog Liz's Paper Loft

I hope you enjoyed your visit and I hope

you'll stop by again soon

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: Gina K Designs & Bazzill

Embellishments: Your Birthday Stickerz by EAD Designs

gems by Recollections

 

 

Halloween Make a Wish

Happy Monday and welcome to this week's

You may have heard the sad news that EAD Designs will

be closing at the end of the month, so our design team is

savoring each week as we wind down our blog hops.

Hopefully, you joined me from

Judith's blog Jay Gee's Nook

If not, I invite you to join us from the beginning at the

EAD Designs Blog

I have had so much fun this season creating Halloween cards

and EAD is a BIG reason . . . just LOOK at this guy ! ! !

To create this card, I focused on the fun Stickerz set called

'Halloween Owls'

I just love that star hanging and thought it would be great to

add dimension by adding star gems and tiny rhinestones.

The sparkling stars next to the owl magician are from the

'Hocus Pocus' Stickerz set.

The sentiment is from the 'Birthday Sentiments' Stickerz set.

The final day to place orders is October 21st

so make sure you get your order in quickly!

Remember . . .

It's time to send you on your way to

Liz's Paper Loft

I hope you enjoyed your visit today and

I look forward to seeing you again soon !

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: Gina K Designs

Embellishments: Hocus Pocus, Halloween Owls & Birthday Sentiments Stickerz 

all by EAD Designs

star gems from White Blossom