Blog Candy Winner Announcement!

Congratulations to Sandra from Connecticut!

You are the winner of our new Antidepresstamps Giggle Bears, Birds and Bees complete unmounted collection!

Sandra's comment chosen by random selection:

Sandra said...

these images make very cute cards, I love the bee hive and honey comb background - but my favorite is the bird!
So cute!
Sandra

June 23, 2010 7:24 PM

Arctic Blog hop and Blog candy!

Welcome to the next stop of the Arctic blog hop!

By now you have seen lots of great cards and are about half way thru.

You've still got much more to see, but for now why not take a minute and leave me a comment because I've got the CANDY!!

All you have to do to enter our blog candy giveaway is to post a comment on this post and tell us what your favorite image is in this set! One entry per person please.

And this is what you could win....

27 fabulous winter themed images from our DoodleFactory line:

We are keeping the blog candy open for only one day so your chances of winning are even better! (blog candy ends December 8th, 2009 11am PST). We will post the winner here and on our company blog no later than 12 midnight December 9th, 2009. If you just can't wait to get your hands on the new Final Frontier set don't worry you can order it starting now and if you are our lucky winner we will let you substitute another set of equal value instead!

If you have arrived here all by yourself and are just finding out about the blog hop head on over to our company blog for the starting point http://www.starvingartistamps.blogspot.com

If you get lost along the way here is the complete list:

Start Here: http://starvingartistamps.blogspot.com/2009/12/doodlefactory-arctic-blog-hop-and-blog.html

Juliana Swanson: http://stampinwinkyfingers.blogspot.com/2009/12/arctic-blog-hop.html

Donna Duquette http://deesstudio.blogspot.com/2009/12/brrrdoodlefactory-has-gone-to-arctic.html

Lori Tecler http://inkingaloud.blogspot.com/2009/12/doodlefactory-arctic-blog-hop.html

Lydia Fiedler http://understandblue.blogspot.com/2009/12/welcome-to-arctic.html

Tracey Berkey http://stampomatic.blogspot.com/2009/12/arctic-blog-hop-and-blog-candy.html

Jenn McMIllan http://jennmcmillan.blogspot.com/2009/12/starving-artistamps-blog-hop.html

Eva Andren http://muffinspyssel.blogspot.com/2009/12/welcome-to-starving-artistamps-new.html

Nina Aaslund http://krumelurkonst.blogspot.com/2009/12/one-day-doodle-factory-blog-hop-and.html

Dawn Mecedes http://dawnmercedes.blogspot.com/2009/12/brrrran-artice-blog-hop.html

Now you can head on over to Jenn McMillan's blog for the next stop on the hop.

http://jennmcmillan.blogspot.com/2009/12/starving-artistamps-blog-hop.html

Thanks for stopping by!

Blog Hop Save the Date!! DoodleFactory Arctic

We will be having a blog hop on December 7th starting at 11am EST. There will be a one day only blog candy giveaway of the compete collection so come on over to our company blog to start the hop: www.starvingartistamps.blogspot.com

See you there!

Hi Everyone,

Starving Artistamps will be sponsoring and participating (on our company blog www.starvingartistamps.blogspot.com ) in a special blog hop Monday November 2nd organized by Denise (owner of Whimsy stamps) and Erin Bailey (co-founder of the Stamp Something challenge blog)

After being touched by a tragedy that recently took place in a neighboring New Hampshire town. Denise and Erin have decided to make a difference and set up a Spread the Love Blog Hop with the hopes to cheer up an 11 year old little girl who was the victim of a random and violent crime:

On October 4^th, 4 teenagers armed with knives broke into a home were a mother and her 11 year old daughter were sleeping. They stabbed the mom, Kimberly Cates, to death and left her daughter, Jaimie, for dead in their driveway. It was a completely random act, their home was chosen only due to its secluded surroundings.

This is what Erin and Denise hope to accomplish by organizing this event:

"We want her to be showered with cards from around the world in an effort to restore hope to this young girl’s life. We’re also encouraging anyone who participates in the hop to mail a card to Jaimie and/or anyone they know who has been a victim of random violence."

So mark your calenders for 10 am EST November 2nd, 2009. There will be giveaways and a huge list of hop sites with piles and piles of cards to ogle!

Denise and Erin have set up a dedicated blog for the hop and will posting information as it becomes available. The blog is temporarily unavailable but will be set up by hop time on monday. http://spreadthelove-forjaimie.blogspot.com/

Welcome to the Starving Artistamps Final frontier blog hop!

We are so excited to be presenting you with the newest collection in our DoodleFactory line...

DoodleFactory Final Frontier

http://starvingartistamps.com/doodlefactory_final_frontier.html

You are going to want to visit all the stops on our hop because someone is giving away a complete unmounted set of the new release for blog candy! We are keeping the blog candy open for one day only so your chances of winning are even better! (blog hop ends October 21st, 11am PST). If you just can't wait to get your hands on the new Final Frontier set don't worry you can order it starting now and if you are our lucky winner we will let you substitute another set of equal value instead!

If you have arrived here all by yourself and are just finding

out about the blog hop please start at the beginning:

START HERE: http://starvingartistamps.blogspot.com

Juliana Swanson http://stampinwinkyfingers.blogspot.com

Tracey Berkey http://stampomatic.blogspot.com

Donna Duquette http://www.deesstudio.blogspot.com

Sandra MacLean http://paperfuntastics.blogspot.com/

Lori Tecler http://www.inkingaloud.blogspot.com/

Lydia Fiedler http://www.understandblue.blogspot.com/

Andrea Cloutier http://andreasscraps.com/

Dawn Mercedes http://www.dawnmercedes.blogspot.com/

Jenn McMillan http://www.jennmcmillan.blogspot.com/

Irene Silva http://doodlefactory.blogspot.com/

This set was SO MUCH FUN to play with.

If you are looking for a feel good collection of images, or maybe you want to do some boy themed cards, or perhaps some "go green" cards, this set has a lot to offer!

This first card is a shout out to my peeps over in

Sweden...Nina and Eva this one's for you!

This one isn't quite a card, I think its more of an free standing art piece. It is over 8" tall.

I knew from the moment Irene made us this giant earth I wanted to make this. I didn't at the time realize how large it was going to be but I think it turned out cool. It was definitely a labor of love! There are 16 mini Doodles, not quite every mini we have but almost. I used Mini's from the Animals, Creatures and the Final Frontier set. All of them are cut out by hand and mounted on foam risers for dimension.

The headline is a quick kutz die alphabet, the insides are empty but they do come with the inserts if you want to put them in, I opted for keeping them clear inside for special interest.

Here is how all those little mini's started out life:

This robot card is pretty straight forward.

Lots of dimensions on here with several heights of popping up!

After all the crazy little details in the big card I needed to take it down a notch and did this

very simple but still snazzy single layer (almost) card. I think the key to doing these simple cards is using quality papers, I used 120# card stock for my base and moon and it really made a difference to the overall appearance of this card.

this was a "left overs" card, I put it together because I had that mini spuddy in the rocket already made. The rocket is from our DoodleFactory Urban set. Its a simple single layer (almost) card. Again just some 120# cardstock, copics and some more images on top.

This clear card was fun to make. I love doing clear cards. The alien is mounted inside the front of the card. I used our Stampers magic tape sheets to add adhesive to the entire top of the image, it is so sheer and clear when you attach it to the acetate you can't see it at all.

Here is a shot of the top of the card and a peek at the hidden sentiment

(from the urban 2 sentiment set)

Thanks for stopping by!

Now it's time to head on over to Donna 's blog for your next stop:

Donna Duquette http://www.deesstudio.blogspot.com

BLOG HOP DAY!!

Hooray!! You did it! You made it to the end!

I'm so glad you stuck with it because I've got the candy :o)

Here are the final cards in the hop,

the blog candy info can be found at the bottom of this post!

(this is my favorite card out of the bunch. I love Mrs. Poose!)

Mrs. Poose is so spoiled. Look at her with her fancy collar!

Flowers in the vase:

Flower soft in colors christmas green, shamrock, bright pink, poppy red, baby pink.

card inside:

I made the card above and decorated the chandelier with clear austrian crystals.

Then I decided I wanted to see what it looked like colored crystals and made this

card using the smaller chandelier.

Austrian crystal chandelier accents.

Idea to note: use the oval frame as a mirror and reflect another image.

I hope you enjoyed our new release blog hop! If you love these stamps and don't want to wait for the random drawing and want to take advantage of the 3 day only Blog hop special visit the website today. (don't worry, you can still enter the drawing and if you are our winner we will let you choose a different set of stamps and coordinating sentiments with cling cushion instead!)DECO

R STAMPS:

You can find the new stamps here:

http://starvingartistamps.com/doodlefactory_classic_decor.html

http://starvingartistamps.com/sentiments_classic_decor.html

And now for the BLOG CANDY....

All you need to do to enter to win the

COMPLETE COLLECTION OF CLASSIC DECOR UNMOUNTED

STAMPS, CLASSIC DECOR SENTIMENTS WITH CLING CUSHION

...is post a nice comment about our blog hop (on this post) and be sure to leave a way to

contact you. The winner will be chosen randomly.

We are going to leave the blog candy open until SUNDAY July 12th, 2009 midnight Eastern time. The winner will be announced no later than Tuesday July 14th EST.

If you arrived at my blog independently, and didn't make all the stops on the hop

You can start at the beginning by visiting our company blog:

www.starvingartistamps.blogspot.com