Christmas in July Hop Winners

Thanks so much to everyone who participated in our Christmas in July Blog Hop! We hope you found as much inspiration as we did and will be enjoying those new holiday images!

And now for the winners from the hop!

All 10 new, digital holiday stamps!

WINNER: LUCY PATRICK

WINNER: JANIS

WINNER: CYNTHIA VASQUEZ

Congratulations! Please email DT Leader, Ashley, at especiallymadeblog@gmail.com with subject "BLOG HOP WINNER" to claim your prizes.

Thanks again to everyone who hopped!

Copic Hair Color 7 & Skin Tone 6...

Hey everyone Heather here from Heather's Hobbie Haven.

I have a new hair color for you.

More blonde this week.

I color from dark to light, but if you color from light to dark that’s great to.

Just reverse the color order.

I used Copic Markers
The order I colored her hair.

Y28
YR24
YR21
Y21

For the Color Sheet and How to Video see
Hair Post 1.

When coloring this skin tone use the E17 very lightly on the outside.

The order I colored her skin:

E17

E15

E13

Cheeks:

R85

For the Emma Color Sheet see Copic Hair Color 2 & Skin Tone 1 post.

You can see how I color skin in the Copic Hair Color 1 post.

I hope your having fun coloring with me.

Don't get behind!

See you next week.

Ahoy There…..

Good Morning, Its Katrina here with you today! Hope your all well and if you have had the lovely sun shine you have been enjoying it! Been busy busy bees here working away on loads of new ideas I have and I'm here to share one of the first with you here today :) 

Now please let me introduce to you 

'Sailor Owen'

Now I'm sure you have seen him around before, but I so wanted to make something special with him!  And so I have made this wonderful circle card, I thought of it as a bit of a 'port hole' idea! 

The image was coloured with copics 

E000, E00, E02, R20

E33, E35

B93, B95

C1, C2,

Y15

All the embellishments are from my stash a mix of old and new!  Well I hope you like him - I have loads more photos on my blog if you would like to take a look!

Thanks for stopping by and hope you will come back to see more PND creations tomorrow! 

Hugs 

Katrina 

x

Tea time with Teddy

Hello everyone, it’s Jasmina. Today I’m sharing Tea time with teddy stamp. 

I totally love this image. This stamp has led me to Christine. So it has even greater significance. 

I colored it with Copics. I’ve used Spellbinders Nestabilities dies and Die-namics Faux Crochet Border. Paper are Bazzill, pearls are form Rayher. I added some flowers from WOC.

Hope you are feeling inspired by my card. Thank you so much for popping in.

Have a lovely day!

Jasmina  

Copics I used:

Skin: E0000, E000, E00, E11, R11

Hat, outfit: B000, B00

Teddy: R00, R11

Cups, ribbon: RV000, RV00

Chairs: E31, E33, E34

Christmas in July New Release Blog Hop

Welcome to The Paper Nest Dolls' Christmas in July New Release Blog Hop!

Today the very talented and creative design team of The Paper Nest Dolls has put together this hop to share with you projects made using our 10 new holiday stamps!

Digital versions of these stamps regularly sell for $3.00 each, but from today through Tuesday July 30th you can get ALL 10 images for only $20 HERE in our shop!

We couldn't host a blog hop without fun giveaways! One lucky winner will receive our entire set of new images, one lucky winner will receive a $25 gift certificate to our shop, and another lucky winner will receive the prize pack pictured below!

Christmas in July Prize Package!

Participants must comment on every stop of the hop and be a follower of our blog for a chance to win! We also encourage you to become a fan of our Facebook page!

Winners will be announced on Wednesday July 31st over at

 The Paper Nest Dolls blog!

You're next stop is Ashley's blog.

Here's the complete lineup:

The Paper Nest Dolls

Ashley

Lori Ann

Michele

Valerie

Nikki

Jasmina

Lydia

Katrina

Kelly

Tina

Thanks so much for hopping with us! :)

Miss You Owen

Hi Dolls Friends!

It's Valerie here today, and my card today is perfect for a little boy who wants to send a card to someone he's missing. I used the Miss You Owen image on this tri-fold card that when folded up ends up being 5 1/2" wide by 6" high. I used Copic markers to color him in.

If you're curious about which Copic colors I used and the die cuts for the "hi dad!" letters, you can find the info on my blog.

Have a wonderful weekend, and we'll see you tomorrow with our awesome Christmas in July Blog Hop!!

Peace Out Everyone....=)

          Hey everyone, its Nikki here with today's post. I would love to show you this card I made using the coolest, grooviest stamp ever... The stamp is Groovy Owen and you can find him here.

Is he not super cool? 

Copic Markers

Skin: E000, E00, E11, R20

Hair: E50, E51, E53

Shirt: YG00, YG23, YG25

Pants: BG02, BG05, BG07

Sandals: E74, E79

Paper: E41, E42, E43, R24, R29, Y11

Supplies Used

Card Stock: Gina K Kraft 5.5X5.5" square

Patterned Paper: Little Yellow Bicycle "Splash"

Embellishments: Wooden Peace Sign, Tim Holtz Tickets

Ink: Tim Holtz Walnut Stain

Sentiment: MFT "Far Out" stamp set.

          Well that is it for today's post, hope you enjoy this cool little dude. Stay crafty.... =)

Sand Castle Owen

Hi everyone it's Kelly and I wanted to share my project today that I made using Sand Castle Owen.  This is a 6x6 page for my daughter's project life album and so there is no back, I used a glitz yours truly paper stack and a few K&company embellishments along with my copics to create this little layout.  I am very happy with it and if you are looking for this image head over to the Paper Nest dolls shop to find him for your summer projects. 

Copic Hair Color 6 & Skin Tone 5...

Hey everyone Heather here from Heather's Hobbie Haven.

I have a new hair color for you.

I have another blonde this week.

I color from dark to light, but if you color from light to dark that’s great to.

Just reverse the color order.

I used Copic Markers
The order I colored her hair.

Y28
YR21
Y21

For the Color Sheet and How to Video see
Hair Post 1.

And another skin tone.

The order I colored her skin:

E13

E11

Cheeks:

RV32

R00

I hope your having fun coloring with me.

I hope you aren't getting behind!

See you next week.

Love Birds Wedding

Happy Monday, Doll fans! Ashley here today to share with you a card I made using the Love Birds Wedding Digital Stamp:

I used papers from Dear Lizzy's "Neapolitan" collection and distressed the edges. I embellished the cards with pearls, crinkle ribbon, a small sentiment from the paper collection, and the 'Congrats' stamp, which is a Close to My Heart stamp. 

I colored the stamp with the following Copics:

Birds - Y11, Y13

Stand - E70, E74, E79, W3

Trellis - R21, R22, R24, YG03

This would be a great stamp to use on those handmade wedding cards this wedding season! You can find it here in our store.

Have a great day!

Ashley

Make a Fun Page Layout with Several Doll Images!

Hello Crafters!

It's Valerie here today, and I'd like to show you how fun it is to create a scene with several of the adorable images that we carry. When I work with the PND images, I always see my own kids in them, from yesterday and today.

I have SOOOO many beach pics, and how many times can you scrapbook a pile of pics from a beach day? So, I took 3 of the beach images, Bikini Ellie, Boogie Board Owen, and Sandcastle Owen, and created a fun little beach scene; and of course, the images represent my 4 kids: Alicia (15), Nathan (13), and my twins, Connor & Derek (11).

- I mirrored the Boogie Board Owen image on the second one I printed

- I printed Sandcastle Owen 3 times so I'd have extra castles, flags, & starfish to play with on my layout

If you're curious what my munckins look like, it's funny, because they look like these PND images! If you're really curious, head over to my blog to see a photo of all 4 of them; you'll see - it's weird how closely these images resemble my kids. lol!

Have a great day, and have fun looking through all the fun stamps images to see which ones you can you for your kids!

Valerie :)

Introducing Island Girl Amara =)

I have a special release for you from Christine, creator of the lovely Paper Nest Dolls. 

The lovely stamp is named Island Girl Amara! She is the first  of many in the "friends of the dolls" collection. Hope you like her.... you can find her here!

As you can see I have coloured her up really bright and tropical but 

the options are endless with the adorable stamp.

I coloured her with the following Copic markers...

Skin: E11, E13, E21, E25, R22

Hair: E24, E47, E49

Dress/Headband: YG00, YG01, YG03, RV21, 

RV23, RV25, BG01, BG05, BG07

Flowers: YR09, V12, V15

Sand: W00, W01, W03, W05

Seashells: YR000, YR00, YR61, YR65, RV21, RV23, RV25

Turtle: G03, G05, G07

Water: B0000, B000, B00, B01, B02

Gina K Kraft card stock - 5.5X5.5" square

Paper Crate "The Pier" designer paper

Doily from Michael's

Flowers from my stash (years ago)

Pearls from $ store.

Lime green embossed paper - no clue :(

Hope you enjoyed the card I made using Tropical Amara!

Stay crafty =)

Good Witch Avery...

Hey everybody!

I'm doing a guest post today.

For my image I chose the super cute image 

Good Witch Avery

Isn't she adorable!

The beautiful paper is from the Echo Park Sweet Girl Collection.

Very fun and colorful.

I'll have this as a kit in my store Heather's Hobbie Haven soon.

The kits are all cut out.

I'm patiently waiting for the stamps to arrive.

Ok not so patiently, but I'm always in a rush for everything.

So keep a look out if your interested in that.

I also did a coloring tutorial if your interested in watching that head over

to my YouTube Channel

HeathersHobbieHaven

See you again soon!

Super Sweet Lemonade

One of the most refreshing parts of summer is ice cold lemonade! Which is exactly what little Avery is serving up in this adorable Lemonade Stand stamp. :)

I used papers from the My Mind's Eye Quilting Bee collection and embellished with flowers, pearls, and some bunting from Heidi Swapp. I also distressed the edges of the papers and added Distress Ink to give them more of a shabby look. The "So Super Sweet" sentiment is from Whimsical Designs.

I colored the stamp with the following Copic markers:

You can purchase the digital and rubber versions of Lemonade Stand here in our store!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Ashley

Bow, Button, Ribbon Tutorial

Hello Y'all its Loriann here 

I put together a quick ribbon tying tutorial that I use

on my projects.

Please bear with me this is my first tutorial.

Step 1 -

Materials: 2 - 3" long pieces of thicker ribbon

1 bow tied ribbon (smaller thickness.)

Button and Crochet thread 

(or small thickness thread)

Step 2 - After looping ribbon through the button,

 tie it to the backside of your thinner ribbon,

 leaving the excess. 

Step 3 - Flip your bow over on-top of the 

criss-crossed thicker ribbon and 

flip it over to tie another knot.

Step 4 - Use light, but firm pressure as you

 tie the back knot to ensure the criss-crossed 

ribbon doesn't pull to one side. 

This is a view of what it will look like in the front... 

evenly cut the ribbon tails and still leave

 the long thread to attach it to your card. 

Final step: Punch two holes

 (I used the 1/8" SU hand punch) and then tie the tails 

of the thread through these holes and tie

 a knot on the inside of your card. 

You can also use 2 strips of ribbon instead of 

another bow.

Here is the card completed using Dandelion Wishes

From The Paper Nest 

I hope that explains how I tie this type of ribbon!

  If you have questions or any

 other tutorial suggestions, just let me know!

Thankyou for stopping by.