Thursday, October 29, 2009

Stamps and Smiles Sketch Challenge - SASSC38

Hello SAS friends!! It's time for our weekly sketch challenge "SASSC38" over at The Fresh Batch page. When you play along, don't forget to add your name with Mr. Linky so we can easily find you, feel free to use your favorite stamps and supplies!

This week's sample was created by Jennifer Stricker. She used the NEW stamp set – I Love Snow.

Stamps and Smiles has NEW digi images available at the SAS store. Each week we will be updating the store with NEW digi images – some are as low as $1.00. For those that have email us, we are working on adding some of the past released sets and offer them as digi images too. Come shop now.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Project Tuesday - Stair Step Card


Hello SAS friends! Today's sample is for this week's challenge over at the Project Tuesday page. We are making stair step cards. Jennifer's samples is using a brand NEW digi image called Have a Holly Jolly Christmas. Please stop by to see the wonderful samples by the Design Team. We warmly invite you to play along, feel free to use your favorite stamps and supplies.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

NEW Digi Images & Giveaway

Hello SAS friends and thanks for stopping by. We are now offering 4 sets from this past stamp release as digi images, please stop by the Stamps and Smiles store to shop.

If you email me this weekend, I will email you a special SAS digi image - offer good until Monday, October 26th at 10 pm CST.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Sketch Challenge & Sample - SASSC37

Hello SAS friends!! It's time for our weekly sketch challenge "SASSC37" over at The Fresh Batch page. When you play along, don't forget to add your name with Mr. Linky so we can easily find you, feel free to use your favorite stamps and supplies!

This sample was created by Jennifer Meyer. She used the NEW stamp set - Tis the Season to be Jolly.

We have 5 NEW stamp sets available at the Stamps and Smiles store - Save 15% if you buy the whole stamp bundle. This Saturday, you will be able to purchase the 5 NEW sets in digi format. Please stop by Saturday with all the fun details.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Project Tuesday - Shaker Cards

Hello SAS friends and thanks for stopping by!! This week we are making shaker cards. Please stop by the Project Tuesday page to see more samples and to play along, feel free to use your favorite stamps and supplies.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Stamps and Smiles Sketch Challenge - SASSC36

Hello SAS friends!! It's time for our weekly sketch challenge "SASSC36" over at The Fresh Batch page. We warmly invite you to play along, please use your favorite stamps and supplies!

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Stamps and Smiles - Project Tuesday

Hello SAS friends and thanks for stopping by!! This week we are making Acetate Treat Boxes. Please stop by the Project Tuesday page to see more samples and to play along, feel free to use your favorite stamps and supplies.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Winner of Stamps and Smiles Blog Hop

We would like to thank all of you for playing along with us during our Blog Hop! You all guessed right, J o l l y wants snow for Christmas!!

While using the random finder to pick a number you are not going to believe who it picked first. It picked Karen Wilson to win, you are one lucky girl Karen!! However we need to share the stamps so I had the random finder pick again and this time it picked... Rose Miller! Congratulations Rose, you have won the entire Fall/Winter stamp release. Please email us so we can get your goodies out to you.

Winners for the Stamps and Smiles goodie bags will be announced on either Saturday or Sunday - please stop back to see if you won.

**Don't forget to visit us each Tuesday & Thursday for our weekly challenges and giveaways.

The NEW stamp release is NOW available, please stop by the Stamps and Smiles store to shop. For a limited time you can purchase the stamp bundle and save 15%, now through November 15th.

Stamps and Smiles Blog Hop

Hello & welcome to the Stamps and Smiles Blog Hop!! Before we start, I would like to thank all those that stopped by and played along with us this week - we were inspired by all of your cards/projects!! I would also to thank my designers for all of there hard work these past few weeks - all of the samples were amazing!!

Here are the winners from our release week:

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Winner will receive a FREE set of their choice. Congratulations to: Christine from Change of Heart.

Monday’s Color Challenge winner goes to: Georgia from Gram’s Place. Congratulations Georgia, you have won the set Fall Harvest stamp set!!

Tuesday’s Sketch Challenge winner goes to: Sheena B from Time Well Wasted. Congratulations Sheena, you have won the Cuppy’s Winter Wonderland stamp set!!

Wednesday Sketch Challenge winner goes to: Lori from Lori’s Purple Giraffes . Congratulations Lori, you have won the ‘Tis the Season to Be Jolly stamp set!!

Thursday Sketch Challenge winner goes to: Tracey from ScrappinTrackside! Congratulations Tracey, you have won the Trim a Tree stamp set!!

Drum roll please… The Winner of all four challenges goes to: Karen Wilson from Creations by Kim. Congratulations Kim, you have won the entire Fall/Winter stamp release!!

Congratulations to all of our winners, we enjoyed all of your samples this week!! WOO HOO Please email us your address so we can get your goodies to you!!

Now it’s time to start our Blog Hop/Release party. We have another FULL stamp release to give out to one lucky participant plus all of the designers have goodie bags. Stop by each of the designers blogs, you could win more then one!

Join us on Jolly's adventure, Jennifer Stricker will start us off... J o l l y is writing a letter to Santa. Help J o l l y find all his letters on each of the designers blogs. Once you have all the letters, email us with your answer by 9:30 pm CST tonight. The winner will be announced tonight at 9:45 pm CST.

The FULL Stamp release will be available to purchase following the blog hop at 10 pm CST at the Stamps and Smiles store.

Just in case you get lost, here is the order of the blogs you will need to visit. Each of the designers have goodie bags, visit everyone for more then one chance to win. Have fun!!

Jennifer Stricker
Lisa Cook
Kim Gruetzmacher
Dalis Acevedo
Amanda Gill
Ann Vento
Rose Frydrych
Cynthia Burgess
Jennifer Meyer

Please enjoy the last batch of samples. We hope to see you during our weekly challenges over at Project Tuesday & our weekly sketch challenge on The Fresh Batch page.

By Jennifer Stricker


By Lisa Cook



By Jennifer Stricker



By Amanda Gill


By Cindy Burgess



By Kim Gruetzmacher

Stamps and Smiles Fall/Winter Stamp Release - Blog Hop

Welcome SAS friends!! Thanks for stopping by and playing along with us during our release week!! To be entered into the SAS challenge giveaway, you will need to have your samples uploaded to your blog or gallery by 12 pm CST today.

This is our last day of sneak peeks. We hope you all enjoyed the samples from our designers and hope to see you tonight during our SAS Blog Hop!! The party will start here at 8 pm - 9:30 pm CST. Jennifer Stricker will start off the Blog Hop. After the party, the NEW sets will be available for purchase at the Stamps and Smiles Store.

This is the last stamp set being previewed called I Love Snow. This set measures 4 x 6. It has 11 images and 1 fun sentiment.

Now let's check out the samples from the Stamps and Smiles Designers...

By Amanda Gill

By Kim Gruetzmacher























By Jennifer Stricker


By Cindy Burgess

By Cindy Burgess


By Jennifer Meyer

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Stamps and Smiles Fall/Winter Stamp Release - Day 4

Welcome Stamps and Smiles friends!! This is day four of our sneak peeks for the NEW Fall/Winter stamp release. We hope you are enjoying the samples and are able to play along with our challenges. We want to thank all those that have stopped by this week! Tomorrow will be our final preview along with our Blog Hop that will start at 8 pm CST. All five sets will be available tomorrow night at 10:00 pm central.

Here is our fourth challenge "SASSept4". Play along and you could win the set being previewed. Play along in all four challenges and you could win the entire release!! Please use your favorite stamps and supplies.For those just stopping by... a NEW challenge has been posted each of the four days this week. You will have until tomorrow at 12:00 pm CST to post your cards on your blog or SCS gallery and link it back here using Mr. Linky. If you upload to Splitcoast, please include the keyword in the challenge. The winners will be announced during our Blog Hop, Friday, 8 pm CST.

Here is the fourth set being previewed called Trim a Tree. This set measures 4 x 6. It has 15 images and 6 sentiments.

Before we show you the samples, we would like to announce the winner of the Tis the Season to be Jolly stamp set. Congratulations to Rose Miller! WOO HOO! Please email us your address so we can get your goodies out to you.

Now let's check out the samples from the Stamps and Smiles Designers, Rose Frydrych will start us off...


By Dalis Acevedo



Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs



By Amanda Gill



By Lisa Cook


By Jennifer Stricker

By CindyBurgess

By Amanda Gill

By Kim Gruetzmacher


















By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs


Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Stamps and Smiles Fall/Winter Stamp Release - Day 3

Welcome SAS Friends to our third day of sneak peeks!! We want to thank all those that are stopping by and playing along with our challenges. Today we have posted another sketch challenge "SASSept3". We warmly invite you to play along, feel free to use your favorite stamps and supplies!! If you play along you could win the set being previewed, play along in all four challenges and you could win the entire release!! A NEW challenge will be posted Monday thru Thursday. You will have until Friday, October 9th at 12:00 pm to post your cards on your blog or SCS gallery and link it back here using Mr. Linky. If you upload to Splitcoast, please include the keyword in the challenge. The winners will be announced during the Blog Hop.
Here is the next set being previewed called 'Tis the Season to be Jolly. This set measures 4 x 8. It includes 16 images and 6 sentiments.

How would you like to win this set and have it before the release? Find Jolly on one of the Design Team blogs and leave your name in Mr. Linky with your answer. The winner will be announced tomorrow.

By Kim Gruetzmacher




















By Rose Frydrych


By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs



By Lisa Cook

By Cindy Burgess


By Dalis Acevedo:


By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs



See you tomorrow with our fourth set of sneak peeks!!