My niece requested a monkey card for her birthday this year after I made a penguin card for her brother! I used a bunch of circle punches and a few of the Layering Oval dies to create the monkey! The monkey is layered with die cut leaves from the Tropical Chic stamp set. The background was stamped with Granny Apple Green, Pear Pizzazz and Old Olive (stamped off first though). Then I used Granny Apple Green ink and a Sponge Brayer to darken the bottom portion of the stamped piece. I hand drew the nose and mouth on using Black Journaling Pens.

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Thank you for stopping by! ~ Amanda

Made this card for a friend's birthday! I used the new Peaceful Poppies Elements and the Label Me Lovely punch for this card. The flower element is from the Peaceful Poppies Elements - it's clear embossed onto watercolour paper. I used Real Red and Old Olive watercolour pencils to colour in the image. The flower might show better if I had coloured in the background as well. The black embossed fringe is from the same elements package.

This birthday card was created during my Facebook live last week. The video is below if you missed watching it. Join me Thursday January 9th at 7pm for my next live!

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Hello and welcome to our January Global Stamping Friends blog hop! The theme this month is PARTY! A perfect theme since today is my father's birthday! And I made a card just for him using the Birthday Bonanza suite.

His card features the new Birthday Bonanza designer series paper. I haven't purchased the Bonanza Buddies bundle that includes the stamp set and matching dies but might have to since they are do cute! The toucan image on this card was punched right from the designer series paper using a 2" circle punch. It's layered with the Stitched So Sweetly dies and some of the Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon.

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Thank you for stopping by! Next you are on to Rachel's blog and her wonderful creation! ~ Amanda

Happy New Year! Today I am sharing the projects from Crop Kingston's Fall Weekend Retreat we held back in October. Our Winter Weekend Retreat is coming up February 7 to 9. Registration closes on January 7th.

Welcome to my blog and December's Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop celebrating Holidays! With Christmas around the corner I pulled some pictures from December 2014 that were in pockets without the page being finished. I seem to say that a lot lately! But it's true! The pictures are printed and are waiting for me to go back and fill in the gaps with pretty paper and stamps. In January I will be working on filling in my gaps and sharing my scrapbooking journey here on my blog and over on www.Instagram.com/FromWhereIStamp. Follow me over on Instagram to see what I'm up to!