Home for the Holidays

Happy New Years Eve!!  Doing anything FUN tonight to celebrate the incoming new year? Whatever it is, we hope you have a great time tonight!  :)

Shannon has created this completely adorable card using the FREE digital image you can find HERE.  The digital image is PERFECT for playing along with this month's Squeeze-A-Palooza!  You can find all the information to play along HERE.  

Today is the last day to enter your project to be eligible to WIN one of two prizes, so be sure you play along!  Also, be sure to "LIKE" your favorite project as one of the prizes will be given to the project with the MOST "likes"!

We're only a couple days away from announcing our new Design Team!  We're so excited to introduce them to you - we think we've got the best designers around!!

Welcome Home

**For your chance to win a FREE stamp set - play along with Squeeze-A-Palooza.  Details can be found HERE**

Almost every week I (Ryann) get together with one of my favorite friends to craft.  Last week while crafting, my friend Kristie made this awesome card using Winter Wonderland. It was SO awesome, I just had to share with all of you!  How adorable is the paper pieced roof and that welcome mat?!  So cute!!!

Winter Wonderland

Be sure to VOTE for your favorite Squeeze-A-Palooza project.  There is a stamp set being given to the project with the most votes - so go pick your favorite and VOTE!!

You Make Life Sweet

**For your chance to win a FREE stamp set - play along with Squeeze-A-Palooza.  Details can be found HERE**

Ryann is back again today with a lovely little Valentine's Day card using Christmas Treats (apothecary jar, sweets) and The Sweet Life (sentiment).  One of the greatest things about the Christmas Treats set is the versatility of it. You can easily create many different colored candy schemes to fit any holiday year-round!

Christmas Treats

The Sweet Life

Tickle My Fancy

**For your chance to win a FREE stamp set - play along with Squeeze-A-Palooza.  Details can be found HERE**

Stephanie Muzzulin is back today with her final creation for us as a Fresh Squeezed Stamps guest designer.  She's created this fresh and fun creation using Tickle My Fancy. We love the bold use of patterns and color and the overall design is just FAB!!

Tickle My Fancy

Also, don't forget about our latest promotion!  Help us get our first 40 gallery uploads at Splitcoaststampers using the keyword FreshSqueezedStamps (all smooshed together) and we'll pick a random FSS gallery uploader to receive a FREE stamp set of their choice!!

Happy Birthday Flowers

**For your chance to win a FREE stamp set - play along with Squeeze-A-Palooza.  Details can be found HERE**

Ryann has a glittery creation to share with us today using Soda-lighted.  She used Copic markers to color the blooms and added bits of Stickles glitter glue to both the glass and the flower middles.  A super simple and super sweet birthday card.

Soda-lighted

Be sure to check out our Squeeze-A-Palooza challenge going on right now!!  We'll see you back here on the blog tomorrow.

Not Enough Words

**For your chance to win a FREE stamp set - play along with Squeeze-A-Palooza.  Details can be found HERE**

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas yesterday and Santa was good to each and every one of you!  :)

Donna Mikasa is back with her final creation for us as a guest designer.  She's created this amazingly detailed card using Games People Play (sentiment, Scrabble tiles) and The Sweet Life (bird).  We love the fresh color scheme, attention to detail and her brilliant use of design!

Games People Play

The Sweet Life

Merry Christmas!

**For your chance to win a FREE stamp set - play along with Squeeze-A-Palooza.  Details can be found HERE**

Merry Christmas!!

Shannon and I (Ryann) want to wish each of you a very Merry Christmas!  We hope you are enjoying quality time spent with family and friends.

Ryann created a little christmas tree card using Happy Hexagons.  One of the versatile things about the Happy Hexagons set is you can use it to build other images - like trees!!

Happy Hexagons

We have another amazing creation tomorrow from one of our guest designers.  You won't want to miss it!

Just Poppin' By...

**For your chance to win a FREE stamp set - play along with Squeeze-A-Palooza.  Details can be found HERE**

Lynn Mangan has an awesomely cute card to share today using Soda-lighted.  We love the double pennant flag and "pop" bottles stamped in white.  Very subtle and very effective!!  Love, love, love this card!!

Be sure to check out our Squeeze-A-Palooza challenge going on right now!!  We'll see you back here on the blog tomorrow.  Happy Christmas eve!!

Squeeze-A-Palooza #3

Today is the 23rd of the month!  You know what that means??  It's time for Squeeze-A-Palooza!  In case you are new to our blog, let us explain...

Squeeze-A-Palooza is a monthly challenge played here on the Fresh Squeezed Stamps blog.  We offer a free digital image and prizes to two lucky participants!  Sound good?

This month we're doing things a little bit differently.  Instead of issuing a theme for the challenge, we thought we'd mix things up and provide you with some inspiration photos instead!!

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Because not everyone has Fresh Squeezed Stamps (but you all really should!), we thought it would be fun to offer a FREE digital image so everyone can participate in Squeeze-A-Palooza! To download, right click on the image below and save it to your photo editing program.  From there you can print out the digital image and play along!

To give you a little jump start on your Squeeze-A-Palooza inspiration, we have a couple of cards using some Fresh Squeezed Stamps!

An adorable creation by Lynn Mangan highlighting the winter foliage surrounding the birdhouse.
Stamps used: Christmas Treats

A tag by Michelle McClure inspired by the shape of a bird house.

A mini card by Donna Mikasa inspired by the frosted bird house.
Stamps used: The Sweet Life

Okay, here's what you need to know:

• Create a NEW project (card, layout, altered item, banner, tag, etc.) using the INSPIRATION PICTURES PROVIDED ABOVE
• You must use at least one Fresh Squeezed Stamps image (stamp or digital).  Projects using zero FSS images will be deleted.
• Submit a DIRECT LINK to your blog post.  Projects not linked properly will be deleted.
• You must mention this challenge and link to it in your blog post.  Feel free to grab the Squeeze-A-Palooza banner to use on your blog too!

There will be two winners of Squeeze-A-Palooza every month!

• Readers' Choice winner - The project with the most "LIKES" at the end of the challenge will win one (1) stamp set of their choice.
• Random winner - One random challenge player will win one (1) stamp set of their choice.

After you've created your new Squeeze-A-Palooza project, simply enter your information into the Linky Tool below to be entered to win!  Remember that we're looking for TWO winners - one random participant and the person with the most "LIKES" on their project. Be sure to tell all your friends to play along and vote, too!!  :)

12 Days of Christmas - Winner!

Yesterday marked the end of our 12 Days of Christmas AND the end of our third game, Christmas Bingo. Before we get to this week's contest winner, we want to thank each and every one of you that played along and made this event such a success for us! We had *so* much fun these last three weeks and hope you have too!

Behind the scenes, our elves picked 12 themed words for the Christmas Bingo game. Here they are:

eggnog

jingle

jolly

cookies

ornament

fruitcake

wassail

poinsettia

elves

joy

peace

yule

Seven matching words out of 12 was the most any entry included.  Miraculously, FOUR people picked SEVEN matching words!  We put the names of those four people onto a list and used Random.org to choose TWO winners!  The very, VERY lucky winners are Chris Marken and Cindy Kroon!!!

YAY!  Congrats, Chris and Cindy!  Please contact us HERE with the stamp set of your choice along with your mailing address and we'll get your prize sent right out!*  

*Please note that winners have seven (7) days to contact us, otherwise prizes are returned to the prize bucket for the next challenge.  You can find our complete contest/giveaways policy HERE.

Stephanie Muzzulin is back at it again today with a fun and festive holiday card using Christmas Treats.  We love the sparkling bits in the apothecary jar that has been paper pieced.  The cute little sentiment tag is awesome and the sparkly silver bow is perfection!

Christmas Treats

Also, don't forget about our latest promotion!  Help us get our first 40 gallery uploads at Splitcoaststampers using the keyword FreshSqueezedStamps (all smooshed together) and we'll pick a random FSS gallery uploader to receive a FREE stamp set of their choice!!

12 Days of Christmas - Day 12

Welcome to the last day of our 12 Days of Christmas!  In case you missed our blog post from Monday, be sure you check it out HERE.  Today is also the LAST day to play this week's game!!  There is a free stamp set up for grabs and we have a surprise for everyone that participates so make sure you get your entry in!

Michelle McClure is back once again to share with us this cutie pie card using both Winter Wonderland (moose, trees) and Christmas Treats (sentiment).  We love how she used the back of the tree stamp to create her forest.  The lights strung around the moose make this card so fun and playful!

Christmas Treats

Winter Wonderland

Be sure to visit the blog tomorrow to see who the big winner is of our Christmas Bingo contest!

12 Days of Christmas - Day 11

Welcome to Day Eleven of our 12 Days of Christmas!  In case you missed our blog post from Monday, be sure you check it out HERE.  You only have until tomorrow to play this week's game!!  There is a free stamp set up for grabs and we have a surprise for everyone that participates so make sure you get your entry in!

Donna Mikasa has created a fun and playful holiday project using Games People Play. The subtleness of the white inked design really packs a punch against the red cardstock.  We love Donna's "outside the box" approach to this whimsical holiday card!

Games People Play

Be sure to check back here tomorrow for more holiday inspiration from another of our guest designers!

12 Days of Christmas - Day 10

Welcome to Day Ten of our 12 Days of Christmas!  In case you missed our blog post from Monday, be sure you check it out HERE.  You only have until this Thursday to play this week's game!!  There is a free stamp set up for grabs and we have a surprise for everyone that participates so make sure you get your entry in!

Lynn Mangan is back again today with this lovely creation using Soda-lighted.  We love the soft color palette and the glittery flowers in shades of pale pink.  The buttery yellow cardstock compliments the flower centers and really brings this card together.  Simply perfect!

Soda-lighted

Also, don't forget about our latest promotion!  Help us get our first 40 gallery uploads at Splitcoaststampers using the keyword FreshSqueezedStamps (all smooshed together) and we'll pick a random FSS gallery uploader to receive a FREE stamp set of their choice!!

12 Days of Christmas - Day 9

Welcome to Day Nine of the 12 Days of Christmas!  We're entering our last week of festivities and hope you're having a blast playing along!


This week's game is called Christmas Bingo.  We've provided you with 30 different holiday themed words.  Behind the scenes, our elves have picked 12 of them as our Christmas Bingo words.  Your challenge is pick the 12 words that YOU think our elves picked!

eggnog

jingle

holly

Santa

jolly

reindeer

tree

stocking

bells

cookies

wreath

tinsel

ornament

presents

fruitcake

snowman

elves

carols

peace

noel

joy

yule

wassail

candy

poinsettia

star

icicle

wrap

sled

Rudolph

How to play:  

• Contact us HERE with TWELVE words you've picked from the above list.

Rules:

• One entry per person.
• A full name and email address must be included in your entry.
• The contest ends on Thursday, December 20th at 11:59pm PST.
• Winner will be announced on Friday, December 21st.

Prize:

• The person that matches the most Christmas Bingo words will win ONE FREE STAMP SET of their choice!
• We have a surprise for EVERYONE that participates, so be sure you do!!

Design Team Call - Deadline is Tomorrow!

We've only got a couple days left of our Design Team call.  We'd love to see YOUR application, so be sure to get it in!  :)

Fresh Squeezed Stamps (FSS) is having a Design Team call!  We are looking for six (6) designers for a six-month term beginning in January 2013. 

DT Perks

• All designers will receive 2 “new release” stamp sets each month.
• All designers will receive a 30% off discount to our online store.
• Name, bio and blog link on FSS blog.
• A supportive Facebook group to communicate with FSS and other DT members.

DT Requirements

• 2 projects during release week, 1 project during non-release weeks.
• Weekly post on FSS blog with a “teaser” post on personal blog.
• Watermarks on all FSS project pictures (we will provide watermark).
• DT blog button for display on personal blog.

All applicants should have an active blog, take great pictures and love to stamp!  You should also be able to meet deadlines, be communicative and share a positive attitude.  Before applying, please visit our website to be sure we are a good fit for your design style:  www.freshsqueezedstamps.com

To Apply

Please email the following information to:  info@freshsqueezedstamps.com

• Full name, full address and email address.
• A link to your blog and any online galleries.
• Current design teams and publications (if applicable).
• A short biography.  Tell us about yourself – we want to learn about you!
• Why do you want to be on the Fresh Squeezed Stamps design team and what makes you a great fit?
• Send us three (3) images of your best design work that uses stamps.  Please send images as attachments.

Design Team applications are being accepted through TOMORROW Sunday, December 16th.  The new Design Team will be revealed on our blog on January 2nd, 2013.

12 Days of Christmas - Winner!

**We're having a Design Team call!

Go HERE for details!!**

We've made it to the end of the second week of the 12 Days of Christmas AND the end of our second game, Dear Santa.  After reading through all the entries, the Fresh Squeezed Stamps elves have picked their favorite Dear Santa letter...

Dear Santa,

I've been really good this year!  I always go to yoga class on Mondays and Wednesdays and I never, ever come home and eat cake straight from the pan on the counter with the day old fork I used yesterday.  

While my family and friends might give me a nice sweater, a vacuum cleaner or a re-gifted vase, what I'd REALLY like for Christmas is a gift certificate for a pedicure, so my instructor doesn't lose her inner zen from staring at my funky feet. Boy, if I found that under the tree on Christmas morning, I'd be so happy!

Thanks Santa - you're the best!

Love,

Kristen Combs

YAY!  Congrats, Kristen!  Please contact us HERE with the stamp set of your choice along with your mailing address and we'll get your prize sent right out!*  

*Please note that winners have seven (7) days to contact us, otherwise prizes are returned to the prize bucket for the next challenge.  You can find our complete contest/giveaways policy HERE.

Stephanie Muzzulin is joining us again today with this fun and festive creation using Christmas Treats.  She's done an amazing job pairing up the stamps and this patterned paper.  The circle elements echo the peppermint discs perfectly and we *love* the double wide banner the sentiment resides on.  Sooo cute!!

Christmas Treats

That's it for this week, but be sure you join us again on MONDAY for a whole NEW contest!  Have a great weekend!!

**We're having a Design Team call!

Go HERE for details!!**

12 Days of Christmas - Day 8

**We're having a Design Team call!  

Go HERE for details!!**

Welcome to Day Eight of our 12 Days of Christmas!  In case you missed our blog post from Monday, be sure you check it out HERE.  Today is the LAST day to play this week's game!!  There is a free stamp set up for grabs and we have a surprise for everyone that participates so make sure you get your entry in!

Michelle McClure has created this fun and festive Mardi Gras themed layout using Tickle My Fancy.  What is not to love about this layout?!  Check out the DIY transparencies Michelle created using the different feathers in this set!  Way cool!

Tickle My Fancy

We'll be back again tomorrow with the winner of the Dear Santa contest as well as more inspiration from another one of our guest designers!