Pretties Monday!

Today is Monday, which means it's time for another Paper Pretties creation! So for today I decided that I would create a card for this weeks Paper Pretties Challenge! Each week Danielle hosts a wonderful challenge in the Paper Pretties Forum and this week its time for a Sketch challenge! Isn't this sketch lovely, she really does a great job with these challenge! I am LOVING all these circles!

Here are all the details on the challenge rules:

How to Enter: make your card using the provided sketch and any Paper Pretties stamp set(s). Upload the card to the Paper Pretties gallery. Please include it in the Weekly Challenges category and use keyword PWC56.

Deadline: midnight on Wednesday, July 15th.

Prize: $5.00 coupon to the Paper Pretties Boutique.

Hope you get the chance to play along, this sketch is super fun and I know you will love it! Have a great day all!

Stamps: Beach Bum from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, New Leaf, Summer Sunrise, SU! Rainbow Sherbet DP; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, G05 Holiday Blue, E00 Skin White, E55 Light Carmel, G14 Apple Green, YR04 Chrome Orange; Accessories: Pop Dots, May Arts Ribbon, Large Scalloped and Regular Circle Nestabilities

Wish RAK Cards for Troops!

Last weekend in the Wish RAK forum at SCS some wonderful ladies hosted a cards for Troops challenge weekend! I got the chance to be one of the many hostess and I challenged the ladies to create cards following a sketch I created! You know how I love sketches, so when there was still one spot open for hosting the sketch challenge I hopped aboard and got creating! After a little bit of thinking I finally got a simple sketch created that I thought others would enjoy, here is what I came up with:Also as a hostess you needed to create at least two samples showing how to create something for your challenge. Of course since it was challenges based in the Wish RAK forum, you had to use at least one item that came to you from a wish being granted to you. So I shifted through all my wonderful images and picked two that I thought would be a lot of fun!

Isn't this little mouse just the cutest thing! This little guy is from Whiff of Joy, just too cute! I love me some cupcakes, and after receiving some images of this stamp, he is SO on my wish list! I had to try him out in pink, lots and lots of pink! I mean look at that cupcake, super yummy!Of course I also had to use this cutie Stamping Bella stamp, actually shortly after I got some of these images I bought this stamp too....I tend to use the image then decide if the stamp is right for me. Love it! I hope you liked today's cards, I really had a wonderful time hosting the challenge, especially one for such a great cause! Have a beautiful day!
Stamps: Henry Celebrating Mouse from Whiff of Joy; Paper: Whisper white, Pink Passion, Scarlet Jewel; Ink: C1 Cool Grey No 1, YR16 Apricot, B21 Baby blue, R20 Blush; Accessories: Bridal Flowers, Pop Dots, Large Rectangluar Scalloped and Regular Nestabilities

Stamps: DaiseyBella from Stamping Bella; Paper: whisper white, pacific point, spring rain, DP; Ink: E00 Skin white, B14 Light Blue, RV14 Begonia Pink, Y11 Pale Yellow, RV21 Light Pink; Accessories: Bridal Flowers

There She Goes Again....

I got the chance to participate in another one of Kate's great Swaps for There She Goes, after the first card I made with this stamp set really turned out nicely, I just had to use it again, with Red as the main color! I love the two tone look I was able to create. I found these tins at Joann's and they were on sale, so they were just perfect for the altering swap I joined for the May stamp release at There She Goes. I think this stamp set is currently my favorite stamp set from There She Goes right now, its so versatile, and the sentiments are so much fun! Here is a close up of just one tin, I really like how it came out, unfortunately I couldn't find any ribbon in my massive stash to match! How upsetting is that! I hope you have a great day!
Stamps: She's A Lady form There She Goes; Paper: Whisper White, Pure Poppy, DCWV Spring DP; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, E00 Skin White, Y11 Pale Yellow, Pure Poppy, R37 Camine, R05 Salmon Red, BG05 Holiday Blue; Accessories: Large Scalloped and Regular Nestabilities

A Bit of Baby

Happy Thursday everyone! It’s almost the weekend, well sort of; anyway I have another card to share with you today! For the April release at There She Goes Kate hosted a swap on SCS and I just had to sign up! This card I created for the second spot I had in the swap and I just loved how this one turned out! I went for a girlie baby card, and I think that is how this card turned out. I thought that the light yellow and white would accent the pink nicely, plus I love using scallops and ribbon, so of course I pulled both of those goodies out. The little carriage for this cute little birdie was a genius idea for this stamp set! Hope you like today's card, have a great day all!

Stamps: Tweeterpated from There She Goes; Paper: Whisper White, Pink Pirouette, Lemon Tart, K&Co Pretty In Pink Box DP; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Y11 Pale Yellow, YR04 Chrome Orange; Accessories: May Arts Ribbon, Pop Dots, SU! Scalloped Edge Punch

Home Sweet Home

Today is Wednesday, so you know what that's mean. Its time for another Paper Pretties Design Team Challenge! This week I get to share with you a card I created for Jana's challenge to make a moving card from two weeks ago! Did you know that several of the Pretties Girl's are moving? Well now you know, our Prettie Mama Christie just moved. I have no plans for moving, but you never know what may come around the next corner. For today's card I just had to use the wonderful Home Sweet Home, perfect stamp set for a moving card! Of course with any moving card one needs to have not only a destination but also a moving truck! Be sure to check out the other Pretties Girl's creations!
Charmaine Ikach
Christi Thorsen
Danielle Lounds
Frances Byrne
Jackie Pedro
Jana Weaver
Jessica Diedrich
Jessie Rone
Jodi Collins
Julie Masse

I hope you like today's card! I don't know why I went so dark with the colors for this card, but I really like the color combination and the way it all turned out! I really think that the dark brown and avocado color look so nice together, and the yellow gives it a bit of a 'pop'! Hope you have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Home Sweet Home from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Ripe Avocado, Yo Yo Yellow, Dark Chocolate, PTI Bitty Dots DP; Ink: E31 Brick Beige, E55 Light Caramel, E57 Sepia, G99 Olive, Y15 Cadmium Yellow; Accessories: May Arts Rick Rack, Pop Dots, Large Regular and Scalloped Circle Nestabilities

Some Catching Up!

I thought I would take today to catch up on some cards that I never posted on my blog, but were posted in my gallery! Both cards for today are from My Favorite Things, in fact both of these cards I created during the My Favorite Things Judges Challenges. This first card is from the challenge where we were supposed to use the stamp Birthday Flopsey. He is just too cute for words! I love this Bitty Dots paper from PaperTrey as well, it always looks so nice on any card.

The second card I created for the second challenge for the Judges Idol Challenge, this one was to use masking! I used these adorable geraniums to create a shelf. I really like the way that this masking turned out, I wans't too sure that it was going to work, but I think it ended up all right.

Stamps: Birthday Flopsey from My Favorite Things; Paper: Raspberry Fizz, Hibiscus Burst, Whisper White, PTI Bitty Dots DP; Ink: RV14 Begonia Pink, Y11 Pale Yellow, Memento Tuxedo Black, Hibiscus Burst; Accessories: Pencils, Gemasol, Blending Stumps, Pop Dots, Quickie Glue Pen, White Gel Pen, May Arts Organdy Striped Ribbon, MFT Adornment Crystals

Stamps: Geranium from My Favorite Things; Paper: Whisper White, Summer MFT DP, Summer Sunrise, Baja Breeze; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, B14 Light Blue, B24 Sky, E11 Bareley Beige, N1 Neutral Grey No. 1, R14 Light Rogue, R17 Lipstick Orange, RV32 Shadow Pink, RV34 Dark Pink, YR31 Light Reddish Yellow; Accessories: MFT Summer Brads, Pop Dots, May Arts Ribbon

Pretties Monday!

Another week is here, which means its time for another Paper Pretties post! This week I thought it would be nice to share a card I created with the newest Stamp of the Month! That's right, now that it's July we have a whole new Stamp of the Month! This month's stamp is Story Time Sophia, and she is totally adorable! So for this card I wanted to make some clouds above where Sophia was reading, and I love the adorable flowers on this DP over to the bottom left, I think the layout really comes alive and pops. I hope you enjoy today's card, I had a lot of fun putting this on together. Have a great day everyone!

Stamps: Story Time Sophia from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Riding Hood Red, Ripe Avocado, DP; Ink: Spring Rain, E00 Skin White, E31 Brick Beige, E33 Sand, R08 Vermilion, YG03 Yellow Green; Accessories: Large and Small Deckled Rectangles, Pop Dots

A Very Pretties Birthday Charmaine!

Welcome to the Paper Pretties Birthday blog hop for our wonderful Charmaine! That's right, we have a PrettiesBirthday today, and we are having a hoppity hop! We kicked things off this morning at Jodi's blog. If you haven't been there yet be sure to start at the beginning, if you joined me from Jana's blog then welcome to the rest of the hop! For the fabulous party I decided to bring some decorations! That's right, lots of fun streamers being put up by none other then Sophia and Canadian Sophia! She really is a great stamp to have around! Here is the full blog hop list if you get lost along the way:

Jodi
Jana
Jackie
Jessie
Frances
Jules
Danielle
Jessica
Christi
Jackie P.
A very happy birthday to Charmaine! Your next stop on the Pretties hop is Jessie! Be sure to leave some wonderful comments for Charmaine at the end of the hop.

Stamps: Canadian Sophia and Bugs and FIshes from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Raspberry Fizz, PTI Bitty Dots; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, B14 Light Blue, E00 Skin White, E31 Brick Beige; Accessories: Large Scalloped and Regular Oval Nestabilities, Pop Dots, May Arts Ribbon

Sweet Sophia

Good morning everyone! Guess what?! Today is Friday and I have no work! I just love holiday weekends! So for today I thought I would share with you a card I created for the paper piecing swap I joined on SCS. I took two spots and I just had to use this Sophia for my second spot. Doesn't she look wonderful in stripes!? I am loving this new paper I got from the paper pack at Costco, so pretty. I also used some fun ribbon I had form a ribbon share I bought a few months ago, still one of my favorite ribbons. If you haven't seen her yet, this is Give Thanks Sophia from Paper Pretties, she is so cute! She was recently released at the Paper Pretties store so if you haven't ordered her through the Stamp of the Month program, now you can!
Stamps: Give Thanks from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Scarlet Jewel, Costco DP; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, E00 Skin White, G21 Lime Green, RV32 Shadow Pink, Y11 Pale Yellow; Accessories: Metallic May Arts Ribbon

Masking Pretties Style

It's Wednesday which means that it's time for another wonderful Paper Pretties Design Team Challenge! This week I get to share with you the card I create for Chamaine's challenge from two weeks ago. Charmaine challenged the Pretties Girl's to create a card using masking! Masking can be a lot of fun, but I had no idea where to start with this one for some reason. I finally decided I should use a set that I haven't used in a while, so I picked up my Sweets for the Sweet set and added it to a Sending You Love image, I think it worked out, a little messy, but it will do. Be sure to check out the other Pretties Girl's creations!
Charmaine Ikach
Christi Thorsen
Danielle Lounds
Frances Byrne
Jackie Pedro
Jana Weaver
Jessica Diedrich
Jessie Rone
Jodi Collins
Julie Masse

Hope everyone enjoys today's cards, they really are a lot of fun and if you get the chance you should join the Pretties Girl's in creating some fun masking cards! Hope you have a great day!

Stamps: Sending You Love and Sweets for the Sweet from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Soft Sky, PTI Bitty Dots; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, B05 Process Blue, E00 Skin White, E51 Milky White, E55 Light Caramel, N3 Neutral Grey No. 3; Accessories: Pop Dots, Large Scalloped and Regular Rectangle Nestabilities, Self Adhesive Pearls

Home Tweet Home

With every Gina K stamp release a few of members of the Design Team host challenges, and this release was no different. There were three great challenges posted for everyone to play along with, and although I wasn't able to complete them all, I did get the chance to create one card for one of the challenges. I decided that since I only had time for one card I would create a card for the color combo challenge. This time around the challenge was to use the colors pink and brown, with an option for a neutral color added to the mix. I used white for my neutral color and got to work coloring in this fun image from the Home Tweet Home set. I still can't believe that this set has sitting there uninked! I only have a few more Gina K sets that haven't seen ink, slowly I am working my way through, unless of course I order more stamps and the list continues to grow! I used some Pink Pirouette paper as the card base and layered Scarlet Jewel over that and added this fun dotted DP I picked up in a large paper pack I bought at a garage sale a while ago. But it seemed to be missing something, then my mom saw something in my room and suggested I used it, so raffia ended up on my card and I think it really worked out. I hope you like today's post, be sure to stop by tomorrow for my weekly Paper Pretties Design Team Challenge! Have a great day!

Stamps: Home Tweet Home from Gina K; Paper: Whisper White, Pink Pirouette, Scarlet Jewel, Dotted Dp; Ink: E31 Brick Beige, E33 Sand, YG03 Yellow Green; Accessories: Pop Dots, Raffia

Pretties Monday!

Today is Monday, which means it's time for another Paper Pretties creation! So for today I decided that I would create a card for this weeks Paper Pretties Challenge! Each week Danielle hosts a wonderful challenge in the Paper Pretties Forum and this week its time for a Sketch challenge! Isn't this sketch lovely, she really does a great job with these challenge!Here are all the details for the Weekly Pretties Challenge:

How to Enter: make your card using the provided sketch and any Paper Pretties stamp set(s). Upload the card to the Paper Pretties gallery. Please include it in the Weekly Challenges category and use keyword PWC56.

Deadline: midnight on Wednesday, July 1st.

Prize: $5.00 coupon to the Paper Pretties Boutique.

I hope you take the time to creat a card using this weeks sketch, it really is a lot of fun! I look forward to seeing what you make this week, and you might even win something! Hope you have a great day!

Stamps: Make a Splash from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Lemon Tart, Aqua Mist, PTI BItty Dots, K&Co Pretty In Pink Box DP; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, B02 Robin's Egg Blue, BG72 Ice Ocean, E00 Skin White, E33 Sand, G14 Apple Green, Y08 Acid Yellow; Accessories: Pop Dots, Mavry Mega Circle Punch, PTI Lemon Tart Buttons

Summer Fun

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend! The weather is finally starting to act like summer here and I am loving it! So what better card to share then this bright and super summery card I create a few weeks ago for The Greeting Farm design team call. I just love this adoable stamp, Shine from the collection set call Rain, Snow, Shime. I really love this paper, its from the Basic Grey collection Lime Rickey, which is just perfect for summer! With this card I had a lot of fun with these adorable flowers that a friend of mine sent my way, they really work wonderfully with this card and of course these PaperTrey buttons work nicely for flower centers. I hope you liked today's card and you get to enjoy some of the lovely summer weather! Have a great day!

Stamps: Rain, Snow, Shine from The Greeting Farm; Paper: Whisper White, Lemon Tart, Only Orange, Basic Grey Lime Rickey DP; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, E00 Skin White, E55 Light Caramel, E57 Light Walnut, Y15 Cadmium Yellow, YR04 Chrome Orange; Accessories: Pop Dots, SU! Ticket Corner Punch, PTI Lemon Tart Buttons, May Arts Ribbon, Tiny Tweinklets, Large Oval Regular Nestabilities, Prima Flowers

Hey There Lady!

Tonight there is a stamp release for There She Goes and of course not only will there be a great party, but there was also a super fun contest! This month's contest was to create a card not the typical size of regular cards, it had to be a different shape and size. I decided to use some of my new and fun Nestabilities to create my card size and shape! Then came layers, lots of layers and some fun red and cranberry shades for this super stylish lady to wear. I was able to find so many embellishments that matched my colored image, I just love when that happens! Hope you like it! Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!
Stamps: She's A Lady from There She Goes; Paper: Whisper White, Scarlet Jewel, SU! DP; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, B14 Light Blue, E00 Skin White, E55 Light Caramel, R37 Carmine, R59 Cardinal; Accessories: May Arts Ribbon, Large and Small Deckled Nestabilities, Tiny Twinklets, Quickie Glue Pen

It's Verve Time!

It's almost time for Verve Stamps to release more wonderful stamps and with every release comes more wonderful challenges! Julee posted 5 challenges to try out this month for the release, this time all five are sketches. So I am only just starting the process of creating all these cards, but I can't wait to try out the rest of these great sketches! For my first sketch I decided that I wanted to use one of my newest sets Up, Up and Away! Isn't this set just too cute?! Do you see my new buttons on the ribbon, love it! Hope you have a great day! Enjoy!

Stamps: Up, Up and Away from Verve Stamps; Paper: Whisper White, Kraft, Scarlet Jewel, SU! Rose DP; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Scarlet Jewel, E11 Barely Beige, E55 Light Caramel, R37 Carmine; Accessories: Tiny Twinklets, Pop Dots, May Arts Ribbon, Bridal Floral, Provocraft Scalloped Edge Scissors