Stamping Sister

Wendy Bond
Jane Matsumoto
Jennifer Greco

Frances Byrne

Heather Lee-Reppen

We have changed our challenges up a bit but we still invite you to play along with all the fun! All you have to do is make a project following this weeks sketch and upload it to the Paper Pretties Gallery. We would love to see what you create, so be sure to upload your creation using keyword PWC98!

After you've seen all of the Pretties Girl's creations for this one, now its your turn to try it out! Your next challenge is to create ! I can't wait to see what you create! Your next stop on the hop is to visit Frances' blog, I know she will have something wonderful to share with you! I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by!
Stamps: Pulling for You from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Green Galore, Only Orange, Cosmo Cricket Material Girl DP; Ink: C1 Cool Grey No. 1, E00 Skin White, E35 Chamios, Y38 Honey, YG06 Yellowish Green, YR16 Apricot; Accessories: Pop Dots, Kaiser Self Adhesive Rhinestones

Inky Impressions 33!

Good morning all! Today I get to share with you the card I created for the new Inky Impressions Challenge, number 33 to be exact, which is to use a charm on your creation!

Today the Inky Impressions Design Team will be sharing our creations for the current Inky Impressions Challenge! For my card today I used, one of our fabulous newly released stamps, Nickie's Birdie! I think this stamp is just too cute for words and I love her sweet dress and flowing hair, I mean look at all those strands, her hair is simply divine!

I hope you like my take on the current Inky Impressions Challenge, be sure to join in on all the fun over at the Inky Impressions Challenge Blog and see what the rest of the Inklettes have created, they are sure to impress! I can’t wait to see what you create! Have a wonderful day all!
Stamps: Nickie's Birdie from Inky Impressions; Paper: Whisper White, Pacific Point, Spring Rain, SU! DP; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, B12 Ice Blue, BG09 Blue Green, C1 Cool Grey No. 1, E00 Skin White, E35 Chamois, Y13 Lemon Yellow; Accessories: Silver Cord, Inky Impressions Charms, Inky Impressions Ribbon

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Toonie Tuesdays at Paper Pretties!

Toonie Tuesdays or $2 Tuesdays for those of you in the US. In case you don't know a 'toonie' is the Canadian $2 coin (I had no idea! How about you?)

Every Tuesday we will have a special on in the Paper Pretties store - 1 or 2 (or maybe more items, you never know) are on sale for only $2.00. These items are deeply discounted and are all great additions to your paper crafting supplies.

Today's special is the Queen & Company Think Pink buttons:

Do you have these yet? If you don't they are so much fun, I know I have some of these in my craft room and I am horrible at using them because then I won't have anything to horde, but at this price I may have to go and order some more!

Be sure to check out the Paper Pretties Store and see these great buttons!

Volturi are Watching...

I had scheduled this post to set up itself this weekend but unfortunately if never posted. I don't know about you but I was pretty busy this weekend which believe it or not ended up in a non-stamping weekend, I know I am shocked too! I spent a lot of time with my family and some friends, and due to that I wasn't on the computer either, but here I am now getting this card finally up for all to see!

The current Think INK challenge from Artful INKables is all about taking an album cover and creating a card based on one, so I pulled up the Amazon CD sales page and picked this pretty neat CD cover as my inspiration. So for my card I thought the new Twilight inspired stamp set Epic Tales would be perfect! I created a little template for the clouds background and stamped one solid image of these piercing eyes at the center of the card. Now, no card is complete without a sentiment, so I used the sentiment "The Volturi are watching", and with one look at this card you can feel their gaze!

I do hope that you will play along with us, there is still plenty of time to get your creations in, I can't wait to see what you create! Be sure to head on over to the Artful INKables Blog for all the great details to play along! Have a wonderful day all!
Stamps: Epic Tales from Artful INKables; Paper: Whisper White, Spring Rain, Plum Pudding; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Spring Rain, Plum Pudding, B12 Ice Blue

Monday, April 5, 2010

Go Team Ho!

Good morning ladies! I wanted to share with you all that I am currently joining some fabulous ladies as part of Team Ho in The Greeting Farm Battle of the Design Teams! That's right, my team consists of some amazing fellow Hos, specifically Joy Stagg, Rae Anne Springer, Yoorah Lee, Sandye Curry, and ME! This amazing card for our first entry was created by Sandye, the challenge was to create an easel card, and I love what she did! We each created a card and voted on which card was the best way to proceed, then we all made comments and suggestions to help out!

If you get the chance, please take a moment to vote for your favorites, you get three votes each week. I would also like to ask you to please vote for us, it would be greatly appreciated if you did so!

Here are the details on how you can place your vote:

Go to http://thegreetingfarm.com/galleria/
Click on Register and fill out the form.
You will be sent confirmation info to your email and you must click the link to officially be activated. If for some reason you do not receive it, just email me and I will manually activate your registry.
Once you are activated, go back to http://thegreetingfarm.com/galleria/ and login.
Once you are logged in, go to Contest/Challenges > TGF ROYAL BATTLE > Week 2
Vote for your top 3 choices. When you comment, that counts as your vote. So Comment on your top 3 choices.

The link to our direct card can be found Here!!!

Thank you ladies for taking a moment to help us out in this contest, its been a blast! Hope you have a wonderful day all!

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Crafty Ho's

Since today is Sunday it's time for another Crafty Ho's Challenge! That's right, a great group of friends of mine, to who we call the 'Ho's', kicked off a new challenge blog last Sunday, called Crafty Ho's Challenge Blog!

So for our sixth week our challenge we are Recycling, using something in some way that is all about reusing something! Here are all the rules for our challenge so that you too can play along:

1. Please use only original artwork designed for this challenge - not previously made for other challenges, swaps, etc. Feel free to combine your project for this challenge with any other challenges, only required to be something new.

2. You may submit as many entries as you like, just make sure that they are all different.

3. Challenges will be posted every Sunday and will run til 11pm EST the following Saturday. This should give you plenty of time to get them done and entered.

4. Post your link directly to the post for this challenge project - not a general link to your blog - to Mr. Linky.

5. Most importantly: HAVE FUN!! If you have any questions or comments, please let us know, we are here to be as supportive and inspiring as we can:)

So for my card I used this adorable stamp Lilith from Kraftin' Kimme stamps and a new punch I picked up this weekend. I used this great Lindt Truffle packaging that I had used this past holiday to create some fun little gifts. I took the punch and used the baggie the truffles come in as my DP, super simple and a lot of fun, plus this paper is different colors in it so it gives it a great shaded look. Be sure to check out the rest of our great group of Hos!

Audrey
Jeanette
Michele
Rae Anne
Sandye
Scrappy
Tammy
Gael

You are going to love these ladies and all of their creations and I can't wait to see what you create along with us! Hope to see you back here next Sunday for our next challenge! Have a wonderful day all!
Stamps: Lilith from Kraftin' Kimme; Paper: Whisper White, Sweet Blush, Certainly Celery, Flower DP; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, E00 Skin White, E37 Sepia, G24 Willow, RV11 Pink, RV02 Sugared Almond Pink; Accessories: Branch Punch, Prima Flowers, Large Scalloped and Regular Oval Nestabilities

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Paper Pretties Release day!

The day is finally here! Today is the April release day at Paper Pretties! This month we are releasing some amazing stamp sets, like we typically do of course! We are releasing 5 fabulous rubber stamp sets and three amazing digis, plus we are previewing our next Sophia! Today I get the thrill of sharing with you our newest Sophia, Fan-Tastic! This girl is just too cute! As soon as I saw here during our previews I knew that I was going to have a blast creating things with her, in fact today I have created an altered take-out container!

I recently found a wonderful bakery near by and they package their cupcakes in these adorable take out containers! I stopped by to get a friend of mine something sweet on her birthday and now it has become my favorite bakery, plus they are a nut-free environment which I love since I do have a pretty bad allergy to nuts, knowing that there are no nuts in my baked goods is a great relief!

I had so much fun with my altered box, but I just couldn't put down these new images so I also created a card using our other new Sophia, Your Maaarvelous! This little girl so reminds me of when I used to play dress up and I simply love her! Of course I don't think I had a fabulous fur coat, but all the same she is too cute! I love the over sized hat, shoes and of course this wonderful coat! That Sophia is always stylin!

I do hope you enjoyed my creations for today, be sure to check out the Paper Pretties site to see all the new stamps and be sure to place an order, you know you want to! Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!
Take Out Container - Stamps: Fantastic Sophia from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Hibiscus Burst; Ink: E00 Skin White, E37 Sepcia, R00 Pinkish White, R37 Carmine, RV02 Sugared Almond Pink, Y17 Golden Yellow; Accessories: Glue Dots, Prima Flowers, Oval Punch, Scalloped Oval Punch

Card - Stamps: Your Maaarvelous from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Rich Razzelberry, PTI Flowers, Dark Chocolate; Ink: E00 Skin White, C1 Cool Grey No. 1, W1 Warm Grey No. 1, Y15, G24 Willow; Accessories: Pop Dots, Twill White Ribbon, Kaiser Self Adhesive Rhinestones

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Wade E Bug!

***Please scroll down to see the Inky Impressions Blog Hop! These ladies are just so cute!***

Welcome to Wednesday! It's time for another Paper Pretties Weekly Challenge! For today's post I get to share with you the card I made for our next challenge, issued by Wendy! Today we are not only sharing all of our creations, but to make the whole day a bit more fun, we are also hopping from blog to blog as well! We are kicking things off at Christie's blog, so if you haven't started there head on over, if you are joining me from Jana's blog then you found the right place!

We are all sharing with you our cards for this great challenge, to create a masculine birthday card, then you will have until April 6th to try this one out for yourself! For my project today I decided to ink up Wade E Bug! I wanted to go with a sort of monochromatic look for this card, seemed manly to me at the time. You will notice that we are featuring two great stamp sets this week, and not only are Bugs and Fishes and Wade E. Bug being featured, but if you decide to order either of these featured stamp sets this week they are both on sale for 20% off the regular price! So after you get your inspiration for the week, you may just want to hop over to the Paper Pretties Store and see where is takes you! I can't wait to see what the other ladies decided to create, check out the other Pretties Girl's creations:

Wendy Bond
Jane Matsumoto
Jennifer Greco

Frances Byrne

Heather Lee-Reppen

After you've seen all of the Pretties Girl's creations for this one, now its your turn to try it out! Your next challenge is to create ! I can't wait to see what you create! Your next stop on the hop is to visit Frances' blog, I know she will have something wonderful to share with you! I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by!
Stamps: Bugs and Fishes from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, SU! DP, Dark Brown; Ink:Memento Tuxedo Black, E52 Milky White, E47 Dark Brown, E71 Champagne; Accessories:Pop Dots, Satin Ribbon

Inky Impressions Blog Hop and Release!

Today is finally here! I am thrilled to say that today is the Inky Impressions New Release Blog Hop! I can't believe that today is my first release as part of the Inky Impressions Design Team! I am so excited to get the chance to share these brand new cuties with you!

If you didn't hop over to my blog from Chris' Blog, be sure to head on over Inky Impressions Challenge Blog to make sure you don't miss one bit of this great release hop, there is some hidden blog hop candy along the way, so get hopping! Oh, also in addition to this great release, Nicole is offering a 15% off discount for you order! You have from now until Friday, April 2nd at midnight EST to take advantage of this great order, just be sure to add 'Blog Hop Discount' to the comments section of your order!

I have the pleasure of sharing with you Beach Bound Lili! This adorable stamp shows Lili on her way to the beach in an adorable outfit for some fun in the sun! And, since Lili is always prepared she is wearing her flip flops, bringing a tube for some fun, and of course no trip to the beach is complete without a towel, sunblock, and an adorable beach bag! I wanted to go with bright summery colors for this image so I used this bright yellow, this bright green, a light pink, and this lovely deep bright purple! Not only is she super cute, but if you look I am using one of the brand new beach charms being released today as well! These new charms are prefect for the new releases this month and you are going to love them too!

I hope you enjoyed stopping by my blog today, the next stop on the Inky Impressions New Release Blog Hop is Kim D! I just know she will be rocking her new images as she always does! Enjoy the rest of the hop ladies, and get ready to fill those shopping carts! Have a wonderful day all!
Stamps: Beach Bound Lili from Inky Impressions; Paper: Whisper White, Green Galore, Summer DP from DCWV, Pretty Pink; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, E00 Skin White, E31 Brick Beige, E51 Milky White, RV19 Red Violet, Y11 Pale Yellow, YG06 Yellowish Green; Accessories: Beach Charms from Inky Impressions, Ribbon from Inky Impressions, Pop Dots, Nestabilities Labels Four, PTI Buttons, Glue Dots, Silver Cord

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Pretties Peeks!

Good morning all! Today I get to share with you another great Pretties Peek for this month's release on April 1st! This month we are releasing 5 new rubber sets, 3 super cute digis, and previewing our next Sophia! Today I get to show you our fabulous preview of the next Sophia set, Wheel Chair Sophia! I simply love this stamp set, as always Sophia is adorable and is a great addition to any collection!

I just love how sweet this Sophia is, I think she would be prefect for a feel better soon or a thinking about you card. I decided that I wanted to go with a focus on shades of pink and make this card super girlie! I hope you like it!

Here are the other fabulous Pretties' sharing with you there peeks of some of these great sets, they are all wonderful!

Jules
Frances

Hope you are enjoying the peeks! Have a great day all, I can't wait till you see all the wonderful releases! There are only two more days to come before these go on sale, it's almost time! Have a wonderful day all, and thank you for stopping by!

Stamps: Wheel Chair Sophia from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Bubble Gum, Sweet Blush, Basic Grey Sugar Rush DP; Ink: BV02 Prune, C1 Cool Grey No. 1, E00 Skin White, E31 Brick Beige, Y11 Pale Yellow, W1 Warm Grey No. 1; Accessories: Pop Dots, Large Circle Nestabilities, Kaiser Self Adhesive Rhinestones, Prima Flowers

Think INK

It's time for another Artful INKables Think INK challenge! Our new Think INK Challenge is being issued by Michelle and it is to use any CD/album cover for inspiration!

You will have two weeks to complete the challenge and add your link to the main post over on the Artful INKables Blog to have your entry counted! Now how does that sound? Pretty neat, right?! Head on over to the Artful INKables Blog for all the little details and be sure to play along, it is sure to be a great time! Here are a few further details for you!

* You are not required to use AI stamps, but if you have them, we'd love to see you use them**If you use AI stamps we will give you TWO entries for your creation! Just link your card to Mr.Linky Twice!

* You have until Monday, April 12th, 2010, midnight Pacific Standard Time to link your creation to this post. A winner will be chosen Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 to win a GRAB BAG of AI STAMPS!

* When posting your link, please post the link directly to your creation- so if it's on your blog, please link it directly to the specific post with your creation.

* If uploading to SCS or PCP, please add the keyword AIC17.

Be sure to stop by here on Saturday to see my creation for the current Think INK Challenge! I hope you have a great day all, and I can't wait to see what you create for this one!

Monday, March 29, 2010

Go Team Ho!

Good morning ladies! I wanted to share with you all that I am currently joining some fabulous ladies as part of Team Ho in The Greeting Farm Battle of the Design Teams! That's right, my team consists of some amazing fellow Hos, specifically Joy Stagg, Rae Anne Springer, Yoorah Lee, Sandye Curry, and ME! This amazing card for our first entry was created by Miss Yoorah, and is based on a fun image that we were to use for our color combination, plus our card had to be Retro! We each created a card and voted on which card was the best way to proceed, then we all made comments and suggestions to help out!

If you get the chance, please take a moment to vote for your favorites, you get three votes each week. I would also like to ask you to please vote for us, it would be greatly appreciated if you did so!

Here are the details on how you can place your vote:

Go to http://thegreetingfarm.com/galleria/
Click on Register and fill out the form.
You will be sent confirmation info to your email and you must click the link to officially be activated. If for some reason you do not receive it, just email me and I will manually activate your registry.
Once you are activated, go back to http://thegreetingfarm.com/galleria/ and login.
Once you are logged in, go to Contest/Challenges > TGF ROYAL BATTLE > Week 1
Vote for your top 3 choices. When you comment, that counts as your vote. So Comment on your top 3 choices.

The link to our direct card can be found Here!!!

Thank you ladies for taking a moment to help us out in this contest, its been a blast! Hope you have a wonderful day all!

Inky Impressions Blog Hop to Come!

Have you heard the news?! Inky Impressions will be having a blog hop on the 31st, that's right that means that there is a NEW release coming to Inky Impressions! I can not wait to share with you the amazing images coming your way this month! Just wait till you see the hop, you will love the new stamps!

So for today I thought I would share with you a card I created not only using this adorable and Springy Inky Impressions image, Flower Lili, but also I wanted to play along with the current Color Throwdown Challenge! This week the challenge is to use the colors Baja Breeze, Garden Green, and Certainly Celery, what a great and bright color combination! I just had to use this fun paper from Cosmo Cricket its from the Material Girl line, and its so bright and perfect for this combination!

I hope you like my bright and sunny Lili, she was a lot of fun to create! Be sure to be checking out my blog through out this week, lots of great stamps to come! Have a wonderful day all!

Stamps: Flower Lili from Inky Impressions; Paper: Whisper White, Garden Green, Baja Breeze, Material Girl DP from Cosmo Cricket; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, B12 Ice Blue, E00 Skin White, G17 Forest Green, G24 Willow, RV11 Pink, Y13 Lemon Yellow; Accessories: Pop Dots, Glue Dots, Nestabilities Labels Ten, PTI Buttons, Twine, Satin Ribbon, Illuminate Smooch

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Pretties Peeking Penny For Your Thoughts!

Good morning all! Today I get to share with you another great Pretties Peek for this month's release on April 1st! This month we are releasing 5 new rubber sets, 3 super cute digis, and previewing our next Sophia! Today I am sharing a new peek called Penny For Your Thoughts, which is one of our rubber releases this month!

I simply love this stamp set, it is just super cute and all sorts of fun! When I saw this stamp set I just knew that I had to use this adorable sentiment! Plus, this paper is so much fun, I had to go with this color combination, it was too cute!

Here are the other fabulous Pretties' sharing with you there peeks of some of these great sets, they are all wonderful!

Jana
Wendy

Hope you are enjoying the peeks, you are simply going to love the whole release! Have a great day all, I can't wait till you see all the wonderful releases!

Stamps: Penny for You Thoughts from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Be Loved DP, Berry Sorbet, Aqua Mist, Pure Poppy; Ink: E31 Brick Beige, R02 Flesh; Accessories: Pop Dots, Kaiser Self Adhesive

Crafty Hos!

So for our sixth week our challenge we are creating a card based on some inspiration, Jelly Bean Prayer! Here are all the rules for our challenge so that you too can play along:

2. You may submit as many entries as you like, just make sure that they are all different.

3. Challenges will be posted every Sunday and will run til 11pm EST the following Saturday. This should give you plenty of time to get them done and entered.

4. Post your link directly to the post for this challenge project - not a general link to your blog - to Mr. Linky.

5. Most importantly: HAVE FUN!! If you have any questions or comments, please let us know, we are here to be as supportive and inspiring as we can:)

So for my card I used this adorable stamp set called Spring Fling from The Cat's Pajamas! Did you know that I have Cat's Pajamas stamp sets too?! I do! I never get the chance to ink them up, but I simply love all of the pengins and the cats and just so cute! Be sure to check out the rest of our great group of Hos!

Audrey
Jeanette
Michele
Rae Anne
Sandye
Scrappy
Tammy

Stamps: Spring Fling from The Cat's Pajamas; Paper: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Pure Poppy, Love Me Doo Blooming Love; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, R27 Cadmium Red, Y15 Cadmium Yellow,B02 Robin's Egg Blue, RV02 Sugared Almond Pink, E55 Light Caramel, Y38 Honey; Accessories: Pop Dots, Twill, Peony Nestabilities

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Pretty, Pretty Peacock

Good morning all! Once again the weekend has arrived and I am thrilled to relax a bit, and with every Saturday comes a Artful INKables post! For my card today I wanted to share with you the design I created for a card front swap that I am participating in while at a Shoebox swap today! In fact, most of you will be reading this while I am at the SBS! I decided to use the fabulous new Peacock set from Artful INKables called Paisleys & Peacocks as my main image, I just simply love this set!

I wanted to go with bright and fun colors in my Peacock so I used a light blue, a pale yellow, and a green for the outer part of the feathers. I used one of my new Nestabilities, Labels Eleven, for the main piece and then sponged the edges in a light blue. I got this wonderful ribbon that I think makes the whole look pop a bit more, and no card is complete with out some fun embellishments, so I used these great Prima flowers I picked up from my local Michael's. I had so much fun creating todays card, and I hope you love it as much as I do! Have a wonderful day all, see you all soon!
Stamps: Paisleys & Peacocks from Artful INKables; Paper: Whisper White, Sping Rain, Certianly Celery, America Crafts a La Carte Pumpernickle; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, B12 Light Blue, Y11 Pale Yellow, G24 Willow; Accessories: Pop Dots, Sponge, Nestabilities Lable Eleven, Grosgrain Ribbon, Prima Flowers

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Have An OWLy Birthday!

Welcome to Wednesday! It's time for another Paper Pretties Weekly Challenge! For today's post I get to share with you the card I made for our next challenge, issued by Jana! Today we are not only sharing all of our creations, but we are also having a Happy Birthday Celebration for our wonderful Frances! We are kicking things off at Christie's blog, so if you haven't started there head on over, if you are joining me from Jana's blog then you found the right place!

We are all sharing with you our cards for this OWL challenge! That's right this week's challenge in honor of Frances' Birthday is to create a card using Owls! You will have until March 30th to try this one out for yourself! For my project today I decided to ink up Lady Sophia for a sort of royal birthday wish headed Frances' way! I used this great paper from the Green Stack that DCWV cam our with, it includes this cute DP with this fabulous owl on it, perfect for this particular birthday card! I decided that this piece of DP would not only be my inspiration for today's card, but I would use the piece as a background too! So I pulled the colors from the patterned piece of DP and use the Owl as a part of the card! I just love this cute little Owl almost as much as I love this Sophia! You will notice that we are featuring two great stamp sets this week, and not only are Make A Wish and Lady Sophia being featured, but if you decide to order either of these featured stamp sets this week they are both on sale for 20% off the regular price! So after you get your inspiration for the week, you may just want to hop over to the Paper Pretties Store and see where is takes you! I can't wait to see what the other ladies decided to create, check out the other Pretties Girl's creations:

Frances Byrne
Heather Lee-Reppen

Heather Lee-Reppen
Wendy Bond
Jane Matsumoto
Jennifer Greco
Frances Byrne (the birthday girl!)

After you've seen all of the Pretties Girl's creations for this one, now its your turn to try it out! Your next challenge is to create a brithday card using an Owl in some way! I can't wait to see what you create! Your next stop on the hop is to visit Heather's blog, I know she will have something wonderful to share. Be sure to hop all the way to the end so that you get to stop at Frances' blog, make sure to send her lots of brithday love too! I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by!
Stamps: Lady Sophia from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, the Green Stack DCWV, Bermuda Bay; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, BG13 Mint Green, BG49 Duck Blue, E00 Skin White, E35 Chamois; Accessories: Pop Dots, Illuminate Smooch, Sheer Ribbon

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

A Bit of Bugaboo

Last week I shared with you a card I created for the Bugaboo Challenge, today I wanted to share with you a card I created using Bugaboo Stamps for a great digi card swap hosted by Michele on SCS, in fact Michele is one of my good friends and fellow 'Hos' too. The both of us will be traveling to a shoe box swap this weekend for a day of card making fun, I have been busy working on the card fronts and card kits for my projects, so I decided to show you a card I created two weekends ago when I bought this cutie digi image!

This adorable little girl is from the Bugaboo Brats line, specifically BB Desiree. When this line showed up on the Bugaboo Site I had to order a few, they are just too fun and cute to pass up! I went with some bright colors on this card since I was making a fun kids card, I added some red rhinestones and a great big white satin bow to finish off this card. I do hope you like it, and I hope that all the ladies who receive one of my cards in the digi card swap enjoy this creation too! Have a great day all!
Stamps: BB Desiree from Bugaboo Stamps; Paper: Whisper White, Pure Poppy, Cosmo Cricket DP; Ink: E00 Skin White, RV11 Pink, R29 Lipstick Red, G24, C1 Cool Grey No. 1; Accessories: Large Regular Oval Nestabilities, Pop Dots, Satin Ribbon, Kaiser Self Adhesive Red Rhinestones

Monday, March 22, 2010

Artful INKables March Release!

Welcome to the Artful INKables blog hop! We are celebrating the March release at Artful INKables with 4 wonderful sets and a super fun new mini set! Trust me, you are going to love this release, there is something for everyone!

If you haven’t come here from Marti’s Blog, be sure to hop on over to the Artful INKables Blog, you don’t want to miss anything for today’s hop! Make sure to comment on every one's blog, because two lucky commenter along the way will find some hidden candy! One winner will receive In My Garden and Epic Tales and the other will win Peacock Pagentry and Paisleys & Peacocks. Please leave your comments by Thursday, March 25th, at 12pm Eastern Standard Time. The winners will be randomly selected on Friday, March 26th.Today I get to share with you my creation using one of the brand new stamp sets called In My Garden! I totally love this adorable set and trust me you will too, this little girl image is the focus of this stamp set. For my card I decided to make this one image pop a bit more by adding layers to the image herself, I layered her head, hat and flower pot as well as her cute little boots! I also used one of the super sweet sentiments that are included with the stamp set that says 'Plant Seeds of Happiness & water a Friendship Grow', perfect for this adorable image!

Thank you for participating in today’s blog hop, no hop on over to Patti's blog and enjoy the rest of this wonderful release!Stamps: In My Garden from Artful INKables; Paper: Whisper White, Sweet Blush, Pure Poppy, Sending Love Specialty DP; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, E00 Skin White, E31 Brick Beige, E33 Sand, E35 Chamois, G17 Forest Green, R29 Lipstick Red, RV11 Pink, Y15 Cadmium Yellow; Accessories: Pop Dots, Kaiser Self Adhesive Rhinestones, Ticket Corner Punch

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Crafty Ho's!

So for our fifth week our challenge we are using this great sketch created by Scrappy! Here are all the rules for our challenge so that you too can play along:

2. You may submit as many entries as you like, just make sure that they are all different.

3. Challenges will be posted every Sunday and will run til 11pm EST the following Saturday. This should give you plenty of time to get them done and entered.

4. Post your link directly to the post for this challenge project - not a general link to your blog - to Mr. Linky.

5. Most importantly: HAVE FUN!! If you have any questions or comments, please let us know, we are here to be as supportive and inspiring as we can:)

So for my card I used this adorable stamp set called Loads of Love from There She Goes!

I also decided to play along with this weeks Color Throwdown Challenge and used the colors Taken with Teal, Soft Sky, Black, and Tangerine Tango. I wasn't too sure about these colors, but I really like how everything came together on this one! Be sure to check out the rest of our great group of Hos!

Audrey
Jeanette
Michele
Rae Anne
Sandye
Scrappy
Tammy

Stamps: Loads of Fun from There She Goes; Paper: Whisper White, Taken with Teal, Soft Sky, Tangerine; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, C1 Cool Grey No. 1, R02 Flesh, B02 Robin's Egg Blue, BG13 Mint Green; Accessories: Twine, Pop Dots, Prima Flowers, Glue Dot, Kaiser Self Adhesive Rhinestones

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Happy Birthday Arful INKables!

Today is another fabulous Saturday which means I once again get to share with you a creation I made using Artful INKables stamps! For my creation today I created a birthday card using the super fun stamp set called Birthday Best! I decided to use the big cake image as my focus for this bright birthday creation. In fact this stamp reminded me of the Alice in Wonderland, so it sort of had a double meaning!

You too can play along with the Think INK Challenge, be sure to hop over to the Artful INKables blog to see all the details and play along for yourself, in fact there is a great grab bag full of stamps just waiting for one lucky player, so join in on the Birthday fun, and don't forget there is a great SALE going on now! Be sure to take advantage of it while you still can! Have a wonderful day all, and thanks for stopping by!
Stamps: Birthday Best from Artful INKables; Paper: Whisper White, DCWV Spring Stack, Yo Yo Yellow, Pacific Point; Ink: Cadmium Yellow, YR16 Apricot, C1 Cool Grey No. 1, B12 Light Blue, YG06 Yellowish Green; Accessories: Pop Dots, Large Scalloped and Regular Oval Nestabilities, Kaiser Self Adhesive Rhinestones

Friday, March 19, 2010

Jules' Birthday Hop!

Today is a Pretties Birthday Hop! Today our fabulous Jules'! That's right, its time for a Pretties Birthday Celebration! We are kicking things off at Christie's blog, so if you haven't started there head on over, if you are joining me from Jana's blog then you found the right place!

I decided to use this fabulous Sophia, Under the Sea, for my main image to create this fun birthday card for Jules! I went with a teal and pink color combination, which was a lot of fun to color! I didn't want to use the typical birthday image, you know a cake or balloons, I wanted to do something bright and cheery, especially with spring trying to sneak it's way back into the area. I had the pleasure of meeting up with Jules' earlier this year in the fall and she was more wonderful then I thought she would be, I do hope she has an amazing brithday, cheers! I can't wait to see what the other ladies decided to create, check out the other Pretties Girl's creations:

Christie Ortman
Jana Weaver

Jackie Rakoski (you are here!)

Wendy Bond
Jane Matsumoto
Jennifer Greco
Julie Masse (birthday girl!)

I hope you enjoy the rest of the Hop, you know I am loving getting the chance to celebrate another wonderful Pretties Birthday! Now hop on over to Frances' blog, she has more great celebration goodies for our Jules', and be sure to hop all the way through and wish Jules a fabulous birthday! Have a great day all!
Stamps: Under the Sea from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Intense Teal, Baby Pink Medium, My Mind's Eye Ooh La La; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, BG13 Mint Green, E00 Skin White, E35 Chamois, N1 Neutral Gray No. 1, RV13 Tender Pink; Accessories: Raspberry Candy Dots, Pop Dots, Teal Thin Ribbon

Skelekinz Sketchy Love!

So today I wanted to share with you the card I created for the current Bugaboo Challenge! This time the challenge is to follow a sketch that my friend Michele created, and knowing that she was hosting this one I HAD to play along!

I love how fun this sketch was, the hardest part for me was picking which image to use! I have started my own little collection of these digi cuties and picked Skelekinz Love for my image and I had a lot of fun coloring her in! I used lots of pink and had a blast with a bit of purple punches, I hope you enjoyed my creation!

Stamps: Skelekinz Love from Bugaboo Stamps; Paper: Whisper White, My Mind's Eye Ooh La La, Baby Pink Medium, Classic Magenta; Ink: E00 Skin White, E35 Chamois, E49 Dark Brown, R35 Coral, V06 Lavender; Accessories: Raspberry Candy Dots, Scalloped Edge Scissors, Pop Dots

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Baby Gamble Box!

Good morning all, just wanted to share with you a fun gamble box I made the other day using one of adorable Artful INKables sets called Newborn Blessings. I wanted to create a littl girl baby creation, and decided that a simple gamble box would be perfect for just little goodies! I am still very in love with the February releases from Artful INKables, but it is almost time for our March releases to be revealed and I can simply not wait to hear your reaction to the sets that are to come and the amazing new Design Team that will be a part of this new release. Have you seen our recent news, Artful INKables is celebrating Two Years this week, and not only do we have a fabulous Birthday Think INK Challenge going on right now, but we are also having a massive Sale!

To celebrate our birthday, we are offering you a sweet deal on any order you place this week. Enter Code AIBDAY2 into the coupon field when you check out to get 15% off a $35 order. This coupon is only good until next Sunday (21st) so be quick like a bunny to take advantage of this SALE!

Be sure to take advantage of this fabulous sale while you still can, I will see you all here again on Saturday with my Think INK creation! Also, on Monday the 22nd we will be kicking off our new releases for the month of March with an amazing blog hop, you will not one to miss a minute of this! Have a great day all!

Stamps: Newborn Blessings from Artful INKables; Paper: Whisper White, DCWV Nana's Nursery DP; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Hibiscus Burst, E31 Brick Beige, E33 Sand, RV11 Pink, RV21 Light Pink; Accessories: Pop Dots, Glue Dots, Scalloped Oval Punch, Sweet Blush Grosgrain Ribbon, Mavry Circle Punch

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Eggstra Special!

Welcome to Wednesday! It's time for another Paper Pretties Weekly Challenge! For today's post I get to share with you the card I made for our next challenge, issued by Jules'! Today we are not only sharing all of our creations, but to make the whole day a bit more fun, we are also hopping from blog to blog as well! We are kicking things off at Christie's blog, so if you haven't started there head on over, if you are joining me from Jana's blog then you found the right place!

We are all sharing with you our cards for this great color challenge to use Yellow, Aqua, and Kraft with any Neutral color! You you will have until March 23rd to try this one out for yourself! For my project today I decided to ink up Eggstra Special Easter, and of course use the great color combination that Jules put together for us, this is perfect for Spring! This week I went for a clean and simple look, I really like how this turned out, Cooper looks so darn happy for Easter! You will notice that we are featuring two great stamp sets this week, and not only are Eggstra Special Easter and Love You This Much being featured, but if you decide to order either of these featured stamp sets this week they are both on sale for 20% off the regular price! So after you get your inspiration for the week, you may just want to hop over to the Paper Pretties Store and see where is takes you! I can't wait to see what the other ladies decided to create, check out the other Pretties Girl's creations: