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Friday, July 31, 2009

Freebie Friday at Paper Makeup Stamps

Paper Makeup Stamps has another freebie for you, and it's only available for one week! It's another digi wordart which you can get at the PMS blog. I've made a card to showcase this particular one. I've printed mine out large so it would be the focus of my card (and I followed the SCS sketch from this week, too). However you could print it out smaller to go along with an image or place it on a scrapbook page. There are so many possibilities. And the price is right...FREE!! So hop over to the PMS blog and get yours today! When you make your card, make sure you post it on the PMS blog or use Paper Makeup Stamps as you key word if you post to SCS/PCP!

Also don't forget about sneak peek week at PMS. The sneaks begin Monday and continue throughout the week. The release party is on Friday. You can see the details on the top of my sidebar. We hope to see you back for the sneaks and the party. Enjoy your weekend!

ETA: I just saw that my friend, Cheryl Rowley, is giving away some awesome blog candy for reaching 50,000 hits on her blog! She is an awesome artist and your jaw will drop when you see her copic coloring! Here's the direct post to the blog candy giveaway, but look at her entire blog starting here, too, and leave her some love...it may get you some great candy!

Recipe
Stamps: PMS digi wordart
Paper: Neenah white, basic gray, cameo coral. Walk in the Park dp (retired SU)
Accessories: Nesties, gray tafetta ribbon, dimensionals

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Some More Exciting News!!

I was surprised the other day to be asked to be on another design team! Kristin from Artful INKables invited me to join her new design team for the next six months beginning August 1st! I was very excited to have been asked and I'm looking forward to this challenge! I am officially an "INK Girl"! Here are the other new members on the team.


Also I'm happy to announce that two of the current members have been asked to stay on as Senior Design Team members, and they are Joy Stagg and Holly McMillen. It seems Holly and I have come full circle! She is currently living in Colorado, but lived about two miles from me previously. She and I met at Starbucks about a year and a half ago to get to know each other and that day I started blogging, thanks to Holly! So I'm so excited to be working with her on this team! I can't wait to share Kristin's designs with you! Let the fun begin!

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Cherry Pie

Do you like cherry pie? I'm not much of a pie eater, but I do like berry pies and pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving! Mmmmmm, I'm hungry now! Well, I have a cherry pie card for you today using the new release called Cowgirl Up! by Anna Wight for Whipper Snapper. Here's the set.What I like about this is all the smaller stamps you can use. This is a western-themed stamp set, but look at the fancy drink glass, the beer mug, the flowers, and that cherry pie! So many options! So here's what I did with the cherry pie.Not very western is it? I used SU's retired Summer Picnic dp for my cherry pie theme and colored my pies with copic markers. I added red stickles to the cherries and slits in the pie and green stickles to the leaves. I just love this card! I made another card with this set which you can see in this post. I also used the Taylored Expressions sketch for this card.

You should stop by the Whipper Snapper Featured Designer gallery on SCS here to see all the great things the other Featured Designers are doing! Fabulous stuff! Thanks for stopping in today!

Recipe
Stamps: Cowgirl Up! (Whipper Snapper)
Paper: Neenah white, bashful blue, real red, Summer Picnic dp(retired SU)
Ink: Memento tuxedo black
Copic Markers: E31, 35, 53; R29; YG17; C-1, 3, 5
Accessories: Nesties, circle punches, scallop border punch, tag die, ribbon, stickles, dimensionals

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

More Halloween Fun!

Hi all! Are you ready for some more Halloween Fun? I'm getting ready for it with this new set by Anna Wight for Whipper Snapper. Here's a look at the set.
It's a great set with all sorts of cute images that make it very versatile. You can see what I did with a few of the images and chipboard in
this post.

Here's another one I've done today using this set.Pretty colorful, huh? That's what I like about Halloween...all the fun and bright colors! I started with this new Halloween dp from K & Co. It comes in a smaller 12 x 12 stack, but the papers are FABULOUS!! (I hate when papers are double-sided because it seems a shame to "waste" the other side!) I was enabled by my friend
Cheryl Rowley to purchase this pack and a few other things from JoAnn's! (My credit card was smokin', let me tell you!) I used the Mojo Monday sketch from this week and cut out the candy corn for the embellishments on the bottom. The orange dots on the photo corner are candy dots, in keeping with the "Got Treats" theme of Halloween!

Tomorrow I'm going to have another card from the other new set Anna has out called Cowgirl Up! that doesn't have a cowgirl theme to it. So come back tomorrow and see what I have for your viewing pleasure! Thanks for stopping in today!
Recipe
Stamps: Halloween Fun (Whipper Snapper)
Paper: Neenah white, green galore, lovely lilac, Halloween Stack (K & Co.)
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, green galore
Copic Markers: YG06, 07; G14; YR16, 68; BV13; W-3, 5, 7
Accessories: Nesties, candy dots, star dust stickles, photo corner punch, dimensionals

Monday, July 27, 2009

PMS Monday Challenge

Hi everyone! I hope you had a great weekend! It pretty much rained all weekend here...it's been a rainy summer! But I have a pretty bright card to show you for our Paper Makeup Stamps Monday challenge. Kim Stewart issued a great sketch challenge for us. Here's the sketch.I thought that the Dustin Pike dinos over at Paper Makeup Stamps were being a little neglected lately (we all love the fairies and wordart...LOL!!), so I decided to use Terry the Pterodactyl. Terry is colored with copic markers to match this Lime Rickey dp by Basic Grey. I also used the new SU in-colors Crushed Curry and Dusty Durango. The polka dot ribbon is also SU's new Dusty Durango. I added some yellow stickles to his freckles and crystal effects to his eyes. I changed the placement of the sentiment a little because of the way Terry was facing, but I guess that's allowed, right? It sort of looks like he's carrying the sentiment!

You can see all the cards the DT made on their blogs (you can access them on my sidebar) or you can visit the PMS blog to see what they have for you. If you decide to play, post your direct link on the PMS blog, and if you post to SCS/PCP, please use the code PMSMC21.
Recipe
Stamps: Terry the Pterodactyl (PMS), Mixed Messages (PTI)
Paper: Neenah white, crushed curry, dusty durango, Lime Rickey dp (Basic Grey)
Ink: Memento tuxedo black
Copic Markers: E08, 97; Y17; W-3
Accessories: Crystal effects, yellow stickles, grosgrain ribbon, circle punches, corner rounder, dimensionals

Now I have another to share with you. This was for yesterday's Featured Stamper challenge on SCS. Versamom was the FS and she has a great gallery. I chose to case this card because of it's simplicity and because it reminded me of this PMS Swirly Tree stamp that I've never used. This is what I came up with. I kept the same layout and added the embossing on the top and bottom. I used Soft Sky and Night of Navy as my colors. The sentiment is from PTI's Out on a Limb. This was a fun and easy card to do!

Thanks for stopping in today and have a great week!
Recipe
Stamps: Swirly Tree (PMS), Out on a Limb (PTI)
Paper: Neenah white, soft sky, night of navy
Ink: Night of Navy
Accessories: Embossing folder

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Pretty Petal Pocket

Well, it seems this is My Timeless Template weekend for me! My post from yesterday included two template projects and I have another today!

I went to a 40th birthday party on Friday for my friend, Melissa, and her gift was a gift card. I wanted to place it something pretty that she would appreciate (she's a crafter too!). The new Pretty Petal Pocket was too pretty to pass up, so I opted for that one. Here's my gift combo for Melissa.This gift and card came out so pretty, IMHO! I started with this great dp that was given to me by my friend, Cheryl Rowley. I paired it with SU's retired groovy guava. I still had some ribbon to match, so I was good to go.
I just think this combination of colors on this pretty template is so fabulous! I print these templates on regular computer paper (even though you can print them right onto your cardstock) for two reasons: first, my printer won't print on the cardstock all the way through...it gets stuck half way! Second, I don't like that the score lines and other print is on the template and you can see it on the inside. So I print on regular computer paper, cut it out, tape it with removable adhesive to my cardstock and cut away! Much better for me. Back to the project. Since this had seashells on it, I decorated it with pearls (like from an oyster, only mine aren't!). I added some paper shredding and the gift card inside and tied it up with the groovy guava ribbon. So simple! Really took about 25 minutes to pull together. (I also forgot to mention that this is for the Dare to Get Dirty challenge issued by Tracy Harp called It's in the Bag! You had to make some kind of creative packaging. I think these templates are pretty creative!)

Of course I had to have a card to go with it (believe me when I say this was an afterthought!), so I used the same papers to come up with this.I didn't have time to color an image and get fancy, so I used one of Paper Makeup Stamps new word art digital images for my focal image. Great quote for a friend, don't you think? I printed out this digi image (it costs all of a $1.50!) and highlighted some words with a copic marker. I embossed the bottom part of the white mat with a cuttlebug folder. (I just saw Gina K do this on one of her Stamp TV episodes. While I've done this before, this episode just popped into my head and gave me the idea to do it again!) I placed another piece of the dp on top and finished it off with ribbon. The sentiment was placed on dimensionals. So quick and easy!

Melissa loved her gift and so did I! It was difficult to let this one leave my crafty little hands! LOL!

Oh, one more thing! I just have to mention that today is the birthday of one of my favorite people....Mick Jagger! He's 66 years old today! Yikes! I've been a fan since I was 5! Can't help it and I'm not going to explain it! I love Mick! LOL!!

Thanks for stopping in today. Enjoy your Sunday!
Recipe
Stamps: True Friends digi image (PMS)
Paper: Neenah white, groovy guava, Island Lagoon Seashells (Carolyn Holt Designs for Paper Adventure)
Accessories: Pretty Petal Pocket (My Timeless Templates/PTI), pearls, groovy guava stitched ribbon, cuttlebug folder, dimensionals

Friday, July 24, 2009