Happy Birthday, Charmaine!

One of our own very talented Prettie Girls is celebrating her birthday tomorrow! Happy Birthday, Charlie!

In honour of Charlie's birthday, we are throwing her an online birthday party! How fun is that?! I signed up to "bring" the balloons to our virtual celebration, so here they are!

I chose to use Flutter By from Paper Pretties as my main image. Instead of sending off a butterfly, she is sending Charmaine a bunch of birthday balloons!

Be sure to check out all of the other Prettie Girls' blogs in order to see the rest of the celebration. You can find them all here:

Carolina http://creativepad.typepad.com/

Christie http://www.littlepinkflowers.typepad.com/little_pink_flowers/

Danielle http://www.fatcatstamper.blogspot.com/

Donna http://stampamaniac.blogspot.com/

Jana http://www.stampwithjana.blogspot.com/

Jackie http://www.stampingsister.blogspot.com/

Jackie P. http://www.thescallopededge.typepad.com/

Jessie http://www.canyousayaddictedtostamps.blogspot.com/

Jodi http://www.stampingalatte.blogspot.com/

Julie http://www.stampinwithjulie.blogspot.com/

Michelle: http://michellerodgers.blogspot.com/

This card will be in the mail to you tomorrow, Charmaine! I hope you have a wonderful birthday!

Pretties Pajama Party Challenge Cards!

We had our Pretties Pajama Party last night....and wow, it was really hoppin'! We actually crashed the site...more than once! There was lots of chatter and lots of excitement about the newest releases...Soakin' Up The Sun and Off To School Sophia.


The first challenge of the evening was a sketch challenge. I don't seem to be able to get the sketch itself into blogger successfully at the moment...but here is the card that I made for the challenge.

I decided to use the My Favorite Things set Punny Farm for the challenge. Christie has a great selection of MFT stamps in her store here.



The card measures 5 x 5 1/2 and the base is kraft from SU! The other papers are all from my scrap bins...but I do believe some of them are from K&Company. The little chicken eyelets were purchased in Canada at a stamping store in the town where my parents live. They have this great concept there which I love. They call it the 'eyelet buffet'. You pay a flat fee for a small container and then you can mix and match eyelets until you fill it as full as you can. The girls who work in the store even showed me how to tap the container so the eyelets would settle and I would fit more in! LOL! I love it because then I can buy three chickens instead of ending up with 10 or 20!

My little farmer friend was completely paper pieced with the exception of her boots and buckets. The chickens were stamped, coloured with coloured pencils, blended with odourless mineral spirits and then cut out and popped up with dimensionals. Around the farmer's feet is a bit of linen thread from SU!

Our second challenge was to make a card using our high school colours. My colours were blue and gold. Once I heard the challenge I immediately thought of sports and cheerleaders. I used Paper Pretties stamp Flutter By, but I took the butterfly and the flower out of her hands and replaced them with pom poms made from EK Success fibers. The patterned paper and the 'go team' tag are from Creative Imaginations. The ribbon is from Close To My Heart. The blue and gold card stock is from The Paper Company.

Our last challenge was to create a 6 x 6 scrapbook page. For this challenge I used papers from a Provo Craft Super Slab by Karen Le Mieux. The stamps are Cuddle Me, Sealed With A Kiss and Look Out World...all from Paper Pretties.

I punched out the heads of each image....I was thinking of The Brady Bunch when I did this! Then I went on a hunt to find a family photo that was small enough to work! I am used to having the confines of a much bigger page to work with when scrapbooking....so this really was a challenge for me! I coloured the images with coloured pencils and them blended them with OMS. The vellum title and subtitle are from the Colorbok Life's Blessings line. I used my ticket punch on the corners of the title and that was it!

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Prettie Sneak Peek

I have my sneak peek for you today! This is Off To School Sophia. Isn't she cute?! Last month she was sent to all of our lucky Paper Pretties Stamp of the Month Club subscribers. Now, she is being released to the public, so you can have her too!



It isn't too late....if you sign up for the Paper Pretties Stamp of the Month Club before midnight tonight, you can still get the July release. Let me tell you....the next Sophia is just as cute as this one!

There have been a couple of challenges issued which I am behind on...so unusual for me, I know! *hehe* Anywho, I decided to combine my sneak peek with not one, but two challenges! I am going for maximum productivity! The most recent challenge, by Christie, was to make a green and white card. Mission accomplished! The challenge before that, issued by Joni, was to use your own drawing or handwriting on a card. I drew in the dragon fly and the butterfly that are flying around Sophia as she skips off to school. Mission #2 accomplished!

Now for the details....the background patterned paper is from a Close To My Heart paper packet called Discovery. Sophia's dress is paper pieced in Making Memories Garden Party paper, also from a paper packet. The stamp is Paper Pretties (of course!). The ribbon is from an SU! share I recently participated in. The rest of the image was coloured using Faber Castell coloured pencils.

Don't forget to stop on over to the Stampin' In Your Jammies Release party in the Paper Pretties Forum on Tuesday, July 1st at 8:00 pm EST. There will be challenges at the top of each hour and prizes to be won!

See you there!

All Business Today!

You will have to stop by again tomorrow in order to see my Prettie Sneak Peek....unfortunately, I am not able to photograph with much success at night!

BUT....I have lots of news to share!!

Firstly, the new guest designers have been announced over at Paper Pretties and yours truly made the list again! You have to scroll all the way to the bottom to find me! :)

Secondly, there is a Cutie Pie contest going on over at Paper Pretties as we speak! All you have to do is make a card using your Paper Pretties stamps and send it to Christie at christie@paperpretties.net, and she will chose a winner from the entries. Besides getting to call yourself a Cutie Pie, you will also get all the stamps from our July 1st (CANADA DAY release) for free!! You have until June 30th at 8pm CST to get your entries in!

Thirdly, we have another Stampin' In Your Jammies release party on the calendar! Join us at 8:00 pm EST on Tuesday, July 1st over in the Paper Pretties Forum. The very talented Charmaine will be issuing challenges at the top of each hour. There will be prizes to be won and two new stamp sets will be released! You can be the first to have them!

See you there!

A Wedding Card and Another Prettie Pajama Party!

Today I am posting a wedding card that I recently made for a neighbour. He was going to be giving it to his nephew and soon-to-be-niece-in-law (is that even a real term?!). So, I wanted the card to be elegant....not too feminine (since it was being given from uncle to nephew) and definitely not pink!!

The papers I chose were bronze metallic from The Paper Company, patterned paper from Sandylion, shimmer card stock from SU! and black card stock. The image of the bride and groom are from the set Life's Special Moments from SU!. I stamped the image in Encore Metallic Gold Ink on shimmer card stock. I then embossed the image with gold embossing powder and heated it with my heat gun.



The groom was coloured with basic Crayola coloured pencils and then blended with OMS and a blending stump. I used my glue pen on the bride's gown to add some dazzling diamonds for a beautiful shimmer. The giant eyelets at the top of the card are from SU! also. The ribbon is from Joann's.

Those are the details for my card...but don't forget...there is lots upcoming over at Paper Pretties! Our next Prettie Pajama Party is going to take place on Tuesday, July 1st at 8:00 EST over at the Paper Pretties Forum. There will be two new stamp sets and two new sentiments released. Come on over to join us for challenges at the top of each hour, and lots of chatting!

There will also be a Cutie Pie contest taking place. All you have to do is make a card using your Paper Pretties stamps and send it to Christie at christie@paperpretties.net, and she will chose a winner from the entries. Besides getting to call yourself a Cutie Pie, you will also get all the stamps from our July 1st (CANADA DAY release) for free! You have until June 30th at 8pm CST to get your entries in!! Good luck!!

We hope to see you there!

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More Thanks

So, I've decided to continue right along with my theme of posting all of the 'thank yous' I had to make for the end of the school year. This card features one of my favorite little fellows.... Cooper. He reminds me a lot of my little guy. :)

My card base on this one is kraft from SU!. The patterned paper is from Provo Craft and it is OLD!! It has been in my stash for forever!! I used my water colour crayons to colour in Cooper (Look Out World from Paper Pretties, of course!). The ribbon is Dots, Dashes and Checks from either Mike's or Joann's...I always forget which...

The image was matted on black card stock while the patterned paper was layered on white. Sometimes I wonder...is it necessary to state things that are that obvious?? LOL... The buttons are from my mish mash of buttons that originally came from this four gallon ice cream pail full of buttons at my Mom's house. She has been sewing for years and years and never gets rid of anything. I am sure some of these buttons are older than me!


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It's Your Day, Friend

I recently made this birthday card for my friend, Audra. She was my very first friend here in New England...and she is still the closest one!

She celebrated her 29th birthday (*wink, wink*) and I wanted to make her a cute card with one of my favorite stamps! So, out came my MFT set, Time For The Bubbly. It is so fun...and just what a mom of three needs on her birthday....some quiet, a glass of wine and a bubble bath!

It is a long card...probably about 6 1/2 by 3 1/2 if I had to guess... The ribbon is from CTMH. The eyelets are Making Memories. The wallpaper was paper pieced and the rest of the image was coloured with coloured pencils. My Spica glitter pen was used on the bubbles. The card stock is all generic and from either Joann's or Michael's. The floral pattern was added to the background with a vellum overlay. The vellum is from DCWV. I used my SU! corner punch and set three eyelets on each corner to finish things off.

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