Calling All Scrapbookers.....

.....and wanna be scrapbookers too!

I have a challenge for you today! My last official post and challenge as the Prettie Pages Girl over at Paper Pretties....and it's a good one!

For this challenge, I want to you scrapbook on a white background. Make your layout about the photos and keep them the focus. Skip all the layers and the embellishments and just keep it minimal! Let's see what you can come up with!

You have until next Thursday, October 2nd to upload your layout to the Paper Pretties gallery under weekly challenges. Be sure to use the keyword PCS3 so that we can find all of your creations! If you are chosen as the lucky winner, I seem to think that Christie might have a little goodie from the Pretties Boutique to send your way! Get cracking!

Here is my sample:


I used Bunny Slippers as my Paper Pretties stamp and my layout features photos of my daughter sleeping. The title is made from chipboard letters covered in various patterned papers from my scrap bin. The swirls in the corners of the layout are acrylic stamps from Inkadinkado, stamped in Sweet Leaf ink from Close To My Heart.

Bunny Slippers was coloured with pencils and blended with OMS. I then cut her out and adhered her with dimensionals to my layout.

I journaled in a pale purple pen from CTMH around the perimeter of the photos.

And there you have it! I look forward to seeing what everyone creates!

Thanks for stopping by today!

It's Coming To An End!

My time over at Paper Pretties as their Prettie Pages Girl is coming to an end...sigh. I have one more challenge for you, so be sure to check back tomorrow, and then my job there is officially over! On to new and exciting things!

I have a Paper Pretties card to share with you today. This is Angel Wings, and she is the stamp of the month for October. Isn't she adorable? I would love to use her on my Christmas cards this year...but I refuse to mass produce an image that I have to hand colour! Can you imagine how long that would take?! I guess I will save her for my scrapbook pages and my very special cards!

The base of this card is black card stock. I ran it through my Cuttlebug with the D'vine Swirls embossing folder. It's a bit hard to see in the pic...but the whole base is embossed. I used my nestabilites to cut out my main image. She was coloured and blended with OMS and then her wings were given a layer of dazzling diamonds. She is really pretty and shimmery in person. :) The bottom of her gown was covered with liquid applique and then heated with my heat gun. This was one of my first times using liquid applique and I have to say, I love it! You will be seeing a lot of it here in the future, I'm sure!



The sentiment is from MFT and I used my SU! hodge podge hardware in silver for the frame. The ribbon is from one of the big chain stores....JoAnn, perhaps? I can't be certain.

Like I said, be sure to check back tomorrow for my last Prettie Pages challenge!

Thanks for stopping by today!

A New Adventure!

In case you have noticed that my posts have been a bit sporadic lately, it is because I have started on a new business venture recently! You are reading the blog of a new Usborne Books Independent Consultant! Usborne is a fantastic company that sells educational, non-fiction, and engaging books through retail outlets as well as in home parties. Since I am such a newbie, I am working hard at building my business and scheduling parties! Keep your eyes peeled for a link to my Usborne website to appear in my sidebar soon. You can then go there to check things out and more importantly, to shop! I already have a customer in my fellow Prettie Girl, Jana (thanks for your order, Jana!!). :) Jana used to live overseas in Germany, so she has an appreciation for Usborne....the only English books that I could find when my family lived in Switzerland!

Now, back to my project! I made this fun (and ultra easy) note card folio recently with one of my favourite colour combos...pink pirouette and chocolate chip. The base is pink pirouette, the patterned paper is from Sandylion (LOVE this paper....must get more!) and the ribbon is from American Crafts. Isn't it gorgeous?! Must get more of that too......



I just realized that I don't have a photo of the inside of the folio....I must remember to take one next time I make this project. It is very straight forward....the bottom of an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of card stock is folded up two inches and that is it. Ta da! Done. I used sticky strip to seal up the sides of the folded up pocket and included four of these flat note cards and four envelopes.

The blooms on the note cards are from Making Memories and the brads are from JoAnn Essentials.

There you have it! Thanks for stopping by today!

Oh, and don't forget to stop by for my Paper Pretties scrapbooking challenge on Thursday! I will have a challenge and a layout to share. See you then!

Still Cleaning!

This is one of those cards that was the result of my efforts to clean up my desk and use any unused stamped images that I had laying around.

I had stamped some images WAY back when at my friend, Joanne's house. This was one of those images. The stamp is from SU! Pun Fun. The card stock is SU! barely banana. It seems like either barely banana or chocolate chip make an appearance on every card that I make lately! I don't know what it is....they just work for me!



The sketch is a variation of one that I found by Ingrid Danvers over at 2 sketches 4 you. I used white grosgrain tied around the middle and then I looped SU! hemp twine threaded with a charm. I haven't used charms in ages...so it was fun to get to incorporate this one! I used my distresser around the whale image and the image itself was coloured with pencils and blended with OMS.

Pretty straight forward! Make sure you stop by again soon....I am going to have a Paper Pretties scrapbooking challenge and layout to share on Thursday!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Old Project, New Image!

I have a Paper Pretties project to share with you today! I have shown these little note card sets a million times before (and you will probably see them a million more!), but I have never made one using a Paper Pretties stamp! I used Howdy Girlfriend on this set, and I love how it all came together in the end! I originally saw these little note card sets over on my friend Joanne's blog.

The papers are Deja Views Blue Raspberry Paisley and Blue Raspberry Stripes. I love these papers...now I have to figure out where I bought them so I can go and buy more! On the front of the note card holder I stamped the bottom half of Sophia from Howdy Girlfriend and then water coloured her with SU! water colour crayons and punched her out with a circle punch.

That is hemp twine from SU! that you see wrapped around the flap.

Inside the little box you find four of these little note cards. Here I stamped the top half of Sophia and then coloured and punched her out. I used my Fiskars Threading Water punch along the bottom edge and then mounted the card on a kraft base. The ribbon I used on the cards was purchased at Target on clearance. I love clearance! hehe The ink is StazOn in Timber Brown.

Here is a close up of cute little Sophia. You can get other stamps just like this one by joining the Stamp of the Month Club over at Paper Pretties. Each and every month you will get some 'happy mail' and find a new stamp in your mail box! Click on the link above to get all the details!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy Birthday To You, Happy Birthday To You!

My husband celebrated his 34th birthday just a few days ago. It is so hard to believe...we met each other when he was just 19! I was 17 back then....wow....where does the time go?!

For Kevin's birthday card, I tried something really different than my usual style of card. I had my new MFT set Nature Calls, and I really wanted to use it. So, I decided to create a scene. I am really not a 'scene kinda girl' but, this is what I ended up with. It has kind of grown on me now that it is finished and I see it sitting on the mantle every day...but it really isn't one of my favs.

I actually used three different stamp sets on this card. The tree and the bear are from MFT Nature Calls, the clouds are from my Hanna Stamps Route 66 set, and the plane and the banner are from MFT Going Places. The bear and banner are popped up with dimensionals. I distressed the edges of the card stock on the top layer and then layered it onto dark green card stock with a Kraft base. The ribbon is SU! twill tape. The message on the banner was hand written with a Le Plume marker in dark brown. The message reads 'Happy Birthday! We love you beary much!'. That pretty well wraps it up!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Yummy Coffee....

I don't know what it is....but I am really into coffee stamps. I must have three or four different stamps and stamp sets that fit into this theme. To me, the thought of coffee evokes images of coziness and friendship and a good chat. All things that I love!

I have two different cards to share today....both using the same sketch and each with a different coffee image. These cards came to be because of my mission to clean up any unfinished projects. I had several stamped images that I hadn't used yet...they were sitting in a pile. It is my goal to get them all used up and have a nice stack of completed cards by month end!

The paper is from K & Company. I am such a fan of this line...it has such an earthy feel to it....I just love it! The sketch came from Andrea Walford's blog. She used it as part of one of her Simply Saturday posts.


The stamps are SU! Pun Fun and MFT Hot Stuff respectively. The buttons are ??? from my button drawer. No packaging to be found...they were all in a Ziploc baggie. :) The scalloped borders were done with my Fiskars Threading Water punch....have I mentioned that I love that thing?!? LOL

The ribbon is cotton twill tape from Twill E Dee...I have no idea where I got it from. I have never even heard of that brand before. It was in my ribbon box though!

Well, I think that's it for today.....

Thanks for stopping by!