Simply Special

Hi everyone,

It is that time of the week again when the Prettie girls get together for another Pretties Wednesday Challenge & Blog Hop. The blog hop starts at our new Paper Pretties Blog so if you didn’t start from there hop back now!

Before I get into the challenge, we would also like to introduce our three newest Paper Pretties Design Team members. Please welcome:

• Jessica George
• Pam Varnell
• Wendy Hoff
  

This week is the start of a brand new month, which means it is my turn to bring you another Pretties Wednesday Sketch Challenge.

For my card today I used Paper Pretties “Simply Special”. I wanted a fancy edge on my 4 panels on the base of my card, so I used one of the Nellie’s Multi Frame Dies.

Want to play along with us

How to Enter: If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project using the above challenge and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword PWC113. Don’t forget to include link to your card on the Paper Pretties Blog, so everyone can see it too. You don’t have to use Paper Pretties stamps to play, but of course if you have them we would love to see you use them. One random participant will receive "Bugs and Fishes". which is this week’s prize.

Paper Pretties Shop News:

Glitter Dots are finally in the store … we now have 18 colors! If you haven’t already heard ….. Paper Pretties is now under new management and based in the USA ... this means faster shipping, cheaper shipping and reliable service!!!!!!

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Paper Pretties Design team to see what they came up with for this challenge.

Now to continue on the hop you need to head on over to Jackie Rakoski's blog to see what she has created for this week’s challenge.

Stamps: Simply Special – Paper Pretties

Paper; White; Red; Blue; Petite Floral DP - GCD Studios

Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Blue Brads; Nellie’s Multi Frames Square Dies; Butterfly Punch; Foam Tape; Copics

Fairy Sweet!

Hi everyone,

Are you ready for day two of MFTeasers! Today the MFT Stamps Design team are featuring a new range of stamps that will be released this coming Wednesday night 3rd February by MFT Stamps. These stamps are called “Joline” and there will be 3 different stamp sets to be released in this range this month. I am sure you will just love these cute girls, I know I do!

For my card today I used the “Fairy Sweet Joline” set. After coloring her wings with copics, I then added Moonlight Smooch over the top to give them a shimmery look. I also 2 Glittered Garnishes – Summer to the right corners of my main image panel.

Here is the inside of my card, using the sentiment which is also included in the set. These stamp sets have one main image plus two sentiments.

Would you like to see more of the new Joline sets. Then hop on over to Kim’s (MFT Lady) blog to see the list of which design team members will be featuring a card/project on their blog today. Kim will have the list posted to her blog at 11am EST.

I will be back tomorrow with more MFTeaser’s to share with you all!

Recipe:

Stamps: Fairy Sweet Joline – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Teal; DP

Other: Black Ink; MS Garden Trellis Border Punch; Rectangle Nellie’s Multi Frames; Teal Grosgrain Ribbon; Oval Punch; Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Glittered Garnishes – Summer; Foam Tape; Copics

Flopsey Playing Easter Bunny!

Hi everyone,

Wow can you believe it, January has only a couple more days left … where has the month gone!!!! Anyway a new month is always exciting because it means that shortly there will be new stamps available from MFT Stamps. I always love being able to prepare my samples and show what is coming in the not too distant future.

Today the MFT Stamps Design Team start the beginning of our MFTeasers featuring two of the new sets that will be released this coming Wednesday 3rd February. These two sets are “Love Birds” and “Basket Full ‘o Flopsey”.

Of course a new MFT release also means it is time for the MFT Guest Designer Challenge. This month Cindy Haffner and I are hosting the challenge, Our Challenge to you is to THINK SPRING!! --What do you think of when you think of SPRING?? --bring on the Flowers, Easter, Spring colors, Spring Showers, whatever Spring is to you.

The winner of this challenge will win the full March release for free and also get to play along with the Design Team for next month's release! For more details check out the February 2010 Guest Designer Contest over on the MFT Member Forum of SCS here.

For my card today I am using the new Flopsey set “Basket Full ‘o Flopsey”. The basket that Flopsey has beside him, come empty and there are 3 stamps included in the set that you can use to fill the basket … I used the Easter Eggs, but there are hearts for Valentines Day and Flowers which can be used for all sorts of occasions. Lots of fun sentiments too.

Here is the inside of my card, the layout is fairly similar to the outside except that I changed the shape of the nestabilities.

Don’t forget to visit Kim’s blog any time after 11AM EST to get the list of which Design Team members are also featuring this set on their blogs today.

Recipe:

Stamps: Basket Full ‘o Flopsey – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Brown; Pink; DP

Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Label Nestabilities; Pink Grosgrain Ribbon; MS Spring Border Punch; MS Grass Border Punch; MS Double Loops Border Punch; Foam Tape; Copic Air Brush System; Copics

It’s a Riley Challenge!

Hi folk!

First up before I get started on my card, Happy Australia Day to all the Aussies who read my blog!

My card today is for our first Riley and Company challenge which we will be playing every 2nd week. We hope you will play along with us too.

This week it is my time to host the challenge which is to use “Buttons” somewhere on your card. I decided to use Cafe Riley for my card today … he is such a cutie.

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Design Teams blogs sometime today so see what they created for this challenge.

Cathy Edgar

Cindy Haffner

Dana Jones

Kerry Donovan-Casey

Laurie Clout

Patti Stigsell

Silke Kittmann

Recipe:

Stamps: Cafe Riley – Riley and Company

Paper: White; Blue; Red; DP

Other: Black Ink; Grosgrain Ribbon; Red Buttons; MS Shell Border Punch; Sizzix Embossing Folder; Square Nellie’s Multi Frame; Foam Tape; Copics 

Bite Me!

….. that’s bite the cake not ME! hehe! …. Just thought I better make that clear!

My card today is for this week’s challenge over on the The Pink Elephant blog. This week the challenge is Recipe Challenge ….. here is the recipe we had to use:

• Polka Dots
• A Bow
• Pink

Our sponsor for this week is Sassy Studio Design’s and the image I am using for my card is one of their digital images called Sweet treats- Sweet Cupcake Carli. Doesn’t she look fun!

Ok to the challenge …. I have polka dots on both my designer paper and ribbon. I tied my ribbon into a bow and of course as you can see I used the color pink!

The sentiment I just had to use and it seemed to work perfectly with this image and is from The Greeting Farm.

Don’t forget to check out The Pink Elephant blog to see what the rest of the design team have created this week.

Recipe:

Stamps: Sweet treats- Sweet Cupcake Carli – Sassy Studio Designs; Sentiment – The Greeting Farm

Paper: White; Pink; Purple; DP

Other: Black Ink; Purple Ink; Nellie’s Multi Frames – Rect; Button; Circle Punches; Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copics

Happy Birthday!

Happy Saturday everyone,

Well it is time for another challenge over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. This week our challenge hostess for the month, Lori Boyd challenged us with another fun challenge. So what is the challenge you ask, well as it is Lori’s Birthday this month the challenge was to create a birthday card … now you know you can never have too many birthday cards on hand, right!

As my Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps arrived this week, I decided I had to play with one of those and of course this one called “Francesca” looked perfect for a birthday card with all those cupcakes & candles! I used Nellie’s Multi Frame Rectangle for the red layer underneath my main image.

Here is the inside of my card, as you can see I used the Martha Stewart “Happy Birthday” Deep Edge Punch to create a border. I figured this was enough sentiment so left it at that. I did add some bling to the stars.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

• Barbara Anders
• Cindy Haffner
• Jessica Diedrich
• Jessie Rone
• Joanne Grzelak
• Joycelyn Turner
• Lori Boyd
• Lynda Benden
• Mercy Kerin
• Robin Willis
• Vicki Garrett

Recipe

Stamps: Francesca – Kraftin’ Kimme Stamps;

Paper: White; Red; Pink; DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; MS Border Punch; MS Happy Birthday Deep Edge Punch; Nellie’s Multi Frame – Square; Grosgrain Ribbon; Button; Bling; Foam Tape; Copics