Happy Birthday Jackie...

sorry we are late!!! Jackie, one of my fellow Prettie Girls had a birthday this past Friday, and we are just now celebrating it!! Bet you thought we forgot you!!! My job for this shin-dig was to bring the cake, so here it is!! A couple of parties ago, Julie used a cake from The Pink Cake Box website as her inspiration, so it is where I went first for my inspiration...I swear to you, I could look at their stuff ALL DAY LONG...but I get incredibly hungry for cake while I am there!!LOL!! I chose this gorgeous cake they made for a contest. Isn't it fantastic!! I used the colors and the flowers as inspiration. I stamped Flutter By Sophia with Black Stazon on Whisper White and colored her with my SU markers. I stamped the flower a few extra times and cut them out and glued them on. For the belt, I cut a slit on either side and used some narrow white organdy ribbon. The paper is from SU and from DCWV Nana's Nursery. I added some white taffeta, silver brad, confetti flowers, and pink rhinestones. The sentiment is from a Papertrey set. The colros are Pretty in Pink and Certainly Celery.

Be sure to blurf around and check out what the other Pretties have brought to the party!! Also, don't forget to stop by and show Jackie some love!!
Christie Ortman
Julie Masse
Charmaine Ikach
Jana Weaver
Danielle Lounds
Jodi Collins

Prettie Wednesday- Mini Album

Two Weeks ago Joni challenged all the Pretties to make a mini album...who knew she could be so mean...LOL!!! Okay, so she is so FAR from mean, but seriously...this was really hard. What makes it worse is the fact that MY album has to be sent to Joni, so she is gonna SEE it!!LOL!! Joni just recently got engaged and I just got done looking at some GORGEOUS pictures from her engagement party on her blog. Since this ablum is for her, I wanted her to be able to use it for pictures of her and her fiance, Laddu. I followed this super easy tutorial over on SplitcoastStampers. I used some Paper Studio paper to cover the back and front, textured white for the binding and inside covers, and black cardstock for the flaps. I have to be honest, I didn't do anything inside of it, because I want Joni to be able to do with it what she wants. I used the Sealed With A Kiss set from Paper Pretties and colored it with my SU markers. I then cut it and the black layer out with my nesties. I added some black organdy, white taffeta and some Michael's Bride Confetti flowers.

This weeks challenger is Jackie and I can't WAIT to see what she comes up with!! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Be sure to go around and check out the other Prettie Blogs and see what they have been up to!!Julie Masse
Charmaine Ikach
Jana Weaver
Danielle Lounds
Jodi Collins
Jackie Rakoski
Joni Stringfield
Carolina Buchting

Have You Heard??

My pal Jessica over at There She Goes.... is starting her own new stamp company!! She is taking pre-orders at a discounted price until Friday so run on over and check her out!!

Baby Eye Candy!!

Need I say more!!

Falling For You

So, yesterday I was talking about the Paper Pretties Stamp of the Month Club right? Well, this is the Falling For You stamp that I was talking about. It is the September SOTM and you have until August 31st to sign up and receive her a MONTH before she gets released to the public!! Christie has already released some alternate sayings to go with her...so while you are there signing up, you should check them out!! Don't forget to tell them I sent ya!!

For my card today, I used the SCS color challenge. The colors were Ruby Red, Blush Blossom and Close to Cocoa. PERFECT colors for this super cute Fall image if you ask me. I colored Sophia with my SU markers and cut her and the layers out with my Oval Nesties. I then layered them on another panel using some Close to Cocoa DSP and the other challenge colors. The scallops were made with my SU scallop punch and I added some ruby brads to each end too. (this is where my nephew started crying....now I am back an hour later...) The ribbon is from a share I participated in with Jody Morrow. I couldn't decide on where to put the sentiment, so I decided I would put it on the inside. That is all for me now...Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a fabulous day!!

stamps-Falling For You-Paper Pretties

paper- Ruby Red, Close to Cocoa CS and DSP, Blush Blossom, and Whisper White

ink-Black Stazon

tools- SU markers, ruby brads, satin ribbon, Cuttlebug, Nesties, scallop punch

A Tease and a MFT Sketch

So, Jared is fully co-operating this morning and is allowing me to stamp!! YAYY!! He is taking a nap right now, so I am frantically trying to get this posted. Wish me luck!! I actually got TWO cards made, but one of them you will only be able to see if you are a member of the Paper Pretties Stamp of the Month club!! Great reason to join right?!!LOL!! For all of you members out there..did you know that once a week one of the Prettie girls posts a card to the special Stamp Of The Month club gallery for you all to see!! Cool right!! These cards can not be viewed anywhere else, not even on our blog..they are for your eyes only..don't you feel special now!! Don't forget, you have until August 31st to get signed up for the stamp of the month club and get Falling For You Sophia a month before she gets released to the public!! Don't forget to tell them I sent you!!
Now, onto the card you CAN see!! I made this card for today's My Favorite Things sketch challenge. It was made using my super cute new Flopsey stamp," What's The Story?". Flopsey is a new character for My Favorite Things that debuted last month and is so cute!! I stamped him/her?? with Black Stazon on Whisper White. I then colored him/her in with my SU markers and layered it with Certainly Celery and Pretty in Pink. The DP on this is from the DCVW Nana's Nursery Baby Girl Stack. The green piece was ran through the cuttlebug with my Swiss Dots folder. The scallops were cut with my Nesties and Cuttlebug(seriously, how did I survive before these) and I added some white dots with my gel pen and some super cute pink button brads from Making Memories. The ribbon is white and pink taffeta from SU.

Well, I better wrap this up...I think I am pushing my luck this morning, and as soon as I get distracted he will wake up and require my undivided attention!! Thanks for stopping by, and thank you all again for all the well wishes for Jared and for me being the Featured Stamper!! I had such an amazing day yesterday, but I still have a ton of commenting to do!! Speaking of that...I have over 400 posts in my Google reader...so if I fail to comment on your blog, just know that I came, I saw, I ran like you know what to the next one.......hehehehe!!

ETA: Just went to the MFT forum and this is LAST weeks sketch...geezzzz...still behind...

Having A Moment...

Okay, so guess what????? I am today's featured stamper on SCS...WOOHOOO!!! I woke up this morning and got in my email and there was a message from my friend Silke telling me the fabulous news!! Luckily, I have all of you to share my excitement with, because trying to explain to my DH what that meant in our world didn't go over so hot...the most I got out of him was "that was the year I was born"-his reply to when I told him I was FS80 and "so people basically steal your work?"-his response to my explanation of CASEing. Men....don't they know that CASEing someones work is the best form of stamping flattery you can get??? Oh well, back to my card... I used this super cute swimsuit as my inspiration for this card. Yes I realize they don't look a thing alike, but that is why it is an inspiration challenge, right? I started by stamping my tee shirt from Melanie Muenchingers new Little Tees set. I stamped the flowers from the Gina K. set Framed Flowers(by Carolyn King) in Perfect Plum, and then kept stamping till the ink was faded(basically only inked the flowers once). I then took the Mom stamp from Gina's set, Spring Blooms and stamped it in Perfect Plum. The tee was cut out and popped up on a panel of Perfect Plum, Elegant Eggplant and Basic Black. The Plum and the White were run through my Cuttlebug with my script folder and the scalloped circles were also cut with my Cuttlebug. I then used some REALLY OLD SU paper on the bottom and wrapped some black organdy and white taffeta around the middle to hide the seam. I stamped my sentiment from the SU Holidays and Wishes set with Black Stazon on the paper and pierced a line around it. In hindsight, I would have totally left that out, but you know what they say about hind sight...its 20/20. I also pierced and faux stitched a border around the whole card.

Well, that is it for me now!! My nephew will be back for a full week tomorrow, so hopefully he is feeling a lot better so I can spend some time stamping and in the gallery...I got a lot of commenting done in my FS gallery, but got kicked off of SCS, boohoo! Thanks for stopping by and for all the well wishes I have received from all of you...It really means so much to me!! Have a great day!!!

A Sale and a Sketch

So, since my last post a TON has happened, so I will try to keep this brief(HAVE to get to bed!!)!!! On Thursday, my sister and I took my nephew to get his 2month immunizations. He cried a lot, as most babies do, and then he passed out. When I left, about and hour after they were done, he was fine. Within the next hour his poor little leg swelled up and he started screaming like nothing my sister had ever heard before. She rushed him to the ER, where my mom was working(thank goodness), and they decided that he must have either had an allergy to one of the shots or an injection site reaction to them. Needless to say, we were all scared to death. I don't think a single one of us got a good nights sleep that night!! I saw him today, and he is doing much better, but boy did he give us a scare. My sister informed me that I had NOT heard his pain cry yet, and if I could help it, I should never have to!!

Okay, enough babble, here is my card!! I made this card for three reasons. The first being that it was made using Jen del Muro's Sketch for you to try. The second was to announce the special back to school sale at Paper Pretties. Here are the details!!

.....If you spend $25 you get a free sentiment.

.....If you spend $50 you get a free sentiment and a free roll of American Crafts ribbon

.....If you spend $100 you get a free sentiment, a free roll of ribbon and FREE SHIPPING!!Wahooo!

The sale will run from Friday the 15th all the way until the 30th!

There is no coupon code or anything like that you just need to enter your choice of free

merchandise in the comments box when you check out!

Awesome right!!

My last reason was so that I would have a card to send to my niece for her first day back to school. I decided that my Off To School Sophia was the perfect image to use to send to her. I colored my Sophia with my SU markers(which qualifies it for the ways to use it challenge for this week too) and blended it with my aqua painter. I added some silver brads to the top corners of the main image panel and also the top and side panel that were made with some Summer Picnic DSP and Old Olive card stock. I tied some white taffeta and some ruby ribbon from one of my SU Ribbon Original packs around the top too. The apple is from my SU Tart and Tangy set and was stamped twice, once in Old Olive and once in Ruby Red. I then cut out the red apple, popped it up, layered all my circle panels and then added crystal effects to make it shiny.

Well, that is it for me now...I hope to get to stamp a lot tomorrow, but we will see!!LOL!!

Yayyy, I Stamped!!

Since I started taking care of my nephew Jared, my stamping time has seen a DRAMATIC downslide. Unfortunately, by the time he leaves I am pooped and ready for a nap. LOL!! Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't have it any other way( by that I mean him being here), but I just need to figure out how I am going to do what I love all day, and STILL be able to do what I love at night.

Since today was a sorta STRESSFUL day, I decided that no matter what, I was stamping. I sat down to do two cards, one for my nephew's birthday and one for the SCS color and sketch challenges. I started by TRYING to combine the two challenges, but that was a no go. I really dislike this color combo(Old Olive, Taken With Teal and Eggplant Envy), so I decided to do it separately. Why do you ask, because I love a challenge, and I miss doing them daily! The other day I was looking at my friend Silke's blog and my DH came in the room. He asked me who had made the card on the screen and I told him who and asked why...and he said, bravely, I knew it wasn't you....!! I asked him why he said that, and he said, your cards have more stuff on them...LOL!!! Who knew he was even paying attention!! So, in an effort to prove him wrong(and to use as little of this color combo), I decided to do a Silke inspired card. My main image was colored with my SU markers and then stamped. The sentiment is from the Verve Stamps set All About You. I pierced a border around it, added some wide grosgrain olive ribbon, and some silver brads, and it was done. Not my usually style, but I love it!!! I APOLOGIZE for the awful picture...just can't get the lighting right tonight!!

This next card was made using the SCS sketch challenge. I stamped my main image from the retired SU set Cowboy Kid. I colored him in with my SU markers and layered him with Real Red and Night of Navy(after distressing some of the edges). The DP is from the SU Prints Pack. I tied some hemp twine around the top and then added the sentiment. It is from the SU set Birthday Banter, and was cut out with my Word Window punch. I added some aged copper brads to it too. The star was stamped, colored and cut out. Since it is for my cousin Brody(he will be 4), I added a B to it with my SU Black marker.

Well, that is it for me now!! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Prettie Wednesday-3 embellishments!!

Two weeks ago I challenged the Prettie Girls to make a card using three embellishments, which is normally not a problem for me, but hard for most other people. Truth be told, this is just my rebellion against Charmaines one embellishment challenge from a couple of weeks ago!!LOL!!!

I wanted to use my super cute Falling For You image from Paper Pretties for this challenge. This super cute Sophia is part of our Stamp of the Month Club, and you have until August 31st at midnight to sign up to receive her a MONTH before anyone else can even buy her...how cool is that!! Be sure to tell them I sent you!!!

It is no secret, I love my Sophia stamps, and this on is no exception!! I can remember when I was a nanny, I would rake the leaves into a huge pile and let the little girl I took care of jump in it....of course then her dad would come home and take them all away, but we had fun while it lasted!! Sophia was stamped with Black Stazon on white paper and colored with my SU markers and aqua painter. I then layered her with Chocolate Chip and Really Rust. The paper is from the Fall Flowers SU DSP pack. I used some yummy satin ribbon to separate my layers and added a spiral clip with some chocolate taffeta to it. The chipboard heart is from Making Memories and was also covered with some Fall Flowers DSP. In the center of the heart, I put a gold brad as well as some at the bottom. This card is on its way to Danielle. Hope she likes it!!

Be sure to go around and check out the other Prettie Girls and see what they have done for this challenge!!

Christie Ortman
Julie Masse
Charmaine Ikach
Jana Weaver
Jillian Winters
Danielle Lounds
Jodi Collins
Jackie Rakoski
Joni Stringfield

Donna Baker

Carolina Buchting

This weeks challenger is Danielle, and I can't wait to see what she has in store for us!! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!