Fifty Cent Friday at Paper Pretties!

Yuppers, that's right! Every Friday we'll be hosting $0 .50 cent Fridays where there will be items on sale at Paper Pretties for $0.50. This week our special is ALL Bo Bunny designer paper sheets, is now on sale for $0.50! Just a reminder, the sale is only good while supplies last, so get there fast!

Soakin' Up the Sun!

Welcome to Wednesday! It's time for another Paper Pretties Weekly Challenge! For today's post I get to share with you the card I made for our next challenge, issued by Heather! Today we are not only sharing all of our creations, but to make the whole day a bit more fun, we are also hopping from blog to blog as well! We are kicking things off at Christie's blog, so if you haven't started there head on over, if you are joining me from Jana's blog then you found the right place!

We are all sharing with you our cards for this great punch challenge, use a paper punch (border or regular punch) on your project. (Nestibilities and other die cuts do not count!), then you will have until May 4th to try this one out for yourself! For my project today I decided to ink up Soakin' Up the Sun! I totally love this cutie Sophia, okay, let's be honest here I love all my Sophia stamps and this one is so calm and relaxing that I want to be her today! I mean even her cute little doggie is enjoying the day, what's not to love! For my punch for this challenge I used this fun and pretty scalloped detailed Martha Stewart punch. Did you know I have at least five or six of her punches but I never seem to dig them out so I was thrilled to find out that a punch was required this week, it gave me an excuse to use it! I have also been sitting on this adorable cherry DP with no desire to cut into, but I decided that it was time to the cutter out and use it fainlly, its not so much summer paper, but its super fun and I thought really girlie! You will notice that we are featuring two great stamp sets this week, and not only are Soakin' Up the Sun and Rainy Day Friends being featured, but if you decide to order either of these featured stamp sets this week they are both on sale for 35% off the regular price! So after you get your inspiration for the week, you may just want to hop over to the Paper Pretties Store and see where is takes you! I can't wait to see what the other ladies decided to create, check out the other Pretties Girl's creations:

Christie Ortman

Julie Masse

Jana Weaver
Jackie Rakoski

Frances Byrne

Heather Lee-Reppen

Wendy Bond
Jane Matsumoto
Jennifer Greco

We have changed our challenges up a bit but we still invite you to play along with all the fun! All you have to do is make a project following this weeks sketch and upload it to the Paper Pretties Gallery. We would love to see what you create, so be sure to upload your creation using keyword PWC101!

After you've seen all of the Pretties Girl's creations for this one, now its your turn to try it out! Your next challenge is to create ! I can't wait to see what you create! Your next stop on the hop is to visit Frances' blog, I know she will have something wonderful to share with you! I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by!
Stamps: from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Sweet Blush, Scarlet Jewel; Ink:Memento Tuxedo Black, E00 Skin White, E33 Sand, E35 Chamois, R22 Light Prawn, R37 Carmine; Accessories:Pop Dots, Martha Stewart's Punch, Satin Ribbon, Kaiser Self Adhesive Rhinestones

Another Pretties Peek!

Good morning all! Today I get to share with you a great Pretties Peek for this month's release on May 1st! This month we are releasing 4 new rubber sets, and 2 super cute digis! Today I get to show you our fabulous preview of the next Cooper set an all too cute digi stamp called Bathtime Cooper! I simply love this stamp set, as always Cooper is just too darn cute and adorable and is a great addition to any collection!

I mean look at all these bubbles! They are all over the bath and the floor and even Cooper's hair, but look at how much fun he is having! That boat even adds to all this fabulous fun! I would love to be in this sort of tub too, I mean it looks like all sorts of toys could fit in that bath too!

Julie and Frances are also peeking this set as well, so be sure to visit their blogs and check it out what they shared for today!

Hope you are enjoying the peeks! Have a great day all, I can't wait till you see all the wonderful releases and thank you for stopping by!
Stamps: Bathtime Cooper from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, K-Ology DP, Aqua Mist, Pacific Point; Ink: B21 Baby Blue, B23Phthalo Blue, Eoo Skin White, E33 Sand, E57 Light Walnut; Accessories: Pop Dots,Kaiser Self Adhesive Rhinestones

Think INK!

It's time for another Artful INKables Think INK challenge! Our new Think INK Challenge is being issued by Alicia and the challenge is to choose an old creation and update it!

You will have two weeks to complete the challenge and add your link to the main post over on the Artful INKables Blog to have your entry counted! Now how does that sound? Pretty neat, right?! Head on over to the Artful INKables Blog for all the little details and be sure to play along, it is sure to be a great time! Here are a few further details for you!

* You are not required to use AI stamps, but if you have them, we'd love to see you use them**If you use AI stamps we will give you TWO entries for your creation! Just link your card to Mr.Linky Twice!

* You have until Monday, May 10th, 2010, midnight Pacific Standard Time to link your creation to this post. A winner will be chosen April, March 11, 2010 to win a GRAB BAG of AI STAMPS!

* When posting your link, please post the link directly to your creation- so if it's on your blog, please link it directly to the specific post with your creation.

* If uploading to SCS or PCP, please add the keyword AIC19.

Be sure to stop by here on Saturday to see my creation for the current Think INK Challenge! I hope you have a great day all, and I can't wait to see what you create for this one!

Toonie Tuesdays at Paper Pretties!

Toonie Tuesday is back and this week at Paper Pretties we're featuring Alphabet Charms!

These letters are so cute and prefect for a fun card, plus there are 39 charms included in one package! The regular price for these are $14.99 but today you can get them for $2.00 Today ONLY!!! Holy smokes, that is a huge deal! Be sure to run to the store and order yours, remember this sale only lasts as long as the stock does!

Royal Battle Finals, Go Team Ho!

Ladies, the day has come, Team Ho has made it to the FINAL round of the Royal Battle at The Greeting Farm. This weeks challenge was to create a His and Her project, and guess what?! I was the only remaining team member eligible to create our entry, talk about being nervous! So after a lot of brain storming and going back and forth, I finally deiced to make a school gift for both Girl and Boy teens, with a bit of a Punk feel to them.
I do hope you like my creation, it has a lot of little tidbits, but I love how it all came out, I even used my new Janome sewing machine for the first time for this too!

Vote for Team Ho Here!

If you could please vote for Team Ho, it would be greatly appreciated! This time all you have to do is visit the Greeting Farm Blog and cast your vote on the poll to the right side of the page. Thank you in advance ladies! Have a fabulous day!

Pretties Peek!

Good morning all! Today I get to share with you a great Pretties Peek for this month's release on May 1st! This month we are releasing 4 new rubber sets, and 2 super cute digis! Today I get to show you our fabulous preview of the next Sophia set, Wheel Chair Sophia! I simply love this stamp set, as always Sophia is adorable and is a great addition to any collection!

I just love how sweet this Sophia is, I think she would be prefect for a feel better soon or a thinking about you card. I decided that I wanted to go with a focus on shades of blue and green this time using her as opposed to the pink card I made with her for last months previews! I hope you like it! I think these little roses really finished off the card, they are just so sweet, prefect for this image I think!

Jana and Wendy are also peeking this set as well, so be sure to visit their blogs and check it out what they shared for today!

Hope you are enjoying the peeks! Have a great day all, I can't wait till you see all the wonderful releases! Have a wonderful day all, and thank you for stopping by!
Stamps: Wheelchair Sophia from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, K-Ology DP; Ink: BG05 Holiday Blue, BG13 Mint Green, BG49 Duck Blue, E00 Skin White, E55 Light Walnut, G14 Apple Green, N1 Neutral Gray No. 1, N3 Neutral Grey No. 3, Y13 Lemon Yellow; Accessories: Pop Dots,

Crafty Hos!

So today is Sunday it's time for another Crafty Ho's Challenge! That's right, a great group of friends of mine, to who we call the 'Ho's', called Crafty Ho's Challenge Blog!

So for our challenge this week we are all creating cards based on the inspiration of 'April Showers Bring May Flowers'! I decided to use the stamp set called My Umbrella from My Favorite Things, this little girl so cute! I wanted to use bright spring colors so I used shades of yellow and orange for my card!

Be sure to check out the rest of our great group of Hos, I know their creations will be fabulous!

Audrey
Jeanette
Rae Anne
Sandye
Scrappy
Tammy
Gael

You are going to love these ladies and all of their creations and I can't wait to see what you create along with us! Hope to see you back here next Sunday for our next challenge! Have a wonderful day all!
Stamps: My Umbrella from My Favorite Things; Paper : Whisper White, Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, E00 Skin White, E57 Light Walnut, Y08 Acid Yellow, YR12 Loquat, YR68 Orange; Accessories: Pop Dots, Large Scalloped and Regular Oval Nestabilities, May Arts Polka Dotted Ribbon, Kaiser Self Adhesive Rhinestones

AI Ribbon Weaving!

For today I get to share with you the card I created this past week and used as part of my Artful INKables tutorial about ribbon weaving! I simply love ribbon, all shapes, sizes, colors, patterns, ect. basically if there is ribbon that looks different I would love to try it, so when I used ribbon weaving a while ago it became one of my favorite things to do with ribbon. I typically use ribbons for bows and such, but this is a fun and different way to give your creation some tlc. You can find my step by step tutorial on the Artful INKables blog for all the details!

I used the piece that I created during the tutorial for the background on this fun lingerie card and added it to my first Sexy and Sweet card. I just love this stamp set and as soon as it arrived I wanted to ink it up, its so playful! I do hope you like the final look to this and I do hope you learned something new! Have a wonderful day all!
Stamps: Sexy and Sweet from Artful INKables; Paper: Whisper White, Sweet Blush, Lavender Moon, So-So-Sweet DP from the Paper Studio; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, R20 Blush, RV32 Shadow Pink, RV95 Baby Blossoms; Accessories: Pop Dots, Satin Ribbon, Kaiser Self Adhesive Rhinestones

Fifty Cent Fridays at Paper Pretties!

Yeppers, that's right! Every Friday we'll be hosting $0 .50 cent Fridays where there will be items on sale at Paper Pretties for $0.50. This week our special is ALL Basic Grey designer paper sheets, regularly $0.72 per sheet is now on sale for $0.50! Just a reminder, the sale is only good while supplies last, so get there fast!

Pretties Weekly Challenge #100!

Welcome to Wednesday! It's time for another Paper Pretties Weekly Challenge! For today's post I get to share with you the card I made for our next challenge, issued by Frances'! Today we are not only sharing all of our creations, but to make the whole day a bit more fun, we are also hopping from blog to blog as well! We are kicking things off at Christie's blog, so if you haven't started there head on over, if you are joining me from Jana's blog then you found the right place!

This weeks marks the 100th Pretties Weekly Challenge, so to add to the excitement we are having a BIG SALE! That's right! ALL Stamps from now until the end of the week, April 21st to the 24th! ALL Stamps are 40% off, that's right, you read the number right! I can simply not believe that this challenge has been going on for that many weeks! When I first joined the team we had just started these challenges, man that was a long time ago!

We are all sharing with you our cards for this fun tag challenge, make a tag and use polka dots anywhere on the tag (dp, embossed dots, polka dot ribbon, etc.), then you will have until April 27th to try this one out for yourself! For my project today I decided to ink up Penny for Your Thoughts, and I went all for polka dots! That's right, my DP and my piggy are all about dots! You will notice that we are featuring two great stamp sets this week, and not only are Penny for your Thoughts and Sassy Shoes being featured, normally these sets would be at a big discount, but with the 40% off sale for ALL STAMPS going on, they are already on SALE! So after you get your inspiration for the week, you may just want to hop over to the Paper Pretties Store and see where is takes you! I can't wait to see what the other ladies decided to create, check out the other Pretties Girl's creations:

Christie Ortman

Julie Masse

Jana Weaver
Jackie Rakoski

Frances Byrne

Heather Lee-Reppen

Wendy Bond
Jane Matsumoto
Jennifer Greco

We have changed our challenges up a bit but we still invite you to play along with all the fun! All you have to do is make a project following this weeks sketch and upload it to the Paper Pretties Gallery. We would love to see what you create, so be sure to upload your creation using keyword PWC100!

After you've seen all of the Pretties Girl's creations for this one, now its your turn to try it out! Your next challenge is to create ! I can't wait to see what you create! Your next stop on the hop is to visit Frances' blog, I know she will have something wonderful to share with you! I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by!
Stamps: Penny for Your Thoughts from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Razzelberry Fizz, PTI Bitty Dots; Ink: V06 Lavender, V12 Pale Lilac; Accessories:Nestabilities Eleven, Pop Dots, Self Adhesive Rhinestones, Satin Ribbon, Ticket Corner Punch

Inky Impressions 34

Good morning all! Today I get to share with you the card I created for the new Inky Impressions Challenge, number 34 to be exact, which is a recipe challenge, your recipe is to create a card using 3 Layers, 3 Embellishments, 2 Designer Papers, 1 Ribbon!

Today the Inky Impressions Design Team will be sharing our creations for the current Inky Impressions Challenge! For my card today I used this super cute Spunky Scooter Lili, I just love this little lady! I got this cutie in the mail not too long ago and just had to use her for this challenge, I thought she would be bright and fun! I used a bright color combination and it really makes her pop! I also got these lovely mulberry paper roses in the mail and had to use these too! It was not a simple challenge, but all sorts of fun!

I hope you like my take on the current Inky Impressions Challenge, be sure to join in on all the fun over at the Inky Impressions Challenge Blog and see what the rest of the Inklettes have created, they are sure to impress! I can’t wait to see what you create! Have a wonderful day all!
Stamps: Spunky Scooter Lili from Inky Impressions; Paper: Whisper White, Aqua Mist, So-So-Sweet DP from the Paper Studio; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, BG49 Duck Blue, E00 Skin White, E31 Brick Beige, RV32 Shadow Pink, V06 Lavender, YG23 New Leaf; Accessories: Glue Dots, Ribbon, Kaiser Self Adhesive Rhinestones, Mulberry Paper Roses, Pop Dots

April Flowers at Artful INKables

Good morning all! Today we are having our April Flowers Blog Hop at Artful INKables! That's right, each Design Team member will be using one of our wonderful floral stamps, and trust me there is plenty to see! If you did not head here from Cheryl's blog then please hop on over the the Artful INKables Blog to start this hop off right, I don't want you to miss anything along the way!

For my card today I used our super cute Any Birdie Home stamp set for today's hop! I love how sweet this set is, plus the look to the bird houses in this set are just so pretty! I decided to go for a darker color scheme and made my little bird house shades of brown with some bright colored flowers. I also stamped the flowers over twice and layered them on top of each other to give the card a different dimension.

Make sure as you hop along to comment on everyone's blog, because one lucky commenter will win a $10.00 gift certificate to spend at the Artful INKables store. Please leave your comments by Friday, April 23rd by 12pm midnight Eastern Standard Time, one lucky winner will be chosen on Saturday, April 24th.

Thank you for participating in today's blog hop, now hop on over to Kim's blog, I am positive that whatever comes next you will simply love!
Stamps: Any Birdie Home from Artful INKables; Paper: Whisper White, Green Galore, Berry Sorbet, Nook & Pantry DP from Basic Grey; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, E31 Brick Beige, E29 Burnt Umber, G07 Nile Green, R05 Salmon Pink, Y17 Golden Yellow; Accessories: Pop Dots, Illuminate Smooch

Toonie Tuesdays at Paper Pretties!

Toonie Tuesday is back and this week we're featuring We R Memory Keepers Promenade chipboard words.

These words are very sturdy and feature sticky backs that keep them nicely adhered to scrapbook pages as well as cards! The regular price for these are 4.99 but today you can get them for $2.00 Today ONLY!!!

Paper Pretties also carries the We R Memory Keepers Promenade cardstock to coordinate with the chipboard, be sure to check it all out! You can get yours HERE

Yo Ho Ho Team Ho!

Good morning ladies! I wanted to share with you all that I am currently joining some fabulous ladies as part of Team Ho in The Greeting Farm Battle of the Design Teams! That's right, my team consists of some amazing fellow Hos, specifically Joy Stagg, Rae Anne Springer, Yoorah Lee, Sandye Curry, and ME! These fabulous candy bar creations were made by Joy Stagg! In fact she went off the candy company, YO HO HO! I mean come on now, how cute is that! This is the 4th round and there are only 12 teams left, if we move on to the final round I have to create our project....ekk! I am so anxious to see how this goes, please, if you get the chance stop by and vote for us!

If you get the chance, please take a moment to vote for our candy, you now get only ONE vote and I would simply be honored if it went to our creation, it would be greatly appreciated if you did so!

Here are the details on how you can place your vote:

1. Go to http://thegreetingfarm.com/galleria/
2. Click on Register and fill out the form.
3. You will be sent confirmation info to your email and you must click the link to officially be activated. If for some reason you do not receive it, just email me and I will manually activate your registry.
4. Once you are activated, go back to http://thegreetingfarm.com/galleria/ and login.
5. Once you are logged in, go to Contest/Challenges > TGF ROYAL BATTLE > Week 4
6. Vote for your top 3 choices. When you comment, that counts as your vote. So Comment on your top 3 choices.

The link to our direct card can be found HERE!!!

Thank you ladies for taking a moment to help us out in this contest, its been a blast! Hope you have a wonderful day all!

Artful INKables Fun!

I am still loving all my great new sets from Artful INKables, so for today I decided to share with you a cute little box I made using the In My Garden set! This set is just so fun and girlie that its hard to resist pulling it out to ink it up! I wanted to make a box to put in a set of note cards I made, that I have to share with you still, they are also using this same stamp set, simple and sweet as I like to think of it. I had never made a mini pizza box before but it was super simple so you will probably see more of them from me coming!

I hope you like my creation for today, I totally had a blast creating this cute little box for you all today! Have a wonderful weekend all!
Stamps: In My Garden from Artful INKables; Paper: Whisper White, Spring Rains, Lemon Tart, PTI DP; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, B12 Ice Blue, BG05 Holiday Blue, BG15 Aqua, E00 Skin White, E37 Sepia, E55 Light Caramel, G24 Willow, Y02 Canary Yellow; Accessories: Scor-Pal, Nestabilities Labels Four, Kasier Self Adhesive Rhinestones

March Mingle Card!

I am so excited to share this card with you all today, I am a member of the Inky Impressions Yahoo group and every other month or so we have a 'Mingle' where we send cards to other members in the group. The past mingle had a simple theme of using Green and being a 'Thinking of you Card' so I decided to use this adorable image Lili's Stuffed Bunny. I just love the look of this little lady! I went with a sort of odd color combination of bright green, bright pink and brown, but I love how it came out! I used this DP from Nook and Pantry, I love the look to the diagonal stripes plus I used this fun ribbon to bring out that diagonal a bit more. I hope you like this one, I know I love it! Have a great day and thank you for stopping by!
Stamps: Lili's Stuffed Bunny from Inky Impressions; Paper: Whisper White, Hibiscus Burst, Glorious Green, Basic Grey Nook and Pantry DP; Ink: E00 Skin White, E97 Deep Orange, E31 Brick Beige, G24 Willow; Accessories: Linen Ribbon, Green Nail Heads

Happy Birthday Jana!

Today is a Pretties Birthday Hop, that's right our fabulous Jana is celebrating her birthday today and in true Pretties spirit we are hopping along to party! We are kicking things off at Christie's blog, so if you haven't started there head on over, if you are joining me from Julie's blog then you found the right place!

Since I know that Jana loves our precious Cooper, I decided to ink him up especially for her! I picked this cute Cooper, I figured it would be like sending a big birthday hug her way! Over the past year I had the pleasure of meeting up with Jana and her own cutie Jackson on two separate occasions, and I just know she will love all our birthday wishes! I can't wait to see what the other ladies decided to create, check out the other Pretties Girl's creations:

Christie Ortman
Julie Masse
Jackie Rakoski (you are here!)

Frances Byrne
Heather Lee-Reppen

Wendy Bond
Jane Matsumoto
Jennifer Greco
Jana Weaver (birthday girl!)

I hope you enjoy the rest of the Hop, you know I am loving getting the chance to celebrate another wonderful Pretties Birthday! Now hop on over to Frances' blog, she has more great celebration goodies for our Jana, and be sure to hop all the way through and wish Jana a fabulous birthday! Have a great day all!
Stamps: This Much from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Spring Rain, Only Orange; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, BG09 Blue Green, E00 Skin White, E55 Light Caramel, YR16 Apricot; Accessories: Pop Dots, Kaiser Self Adhesive Rhinestones

Holy Mackerel!

Welcome to Wednesday! It's time for another Paper Pretties Weekly Challenge! For today's post I get to share with you the card I made for our next challenge, issued by Jackie (ME!)! Today we are not only sharing all of our creations, but to make the whole day a bit more fun, we are also hopping from blog to blog as well! We are kicking things off at Christie's blog, so if you haven't started there head on over, if you are joining me from Jana's blog then you found the right place!

We are all sharing with you our cards for Spring Break challenge, that's right, my challenge is to create a Spring Break inspired card, then you will have until April 13th to try this one out for yourself! For my project today I decided to ink up Holy Mackerel! When I think Spring Break I think about getting away and doing something fun, and of course great weather too! So Snowflake is getting ready to head to a great fishing spot for his Spring Break, we all have different hobbies, and Snowflake is not only fishing, but also working on his tan! You will notice that we are featuring two great stamp sets this week, and not only are Surfs Up and Holy Mackerel being featured, but if you decide to order either of these featured stamp sets this week they are both on sale for 35% off the regular price! So after you get your inspiration for the week, you may just want to hop over to the Paper Pretties Store and see where is takes you! I can't wait to see what the other ladies decided to create, check out the other Pretties Girl's creations:

Christie Ortman

Julie Masse

Jana Weaver
Jackie Rakoski

Frances Byrne

Heather Lee-Reppen

Wendy Bond
Jane Matsumoto
Jennifer Greco

We have changed our challenges up a bit but we still invite you to play along with all the fun! All you have to do is make a project following this weeks sketch and upload it to the Paper Pretties Gallery. We would love to see what you create, so be sure to upload your creation using keyword PWC99!

After you've seen all of the Pretties Girl's creations for this one, now its your turn to try it out! Your next challenge is to create ! I can't wait to see what you create! Your next stop on the hop is to visit Frances' blog, I know she will have something wonderful to share with you! I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by!
Stamps: Holy Mackerel from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Pure Poppy, Basic Grey Lime Rickey DP; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, B93 Light Crockery Blue, BG01 Aqua Blue, E57 Light Walnut, N1 Neutral Gray No. 1, R27 Cadmium Red, YR16 Apricot; Accessories:Pop Dots, Linen Ribbon, Nestabilities Labels 3

Think INK

It's time for another Artful INKables Think INK challenge! Our new Think INK Challenge is being issued by Jackie (ME!) and the challenge is it use a Color Swatch on your card!
You will have two weeks to complete the challenge and add your link to the main post over on the Artful INKables Blog to have your entry counted! Now how does that sound? Pretty neat, right?! Head on over to the Artful INKables Blog for all the little details and be sure to play along, it is sure to be a great time! Here are a few further details for you!

* You are not required to use AI stamps, but if you have them, we'd love to see you use them**If you use AI stamps we will give you TWO entries for your creation! Just link your card to Mr.Linky Twice!

* You have until Monday, April 26th, 2010, midnight Pacific Standard Time to link your creation to this post. A winner will be chosen April, March 27th, 2010 to win a GRAB BAG of AI STAMPS!

* When posting your link, please post the link directly to your creation- so if it's on your blog, please link it directly to the specific post with your creation.

* If uploading to SCS or PCP, please add the keyword AIC18.

So what do you think about my card? Its different but all sorts of fun! I used a yellow shaded paint swatch for the background of my big beautiful image from Peacock Pagentry, I just love the look to all these feathers! I then added this accordion ribbon in black, and accented the card with gold nail heads. I hope you have a great day all, and I can't wait to see what you create for this one!
Stamps: Peacock Pagentry from Artful INKables; Paper: Summer Sunrise, Basic Black; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Accessories: Accordion Black Ribbon, Sticky Strip, Gold Nail Heads, Paint Swatch

Go Team Ho!

Good morning ladies! I wanted to share with you all that I am currently joining some fabulous ladies as part of Team Ho in The Greeting Farm Battle of the Design Teams! That's right, my team consists of some amazing fellow Hos, specifically Joy Stagg, Rae Anne Springer, Yoorah Lee, Sandye Curry, and ME! This amazing scrapbook page was created by the wonderful Rae Anne Springer, and I love what she did! Our remaining team members worked on scrapbook pages, but it quickly became obvious that Rae Anne was rocking this challenge! Then we all made comments and suggestions to help out, and the final product is just fabulous!

If you get the chance, please take a moment to vote for your favorites, you get three votes each week. I would also like to ask you to please vote for us, it would be greatly appreciated if you did so!

Here are the details on how you can place your vote:

1. Go to http://thegreetingfarm.com/galleria/
2. Click on Register and fill out the form.
3. You will be sent confirmation info to your email and you must click the link to officially be activated. If for some reason you do not receive it, just email me and I will manually activate your registry.
4. Once you are activated, go back to http://thegreetingfarm.com/galleria/ and login.
5. Once you are logged in, go to Contest/Challenges > TGF ROYAL BATTLE > Week 3
6. Vote for your top 3 choices. When you comment, that counts as your vote. So Comment on your top 3 choices.

The link to our direct card can be found Here!!!

Thank you ladies for taking a moment to help us out in this contest, its been a blast! Hope you have a wonderful day all!

Let's Try Pastels!

Since today is Sunday it's time for another Crafty Ho's Challenge! That's right, a great group of friends of mine, to who we call the 'Ho's', called Crafty Ho's Challenge Blog!

So for our challenge this week we are all using pastels! That's right, no particular colors, but pastels!

So for my card I used this super cute Lily stamp from Pink Cat Studio, I wanted a fun image that I could use a few different colors on and this one seem perfect. Be sure to check out the rest of our great group of Hos!

Audrey
Jeanette
Michele
Rae Anne
Sandye
Scrappy
Tammy
Gael

You are going to love these ladies and all of their creations and I can't wait to see what you create along with us! Hope to see you back here next Sunday for our next challenge! Have a wonderful day all!
Stamps: Lily from Pink Cat Studio; Paper: Spring Rain, Aqua Mist, DP; Ink: E00 Skin White, B21 Baby Blue, Y13 Lemon Yellow, Y11 Pale Yellow, R81 Rose Pink, RV21 Light Pink, E31 Brick Beige, BG01 Aqua Blue; Accessories: Pink Satin Ribbon, Rose Accent

Artful INKables Flowers!

Good morning all! Today I am going to share with you a card I created this week using my fabulous Artful INKables stamps! I am loving this stamp set called In My Garden from Artful INKables, but I wanted to use one of the smaller images in the set as my focus for my card and I decided that this pretty little flower was perfect as a cards focus! I also wanted to use the color scheme that the is part of the Color Throwdown Challenge for this week! This weeks colors include pink, gray and soft olive, it was a bit of a challenge, but I had a lot of fun with this! I went with three of the same image down the center of the card with all sorts of layers, actually a lot more layers then I normally use, but I love how it came out! I do hope you like my card this week, I had a lot of fun with this!
Stamps: In My Garden from Artful INKables; Paper: Whisper White, Old Olive, Sweet Blush, Bitty Star Basics, Going Gray; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, G21 Lime Green, N3 Neutral Grey No. 3, R81 Rose Pink, YR31 Light Reddish Yellow; Accessories: Ticket Corner Punch, Pop Dots

Pulling For You!

Welcome to Wednesday! It's time for another Paper Pretties Weekly Challenge! For today's post I get to share with you the card I made for our next challenge, issued by Frances'! Today we are not only sharing all of our creations, but to make the whole day a bit more fun, we are also hopping from blog to blog as well! We are kicking things off at Christie's blog, so if you haven't started there head on over, if you are joining me from Jana's blog then you found the right place!
We are all sharing with you our cards for this great sketch challenge, then you will have until April 13th to try this one out for yourself! For my project today I decided to ink up Pulling for You! I decided that the color combination would be a lot of fun by using orange, green and yellow, it is nice an springy which is perfect for this time of the year! You will notice that we are featuring two great stamp sets this week, and not only are Beary Best Friend and Pulling for You being featured, but if you decide to order either of these featured stamp sets this week they are both on sale for 35% off the regular price! So after you get your inspiration for the week, you may just want to hop over to the Paper Pretties Store and see where is takes you! I can't wait to see what the other ladies decided to create, check out the other Pretties Girl's

creations:

Christie Ortman

Julie Masse

Jana Weaver
Jackie Rakoski

Frances Byrne

Heather Lee-Reppen

Wendy Bond
Jane Matsumoto
Jennifer Greco

We have changed our challenges up a bit but we still invite you to play along with all the fun! All you have to do is make a project following this weeks sketch and upload it to the Paper Pretties Gallery. We would love to see what you create, so be sure to upload your creation using keyword PWC98!

After you've seen all of the Pretties Girl's creations for this one, now its your turn to try it out! Your next challenge is to create ! I can't wait to see what you create! Your next stop on the hop is to visit Frances' blog, I know she will have something wonderful to share with you! I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by!
Stamps: Pulling for You from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Green Galore, Only Orange, Cosmo Cricket Material Girl DP; Ink: C1 Cool Grey No. 1, E00 Skin White, E35 Chamios, Y38 Honey, YG06 Yellowish Green, YR16 Apricot; Accessories: Pop Dots, Kaiser Self Adhesive Rhinestones

Inky Impressions 33!

Good morning all! Today I get to share with you the card I created for the new Inky Impressions Challenge, number 33 to be exact, which is to use a charm on your creation!

Today the Inky Impressions Design Team will be sharing our creations for the current Inky Impressions Challenge! For my card today I used, one of our fabulous newly released stamps, Nickie's Birdie! I think this stamp is just too cute for words and I love her sweet dress and flowing hair, I mean look at all those strands, her hair is simply divine!

I hope you like my take on the current Inky Impressions Challenge, be sure to join in on all the fun over at the Inky Impressions Challenge Blog and see what the rest of the Inklettes have created, they are sure to impress! I can’t wait to see what you create! Have a wonderful day all!
Stamps: Nickie's Birdie from Inky Impressions; Paper: Whisper White, Pacific Point, Spring Rain, SU! DP; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, B12 Ice Blue, BG09 Blue Green, C1 Cool Grey No. 1, E00 Skin White, E35 Chamois, Y13 Lemon Yellow; Accessories: Silver Cord, Inky Impressions Charms, Inky Impressions Ribbon

Toonie Tuesdays at Paper Pretties!

Toonie Tuesdays or $2 Tuesdays for those of you in the US. In case you don't know a 'toonie' is the Canadian $2 coin (I had no idea! How about you?)

Every Tuesday we will have a special on in the Paper Pretties store - 1 or 2 (or maybe more items, you never know) are on sale for only $2.00. These items are deeply discounted and are all great additions to your paper crafting supplies.

Today's special is the Queen & Company Think Pink buttons:

Do you have these yet? If you don't they are so much fun, I know I have some of these in my craft room and I am horrible at using them because then I won't have anything to horde, but at this price I may have to go and order some more!

Be sure to check out the Paper Pretties Store and see these great buttons!

Volturi are Watching...

I had scheduled this post to set up itself this weekend but unfortunately if never posted. I don't know about you but I was pretty busy this weekend which believe it or not ended up in a non-stamping weekend, I know I am shocked too! I spent a lot of time with my family and some friends, and due to that I wasn't on the computer either, but here I am now getting this card finally up for all to see!
The current Think INK challenge from Artful INKables is all about taking an album cover and creating a card based on one, so I pulled up the Amazon CD sales page and picked this pretty neat CD cover as my inspiration. So for my card I thought the new Twilight inspired stamp set Epic Tales would be perfect! I created a little template for the clouds background and stamped one solid image of these piercing eyes at the center of the card. Now, no card is complete without a sentiment, so I used the sentiment "The Volturi are watching", and with one look at this card you can feel their gaze!

I do hope that you will play along with us, there is still plenty of time to get your creations in, I can't wait to see what you create! Be sure to head on over to the Artful INKables Blog for all the great details to play along! Have a wonderful day all!
Stamps: Epic Tales from Artful INKables; Paper: Whisper White, Spring Rain, Plum Pudding; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Spring Rain, Plum Pudding, B12 Ice Blue

Go Team Ho!

Good morning ladies! I wanted to share with you all that I am currently joining some fabulous ladies as part of Team Ho in The Greeting Farm Battle of the Design Teams! That's right, my team consists of some amazing fellow Hos, specifically Joy Stagg, Rae Anne Springer, Yoorah Lee, Sandye Curry, and ME! This amazing card for our first entry was created by Sandye, the challenge was to create an easel card, and I love what she did! We each created a card and voted on which card was the best way to proceed, then we all made comments and suggestions to help out!

If you get the chance, please take a moment to vote for your favorites, you get three votes each week. I would also like to ask you to please vote for us, it would be greatly appreciated if you did so!

Here are the details on how you can place your vote:

1. Go to http://thegreetingfarm.com/galleria/
2. Click on Register and fill out the form.
3. You will be sent confirmation info to your email and you must click the link to officially be activated. If for some reason you do not receive it, just email me and I will manually activate your registry.
4. Once you are activated, go back to http://thegreetingfarm.com/galleria/ and login.
5. Once you are logged in, go to Contest/Challenges > TGF ROYAL BATTLE > Week 2
6. Vote for your top 3 choices. When you comment, that counts as your vote. So Comment on your top 3 choices.

The link to our direct card can be found Here!!!

Thank you ladies for taking a moment to help us out in this contest, its been a blast! Hope you have a wonderful day all!

Crafty Ho's

Since today is Sunday it's time for another Crafty Ho's Challenge! That's right, a great group of friends of mine, to who we call the 'Ho's', kicked off a new challenge blog last Sunday, called Crafty Ho's Challenge Blog!

So for our sixth week our challenge we are Recycling, using something in some way that is all about reusing something! Here are all the rules for our challenge so that you too can play along:

1. Please use only original artwork designed for this challenge - not previously made for other challenges, swaps, etc. Feel free to combine your project for this challenge with any other challenges, only required to be something new.

2. You may submit as many entries as you like, just make sure that they are all different.

3. Challenges will be posted every Sunday and will run til 11pm EST the following Saturday. This should give you plenty of time to get them done and entered.

4. Post your link directly to the post for this challenge project - not a general link to your blog - to Mr. Linky.

5. Most importantly: HAVE FUN!! If you have any questions or comments, please let us know, we are here to be as supportive and inspiring as we can:)

So for my card I used this adorable stamp Lilith from Kraftin' Kimme stamps and a new punch I picked up this weekend. I used this great Lindt Truffle packaging that I had used this past holiday to create some fun little gifts. I took the punch and used the baggie the truffles come in as my DP, super simple and a lot of fun, plus this paper is different colors in it so it gives it a great shaded look. Be sure to check out the rest of our great group of Hos!

Audrey
Jeanette
Michele
Rae Anne
Sandye
Scrappy
Tammy
Gael

You are going to love these ladies and all of their creations and I can't wait to see what you create along with us! Hope to see you back here next Sunday for our next challenge! Have a wonderful day all!
Stamps: Lilith from Kraftin' Kimme; Paper: Whisper White, Sweet Blush, Certainly Celery, Flower DP; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, E00 Skin White, E37 Sepia, G24 Willow, RV11 Pink, RV02 Sugared Almond Pink; Accessories: Branch Punch, Prima Flowers, Large Scalloped and Regular Oval Nestabilities

Paper Pretties Release day!

The day is finally here! Today is the April release day at Paper Pretties! This month we are releasing some amazing stamp sets, like we typically do of course! We are releasing 5 fabulous rubber stamp sets and three amazing digis, plus we are previewing our next Sophia! Today I get the thrill of sharing with you our newest Sophia, Fan-Tastic! This girl is just too cute! As soon as I saw here during our previews I knew that I was going to have a blast creating things with her, in fact today I have created an altered take-out container!

I recently found a wonderful bakery near by and they package their cupcakes in these adorable take out containers! I stopped by to get a friend of mine something sweet on her birthday and now it has become my favorite bakery, plus they are a nut-free environment which I love since I do have a pretty bad allergy to nuts, knowing that there are no nuts in my baked goods is a great relief!I had so much fun with my altered box, but I just couldn't put down these new images so I also created a card using our other new Sophia, Your Maaarvelous! This little girl so reminds me of when I used to play dress up and I simply love her! Of course I don't think I had a fabulous fur coat, but all the same she is too cute! I love the over sized hat, shoes and of course this wonderful coat! That Sophia is always stylin!

I do hope you enjoyed my creations for today, be sure to check out the Paper Pretties site to see all the new stamps and be sure to place an order, you know you want to! Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!
Take Out Container - Stamps: Fantastic Sophia from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Hibiscus Burst; Ink: E00 Skin White, E37 Sepcia, R00 Pinkish White, R37 Carmine, RV02 Sugared Almond Pink, Y17 Golden Yellow; Accessories: Glue Dots, Prima Flowers, Oval Punch, Scalloped Oval Punch

Card - Stamps: Your Maaarvelous from Paper Pretties; Paper: Whisper White, Rich Razzelberry, PTI Flowers, Dark Chocolate; Ink: E00 Skin White, C1 Cool Grey No. 1, W1 Warm Grey No. 1, Y15, G24 Willow; Accessories: Pop Dots, Twill White Ribbon, Kaiser Self Adhesive Rhinestones