spotlight on BasicGrey's "Second City" line at Paper Issues

morning, chickens!  how was your weekend?

i had some fun checking out our town-wide yard sale, some drinks with the hubbin, volunteering at a cat adopt-a-thon, and some seriously late-night crafting, which i hadn't done in a LONG time!

well today, i'm sharing the fruits of my labour on Saturday night...  i grabbed a slew of the new Kelly Purkey line, "Second City", from BasicGrey and it came in one of my most recent Paper Issues orders.  WELL!  there are some gorgeous, bold patterns, and for someone who is generally TERRIFIED of purple, i'm kinda loving it in this collection! 

i'm up on the Paper Issues blog today, along with my super-talented teamie, Jen Chapin, and we're showing you how it's done, Second City style...

here's what i made into the wee hours, using one of my fave Origrami prints, the Limba White Woodgrain cardstock (my absolutely fave white!), and various items from the Second City collection (plus a couple of Highline items and VERY old brads and alphas from BasicGrey mixed in)...

i wasn't planning to go all bright and colourful with the photo - it just happened!  but i loved how it turned out!  the transparencies are my favourites from this line (that little HOUSE!):

and page flags!

i have two cards up on the blog, too, but you'll have to go there to check them out!  besides, you won't want to miss the fabulosity of Jen's pocket pages using this line!  CLICK HERE, check it out, and to see all the fun Second City (and Highline!) goodies, CLICK HERE...  if any of it happens to fall into your shopping cart, i've got a code for you!  20% off all of it, anytime.  yep, everything!

can't go wrong with a cute elephant

hey there, chickens!  back again on a late Saturday night/early Sunday morning because i can't sleep.  i've been sorting and organizing and purging and when i went through one of my stamp drawers, Unity called to me.  this "written in the clouds" stamp leapt out of the drawer and begged to be used.  on something.  anything.  i HAD to have it, and i love it, but i've never inked the thing up...  until tonight!

card #2 for this month's Unity challenge!  i did the card sketch already, so now i'm using the color combo...

the first thing i did was layer up a piece of vellum and a square of washi over a piece of an upcycled envelope (from a bill!) and stamped the clouds in StazOn (Hydrangea Blue).  i stamped the elephant and sentiment from "could i be any cuter?" on some LilyKate paper from BasicGrey using Memento (London Fog), then doodled a cloud and outlined the elephant with a black Sharpie.  cut them out, cut a couple of green mounds and snipped 'em into grass, pop dotted them up and assembled everything, adding enamel dots and hearts:

usually i struggle with colour challenges that use more than, say, 3 different colours (i can do it on my own, i just have a really hard time when the colours are pre-determined), but i found this one much easier (despite the periwinkle!)...  there were scraps of everything lying on my table, and they were perfect!  here's the colour palette (one of the three challenge options!):

and that's gonna do it for tonight!  trying NOT to stay up too late tonight, since tomorrow i'm at Barre-Fusion in the morning, then i have to shower and get ready for a day on the road with hubbin.  i see some WaWa coffee in my near future!  :D

my grand debut at Paper Issues!

WOOT!  it's introduction day for yours truly at the Paper Issues blog, and there might be a thing or two you might not know about me.  :)  CLICK TO CHECK ME OUT, and maybe do some shopping at the Paper Issues store using my 20% off friends discount!  (code ORANGE)

oh, and i got the yummiest of happy mail packages from PI yesterday, so lemme just show you what kinda stuff you can get there...

'cuz some of you might not be familiar with my love for all things BasicGrey, i'll just say that those Hipster and Mint Julep chippies are DELISH and you can find the BG stuff HERE...  but hurry, 'cuz stuff goes QUICKLY, because it's all so fabulous.  not to mention it always comes wrapped so BEAUTIFULLY by the lovely Cassie Box!  that girl is the cat's peejays.


and speaking of BasicGrey, my project on the Paper Issues blog is all about the BG.  CHECKITY CHECK ME OUT!  and have an oss hump day.   

super cute springy digis available now at Some Odd Girl!

morning, chickens!  :)  er, ducks?  peeps?  whatever!  HI!  i'm sharing this cutie patootie and showing you one of MANY super fabby critter digis now available at Some Odd Girl!  if you're looking for some animal/bird/critter action that screams SPRING, you really ought to CLICK HERE to check out our awesome selection!  here's one of many - Duck in Boots!

 

is he not perfectly springy and totally adorbs?!  i coloured him up with my Prismacolor Pencils, added some Sassafras Lass paper, punched a few hearts from random reds i had lying about, doodled my edges, and finished up with BasicGrey and Sass alphas.  and i'm QUITE pleased that i have a fabby new pair of rain boots to wear in rainy Seattle later this month (only mine are lime green with pink and white polka dots) so i was feeling rather inspired by this little dude.  :)

also, don't forget to HOP with us at SP & Company!  we have this color challenge going on through April 16th, and if you don't have any SP & Company products of your own (yet), you can CLICK HERE to check out the freebies!  here's the color combo...

join us and our winner will receive $25 to spend at the SP & Company store!  believe me, it won't be difficult to spend, with the gorgeous new chalk inks, buttons, dies, storage, and the cute new stamps!  wanna check out all the new goods?  RIGHT HERE, friends!

have a fantabulatious weekend, lovelies, and i'll see ya soon!