Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge #126: Sketch Time!

Stamps:  Paper Pretties 'Caroling Sophia'.  Cardstock:  Bazzill textured green, textured red, Paper Studio 'Musical Holly'.  Ink:  Memento black, Copics, Versamark.  Accessories:  Circle Nestabilities, black EP, red organdy ribbon.

Welcome to Paper Pretties' Wednesday Challenge!  This week we are featuring a sketch by Frances (Stamp Owl's Studio):

My card is leaning towards the CAS side because I wanted to place the emphasis on this caroling cutie backed up by the fun and oh-so-appropriate DP.  It was my first time embossing on DP -- doesn't this sentiment fit perfectly between the treble and bass clef?

This card is also entered in the Top Tip Tuesday #8 challenge:  Christmas Inspired.  Be sure to check out this challenge for a tutorial on creating stamped candles!

Be sure to enjoy the other Pretties' Gals interpretation of Frances' Sketch:

Cindy

Frances

Jana

Jane

Jackie

Jennifer

Pam

Wendy

Heather
ARTish

Then link your creation HERE so we can admire your take on the challenge and enter your name for a chance to win a free Paper Pretties stamp! You do not need to use Paper Pretties stamps in order to play along, but if you do, you will get a bonus entry into the drawing! Please be sure to mention our challenge and link back to the Paper Pretties blog in your project posting. If you upload to a public gallery please use the keyword PWC126.

**How would you like to join the Paper Pretties' Design Team?  Heather has a DT call going on now for both the regular Design Team and a brand new Digi Design Team, so check out all the information in this Design Team Call post to find out how you can become a Prettie Girl.  Our Design Team call will be open until Wednesday November 24th at 5PM CST. We welcome ALL APPLICANTS, you DO NOT need to have prior Design Team experience or publications to apply! 

Tuesday Morning Sketches #66: Friends are Like Chocolate Chips

Stamps:  Tiddly Inks digi set 'Cookies Galore'.  Cardstock:  Chocolate Chip, Crushed Curry, GP110 white.  Inks:  Copics.  Accessories:  Circle Nestabilites, Dazzling Diamonds, Bazzill dotted chocolate organdy ribbon.

Welcome to Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge #66!  This week's sponsor is Tiddly Inks who generously provided our Design Team with a credit for this week's challenge.  I had so much fun shopping in Christy's store and ended up with two full digi sets, including this awesome 'Cookies Galore' which not only includes this sweet cookiebugg, but also has other coordinating images, sentiments, and full color cookie DP!

Isn't this set the perfect theme for this week's circle sketch?

These 'buggs are so fun to color and like all fairies, deserve an extra bit of bling on their wings:

Be sure to admire the TMS Design Team's spin on this week's sketch challenge:

Melissa
Angela
Theresa
Jacki
Tammy

Hollyanne, Jr. DT
Tiya, November GDT

 Then link up your creations HERE to join in the fun and so we can admire your take on this sketch!

Paper Pretties' Wednesday Challenge: It's Fun to Be Square!

Stamps:  Paper Pretties 'Snowflakes'.  Cardstock:  Bazzill textured white, Night of Navy, Bashful Blue.  Ink:  Night of Navy.  Accessories:  Square Nestabilities, Stardust glitter pen.

Welcome to the Paper Pretties' Wednesday Challenge #125!  This week we are challenging you to go 'Be Square', or at least create a card that is!

Snowflakes are one of my all-time favorite stamp images, so you can imagine how excited I was when Heather introduced this elegant exquisite 'Snowflakes' set during the October releases!  The snowflakes are so detailed and the sentiment so elegant that I chose a CAS to showcase it.  Don't the snowflakes pop against the crisp white textured background?  Especially when  accented with a touch of glitter pen:

Be sure to enjoy the other Pretties' Gals' square cards:

Cindy

Frances

Jana

Jane

Jackie

Jennifer

Pam

Wendy
ARTish

Heather

Then link your creation HERE so we can admire your take on the challenge and enter your name for a chance to win a free Paper Pretties stamp! You do not need to use Paper Pretties stamps in order to play along, but if you do, you will get a bonus entry into the drawing! Please be sure to mention our challenge and link back to the Paper Pretties blog in your project posting. If you upload to a public gallery please use the keyword PWC125.

**How would you like to join the Paper Pretties' Design Team?  Heather has a DT call going on now, so check out all the information in this Design Team Call post to find out how you can become a Prettie Girl.  Our Design Team call will be open until Wednesday November 24th at 5PM CST. We welcome ALL APPLICANTS, you DO NOT need to have prior Design Team experience or publications to apply! 

**Fan of digis?  Be sure to play along with Paper Pretties' Monday Whatnot challenges and check out the newly released digis by ARTish. Need a little more digi in your life?  Paper Pretties is also holding a Digi Design Team Call -- check out all the details HERE!

Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge #65: Mosaic Blooms

 Stamps:  Prairie Fairy digi 'Cherry Blossoms', Hannah Stamps sentiment.  Cardstock:  GP110 white, PTI 'Berry Sorbet', DCWV 'Garden Party' DP.  Ink:  Copics, Versamark.  Accessories:  PTI grosgrain ribbon, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, black EP.

Welcome to Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge #65!  Our sponsor for this week is Prairie Fairy Designs and here is our sketch:

I love the mosaic element in this sketch, but I really need to find a more foolproof way of dividing up an image -- my OCD tendencies were in overdrive trying to perfectly divid and line up this beautiful 'Cherry Blossoms' image graciously provided by our sponsor. Anyone have any suggestions??

Of course, I realized after I finished that the main element could also be a window effect with the image placed on top!

Be sure to admire the TMS Design Team's spin on this week's sketch challenge:

Melissa
Angela
Theresa
Jacki
Tammy

Hollyanne, Jr. DT

Anita, October GDT

Then link up your creations HERE to join in the fun and so we can admire the window on your crafting world!

Happy Birthday, Outdoorsman!

Stamps:  Papertrey 'Through the Trees'.  Cardstock:  Kiwi Kiss textured, Creative Imaginations cherry wood, Papertrey white, Chocolate Chip, Copper.  Ink:  Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip.  Accessories:  Rectangle Nestabilities, Martha Stewart deer punch, SU chocolate felt ribbon, copper brad.

How do you make a masculine card for an outdoorsman?  Every year I'm at a loss, but this time around I was inspired by Opus Gluei's challenge #76 :  Wooden It Be Lovely?  Take a little real wood, add a deer, plus  only the very most masculine of ribbons, and you have my version of a manly card! 

Happy Birthday to my husband who celebrates his big day tomorrow.  We'll be celebrating by trying out the Zipline in Missouri so wish me luck!!

Happy Birthday, Heather!

Paper Pretties is hosting a blog hop to celebrate a very special birthday -- our fearless leader, Heather has a birthday today!

If you are arriving here from Jennifer's (Glitter in My Hair) blog, then you are heading in the right direction.  If you are just joining the fun, be sure to start at Cindy's (Cindy Haffner's Corner) blog so you don't miss a single celebration!

All the Paper Pretties gals made a card and/or goodies for Heather to let her know how much we appreciate her hard work with the new and improved Paper Pretties store and to  express how much we enjoy our time with the Design Team.  My goodies for Heather included the 'Everyday Lily' card:

Stamps:  Paper Pretties 'Everyday Lily'.  Cardstock:  Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Papertrey white, Basic Grey 'Phoebe'. Ink:  Memento Black, Kiwi Kiss, Copics.  Accessories:  rectangle, labels, and oval Nestabilites, chocolate satin ribbon.

Accompanying it was a coordinating Post-It holder (PaperCraft Planet tutorial HERE) for all those  inspirations that strike on the go:

And also a decorated chocolate bar because chocolate is a cure-all for stress and cardmaker's block, right?  This was my first attempt at a 'Pull Up Treat' (SCS tutorial HERE) and it turned out to be an easy and fun technique.  Pull on the bow and up pops the chocolate!

Next stop on the birthday blog hop is Pam's (The Stamping Addict) blog.

And don't forget to stop by Heather's (The Best in Life) blog to wish her a very happy birthday!!

Paper Pretties' Wednesday Color Challenge: Purple, Green, and Orange!

 Stamps:  Paper Pretties 'Witch Sophia'.  Cardstock:  Black, Papertrey white, glitter orange, Paper Studio DP.  Ink:  Memento black, Copics, Versafine black.  Accessories:  rectangle Nestabilities, Hero Arts black gemstones, purple rick rack, Stardust glitter pen, CM silver gel pen.

Welcome to this week's Paper Pretties' challenge! 

Our challenge for this week is to use the color combo of purple, green, and orange.  This color combo always reminds me of Halloween, so I decided to stamp 'Witch Sophia' with a paper-pieced purple polka dot (say that three times fast!) dress:

The sketch is inspired by the Sweet Stop Sketch challenge #78, rotated 90 degrees with a little extra rick rack (in purple, of course) thrown in. 

An extra twist for this challenge is to 'Make it Sparkle' so I accented the spider web with a Stardust glitter pen and used this fun glitter orange DP picked up at the Target Dollar Spot:

And I finally found a perfect way to show off this fun purple rickrack -- the Really Reasonable Ribbon challenge #10:  Halloween!

Be sure to enjoy the other Pretties' Gals interpretation of our fun color combo:

Cindy

Frances

Jana

Jane

Jackie

Jennifer

Pam

Wendy

Heather

Then link your creation HERE so we can admire your take on the challenge and enter your name for a chance to win a free Paper Pretties stamp! You do not need to use Paper Pretties stamps in order to play along, but if you do, you will get a bonus entry into the drawing! Please be sure to mention our challenge and link back to the Paper Pretties blog in your project posting. If you upload to a public gallery please use the keyword PWC124.

**How would you like to join the Paper Pretties' Design Team?  Heather has a DT call going on now, so check out all the information in this Design Team Call post to find out how you can become a Prettie Girl.  Our Design Team call will be open until Wednesday November 24th at 5PM CST. We welcome ALL APPLICANTS, you DO NOT need to have prior Design Team experience or publications to apply!