Prettie Peekie Wednesday

Good morning everyone, I hope you're having a great week. Today's Prettie Wednesday card is also a Prettie Peek of the new sets being released Friday night. I like this new Canadian Girl Sophia so much. She's perfect for all my Canadian friends!!I started with our sweet little Sophia on whisper white cardstock, and colored her in with my SU! markers. I'm still too cheap to invest in Copics...and I haven't get gotten a good enough tutorial to convince me I have to have them...so I'm still using my trusty SU! ones. I cut her out with my nesties, along with a scalloped layer. I also cut out the sentiment with my new ribbon tag die...isn't it awesome?!?

I knew she needed something in the upper left corner, and I searched around until I put my hands on these SU! fire rhinestone brads. Perfect!! Overall, she was pretty quick, and lots of fun! Don't forget to go check out all the prettie blogs to see more Pretty Wednesday cards, AND more Prettie Peeks!!!

Don't forget, On Friday May 1st Paper Pretties will be having their monthly Stampin In Your Jammies party!! The party starts at 6pm CDT and will last until 9pm. We will be issuing a challenge every hour so be sure to come and play along!! Besides the challenges, chatter, and all around fun, we will also be releasing Hola Chica, TWO new Sophias, re-releasing Rainy Day Friend in RUBBAH, and we will have a BRAND new set from a BRAND new artist!! Sneak peeks start on Wednesday April 29th!! Hope to see you there!!

It is also time for another Cutie Pie contest!! You have until Thursday April 30th at 8pmCDT to get your entries uploaded to the Cutie Pie gallery at the Paper Pretties website. The winner will not only get to call themselves a Cutie Pie, but they will also receive all the new release stamps!! Good Luck!!

Today I have a special project to share, with an even more special model!! With warm weather coming up, I wanted to stamp some cute onesies for Jack to wear, and since I needed to stamp a few as gifts figured I'd do them all at once (especially since I never iron and wanted to get that part over with all at one time too!!!)
I stamped Jack's name first using craft ink and SU!'s Big Deal Alphabet. Then...I stamped Cooper from Love You This Much using Brilliance Black ink. Then, I colored him in using some Fabrico Markers I picked up at Mike's for just this sort of thing. Adorable, isn't it?? And Jack's lookin' pretty cute too, I must admit!!

The first of the month is coming up fast, which means another SIYJ party right along with it!!

Paper Pretties will be having their monthly Stampin In Your Jammies party Friday, May first starting at 5pm PST. We will be issuing a challenge every hour so be sure to come and play along!! Besides the challenges, chatter, and all around fun, we will also be releasing Hola Chica, TWO new Sophias, re-releasing Rainy Day Friends in RUBBAH, and we will have a BRAND new set from a BRAND new artist!! Sneak peeks start on Wednesday April 29th!! Hope to see you there!!

And...since I'm sharing my little Cutie Pie, don't forget you can be one yourself!!! You have until Thursday April 30th at 8pm CDT to get your entries uploaded to the Cutie Pie gallery at the Paper Pretties website. The winner will not only get to call themselves a Cutie Pie, but they will also receive all the new release stamps!! Good Luck!!

Prettie Technique Wednesday

Happy Wednesday everyone! Today's challenge was issued by me to try a new technique. I did a quick peruse at Splitcoast and found this wonderful Brayered Batik technique Beate had written a while back and decided to try that. It was great fun!!I had to make this card quite quickly tonight since the baby was screaming, so I'm not overly happy with it, but I do like the technique. I used an old spectrum pad with nice bright colors for the background, then embossed the fun palm tree from Soakin' Up the Sun. I really love that set - and especially the palm tree!! It's overall a very simple card, but I do like the batik effect. I highly recommend checking out that tutorial sometime when you get a chance!

Sorry for the quick post, and I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Prettie Splish Splash

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you've all had a wonderful weekend. We had a pretty relaxing one here, which included a birthday dinner out on Saturday withOUT children, and with other adults at a favorite restaurant of mine, La Fondue! It ain't cheap, but I'm worth it...especially since that is all I asked for for my birthday. :-)Danielle does such an awesome job with our weekly challenges, and this past week's was no exception! I love the sketch she came up with, and used it for this Monday's card. Don't you just love our latest little Sophia? Right now, I would love to be diving into a nice cool pool. It was hot in San Jose, and our house is still sweltering at 9:30 at night! You can get this little cutie in May if you sign up for our Stamp of the Month club before the end of this month...otherwise you'll have to wait until June 1st.I colored Splish Splash Sophia with my SU! markers and an aquapainter and ink pads. Then, I added some Spica glitter pen to the water droplets so they would sparkle. Everything else is pretty self-explanatory!

Have a wonderful week everyone!

Prettie Bright Wednesday

This week's Prettie Wednesday challenge was issued by Charmaine, to make a card using bright summery colors. How perfect for next month's Stamp of the Month, Make a Splash Sophia! She's all ready to jump right into summer, just like my little one is! And here Sophia is even diving straight into the lake, something Julia will happily be doing in just over 3 months when we finally get to go back to Maine...I can't wait!!!

I started off with Sophia on some Whisper White cardstock and colored her in with my SU! markers. For the Kiwi Kiss bathing suit and Pacific Point water I used my aquapainter and the ink pads. If I had been thinking, I would have added some sparkle to that water, or at least some crystal effects ... hmm ... maybe I'll go back and add that now!
For the layers, I used some awesome SU! dsp from the current catalog, Good Morning Sunshine. I love all those bright colors!! I actually used an old SCS sketch challenge from sketch notebook for the layout...with several modifications of course! ;-)

And don't forget that tomorrow is a new Prettie Challenge, and I have it on the QT that this week's challenge is another sketch, so be sure to check the forums, or the Prettie Blog to see what Danielle has in store for us this week!

Supplies:
Stamps:One of Those Days and Look Out World by Paper Pretties
CS: whisper white, summer sun, kiwi kiss, Good Morning Sunshine DSP
Ink: Palette Noir, Pacific Point, kiwi kiss, blush blossom & summer sun markers
Acc: aquapainter, summer sun corduroy buttons, SU! punches

TFL!

Just another Prettie Monday

And boy is it Manic! We had a wonderful Easter, but Julia is still coming down off her sugar high. I normally limit her to 1 sweet per day, but on Easter she had a few more, and boy did we see it. But I am so thrilled that my parents are here. I've not held Jack more in the last 2 days then in a normal week! It's wonderful to have 2 arms available to get things done (like clean up my stamping space so that I can get stamping this week!!)Today's project is from the Pretties release back on the first. Charmaine challenged us all to make a card using the clothes we were wearing as inspiration. That day (well the first half of the day, I had to change following a rather nasty spit-up incident!) I was wearing a green and grey nursing top, and some jeans that have a metal embellishment on the sides of the leg with metalic stitching and these metal brad-like things. They're kinda cute...and I thought this embellishment on the side looked kinda cool!
I love this Luke stamp and the whole Right on Par set. So perfect for cards for my dad...and he comes with such fun sayings...I love them all! I colored him with an aquapainter and ink pads, then paper pieced his shirt from this fun (very old) SU! dsp. I used the sage marker on his color to color it in a little darker. This really can't count as my dad since ic an't find my creamy caramel ink pad right now, and this Luke is MUCH too light to be my dad when it's golf season!! ;-)

I hope you all have a wonderful Easter Monday! Be sure to check out the awesome new Stamp Storage System we have over at the Pretties website. I can't wait for my binder to arrive, and to fill it up with all my Sophia stamps. There's no better way to keep them!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Right on Par by Paper Pretties
CS: Sage Shadow, whisper white, SU! dsp
Ink: Basic Black, sage shadow, blush blossom, chocolate chip, going gray
Acc: SU! marker, aquapainter,silver cord, silver brads

TFL!

Prettie Sketchy Wednesday

2 weeks ago, Julie challenged us all with a wonderful sketch. I LOVE sketch challenges, because it takes the hardest part of designing a card out of it for me. I especially love sketches with lots of layers since I tend toward more simply layouts with few layers. I LOVED Julie's sketch!!!

And how appropriate that I chose this stamp set (Rainy Day Friends, currently sold out, but returning SOON!) considering it is pouring rain here right now in California! (Altho, I should have used pink and purple for the umbrella since that is what we have for an umbrella right now!!) It's hard for me to cut the paper smaller than I know the image is, but since I didn't have much space I needed to do that. I kinda like it...gives me more freedom somehow!I colored Sophia in with my aquapainter and ink pads, and used the new Basic Gray Marakesh papers for the dp. I am loving that stuff!!!

Since it is my turn to issue the challenge this week, I am going to challenge the Pretties, and all of who who want to play along, to make a card using a new technique you've never tried before. Need some ideas? Visit the technique pages at Splitcoast for dozens of things to try!! Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with. For now though, be sure to visit ALL the Prettie blogs to see everyone else's take on this awesome sketch.

Pretty Monday Fun Folding

The party on Wednesday night was lots of fun...Charlie had some great challenges for us all (as usual) and even made a big announcement!! Congrats Charlie!! Be sure to check out the party gallery to see all the amazing creations!!One of the challenges was to make a card with a different fold, so I decided to make this gate fold card. The daughter of a good friend of mine is turning 13 today, and since she is a dancer, I thought this Sophia Ballerina would be perfect for her! I colored her with ink pads and an aquapainter, and used my nesties to cut her out and layer her. The dp is from Basic Grey, and I used some Pretty in Pink and Always Artichoke papers for the base and layering.I used some Basic Grey magentic snaps to keep the card closed, but still easy to open. On the inside I stamped the sentiment and added some doodling for interest. Gate fold cards are super easy with my new score-pal that I picked up while in L.A. - I'm loving that thing!! I hope she likes it!!

Have a wonderful week everyone!

Prettie Small Wednesday

2 weeks ago, Frances challenged us all to make Artist Trading cards. I really don't like making ATC's, because there's just not much space to work with, and that means everything you do has to be exactly perfect, or it won't work. You can't just add some ribbon and voila, it's great! Making this ATC actually took me twice as long as a normal card does...sad, isn't it?I love this Bunny Slippers stamp, and am so excited that she's now available in RUBBAH (starting at tonight's party!!) Doesn't she just look so cute all fuzzed up with my new Doodlebug flock? It's just so much fun to play with, and I now have so many great colors I can flock EVERYTHING! :-)

Be sure to come check out the party tonight. I'll be a little late as Julia's dance class doesn't end until almost 5, then I've got to get her changed into soccer clothes and ready for her dad to pick up for practice which starts at 5:15. But...can't wait to chat with you all there!!!

I hear the cries of my little one now...so off to feed him yet again! Chat with you all soon!!