Paper Pretties World Card Making Day Challenge #1

This is my 2nd post of the day. To see my Little Paper Shop Release Day post, please scroll down to preview post.

Welcome to Paper Pretties' festivities for World Card Making Day! Not sure if you all noticed my side bar but as of Thursday I am officially a Prettie Girl! I was so excited when Christie asked me to join the Pretties team! I adore all of the Paper Pretties images and can't wait to start sharing more projects with you.
To celebrate World Card Making Day, Paper Pretties is hosting 3 fabulous challenges throughout the day: 1 in the morning, 1 in the afternoon and 1 in the evening. Be sure to check the Paper Clip for all of today's challenges. You can pick 1 to do (or all 3 if you like ). On October 5th at 11:00 pm Christie will draw a winner from all of the entries in the Paper Pretties Challenge Gallery in the Paper Pretties Forum (please use keyword WCMD when you upload your card) to receive the newly released set Season of Joy. That means you'll have all weekend to work on your challenge card. You can use any products you like, but the main image must be one from Paper Pretties. The winner will be posted on the Paper Clip on the 6th!

Also, don't forget that ALL day today you can get 15% off your entire Paper Pretties order - even clearance merchandise! Just enter the coupon code wcmd (case sensitive, no spaces) when you check out! With the whole store on sale, it is a great time to stock up on all of those Sophia and Cooper stamps I know you've be wanting!

CHALLENGE #1

The first challenge was given by our incredibly talented design team member Jana. Jana's challenge is to make a project using the following colors: Light Pink, Medium Pink, Taupe, Black and White.

I just got Make A Wish Sophia in the mail a few days ago and I couldn't wait to get her inked up. Isn't she just adorable.
If you are wondering where my taupe is...I colored the table with a taupe-ish color Copic, LOL.

For more color inspiration check out the blogs of my fellow Prettie Girls Jana Weaver and Christi Thorsen

Be sure to check the Paper Clip throughout the day for challenges #2 and #3.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you all have a fabulous World Card Making Day!

Little Paper Shop Release Day (and a challenge!)

It's release day at Little Paper Shop! All 4 of the October releases are now available to purchase on the Little Paper Shop site. As an extra bonus all 4 sets are 10% off now through October 9th.
To celebrate the new release, as well as World Card Making Day, we have a fabulous challenge for you today. Our challenge for you is to make a Christmas card using non-traditional Christmas colors. If you use designer paper it can contain red and green but not as a main focus. We would love for you to play along! If you do, make sure you leave a link to your project on the LPS blog and use keyword LPSC36 when uploading to SCS or PCP. You have until Sunday October 11th to link to your project. One random lucky participant is going to win ALL 4 of the new releases!!!!

For my card today I used the new release {Merry & Bright}.

For more non-traditional Christmas inspiration be sure to check out the blogs of the rest of the Little Paper Shop design team:

Jessica
Bonnie
Cindy
Mel
Jen
Julie
Silvia
Allison
Ann
Pam - Guest Designer

Be sure to head over to the LPS blog too - one lucky commenter today will win the new release {Merry & Bright}!

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all have a fabulous World Card Making Day. I have a couple more posts planned for today so be sure to check back!

Preview: {Katie Christmas}

Welcome to day 3 of the Little Paper Shop October Release Previews. All 4 of the new release stamp sets will be available to purchase on the Little Paper Shop site tomorrow!!!
For the third preview installment we have an adorable set called {Katie Christmas}. This super cute set is a dream come true for those of you who like to mask. There are so many possibilities!

Here are 2 cards that I made using {Katie Christmas} :

For more sneak peaks of {Katie Christmas}, be sure to check out the blogs of the rest of the Little Paper Shop design team:

Julia
Jessica
Bonnie
Cindy
Mel
Jen
Julie
Silvia
Allison
Ann
Pam - Guest Designer

The Little Paper Shop blog is giving away {Katie Christmas} to one lucky commenter today so be sure to check it out HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today. Tomorrow is release day and you definitely won't want to miss it. We have one more set to show you plus a super fun challenge for you! I hope you all have a fabulous day!

Little Paper Shop Preview Day 2: {Christmas Tags}

Today is day 2 of the Little Paper Shop October release sneak peaks. All 4 of the new release stamp sets will be available to purchase on Saturday, Oct. 3. Today we are previewing a fabulous set called {Christmas Tags}. Even though it is called {Christmas Tags}, this set would be great for cards, scrapbook pages and any other project for that matter. This set is made up of a bunch of fun little Christmas images as well as some tag sentiments and more. For my project I picked one of the sentiments and made this fun Christmas card.

For more sneak peaks of {Christmas Tags}, be sure to check out the blogs of the rest of the Little Paper Shop design team:

Julia
Jessica
Bonnie
Cindy
Mel
Jen
Julie
Silvia
Allison
Ann
Pam - Guest Designer

The Little Paper Shop blog is giving away {Christmas Tags} to one lucky commenter today so be sure to check it out HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to check back tomorrow for another fabulous Little Paper Shop preview!

Lady Liberty

Today I thought I would share another card that I made for last week's Paper Pretties fun foam blog challenge. I have to say I'm not a huge fan of fun foam but it was fun playing around with it. This time around I "borrowed" some squiggle fun foam pieces from Annabelle's fun foam gingerbread man kit. I thought they were too plain as white so I added some Stampin Up Dazzling Diamonds to jazz them up a bit. The main image and sentiment are from the Lady Liberty set from Paper Pretties. Lady Liberty Sophia is colored with Copic markers.
Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to stop back tomorrow for another Little Paper Shop October release preview!

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge!

Welcome to the final challenge in the Jacksonbelle September Tuesday Challenge Contest! All of the contest details can be found on the Jacksonbelle blog. As an extra bonus this week, Jacksonbelle is also having a HUGE sale! With World Card Making Day just a few days away, Lindsey is putting everything in the store on sale 25% off. The promotion code that you need to enter at checkout is FALL (all caps). This will get you 25% off your order. With all of the fabulous new Prima, My Minds Eye, Basic Grey, Cosmo Cricket, Stampavie and more in stock, now is a great time to stock up and save big bucks!

Now...the challenge...We have a fun color challenge for you this week. The challenge is to use all or some of the following colors: Green, Blue, Red and Black. These are the colors in the new Pink Paisley Amber Road Collection that you can find in the Jacksonbelle store. If you haven't seen this Pink Paisley collection you are definitely missing out. It is absolutely GORGEOUS! You can see the whole collection HERE. If you play along with our challenge this week, be sure to leave a link to your creation on the Jacksonbelle blog challenge post and use keyword JBE073 when uploading to SCS or PCP.

For my card I used the Pink Paislee Amber Road Bonfire and Harvest Hayride designer papers. I LOVE these! They are just gorgeous and coordinate beautifully. I also used an adorable Stampavie Sarah Kay image.

For more inspiration, check out the blogs of all of the Jacksonbelle Rockstars!

Tobi Crawford ~ Tobi’s Place

Stephanie Hargis ~ Steph’s Stampin’ Stuff

Jimmi Mayo ~ Stamping & Shopping

Bethany Paull ~ It’s Not All Black & White

Michelle Philippi ~ Inside My Own Private Idaho

Carly Robertson ~ Paper in Bloom

Shemaine Smith ~ Scraptastic

Lynda Benden: Stamp Act

Jill Dunn: Ink Genious

AJ Otto: The Willow Garden

Lindsey Botkin: Embellished

Trudee Sauer: Follow Your Bliss

Keri Lee Sereika: Pink Lemonade

Thanks for stopping by today! Remember you only have until Thursday Oct 1 at midnight EST to get your contest cards emailed in!

Little Paper Shop Monday Challenge (and a preview)!

I hope you all had a great weekend. Thankfully I was able to get in a teeny tiny bit of R&R over the weekend. Probably not as much as I needed, but enough to keep me going for a few more days. Tom is starting to feel better. I think he is actually planning on heading back to work today for the first time in a week. This is a good thing... I really need him to go back. Not because I don't want him here, but honestly I need our life to get back to normal.
And speaking of getting back to normal, I did get a little bit of stamping time this past week. Good thing, since today is the first preview day of the October Little Paper Shop release.

The October Little Paper Shop releases are AWESOME. Actually AWESOME is an understatement. I absolute love every single one of them! Are you ready to get working on your Christmas cards? If so, this is the release for you! The new release sets will be available to purchase on Saturday Oct 3rd.
Today the design team is giving you a fabulous sneak peak at the first of 4 new sets...{Katie Caroler}. This set is totally adorable and so fun to create with!
Not only is today preview day #1, but it is also challenge day. We have a super fun sketch for you this week. We'd love for you to play along too. If you do, be sure to leave a link to your creation on the LPS blog. One lucky challenge participant this week will will {Katie Caroler). You also have a 2nd chance to win {Katie Caroler} just by leaving a comment on the LPS blog today!

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card:

This sketch was so much fun that I made a 2nd card with it. My 2nd card uses the recently released {Jena Witch} set. I just think she is the cutest witch EVER!

For more sneak peaks of {Katie Caroler} and more sketch inspiration, be sure to check out the blogs of the rest of the Little Paper Shop design team:

Julia
Jessica
Bonnie
Cindy
Mel
Jen
Julie
Silvia
Allison
Ann
Pam - Guest Designer

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to stop back tomorrow for the final Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge Contest challenge!