Jacksonbelle Goodies and some Organization!

Hello all! Just wanted to give everyone the heads up that Lindsey is giving away some AWESOME Jacksonbelle goodies to one lucky customer this month. Here are the details:

Exciting News!! Every order large or small from now until Nov. 30^th will be entered into a drawing to win this HUGE goodie bag from my store! (1 entry per order….you can order as many times as you like) 1 random winner will be chosen on December 1^st and will be announced on the store blog!

Includes 23 sheets of October Afternoon paper; 6 x 6 Eerie Paper Pad from Basic Grey; 6 x 6 Jolly by Golly and Early Bird Paper Pads, Wonderland Rubon’s and stickers from Cosmo Cricket; Rubon’s from Crate Paper; Yards of ribbon from May Arts; Brads, Bling, Rubon Tape and Chipboard Tags from Daisy D; Crocheted Flowers and Spring stamp from Imaginisce; Epoxy Frames from Making Memories; 2 wood stamps from Inkadinkado; 2 Cuttlebug Embossing folders from Provo Craft; Bling from Me and My Big Ideas; Felt Flowers from We R Memory Keepers; 3 Websters Pages Rubon’s; Flowers, 2 Transparency Sheets, Tape, Corner stamps, collage sheets and Bling from Prima; Crocheted flowers by Melody.

Now for some organizing...those of you who know me well know that I am a bit OCD when it comes to organizing my stamp room. Tom has even asked on several occasions if I stamp or just reorganize my room every day, LOL. Well, I thought I would share some pictures of my latest reorg project. I transferred all of my stamps that I stored in CD cases into the plastic binder storage system similar to the ones that Gina K sells (but these were a lot cheaper, Thanks for the heads up on that one Jess!) - (I now have about 300 empty CD cases if anyone wants them). I'm pretty happy with my stamp room now except for my ribbon storage. I hate my current ribbon storage system. Just last week I bought one of those huge MM wall shelving units that has ribbon storage but since we are planning on putting the house up for sale after the 1st of the year Tom doesn't want to put any holes in the wall so that will just have to wait until my next stamp room. Here are some pics of my newly organized space!



Hope you all have a great day!

A Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge and Blog Hop!

It's Wednesday! That means it is time for another fabulous Wednesday Prettie Challenge and blog hop! This week's challenge comes from Prettie Girl Jana! Jana challenged the Prettie Girls to create a monochromatic card using blues and black/white. We would love for you to ink up your Paper Pretties stamps and play along with us. One lucky challenge participant will win a $15 coupon to the Paper Pretties Boutique. Here are the challenge details:

How to Enter: make a card using the provided sketch and any Paper Pretties stamp set(s) you have. Upload the card to the Paper Pretties gallery. Please include it in the Weekly Challenges album and use keyword PWC75.
Deadline: 6pm EST Tuedsay, November 17th.
Prize: $15.00 coupon to the Paper Pretties Boutique

Monochromatic is always a challenge for me but I like how my card turned out. I inked up my new Love You This Much Cooper stamps for this week challenge. Doesn't he just make you smile! I love this image and the sentiments that go along with it are perfect! He reminds me so much of Beckett!
If you are just starting at my blog, head on over to Christie's blog to start from the beginning. You definitely won't want to miss any of the stops! If you are following the hop, the next stop after my blog is the blog of Prettie Girl Wendy Bond!

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all have a terrific day!

A Birthday Blog Hop - Pretties Style!

This is my 2nd post for today. Please scroll down to my previous post to see the Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenge!

Today is Prettie Girl Jen Greco's birthday! To celebrate, the rest of the Prettie Girls are having a birthday blog hop in her honor! If you are just joining in the hop be sure to start back at the begining -Christie's blog-because you won't want to miss any of the fabulous birthday cards! If you got here from Frances' blog you are on the right path!

I am very excited to be wishing Jen a happy happy birthday! Not only is Jen a fellow Prettie Girl but she is also my in town BFF. I consider myself incredibly lucky that by chance we met on SCS 3 years ago. I can't imagine what the last 3 years would have been like had we not met. Jen I hope you have an incredible birthday and many more!

I thought it only fitting to use Make A Wish Sophia for my card. Jen's house is majorly lacking in girls so I thought I would make her card as girly as possible...pinks, purples, glitter, bling...

Happy Birthday Jen!

Next stop on the birthday blog hop is Prettie Girl Wendy Bond! Be sure to follow the hop all the way to the end to leave some birthday love on Jen's blog.

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge

Welcome back! It’s Tuesday, so that means it is time for another fun Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenge. This week we have a super fun challenge for you. The challenge this week is to make something for Christams...a bag, a tag, a gift, anything for Christmas. We’d love for you to play along with us. If you do, be sure to leave a comment on the Jacksonbelle blog with a link to your creation and/or use keyword JBE079 when uploading to PCP or SCS.

This challenge made me very nervous. I am not much of a gift or gift bag maker...actually I pretty much only make cards. Anything outside the card realm is a major challenge for me. I decided to try my luck with a gift tag. For my tag I used the AWESOME Sarah Kay Santa stamp from Stampavie. This image was a little intimidating at first but in the end I really like how the coloring turned out. I layered the image over some Basic Grey designer paper and other cardstock. The green ribbon is from Making Memories and the other ribbon is Amuse. Overall I was pretty happy with how it turned out. I colored the image with Copic markers and then added white Sparkly Fluff for the cuffs of Santa's hat and jacket.

(Click on the picture for a bigger image)

Here's what the back side looks like:

For more Christmas inspiration be sure to 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

Lindsey Botkin: Embellished

Trudee Sauer: Follow Your Bliss

Keri Lee Sereika: Pink Lemonade

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you all have a fabulous day! Don’t forget about the HUGE Inkadinkado and Martha Stewart sale going on in the Jacksonbelle store. All Inkadinkado and Martha Stewart products are 40% off!

LPS Monday Challenge

Welcome back! I hope you all had a great weekend! We have been riding the fever train at our house since Thursday. Sadly we are having the best November weather ever and the kids are too sick to go out and enjoy it. I'm hoping we are on the mend but both kids are home from school today. I'm crossing my fingers for some healthy days ahead because we can't stay cooped up in the house much longer and still stay sane, LOL.

It's Monday, so that means it time for another AWESOME Little Paper Shop challenge! This week we have a super fun sketch challenge for you! We'd love for you to play along. If you do, be sure to leave a link to your project on the LPS blog and/or use keyword LPSC41 when uploading to SCS or PCP.
One lucky participant in this week's challenge will win the LPS set {Merry & Bright}. You have until Sunday night to get your project linked on the LPS blog!

Here is the sketch:

I have to apologize for my card today. With both kids sick (and dh sick too) I haven't had a lot of time or energy to stamp. My card this week uses the exact same colors as last week's LPS card because those were the scraps that were still sitting on my table since last week.
I used the adorable {Katie Caroler} set for my main image and the sentiment comes from {Katie Christmas}. I colored my images with Copic markers and added white Sparkly Fluff snow (this is sorta hard to see in the photo). My main panel is popped up from the card base with foam dimensionals.



For more sketchy inspiration be sure to check out the blogs of the rest of the fabulous Little Paper Shop design team!

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

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all have a terrific Monday!