Blog Candy WInner!!

I want to thank all of you who entered my blog candy giveaway! I hope you all checked out the Little Paper Shop forum! There are lots of fun things going on over there...fun challenges, free digi stamps and more!

The winner of my Little Paper Shop blog candy is: Theresa!

Theresa said...

My favorite color combo is natural colors....browns, golds, grays, etc.

October 9, 2009 1:27 PM

Congrats Theresa! Please send an email to me at thlr2003@gmail.com with your mailing address and I will get your goodies sent out to you right away!

Little Paper Shop Monday Challenge!

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend! I managed to get a little rest and a lot of cleaning done around the house, so overall I'm pretty happy with the weekend! I also managed to get 3 cards done too, woohoo! One of those cards was for today...yikes! I usually try to have my design team projects done at least 2-3 weeks ahead of deadline but lately I've been a bit behind. It is seriously not like me to be working on a card 2 days before I need to have it done. Behind or not, I still got it done and I'm excited to share it with you.
It is Monday so that means it is time for another fun Little Paper Shop challenge. This week our challenge is a sketch courtesy of the talented Allison Fillo. We would love for you to play along with us. A random participant in this week's challenge will win the new Christmas set {Merry & Bright}. If you play along be sure to leave a link to your project on the challenge post on the LPS blog!

Here is the sketch:

For my card I used one of my favorite LPS stamp sets {Beautiful Things}. This set has a bunch of fun 2-step flowers as well as a bunch of GORGEOUS sentiments!
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! Check back later this morning for the winner of my Little Paper Shop blog candy!

Canadian Thanksgiving Sale at Paper Pretties!!!!

Hello all! I hope everyone had a wonderful week! Things are finally calming down for us after a crazy crazy week. The kids still have hair cut appointments at 3:00 today and then after that I plan on doing NOTHING all weekend. We need some major R&R so hopefully we have zero unexpected happenings this weekend!

For all of my Canadian friends, Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

To celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving, Christie is having an awesome sale in the Paper Pretties Boutique! Be sure to hop on over there today to take advantage of the BIG Thanksgiving Sale.
Canadian Girl and all Thanksgiving, Halloween, and Christmas sets are on sale for 20% for this weekend - Oct 9 - 12! No coupon needed, the stamps have already been marked down for you!

Here is a card I made with Pilgrimage Sophia. Isn't she just adorable! I know I say that about every single Sophia but seriously...I've never seen a cuter pilgrim!


I also wanted to send out a big Congratulations to Prettie Girl Julie Masse and family who today added a brand new baby boy to their family! Congratulations!!!!

Thanks for stopping by today! Don't forget about my blog candy giveaway! You still have a few days to enter! I hope you all have a terrific weekend!

It is time for some blog candy!

Hope everyone is having a great week. Beckett is recovering well from his tooth infection and I have actually managed to get a little bit of sleep this week, YAY!!!
Today I wanted to share another Halloween card I made with the new {Jena Witch} stamp set from Little Paper Shop. I just adore this little cutie. She is so fun to color. And for some reason I just can't help but add some glitter to her.


It has been a while since I gave away some blog candy so I put together a fun little package of goodies for one lucky blog reader. I will leave my blog candy open until Monday Oct 12th at 7 am CST. There are a few ways to get your name entered into the drawing:
#1. Just leave me a comment telling with favorite color combo - there is entry #1.
#2. If you are a follower of my blog, leave me a comment on this post telling me so and there is entry #2.
#3. Join the Little Paper Shop Forum and add me as a friend - there is entry #3
#4. Make a card with one of the FREE digi stamps found on the LPS forum and leave me a link to your card - this is entry #4

So there you go, there are 4 ways to get your name added to the drawing. Now, I suppose you want to see the blog candy. The blog candy consists of 2 super fun stamp sets from Little Paper Shop as well as 3 Studio G sets and some Making Memories Crystal brads. If I get more than 25 different people entered I will add some additional goodies!

Good Luck!

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

Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge!

It's Wednesday! That means it is time for a new Paper Pretties challenge and blog hop! This week's challenge comes from Prettie Girl Danielle! She has an absolutely fabulous sketch for us this week. We would love for you to ink up your Paper Pretties stamps and play along with us. One lucky 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 PWC72.
Deadline: 6pm EST Tuedsay, October 13th.
Prize: $15.00 coupon to the Paper Pretties Boutique

Here is the sketch:

I have been having so much fun playing with my new Sophia stamps that I made 2 cards for today's challenge. This first card uses the adorable Make A Wish Sophia. This image just screams GLITTER to me. I love adding lots of sparkle to this sweet little thing! She reminds me of my own little cutie!
The weather here has been in full Fall mode for a couple of weeks now. Our tree is turning colors and it is only a matter of time before we have to start raking. With all of the fall festivities going on I couldn't resist inking up Falling For You Sophia for my 2nd card. I absolutely adore this image. Isn't she adorable! I'm the last stop on this week's hop. 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!

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

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge!

We hope you all had a great start to your week. It is time for another fun Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge. This week the challenge is to make a project using only Black, White and 1 additional color! We'd love for you to play along with us. If you do, make sure you leave a link to your creation on this post and/or use keyword JBE074 when uploading to SCS and PCP.

Also...the storewide sale going on at Jacksonbelle has been extended until Thursday! It is a great time to stock up on all of the fun new products Lindsey has in the store...Stampavie, My Mind's Eye, Basic Grey, Prima and more. Get 25% off your entire order when you use promotion code FALL (all caps) at checkout.

Here is my card for today's challenge. I used some fabulous Jenni Bowlin designer paper and this gorgeous Inkadinkado rose stamp. I struggled with this challenge at first but loved how my card turned out in the end.

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

Lindsey Botkin: Embellished

Trudee Sauer: Follow Your Bliss

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

SCACD WCMD challenge

I hope you all had a great weekend. Did you get lots of stamping done on WCMD? Unfortunately we spent most of WCMD dealing with doctors and dentists. Beckett woke up Saturday morning with half of his face completely swollen. Unfortunately a couple weeks ago when he hit his chin at the hotel, he not only cut his chin open but he cracked a tooth. Ever since the accident his tooth can been bothering him but we just thought his jaw was sore from the fall. Unfortunately for 2 weeks the cracked tooth just got infected. Saturday afternoon after a trip to the urgent care and then to the emergency dentist he had to go through a very traumatic tooth extraction.
Here is a picture of him and his poor swollen face:
Thankfully the antibiotics and pain killers have helped out a lot. He seems to be doing a lot better today. He still looks awful but the swelling should start going down soon.
So with all of that craziness yesterday, my WCMD stamping had to be postponed until today.
I got a little bit of time to stamp this afternoon so I decided to play along with the challenge posted over on the SCACD blog. They had a fun 2 part challenge...sketch & color. The color requirement was to use Christmas colors: red, green, gold, silver, white.

Here is their sketch:
I flipped the sketch to work with my image. I used this adorable Victoria Case image "Matthew" from SCACD. Isn't he so cute...totally reminds me of Beckett. (Sorry for the wonky lighting - I just finished my card at 7pm and the natural light is zero. I'll try and take a better photo in the morning)
Check out the resemblance between the card and the picture of Beckett...the fact that he is wearing a red shirt with a green dino is a total coincidence.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all had a great weekend!

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!

Is it the weekend yet?

Man do I need some down time. The weekend can't get here soon enough. With Tom sick not only am I doing all of my normal duties but I'm also trying to do his. He normally takes Annabelle to school which doesn't seem like a huge thing but trying to get her up and dressed and breakfast is hard enough, but then I have to get myself together and get her to school. Not to mention trying to deal with getting Beckett up and to school too. Thankfully today he can stay in bed while I take her since he doesn't have school today. I've also been sleeping on the floor in the kids' bedroom the past few nights in an effort to stay away from Tom (who the doctors said most likely has H1N1). My back is killing me and I am dead exhausted.
Ok, enough of my pity party...

Here is another card that I made for the Taylored Expressions Birthday Bash a couple weeks ago. The main image is from Wiff of Joy and the sentiment is from Verve.
Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all have a great day!

It's Wednesday...

Boring blog post title, but I couldn't think of anything else. The kids are at school and Tom is in bed with what we think is the flu. Crossing our fingers that it isn't H1N1, but either way he is totally miserable. I'm being sort of psycho about quarantining him because I really don't want the kids to get sick. I spent the morning shopping in an effort to stay as far away from him as possible. I went to Joann's and picked up a few things and then headed to our local scrapbook store. I'm hoping to play with my new goodies this afternoon, but we'll see how things go. I may be taking Tom to the doctors office, who knows. For now, I thought I would share a card that I made using one of the Victoria Case images from SCACD. I absolutely love this image and had so much fun paper piecing her. The sentiment stamp is from Verve.

Thanks for stopping by today! Don't forget about the Jacksonbelle September Challenge contest going on right now. You could win a $50 JB gift certificate. Check out all the details by clicking on the JB contest blinkie on my side bar.

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge + a contest!

Before I get to this week's Jacksonbelle challenge, I wanted to give a huge welcome to the newest member of the Jacksonbelle Embellishments design team....Keri Lee Sereika! Be sure to stop by Keri's blog and give her some love today!

Our challenge this week is an easy one....make a project using one of the new products in the Jacksonbelle store. To see all of the NEW products, click HERE. There are so many cool new things in stock now...Prima, Jenni Bowlin, Inkadinkado, Basic Grey, Cosmo Cricket, Martha Stewart, Stampavie...and lots more! Don't forget that if you play along with the Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenges this month you'll have a chance at some aweseome prizes! The contest rules are easy...play along with one of the JB September Tuesday challenges and use stamps from either Stampavie, Inkadinkado, Prima or Basic Grey (all of these brands are carried in the Jacksonbelle store). For all of the contest details, click HERE. You could win a $50, $30 or $15 Jacksonbelle gift certificate!

Here is my card for this week's challenge:

This week's challenge was easy for me because I recently got a big box of fun new things from JB. My card uses a couple different Inkadinkado clear stamps. I also used 2 different Halloween Martha Stewart punches. The designer paper is the new Eerie collection from Basic Grey. I balanced out all of these new products with an old favorite, Angel Wings Shimmerz!

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! I hope you are all having a great start to your week!

It's a 2 post kind of day...

If you want to see my Little Paper Shop Monday challenge post, please scroll down to previous post.

Since I took such a long break from blogging over the weekend I thought I would share another card today. When I got home yesterday I needed to unwind from the chaotic weekend so I decided to stamp for a bit. I decided to combine a couple challenges from last week for my card. Danni's Flutter By challenge last week was to make a card with butterflies and sparkle...the Paper Pretties challenge was to make a card using fun foam. So... I combined them both and made a card using sparkly fun foam butterflies, LOL.
Isn't Flutter By Sophia adorable! I just love all of the Sophia stamps from Paper Pretties. I paired her up with this gorgeous Jenni Bowlin designer paper that I got from Jacksonbelle. Jacksonbelle has 8 different Jenni Bowlin collections in stock. The glittered fun foam butterflies are from Making Memories.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you are all having a great day! Check back tomorrow for the newest Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenge!

Little Paper Shop Monday Challenge

I'm back! I know it has been a few days since I last posted but I'm back now! We left on Thursday morning for Minneapolis so I could take the Copic certification class. I can now say that I am certified! The class was a lot of fun and it was even better because I got to take it with my friend Kisa. It was so fun meeting her and hanging out for the afternoon. The rest of the weekend was filled with lots of other fun activities...Scrapfest, Annabelle's birthday, an afternoon at the amusement park at Mall of America, a visit to Underwater Adventure aquarium...lots of stuff. Unfortunately in amongst the fun we also had to make a trip to an urgent care clinic at 7:30 Friday night due to a mishap at the hotel pool. Thankfully they were able to super glue Becketts chin instead of stitches! Needless to say it was a busy, EXHAUSTING weekend. I am happy to be home and sleeping in my own bed!
With all that said...it is time for another fabulous Little Paper Shop Monday challenge! Before I get to the challenge part, I want to wish my fellow LPS design team member Bonnie a HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Be sure to stop by Bonnie's blog and give her some love today!
Now...the challenge...today we have a fun color challenge for you....Rose Red, Summer Sun and Pumpkin Pie. One random lucky participant this week will win one of the newly released sets {Jena Witch}. If you play along be sure to leave a link to your project on the LPS blog to be eligible to win. If you upload to SCS or PCP please use keyword LPSC34.

Here is my card for this week:

For more color challenge inspiration, make sure you check out the blogs of the rest of the LPS design team:

Julia
Jessica
Bonnie
Cindy
Mel
Jen
Julie
Silvia
Allison
Janna
Sarah
Ann

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all have a wonderful week! Check back tomorrow for another awesome Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenge!