If You Can Believe It...

Yep, I still have some birthday RAK's to show you!! Right now, I am working up the will to stamp...so I decided that I would at least let you see some of the GORGEOUSness that was sent my way!! First is from my friend Jenn Diaz. She is a guest designer for Paper Pretties right now and is so SUPER sweet and TALENTED!! She not only sent me this card, but also some yummy ribbon , CTMH rub ons and clips and some dew drops. LOVE the colors!! Thanks so much Jenn, I love my goodies!!

Last, but DEFINITELY not least, came to me from my SBFF, Jodi Collins(kharmagirl). Now, I know I mention her all the time on here, so it won't come as any surprise when I say that I am in AWE of this girl!! She has MAD coloring skills and the biggest heart! For my birthday, she ordered me this stamp set and ribbon from the SU mini catalog and had it shipped directly to me!! What a PEACH!! I love it all Jodi, and I swear, I am gonna use it ASAP, that ribbon, YUMMO!!! And would you LOOK at this CARD!! Besides the fact that she slapped the number 30 every conceivable place for me to cry over, it is AMAZING, and in my favorite colors, YAYY!! You know I love ya!! BTW- I am in desperate need of "our" brain, can I borrow it back please!!(she will totally get this, trust me, but for those of you who DON'T know, we CONSTANTLY joke about sharing the same one)LOL!!!

So, Wanna See What I Have Been Up To??

My BIL is getting married tomorrow and we had the rehearsal dinner tonight. My MIL wanted to decorate, but it really isn't her thing, so I took over. Here are my under $5 dollars a table centerpieces(it is a fall themed wedding)!! I learned how to make the bows on the Mums TODAY, so, GO ME!! Bear with me, there are a ton of photos!!

Prettie Peeks, Day Two!

So, I am running WAY behind this morning, but I wanted to get this card I made posted fast(in reality, I just got done making it, but I REALLY need to be on the road already!!). I used the one of the SOON TO BE RELEASED sets(Baby Jesus is from the Nativity set and the sentimente is from the Adore Him set) from Paper Pretties for my card. The sketch is Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge, and my colors are Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White and some yummy Ski Slope DSP. The ribbon is also from the SU mini catalog(along with the paper) and is part of the Alpine originals. My image was colored with SU markers and the cut out and layered using my Cuttlebug and Nesties. I sponged the edges of all the layers and also the card base. I did a lot of piercing and added a bunch of silver brads. The olive layer was also run through the Cuttlebug with my distressed stripes folder to give it some texture. Aren't the new sets FABULOUS!!! The Pretties are really outdoing themselves this release, be sure to check them out(links in my sidebar)! So, here is all the info you need to know!!

First, Cutie Pie Contest!!
How would you like to be Paper Pretties Cutie Pie? I thought you would!! All you have to do is make a card using your Paper Pretties stamps and upload it to the Cutie Pie Contest gallery on the Paper Pretties forum, and Christie will chose a winner from the entries. Besides being able to call yourself a Cutie Pie, you will also win the entire release!! You have until October 31st at 8pmCST to get your entries in!! Good luck!!

Second, On Saturday, November 1st,

Paper Pretties will be having their monthly Stampin In Your Jammies party!! The party starts at 7pm CST and will last until 10. 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 4 new sets and the Angel Wings Sophia stamp. Hope to see you there!!(Sneak peeks will start tomorrow!!)

And last, but not least, don't forget that you have until October 31st at midnight to get signed up for the

Stamp of the Month Club and get the Trim the Tree Sophia stamp before it is officially released in December!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Prettie Peeks!!

So, I know you have seen this set before, but I have had this card made since the LAST release and I have been DYING to post it!! I just love this little angel!! I made this for one of the last PJ party challenges, so some people have seen it, but I still love it, so I am posting!! The challenge was to use Pink Pirouette, Kiwi Kiss and Baja Breeze. I stamped my Angel Wings Sophia on Very Vanilla and then colored her with my aqua painter and re-inkers. I then layered her with the challenge colors and pierced a border around the corners. The DP is from the Bella Rose DSP and all the brads came from Pink Hedgehog Paper Crafts, as well as that GORGEOUS pink ribbon. My Sentiment comes from the retired SU Season's Greetings set. I did add liquid applique to the bottom of her dress. This stamp, which was last month's stamp of the month, is being released Saturday, November 1st at 7pmCST(can you BELIEVE it is November already??), along with four new Christmas sets that you are gonna HAVE to have once you see them!! As soon as I saw them, I was bouncing around in my chair!! Here is all the info you need to have about what all is going on at Paper Pretties!!

First, Cutie Pie Contest!!

How would you like to be Paper Pretties Cutie Pie? I thought you would!! All you have to do is make a card using your Paper Pretties stamps and upload it to the Cutie Pie Contest gallery on the Paper Pretties forum, and Christie will chose a winner from the entries. Besides being able to call yourself a Cutie Pie, you will also win the entire release!! You have until October 31st at 8pmCST to get your entries in!! Good luck!!

Second, On Saturday, November 1st, Paper Pretties will be having their monthly Stampin In Your Jammies party!! The party starts at 7pm CST and will last until 10. 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 4 new sets and the Angel Wings Sophia stamp. Hope to see you there!!(Sneak peeks will start tomorrow!!)

And last, but not least, don't forget that you have until October 31st at midnight to get signed up for the Stamp of the Month Club and get the Trim the Tree Sophia stamp before it is officially released in December.

Adventure...

That is one of the words I would use to describe marriage, wouldn't you?? My BIL is getting married this weekend, so I really needed a card for him and my new SIL. I decided that I would use the sketch challenge from today to make their card. They are having a fall themed wedding, complete with pumpkin centerpieces, so I used a more "fall" color scheme. I tried to go SU only on this one, but I just love my organdy ribbon and spiral clips, so I ALMOST made it, does it count is SU used to sell it? hmmm. Anyway, I stamped my flower from Bloomin' Beautiful twice, colored both the flowers in and then cut one out. My squares are 1 1/2in at the largest layer and then a 1/4 step down for the other layers. My image was colored with my SU markers. I layered them with Old Olive and Bravo Burgundy. The paper is from SU and is part of the Parisian Summer DSP, isn't it GORGEOUS!! I am not a huge fan of Blavo Burgundy, but I LOVE this paper and I LOVE this card, so what can you do?? I added some piercing around the edges and the corners of the image panels and silver brads to the top and bottom. My sentiment is from the Sweet Serendipity set and was stamped with Bravo Burgundy. I punched it out with my designer label punch and used some Stylized Silver hardware to frame it. The ribbon on the spiral clips is vanilla taffeta and around the middle it is burgundy wide grosgrain as well as my olive organdy. I am super excited about this card, mostly because I have been in a stamping funk here lately...but I think I am starting to recover, what do you think? Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!
I will leave you with some SUPAH cute pics of my ADORABLE nephew...seriously, could he get any cuter??!! Carolina, do you see anything you recognize( LOVE THE BIB YOU SENT!!)!!

What's Up Wednesday Challenge

Did you know that every Wednesday, My Favorite Things has a What's Up Wednesday challenge as well as a chat thread and special sale? Well, now you do!! Today's What's Up Wednesday Challenge was hosted by Joanne(basilefamily) and her challenge to us to emboss something on your card. You could heat emboss your image, use some sort of dry embossing, stamp and emboss a background, change the color of an embellie by embossing it etc! Lots of possibilities. For WUW Kim thought it would be fun to add a free Perfect Palette to all orders over $40, today through midnight Friday! Simply mention Perfect Palette in the comments section of your order and she will add one in! If you don't add the text, they might not remember (sigh...)! So don't forget!! Part of Joanne's challenge, besides embossing, was to use one of the Anne Lapoint images on your card as well. I decided to use one of my favorites, Chill Out. I love the polkadots on the tub, they are so cute!! I colored my image with SU re-inkers and SU markers. It was then outlined with my Prismacolor Cool Grey Marker. I layered my image with Bashful Blue, Old Olive and Perfect Plum. The white layer was cut out with my Cuttlebug and Rectangle Nestabilities. I added some silver brads to the end of the rectangle as well as all of my embossed panels. My sketch is a past MFT sketch that I thought I hadn't done, but I did, oh well!! Each panel was embossed with a different folder.

So, I really need to get back to my stamp table!! Thanks for stopping by again and have a great day!!

Prettie Wednesday-Brayer

So, two weeks ago, Jackie R. challenged us to make a card using our brayers, something I rarely ever break out!! I thought about cheating, but felt guilty, so I went ahead and used my brayer to create the paper that I cut Sophia's overalls out of. This stamp is called Falling For You and you can find it in the Paper Pretties store. Before I get more into the card, here is a TON of Paper Pretties info you need to know!!

First, Cutie Pie Contest!!
How would you like to be Paper Pretties Cutie Pie? I thought you would!! All you have to do is make a card using your Paper Pretties stamps and upload it to the Cutie Pie Contest gallery on the Paper Pretties forum, and Christie will chose a winner from the entries. Besides being able to call yourself a Cutie Pie, you will also win the entire release!! You have until October 31st at 8pmCST to get your entries in!! Good luck!!

Second, On Saturday, November 1st, Paper Pretties will be having their monthly Stampin In Your Jammies party!! The party starts at 7pm CST and will last until 10. 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 4 new sets and the Angel Wings Sophia stamp. Hope to see you there!!(Sneak peeks will start tomorrow!!)

And last, but not least, don't forget that you have until October 31st at midnight to get signed up for the Stamp of the Month Club and get the Trim the Tree Sophia stamp before it is officially released in December.

Okay, with all that out of the way, onto my card. After brayering my glossy cardstock with my Pumpkin Patch spectrum pad, I stamped my image on it and cut out just the overalls. I then layered them on my image I had stamped on Whisper White with Black Stazon. The rest of the image was colored with my SU markers and then outlined with my Prismacolor cool grey marker. The image was then cut out and layered with Kiwi Kiss and Chocolate Chip(all layers were cut out with my Cuttlebug and Oval Nesties). I then added a pewter spiral clip to each side, one with pumpkin striped and one with Kiwi striped ribbon. The white layer was run through the Cuttlebug with my new hounds tooth embossing folder and then layered with Kiwi and Chocolate. The bottom layer is some Chocolate Chip patterns DSP. I added my sentiment and some pewter brads to the top and bottom. The layers were connected with some wide stitched Chocolate Chip ribbon. This weeks challenger is Julie, who just got back from the Stampin Cruise, I am sure it will be a great one!! Be sure to blurf around and check out what the other Pretties have been up to!! Thanks and have a great day!!

Julie Masse

Charmaine Ikach

Jillian Winters

Danielle Lounds

Jodi Collins

Jackie Rakoski

Jackie Pedro

Jessica Diedrich

I Am SOOOO...

not feeling this card, but I have another whirlwind day today, and really wanted to get something posted!! Does my BIL not understand that I am busy at the end of the month with releases and such??? Nope, he just HADDDD to go ahead and schedule his wedding....LOL!! Anyway, I made this card for today's color challenge. I really wanted to use my Pick Of the Patch stamp set from Paper Pretties, so I had to figure out a way to use the Pixie Pink from the challenge with this super cute image of Cooper.......yikes!! So what I have decided is that Cooper is a great little brother to his sister Sophia, and he is holding her candy bag for her. That is why it is pink(does ANYONE out there buy this??)!! So, since I have a fear of bright colors and I am definitely NOT a fan of Pixie Pink, I used as little of it as I possibly could!! For the rest of the image I used a combination of my SU markers and my SU reinkers and blender pens. People are under the false impression that I color with copics, but I totally don't(atleast not yet...they are so tempting, just look at all the colors)!! Anyway, I used some super cute brads from Pink Hedgehog, and my DP is from the SU DSP Bella Rose. I added some Tangerine Tango and Kiwi Kiss ribbon from SU and it was done. I made this card(in theory) for my nephew to give to his parents(yes, I know he is only 4 months....but who cares!!). For those of you that might have been concerned about him(see previous post), he made it through the night great and is on his way here now!!YAYY!!

So, I leave you with some announcements!! Paper Pretties is having its monthly Cutie Pie contest!! Be sure to get you entries uploaded to the Paper Pretties gallery under Cutie Pie submissions by October 31st at 8pmCST. Besides getting to call yourself a Cutie Pie, you will also be recieving 4 new stamp sets that we will be releasing on November 1st(stay tuned for sneak peeks...yayyyy), as well as, Angel Wings Sophia. If you need any help getting your entries in the gallery, just email me at jessi96@yahoo.com and I will do what I can to get them into the right gallery!!
That is it for me now, thanks for looking and have a great day!!

Some MORE Birthday RAK's!!

So, I got a few more RAK's in the mail and I wanted to share them with you!! We took my nephew Jared to get his shots today, and if you remember from last time, he had a bad reaction to one of the shots, but they weren't sure which one, so today has been stressful to say the least!! Instead of getting the normal three immunization shots(apparently there are way more then just 3 immunizations-one of those shots holds 5 vaccines, geez), he got two-one for each leg. As of right now, he has had no reaction beyond the normal "how could you let them do this to me, I thought you liked me, owie my leg hurts" fussing, he is doing GREAT......PHEWWWW!!! What a relief!! Also, my BIL is getting married this week, so I will be extra busy for the next few days trying to get ready for that...my MIL is FREAKIN out!!LOL!! Anyway, I got this GORGEOUS card in the mail from my friendhttp://bevithia.blogspot.com/ Bev. It is amazing how you get to know people on SCS just through commenting and such. It started with comments on each others cards, and then we were on the There She Goes team at the same time...and I think we "talked" at a release party once, and the rest as they say, is history!! Isn't this FAB!! Thanks Bev, I love it!!

My next card came from my fellow Prettie Girl, Danielle(dlounds). How TALENTED is she!!! Along with being a fellow Prettie Girl, and our FABULOUS challenge girl(at the Paper Pretties forum), she is also on the Great Swaps Girls with me!! Thank you so much Danielle, I love it!!

This next card came from the SUPER talented and SUPER sweet illustrator for Paper Pretties, Joni Stringfield. She is BEYOND talented and so fabulous!! Thanks Joni, I love it!!

Finally, this JAW dropping GORGEOUS card came to me from Chat(nitestamper). When I opened it up, it took my breath away....there is just something about her style that I LOVE!! The colors are gorgeous and her work is meticulous!! Thanks Chat, I love it!!

That is all for me now..I am waiting for my second wind to see if I can muster up enough energy to stamp!!

Free Snow

Tonight was my soon to be SIL's bachelorette party and I am pooped!! I have to take my MIL for some last minute shopping before the wedding, so I am gonna make this short and sweet!! This is my card for today's Featured Stamper challenge. The Featured Stamper is Kay(speedystamper). She has a FABULOUS gallery!! I chose this card to CASE. I changed everything but the layout!! My chocolate paper is from the Bella Rose DSP and the red paper is from the Ski Slope DSP. I layered them with Whisper White, Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip and Riding Hood Red. My images(aren't they CUTE) are from the Whipper Snapper set, Snowman For Peace. I colored it in with my SU markers and outlined it with my Prismacolor Cool Grey 20% marker. After layering it and adding the piercings and cute snowflake brads(thanks Lee), I added some liquid applique to the snow and crystal effects to the snowballs. My ribbon is all from SU except the green gingham which is from JoAnns. Well, that is it for me now, thanks for looking and have a great day!!