RAK's and Awards

ETA: hehehehehe, I am a big ol dork and hit publish before I added the pictures, LOL!!

I have been a MAJOR slacker in posting all the fabulous RAK's and awards I have received lately, so bare with me, this post is LONG!!

This first card was sent to me by the fabulous and SUPAH TALENTED Donna Baker. You can check out her work at her blog, Serenity in Stamping. Thanks Donna, you made my day!!

This next card was sent to me from one of the Paper Pretties guest designers, Christi Thorsen...isn't it AWESOME!! I was TOTALLY having one of those days when it arrived, so it couldn't have come at a better time. Be sure to check her out at her blog, Story of a Girl. Thanks Christi, you rock!!

My next card was sent to me from miss There She Goes herself, Jessica Knutsen. If you didn't already know, There She Goes is a new company that is ROCKIN my stamping world!! In fact, Jessica(supah talented stamp designing diva) is releasing a BUNCH of new GOODIES tomorrow, so be sure to check that out!! Thanks Jessica, sorry I lost some of the bling..blame the Post Office!!

This card, and YUMMY ribbon, was sent to me by the SUPAH talented and absolutely wonderful Jody Morrow!! I can't even begin to tell you how thrilled and honored I am to have a creation by Jody, who in my opinion, is a stamping ROCKSTAR!! Thanks Jody, I LOVE the ribbon and the card!!

I received this card in the mail from my friend Becky Givans. Becky and I were at the Arlington stamp day together and ended up sitting at the same table A LOT!! We got to know each other that day, and then to top the day off, I won the door prize that she had brought(the best one there IMHO)!! I loved getting to know her, and can't wait to see her again!! Thanks Becky!!

This is a thank you card that I received from one of the winners of my blog candy giveaway. I thought it was SO SWEET that she would send me a card thanking me, don't you!! Thanks so much Karen, I love it!!



And last, but definitely not least, I was given this award from the super talented Teresa Kline. She sent it to me forever ago, and I just NOW remembered to put it on here and pass it one. Please forgive me, I have blond moments....lots and lots of blond moments. Here are the rules!!

Rules for the Kreativ Blogger Award are:
1.The winner may put the logo on their blog.
2. Put a link to the person that sent you the award.
3. Nominate 5 blogs.
4. Put links to their blogs.
5. Leave a message for your nominees.
*****
1. Jodi-Stamping a Latte
2. Christie- Little Pink Flowers
3. Kelly Lunceford- Flutter by Atomic Butterfly
4. Amy Sheffer- Pickled Paper Designs
5. Jody Morrow- Confessions of a Ribbon Addict

Well, now I feel better!! Stay tuned, another post will be here shortly!!

Some News!!

Sorry everyone, I am still feeling pretty crummy!! Hopefully I will be back to normal tomorrow because I have a TON of stamping that has to be done, and soon!!! I do have some news from Paper Pretties to share with you, and hopefully tomorrow, I will have some eye candy!!


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 November 30th at 8pmCDT to get your entries in!! Good luck!!

Stampin In Your Jammies!!
On Monday December 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 Trim the Tree to the public as well as re-releasing Snowflake Kisses in RUBBAH. Hope to see you there!!


And one more thing...don't forget that you have until November 30th at midnight to get signed up for the Stamp of the Month Club and get the Sending You Love Sophia stamp before it is officially released in January.

Thanksgiving Blessings

Hello everyone...hope all of you that are celebrating Thanksgiving today, as well as everyone else, are having a happy and blessed day. I have come down with some sort of bug, but never fear, I still ate til I was so full I thought I might burst!! Of course afterwards, I spent the rest of the day laying on the couch whining about how bad I feel. My throat is so sore I could cry, don't you hate that?? I wasn't going to post today, but then I remembered this card I had made back when I was a featured designer for Whipper Snapper, and I decided to share it today. I made this card using the Give Thanks set from Whipper Snapper. I stamped the wheat bundles(I THINK that's what they are) with Creamy Carmel and So Saffron ink on Whisper White. I layered it with So Saffron and Bravo Burgundy CS which was cut out with my Rectangle Nestabilities. I used some retired Four Seasons DSP from SU and added silver brads, white taffeta, a spiral clip, and some cream and Burgundy grosgrain.

Well, that is it for me now...I can hear my couch calling me!!! Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed holiday!!

Prettie Wednesday- Pearls

Two weeks ago, I challenged my fellow Prettie Girls to make a card using pearls on it...easy peasy right!! While I was at Walmart, I bought this SUPER GORGEOUS pearl snowflake buttons, so I KNEW that I wanted to use them on my card today. My card was made using the SCS sketch challenge along with the SOON TO BE RELEASED to the public stamp, Trim the Tree. Trim the Tree will be released by Paper Pretties on Monday, December 1st at our monthly Stampin In Your Jammies party. She will be released along with our Snowflake Kisses stamp set which will be RE-RELEASED in RUBBAH!! The fun starts at 6pmCDT(here is a time zone converter to help you figure out what time that is in your neck of the woods) and will last until 9pm. We will be issuing a challenge every hour as well as talkin up a storm. So, be there, or be square, LOL!! Also, you have until the 30th of November at 8pmCDT to get your entries in for the Cutie Pie contest, just be sure to get your card uploaded to the Paper Pretties Cutie Pie submissions gallery. The winner will get both the Trim the Tree and Snowflake Kisses sets as their prize!!

Okay, enough blabber, onto the card!! I stamped my Trim the Tree Sophia on watercolor paper with Black Stazon ink. I then used my Not Quite Navy marker to color her in. After coloring her dress, I used an aquapainter to take away some of the color then painted the whole image with some December Sky Shimmerz...yummmo!!! It is rare that you can see shimmer in a picture, but I think it is VERY visable in mine!! The belt and sleeves on the dress are colored with my Silver Glitter Pen that I picked up at Target. The rest of the image was then colored in with my SU markers and outlined with my Cool Grey Prismacolor 20% marker. I pierced a border around the edges and added a spiral clip with some yummy Pink Hedgehogs Paper Crafts ribbon on it. The bottom corner has a snowflake that was punched out of my yummy Heidi Grace DSP (which is STILL ON SALE at Paper Pretties...go now!!!)(with one of the Martha Stewart Snowflake punches(Walmart)) and I layered one of my pearl snowflake buttons on top(also from Walmart). To get the button to sit flat, I just took a pair of scissors and cut off the loop on the back, easy peasy. The silver paper is from the DCWV metallic stack and it was paired with Whisper White and Not Quite Navy. I added some pearls to the edge as well as to her ornament. The ribbon is retired SU Silver Organdy with some silver cord. I did run the white layer through the Cuttlebug with my ornaments embossing folder. Well, that is it for me now...be sure to blurf around and see what the other Pretties have been up to!! I am sure they are amazing!!

Julie Masse

Charmaine Ikach

Jillian Winters

Danielle Lounds

Jodi Collins

Jackie Rakoski

Jackie Pedro

Jessica Diedrich

Merry & Bright

I know I have said it before, but I just LOVE the new Nativity images from Paper Pretties. This card was made using the Nativity set, but there are two other sets that go along with it, Adore Him and Worship the King. I decided to make my card using today's color challenge, Very Vanilla, Going Gray and Really Rust...blahhh. I don't really care for it, but I like my card, so I guess it will work. I stamped the Baby Jesus image with Black Stazon, and colored it in with my SU markers. The DP is from the SU Fall Flowers pack. I used some yummy Going Gray brads and grosgrain from Pink Hedgehog Paper Crafts and some vanilla taffeta and pewter clips to embellish it. The sentiment was stamped the same way and then punched out with my SU circle punches. Sorry for the bluntness, but my nephew was a BEAR today..and I am exhausted!! He was running a fever after his shots, which he did not have a reaction to, thank goodness. Anyway, all he wanted to do was eat and sleep, but I had to hold him A LOT today. Thanks for stopping by though, and for your concern about him...have a great day(or night)!!
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 November 30th at 8pmCDT to get your entries in!! Good luck!!
On Monday December 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 Trim the Tree to the public as well as re-releasing Snowflake Kisses in RUBBAH. Hope to see you there!!
And one more thing...don't forget that you have until November 30th at midnight to get signed up for the Stamp of the Month Club and get the Sending You Love Sophia stamp before it is officially released in January.

Who's That Girl Monday- Nature Calls

So, I know it is shameful, but here is yet ANOTHER My Favorite Things set that hasn't seen ink since I bought it!! That is what I LOVE about the MFT member forum challenges...they force me to ink up my unused sets. This weeks Who's That Girl challenge is being hosted by my friend Laura(lov'n life n vegas), and the challenge was to use the MFT set Nature Calls and to also use up some scraps. Well, since I have a TON of those laying around, that was EASY for me!! I didn't mean to end up with a monochromatic card, but I LOVE it. Recently, on Facebook, I have reconnected with some old friends, and I wanted to make a card to send to them to let them know that I miss them....get it, I MOOSE you, LOL!! The sentiment is from the coordinating, What's Your Sign set. Isn't it cute!! I stamped the moose image with Black Stazon ink and colored it in with my SU markers. I did the outline with my Cool Grey Copic(C3). The DSP is from the Close To Cocoa DSP(retired) from SU and also from the Ski Slope DSP, in fact, the Ski Slope is actually two small pieces I just have peeking out..yayy me!! I added a ton of white brads and some felt Alpine Originals ribbon from SU. The punches that were used to make my sentiment panel are all from SU. I was going to wait and post this til tomorrow, but I have to go to my sister's to watch Jared tomorrow...wish me luck. He is getting the second round of his vaccinations, and I am TERRIFIED he will have a reaction again*. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

*He had an injection sight reaction to the shots that they gave him the first time that he got vaccinated. He had skinny little chicken legs when he first got the shots, so we are HOPEing that now that he actually has some fat on him that he won't react. I am still terrified though..........

Featured Stamper Sunday

Here is my card for this week's Featured Stamper...and I am up WAY to late, so bare with me!! This weeks Featured Stamper is Elizabeth(ebethneu) and she has a FABULOUS gallery!! It is full of funky and fabulous creations that are AWESOME to look at...very hard to reproduce(or maybe it is still the whole up late thing)!! I chose this card of hers to CASE, due to the fact that I received this GORGEOUS image(bought from Sweet n Sassy, part of the Rachel Anne Miller collection, it is called Cute Kitty) from my pal Jodi(kharmagirl) in the mail today, THANKS JODI!!! I have been eyeing this paper that I got from Paper Pretties, so that is where I drew my colors. It is from the Paper Salon Pristine collection(which is still on sale for 75%off at Paper Pretties...AWESOME!!). I used Sage Shadow, Regal Rose and Close To Cocoa. My image was colored with SU markers and outlined with a Warm Grey No.3 marker from Copic. I followed her sketch almost exactly and TRIED to keep the embellishments the same. I added a bunch of pink felt flowers with silver brads to two corners and added some BLING from Mark Richards in the other corners as well as on her hair bows and the little star burst thingies....sorry, I have NO CLUE what they are supposed to be, but they are cute..LOL!! I went a little further and added my normal piercing and spiral clips, but hey...I TRIED. Isn't this CUTE!!! I can't figure out why I am getting that weird line on the hand, but I don't see it in real life(AGAIN, may be the up late thing). Well, that is it for me now!! Thanks for looking and have a great day!! as I am typing this I just realized that this was a previous sketch challenge!! I REALLY try NOT to do that, but I loved her card, so oh well!!

Merry Christmas Weekend Sketch Challenge

Isn't this Cardinal Christmas set from SU GORGEOUS!!! I LOVE it and I have had it for awhile, so I was DYING to get it inky today!! I started by stamping my image in Black Stazon then I colored it in with my SU reinkers(Riding Hood Red) and SU markers. For the shading on the bird, I added some Ruby Red marker, but the body was colored with a blender pen and reinker. I outlined my image with my Copic Warm Grey marker(W3). I then layered it with Riding Hood Red, Old Olive, and Chocolate Chip. The DP is from the Ski Slope DSP and the ribbon is from the Alpine originals, except what is on the clips, it is RHR taffeta. I followed Beate's sketch and VIOLA..it was done...GORGEOUS!! Gotta go, DH is taking me to dinner...SHOCKING!!

I'm Backkkkkk

So, I haven't posted a thing since Thursday...YIKES!! That is a long time for me...and I would love to say I was stamping away, but sadly no. After posting a couple cards Thursday morning, Jared and I went out to run some errands and then I went to his house and spent the night. It is shotgun season around here, so his dad was staying at my house to go hunt which meant that the boy didn't have a ride...instead of fooling with it, I just went there to stay. I got home last night, but sleeping with a baby is exhausting, LOL, so I went to bed sorta early. Before I went to bed, I did get a look at the Friday Limited Supplies Challenge and Saturday's Inspiration Challenge, so I did have all night to come up with a plan. The inspiration piece was the AMC show Mad Men. I didn't pick one specific person or picture, but rather the way the women dress...Lexi would fit right in with them!! This card is pretty basic, but I {heart} it!! Maybe that is because I also used four of my favorite things: Jen's SFYTT, Sweet Always DSP, Lexi from Paper Pretties, and my Swiss Dots folder. How could I not LOVE it, right!! So, since you know what inspired me, and where the sketch came from, you need to know what the LSC was. Well, it was to include Chocolate on your card, in any way you want....EASY PEASY!! Not only did I use Chocolate Chip paper(by far my FAVORITE color), but I also have Lexi holding this GINORMOUS box of Chocolates. To give the box some dimension, I glued the bottom half down and put the top half on a pop dot....LOVE the way that looks. The image was paper pieced with the Sweet Always paper and I colored the rest with my SU markers. I did outline the image with my new Copic Cool Grey No. 3 marker(C3). The ribbons are all from SU, but I think the Pink one is retired..why oh why do they do that to me!! I added some silver brads, a silver figure 8 clip, and the sentiment, which was punched out with my SU punches. Well, that is all for me now...I am off to stamp some more!! Thanks for looking and have a great day!!

Oh ya, been awhile, so here is some Baby Eye Candy for ya!! He is wearing an outfit that my bestest pal Jodi(kharmagirl) sent him...isn't he a CUTIE!!

Celebrating MFT Day and Pearls

So, I decided to combine today's Ways to Use it challenge, to use pearls or something pearl related, with my celebrating MFT day card. The twentieth of every month it is Celebrating My Favorite Things day, so write it down!! Basically, it is a day to show some love to your MFT stamps....bonus points(fake ones but still) for using Pink and Black!! I decided to try to use one of my yet to be inked Annie LaPoint images called Rosemary. I stamped it on watercolor paper with Black Stazon ink and then colored it in with my SU markers. I cut it and its layers out with my circle Nesties. The paper is from SU(Rose Red DSP) and The Paper Studio(Black and White Stack). I followed this weeks MFT sketch and added some wide stitched Rose Red grosgrain, as well as some black GORGEOUS ribbon from Pink Hedgehog Paper Crafts. The flowers are by Spare Parts(Hobby Lobby) and I added some K&Co. pearl brads to their centers. The pearls in the corners are from Michael's. I did some piercing and it was done!! Thanks for stopping by again, have a great day!!