Another Totally Papercrafts Challenge

Happy Friday! Welcome to another fun Totally Papercrafts challenge! This week's challenge is simple - just include ribbon and/or bow(s) on your card. Our sponsor this week is Stamp and Create. Play along with the challenge for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to the Stamp and Create store.

This was my Valentines Day card for my oldest daughter, Jess. It's not the most traditional of Valentines images, but she *loves* giraffes so I just had to include one on her card. :)  This PWCO stamp (no longer in business) started out as just a plain giraffe. I added a heart punched out of cardstock, shaded it with a Copic marker and placed it where it would be if he was holding in his mouth.. Then I stamped a second giraffe head, cut it out and layered it on top of the heart. (If you look closely, you can see that part of the image stands out from the rest.)

I'm entering this little cutie in this week's Hearts challenge on the Catered Crop blog as well as the Ribbons and/or Lace challenge on the Let's Ink It Up blog.

Head on over to the Totally Papercrafts challenge blog to check out all the ways that the DT included ribbon and/or bows in their cards.

Happy Friday!!!!
Lisa

A Promise Kept

When I cleaned out my craft room recently, I found myself hesitating over a flower punch that I'd bought but never used much. I decided to keep it, but made a promise to myself that I would use it soon. Thus the inspiration for today's card. Not only did I use that poor forgotten punch, all the paper is from my scrap stash and the flower rick rack is from an old PWCO PaperCard Kit.

Supplies: Picnic Fun plaid paper (A Walk in the Park Collection, Echo Park), buttons (Paper Studio), ribbon (Michaels), sentiment (retired-TAC), Noir Palette Ink (TAC), leaf punch (Emagination) and assorted cardstock scraps.

A Magical Monday Sketch

Peggy has posted another great sketch this week on the PaperWorksCo blog.

Note: I saw this sketch as a pencil draft and envisioned it turned around with the sentiment along the top. Just goes to show what a versatile sketch this is - it looks great either way!

This week's card came together so easily for me! I was stoked about using these four things: 1) this week's sketch (I love it!); 2) another one of Rachelle Anne Miller's Christmas images (love those too!); and 3)  this adorable Echo Park honeycomb paper; and 4) my new EK Success border punch.

(I don't know about you, but the white designs on that honeycomb paper look an awful lot like snowflakes to me...)

Supplies:
Stamps: A Magical Christmas (RAM for PWCO)
Paper: Honeycomb from the Life is Good Collection (Echo Park), Tweetheart from the Love Bandit Collection (Bo Bunny Press), pink cardstock (Prism), aqua and ivory cardstock
Other: Copics, border punch (EK Success), sheer ribbon, snowflake punchie, self-adhesive pearl

A Frosty Free For All

Hi! Hope you had fun participating in all the birthday festivities these past 2 weeks over at the PWCO blog. We're back to our "regularly scheduled programming", so here I am with this Monday's FFA (Free For All) card

This aqua and cream dp from Echo Park is just so soft and warm. I felt it was just perfect to warm up our frosty little friends.

Supplies:
Stamps: Flaky Friends (Rachelle Anne Miller for PWCO)
Paper: Grandma's Quilt, Life is Good Collection (Echo Park), kraft and aqua cardstocks
Other: Copics, ribbon, snowflake punch (Martha Stewart), button, twine

Happy Birthday, PWCO!!

If you've been visiting the PaperWorks Co blog, you know that the company is celebrating birthday #3!

To celebrate PaperWorks 3rd birthday, we're playing a little game with the past and present members of the design team. There are 3 chances to win a $33.00 gift certificate to the store, so make sure you play along and grab the clues along the way!! Stop by the PWCO blog and check out the birthday bonanza post for details.

Supplies:
stamps - A Little Haul of Cheer (Rachelle Anne Miller for PWCO)
paper - Honeycomb, Seeing Spots from the Life is Good Collection (Echo Park)
other: Copics, pink and brown cardstock, pink grosgrain ribbon, snowflake charm, self-adhesive rhinestones

Don't forget to leave a comment and keep looking for who this little snipped might belong to!

Final Free For All at PWCO

This is my last Free For All card for this month. I can't wait to see what my next month's assignment will be! For my card, I couldn't resist using this adorable new image from the latest Rachelle Anne Miller release. My youngest daughter loves snowglobe so this image reminds me of her. :)

If you look closely, you'll see that there is a little snowman on piece of the dp that closely resembles the snowman inside of the snowglobe.  I thought that was a fun coincidence, especially since this was just a piece from my scrap pile.

Supplies: A Magical Christmas by Rachelle Anne Miller, red Bazzill and green Prism cardstock, Season's Greetings (Let It Snow collection, 3 Bugs in a Rug), snowflake punch (Martha Stewart), scallop border punch (Fiskars) Copics, rhinestone, corner punch (Stampin' Up!), sheer white ribbon.

A Frosty Free For All

It's an FFA (Free For All) day over at the PWCO blog. Here's one of my favorite new Rachelle Anne Miller images, Flaky Friends.

Supplies: Flaky Friends (Rachelle Anne Miller for PWCO), Island Mist Medium cardstock (Prism),  Bazzill Smoothies cardstock, 3 Bugs in a Rug patterned carstock, Copics, ultrafine glitter, snowflake punch (Martha Stewart), small snowflake punch, sheer ribbon, pop-dots, rhinestone, chalk (for "sky").

PWCO Images Revealed!

If you missed last Friday's release over at Paperworks Co, you missed a good time and a lot of cute new Rachelle Anne Miller stamps!

First up is the new Angelic Choir images. (I used Sketch 54 from the Paperworks blog for my layout.)

 

Next up is the festive Season of Joy:

You can check out all the great new images here, as well as seeing the design teams' great sample projects here (look for posts from last Friday night, the 15th).

Visit the PWCO blog on Tuesday (or stop by here) to see my latest Free For All card using another holiday image from this latest release!

Sneak Peek

Hey, it's time for another great release of Rachelle Anne Miller stamps from PaperWorksCo!.

Here's a fun sneak peek:

Can you guess what the image is? No? Good, you're not supposed to! ;-)

For another fun sneak peek, visit my buddy Sunghee's blog.

And be sure to stop by the PaperWorksCo blog tonight to participate in the release party and see what great new images we've been teasing you with! Here are the directions to participate in the chat. Hope to see you there!

A Thankful Free For All

I wish it didn't take something really bad to make people realize just how lucky they are. My neighbors recently lost their newborn son, after a previous pregnancy ended in miscarriage. It definitely made me realize how lucky I have to have two great, healthy kids. So, I decided to create a card using this wonderful Rachelle Anne Miller image from the September release over at PWCO.

Supplies:

Stamps: “A Thankful Day” (Rachelle Anne Miller for PWCO)

Paper: orange and green dp (A Walk in the Park Collection, Echo Park), Jillibean kraft cardstock, brown Bazzill cardstock

Other: Copics, brown ribbon, self-adhesive rhinestones

BTW, I hope you're keeping an eye on the PWCO blog for sneak peeks from the October release of more great Rachelle Anne Miller stamps!

Fall Free for All

It's Free for All day over on the PaperWorks Co blog today. I will be providing all of the Free for All projects this month. Yay! It's one of my favorite assignments. :)

For my FFA Tuesday card, I just couldn't resist using more of the September kit paper from Echo Park as well as another new Rachelle Anne Miller Stamp! For my card layout, I used a sketch from the Lord Have Mercy! blog (sketch #86).

 

Fall is finally in the air here. I was a vendor at a fall craft festival this past weekend and there is a local pumpkin fest coming up this weekend. I love all of the Fall fun! This little girl and her squirrel friend look like they're having their share of Fall fun, too!

Stamps: The Perfect Patch (exclusive RAM for PWCO)
Paper: Playground from the A Walk in the Park Collection (Echo Park), Prismatics Herbal Garden Medium cs,  Smitten Stripes from the Be Loved Collection (My Mind's Eye), kraft base card, self-adhesive rhinestones, Copics.

Happy Fall Y'All!

I just love the new fall collection of Rachelle Anne Miller stamps at PWCO! As busy as this week was, I just had to find time to play with more of the images that Peg sent me. I had fun digging through my folder of fall-themed paper scraps to come up with this card:

How do you like the real pumpkins in the background? Nice touch, no? I don't usually include props in my photos, but these were already on my front step (where I like to take my pictures in natural light). DH threw last year's pumpkins in the garden and they grew over the summer. We've actually had these pumpkins for a while - I'm not sure they're going to make it until Halloween!

Supplies: The Pumpkin Patch - RAM exclusive for PWCO, Prima flower, Basic Grey button, QuicKutz swirl die, Copic markers, PTI cardstock (base card), misc. paper scraps.

PWCO Card Kit Friday

OK, things are now finally starting to settle down just enough that I actually had time to really play with my September kit this week. Boy, did I have fun! :)

Although I'm not normally a big fan of plaid, I really love the plaid in this month's kit. It's not your typical plaid and it has so many gorgeous colors in it! (Including my beloved pink!) I love how the kit has so many different patterns that all coordinate with each other:

All three patterend papers, both colors of cardstock and the ribbon are ALL from this month's kit! Peg puts together some awesome kits that are such a great value!


Supplies: September PWCO card kit, Beary Best of Friends exclusive PWCO stamp by Rachelle Anne Miller, Copics.

PWCO Fall Release

At night, when you’re asleep in your bed, do visions of skeletons dance in your head? If so, you’re a big fan of Halloween just like my family! I was sooo happy when I found out that I got to design a card with this cute new Halloween image from the oh-so-talented Rachelle Anne Miller. I had a lot of fun playing designing this card. After I colored in the image, I masked the owl and tree and sponged charcoal and navy blue inks on my image to create this dark & scary sky. I think it came out pretty cool!

Materials Used:

• Stamps - PWCO /RAM Exclusive – Happy Owl-O-Ween
• Paper –  Cosmo Cricket Snorkel – Carbonation, Cosmo Cricket Earth Love – Repeat, black cardstock
• Ink – Memento Black, Copics
• Accessories: yellow rhinestone (Studio 18), Palette Ink in Charcoal and Distress Ink in Faded Jeans

Check out the rest of the Rachelle Anne Miller Fall release at the PWCO store and blog!

Fab Friday Freebies!

Since my PWCO boss, Peg, has so nicely given me the day off from posting, I decided to share a "Fab Friday" with you all instead! I came across these free printable templates today:

http://www.waltzingmousestamps.com/collections/freebies

Pretty cool, n'est pas? I'm going to try making some of the stocking stuffer gift card holders for the upcoming Hatton craft show.

If you don't have plans this evening, please join us in the PWCO chat room for the latest Rachelle Anne Miller stamp release. It's going to be a blast! :) Check out the blog for details.

Sneaky Peeky...

Have you been following along with the sneak peeks of latest Rachelle Anne Miller release over on PaperWorks Co? If not, then head on over right now (well, after you read my post, of course, lol!) and check out some glimpses of the great new images.

Here's just a little sneak peek of one of my cards:

Hmmm... what can this mystery image be? Be sure to visit the PaperWorks Co blog on Friday night to see this and all the other great new releases from Rachelle Anne Miller!

In the meantime, you can catch another fun new sneak peek over at my partner Sunghee's blog. She is sure to have something special for share!

Quick Kit Cuteness

I have been working a ton of extra hours so I needed this week's card to be super quick. And that's the thing I love about kits - everything's already coordinated so you can just get down to making something and you know everything will look good together.

Everything except for the card base (which you can't see) and the yellow flower are ALL from this month's kit!  I used 2 different patterned papers, a strip of brown cardstock and used one of sparkly big brads to create this super quick but super cute card!

Be sure to visit the PaperWorks Co store to check out more of the kit!

PaperWorks Co News

Have you visited the PaperWorks Co blog lately? Peggy has announced the winners to the Ultimate Summer Challenge. Congrats to the grand prize winners - Buffalo Stampers! Head on over to the blog to find out the runners up.

Yesterday there was a new sketch posted:

Try out this fun sketch for a chance to be a PWCO guest designer!

In case you missed it, here's my challenge focus card from last Saturday:

And be sure to visit the PWCO blog on Wednesday to see the latest kit that Peggy has put together. I'll be in charge of kit sample cards this month so I can't wait to see what's in the kit! I'm sure whatever it is, it will be a great kit with lots of fun stuff! :)

Technique (almost) Tuesday

If you've been following along with the challenges on the Paperworks Co blog, you'll know that the 4th challenge was a technique challenge. Our challenge was to make our own background paper.

Here's a before and after of my background paper:

(The after is the "sand" background.) I started with some "natural" cardstock that had little brown flecks in it. I added color with this funky little sponge that a fellow stamper once gave me:

These are the Tim Holtz Distess Inks that I used - Vintage Photo and Tea Dye:

After I was done sponging the paper, I crumpled, straightened and recrumpled that paper several times until I was happy with the texture of it. Next, I ripped the edge of it to give it a softer, more natural edge.

And here's the final card:

I also sponged the sky background, as well. (I used a homemade cloud template and some blue ink - more Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Faded Denim.) Together, these techniques make a fun background for beachy images like these two cuties - Carlos the Crab and Wallie the Whale from PWCO's Aqua Amigos collection.

Aqua Amigos

The Aqua Amigos have come out to play in this week's Challenge Focus on the PWCO blog! For my challenge, I used this fun sketch from Taylored Expressions.

I thought it was the perfect sketch to showcase some of my favorite PWCO stamps, the Aqua Amigos!

I just love those guys!!!!

Supplies: Ollie the Octopus, Carlos the Crab and Tommy the Turtle - Aqua Amigos (PWCO), dp (My Minds Eye), cardstock, border punch (EK Success), buttons (Doodlebug), twine, Copics.