Friday, November 12, 2010

Paper Pretties Blog Hop!!

Welcome to the next stop on this fabulous Paper Pretties Blog Hop!! If you are arriving from Frances’ blog, then you are right on track!! If you happened to start in the middle, feel free to turn around and head over to the Paper Pretties Blog. You won’t want to miss a thing; all the new stamps and cards are absolutely beautiful!!

I was nervous, excited and honored that Heather asked me to be part of today’s blog hop. Heather is a wonderful person and if you haven’t had the pleasure, let me introduce you…Heather is the new owner of
Paper Pretties which is located in Madison, WI. Heather offers amazing customer service with her lightening speed shipping and cheaper shipping rates. She has a Paper Pretties facebook page which is a great way of keeping up with all the challenges, releases and Paper Pretties projects. She also has the Paper Pretties store where you can look at all the fabulous new releases and get a few of those extra crafting items that you just need (i.e. Basic Grey, Kaisercraft paper and more).

For my projects today, I used
Sledding Cooper. Sledding Cooper is illustrated by the talented Joni Stringfield and this little angel was such a pleasure to play with. He comes with 4 fun sentiments, two of which are shown in this post.

For my card I used, Paper Pretties Sledding Cooper, SU cardstock, Creative imaginations DP, Copics, Martha Stewart punch and snowflakes, Glitter, ribbon, flourishes and a snowflake embossing folder.

For my next project I made an ornament using Sledding Cooper and another one of the great sentiments from the set "Let it snow".

This little guy was black embossed onto acetate and colored on the back using permanent markers. Although difficult to see, I touched the snow around him with dazzling diamonds and added glitter to the bottom of the ornament. I used ribbon, glue dots, flowers and MS snowflake.

Thank you so much for coming by and joining us today!! The incredibly talented JACKIE is your NEXT STOP on this HOP!!!

Enjoy

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Swap cards and PWC - 126

Today I have for you the Paper Pretties swap cards from the swap I recently hosted. I absolutetly love all the cards and had a great set of ladies joining me!! All the ladies did a fantastic job as I am sure you will agree!!! So here are the cards:
This card was made by Jackie, she used Paper Pretties stamp set Holiday Fairy Meg, if you would like to see more of her awesome cards, you can visit her at her blog.
Virginia made this awesome Halloween card. Virginia used Paper Pretties Witch Sophia and tried her hand at copic markers for the first time. She did an amazing job and I just love how this card came out. Virginia is also my Stamping Up demo and has a SU website.

Cammy made this adorable card. I just love the coordinating colors and LOVE the paper piecing. Those pot-a-dot books just make me smile, I love them. Cammy used Paper Pretties Tis the Season Sophia. Isn't see just beautiful. To see more of Cammy's beautiful work go to her blog.

This card was made by yours truly! I am also using it for the Paper Pretties weekly challenge. This weeks Challenge was a sketch challenge, you can see it at the Paper Pretties Blog. I used Paper Pretties Everyday Lily and adorable paper by SU and Mi Casa. I used Copics to color in the image, Martha Stewart punches, Kaisercraft white Pearls and flowers.

Feel free to let these ladies know what a great job they did. I would like to thank each of them for making this swap so successful. Thanks ladies!!!

Thanks for stopping by and everyone have a great weekend!

Double Gate Fold

I tried this double gate fold card for a friends birthday. I used stampin up 12x12 cardstock sheet of paper for the base. You can also use a...