Welcome to my blog. I'm a SAHM to 2 incredible boys, happily married and very blessed! I started my blog to share how fun and easy it is to impress yourself with handmade cards, scrapbook pages, and gifts.It's here - Release Day at Paper Makeup Stamps. As always, we're kicking it off with a Design Team blog hop. If you didn't start at the beginning, then hop on back to the PMS blog to get started. You don't want to miss a blog, otherwise you won't have all the letters for your fabulous coupon code!
Meet Go Green Monster:
TGIF! And today we're showing off the new fairies being released at Paper Makeup Stamps. Meet sweet little Henry:
This little guy really tugs on my heart. Katie named him after Henry, a little 3-year old boy who went to live in Heaven this week. Katie is selling this Henry image as a digital download, and soon a rubber stamp, with the proceeds to benefit Henry's family. You can read all about this charity on the PMS blog. This week's SCS color challenge was to use neutrals with a "pop" of color. I imagine that was alot like Henry's life - adding a "pop" to his family's day with his beautiful smile. My heart goes out to his family.
In addition to Henry, there are some other incredible fairies being released tomorrow, so be sure and check out the rest of the DT samples on the PMS blog. I'll see you back here tomorrow for the Release Day blog hop!
It's Day 3 of the sneak peeks, and today we're showcasing the new monsters being released at Paper Makeup Stamps. Meet Boo Boo Monster:
He could easily be one of my boys lately! My patterned paper is digi from Libby Weifenbach's 9 out of 10 Doctors kit. My layout was inspired by....oops can't write that yet or it will spoil the fun waiting for ya at the PMS Release Party on Saturday night!
Have a great day and be sure and check out the other DT samples on the PMS blog. See ya!
It's Day 2 of the Paper Makeup Stamps sneak peeks. Here's a peek at a beautiful new set called Everyday Thanks:
Such a simple sentiment, yet the font is stunning! I decided to alter a little treat box for the PMS Makeup for the Weekend challenge this week. If you haven't had a chance to play, please join us this week and link your creation up to the PMS blog so we can all enjoy.
Have a great day and I'll see you back here tomorrow for more peeks.
Today's the day! We're kicking off the November sneak peeks from Paper Makeup Stamps. Today, Katie is showcasing her newest addition to the Moody Girls line. Here's mine:
She's Moody for Fun. And boy did I have fun with all that purple...maybe a little too much? I saw the Ways to Use It challenge on SCS was to use purple (my favorite color) and couldn't resist. I just wish I could look all fun and funky in that same outfit. I also played in this week's SCS Featured Stamper Challenge. I just adore Jen so I CASE'd one of her layouts.
Now be sure and check out all the other Moody Girl sneak peeks on the PMS blog. They'll be released Saturday night during the Release Party. Have a great day and see you back here tomorrow for another sneak peek.
It's Wednesday and time for Paper Makeup Stamps freebie wordart. Today, Katie has designed this beautiful piece that I love so much. I am just so thankful that my boys are being raised in a world with so much diversity in their lives!
You can grab this freebie wordart on the PMS blog for one week only. The template I used is from the Cookie Decorating challenge at Sweet Shoppe Designs (SSD). All of my papers and embellishments are from various kits from Libby Weifenbach at SSD. And I always love adding Traci Reed's Bad Sewing Machine stitching to my layouts. I have to thank Leila for quickly teaching me how to take Libby's I Just Wanna Be Ok alpha and using various papers with it. I love all these fun tricks I'm learning with digiscrappin'.
Have a great day!
I love playing in the challenges on Splitcoaststampers - there's always one that can get you jump started. Friday's Limited Supplies Challenge was to create a "girly" card with no patterned paper. I thought Emma from Paper Makeup Stamps would be a cute choice.
The sentiment is from the Raindrops and Rainbows set, also from PMS. I wanted to keep my simple, but it needed a little something, so I checked out the Clean and Simple challenges and yesterday's was to use brads or eyelets. So I found a perfect use for these 'girly' flower brads from my stash. I probably should have added a little something else green to balance out my colors? Oh well, note to self for next time!
Don't forget to check out the PMS Countdown to Christmas sale this week. Katie is being so generous once again and offering free shipping - anywhere. Wow!
Well, I can't deny it anymore. The holidays are approaching quickly and I know I will be overeating and getting less exercise as the weather turns cooler. So I jumped at the chance to join the Skinny Jeans Experiment. It's a 9-week challenge that an awesome digi girl referred to on the Sweet Shoppe Designs forum. My personal goal is to lose 18 lbs, work out 5 days a week, eat better, etc. You know the same ol' same ol'...but this time really do it and journal about my journey.
We officially started yesterday so I thought I'd reward myself with some digiscrappin'. No, that's not my picture, but I did have to have my hubby take pictures of me in my too-tight jeans yesterday. I won't be posting those here - yikes they were scary to look at! This is the beautiful Peace, Love, and Happiness digital kit from Libby Weifenbach. I need something fun and funky to motivate me on this journey. I also entered this page into the Paper 2 Digi challenge at Sweet Shoppe where they pick a "traditional" scrappers gallery at Two Peas and we "scraplift" a page into a digital one. Too fun.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
It's Friday and time for the Paper Makeup Stamps challenge. This week's Makeup for the Weekend challenge is to use Halloween colors (purple, orange, black and white) on your creations. You can see some DT samples on the PMS blog. Here's mine:
This is Trick or Treat Ted, with one of the Spooky Sentiments released last month. I can't believe Halloween is next week - YIKES. I'm so in denial that the holidays are coming. I still have to get costumes figured out for the boys - my oldest is going to be Michael Phelps, and my youngest will be some huge football star. Sounds easy, huh?
Hope you'll play along in the PMS challenge and be sure to link up your creations to the PMS blog so we can all enjoy them. Have a great weekend!
Have you seen the beautiful Purpose of Friendship set from Paper Makeup Stamps? I just love these gorgeous quotes!
This one is I Count Myself and is available in the new rubber set or as an individual digi download. I used SCS Sketch Challenge 251 from yesterday, and I'm also playing in Danni's Flutter By #80 challenge. This pretty patterned paper is from a mini digi kit called Flirting with Thirty by Mandabean at Sweet Shoppe Designs. (okay I admit, I'm just a little older than thirty but somehow flirting with fifty doesn't sound so cute!).
Have a great day!
I played in the Treat of the Month challenge at Sweet Shoppe Designs with this layout. I used the Pie are Squared kit from Libby Weifenbach, and the Bad Sewing Machine stitching from Traci Reed. Both of these kits are sold exclusively at Sweet Shoppe Designs. The Homework word art is from Elegant Wordart by Bethany found at Scrap Orchard.
I thought this one would be really cute in a 4x6 version to frame for my son's teacher's birthday tomorrow. This year he has his first male teacher, and he's really great.
Have a great day,
We're all excited that PMS fans piped in to vote on the best day of the week to schedule challenges: Fridays. And you have all week to get them done. This week's Makeup for the Weekend challenge is to create an Artist Trading Card (ATC) card. These little cards are so fun to make. You can see some really creative ones on the PMS blog post from Friday. Here's mine:
I love this Caffeine Trip set from PMS. These would be so great to add to a card base, set beside someone's morning coffee, etc. Also, don't forget about the PMS Countdown to Christmas sale. Katie has all her accessories 30% off this week. What a deal!
Have a great day,
I was so excited to see that Chris (aka Glowbug) was picked as the SCS Featured Stamper this past week. I just love all of her creations. Honestly, every card she creates just blows me away. I knew it would be quite the challenge to CASE her cards, so instead I let her inspire me to finally create one of these Top Note purses. I forgot to take my picture before my DH and son took the camera for their 3-day trip so I'm a little late posting it.
This is another beautiful new quote from Paper Makeup Stamps. I love all of PMS, but Katie's (and Shaela's) quotes are definitely my favorite! I found this Houndstooth digital paper designed by Libby Weifenbach on sale at Sweet Shoppe Designs and thought it would be pretty for this purse and matching 3x3 monogram cards to go inside. The alpha is from Libby's 9 out of 10 Doctors kit.
Don't forget to play along with us in the Makeup for the Weekend challenge at PMS. I'll be posting my ATC soon. In the meantime, have a great weekend!
Okay, I won't tell HOW LONG it took me to create this page, but I'm really proud of it! Challenge Air is such an awesome nonprofit organization. About 3 times a year they offer flights in our area. They take children and adults with special needs up for a 30-minute flight for free. How amazing is that? My son absolutely loves it!
I wish we could have captured his precious smile, but I think he was a little ticked that we interrupted his fun for a photo moment! This is the Blackbird kit again by Libby Weifenbach. I used one of Darcy Baldwin's A Bit Wonky Templates to get started. I have so much still to learn about digiscrapping and was smart enough to grab these with my coupon from The Daily Digi when she was a featured artist a few weeks ago. Thanks to Misty Cato's incredible tutorials I am learning some fun tricks like how to blend my photo into the background, and how to thread my ribbon through Libby's Date Sliders (which are 30% off right now). Oh boy, I am SOOOO addicted! And the cool font that the word "challenge" is in is called Angelic War, and I saw it on Lauren Grier's blog today.
Have a great day,
Mine is HUGE! We have had lots of challenges in our lives, but our faith has certainly given us the strength to overcome them. One of our ongoing challenges is parenting and teaching our son with autism. I was torn between happiness and sadness today as he left for his 5th grade field trip with his Dad. They'll be at at a really fun educational camp for 2 nights. This trip will be lots of firsts for my son, and we have been so blessed for him to have such great teachers and caring friends at school.
I was so happy to see Katie release this How big your God is word art last week. I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch and was inspired by Julee's beautiful sample to create a tag, and use digital papers on my card. These papers are from Libby Weifenbach's Blackbird kit, and I used one of her elements to create the cream-colored patterned paper.
Thanks for stopping by,
Our second challenge at the Paper Makeup Stamps release party last week was the recipe challenge. The "paper makeup" theme included a sentiment as the focal point, 3 layers, fall colors, distressing, and brads or eyelets. Here's mine:
I love this Dream Big sentiment from PMS. I really enjoy making these "quilt" cards and I always follow Diana's tutorial. But this time I used the digital papers from Libby Weifenbach's Happy Ending kit. I was so excited at how much easier it is to make my quilt pattern digitally, rather than all that punching and adhesive. I see lots more of these in my future!
Have a great day.
The flu season has hit hard within my family and friends so I thought a little hybrid gift was just what the doctor ordered:
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I've been dying to make something with the 9 Out of 10 Doctors Agree digital kit by Libby Weifenbach. It is full of fun papers and elements.
I went searching online for a template for a doctor's bag and found this adorable template from Lauren Meader. I think it turned out so cute!
I'm so glad it's Friday. Today's my hubby's birthday and we had a date for brunch and went to see "The Informant" but we both fell asleep - how sad is that! I love Matt Damon, but that wasn't one I enjoyed.
Hope you have a great weekend!
Did you see all the new October releases at Paper Makeup Stamps? I love them all!!! Our first release party challenge last night was the popular "I've got a CASE of PMS". This month, we decided to honor our newest DT member, Randee. She does a fabulous job with her designs. I've been a big fan of her All Star card and wanted to CASE it.
I didn't have all the same cute supplies she did, nor can I stitch like her, so I used some digital elements to help me out. I just love this Football Fan monster. Perfect for this season and reminds me of my husband and youngest son last weekend yelling at, (oops I mean cheering for), our Dallas Cowboys!
Hope you'll play along in the challenge. Up for grabs is a stamp of your choice from PMS and you have until Monday to upload your creation to be in the drawing. Have a great day!
It's finally here! Today is Release Day at Paper Makeup Stamps and we're kicking off the fun with a Design Team blog hop starting at 7:00 a.m. CST. Be sure and start at the beginning so you don't miss a thing. Here's my fun project to show off today:
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Isn't this new Adam Fairy and fall sentiment adorable? I just love that Katie is releasing these in digi and rubber both. My fellow design team members have done an amazing job with sneak peek cards using these two stamps this week. So I thought I'd show how fun it is to "stamp" Adam on a digi page. I love this picture of my boys from years ago.
My letter is "L" and your next stop on the hop is the fabulous Lisa Kind.
Have fun on your blog hop and I hope to see you tonight at the Release Party.
Designer Credits: Fifteen, Pie are Squared (alpha), Apples on Stick (tree, ric rac) kits by Libby Weifenbach; Template freebie by Lauren Grier CT; leaves by Krystal Hartley (all Sweet Shoppe Designs).
It's day 5 and we're showcasing the new Moody Girl stamps being released this month at Paper Makeup Stamps. I just love these new girls and they are so fun to color.
I thought these fall colors were perfect for the new Moody for Fall girl. I just bought this digital kit from Libby Weifenbach on Saturday (I know, big shock!). It's called Happy Ending and if you buy it this week, you get a matching set of quickpages for free. Sweet! You just need my cute mini notebook and matching pen to jot that down, huh?
Be sure and check out all the DT samples on the PMS blog where you can get a peek at the other two Moody girls being released. And mark your calendar for the DT blog hop tomorrow morning, and the release party tomorrow night. Lots of fun to be had as usual! Have a great day,
It's day 4 of the sneak peeks at Paper Makeup Stamps. Today, the design team is showcasing some more awesome sentiments that will be released on Wednesday:
I love this one called Shared Joy. My patterned papers are from Libby Weifenbach's digital kit called Best of Both Worlds. It was a freebie with purchase last month at Sweet Shoppe Designs.
Be sure and check out all the DT samples on the PMS blog - these sentiments are all so beautiful! See you back here tomorrow for Day 6!
It's Day 3 of the new release sneak peeks and Katie is showcasing new Holiday Sentiments and a Snow Happy set on the PMS blog. Here's my project:
I just love all of Katie's new holiday sentiments so I thought a little Tag Pouch was in order. I CASE'd Lynn's project here. Now make sure you have checked out all the DT samples on the PMS blog. Those little snowmen are so cute!
See you tomorrow for Day 4.
It's Day 2 and Katie is showcasing beautiful new quotes and sentiments, as well as the new Apples Additions set on the Paper Makeup Stamps blog. Here's a little card I made:
I just loved the Apples to Apples set released last month and this new set is a great add-on with bigger apples and a new sentiment you can see on the DT samples on the PMS blog. The apple-shaped card is a printable template from The Cutting Cafe. I used Tina's color choices from last Monday's PMS challenge which inspired me to dig out this retired DSP from SU and do some paper piercing on the apple. This is also my entry for the Stamp Something challenge this week.
Also today kicks off Katie's Countdown to Christmas sale so be sure and check out all those goodies and all the sneak peeks on the PMS blog. I'll see you back here tomorrow for day 3.
Yes, I know it's Saturday! But Katie is so generous that she leaves her Freebie Friday links up for a whole week...so grab it while you can! Here's my card with this week's fabulous word art:
She did an awesome job on this one! I played in the Limited Supplies Challenge yesterday and it was an "SOS" challenge. So my SOS was Square nesties, Organdy ribbon, and Sketch challenge 247. I also took the leaf Katie had in her word art and made some patterned paper. Then I remembered this retired designer paper would go perfectly with it, so I used some of it for paper piecing the leaf. I am definitely ready for the Autumn season!
Have a great Saturday!
