PMS Countdown to Christmas Sale!

I'm such a bad DT member! I keep forgetting to post these fabulous sales! Paper Makeup Stamps has been having a sale for each of the 12 weeks leading up to Christmas. This week the Moody Girls are all 20% off! Katie was originally going to offer 10%, but felt thankful and generous and changed it to 20%! Here are some of my cards using the Moody Girls.

Moody for Coffee

Moody for Fall

Moody for Pumpkins
Moody for Fashion
Moody for Snow If you like to color, then these are for you! These girls are a blast to color up! You can get really creative with all the intricate designs on them. And don't let these designs scare you like they scared me! I was a little hesitant about them, but myself and everyone who has tackled them agrees they are just fun to color!

So stop by Paper Makeup Stamps and pick up yours today. They are orginally very reasonably priced, and 20% off gives you an even better price! All you have to do is enter the code Moody20 at checkout to get your discount!

On Friday, the PMS team will be starting peeks for the December release! Wait til you see what PMS has designed for you! You are going to love it!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

Just Us Girls Template Challenge

Happy Saturday, everyone! Today, the Just Us Girls team has a template challenge for you. You can use a template or create one of your own...we just want to see some kind of box/bag you might use for the holiday season. And it can be any holiday! Here's mine.

I went to an old favorite....box in a bag from Splitcoast stampers. I remember the first time I made one, I was amazed at how petite it was, but yet it holds a lot! I used a retired dp from SU called Holiday Traditions. That was one of my favorites because of the chocolate color I LOVE!! I paired it with Pink Pirouette (also retired). The bottom was created with a Martha Stewart punch and the handle on top is SU's round tab punch. The snowflakes were punched with another MS punch in the pink and Riding Hood Red (I'm using a lot of retired paper!). It's such an easy but eye-catching bag to make!

We all need some kind of packaging this holiday, so why not join our challenge? Mona has some great blog candy to give away too! Just link your direct post to Mr. Linky on the JUGs blog and use the code JUGS9 if you post to an online gallery. Be sure to stop by the JUGS blog and see what the girls have created. It would also be nice to leave some love on their personal blogs, as well!

Thanks for stopping in today and enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Recipe
Stamps: Cute and Curly (SU)
Paper: Pink pirouette, riding hood red, Holiday Traditions dp (SU)
Ink: Riding hood red
Accessories: Lace doily and snowflake punches (Martha Stewart), round tab and curly label punches (SU), glitter dots, riding hood red ribbon, sticky tape, glue dots

Makeup 4 the Weekend

Hi everyone! I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving! I know I did with my in-laws. My MIL is a great cook, so we had a very delicious dinner!

I have a card for you today for Paper Makeup Stamp's Makeup for the Weekend challenge. Today's challenge is to make anything using a Christmas/winter theme. I've used a set called Snow Happy.

I like to use nontraditional colors a lot for Christmas cards. I took my colors from this Basic Grey dp called Eskimo Kisses. The green is a retired SU one called Wild Wasabi. I have to say that this card is much more colorful than it appears in the picture.

I used the Crazy 4 Challenges sketch...nice and simple and perfect for my snowman image.

Check out the challenge on the PMS blog. We are always making Christmas/winter cards at this time, so why not play our challenge? You can link your direct post to Mr. Linky on the PMS blog. Thanks for stopping in today and have a great weekend!
Recipe
Stamps: Snow Happy (PMS)
Paper: PTI white, wild wasabi, pink pirouette, Eskimo Kisses dp (Basic Grey)
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, pink pirouette, wild wasabi
Copic Markers: RV02, 10; YG67; YR68; Boo
Accessories: Nesties, snowflake folder, oval punch, ribbon, star dust stickles, dimensionals

Think Ink Tuesday Challenge

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

I wish my turkeys could always look this good! It barely makes it to the platter before my hubby is cutting into it! LOL!! This is my favorite holiday...great food, I love the fall weather, and NO GIFTS TO BUY!!! Definitely low stress! I hope you are having a great day with family and friends!

I have a Think Ink Tuesday challenge from Artful Inkables today. Deb Young is challenging us to use chipboard. I don't have too much of this stuff, but I had gone shopping with my great stamping friend, Cheryl Rowley, this past summer and we happened to find some fun chipboard albums at Michael's for $1. They also had coordinating paper already cut to cover the chipboard! Couldn't be much easier! I had this image of the dog and cat from AI's newest release called Creature Comforts already colored and waiting to be used somehow. I decided to cut it out and pop it up on two nested ovals. I wanted to add some dedication on the front like some photo albums have, and came across these black label maker alphabet bubble letters that I had gotten at JoAnn's ages ago in the clearance bin. I came up with the "friends 4 ever" because these two look like they are best friends! How many of you have a dog and cat? I only have a dog, but my neighbors had a dog and cat and they fought, but were also best friends (kind of like kids, right?). I thought this album would be cute to document the friendship between these two pets. I finished off the metal ring with some blue and black ribbons.

What types of chipboard do you have in your stamping stash that you are saving for just the right project? Letters, photo albums, flower shapes, or maybe you are saving the cardboard that comes with SU dp? Pull them out and put them to good use! And while you are at it, link your project to the the Artful Inkables Think Ink Tuesday challenge here. If you upload to an online gallery, use the code AIC08. This challenge goes until Tuesday, December 8. You could win an AI grab bag of stamps! We'd love to see how you use this material.

Thanks for stopping in and enjoy your day. Rest up for the shopping tomorrow! LOL!!

Recipe

Stamps: Creature Comforts (AI)

Paper: PTI white, bashful blue, black, Colorbok shaped paper

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Copic Markers: E15, 18; YR12, 14; B21, 34; R20; W-5

Accessories: Nesties, chipboard album, ribbon, bubble letters, dimensionals

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi everyone! I hope you have a great Thanksgiving tomorrow! I have been making cards for my mom and in-laws for tomorrow. I really liked the card I made in my previous post with the mice and the wishbone, so I decided to use them again. I used the same colors, except I left off the really rust this time...it just didn't work with this sketch for some reason.

I've been wanting to make these easel cards I've been seeing everywhere since SCS did a Technique Challenge on it. So fun! My MIL will love it because she always complains that my cards are too heavy and fall over! So this will solve the problem! I made this a 5.25" square card and just adjusted the measurements to fit this size...so easy! I also used this week's Mojo Monday sketch. That's all for today. I have to make another one of these for my mom! Have a great Thanksgiving!
Recipe
Stamps: Make a Wish (Art Gone Wild); sentiment from Turkey Time (Whipper Snapper)
Paper: PTI white, bashful blue, pumpkin pie, Summer Picnic and Pumpkin Pie dp (SU)
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, pumpkin pie
Copic Markers: E08, 31, 33, 35, 51, 53; B21, 34; YR14; R20; C-1
Accessories: Nesties, swiss dots folder, ribbon, SU buttons, floss, oval and oval scallop punches, scallop border punch, star dust stickles, gold spica glitter pen, dimensionals

Just Us Girls Color Challenge

The Just Us Girls challenge blog has a fabulous color challenge for you this week. I think it's fabulous because I was the one who chose the colors! Pumpkin Pie, Bashful Blue, and Really Rust. The JUGs DT really made these colors look amazing! Make sure you check out their cards on the JUGs blog. This is what I did with them.I got this image recently at my LSS. It's from Art Gone Wild and it's called Make a Wish. I just love the little mice holding that wishbone. The wishbone reminds me of something my mother did with a wishbone for my wedding. She had saved one from the Thanksgiving before my wedding and wrapped it in satin ribbon which she attached to my ring bearer's pillow. The rings were placed on the wishbone. Now you have to know that my mom is not crafty at all, so for her to do something like this was such a surprise! She told me she had one on her pillow at her wedding too, although I don't know who did that for her.

After I colored the image and cut and embossed the image with nesties, I swirled some pumpkin pie ink around the image while it was still in the nestie. It was just too white, and this technique really highlites the image. I did the same with the sentiment. I followed the current Mojo Monday sketch but flipped it....lots of layers on this one!

I hope you can try this color challenge this week. Check out the JUGs blog for the details, but if you post to an online gallery, use the key word JUGS8. You can also post a direct link to your card to Mr. Linky on the JUGs blog.

Thanks for stopping in today and have a great weekend!
Recipe
Stamps: Make a Wish (Art Gone Wild), sentiment (Darcie's Flourish Pumpkin)
Paper: PTI white, bashful blue, pumpkin pie, really rust, Summer Picnic and Pumpkin Pie dp (SU)
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, pumpkin pie
Copic Markers: E08, 31, 33, 35, 51, 53; B21, 34; YR14; R20; C-1
Accessories: Nesties, grosgrain ribbon, cuttlebug folder, spica gold glitter pen, star dust stickles, dimensionals

PMS Fan Blog Hop

Paper Makeup Stamps is having its first Fan Blog Hop. Katie invited customers who love PMS stamps to participate. So, if you have arrived here on your own, please go to the PMS blog to get all the details and begin the hop there. Otherwise, you should have arrived here from one of our dedicated customers, Anita Hovey.

I've done a card for the Makeup for the Weekend challenge. This month it's a color challenge that I thought was going to be a difficult one....but I managed to pull it off. The colors are olive, navy, and mustard. I used a new stamp called George for this one.
He's just too cute! I found the colors in SU's retired Good Morning Sunshine dp. The navy blue piece was run through the diamonds cuttlebug folder. I put crystal effects on the plastic bottle to make it look more realistic. I followed the sketch from the Makeup for the Weekend challenge from last week.

Now you can continue on the hop and go to the blog of another loyal customer, Emily LePage. Thanks for stopping in and have a great weekend!
Recipe
Stamps: George (PMS)
Paper: PTI white, old olive, night of navy, more mustard, Good Morning Sunshine dp (SU)
Ink: Memento tuxedo black
Copic markers: YR 00, 21, 23, 24, 31; YG95, 97; B34, 37; R17; E99; C-1, 3, 5
Accessories: Nesties, crystal effects, small star punch, candy dots, dimensionals