M4TW Sketch- Nutcracker Suite

Every Friday, Paper Makeup Stamps hosts a challenge, Makeup 4 the Weekend (M4TW.)

 I had this Sugar Plum Fairy already all colored and glittered up and she just happened to fit into this week's challenge which was a sketch. 

I just had to change the main shape from a circle to a rectangle.

There is LOTS of glitter on here, but that seems only fitting for this particular theme.

Supplies used:

*Paper Makeup Stamps SugarPlum Fairy

*Paper Makeup Stamps Embrace the Magic

*Chatterbox paper collection

*Martha Stewart doily

*prisma glitter

*Marvy Uchida punches

*watercolor pencils

*StazOn Jet Black ink pad

*plastic snowflake charm

And a LOT of you have been asking about my loopy punch. This is a photo of it. As you can see, it's a Martha Stewart punch and it is called Ribbon Loop. I bought mine at Michaels.

A Mother's Love- Unity Store Kit

Good Saturday Morning!

We are off this morning on our way to our first football playoff game. Jacob is on the JV team, but is one of the few selected to get to attend the Varsity games with the team. He is so excited and we are so excited for him!!!

But it is the second Saturday of the month and that means that the Unity Stamp Co. design team is featuring this month's Stamp Store kits. All of the projects can be seen on the Unity blog.

For my project, I received the kit, A Mother's Love. I love how soft and romantic it feels and chose papers from Prima that reflected that same feel.

I dressed the simple stamping up by adding a bit of prisma glitter around the sentiment, some punched butterflies, and the flat-back pearls at the top of each scallop.

Supplies used:

*Unity Stamp Co. A Mother's Love

*Prima Annalee 6x6 paper collection

*Martha Stewart butterfly punch

*prisma glitter

*flat-back pearls

*Palette Burnt Umber inkpad

Be sure to go check out all the design team projects on the Unity blog!

Getting ready for Christmas with FFC...

If you are looking for my surprise baby shower Paper Makeup Stamps post, it is located below this one.

I love today's Friday Fun Challenge that came to us from Kim:

12th - Last year I made AJ's accordian file folder to use as a gift wish list for my kids & nieces.  It went into my purse and everyone in the stores stopped me to ask where I got it.  So, using AJ's tutorial on SCS, I want you to make one.  You can make it as a wish list, put pictures in it, or make it a book about YOU!  

 

Accordian File Folder Tutorial

 

AJ's blog

I have wanted to try this project ever since I saw it last year so was very excited to get going on it. For my accordion file, I decided to make it as a Christmas gift for my 11 yo niece. I plan on giving her a gift card to the bookstore for Christmas so this file full of bookmarks will make a nice little accompaniment to the card.

For my file folder, I used an acrylic file folder from Target. It gives the project a little bit of a different look that is fun, although it takes a LOT more creasing and working to get the folder to fold correctly.

For the cover, I used this fabulous Ippity kit, Books a Flutter.

I left the tab intact on the folder and added these Cosmo Cricket stickers to say, "Just Read." 

My nieces favorite color is turquoise so that determined the color scheme of the entire project.

^ That picture right there ^ just makes me happy. :o) I adore pretty bookmarks and these are some of my favorites that I have ever made. hmmm, I may just have to make another set for Emily... ;o)

All the stamps for the bookmarks are from Paper Makeup Stamps. They have some great teen-styled and reading stamps which were perfect for this project.

BTW, someone had asked me where I get my bookmark sleeves. I have had these for years and years. Like about 8-9 years in fact. I ordered them by accident when I was a CTMH consultant. I thought that I was ordering the flimsy acrylic bags that you show your projects in on demo boards. I was shocked when these came in ...and I had 100 of them!?! I have since come to love them and only have about 20 of them left. I am going to have to find another resource for them before I run out.

Stamp: Paper Makeup Stamps Moody for Fun

The coloring on the Moody's is done with my watercolor pencils. You should be able to click on them to get them larger to see the coloring in more detail.

Also, my niece is a GORGEOUS red-head so I had to color my Moody Girls with equally gorgeous red locks...but Em's isn't dipped in black like the Moody below (but isn't that the coolest effect!?!) ;o)

Stamp: Paper Makeup Stamps Moody for Music

Paper Makeup Stamps You Rock My World

Stamp: Paper Makeup Stamps Read a Book

Stamp: Paper Makeup Stamps A World Without Flowers

Also, be sure to go check out what the rest of the FFC girls created for today's challenge:

Jimmi

 Kim

Kimme 

Sara (sitting out for a little while)

Sherry (will be back soon!) 

Surprise! It's a baby shower!!!

Congratulations, Ginger! 

We are so excited about your new little bundle of joy!!!

Surprise!!!

The Paper Makeup Stamps Design Team are throwing Ginger a Surprise Baby Shower Hop.

The hop started at the PMS blog, so if you didn't start out there, hop on over there right now because you don't want to miss any of the baby cuteness. If you have been doing the hop, then you should be coming here from Tangii's beautiful blog.

Now the fun part...the baby stuff!

I made my card to coordinate with my littlest little baby gift. OMG, it is so cute! I LOVE little things. I am just showing a glimpse of it so that it will still be fun for Ginger to open when it arrives. But I also didn't want you to think that I was nuts making a baby card from black & red...it coordinates with the gift...which is oh-so-cute! Have I mentioned lately how much I love baby things? Oh, and Kat does too...she has been more excited about this baby gift than I even have...LOL!

But back to the card...I used that awesome little drummer teddy and colored him with my watercolor pencils. Super easy layout using the Basic Grey Oliver papers and it was a really simple card.

I added the sentiment to the inside with just an accent of the patterned paper.

Supplies used:

*Paper Makeup Stamps Drummer the Bear

*Paper Makeup Stamps Congratulations on Your New Addition

*Basic Grey Oliver paper collection

*Nestabilities Scallop Oval dies

*Fiskars border punch

*Martha Stewart loopy border punch and seam binding

*watercolor pencils

*StazOn jet black inkpad

Again, HUGE CONGRATULATIONS GINGER!!!

We are sooo excited for you!

Now you need to continue the hop and head on over to see the cuteness at....

***Stephanie's blog***

Countdown to Christmas Journal...

Good morning!

Wow, there is a lot to share here today for our Unity Stamp Co. Hip Hop!

Today we are talking about Christmas Journals. There are a couple of classes, Ali's December Daily and Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas,  that involve documenting the month of December. As a design team, this week we have each made our own version of these little journals.

Right now, mine is pretty much just the cover...

I created my cover using a 7gypsy cover which I decorated. 

Unity has come out with some amazing stamp kits that work beautifully for these little books this year and I used bits from each of these...

*Countdown to Christmas

*25 Days 

*Picture Perfect (nov. kom)

The title (above) was created using the "25 days" stamp from the 25 Days kit. Then the poinsettia is from this month's kit of the month...I simply colored it using my water-based markers to get all the different colors on it. Then I cut this out using one of my Nestabilities Labels Dies

The Countdown to Christmas sentiment came from the set of the same name. I stamped the frame collage (from the kom) in the background of this piece in a very light color of ink and then just added a touch of watercolored red to highlight the frames.

I created a numbered piece that will mark each page/day inside the book. I don't have the insides done yet so these are just waiting for some design inspiration for the interior. The frames are from the Kit of the month; the numbers and the snowflake are from the 25 Days kit. I used my Nestabilities Labels 5 dies to cut the layers of card stock.

I don't have the entire inside figured out yet, but I do have pages in there made from a little board book that I found of The Night Before Christmas. I simply cut the pages apart and punched them to fit into the book. I have some ideas of how I want to make this all work for the inside, but I wanted to give it a bit more thought and planning before I started altering it all. (I put huge book rings on this because I envision it being really chunky by the time I have it finished.)

Supplies used:

*Unity Stamp Co. Picture Perfect

*Unity Stamp Co. 25 days

*Unity Stamp Co. Countdown to Christmas

*7gypsies book cover and paper (2 strips on left)

*Making Memories ledger paper

*Nestabilities Labels dies

*Zig Writers

*Palette Haystack ink pad

*CTMH Sweet Leaf and Cranberry ink pads

*StazOn jet black ink pad

*EK Success Chain punch

*Martha Stewart border punch

*KaiserCraft flat backed gems

*book rings

*ribbon

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My second project is a quick and simple layout using the new release stamps from Echo Park that Unity announced today.

I loved the sign-look to the design of these stamps and wanted to play with that so I pulled out some really old photos of Jacob when he was little. I think that these were taken in 1999. I just had fun putting this layout together. It isn't anything gorgeous design-wise, but I really liked making all the little signs which are so fun and perfect for layouts. 

Supplies used:

*Unity Stamp Co. Little Boy Echo Park kits

*Basic Grey Oliver 6x6 paper collection

*Nestabilities Labels 5 diecut

*Martha Stewart border punches

*Daisy D's rub-on stitches

*Zig Writer

*The Twinery red twine

*medium black brads

Now you need to head on over to...

****Julie's Gorgeous Blog****

Embrace the Magic of Christmas

I think that I may just have found my Christmas card design for this year...

This card features one of the gorgeous new Word Art images, Embrace the Magic, from Paper Makeup Stamps and it is designed perfectly for the look I try to achieve with my Christmas cards.

I used this week's Splitcoast Stampers Sketch (#306) for the overall layout of the card.

I did a double-layer of the teal circles...one is the Marvy Uchida scallop punch and the other is the Nestabilities Lacey Circle punch. I think that the effect is very much of a lace doily effect and I like it! ;o)

Supplies used:

*Paper Makeup Stamps Embrace the Magic

*Websters Pages papers

*Marvy Uchida scallop punches

*Nestabilities Lacey Circle die

*Martha Stewart seam binding trim

*flat-back gems

*StazOn jet black ink pad

*Bazzill card stock

Talking inspiration...

Today I am talking inspiration over on the Unity blog. Here are my projects that are posted there, but the "guts" of what I am talking about is over there...

This first card was inspired by THIS wedding from the Style Me Pretty website.

Supplies used:

*Unity Stamp Co. Picture Perfect (nov. kom)

*Chatterbox paper collection

*watercolor pencils

*Palette burnt umber inkpad

*Fiskars border punch

*corner rounder

*ribbon

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The layout below was inspired by a sketch, but I can't locate the originator of the sketch. If you recognize the layout, can you let me know so I can give them credit...

Simply Kat having fun and rocking her rain boots & tutu kind of style! ;o)

Supplies used:

*Unity Stamp Co. Picture perfect (ledger block)

*Unity Stamp Co. One of a Kind (Melody Ross Stamps- title, sentiment, and funky scallop)

*Pink Paislee paper collection

*Fresh Paint paper collection (pink)

*Fiskars border punch

*Recollections bling

*buttons

*Zig Writers

*Palette burnt umber and haystack ink pads

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The card below had two inspirations. First was Carolina's card from FWF50. My layout of the card came from her beautiful card.

The color scheme came from The Curtain Call Color Challenge- Act 55.

Supplies used:

*Unity Stamp Co. Undeniably You

*Unity Stamp Co. Picture Perfect (ledger paper)

*Cosmo Cricket paper (Tangerine paper)

*Crate Paper Restoration paper (dress form paper piecing)

*Fresh Paint paper collection (red)

*Martha Stewart border punches

Be sure to come say "hi" over on the Unity Blog!

Release Day for Paper Makeup Stamps!!!

Yay, it's the 7th so that means we finally get to reveal all of this month's Paper Makeup Stamps new releases. They will all be up on the website tonight during our release party.

But before you do anything else, you need to go through the blog hop to get your discount code for tonight and see all these amazing stamps. If you didn't start out at the Paper Makeup Stamps blog, then you need to head over there right now so that you have the correct code. When you come back you should be coming here from Randee's blog.

And now for my card. 

I was lucky to get to use this fabulous new ornament stamp from the new Christmas Cheer set.

Supplies used:

*Paper Makeup Stamps Christmas Cheer set

*Cosmo Cricket paper collection

*StazOn jet black ink pad

*watercolor pencils

*Diamond Glaze

*button

*seam binding

*pins

*corner rounder

Are you ready for your letter from my blog??

Now you need to head on over to

  ***Michelle's gorgeous blog.***

I hope that you all will join us for the fun, games, chatting, and of course gorgeous stamps during the release party tonight in our forum at 8:00 CST.

Moody for Presents Sneak Peek....

Are you ready for another Paper Makeup Stamps Sneak Peek???

Yippee! 

We have two new Moodies releasing this month and I get to share Moody for Presents with you.

Isn't she fabulous??

The layout for the card came from this week's CPS Sketch (#191.)

Love all those fun presents and candies surrounding her (so much fun to color) and because there are candies there, she qualifies for my Friday Fun Challenge for today too!!

FFC challenge from Kim:

5th - Today is National Donut Day (seriously).  I want you to make a card with something sweet on it. (it can be an image, sticker, colorful ribbon).  Use your imagination!

Supplies used:

*Paper Makeup Stamps Moody for Presents (available Nov 7th)

*Paper Makeup Stamps Season's Greetings (free with an order Nov. 7th)

*K&Company paper collection

*Martha Stewart doilies

*Nestabilities lacey circles die cut

*Marvy Uchida circle punches

*StazOn Jet black ink pad

*watercolor pencils

*prisma glitter

*flatback gems

Just a couple more days of sneak peeks so go check out all the links on the Paper Makeup Stamps Blog and then be sure to join us for our release party at 8:00 pm CST  in the forum on Nov. 7th!!!

Also, be sure to go check out what the rest of the FFC girls created for today's challenge:

Jimmi

 Kim

Kimme 

Sara

Sherry 

Ready for Thanksgiving???

Good morning to all my Unity Hip-Hopping Peeps. By this point in the blog hop, you should have figured out that this hop is all about your holiday table...Thanksgiving. 

If you have no idea what I am talking about then you need to head on over to the Unity Stamp Co. blog and cheek out all the very important happenings for this week!

For the first time in I don't even know how many years, we are actually going to get to spend Thanksgiving with my family at my mom & dad's house. I thought that this project for today might be fun for my crazy family who likes to debate just about anything. ;o)

This is a conversation starter box. 

It's filled with business card-sized cards with quick conversation prompts. You can see the business cards uncut underneath the box below. I simply came up with about 40 prompts and created them using a business card template in my word-processing files on my computer. Then I simply printed them onto cardstock and trimmed them. 

{I can send you the file if you want it, 

but I work on a Mac so I am pretty sure only Mac users will be able to open it.}

Below you can see the box open and what the business cards look like inside of it.

The template for the box came from HERE.

Supplies used:

*Unity Stamp Co. Picture Perfect (Nov kom-- sentiment and frame)

*Unity Stamp Co. A Mother's Love (Nov store kom-- flower)

*Basic Grey paper collection

*7gypsies knob

*Nestabilities Labels 5 dies

*Making Memories ribbon

*watercolor pencils

*StazOn Jet black ink pad

Now you need to hop on over to ***Julie's blog*** to see what brilliance she has created this week.