Happy Easter

Just a quick post to wish you all a Happy Easter! I made this mini basket from the template found here. The pink paper is scraps that I had and the patterned paper is from Chatterbox. The saying is from the Easter Basket set by Clear & Simple Stamps. Finishing touches include a prima flower and gemstone.

I hope you're all having a great weekend.

Happy Birthday

It's my brother's birthday today. Happy Birthday Greg! He's supposed to be going out of town today for a weekend of four-wheeling with the guys. I hope he has a good time.

If you're familiar with SplitcoastStampers you're probably aware that it's also Daven Nolta and Beate Johns birthday's today too. Daven and my Brother were born on the same day. So I guess I'll share a couple of birthday cards today in their honor.

This first card is one that I made for my Nephew's birthday a couple of weeks ago. I used the retired set Yukon from Stampin' Up. It's one of those sets that I love for making guy cards. The card base is Kraft with a block of Bo Bunny polka dot paper. I stamped the bear on a panel of Kraft and the mountain background stamp on another Kraft panel then added a little color to the images using reinkers and colored pencil. The edges were sponged with Vintage Photo distress ink. The mountain piece was matted with the reverse side of the Bo Bunny paper and attached to the card. I ran my tracing wheel around the bear panel before mounting it with pop dots and stamped the birthday wishes from Anna Wight's 29 Again set from Whipper Snapper. Last I die cut the 16 out of grungeboard and inked it with Walnut Stain distress ink then mounted it on another panel of Kraft. For the finishing touch I added a tab and brad on the end of the piece that overlapped the bear panel.

For the second card I used C.C. Designs AmyR's Amy's Boutique and Boutique Sentiments with a variety of papers from the Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday line.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you're all having a great day (especially if it's your birthday)!

What a beautiful day!

The sun has been shining all day today and it even reached 50 degrees. Spring might finally be ready to visit Northern Minnesota. For my cards today I used the K & Company Citronella pack. I'm really enjoying the bright fun patterns in this pack. On the first card I used the Pretty Birds set by Kim Hughes from Cornish Heritage Farms.

On the second card I pulled out Anna Wight's Posies for you set from Whipper Snapper. I used markers on the stamp and then colored the images in with an aqua brush. The pink floral paper in the background is glittery so I added some stickles to the posie to match.Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're all having a great week!

Take the Challenge Tuesday

It's time again for Clear & Simple Stamps Take The Challenge Tuesday which happens the first Tuesday of each month. This month it's all about "Spring Fever" and paper piecing. Get out your spring patterned papers and let's get paper piecing.

Here are a couple of cards I made for the challenge using the BFF Darling set
from Clear & Simple Stamps.

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This card uses several designer papers from the Basic Grey Sultry collection and a strip of paper from the My Mind's Eye Bloom and Grow collection. The faces and hair were colored with Copics and then their clothes were paper pieced. This card uses more of the My Mind's Eye Bloom and Grow papers.

Visit the Design Team blogs to see more Spring inspired, paper pieced projects, or PCP to upload your own paper pieced challenge cards - use tag "ttco04".

Design Team Members' Blogs

Lori Tecler

Maria Levine
Nicole Ritts

Nancy Beauchamp

Guest Design Team Members' Blogs
Kim Howard - Basement Stamper
Lynette Neus - My Stamping Addiction

Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you'll join us for the challenge.

Little Gem in Bee Suit

Today I would like to share a couple of cards I made with an adorable stamp from Pink Gem Studios in the UK. When I saw this cute little puppy in a bee suit I knew I had to have it! I have a friend who has a Maltese/Poodle mix that looks a lot like this little doggie so I made this set of cards for my friend.



I'll have to edit the supplies info to add the designer paper info. I'm not at home right now so I don't have the details with me. I hope you're having a great day! Thanks so much for stopping by.

*Edited to add the designer paper details - K & Company Citronella pack*

Supplies:

• Stamps – Little Gem in Bee Suit from Pink Gem Designs
• Ink – Archival Jet Black
• Paper - White, Black, K & Company Citronella pack
  
• Misc – Reinkers, Aqua brush, Stampin Write markers, Stickles, Pop dots, Gems

Home again, home again.

I don't have anything crafty to share today. I was in Madison Wisconsin for the weekend so I thought I would share a couple of photos taken at the Henry Vilas Zoo.

It's not a really big zoo but it's free and has some great animals plus it was within walking distance of the hotel. Here's me posing with the tortoise.

I loved this big fuzzy grizzly bear.

My daughter thought this Rhino was pretty cute.

Look at that face!

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all had a great weekend!

Hope your day is Fairy nice!

Today I would like to share a couple of cards using the Fairy Collection from Grab-A-Doodle-Do. Grab-A-Doodle-Do offers these fun images as digital downloads so you don't even have to wait for shipping which is especially great since they're located in the UK and I'm in the US.


Both images were colored with Copics and cut out using Nestabilities. For the top card I used some glittery paper from DCWV and for the bottom card I used SU Marigold Morning, some patterned paper from My Mind's Eye and then added some glitter to the fairy wings and stars. Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're all having a great day!

Want to win a stamp set?

Clear & Simple Stamps Stamp of the Month is the new Mom and Me set.

Want a chance to win your very own Mom and Me stamp set? Visit Paper Craft Planet's Design Team gallery for the month of April. Every month, the PCP Super Novas pull together a huge album full of inspiration based on a theme. This month, to get ready for Mother's Day, our theme is "Mother & Child". What better way to kick off a new month than with a contest? No foolin', we're having a Guess the Baby contest! Are you ready?Match the baby with the Super Nova! Not just that... but you'll also have to guess who is missing! Yikes. Hard, I know. If you get them all right, you're entered to win this awesome new stamp set Mom & Me from Clear & Simple Stamps AND a $100 Amazon gift certificate to buy whatever other goodies you want! Clear & Simple Stamps is also giving all PCP members a $1 off using code: PCP409! Good Luck!

I wanted to create a soft subtle card for my Mom for Mother’s Day so I pulled out the Mom & Me set from Clear and Simple Stamps and some My Mind’s Eye papers. To create the main image panel I stamped the image on Vanilla cardstock with Soft Sky ink and then covered it with Stickles. The image was cut out with a Fiskars oval template and cutter and matted on the reverse side of one of the My Mind’s Eye patterned papers. For the finishing touches I added some prima flowers, flat backed pearls and a sentiment tag.

Supplies:

• Stamps – Clear & Simple Stamps Mom and Me
• Ink – Stampin Up Soft Sky and Bordering Blue
• Paper - Very Vanilla, My Mind’s Eye
• Misc – Stickles, Pearls, Prima flowers, Fiskar’s oval template and cutter, Pop dots