Baby Shower Blog Hop

Lisa McKinney is one of the Makeup Artists for Paper Makeup Stamps and she is expecting a baby boy - like any day now! Today the design team is throwing a {surprise} baby shower blog hop for Lisa - Hi Lisa! {waving}. You should have arrived here from Randee's blog. If not, you'll want to go to the PMS blog and start hopping with us from the beginning so you don't miss any of the fun cards today. {wink}

I could not resist using Teddy for my card today. With my user name being {mybearybest}, this little boy fairy holding his teddy bear is just too perfect for my card for Lisa. I paired him with one of the sentiments from the new Cutie Critter Sayings set. I colored Teddy with my copic markers and added buttons to match the bear's eyes. The striped paper is from a DCWV All About Boys pack.

Now it's time to hop on over to Maria's blog and see what baby shower surprises she has to show everyone. Congrats on being in the home stretch, Lisa - I'm looking forward to the announcement of your baby boy's safe arrival. {grin}

Blessings,



Stamps: Teddy fairy and Cutie Critter Sayings from Paper Makeup Stamps
Paper: Neenah Solar White, Chocolate Chip, DCWV All About Boys DP
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Night of Navy
Accessories: Copic Markers, Nesties Labels Twelve, Spica Glitter Pens, Buttons, Twine, Grosgrain Ribbon, dimensionals

Moody for Art

Makeup for the Weekend - M4TW36
Mercy's Tuesday Sketch - MTSC84

This week's challenge from Paper Makeup Stamps was to use notebook or graph paper on your card and I combined it with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch. There are a series of Moody Girl stamps at the Paper Makeup store. They are all so detailed which makes them lots of fun to color. This one is called Moody for Art. I colored her with my prismacolor pencils and baby oil. I used the curved rectangles nestie to cut her out, edged it with a red spica glitter pen (what would I do without my spica pens?!) and chose a couple of SU! papers to go with her. Following Mercy's sketch from this week just helped pull this card together pretty quickly - gotta love that! Here's a close-up of the coloring.

Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed day!

Stamps: Moody for Art and sentiment by Paper Makeup Stamps
Paper: GKD Pure Luxury White, Notebook Paper, Chocolate Chip, Western Sky & Juntos DP by SU!
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, Baby Oil, Curved Rectangle Nesties, Spica Glitter Pen, Dimensionals, Pearls

Shimmery Wishes

Flutterby Wednesday - FBW115 open challenge

This week's Flutterby Wednesday challenge is an open one - just create a project with a butterfly, fairy or an angel on it. I am still having so much fun inking up this Dandy Wishes set from Paper Makeup Stamps. I used shimmery white paper so the entire card would sparkle. The background was sponged in fading pastel colors and I used a circle as a mask for the sun. That sentiment is from the latest kit by Paper Makeup Stamps called The Will to Day Dream. I love the font used on this stamp! Then the little butterflies are from a Martha Stewart punch and they are covered with a clear spica glitter pen to make them sparkly too - just like the paper. I {heart} sparkle! Here's a close up of that shimmer.

Thanks for fluttering by today!



Stamps: Dandy Wishes by Paper Makeup Stamps - sentiment from Makeup Card Kit 'The Will to Day Dream' by Paper Makeup Stamps
Paper: Shimmery White, Basic Black, Pale Plum
Ink: Stazon Black, Pink Pirouette, Almost Amethyst, Bashful Blue, Brocade Blue
Accessories: Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, Clear Spica Atyou Glitter Pen, Sponge, Circle Mask, Corner Punch

Day Dreaming Will

Paper Makeup Stamps has released a new Makeup Card Kit called The Will to Day Dream and it's just full of fun papers, accessories and stamps. Everything from this card except for the linen thread and white cardstock is from the kit. I colored this dreamy fairy named Will with prismacolor pencils and baby oil. He's cut out and popped up to give a little dimension to the card. And it's hard to tell in the photo, but that's a strip of delicious wide chocolate brown ribbon behind the row of diamonds. {yum!}

Here's a close-up of Will and a better look at my faux stitching. I used a spica glitter pen and piercing took kit to add a zig-zag stitch look around the border.

Thanks for stopping by! Blessings,

Stamps: All from "The Will to Day Dream" kit by Paper Makeup Stamps
Paper: GKD Pure Luxury White, all other papers from "The Will to Day Dream" kit by Paper Makeup Stamps
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Certainly Celery
Accessories: Linen Thread, Piercing Tools, Spica Glitter Pen, Prismacolor Pencils. All other accessories from "The Will to Day Dream" kit by Paper Makeup Stamps

Christmas in July

Flutterby Wednesday #114 - Christmas in July

I have some fun news! There was a vacancy on the Flutterby Wednesday Design Team and I've been asked to fill that spot for the rest of the year! {doing a happy dance} I just love Danni's weekly FBW challenges and I'm so honored to be asked carry over from my Guest DT work this month. {HUGE smile}

Today's card is clean and simple! I really, really wanted to use an angel for the Christmas in July theme and I think the only one I have is from an old Stampin' Up set called Nativity Silhouette. I decided embossing these images was the way to go and I used iridescent ice powder on the angel to make it glittery. The blue 5-1/2" square is Abysse Sparkle cardstock from Paper Temptress and serves as the base of my card. The Confetti White cardstock is folded in half and mounted on the Abysse paper. The front flap is trimmed up half an inch to show some Gold Metallic Text paper (also from Paper Temptress) that is taped on the inside. I just love how the shimmer of the PT papers set off the shine in the embossed images too. {grin} The saying is from another retired SU! set called City of David.

Thanks for fluttering by today!

Blessings,



Stamps: Nativity Silhouette and City of David by SU!
Paper: Abysse Sparkle Cardstock & Gold Metallic Text Paper from Paper Temptress, Confetti White
Ink: Versamark, Sky Blue Colorbox Pigment, Black Colorbox Pigment, Stazon Black
Accessories: Gold EP, Iridescent Ice EP, Black EP, Piercing Tools

Birgitta in Blue

All That Scraps - Monochrome
SCS Sketch Challenge - SC261

Here is my first attempt at monochromatic coloring! I've learned All That Scraps has a Weekly Wednesday Challenge and for this week it's monochrome projects. They featured a card by Katie Cotton as an example and gave links to her video tutorials on how to do this. Let me tell you, they are fabulous! I watched them and said, 'Okay, I can DO this!' I chose Swiss Pixie Birgitta by C.C. Designs and stamped her in Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Then I pulled out my neutral markers and realized I didn't have the range I needed for black & white monochromatic coloring. Hmmm, well I decided Birgitta could look good in blue, right? Although, she does look a bit like she's been holding her breath too long, KWIM? hahahaha

The papers are from Basic Grey Lime Rickey and Marrakech. I colored white flowers with the copics to match. I used Spellbinders Labels Four Nestabilities to cut Birgitta out and edged it with a blue spica atyou glitter pen. And she just seemed to NEED sparkly wings, so I dusted them with dazzling diamonds glitter. Here's a close-up of her. {grin}

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. Have a fabulous day!

Blessings,

Stamps: Swiss Pixie Birgitta by C.C. Designs
Paper: GKD Pure Luxury White, Basic Grey Lime Rickey and Marrakech
Ink: Mememto Tuxedo Black
Accessories: 2-way Glue Pen, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Gem Brads, Flowers, Labels 4 Nesties, Spica Atyou Glitter Pen, Copics 0,B60, B91, B93, B95, B97

Sailing Birthday

Paper Makeup Stamps - M4TW35 use felt

SCS Sketch Challenge - SC289

This week's Makeup 4 the Weekend challenge is to use felt on your card. I went digging through leftover supplies from the boys' school projects and found this dark blue glittery felt. Oooh, so what could I make with that? I decided to go through my paper next and chose this sheet from Basic Grey Lime Rickey that matched the felt pretty well. Once I had that picked, it made me think of water, so using the Sailing By set from Paper Makeup Stamps was a natural choice. Then I thought hey, if I cut the felt to look like waves it would fit this week's sketch challenge pretty well. And so, hey, I did just that! {grin}

I used versamark ink to emboss with my Night of Navy Classic ink pad and clear EP. I picked copics that matched my paper and colored the sail boat simply. I used dimensionals to pop up the boat panel over the felt. I love how fast this card came together - all starting with that piece of felt!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you'll join us in this week's challenge to use felt on your card. Be sure to link it up here if you do!

Blessings,

Stamps: Sailing By by Paper Makeup Stamps
Paper: Confetti Cream, Night of Navy, Lime Rickey by Basic Grey
Ink: Versamark, Night of Navy
Accessories: Sparkly Felt, Dew Drops, Glue Dots, Dimensionals, Copics