Thanks and Thanks

Flutterby Wednesday - #229 Lots of Layers
Digi Makeover Challenge - DM077 Stripes
SCS Sketch Challenge - SC425
Our Daily Bread - #144 Black & Cream
Crafty Catz - Dies & Punches


It seems I'm always in need of more thank you cards!  I like this word art from Everyday Thanks at Paper Makeup Stamps.  Because it's a digi image, I could give it a little shadow effect in Word before printing it on some designer paper by Fancy Pants from their Country Boutique collection.  Actually, all the patterned paper on this card is from that same collection.

The Butterfly Border was cut with  a C.C. Designs Cutter die.  And of course I had to add lots of sparkle with some gems and my trusty stardust glitter pen!

Just My Style

The Digi Makeover Challenge by Paper Makeup Stamps has another "Anything Goes with a digi" theme this week.  Have some New Year's fun and come along and join us!

I've brought back this favorite card featuring Retail Therapy.  I just love how the paper-piecing and sparkle made this fun dress "pop".

Get Well Soup

The Digi Makeover Challenge at Paper Makeup Stamps has an "Anything Goes with a digi" theme for the next two weeks.   That makes it easy as pie, or soup in my case, to play along during the holidays!

I've brought back this favorite card featuring Color Kid with Soup and  Happy Get Well Note.  My boys have been run-down and sick an awful lot this month - and I'm so happy they are finally both well just in time for Christmas tomorrow!

Christmas Snowflakes

Now that Thanksgiving is past, we are looking for Christmas or holiday projects at the Digi Makeover Challenge.

Here I created a background in Word with the snowflake from Color It Winter.  And it may be hard to tell, but the sentiment from Season's Greetings was layered on top digitally - again in Word.  That's one piece of white cardstock for the main panel.  I just printed, taped it to colored paper and added some bling.

Be sure to stop by the PMS blog for other Christmas inspiration and to enter your own holiday creation to this week's challenge!

Lighthouse Layers

We want to see lots of layers on your creations for the Digi Makeover Challenge by Paper Makeup Stamps!  I love how this lighthouse from Sailing By looks paper-pieced - along with the faux stitching and texture!

Face the Sunshine

Paper Makeup Stamps is looking for Weather Reports over at the Digi Makeover Challenge this week!  My card features images from Jen's Sunshine.  I just replaced the sun's face with one of the word arts and paper pieced it.  I liked the layout from a previous Crazy4Challenges Sketch.  And my white gems were colored yellow with a copic marker to match the sun.  Papers are from Vintage Finds by Teresa Collins.  

Digi Silhouettes

The Digi Makeover Challenge is featuring silhouettes on their creations this week.  I have one of my favorite cards to share with you again today.  It is so easy to create your own silhouette image when you use a digi stamp.  I like to use Paint.net and the bucket tool to color in digi images. In this case, I just filled in the line drawing of the sailboat from Sailing By with a light gray color and adjusted the outline itself to a medium gray tone.  Now I've got a great silhouette background to highlight the Sailing Wordart placed over it!

Think Pink - Hope Silhouette

This is the third of three cards I made with the new Breast Cancer Awareness set from Paper Makeup Stamps.  A portion of the proceeds will go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.  

The Digi Makeover Challenge has the theme of Think Pink this week.

Sketch: Addicted to Stamps #40

Link Up for Pink

Think Pink - Being Strong

This is the second of three cards I made with the new Breast Cancer Awareness set from Paper Makeup Stamps.  A portion of the proceeds will go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.  

The Digi Makeover Challenge has the theme of Think Pink this week.

Sketch: Sketch Saturday #228

Link Up for Pink

Think Pink - A Word

This is the first of three cards I made with the new Breast Cancer Awareness set from Paper Makeup Stamps.  A portion of the proceeds will go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.  

The Digi Makeover Challenge has the theme of Think Pink this week.

Sketch: Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #169

Link Up for Pink

Moody for Fall

The weather has been Crisp and Clear here lately, so I had to pair this great word art with Moody for Fall today.  Sketch is from Splitcoaststampers SC403.  I hope you'll pull out your favorite digi image and play along with our Anything Goes Digi Makeover Challenge at Paper Makeup Stamps!

Keep Cool

This week is all about Keeping Cool at the Digi Makeover Challenge by Paper Makeup Stamps.  I decided to color up Moody for Snow in cool tones of blue and gray, plus I think she looks "cool" in her winter outfit and the snow falling around her must obviously be cool to the touch!  The saying is one of many from Little Moments.  I love how you can size a digi sentiment to be as big or as small as you want for your card.

Challenges Entered:
Just Inspirational - Snow Picture
Stampin' Sisters in Christ - Pastels
Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Spots & Dots
Dream Valley Challenges - Die Cuts & Punches

Seeing Spots

This week's Digi Makeover Challenge by Paper Makeup Stamps is lots of spots on your creation!  This stylish purse from Retail Therapy is paper-pieced and I used a silver gel pen to fill in the dotted purse strap.  Come get spotty with us and check out the other fabby Makeup Artist creations at the PMS Blog!

Recycled Accents

Time for another Digi Makeover Challenge at Paper Makeup Stamps.  This week we are recycling items that would normally just end up in our trash bin and finding new life for them on our cards!  I have 3 recycled bits on my card.  My sun came from a kleenex box, my clouds are from a dryer sheet (did lots of laundry this weekend!) and my grass is from a big watermelon photo in a grocery store ad!  Fun!  Caliope with a Flower has been newly released as a digi in the PMS Store and I think Little Moments has to be one of the most versatile sentiment sets ever!

May Flowers and A Hop

It's Monday and the 7th, which means we have a new Digi Makeover Challenge and a Blog Hop for you from Paper Makeup Stamps!  There's also new digis being released at PMS that you can see here - yay!

So, be sure to check out the beginning at the PMS Blog for a peek at the {new digis} and all the {prize details} for both the hop and the challenge.  Then if you're hopping along, you should have arrived here from Katie's Blog.  {wink}

I suppose my card looks more like summer flowers than May flowers now that I think about it. {giggle}  Oh well, I'm just so excited Faith, Hope, Love is being released as a digi set!  I love being able to flip and size digis so they don't all look the same scale and angle.  I used Paint.net for saving flipped versions and then set up my scene with the png files in Word.  I then used a brayer and post-it notes to create the sunny day effect like I learned from Michelle Zindorf's class.

Before you go, let me remind you that any rubber stamp inventory left in the PMS Store is on clearance for 75% off.  Just use the code CLOSEOUT75 in your cart.

Okey-dokey - time to hippity-hop to Tangii's Blog and see what sweet flowers she has waiting for you!


Challenges: SCS Featured Stamper #274 inspired by Heather's Sunrise Trees, Sassy Cheryl's #113 May Flowers, Moving Along with the Times Summer Sunshine, Pixie Dust Studio #125 Flowers, Little Darlings #22 Flowers, Scrapalicious Flower Power, Crazy Amigo Challenge Flowers, Crazy 4 Challenges #135 Great Outdoors, Speedy Fox #106 Three of Something, Crafty Catz #131 May Flowers
Images: Faith Hope Love digi set by Paper Makeup Stamps
Paper: Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Basic Black
Ink: More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Printer ink for digi images
Accessories: Brayer, Post-It Notes, 1-1/2" circle punch for mask, SU! Photo Corner Punch, Gems, White Gel Pen, Sponge for edges

Rainbow Sketch

Time for another sketch at the Digi Makeover Challenge by Paper Makeup Stamps!  I've used one of the images from Raindrops and Rainbows set on my card.

Be sure to check out the samples from the rest of the Digi Makeup Artists at the PMS Blog and we hope you'll play along with us this week and link up your own sketchy card for us to see.  {wink}

Make a Wish

Time for another Digi Makeover Challenge at Paper Makeup Stamps and you're going to love how easy this one is - a Birthday theme!  Don't forget to use a digi image on your birthday creation then link it up at the PMS Blog to be entered in our weekly digi giveaway!  {wink}  And check out some more birthday inspiration from the Digi Makeup Artists while your there too!

It so happens that my own birthday is later this week and I went ahead and used a few of my favorite things for today's card: CAS style, silhouette image (Dandy Wishes), bling (diamond for my birthstone of course), and turquoise blue.

Also - as an early birthday gift - I attended a couple of Michelle Zindorf brayer classes this weekend!  {thud - I know, right?!}  I'm still pinching myself that I got to meet her and make some gorgeous cards under her teaching.  She's just so clever and fun!  I did use my autographed brayer from her class to apply the blue inks to my background - very simple and straightforward for this card, but lovin' how it looks.  {grin}  Can't wait to have more time to practice what I've learned.

Stamps: Dandy Wishes digi set by Paper Makeup Stamps
Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise
Ink: Printer, Tempting Turquoise, Not Quite Navy, Basic Black (sponged)
Accessories: Bling, Sponge, Brayer,  White Gel Pen

You Rock!

The Digi Makeover Challenge is Pocket Cards at Paper Makeup Stamps!  I've slipped a bookmark featuring Eyepod into my card's pocket.  You Rock My World can also be found in the PMS store.  {wink}  I colored the words in Paint.net and actually have the same printed smaller on the bottom of the bookmark too.

Tic-Tac-Toe

Come play Tic-Tac-Toe with us at the Digi Makeover Challenge by Paper Makeup Stamps!  For my card I actually went in 2 directions.  Across the top "Fairy, Circles, Pink" and Diagonally "Fairy, Sparkle, Flowers"

Beyond Measure

This week's theme for the Digi Makeover Challenge by Paper Makeup Stamps is "For the Boys"  I have used the Color Kid Beyond Measure for my card.  He reminds me of my younger son who has just shot up 4 inches in the last 6 months - so hard to keep pants long enough for him with growth spurts like that!  And since this is a digi image, it was easy for me to flip it and have the boy measuring himself with his left hand for my lefty son.

I also thought the colors from the Party Time Tuesday Challenge #60 would be perfect for my boy card.  My son's favorite color is blue, so no other color would do for his shirt!  {grin}