MPS Christmas Card Challenge

The snowman for my next card is from the Jolly Holidays cartridge. His face is a Peachy Keen stamp, Snow Faces and that adorable sentiment is from My Pink Stamper's Winter Punnies.

My Pink Stamper: Birthday Project Challenge

This was an easy challenge. It's Robyn's (My Pink Stamper's) birthday today: Happy Birthday, Robyn!! The challenge was to make a birthday project. It doesn't get much easier than that. I could always use an extra birthday card. For this card, I used Winter Frolic. For her jacket, I used DCWV Dots, Stripes & Plaids. Her fur trim is some ribbon I purchased from Target during Christmas. It matches my most favorite Stampin'Up! color ever...Glorious Green! I'm so sorry I didn't buy more of that ribbon. I'm running low. :( Anyway, that adorable face is from Peachy Keen's Cutie Pie Face Assortment. I added some brads and button twine to the layer. The sentiment is from My Pink Stamper's Family & Friends set. That set is so versatile, I just love it! The layer is just punched with some circle punches and the corners are a scalloped circle punch. I'm not sure just what look I was going for, LOL, but it worked out well enough.

I jazzed up her boots, hairbows, mittins and a few other little things with Dazzling Diamonds glitter from Stampin' Up! The base of the card is some leftover Bazzill cardstock I had and the layer is Papertrey Ink's Spring Rain. I just love how this card turned out. Thanks for looking and have a great day!

A Valentine Tree

I love Winter Frolic so much, I had to use this adorable tree. I'm definitely Christmas-carded out, so I used pink and white to create a Valentine themed tree. I think it turned out pretty non-Christmasy and I'm pleased. This card is also for The Paper Variety challenge: create a project with pink, black and/or white. I chose pink and white and added purple as a third color. Sadly, the purple is Stampin' Up! Almost Amethyst and it is retired. I only have about 10 sheets left. Ack! The glitter paper is from AC Moore and it's fantastic. It's a light-weight chipboard and they didn't skimp on glitter. I used adhesive pearls to decorate the tree, some button twine to wrap the trunk. The patterned paper is from Stampin' Up! Designer Series Paper Sending Love. It's retired also, but it's available for clearance here. It's awesome; every page is glittered. The hearts were cut with my other new favorite cartridge, Twinkle Toes. I used some felt flowers and gems to add some texture.
Here's a close up of the heart and flower detail:


The sentiments on the heart are once again from Papertrey Ink's Heart Prints set. I'm sure getting a lot of use from that set. I used a paper crimper to add some texture to the paper and topped it off with satin ribbon from papertrey Ink in Raspberry Fizz.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

My Pink Stamper Blog Hop

This was My Pink Stamper's very first blog hop. It was so exciting opening all the design team's blogs to get a clue on what the challenge was about. I can't remember verbatim, but the challenge was to create a card, scrapbook page, or other project using My Pink Stamper stamps or the color PINK! That was a piece of cake for me. I actually didn't use MPS Stamps for this project because the birthday saying I had didn't fit onto the punch I wanted to use, but I love her stamps. They are awesome quality and I am always able to find the perfect sentiment.

Anyway, I used my brand new Winter Frolic cartridge for this card. I looked all over for this cartridge. Well ok, just in Joann's and AC Moore and neither had it. So, I decided I didn't want it and purchased Twinkle Toes instead. Then, I saw someone's card using Winter Frolic and realized I needed it. LOL. So, I went on eBay to bid and was so excited that I won the auction! Woot! Three seconds later, I found the cartridge for $2 cheaper on a Buy It Now option. Ooh, I was peeved. But, in the end I'm just excited to finally have it. Yay!

I used Stampin' Up! Early Espresso for the base and Regal Rose for the layer. I used my paper crimper to give the rose layer some texture. I also used Papertrey Ink's Heart Prints stamp set for the hearts on the card. I used rhinestones for the buttons on her coat and a fuzzy pom pom for her hat. The hat and wrists looked bland to me, so I threw in a little embroidery floss for contrast and some stickles for bling. A little button twine and a bow in the corner and I called it a day! My friend's birthday is on Valentine's Day and this card will be perfect. Thanks for looking and have a great day!