PWC334 Polka Dots

Happy Wednesday, and welcome to another Paper Pretties challenge.  The theme for this week's challenge PWC334 is Polka Dots.  You can have a lot of fun with polka dots, use little ones or really big ones, use just a few of them or use a whole lot of them, just use them.  

For my card the polka dots patterned paper is used on the long panel and it is also used to paper piece Sophia's dress. The swirls on the red background paper are also polka dots.  

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Tis the Season Sophia" clear
ink - memento Tuxedo Black
paper - Bazzill String of Pearls" card stock; Imaginesce "Candy Cane Lane- Ice Capades"; scrap of green
miscellaneous - copics; bling; twine; snowflake charm; Spellbinder's circle and lacey circle dies; Viva Glitter Liner

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC334 - Polka Dots

PWC332 - Friendship

I am sorry to be late adding this week's Paper Pretties' challenge PWC332 "Friendship".   I hope you have more time than I do and will get to play along.

This card uses the digi image "Buttons" which may not seem to be about friends but my bestie happens to love buttons and finds very creative ways to use them on cards so this is a perfect image for her.  I've made a little tag to let her know how I feel about her.

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Buttons" digi
ink - printer; Ranger walnut ink for edges
paper - Bazzill Glow card stock; My Mind's Eye Follow your Heart Be Amazing Patterned Paper
miscellaneous - copics; Martha Stewart tag punch; Spellbinders circle and inverted scalloped circle die; twine

Here's the challenge Paper Pretties PWC 332 Friendship

PWC331 - Clean and Simple

Happy Fall Y'all and welcome to the newest Paper Pretties Challenge.   The theme for PWC331 is Clean and Simple.   

It seems that most stampers start out making CAS simple cards and if they have the time and money to grow their stash they start to make more complicated cards using lots of layers and embellishments.  Well, at least that's what happened to me and after awhile it started to become difficult to make a CAS card but I've been trying to work at doing things a bit differently than I usually do them, like use colors that I don't usually use, or try a new technique, make more masculine cards.  Just shake things up a little and making CAS cards is one of the things I've been trying to do more often.

For those of you who don't know what a Clean and Simple card is, it's a card that is all about the design, not about embellishments and they should have lots of "white" (in this case white means empty and can be any color) space, basically what the name implies.

For my card I used the "Fall Cooper" stamp set.  To go with the Clean and Simple theme I decided to just put a hint of color in a few spots.  After I finished I thought this might have looked even better if I had only colored his cheeks instead of his entire face, well, that's a project for another day.  If you're not very good at coloring you can add some interest to your stamped image by just touching a bit of marker color or pencil in a few key spots.  It's so much better than just a plain stamp and very easy to do.  Just a pick color that's in your patterned papers that co-ordinates with your card stock.  Or be daring and pick a color that contrasts with your paper.  Whatever you do, just have fun and when you're finished link it up with the Paper Pretties challenge blog for a chance to win 5 digi images.

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties - Fall Cooper - Clear
ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
paper - Neenah Classic Crest Brilliant White card stock; Bazzill Sunbeam, Apricot and Pinecone card stock
miscellaneous - copics; EK Success leaves punch; Stampin' Up corner punch

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC331 - Clean and Simple
Crafting Musketeers     #18 - Autumn Colours
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

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PWC330 Sporty

Rah! Rah! Rah! It's time for a Paper Pretties new Challenge.  PWC330 is "Sporty".  You can also use school colors.  So I've got a cheer leader in my old high school's colors, at least I think that was what they were, it's been a long, long, long time....

This is a very simple card, nothing fussy about it.  Just simple straight cuts, no dies or punches used.  If you want to copy it and don't have the candies you can sub some tiny buttons.

This digi image comes with three sentiments any one of which I could have added to the front of this card - next to her knee would a perfect spot.   I've left off the sentiment because I'm not sure how I'm going to use this card, even though it's a team spirit card I may use it for a birthday or a get well or cheer up card.  It definitely has potential for cheer up.  So I've left off the sentiment so that I can use it for whatever need comes up.

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Cis" digi
ink - printer
paper - Bazzill "Sunbeam" card stock; My Favorite Things "Whip Cream" card stock; October Afternoon "Modern Homemaker" patterned paper
miscellaneous - copics; stickles; Queen & Co Candy Shoppe Candy Stripers; Stampin' Up Subtles Candy Dots

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC330 - Sporty
Sister Act #76 - Anything Goes

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PWC329 Fall/Halloween

Oh Boy, my favorite holidays are coming up and Paper Pretties challenge PWC329 "Fall/Halloween" kick starts the season.  

I just love Halloween, creepy and scary or just silly.   All the costumes and decorations have been fun for me since I was a little kid but if Halloween isn't your thing then you can still play along and just use a Fall/Autumn theme.  The colors of Fall are gorgeous and who among doesn't have something to be grateful about so there's got to be something you can make to play along in this challenge. 

Since I love Halloween and I love cupcakes I pulled out one of my favorite Paper Pretties sets "Holiday Sweets I - Clear".  It's a favorite set because there are four cupcakes in the set, celebrating four different holidays.  After coloring the image, I pulled the paper (it's from an old retired Stampin' Up pack) and some embellies and put it together in a simple layout.  Did you notice the googlie eyes in the upper right corner?  I'm telling you, I love Halloween, when else do you get to use those bad boys?

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Holiday Sweets I - Clear"
ink - Memento Tuxedo Black and VersaMagic Spanish Olive
paper - Neenah Classic Crest Brilliant White card stock;  Bazzill - Sunbeam card stock; Stampin' Up "Basic Black" card stock; Stampin' Up "Ghostly Greeting" patterned paper
miscellaneous- copics; candy dots; googlie eyes; Martha Stewart ghoulie border punch

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC329 - Fall/Halloween
A Random Fan #15 - Anything Goes
Going Grey with Scrap Creations - Fall
Cutie Pie #78 - Cute with Shades of Autumn

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PWC327 - Sympathy

This week at Paper Pretties our challenge theme PWC327  is "Sympathy".  That's a challenge that usually goes over like a lead balloon but let's face it, eventually we all need to send one of these to someone so it's a good thing to have in our stash and if you don't get a nudge to make one you probably won't so now's the time to do it.

I prefer sympathy cards to be CAS.  It's a somber time and the frills may not be appreciated. That doesn't mean it has to be black and white, or gray or white, or silver and white, all of which are good choices for sympathy cards.  Pastel colors also work and since I love pink that's what I choose for this card which uses one of the "Irish Blessings" sentiments for a focal point.  To dress it up a little I used Spellbinder dies to frame it and popped it up with dimensionals.  A  Stampin' Up corner punch  was used on the pink mat to give it a little more interest.  

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Irish Blessings"
ink - Memento "Tuxedo Black"
paper - Bazzill "Buttercream" and Pink card stock
miscellaneous - Spellbinder's Label's Four and Imperial Gold Labels Four dies; Stampin' Up corner die

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC327 - Sympathy

PWC323 - Boys Cards

It's time for Paper Pretties new challenge PWC323  "Boys Cards".  This is a good challenge for me because left to my own devices I usually make feminine cards.  BUT when I need a masculine card my Paper Pretties stamps are the best starting point. There's a slew of images that feature boys and men.  Go to the Paper Pretties store and check out Cooper, Zack and Luke stamps you know there's something for every masculine card you'll ever need to make.

This card features "Right On Par".  I don't understand what it is about golf that gets under peoples skin but almost everyone I know plays so this card won't stay in my stash for long.  When I make cards for men I try to keep the embellishments to a minimum.  I think you can add any kind you like, even bows and bling to masculine cards, you just have to keep them low key. I used gold pearls on the sentiment label and in the corner and that's it.  

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Right On Par - Clear"
ink - Memento "Tuxedo Black" and "Cottage Ivy"
paper - Bazzill "Parakeet" card stock; My Favorite Things "Natural" card stock; Echo Park "This and That" Patterned Paper Pack
miscellaneous - copics; Stampin' Up Modern Label punch; gold pearls; Spellbinder Rectangle dies

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC323 - Boys Cards
A Random Fan #12 -  Paper Patterns
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
Fan-Tastic Tuesdays - Anything Goes

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PWC322 - Thank You Cards

It's Wednesday, ugh, what's a gal to do?  The only sane thing is to head to you craft space and play along with Paper Pretties challenge PWC322 "Thank You Cards".   The rules are pretty simple, you know the usual stuff, no back linking, follow the theme and have fun.  You don't even have to use Paper Pretties products but if you have them we love seeing them.

I recently got my inky fingers on the "Celebrate Fall Combo" stamp set so I had to use it for today's challenge.  With chevron designs appearing everywhere it's nice that the dress and bowl in the stamp have chevron designs on them.  I picked them up in the patterned paper which was a gift from Heather (the queen of all things Paper Pretties) but I know you all can find those chevrons in punches, die cuts and embossing folders too.  OH, those little flags at the top of the card.  Sometimes I get lazy and don't feel like bothering to die cut things (I know, that's really lazy, but hey, I am what I am), I just cut them out with scissors.  It's not difficult so if you're on a budget that's a pretty easy way to decorate your cards using scraps.  If you can't see it, the leaf charm says "give thanks".   

Every now and then someone asks me where I get the charms.  I look all over for them and will pick them up any place I see something I like.  However I don't like to spend a lot of money on them and in many instances they are expensive so I pass them by.  I like a bargain, and I've found that you can get some good deals on charms at Oriental Trading but you will be getting several of the same thing so you may want to go in on them with a friend.  Don't just look for them in the charms category, look under bracelets or jewelry.  Sometimes you'll find the same charms for less money.  

Here's the deets"
stamp - Paper Pretties "Celebrate Fall Combo" clear
ink - Memento "Tuxedo Black"
paper - Xpress Blending card stock; Simple Stories "Summer Fresh" patterned paper; Bazzill "Apricot" and "Hillary" card stock
miscellaneous - copics; Stampin' Up Subtle Candy Dots, corner punch; ribbon; waxed twine, leaf charm

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC322 - Thank You Cards
Fan-Tastic Tuesday #47 - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

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PWC321 Red and Green

Happy hump day and welcome to Paper Pretties Wednesday challenge.  Even though it's the middle of summer at Paper Pretties we're in a festive Christmasy kind of mood, well at least I am.  This week's challenge is the last color challenge of the month and the color combination is "red and green".  That's why I'm in a Christmasy mood, but you don't have to make a Christmas card, just use the color combination of red and green for whatever theme you'd like.

While Christmas is still on my mind if you're reading this and it's still July you have a chance to take advantage of the "Christmas is July" sale at the Paper Pretties store.  Using the promo code CHRISTMAS you will get 50% of your entire order.  So now's the time to stock up on any of those stamp sets you've been dreaming about and with that discount you don't have to feel guilty at all.  

This is a fairly clean and simple design. For the challenge I put a touch of green on the snowman's hat and colored the bird red.  The stamped image fit nicely into a Spellbinder's ornament die.  At the top I used a real button for embellishment, so it's not post office friendly, if I were going to drop this in a mail box I'd have made a card stock button.  However I don't mind a visit to the post office, so it can be hand cancelled.  I found a patterned paper that was red and green and finished it off by stamping the sentiment in the corner.  

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Frosty - Clear"
ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
paper - Neenah "Classic Crest Brillaint White card stock; Teresa Collins "Spring Fling" patterned paper; Bazzill "Grenadine Red" card stock"
miscellaneous - copics; Spellbinders 2011 Heirloom Ornaments die; baker's twine; button

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC321 - Red and Green
Creative Card Crew 67 - Christmas
Crafty Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes
Partytime Tuesdays #183- Christmas in July
The Corrosive Challenge #204- Christmas in July

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PWC319 Red, Black and White

This is a love card.  Not in the traditional sense.  It's about shoes.  Shoe lust, you either get it or you don't.  If you get it, then you probably have seen every episode (and movie) of "Sex and the City", stopped women on the street that you don't know to ask where they got their shoes, have purchased shoes that you don't have anything to wear with (yet), stand in your closet just to admire your footwear, you think the higher the heel the better, would never wear sandals without a fresh pedicure, and have or have to have the Sassy Shoes stamp set from Paper Pretties.  But I'm getting ahead of myself...

It's Wednesday, that means it's time for another Paper Pretties challenge.  For July, all the challenges are color challenges.  This week's color combination is "Red, Black and White".   A crowd favorite that will be lots of fun for you.  Don't forget to add your card at the link up area on the challenge blog so you're in it for a chance to win five digis of your choice.  We can't wait to see what you make.

Red, black and white is such a fun combination.  You can go in so many directions, anything from a cutesy country gingham look, maybe a Christmas card, or even a sophisticated and sleek birthday card.   My choice was a cute friend card.  The stamps in this set are outlines so for this card in order to get a red shoe I stamped on the same card stock that I used to die cut the heart background.  Then I cut it out an popped it up on a die cut heart.  I made a belly band, stamped the sentiment on that, tied some twine around it, added a charm before tying the bow and attached it to the heart background, then popped the heart with the shoe on top of that.  Voila!

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Sassy Shoes- clear"
ink - Memento "Tuxedo Black"
paper - Stampin' Up "Basic Black" and "Cherry Cobbler" card stock; Bazzil "Snow White" card stock
miscellaneous - Simon Says Stamp "Floating Hearts" die; Spellbinder's "Scalloped Hearts" and "Hearts" dies; waxed black linen twine; shoe charm

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC319 - Red, Black and White
Card Mania CMC#51 - How Charming
Crafting From the Heart #27 - Anything Goes
Sister Act #65 - Anything Goes

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PWC318 Red, Green , Yellow Blue

Red, yellow, green and blue - that's a whole lot of color for you.  It's week 2 of a month of color challenges from Paper Pretties and those are the colors for this week's challenge PWC318.  Play along to be the winner of five digital images from the Paper Pretties store.  You can don't have to use a Paper Pretties stamp to play along but we sure do like seeing them and if you do use one, you'll get an extra entry for the winner's draw.

 At first I thought it was going to be a little difficult but once I sat down and picked out my stamp it was easy peasy.   These colors are great for anything to do with children and school.  I'm sure you can make them work with other things but I'm a big fan of Sophia so children come to mind for me.  This is a very simple card to make.  The only special tool used is a corner punch.  I stamped Celebrate Sophia on X-press It card stock and colored it with copics, using the blue, yellow and red called for in the challenge, so I just made sure to use a green card stock for my card base and lay out that showed it off.  I cut all the card stock and mats with a straight edge cutter.  The yellow panel and the image panel are popped up on dimensionals.  There's a bit of sparkle on the flowers on her dress and the flowers on the yellow panel were white so I colored them with copics.  You color just about anything with copics.  There's practically no reason to buy pre-made flowers when you have die-cuts, punches and copics, except of course how beautiful and irresistible they look when you see them sitting on the shelves.  But I digress...

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Celebrate Sophia"
ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
paper - Stampin' Up "Gumball Green"; Close To My Heart "My Reflections - Jubilee" pack
miscellaneous - copics; Stampin' Up corner punch; pearls; Spare Parts flowers; Viva Yellow Quartz Glitter liners; red pearls

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC318 - Red, Green, Yellow and Blue
Fan-Tastic Tuesday #43- Anything Goes
2 Cute Ink #110 - Kids
Crafting From the Heart #26 - Anything Goes

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PWC317 - Rainbow Inspired

It's time to be inspired by color. This week's Paper Pretties challenge PWC317 is "Follow Your Rainbow".  A color challenge, a very colorful challenge, that's lots of fun.  You can take this literally and/or figuratively.  Take a look at the cards from the design team. 

Color challenges are a great way to start your focus on what you will be doing on your card.  For the month of July, Paper Pretties will be having color challenges, every week will be different, but each one's a great combo so you're going to want to play along in each one.  

We've also got a Christmas in July special.  You can take 50% of your entire order by using promo code:  CHRISTMAS

My card uses one of the sentiment stamps from the "Fun Quotes" set.  This set has three truly fun quotes which work well on cards that feature a sentiment on the face.  All of them will put a smile on the recipient's face, and isn't that the goal of any card.  Because this sentiment is about rainbows I pulled a patterned paper that has  a rainbow on it and then pulled lots of colors of card stock to use with it.  To play up the color aspect of the challenge I stamped it in blue in on blue card stock.  After stamping it I die cut it and then cut two more mats to frame it.   The bottom mat has a lot a detail that is lost in the photo but looks fabulous on the card.   The striped paper is the backside of the rainbow paper.  If you aren't good at matching designs and colors there's lots of companies, like this one, that have done it for you.  The last thing I did was look for some colorful embellishments.   The sunflowers are so cheery and colorful I thought they'd be perfect on this card and I had some orange glitter dots (I got them at the Paper Pretties store - don't forget the Christmas in July sale) that really pop when sitting next to them, then some red pearls in the corners and that's that.  Lots of color and cheer and a fun filled afternoon for me.

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Fun Quotes" clear
ink - Memento "Danube Blue"
Paper - Stampin' Up "Ballet Blue" and "Gumdrop Green" card stock; Bazzill "Sunbeam" card stock; My Favorite Things "Tangy Orange" and "Whip Cream" card stock; K & Co "Daydreams" designer paper pad
miscellaneous- Spellbinder's "Labels 4" and "Imperial Gold Labels 4" dies; Spare parts Sunflowers; red pearls; Glitter Dots - Tropical

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC317 - Rainbow Inspired
Fan-Tastic Tuesday #42 - Anything Goes
Loves Rubber Stamps #110 - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

My card used this week's sketch from I {heart} card sketches #73.   I saw the sketch and made by card before I read the site's challenge rules and I didn't follow all the rules so I can't enter it but it is their sketch so it does need to be credited.

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PWC316 - Red, White & Blue

Happy Wednesday!  You've made it to hump day so there's a new Paper Pretties challenge PWC316 for you.  This week the challenge theme is "Red, White and Blue inspired by the Fourth of July".  If you play along and post your card or project on the Paper Pretties Challenge Blog you'll be in the draw for a chance to win 5 digis of your choice from the Paper Pretties store.

For the longest time I was not a fan of this color combo but it's growing on me and I'm liking how it looks on this card.  

This card features a stamp from the "Sweets for the Sweet - EZ Mount" set.  The set contains images of several baking items including a rolling pin and mixer as well as a few sentiments.   It reminds me of Christmas and the holidays because of all the baking that gets done then.   You could use the stamps to decorate your goodie packages.  There's so many more things you can do with your stamps besides make a greeting card.  By the way if you're thinking about picking up this stamp here's a little tidbit that might give you that extra push - during the month of June all orders over $15 will include 5 yards of ribbon (our choice) free.  You can also save 20% on your order using promo code JUNE20.  

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Sweets for the Sweet - EZ Mount"
ink - Memento Tuxedo Black and Stampin' Up Cherry Cobbler
paper - Neenah Classic Crest Brilliant White card stock; Stampin' Up "Whisper White" and "Midnight Muse" card stock and DSP Patterns Pack "Regals"; Bazzill "Maraschino" card stock; October Afternoon "Modern Homemaker" pad
miscellaneous - copics; Spellbinder's "Oval", "Scalloped Oval" and "Tag Shape Three"; eyelet lace; ruffled gingham ribbon; baker's twine; apple button; red pearls

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC316 - Red, White and Blue 4th of July Inspired
Die Cutting Divas #171 - I vow To Thee My Country
Fan-Tastic Tuesday #41 - Anything Goes
Going Grey with Scrap Creations - 4th of July
Partytime Tuesdays  PTT#178- Anything Goes

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PWC315 Summer Fun

It's summertime,  and this week the Paper Pretties challenge PWC315 is "Summer Fun".  Join in our challenge for a chance to win 5 digis.
Summer is a favorite time for the little ones and the "Life Is Good - Cooper" stamp set shows one of the best times a child can have.  It's one of my favorite stamps, along with the "Life Is Good - Sophia".    I think Cooper is just adorable and I love that sand castle.  This stamp brings back happy memories of family summer vacations.  The sentiment says it all perfectly.

Here's the deets:
stamps - Paper Pretties "Life is Good - Cooper"
ink - Memento "Tuxedo Black" and Versa Magic "Aegean Blue"
paper - Stampin' Up "Coastal Cabana", "Baked Brown Sugar" and "Retro Fresh" DSP
miscellaneous - copics; Spellbinder's Labels 8 die; Stampin' Up "Modern Label" punch; SU Creamy Caramel marker; mini brads

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC315 - Summer Fun
A Random Fan #11 - Summer Fun
Craft Room Challenge - Sun, Sand and Surf
Fan-Tastic Tuesday #40 - Summer at the Beach
Oldie But a Goodie - Father's Day/Masculine (the die, punch and mini brads are more than six months old)
Pause, Dream, Enjoy #12 - Beach/Ocean

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PWC314 - Invitations

It's time for the new Paper Pretties challenge.  This week the challenge PWC314 is "Invitations."   You can make any kind of invitation you'd like - a birthday party, a bridal shower, a book club meeting or even a girl's night out, which is what I chose to do.  The Holiday Cheers I stamp set is perfect for a simple invitation. There's a couple sentiments that would work for an invitation, one of which I have used here.  This set is just a fun set, it has four different cocktails.  Besides this stamp there is a St. Patrick's Day, an Easter and a Valentine's cocktail.  By the way, with a little creativity you can tweak the shamrocks on the St. Patrick's cocktail into flowers and use them throughout the year. You can mask the Egg in the Easter cocktail and use that anytime too.  With a little thought you can get a lot more use out of this set.   

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Holiday Cheers I - Clear"
ink - Memento "Tuxedo Black"
paper -copics X-press Blending card stock;  Stampin' Up "Blushing Bride" and "Coastal Cabana"  card stock; Simple Stories "Vintage Bliss" and "Snap" dsp pads
miscellaneous - copics; Spare Parts Burlap flowers; Spellbinders "Circle" and "Lacey Circle" dies; Martha Stewart "Cheers" bordeer punch; My Favorite Things Blueprints 13 die-namics

Here's the chgallenges:
Paper Pretties PWC314 - Invitations
A Random Fan #10 - Let's Polka Dot
Fantastic Tuesday #38 - Anything Goes
Creative Colors - 

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PWC313 Hip To Be Square

It's Wednesday, so it's time for Paper Pretties to host a new challenge.  This week we're making it very easy for you, the theme is "It's Hip To Be Square". So you can make any kind of card or project that you'd like to make.  It can be for a boy or girl, or even for an animal.  We're not fussy.  You don't even have to use Paper Pretties stamps or digis to play with us, but if you have them we'd sure like to see them.  If you're the winner of the challenge you'll get to pick five digis from the shop.  So after you've finished browsing around the internet go dig out your supplies and make a square card to post on our challenge.  I can't wait to see it!


My card uses one of my favorite Sophia stamps, "Under the Sea, Sophia".  Mermaids are just fun, just look at Sophia's hair, don't you love those pearls and the shells that are in it.  The three wave borders are popped up on dimensionals and the Sophia image is fussy cut and also popped up with her tail sticking under and over the bottom most wave.  Although it doesn't show well in the photo there are stickles applied to her hair, tail and shells as well as some liquid pearls on the pearls and in real life those little touches really punch up the card.  

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Under the Sea, Sophia"
ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
paper - Bazzill "Glow" card stock; My Favorite Things "Steel Blue" card stock; K & Co "Daydream" dsp pad
miscellaneous - copics; stickles; baker's twine; mermaid charm; pearls; Creative Memories corner punch; the Cat's Pajamas "wave" border die Cut Ups

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC313 - Hip to Be Square
Mojo Monday 348 - sketch
Creative Card Crew #63 - Nautical
Deep Ocean #79 - Inspired by a Song (Under the Sea)

Fan-Tastic Tuesday #38 - Summer
Inky Chicks #30 - Use a Metal Embellishment

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PWC312 Father's Day/Masculine

It's Wednesday, hump day and Paper Pretties new challenge day.  I'm not quite sure which is most exciting, I guess it depends on if you're working Monday to Friday and how much you like or don't like your job.  I know you must love a papercrafting challenge or you wouldn't be here. This week Paper Pretties is calling for Father's Day or Masculine cards.  I just heard a rather loud collective groan.  I know, I know.  You like to make pretty, frou frou cards with lots of bling on them.  Get over it for one card.  Eventually you'll need to give a card to a masculine type person so just bite the bullet and make one.  Besides, the winner of the challenge gets to pick 5 digis.

The process becomes a lot easier if you have a fun set of stamps like the Handyman set.  I love this set and get a lot of use out of it.  Besides the grill, there's a tool set and a lawn mower, plus tons of sentiments.  You can make a card for any man you know with this set.  Check it out, I'm sure you'll agree.

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Handyman"
ink - Memento "Tuxedo Black"; sentiment MFT "Kraft"
paper - Close To My Heart "My Reflections - Jubilee"
miscellaneous - copics; buttons; twine

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC312 - Father's Day/Masculine
A Random Fan #9 - Anything Goes
Fan-Tastic Tuesday #37 - Anything Goes
PDE Linky Party #11 - Food or Beverage (burgers on the grill)
Created with Love #82 - Lots of Layers 

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PWC311 - Flowers

Are you ready for a new challenge from Paper Pretties?  Well, it's Wednesday so we're ready even if you aren't.  This week the challenge PWC311 is "Flowers".  I love flowers but for some reason I rarely use them as an embellishment on my cards.   The good news for me and anyone else who is flower shy on cards is that the challenge doesn't say that you have to use three dimensional flowers to embellish your card or project.  My card may only have one big flower on it but if you look closely you would see that the background paper is a floral design, the border punch is also a floral design and in the stamp "Everyday Lily - clear", Lily is holding flowers.  There's lots of ways you can get those flowers on your card, so whip something up and then take a picture of it and submit it on our blog. You could win 5 digital images and we like to see what you make.



Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Everyday Lily - clear"
ink - Memento "Tuxedo Black"
paper - Copic X-press card stock; Bazzill "Glow", "Tawny Medium" and "Apricot" card stock; K & Co "TC Cottage Garden" dp pad
miscellaneous - copics; Cuttlebug birthday embossing folder; Martha Stewart border punch; cord; Close To My Heart mocha "Opaques"; MFT flower die

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC311 - Flowers
A Random Fan #9 - Anything Goes
Cards and More #106 - Spring
Shopping Our Stash SOS152 - Happy Birthday to Us (Everything except the flower die is over a year old - the patterned paper pad I purchased while I still lived in NJ - I moved in 2010!)

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PWC310 - Embellish!

This week Paper Pretties has one of the most fun challenges ever, unless you're a CAS (Clean and Simple) crafter.  PWC310 is "Embellish".   For me it's so much fun to go looking through my baskets of embellies to find the "perfect" match for each project.  To be honest, for me it's fun to go looking through my baskets of embellishments just for the heck of it.  

For this card I used the "Life is Sweet - Clear" Stamp set.  One of the cool things about this stamp set is that it comes with a plenty of extra little stamps that you can use to embellish your project.  There's a single gumball plus a silly face (I used those on the sentiment flag) and there's also a small star that would fit inside the gumball.  Lots of sentiments come with the set too.  It's truly a bargain, and FUN!

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Life is Sweet - Clear"
ink - Memento "Tuxedo Black"
paper - Stampin' Up "Bordering Blue" card stock and "Specialty Sweet Shop" DSP
miscellaneous - copics; Stampin' Up Wisteria Wonder Ruffled Ribbon; SU Jelly Bean Sweet Shop Brad; mini brads;  Baker's Twine

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC310 - Embellish It
Digi Sketch Challenge - Sketch "Anything Goes
Sweet Stamps #169 - Polka Dots
Crafting from the Heart #18 - Anything Goes
Love To Create #115 - Friendship

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PWC309 Graduation/School

I'm late!  So sorry to be a day late for the Paper Pretties challenge PWC309 Graduation/School.   There's still plenty of time for you to play along but I am ashamed to be late.  

This week we want to see Graduation cards or School cards.  I wasn't in the mood for graduation, and don't have any grads around this year so I thought about the cheerleader, and she is so cheerful so I got her out for coloring.  I thought I'd do her in my old high school colors, funny thing, it's been so long since I was in high school it took me a few minutes to remember what the colors were.  Geez!  

When it came time to embellish the card I knew I had some pom poms somewhere and I went hunting them down.  Turned out they were all pink or red.  Well I gave my copics a test and it turns out you really can color anything with them, that green pom started out as a pink pom which I colored in two shakes of a lamb's tail with one of the markers I used on the uniform.  Now of course if that didn't work I would have just popped a button on the bow but isn't the pom pom the perfect embellie for this image!

Now it's your turn.  We want to see your cards or project, so get them finished and load them onto the Paper Pretties Challenge Blog.

Here's the deet:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Cis" digi
ink - printer
paper - Stampin' Up "Garden Green" card stock; Simple Stories "Vintage Bliss" dsp
miscellaneous - copics; Stampin' Up border punch; Lime Green stickles; pom pom; baker's twine

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC309 - Graduation/School
Crafty Sentiments Design - Anything Goes 
Digi Choosday week 18 - Make It for the Kids
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

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