A Prettie Birthday Sketch - PWC76

Welcome to Wednesday! Today is my first post as an official "Prettie Girl" for Paper Pretties, I could NOT be more excited!! Every week for the Wednesday Challenge we have a blog hop with the Prettie Girls to show off our creations, and then YOU have the challenge of playing along! It's worth it, if you play along with our sketch and your Paper Pretties stamps, you have a chance to win a $15 gift certificate to the Paper Pretties Boutique! Full details on the challenge can be found on The Paper Clip.

Ok, this week's Hop is extra-special because we are showering Prettie Girl Heather with some belated birthday wishes!! Yes, her birthday just passed and we're celebrating with a Prettie Wednesday Challenge (PWC76) and a birthday blog hop. Here is the sketch by Danielle (who has come to the end of her term with Paper Pretties, but will still be stalked!).

For my card I used Gliding By Sophia. I just love Sophia! She's the one who got me started loving the Paper Pretties images. Doesn't she look like she's having fun? I stamped her in Memento Tuxedo Black ink on PTI white cardstock and colored with Copic markers. Her muff and earmuffs are done in white Sparkly Fluff; it's flock with added glitz, you just can't go wrong there!! I made the sentiment on the computer since I didn't have anything that went "just right" for a birthday.

That's it for me! Your next stop on the hop is birthday girl Heather! Or, if you are just starting here at my blog, head on over to Christie's blog to start from the beginning. You definitely won't want to miss any of the party!

**This is my second blog post today, be sure to scoll down to see my earlier post featuring a new digistamp from Victoria Case**

Victoria Case Stamps - New Release!

Hello and Happy Wednesday!! I have some exciting news to share this morning; I was asked to be a Guest Designer this month for Victoria Case Stamps! How fun! You have actually seen Victoria's stamps here before, she has several exclusive lines that are licensed through Susana's Custom Art and Card Design as well.

This *adorable* little fairy is one of the new digital stamps being released TODAY at Victoria's stamp store. You can see some more inspiration with him and all of his fairy friends from the rest of the Design Team on the Victoria Case Stamps blog.

I used last week's sketch from Mercy Kerin, the girl is a sketch genius! This is MTSC45 - and I did make the card while the sketch was current, heehee, but I couldn't post it until today! Check out the sketch:

I printed the digital image using Photoshop Elements onto PTI white cardstock, colored with Copic markers, and did some color highlighting with the Ranger white gel pen. I cut out the circles using Classic Circle Nestabilities. Then I cut out my little dude and layered him on top with dimensionals. Added some Dazzling Diamonds glitter using the Quickie Glue Pen (the bestest around for adding powders!!). Paper is Basic Grey Marrakech and the punch is Martha Stewart.

This little guy is TOO MUCH FUN!! Every time I look at him I smile! I think he reminds me of my impish but sweet little boys. :) Check him and his friends out at Victoria's stamp store today!

I'll be back in a bit with my first "official" Paper Pretties post! Thanks for stopping by.

Store and Stamping News

Hi everyone! Just a quick post to let you know that the Susana's Custom Art and Card Design web store is closed until Friday at about noon (PST). Susana is doing some site maintenance and she's taking a much needed break as well! The shopping cart is turned off but the store is still active, so you can browse all you like and make your wish lists for later! Also, the Try It Out Tuesday for this week has been moved to Friday so I will see you back here then!

Tune in tomorrow for my debut as a Prettie Girl for Paper Pretties - it's the Wednesday challenge and if you play along you will have a chance to win a $15 gift certificate to the Paper Pretties store!!

Oh yes, and one other announcement coming up tomorrow too so I'll see you then!

LPSC40 and TESC89 - Get Digified!

Happy Monday!! Did you have a good Halloween? It was cold here but the kids had a blast so I'm calling it a success!

Well today IS Monday so that means it's time for inspiration from the {Little Paper Shop} and another challenge too! This week's challenge is from Mel, who is SADLY leaving us on the DT, *sniff* *sniff*, you know she is AMAZING!! She challenged us to combine digital images with LPS stamps on our creations. Keyword: LPSC40. What fun Mel, thanks!! My digital image is the fairy on the flower and I added a little plant at the bottom of the main image {stamp} and the sentiment and flower on the sentiment circle are both stamps as well.

I decided to combine our challenge with this week's Taylored Expressions sketch {TESC89}. You know I love Taylor's sketches! Here it is so you can check me. ;-)

Be sure to visit the LPS store blog and the other DT members to see all the inspiration with this circle sketch! AND, if you play along with our challenge this week you'll be entered to win LPS stamps!! Check out the details on the LPS store blog this morning - you have until Sunday night to enter on this week's post on the LPS store blog and the winner will be announced there next Monday morning. Happy stamping!

I Feel Prettie!

Today's the official announcement day! I can finally share the news that I am a part of the Paper Pretties design team as one of the four new Prettie Girls, along with Jane Matsumoto, Kristy Ketterlin, and Wendy Bond! How exciting is that?! It's also release day, so kick things off right, there will be a Pajama Party over in the Paper Pretties forum tonight at 7 PM CST. Hope to see you there!

Thanks so much to Christie for asking me to join her. I look forward to sharing lots of prettie creations with you! Hope you have a great Sunday, thanks for stopping by!