Just a quick post before we head off to visit Laddu's parents. I wanted to show you a guest book I made for Laddu's mom, I think it turned out really pretty! Laddu's parents are throwing an engagment party for us/anniversary party for Laddu's brother and wife. And if you know anything about the indian culture, they don't do little dinner parties, they go BIG! For this party there is going to be probably around 200-250 people! Crazy, huh? Laddu's mom mentioned awhile ago wanting to get a guest book and I thought that could be an area where I could do something since she's been doing all of the planning and decorating so far. A couple of christmas' ago I made them a photo album using maroon and gold satin. I sewed a pattern onto the maroon with gold thread and sequins. It turned out beautiful, but took awhile to do! I didn't have much time this time so I used the left over fabric I had from that project, used the heart background stamp from Sealed With A Kiss, stamped all over the maroon fabric with gold ink and came up with this:-) I really like the result and am excited about giving it to her! Better run, hope you all have a good weekend!

Green and White card challenge

This card challenge was issued by Christie to do a card all in green and white. She gave us this gorgeous picture to inspire us. I thought that I definitely wanted to do something floral after seeing that picture, but Paper Pretties hasn't released much in the way of floral stamps yet. Than I remembered the little rose bouquet I did in the Sealed With a Kiss set! So I stamped the roses a bunch of times, cut them out, glued them together and made a big bouquet of roses!:-) Than I wanted a stripey green paper to use, but didn't have any. So I went into Illustrator and made my own! I like the way it came out, but I don't think I'll be doing that again, my hand was looking a little clawish after all that cutting!:-P This card will be going to Jillian as soon as I get her new address. I still have some more drawing to finish tonight, so it's back to work for me. Until tomorrow!

3x3 challenge card

It looks like I'm a little late getting my challenge card up, most of the other Prettie girls got theirs up last night or this morning! Oh well, no one ever accused me of being punctual:-)



This challenge was issued by Jodi to make a 3x3 card, and I have to say, it was so much fun! I love how easy it came together. I've had this color combo in my head for the last week for some reason and I've been trying to think of a card to use our little bird from Rainy Day Friends on, so I just combined everything I've been wanting to do and came up with this!:-) I think I will definitely be making more 3x3 cards in the future, I love how small and cute they are. Thanks Jodi for a great challenge!

Now it is my turn to give the challenge, heheheee (that's my evil laugh incase you can't tell). A couple of weeks ago I was clicking around on SplitcoastStampers and discovered their resource page! Why have I not heard about it before? I can't believe all of the fantastic ideas you can get from it! I spent at least an hour just going through all of them and looking at the examples people have made. Ever since than I've been dying to try one of their mini album tutorials. They have three or four to choose from, and I can't make up my mind which one to do! So my challenge to you is to pick one of the mini album tutorials on Splitcoast and make one. I'm hoping this way every one will do something different and I'll get even more ideas;-) Hope you guys enjoy the challenge!

So next week we'll be doing Jessie's challenge to use at least three embellishments (I'm a little scared of this one) and the following week will be my mini album challenge:-)

Happy Wednesday to you all, 'see' you tomorrow!

Acetate Card Challenge

Hope you all had a good weekend! I realize that it is Tuesday and not Monday, but one of the perks of being a free lancer is that you pretty much get to set your own schedule. So since my weekend was Sunday and Monday, today feels like Monday to me:-) Carmel was beautiful and it looks like we've found the spot for our reception. I still have a few more questions to ask the owner before we sign anything, but the place looks really cute and cozy, exactly what we wanted:-) And now for the challenge card I will be showing you today!



This challenge was made by Christie, our Prettie Mama:-), to make an acetate card. Being the ignorant newbie that I am, I of course had to call and ask her what in the world is acetate? When she told me all it was was those plastic sheets you use for an overhead projector I felt a little stupid. But that's one of the things I really like about stamping. A lot of the techniques that you see people use are actually pretty simple once you find out how it was done. For this card I used our set Rainy Day Friends. It's the only time I've been able to use it so far even though it's one of my favorite Sophia's! I stamped her little dog, Daisy, with her inside the card and stamped the rain drops on the acetate window. Here is the inside and a close up of the image.




Both Christie and I have little fluffy dogs so we decided Sophia's dog would be a combination of both of ours. Here is a picture of my little baby.



His name is Benji. He's very sweet to those he likes, but if not, watch out!;-) His little high pitch bark would scare anyone away! I never thought I would have a little dog, I always liked bigger dogs. But when I saw his little face, I couldn't resist:-)

I'll be back tomorrow to post the challenge that Jodi gave us, to make a 3x3 card. I've never made one of those, so it should be interesting;-) It's also my turn to post my challenge to all of the Prettie Girls, hope they like it!

Prettie Baby Card Challenge

This will just be a short post today since my fiance and I are heading over to Carmel to spend the night and will be back tomorrow. The main reason we are going is because Carmel is where we've decided to have our american wedding and we are going to go look at some possible reception places!:-) The reason I say american wedding is because my fiance, Laddu, is indian. So we will be having an indian wedding and an american wedding. People keep telling me what a lucky girl I am to have two weddings, I'm just glad I have Laddu's mom to plan the indian one, I would not have a clue where to start! I'm sure I'll be writing more about our upcoming wedding(s) but for now, here is the card!



Jana gave us this challenge to make a baby card using Paper Prettie stamps. The problem, or I guess you would say the challenge, is that Paper Prettie doesn't have any baby stamps! Yet! I should say;-) So I had no idea what to do for this one, but than I thought, hey I'm an illustrator! I'll just make a baby stamp! Some may call that cheating, I call it being resourceful:-) The best part about this card is that it's going to Charmaine who absolutely loves ladybugs. Hopefully she'll love this card! Thanks for stopping by, and if I'm not here tomorrow to post I'll be back for sure on Tuesday:-)

Paper Pretties New Cutie Pie

Last night was Paper Pretties release party for four of our new stamps! I only got to stay for about an hour, but it was so much fun chatting with all the girls and seeing all of the amazing creations the 'prettie people', as Julie calls them;-), were coming up with for the challenges that Charmaine was giving! I only got to try the first one which was to make a card that was all black and white with just one little splash of color for your pop. This is the card I came up with, my little gothic Sophia, lol!



Really, there were some amazing cards there though. If you haven't checked it out yet, you should go over to the Paper Pretties Gallery and look under Pretties Pajama Parties.

Christie also announced who won the Cutie Pie contest! The Cutie Pie contest is something that Paper Pretties does before every release party. Anyone who would like to enter sends a card to Christie that they made from their Paper Prettie stamps. Christie announces the winner at the release party and that lucky person wins all of the sets being released that night! Pretty good deal, huh? The winner last night was Stephanie Hargis! Her gorgeous card is displayed on the home page of Paper Pretties for you all to see.

Stephanie has been making some really fantastic cards with our stamps lately, its so much fun to check the gallery and see more of her beautiful cards!

I've got a lot of drawing to finish today and I'm hoping to be able to fit a walk into this gorgeous day here in San Francisco, so I better be off. I'll see you tomorrow to show you some more challenge cards!

Bookmark Challenge

I'm back today to show you another Prettie Challenge. This one was issued by the amazing Charmaine Ikach and it was to do a bookmark. I thought it would be a great way to showcase all of the Sophias that we've done so far. This was my first try at doing scalloped circles, some came out pretty well but others not so much!:-) It is driving me crazy that the scallops on the circles don't completely line up, but what can you do. I have to ask, how do you ladies get those perfect scalloped circles? Is there a machine that does that or a special pair of scissors? Whatever it is I'm starting to feel as if I need it! Here is a picture of the front of the bookmark with a little bow as well as the back.




This bookmark will be on its way to Jana as soon as she moves into her new house in San Jose, just an hour from me!:-D I'm so hoping she'll let me do some real life stamping with her and teach me a few tricks;-)

I'm also going to show you the mother's day cards I did.





You may be wondering, why is she showing me mother's day cards now? I love the way they turned out if I do say so myself
:-), so I have to share them with somebody! I used the stamp we did awhile back called Simply Special. I thought it would be perfect for my mother's day cards. I love coloring this image. It is just so much fun to mix the prismacolors and make it look more like a painting. The two matching ones were done for my grandmothers and the long one was made for my mom. The grandmother cards are made from a sketch I found on Jen Del Muro's blog (I love her layouts!) and my mom's card was inspired by a sketch I found on Beate's blog.

Paper Pretties is releasing four more of our stamps tonight. I'm so excited about these stamps, in my opinion they are some of the cutest we've done so far and I can't wait to see what others think! Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoyed my cards:-)