Rainbow smiles!

Grrrrr, our bloomin' internet is down AGAIN!  Sorry I haven't been around to visit you all - fingers crossed it will get sorted before our long UK bank holiday weekend!!!  Speedily doing this in the local library...they'll be kicking me off soon!!

Anyhoo, it's time for a new challenge over at Little Miss Muffet and this fortnight we want to see Rainbows, Clouds or Wings!  Here is my card, which I hope is self explanatory!

I have used cutie Licorice and matched her up with My Minds Eye Darling Dear papers and a Paper Makeup sentiment, My Favorite Things rainbow die and Memory Box Wrought Iron fence die - a perfect little scene!

You can see more gorgeous inspiration over at the Little Miss Muffet challenge blog!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

• Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
• Kraftin Kimmies - get sentimental
• Allsorts - happy birthday to someone special (a special friend!) 
• Bunny Zoe's - anything goes
• Crafty Sentiments - anything goes
• Scrapbook Sisters - anything goes
• Crafting For All Seasons - many layers
• Simon Says - anything goes
• Divas By Design - anything goes
  
  

soRRy You feel so IckY!

No, I haven't forgotten my grammar!! I'm here today with a get well card because I just can't seem to make enough of these in the current horrid weather we are experiencing in the UK!! 

This is for a male colleague and love this Paper Makeup Flubu Monster and that sentiment comes with him.  I used my fave Bazzill Smoothies Kraft cardstock for the base and papers from the Crate Paper School Spirit 6x6 pad - brilliant papers with this brilliant image!!  I also used Distress Inks stain in Picket Fence to soften the edges and papers - this is so easy to use for this technique!

And do you like my layout?  I used this month's Quixotic Paperic sketch - hope it has inpired you to play along for a chance to win a £15 prize!  Link your projects up here - I hope you can join in!

That's it from me today!  See you next Thursday but before I go, don't forget to check out the new goodies in store!

* KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS JAN RELEASE *
* NEW SOME ODD GIRL STAMPS RELEASE *
* NEW THE GREETING FARM RELEASE *
* KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS DEC RELEASE *
* SIMPLY GORJUSS - NEW RUBBER & A6 CLEAR SETS

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

• Karen's Doodles - cute and cuddly (well, he is cute and don't cha wanna cuddle him?!!)
• Crafty Sentiments - punches and dies
• Creative Card Crew - fantasy creatures
• Do You Stack Up - anything goes

Paper Makeup Stamps monster blog hop!

Today Paper Makeup Stamps are have having a MONSTER of a Hop!!!  The Paper Makeup Artists, some of the Digi Artists and some of PMS's bestest fans are joining together to bring you fun monster cards using Paper Makeup Stamps!

And in honor of this hop, all monsters on the site (HERE) will be on sale for 1 week using the voucher code MONSTERHOP, of 15% off!

So now to start the hop, you'll be hopping along to company owner, Katie Cotton's blog!

1. Start Here 2. Katie Cotton 3. Kristie Wilson 4. Michelle Van Patten 5. Melissa Banian 6. Randee Elsing 7. Lisa McKinney 8. Janette Garcia 9. Rachel Henahan 10. Adrienne and Jessica

11. Ginger Schwerin 12. Tangii Crain 13. Juelmarie 14. Gramma Carma 15. Lisa Kind 16. Anita Hovey 17. Jennifer Scull 18. Jami Bova 19. Dawn Mercedes 20. Jacki R

21. Nancy Bush 22. Jenn Cochran 23. Tina Hale 24. Paige Grabau 25. Andrea Vernagus 26. Tanya J 27. Mary J 28. Jackie Rakoski

For my make, here is a card I made using Paper Makeup's Monster of a Gift with this brilliant sentiment from the Paper MakeUp Monster Sentiment set...

 

 

That's it from me today - enjoy the HOP!

It's Flutter By Wednesday time!

It's a new open challenge over at Flutter By Wednesday - and as we are continuing with Danni's birthday there is another giveaway! And this week the giveaways are from The Greeting Farm and Paper Makeup - you know you wanna win one of these!   For my make, I used Paper Makeup Heart Fairy ...

 

 

Our challenge is open this week as long as it has butterflies, fairies or angels on your make somewhere.  I hope you join us - you can get all the deets here!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

• Moving Along With The Times - recipe
• Paper Sundaes - anything goes
• Emerald Faeries - pearls
• Totally Stampalicious - things with wings

Paper/cardstock: Bazzill cardstock, My Minds Eye Pretty Please paper kit

Stamps: Paper Makeup Heart Fairy (from Quixotic Paperie here), LCI sentiment

Mediums: Copics
Accents: ric rac ribbon and pearls from stash
Tools: Fiskars border punch, Nestabilitie label die inside card, My Favorite Things rolled rose flower and leaf dies, Magnolia flourish die

Wishful thinking

Hello everyone!  Hope your week is going well - only one more day to Friday and then it's the WEEKEND!  I'm here today with a make using some of my current faves in the Quixotic Inspiration store! 

This is a Mo Manning for Stamping Bella called Rae with Journal stamp.  The sentiment inside the card is from the Paper Makeup Little Moments Mini Sentiment set.  I used Bazzill kraft cardstock for the card base and papers from Cosmo Cricket Togetherness paper pad.  I created the flower using my Marianne D Chinese Rose die and used the leaves die for the Marianne D Flower and Leaf dies with beads for the flower centres.


Don't forget to check out the yummy new stock too, including pre-orders of the gorgeous new Sylvia Zet for SCACD stamps!

* SYLVIA ZET FOR SCACD STAMPS RELEASE *
* CRAFT STAMPER MAGAZINE OCT '11 ISSUE *
* THE GREETING FARM SEPT RELEASE *
* MY MIND'S EYE 6x6 PADS *
* ECHO PARK CHRISTMAS 6x6 & 12x12 *
* CRATE PAPER 6x6 PADS *
* GRAPHIC 45 ABC PRIMER & CHRISTMAS EMPORIUM *

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

• St Luke's Charity challenge - card buffet (patterned paper, pearls, punch, flowers)
• Catch the Bug - use punches/dies

For a little monster

I'm here today with a card for my young nephew using some yummy Quixotic Paperie stash!   For this make, I used Paper Makeup's Monster of a Gift with this brilliant sentiment from the Paper MakeUp Monster Sentiment set...

 

 

I think they are soooo cool together and perfect for boy and guy cards!  I used these fabby cool papers from the BasicGrey Nook and Pantry paper pack which I normally think too girly for male cards - not so!

I hope you likey!  I love all of the other fun Paper Makeup Monsters Etc stamps - you can see them all here! And don't forget the big sale on now and the Quixotic Inspirations design team call!

 

DESIGN TEAM CALL ON! 

CLICK *HERE* FOR DETAILS.

Fave colour monochromatic challenge over at Take the Pixie Challenge!

(Please scroll down for my Quixotic Inspirations DT card!)

Ooooohhh, today is my first DT card for the Take the Pixie Challenge!  And this week we are challenging you to take your favourite colour (okay, not really challenging) and to create a monochromatic card with it (a bit more challenging perhaps!).  Orange is actually my most fave colour ever but I've made so many cards with it recently that I've lost my mojo with it!  So I decided to go for my second favourite colour instead - teal...

 

 

Now I luuuuurve this colour but don't use it often so it was a pleasure to make this card using the ever sweet Wink Pretends - he's delightful, don't you think?! I matched him up with my Cosmo Cricket Togetherness paper pad (from Quixotic Paperie here) and with a sentiment from the Paper Makeup Sailing By stamp set (here). 

You can see the rest of the gorgeous DT inspiration here - I hope you get to play along with us for a chance to win a gorgeous Pixie Dust Studio digi!  You don't have to use a PDS image but we love it when you do!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

• The Pink Elephant - fun in the sun
• Totally Papercrafts - one for the boys
• Really Reasonable Ribbon - cool it
• Digi's with Attitude - anything goes
• Bunny Zoe's monthly challenge - fun in the sun
• Forever Friends monthly challenge - stripes

Paper/cardstock: Bazzill cardstock, Cosmo Cricket Togetherness paper pad (from Quixotic Paperie here)

Stamps:  Pixie Dust Studios Wink Pretends, Paper Makeup Sailing By sentiment (here)

Mediums: Copics, Distress Ink in Antique Linen
Accents: web ribbon
Tools: Nestabilitie dies, distressing tool

Quixotic Paperie 2nd birthday celebrations - Paper Makeup spotlight!

(Please scroll down for my Pollycrafts Monday and Make It Monday DT posts!)

As part of Quixotic Paperie's 2nd Anniversary celebrations we are throwing the spotlight onto some of the fantastic stamp companies available from Quixotic Paperie and we have another gorgeous stamp company for you this week:

Paper Makeup Stamps - 'Where Beauty and Paper Meet'

Paper Makeup is owned by Katie Cotton and to give you a clue as to where the name of her company came from - Katie is a professional makeup artist. Katie has some fabulous artists contributing to her company including Steve Hammond with the Monsters range, Diem Pascarella's Beautiful Day Fairies, Moody Girls by Cynthia Liu and the Retro Cutie Critters by Diem Pascarella.

But that isn't all, there are also some background and accessory stamps as well as some beautiful word art and sentiments and some fabulous sets all from various artists.

The Paper Makeup Stamps range is available in the UK/Europe at Quixotic Paperie. 

If you're in the US then you can find the stamps at Paper Makeup Stamps direct!

As part of the celebrations and the spotlight today, we have a PRIZE GIVEAWAY!  

Pop on over to the Quixotic Inspirations blog to get all the details and enter the draw to win some fantastic Paper Makeup Stamps and more!

I find the Paper Makeup stamps so versatile and I wanted to try a new technique for me - to colour using my Prismacolors pencils on kraft...

 

For my first try, I don't think I did too badly!  I'm not 100% happy with the glass and jug so will try with a more neutral colour rather than white!  Any advice on this would be MOST welcome!  Still, I was surprised how easy this was!  I used the Freckled Lemonade Set - it has 4 images plus 5 sentiments all for £8.25 - I think that is amazing value!  

I used the masking technique to layer the images and I loved how that came out!  The Bazzill Basics Smoothies Kraft cardstock is brilliant with this technique - soooo smooth that it was so easy to blend the colours on using my Derwent blender pencil.

So now for the inspiration! Hop on over to each of the blogs below to see some fantastic Paper Makeup Stamps fun!

- Elaine - Judy - Kim Dellow - Mary J - Andrea - Tangii - Stephanie - Tina - Katie - Dawn -
- Randee - Lisa K - Jami - Anita - Michelle - Shaela -

Thanks for joining us and we hope you are enjoying all the Paper Makeup Stamps loveliness!!


I am entering my card into Sir Stampalot's June photo challenge where I took inspiration from the colours.