It's Your Day, Julie!

We have a birthday to celebrate! Prettie Girl, Julie Masse, is another year wiser today! We can't be together in person so the Pretties Design Team is throwing Julie a virtual birthday party! Happy Birthday, Jules!!

If you didn't get here from Wendy's blog, then you might want to hop back over to Prettie Mama Christie and start at the very beginning. There's a ton of fun to be had and you won't want to miss a thing!

The weather here in Northern California has been gorgeous and warm these past few days. I wanted to send some it over to Julie... hoping that her day is full of sunny smiles, warm love, and happy laughter.

Soakin' Up the Sun

Cute Card Thursday - Anniversaries

Stampin' B's- Monochromatic Green

Time to hop over and keep the birthday party going with Jennifer!

Don't forget to make Julie your final stop.

Let's shower her with birthday wishes!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JULIE!!

Scallop Envelope Box Tutorial

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!
The leprechauns were very busy in our home in the wee hours of the mornin'.
I stayed up until 4am so they must have come out sometime between then and 6am when the boys got up.
The family room is trashed!! LOL! Green glitter everywhere!

I have some AWESOME news to share!!

My Scallop Envelope Box Tutorial is now up over at Splitcoaststampers!!!

When Beate emailed me a few months ago, I thought I had done something seriously wrong and I was in trouble. I wonder if she gets that a lot. Anyways, I have been holding on to this since the end of last year and could hardly wait for today to finally arrive!

I have both step-by-step pictures as well as my very first video tutorial!

Please take a look and let me know what you think! If you have any questions, please leave them here or there, under comments.

Have a WONDERFUL Wednesday!!

Soft and Sweet Easter Cooper Basket

It's Wednesday and this means I have TWO new challenges for you! If you are looking for the challenge for La-La Land Crafts, please scroll down or click HERE!

Hey Prettie Peeps! HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

It's time for a new Pretties Challenge (PWC95)! You are gonna like this one!

Before we get to my project, I just wanted to check in with you and see if you made it here from Wendy's awesome blog. If not, hop on over to Christie's and start from there. I don't want you to miss a thing! :)

Here's my project using the colors as my inspiration!
This is the Scallop Envelope Box.
My tutorial for it is now up over at Splitcoaststampers!
You can see the step-by-step over HERE.

 

This is what it looked like before I put some Aquamist cardstock on the flaps

Here's the after:

I added a handle by placing the ends underneath the Aquamist cardstock

Here's a closeup of Eggstra Special Easter Cooper

Our featured sets this week at Paper Pretties are Eggstra Special Easter and Love You This Much. Both of these adorable Coopers are on sale for 20% off... this week only!

Ready for more? Time now for you to hop over to Jennifer's blog and see what she has come up with for this challenge!

Recycle it!

Happy Wednesday! It's time for a new La-La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge!

It's Elena's turn to be our hostess this week!

Since March 17th is St.Patrick's Day, Elena decided to GO GREEN.

It's time for a RECYLE IT Challenge!

 Let's save the world!

Here are some ideas from Elena:

- use a cereal box as a chipboard to create your own embellishment

- use a lace or ribbon or buttons from the old clothes

- old newspaper or book page to make a paper flower

- instead of designer paper, try wrapping paper or wall paper

- use a bubble wrapping paper as a "stamp" to create your own background paper

- create a 3-D project by using an acetate package

- use raffia

- use old / inexpensive jewelry as a charm

The deets on the challenge has changed so please be sure to visit La-La Land Crafts for the new info!

Almost everything on (not inside) the Scallop Envelope Box is recycled!
My tutorial for this box is now up over at Splitcoaststampers!
You can see the step-by-step HERE.
Be sure to let me know what you think!

The box:

I recycled the cardboard that comes with SU Designer Series Paper

You can find my tutorial on SCS!

The flowers are made from a Target ad!

Curl the ends of the petals with the side of your scissors. Be gentle... newsprint tears easily!

Recycled cardboard from the end of a ribbon bobbin.

I punched it to a smaller circle with a 1" punch.

I used a distressing tool and roughed up the edges.

I poked two holes in the set of flowers and the ribbon bobbin cardboard.

I ran twine through the holes and tied a bow to hold everything together.

The box holds Prima flowers.

It's for a friend who LOVES cows and flowers...

and her favorite color is WHITE!

Doesn't Maya look so happy?!

I just love Happy Maya!

Have a wonderful Wednesday!!

Fairy Irish!

I hope that you are having a fabulous weekend!

We're celebrating Ken's 7th birthday all weekend and later this week, I have something to share with you all... I can hardly wait :)

In my last post, I showed you a sneak peek of my Irish Fairy Jolinne.

Here's another look at her... isn't she so sweet?!

You can find different Jolinne stamps over at MFT.

I Dream of Stamping has a new challenge for March! It can be for St. Patrick's Day. Or perhaps you think green is the most awesome color. Maybe you live green and want to incorporate that into your project. Whatever your reason is, we invite you to make a card that is "GREEN".  

I combined this challenge with a new sketch from The Sweet Stop.
Here's the sketch for SSS47:

Here is my card!

See that little clover in the corner?

I put it together on a button with 4 petite hearts.

I used the Heart to Heart punch (SU) to punch out the hearts.

Then I found a teeney green button and added a glue dot to the top.

Then I used the four holes as a guide for my teeney hearts.

After adding the third shamrock leaf, attach your stem (if you want one).

I swear I have the Bermuda Triangle thing goin' on in my craft room. A few weeks ago, I misplaced my Crop-A-Dile. A few days ago, I misplaced my CD holder of Circle Nestabilities. Both are still missing. Tonight, I misplaced the shamrock that you see in the picture above. My husband helped me search all over my craft room and it's nowhere to be found! My youngest came out, shook his head, and said (with hands on his hips) "Those Leprechauns!"

Okay! Now it's YOUR turn to show me!

Hop over to I Dream of Stamping for the details of this challenge!

GREEN challenge!

From shamrocks to leprechauns to lucky charms, anything is game as long as it's Irish and green. But wait... you might be saying "My favorite color is REALLY green!!" Then this challenge is for you!

I Dream of Stamping is having a GREEN challenge. Come join in on the fun!

My oldest son is turning 7 today! I know it's not much of an excuse but coupled with a long week and this celebration today, I have not been able to spend much quality time at the craft table. I am working on my green card tonight after the little ones (or not so little any more) are in bed. In the meantime, I have this sneak peek for you...

Meet Fairy Sweet Jolinne from MFT, who is now my IRISH fairy. :)

For each petal on the shamrock

This brings a wish your way-

Good health, good luck, and happiness

For today and every day.

I will be back with the full card tomorrow!

Hop on over to I Dream of Stamping and see what Jana and Michelle have come up with for this challenge!

PWC94 - Inspiration Challenge

It's wonderful Wednesday and this means I have two new challenges for you! If you are looking for La-La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge, then scroll down to the next post or click HERE.

I have a Inspiration Challenge from Paper Pretties! Now, if you didn't get here from Kristy Ketterlin's blog then you might want to hop back to the very start which is at Christie Ortman's blog. 

Ready for the inspiration?
Christie has this fun image for us to draw inspiration from!

Christie said that she normally doesn't promote a brewery. However, she simply loved the graphic design and the colours in this picture. I agree!

With that said, here's what I came up with for this inspiration challenge!

I used "Hippity Hoppity"... isn't she simply adorable?!

Both Hippity Hoppity and Bunny Slippers Sophia are 20% off this week!

Now hop on over and see what Jennifer Greco has in store for you!

LLWWC29 - Soft and Sweet Pastels

Welcome to another La-La Land Crafts Challenge! Thanks to everyone who participated in last week's Spring Blog Hop! I hope that you enjoyed it as much as I did!


The hostess for La-La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge #29 is MAUREEN and she decided to do a PASTEL color challenge in honor of La-La Land Crafts' recently released NEW Spring digi images.

I decided to try something different this week. So here's what happened. I went to print adorable Easter Dress Rosie and accidentally printed her full size onto a sheet of regular 8.5" x 11" printer paper. Then I remembered that I wanted to give a friend's daughter something with Easter Dress Rosie on it since she really loved the last card I made. I thought it would be fun to color the full-sized Rosie with Copics and put it in a frame for the wall. One thing led to another (Copics, blender pen to create a texture, flowersoft, fluff, a little bling... ) and here's what I came up with:

Want to see a few closeups?

We have a couple of new changes to the challenges!

I hope that you join in on the fun...

please hop on over to La-La Land Crafts for the details!

A Prettie Basket Full of Apples

I have one last Pretties peek to share with you this week!

Sadly, I had to make a Sympathy card for a friend who lost her father after a courageous battle with brain cancer. He truly was a "one of a kind" who brought a whole lot of sunshine with his happy smile. No matter how badly I might be bowling, he always made me forget with quick hug or an encouraging word. He will be greatly missed. I saw this sweet image of the basket full of apples and knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. 

Basket Full of Apples

I love this week's Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge...

so much so that I had to use it again.

We have more peeks to share today, so hop on over and see what awesome stuff Christie, Heather, and Wendy have come up with! You can find all of the new stamps and digis HERE. Need more inspiration? Go check out the Pretties Gallery!