Paper Sundaes Challenge #54 * Valentine's Day *

Hi Everyone!

I am very excited to be the guest designer over at Paper Sundaes! 

Pink Cat Studio is the sponsor for this week's "Valentine's Day" Challenge.
Melissa is offering the winner of the Paper Sundaes Valentine Challenge 5 FREE digis of their choice!

 

Each week, Paper Sundaes chooses their Top Three winners who get the privilege of posting this adorable badge on their blog. 

Be sure to check out the entry rules and the beautiful inspirations from the Sundae Girls
HERE

*New* Alice in Wonderland Digis from Pink Cat Studio!

Hello from Los Angeles!

I'm down here to take the Copic Intermediate Certification class at CHA!

That's my first exciting news. :)

The next one is that Melissa at Pink Cat Studio has done it, yet again.

Alice in Wonderland digis!!

These new digis are perfect for birthday cards and invites as well as tea theme cards!

If you make a purchase in the digi store today you will receive the "Stacked Tea Cups" digi stamp for free! It will be emailed to you separately and within 12 hours after you place your order.

I made this tea party invitation for a friend whose daughter requested something simple and "non-girly" or "frou frou". I am hoping that she really likes it. What do you think?

I will be listing the Copic colors that I used in a couple of days.

The list is at home and I can't remember them all. :)

I am in LOVE with these amazing digis.

The cards that the PCS Design Team has come up with are awesome!

Check them out HERE!

Have a good week!

Come back on Sunday for more!

All *NEW* Heartfelt Dino Digis from Pink Cat Studio!

Check it out!

Rex and Bronty are back... just in time to spread some love for Valentine's Day! 

Guess what?!

 A new friend named Dacty has joined the team!!

Now we have three super cute dinos in the PCS family!

Today they are showing their love in these 4 new Dino Digi Stamps.

If you make a purchase in the digi store today you will receive the "Dacty Holding Heart" digi stamp for free! It will be emailed to you separately and within 12 hours after you place your order.

I used Bronty Valentine for my card today.

Isn't he just the cutest dino?!

I love the little pair of scissors and the dangling hearts!

Copic Markers used:

0, YG00,YG21, YG23, YG25

RV0000, RV02, RV04, RV09, RV25, R27, R46

I was inspired by this week's Mojo Monday Sketch 173

Here's a link to the store if you would like to purchase any of the new digis.

Don't forget to stop by the Pink Cat Studio blog to check out the DINO-mite projects from the rest of the fabulous PCS Design Team!

All *NEW* Valentine and Birthday RUBBER Stamps from Pink Cat Studio!

Hello everyone! I have some very exciting news for you from Pink Cat Studio!

Melissa has 3 new rubber stamp sets to share with you today!

The Love Bug & Frog and Love Birds in Tree sets are perfect for making Valentines or a great way to let someone know you are thinking of them! The Ladybug Party set is perfect for cute birthday cards and party invites! Aren't they adorable?!

Pink Cat Studio now offers our small stamp sets mounted on cling foam and cut out! This is a great time saver if you just want to get your stamps and start creating right away. Unmounted rubber is still being offered, so now you can pick what works the best for you.

Where to buy our stamps

To focus our efforts on supporting the stores that carry our products, our stamps are now only available from our retailers. They can no longer be purchased from the PCS website.

Please visit our Retailers webpage to find a store near you or you can ask your local stamping/scrapbooking store to carry our stamps. Speaking of which... if you are in the local San Jose area, Memories Live On will be carrying Pink Cat Studio very soon so stay tuned! I am very excited to be able to teach card making classes and Copic classes with these fabulous stamps.

Have a wonderful week, everyone!

Will You Be My Valentine?

I can not believe that I managed to stay away from blogging for this long! I am really happy to be back at the craft table! I am really excited about the new digis from Pink Cat Studio! Melissa has been very busy creating really adorable and super sweet Valentine designs!

 

Today we have Lily Lovebug, Monkey Love, Squirrel Valentine and Blobby in Love. If you make a purchase in the digi store today you will received the "Birds Holding Hearts" digi stamp for free! It will be emailed to you separately and within 12 hours after you place your order. On the Squirrel Valentine page there are 2 free digis for you to download. A branch for him to sit on and a cute sentiment.

 

Here's a valentine from me to you!

 

Valentine Lily is as sweet as she can be with those cute hearts!

I have a lot of thanks to give out for holiday gifts.

The squirrel is SO stinkin' cute that I couldn't resist using it for my holiday Thank You cards.

Please visit us at Pink Cat Studio Blog!

The PCS Design Team has come up with some really neat projects!

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas...

I know... it's supposed to be "It's beginning to LOOK at a lot like Christmas" but here in my home, it's finally starting to FEEL like Christmas is coming. I spent yesterday looking for the perfect little tree to put by the fireplace. It took a half hour or so to actually decorate the tree but the process of looking for the darn ornaments and lights took about an hour. I am still missing a least a dozen ornaments.

But the children came home from school and were so excited to see the tree! Here's a picture of my youngest looking at his first baby ornament.

The Christmas cookies have been baked and decorated (thanks to Mima)!

I have started shopping for the small stuff and will probably finish the rest between tomorrow and Friday. Christmas cards might go out this year... or not. I have already received quite a few cards online. LOL! I might go digital this year. It's not the same but I'm quickly running out of time. Where did this year go?!

I am planning on taking the boys to see Santa on the 18th. I usually go the day after Thanksgiving but of course, that didn't happen this year. Hopefully I will be posting my annual pictures of the reindeer antlers up on the rooftop and Santa with the boys. Wish me luck!

Have you been naughty or nice? What's on your wishlist for Santa?

PWC131 - Punchy Love Birds

Hi everyone!

It’s Wednesday so that means it’s time for another Pretties Wednesday Challenge over on the Paper Pretties Blog! This week the challenge is to get punchy. To be more specific, it's time to pull out your punches. I don't know about you but I have a relatively large collection of punches. :)

Today the Paper Pretties Design Team are featuring the new Love Birds stamp set that will be released along with 6 other stamp sets this coming Friday 10th December.

For this card, I wanted to try coloring the image in Sepia tones so that I have a pretty sample for my Black/Sepia Copics class this Saturday. I decided to keep it CAS by using the heart punch from Stampin' Up! to decorate the cardbase. I also used the Scalloped Oval punch (Stampin' Up!) to punch out the image.

Come play along with us!

How to Enter: If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project using the above challenge and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword PWC131.
Don’t forget to include a link to your card on the Paper Pretties Blog, so everyone can see it too. You don’t have to use Paper Pretties stamps to play, but of course if you have them we would love to see you use them. One random participant will receive a Paper Pretties Stamps set … see the Paper Pretties Blog for more details.

Join us for our release Blog Hop this Friday 5AM EST 10th December, starting on the Paper Pretties Blog.

New Release Stamps available in the Paper Pretties Boutique from 7AM EST Friday 10th December.

Don’t forget to check out the Paper Pretties Blog to see who else is previewing the new stamps today.

On the First Day of Prettie Peeks....

Today is the first day of Prettie Peeks for the Paper Pretties December release! There are 7 fabulous new sets for you this month! They will be available for purchase on Friday, the 10th.

Today, Jana and I are peeking Elegant Sentiments. This elegant set comes with 5 sentiments and 3 fabulous frames to put them in. And with our clear stamps, it's super easy to line it up perfectly!

I made a sleeve for the cup to match the card I am making.

It was really easy to do...

Just find a sleeve at any of the coffee places.

Here's the card that I made for my friend.  

  

Time to hop over to Jana Weaver's awesome blog to see what she has created with this gorgeous set!

Oh! Please be sure to head to the Paper Pretties blog to see all of today's peeks because one random lucky commenter each preview day will win the set being previewed!!  The winners from each preview day will be posted on the Paper Pretties Blog on Friday.

Be sure to leave that comment.

Good luck!

PWC130 - Prettie Sketch Challenge!

Hey Prettie peeps!! I hope that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!

It’s time for another Pretties Wednesday Challenge over on the Paper Pretties Blog! It's the first Wednesday of the month so that means it's time for another fabulous sketch from Frances! Take a look...

Surprise Sophia

Here's what it looked like on the back...

Wondering why the Black and White?

Well... I'm teaching a Black & White / Sepia Copics class tonight!

This is just a sample that I made to show how easy it is!

Come play along with us!

How to Enter: If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project using the above challenge and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword PWC130.

Don’t forget to include a link to your card on the Paper Pretties Blog, so everyone can see it too. You don’t have to use Paper Pretties stamps to play, but of course if you have them we would love to see you use them. One random participant will receive a Paper Pretties Stamps set … see the Paper Pretties Blog for more details.

Pink Cat Studio *NEW* Digi Release AND Black Friday Giveaway!!

 I hope that all of my American friends had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Melissa has 5 new Christmas and Winter theme digi stamps to share with you today and a great gift with purchase! If you spend a minimum of $5.00 in the PCS rubber or digi stores, you will get a free gift pack of 6 adorable Christmas digital stamps! Check out the gift pack below:

So after you spend $5 in the store Melissa will email this gift set to you personally within 12 hours of your purchase.

 

This offer is only valid on Friday November 26th.

 

You can also use your new stamps to create a project for our challenge!

Here are the details:

Pink Cat Studio Holiday Challenge

We're having a Holiday Challenge!

All you need to do is create a project that includes at least one Pink Cat Studio stamp (sentiments excluded). Examples of projects include cards, gift boxes and bags, tags, scrapbook layouts, etc.

For ALL of the rules, please click HERE.

 

I used Gingerbread Girl Baked Cookies for my sample.

I decided to paper piece my digi together using coloured cardstock.

I enlarged the image to be 6" tall and printed them several times on different cardstock.

Then I cut out the different pieces and glued them onto my brown gingerbread girl.

The only coloring I did with my Copics are on the baked Christmas trees and the green polka dots on her apron. Hope you like the sample!

To see the lovely projects created by the rest of the awesome Design Team, please visit Pink Cat Studio's blog. Don't forget to check out all of the deets for the Pink Cat Studio Holiday Challenge!