Paper Pretties Hop!

Hello!!! I am so excited to have been asked to be a guest in this month's Paper Pretties hop! If you didn't start at the beginning of the hop, you might want to start THERE!

In case you haven't heard yet, Paper Pretties has a BRAND NEW owner. Now located in Madison, WI, they offer you amazing customer service, faster and cheaper shipping, and a wider variety of stamping "must have" products to go along with all of the new stamps!! Basic Grey, Kaisercraft, Copic and more! All orders are shipped within 24 hours.

This month they are releasing 7 new sets! I created a card using Get Well Fairy Violet:

Isn't that a sweet stamp?? In the original stamp, the fairy is sitting on a leaf....but I just cropped off the leaf and had her perch on a cloud to show you another option!
I paper pieced her outfit and wings and colored the rest of her with Copic markers. I used some Crystal stickles on her wings and cut a moon shape and added some yellow glitter to it to light up the sky.

The next stop on the hop is talented Jessica George! This girl has a LOAD of talent...

And here is the complete list of designers in case you got lost along the way:
PP blog http://paperprettiesblog.blogspot.com/
Cindy Haffner (Sledding Cooper) http://cindyhaffnerscorner.blogspot.com/

GUEST HOPPER AJ Otto (Surprise Sophia) http://thewillowgarden.blogspot.com/
Frances Byrne (Get Well Fairy Violet) http://stampowl.blogspot.com/

GUEST HOPPER Delia Vieira-Cruz (Sledding Cooper) http://scrappingwithfriends.blogspot.com/
Jackie Rakoski (Best Friends) http://stampingsister.blogspot.com/

GUEST HOPPER Shemaine Smith (Thanks Snow Much Sophia) http://scraptasticdesigns.blogspot.com/
Jana Weaver (Skater Zac) http://stampwithjana.blogspot.com/

GUEST HOPPER Carolyn King (Get Well Fairy Violet) http://myblogbycammie.blogspot.com/

Jessica George (Best Friends) http://jessobsession.blogspot.com/
Jane Matsumoto (Surprise Sophia) http://whoopsiedaisy-jane.blogspot.com/

GUEST HOPPER Shannon Teubner (Skater Zac) http://withfeathersandsequins.blogspot.com/
Jennifer Greco (Everyday Sentiments) http://www.glitterinmyhair.blogspot.com/

GUEST HOPPER Beate Johns (Surprise Sophia) http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
Pam Varnell (Thanks Snow Much Sophia) http://jessobsession.blogspot.com/

GUEST HOPPER Jen Shults (Best Friends) http://deconstructingjen.com/
Wendy Hoff (Skater Zac) http://creationsbywendalyn.blogspot.com/

ARTish (Get Well Fairy Violet) http://allthingsartishtic.blogspot.com/
Heather Lee-Reppen (Everyday Sentiments) http://inkonmyear.blogspot.com/


Enjoy the hop! Thanks for stopping by!

Pure Innocence Hop

To help celebrate a YEAR of Pure Innocence stamps, My Favorite Things is having a Greatest Hits Pure Innocence Blog Hop! ****Please visit Kim's blog around 11 a.m. EST for a full list of designers who are participating in the hop!****

I used the adorable Better Get Better set for my card:I just love the little bandaged up teddy bear (totally looks like something my youngest would do!)
I stamped the image, pieced the pink part of her dress with patterned paper and then colored the rest with Copic markers. TIP: When you paper piece an image, make sure you color the image completely before adhering the pieced part onto it.

Materials used: Stamps- Better Get Better (My Favorite Things); Copic markers; ribbon (May Arts); cardstock-ivory, white (Gina K Designs); Patterned paper-Life is Good: Bold Stripes, Life is Good alpha border, A Walk in the Park: Treetops (Echo Park); button.

Special promotion----From November 9 - November 11, all orders over $30 get free budget shipping using code BUDGETFREE. The code will reduce your order by the cost of budget shipping, which is $3.45. International customers may also use the code for a discount based on the US budget shipping cost, making international budget shipping only $2!

Please note that to qualify for budget shipping, your order must contain ONLY stamps and/or Die-namics dies. If your order contains any other products, you may use the code, but must choose the appropriate shipping method, which will leave you with a small shipping charge of $1.50 (for US customers).

Thanks for stopping by!

Eclectic Get Well

*Note: I am away on vacation. This is an auto-post*

Hello! Today, I have a fun get well card to share. I recently purchased some designer paper from Sassafras---it is so funky and fun. I used it with some designer paper from We R Memory Keepers and October Afternoon for a truly eclectic card.

The ambulance is from my Nurse Feelgood set (Gina K Designs).
It is hard to see in the photo...but the scallops around the sentiment have little red crystals all around it.

Hope your week is GREAT!!

Materials used: Stamps-Nurse Feelgood (Gina K Designs); Memento tuxedo black ink; Copic markers; circle/scallop circle punches (SU!); gemstones (a muse); ribbon-Spring Moss (Papertrey); Designer paper-Whale of a Tale (Sassafras), Flower Frills-Grandma's Kitchen (We R Memory Keepers), Norm's News (October Afternoon); brad (American Crafts); rub on sentiment (Making Memories); corner rounder punch (Creative Memories).

Thanks for stopping by!

Gina K Preview Day # 3, a tutorial and blog candy

Contest closed. Random.Cara selected #96 as the winner. Congrats to " Sharon Harnist said...
Great new set, Cammie -- so versatile!"
Congrats Sharon!

Hello everyone! Welcome to Day 3 of the Gina K Designs Previews. The design team has been previewing all of the new sets that will be available after the release party on Splitcoaststampers from 7 to 10 p.m. Central time on THURSDAY!

Today...it is time to reveal my new set.....NURSE Feelgood! I KNOW a few of you guessed this ....but what you did NOT know is that this set is not JUST for nurses.

About a year ago, I illustrated Doctor Feelgood for Gina K Designs....and it was always my intention to do a counterpart--a nurse. However, I did not want to create an image that could only be used for nurses...so I designed a stamp set that can be a nurse...but also can EASILY be transformed into a doctor, paramedic, dentist, PA, vet, teacher, mother and any thing else you would use a female image for.

Here is my first card featuring the nurse as she was originally drawn. There are lots of sentiments in the set that can be used for many occasions. One of the sentiments is the "I {heart} my...." and you can fill in the blank with some professions included or add your own.

In honor of Nurse Appreciation Week (May 6-12, 2009) I created this:

The sentiments, nurse and ambulance are all part of the set. The images are colored with Copic markers. I repeated the sentiment behind the matted image to create a fun background.


The nurse image is fantastic to thank a nurse for nurse appreciation or for caring for a loved one; or it works well to send a fun card to a significant other (there are sentiments for that in the set too!); and it also is great to create cards to send to nursing friends and relatives.

Here is the ambulance used on its own on a card-
I paired this image with a sentiment from Doctor Feelgood. The ambulance on its own is great for an EMT or for a fun valentine or anniversary card. The sentiment reads "Love is the best medicine." So, for this card, I covered up the ambulance cross with a fun felt heart.

Removed for Publication


But, this set can be used for so much more....very easily. Because of the way I drew the image, it is simple to alter it to be used for tons of other cards. I only have a nurse hat on her head to distinguish her as a nurse. I opted to put papers in her arms so that she can be ANYTHING you need her to be. Check out how EASY it is to change her:

1. Simply ink up the stamp. (I used Memento tuxedo black ink.)

2. Then, use a damp Q-tip to rub off the ink on the hat. (Gina K's stamps are deeply etched so it is simple to take off ink on one part of an image and the stamped image is always so crisp!) Then, go over the area once more with a dry Q-tip to ensure you removed all ink.

Here is the stamp with the ink removed off her hat--- so easy!

3. Stamp image on cardstock. Whola! She is no longer a nurse. (Just add the little stethescope in the set and she becomes a doctor. Add an apple in her hands and she is a teacher. Put her in front of some animals and she is a vet. Put a tooth image behind her and she is a dentist. Put a child or flowers or a stuffed animal in her hands and she is a mother. Put a graduation cap on her head or stamped in the background and she is a graduate.....The possibilites are endless.)

You can use the same technique to change her hairstyle...or simply add more length to it.

Here are two cards I created to show you the transformation. Here she is as a teacher:

For this quick card, I wanted to show you this set paired with two others from this release: Wee Tees and the One Free with Three set called Notes to Mom. (One Free with Three set is the set you receive FREE this month when you purchase three other sets!!) It is filled with gorgeous sentiments that you will use over and over again!

You can see more Previews of Nurse Feelgood or Notes to Mom on these blogs today:

Gina Krupsky

Donna Baker
Erika Martin
Jessica Fick
Joanne Basile
Melanie Muenchinger
Theresa Momber

Emily Giovanni
Kurtis Amundson

Asela Hopkins

Cindy Lawrence

In the Spotlight Designer for Gina K Designs
Beverly Cole


Blog CANDY! Leave a comment on this post to be entered to WIN a NURSE FEELGOOD set!!! Random.Cara will pick a winner on Thursday night at 8 p.m. Central time! (Subscribers can post twice.) Winner must contact me within three days of winning.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you like the new set!