Cat’s Pajamas Customer Blog hop

I am giving the Cat’s Pajamas Customer Blog hop a shot.

Information on the hop can be found here.

I used the Puppy Love set to create a back to school set for my daughter.  She starts 1st grade the day after Labor Day so I wanted to create something a little more grown up for her.

I paired the stamps with Cosmo Cricket “Boyfriend” papers. Images are stamped with Fluid Chalk Ink (Dark Brown), colored with colored pencils, and highlighted with Stickles.

Close-ups:

And of course I had to make a card to go with it:

Thanks for stopping by!  I am sure there are a TON of stops on this hop and MEGA beautiful creations!

Four Valentines

I needed a group of cards, so I reached for my Cat's Pajamas Valentine's stamps that I bought last year.

The last one uses the layout from Leigh O'Brien's sketch from TCP Tuesday (TCPTUES43).

The gift was well received.  And I thought they made a fun set.

Thanks for stopping by--Stay warm!

 

Sweetie Pie

In my pre-moving *Use-It-OR-Move-It* campaign--I came across this gingham paper. I believe it is from Making Memories. I would bet "dimes to doughnuts" (one of my grandma's sayings) that it has been discontinued for a few years. It has been in my stash for longer than I care to admit.

BUT--I like it with this card--So I am using up the whole sheet making these cards--I think they make a great thank you! (especially for the sweet lady from church who made dh a pie!!!)

Materials:

• Stamps- The Cat's Pajamas


• Paper- Patterned paper; Real Red, Taken with Teal cardstock (SU!); white (GP)


• Ink- Brilliance Graphite Black


• Accessories- paper piercer; slit punch; Nestabilities dies; ribbon; colored pencils/LOMS; 1/16" hand held hole punch

Another Go at Mojo....

I thought I would give Julee Tilman's Mojo Monday sketch challenge another shot.


This week's sketch can be seen here.


The background is not Designer Paper, it is a stamp. I just LOVE this background stamp from Starving Artistamps!! It is called Fern Leaf Tooled Leather Background. I quickly watercolored inbetween the leaves using my watercolor crayons. Grey crayon on the light grey paper and Black crayon on the dark grey paper.

The Rocket is stamped with Brilliance Graphite ink. For what I own--it works best with these stamps. The rocked and hearts are colored with PrismaColor pencils. The "smoke" hearts are stamped with SU!'s Real Red classic ink--twice without re-inking.

I inked the chipboad heart with red pigment ink and embossed it with SU!'s Iridescent Ice embossing powder.

The ribbon look frightenly exactly like what was in the sketch--but that was not my intent--it was just what looked best out of what I had.

Thanks Julee for the FUN sketch!

Cat's Pajamas Catch Up!

It has been a few days since I have posted since I have been sick with yucky upper respiratory stuff.

I received new Cat's Pajamas stamps last week and have been working with them a bit. They are such fun images!

Those who know me know that I am a sucker for a frog. And this little frog prince is just WAY too cute.




For the Layout I was inspired by the Featured Stamper Challenge on Splitcoast stampers. This weeks stamper is Sarah Green. I had fun paging through her gallery. I loved the layers of THIS card.





I changed a few things to help the card work for my purposes. Since I used patterned paper for the card--I didn't use as many flowers. I also moved the ribbons (since there were fewer flowers). The patterned paper is Basic Grey's Perhaps from the 6" x 6" pad. I love this size because the patterns are smaller than the BIG sheets.



This next card is a softie.

When I started with Stampin' Up! four years ago--I did not like Sage Shadow. But I have to admit it has grown on me. For one thing--I have stopped trying to make it work with the Soft Subtles colors (though it plays VERY nicely with the newer Bashful Blue). It compliments neutrals nicely (because of its grey undertones).

I love this dp (the sage with the cream dots) from K & Co. I got in it a pack from my local dollar store. The background dp is from KI Memories that I have had for years--I love it and I was always afraid to cut into it. Well, since I am moving this summer I am in *USE IT OR MOVE IT* mode (and I don't want to move it!!).

The little hearts are from a punch from the $ Spot at Target Department store. Not a very sharp punch (kind of you get what you pay for). I have done the old punch through foil thing fore ever. But it still does not like cardstoch. *sigh*

Lastly there is this little card. I only say little because of the little flying envelope image.

I often think that mixing Off-White (Vanilla) with White is a card fashion faux pax. Much like mixing gold and silver jewelry.

But there are times in both cases that it works. Here I used the off white to highlight the white. The dp (more Perhaps from Basic Grey) helps me out a bit by having both in it .

Well, I have a few more cards to go with this set. But this is what I came up with thus far.

Thanks for stopping by. And stay tuned---there may be something SWEET as CANDY in the future!! ;)

BTW--Have you seen the Sticky post above about the discount??? It is a limited time offer (not sure how limited) so check it out.