Guess the Baby Contest!

Every month, the PCP Design Team gals pull together a huge album full of inspiration based on a theme. Last month, the album was "Spring into Spring". This month, to get ready for Mother's Day, our theme is "Mother & Child". What better way to kick off a new month than with a contest? No foolin', we're having a Guess the Baby contest!

Are you ready? Match the baby with the Super Nova! Not just that... but you'll also have to guess who is missing! If you get them all right, you're entered to win this awesome new stamp set Mom & Me from Clear & Simple Stamps AND a $100 Amazon gift certificate to buy whatever other goodies you want! Clear & Simple Stamps is also giving all PCP members a $1 off using code: PCP409!

To enter, check out our forum post on Paper Craft Planet -- add a comment with your guesses! We'll select one winner at random on Sunday, April 5th

I'll be back with a card to share a little later today...

Jessica

You're a Rock Star!

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Good morning!

I know you're probably tired of seeing my use this orange Doodlebug cardstock, but today's card is the last of it for now. "Orange" you glad? *wink* Sorry, I couldn't resist... I do have a few more cards to share made with this paper, but haven't taken photos of them yet - so watch for them next week.

Anyway, here's another card based on my PaperCraftPlanet sketch for this week. You'll see that I took some liberties with it, but that's what sketches are for, right?


Using GinaK's 120lb. cardstock as the base, I embossed with the Swirls Cuttlebug embossing die and then trimmed off 1/4" so that the inside layer could peek out. The ribbon is some retired Stampin Up ribbon and the stars are Nestability dies. I cut the large orange star from DCWV paper which has a white core - so I sanded it lightly with my sanding block to highlight the edges.

EK Success' Flourish punch added a pop of color and swirls for the stars. I added a black Kaiser Kraft pearl to each of the swirl dots but it's a little hard to see in the photo. The sentiment from Rupa's Perfectly Polished set and is cut with a tag Nestability die.

Here's the inside view..


I cut a few more star nestability dies out of Doodlebug's specialty cardstock orange pack and a scrap piece of DCWV orange paper. You know how much I love using up my scraps! The sentiment is from Gina's Tag Lines stamp set and is cut with a nestability die too.

Have a great rest of your day!
Jessica

You Light Up my Life...

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Good morning!

Today's card is another one for my PaperCraftPlanet sketch this week. This beautiful plate of candles stamp set comes from Rupa's new Perfectly Polished stamp set. The images in this collection are beautifully elegant - true to Rupa's style!

I stamped the images on Gina's 80lb. Pure Luxury cardstock in Memento ink and then colored them in with Copic markers. Then, I took Sakura's Clear Stardust glitter pen and traced a few lines of the image and then moved the glitter around with my Niji waterbrush. To highlight the entire image, I put a layer of Clear Crystal Lacquer over it. I love using Crystal lacquer over the glitter because it really makes the glitter pop!

Here's a full view of the card...

The card base is GinaK's 120lb. Pure Luxury cardstock - the stiffest paper you'll find for your white card bases. It embosses beautifully too. The decorative papers are from Doodlebug's Orange collection which I've been using a lot lately, but don't worry - I've almost used my entire pack up!

For the inside of the card, I wanted to go clean and simple...

So, I stamped the image in Black Memento ink again and then used my favorite sentiment nestability die to pop up the sentiment. Super easy and elegant - just the look I was going for.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Jessica

Relax...

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Good morning!

Was your weekend a relaxing one? One of my favorite ways to relax is to take a nice long shower - there's just something about the steam and heat that help wash away my tension. After I finish, I love to wrap myself in this big white fluffy robe my husband got for me several Christmases ago. Ahh...

When I saw the folded robe in Rupa's new Perfectly Polished stamp set, I wanted to flock it to make it all fluffy. Doodlebug's white and orange flocks along with Sakura's Quickie Glue pen worked perfectly and I was so happy with how it worked. I hope you can see the texture in my first photo. Using my sketch challenge going on over at PaperCraft Planet this week I made this card last night.

To help with the application of the flock, I stamped the robe - and the towels that you see in the photo below - in Black versafine ink and embossed with Detail Clear Embossing powder. I think the ridges of the embossing powder helped to keep the flock in place. I colored the orange section with a Copic marker before I applied the flock just incase it went on a little spotty - I didn't want any white showing through.

I didn't stamp a sentiment on the inside of the card, but I did put this little stack of towels in the bottom right hand corner...

I popped them up to help them stand out a little bit. I colored with a light yellow and orange Copic marker before applying the flock here as well.

Have a great RELAXING day!

Jessica

Magnolia Valentines Card

Good morning!

I wish you could see this card in person... the dimensions and layers are just too fun! I probably ended up using almost a full sheet of SU's dimensional adhesives on it - lol! Not really, but almost!

I got some Christmas money from my family and knew exactly what I wanted to buy - some Magnolia stamps! I have been eyeing them for a while now and was tickled to see that Roses on Paper had many of the ones I wanted in stock, so I ordered some over Christmas. Shipping was super fast and I was pleased to get my order in just a couple of days.

This view of the card shows some of dimension of it - see the kitty's head popped up? For the little school girl, her knees and head are popped up too. That's a chalkboard hanging on the wall - can you tell? lol!

I stamped everything on GinaK's 80lb. Pure Luxury cardstock and colored with Copic markers. I used Basic Grey's Urban Prairie paper and buttons to decorate it.

Here's one more view to help show off the layering...


This card will be my Valentine's Day card for my husband. When we met, I was a 2nd and 3rd grade teacher - so when I saw these stamps, I just had to have them!

The inside of the card is pretty cute too - so I had to take a few photos of it to show you too. On our first date, Brad gave me 3 little white roses, so that's why I used 3 little prima flowers to decorate the little girl and the heart.

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great rest of your day!

Jessica

Valentine's Day Cookies

Good evening!

Today I had a chance to make a Valentine's Day card - does that seem crazy to you? Christmas just finished and we're on to Valentine's Day already! Melanie's Blogaversary is still going on for a few more days, so I thought I'd use this fun Have a Cookie stamp set since it has these adorable heart cookie shapes.

Paper Craft Planet's theme for the design team gals this month is Love/Valentine's Day - so I'm happy that this card will work for both Melanie's celebration and PCP's album!

The designer paper and buttons are from Basic Grey's Eva collection. I love the rosey pinks - they are perfect for Valentine's Day, aren't they? After I stamped the main image panel, I layered it onto SU's brushed silver cardstock to mimic a cookie sheet.

I stamped the images in Black Versafine ink on GinaK's 80lb. Pure Luxury cardstock and embossed with clear detail embossing powder - that is my favorite way to prepare for coloring with Copics, in case you haven't noticed! lol! It seems like I say that in every single blog post - so sorry for repeating myself so much!

After coloring the heart cookies with Copics, I cut them out and popped them up all over the bottom of my card. Then, I added some Cotton Candy Stickles for the cookie sprinkles - I LOVE that sparkle!


Here's the full view of the card - isn't it cute? I love all those cookies piled up! After chocolate chip cookies, my second favorite cookies are sugar cookies with frosting... yummy!

And finally, here's the inside view....

A couple of more cookies along with a large plain heart nestability cut out for me to write my greeting on. I'm going to have to change the sentiment "I'd be one happy woman" - to "one chubby woman" with all those cookies all over the card! LOL!


I'll have another 6x6 scrapbook layout tonight at midnight - so be sure to check that one out with all the blog hop links for Melanie's blogaversary... you don't want to miss one of them, I promise!

Jessica

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving, my blog friends!!

I've been saving these cards that I made a while ago so I could share them during this Thanksgiving week.

Many of you know that I'm on the PaperCraft Planet's Design team. Our theme for this month is Gratitude. I specifically made these cards for the special Gratitude Album that we have been adding to the entire month of November. If you haven't checked it out yet, click on the name and it will take you directly to the PCP album.

I love this adorable Cornucopia from GinaK's Happy Thanksgiving stamp set. I colored the image with Copic Markers and highlighted some of the areas with Copic Spica Glitter pens.

The first card has lots of layers and is a little more detailed than the second card. I pulled the colors for the cardstock layers from the striped ribbon. Those are red Hero Arts gemstones that I added to the scallop edges and the Nestabilities label die.

This second card is a little simpler in design. I used my favorite elegant Cuttlebug folder: Textile to emboss only the bottom of the cardfront. To highlight the embossing, I took my favorite Metallic Rub-on paste - Holiday - and burnished the copper paste over the texture with my finger. The camera picked up the sheen of the paste quite well.

To add to the elegance, I corner rounded both of the corners on the right side of the cardfront only. Then, I cut a slit in the fold line of the card and threaded my coppery brown ribbon through it and tied a bow. I used a glue dot to hold the bow in place.

This image is also colored with Copics and highlighted with Spica Glitter pens. Isn't the font on these sentiments beautiful? I just love it and will be hounding Gina to use it again in another stamp set of hers soon... heehee...

I hope you have a blessed Thanksgiving. I have so much to be thankful for and am happy to add all of my blog readers to my long list of blessings!

Have a wonderful holiday!

Jessica

Grateful...

Good morning!

I know many of you have been checking out Paper Craft Planet because the community is growing by leaps and bounds! It's such an exciting group with lots of fun things to check out, so be sure to join so I can chat with you!

Susanna has gathered together a really great design team - I'm so honored to have been chosen to be on her team! We have such a great variety of artists that I'm sure you'll find great inspiration from each one of them... scrapbooking: digital & traditional paper, altered artists, and cardmakers - so much to see from them.

Our theme for this month is Gratitude - how fitting, right? Because of the recent election and Veteran's day next week, I was feeling patriotic when I sat down to work on this week's assignments. I pulled out SU's The Free and the Brave stamp set and GinaK Design's Punchy Words to make these two cards.

Both of the images were stamped in Memento's Black ink and colored with Copic markers. I highlighted some of the stamped lines with Spica Glitter pens, but I don't think the glitter shows up very well in the photos.

For more of the Design Team's projects, see the Gratitude gallery here. Here's each of the design team's pages on PCP - stop by and check out their work!

Susanna Boyd

Lynn Mercurio

Adela Rossol

Melanie Muenchinger

Kim Burmeister

Wendy Price

Jen Tapler

Tammy Hershberger

Diana Gibbs

Erika Martin

Lori Tecler

Sankari

Thanks for stopping by & if you're at Paper Craft Planet stop by my page and say hi!

Jessica