Pretty Cute Stamps Blog: October 2015

Saturday, October 31, 2015

"Gobble 'til You Wobble" Pretty Cute Stamps-Turkey Time

Hi friends, thank you so much for stopping by! Joann here today sharing a Thanksgiving card I made using the Turkey Time stamp set from Pretty Cute Stamps!

I started out by cutting the Turkey Time SVG out of some watercolor paper and stamped the coordinating image from the Turkey Time stamp set. I simply used my Zig Clean Color Real Brush (No. 52, 10, 67, 50, 62, 70, 22, 36) to color in my turkey and his hat. After that, I took another turkey outline and colored in his body, cut that part out and added some foam adhesive to the back to add some dimension.

I stamped my sentiment onto some dimension and added a bit of Kool Tak Foam Clear to the back and placed it on top of the turkey's hands to make it seem as if he's holding a banner. I also used the LG and SM Stitched Rectangle Dies from Lawn Fawn to cut out some watercolor paper and pattern paper for my card.

(In Action)

I finished off my card by adding all of my panels to my card, placing an Action Wobble behind my turkey and scattering some TCP Relish Mix!

I hope you enjoyed today's card! Have a FABULOUS day!

Friday, October 30, 2015

Customer Feature ~ Sandra Lavoie

TGIF, everyone! I have another fun Customer Feature for you today. Sandra Lavoie from Maverick Muses entered this card in the Pretty Cute Stamps Any Card Challenge a while back.

Sandra used the Superheroes Stamp Set to create this SUPER colorful card.

Hey, would you like to have your project featured here on the Pretty Cute Stamps Blog? You can share your Pretty Cute Stamps projects on the Pretty Cute Stamps Facebook Page or in the Pretty Cute Projects Facebook Group. Also, if you are part of the Splitcoaststampers Community, you can add the keyword PrettyCuteStamps (no spaces) to your Pretty Cute Stamp project photos (we now have our own little gallery there). I'll be looking for projects that are shared with us to post here on our blog. I'm hoping to post a PCS Customer Feature at least every other Friday, so please show us your beautiful Pretty Cute Stamps projects. If you don't share with us, I can't share your projects here. So share, share away! :)

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Sweet Gingerbread House

Hi! Janna here and today I am bringing

you this fun gingerbread house card that I made using the

Gingerbread House stamp set :)

I haven't actually ever made a real gingerbread house, but I sure had a

lot of fun creating this one!

This was so easy to stamp, because it's one image. There are also some

really sweet sentiments in this set! It was just so much fun to decorate this up.
I stamped the image and then colored it with markers and did some paper-piecing with white cardstock for the candy parts.

For all the details of products I used, please visit my blog,

www.stampingwiththedogs.blogspot.com.

For this and more great sets to use to make your holiday cards, be sure

to visit the Pretty Cute Stamps store!

Happy Stamping!

Janna :)

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

PCS Nativity Magnetic Board

Hello, stamping friends! I am stepping out of my comfort zone and using stamps for a non-card project! I am excited to show you my Pretty Cute Stamps Nativity Magnetic Board!

I am using the Pretty Cute Stamps Nativity 1 and Nativity 2 stamp sets for this project!

With Christmas around the corner, times are going to get busy! Sometimes the Christmas time is full of parties and family get-togethers. During this special time of the year, we sometimes forget the true meaning of Christmas! I created this magnetic scene to help explain the Christmas Story to the little kiddos.

And you can change the scene as the storytelling continues.

I made a trip to the dollar tree and bought a small baking sheet and a pack of laminating cards.

Using sheets of 12x12 cardstock, I created the background scene and attached to the baking sheet.

It is time to stamp and color in the different images. Once I finished, I cut them out and placed them into the laminated sheets. Cut the images out and attach a magnet to the back of each piece.

Now it is time to tell the story!

Thank you for stopping by today!

Jessi

Supplies:

Pretty Cute Stamps - Nativity Set 1 and Nativity Set 2

Monday, October 26, 2015

Thanskgiving Lunchbox Notes and Treat Holders!

Karla here today, sharing these lunch box notes I recently made for my daughter, Amie, who is 8. She LOVES having a lunchbox note in her lunch everday she goes to school. Now, I don't always make spectacular lunchbox notes, lol! Sometimes it's just a 3x3 piece of cardstock with a couple pieces of paper or a sticker or flowers on it with a sentiment stamped on the back - but I always put one in and that's just our special thing!

I started off by cutting watercolour paper into 3x3 squares. Then, I put some Distress Stains on my craft sheet, spritzed with water, and put my paper into it, moving it around a bit until I got the desired effect. After drying, I added some bits of fall paper I had in my stash. I used the Thanksgiving Eats adorable stamp set from Pretty Cute Stamps, stamped on watercolour paper to add my yummy Thanksgiving images. I used Distress and Tombow Markers to watercolour my images in and added Stickles for lots of glittery fun!

Here's the back of the cards - I love all these awesome sentiments included in the set!

I used the Sew Amazing stamp set to add running and zigzag stitches to my cards, and then added a bit of Glossy Accents to my hearts.

Here's a look at this sweet set!

Thanksgiving Eats

I also wanted to share this sweet little Pilgrim Hat Treat Holder, which is a cut file from Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbons. I made 8 of these for our Thanksgiving Dinner a couple of weeks ago, and they were super easy to cut out with my Cricut Explore! I stamped the sentiment from the Thanksgiving Eats stamp set and heat embossed with white embossing powder before gluing my hats together. Everyone thought they were awesome!

Thanks so much for joining me today! Don't forget our Thank You Challenge is going on right now - you can enter your own project with a Pretty Cute Stamps stamp for a chance to win a gift certificate!!

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Sweet Treats Just for You

Hi, and Happy Sunday!

Today is my day to post over at Pretty Cute Stamps and I hope everyone is doing well.

Today I would like to share a Sweet Halloween Treat using PCS Gingerbread Kisses Stamp Set. Love that I can use this stamp set for more than one holiday. I made my box using the We R Memory Keepers gift box board punch along with Martha Stewart Halloween Scary fence edge punch and Martha Stewart EEEK punch.

What I used:

PCS Gingerbread Kisses Stamp Set

We R Memory Keepers gift box board punch

Martha Stewart Halloween Scary fence edge punch

Martha Stewart EEEK punch.

Tim Holtz Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink

Tim Holtz Wilted Violet Distress Ink

Time Holtz Festive Berries Distress Ink

Thank you for stopping by today, and hope you can play along in our Thank You challenge going on now. For more info and to link up your project click HERE.

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Joy To The World

Hello Pretty Cute Stamps fans & Happy Saturday! It's Amber here, today I have a fun little Christmas card to share featuring the Nativity 2 set.

This wonderful 6 x 8 set features 14 different stamps, 3 wise men, 1 shepherd, a sheep, a camel, a donkey, and 6 coordinating sentiments. This set also has an SVG Outline that matches this set perfectly, you can find that in the shop HERE. There are so many fun little images and sentiments included in this stamp set, the possibilities are endless

Instead of stamping the "Joy To The World" sentiment straight across my cardstock I decided to have a little fun and change it up by stamping it all around the outside edge of my green die cut circle. After I had my sentiment stamped I added my fussy cut wise man to the middle of the circle and embellished the right side. I had lots of fun coloring the little wise man to match my patterned paper. You can see a little close up below.

A wise man wouldn't be a wise man without a little gold so I added a little gold to his crown and to the little box he is holding with a gold Gelly Roll pen. I hope you enjoyed my card today and don't forget you can share your Pretty Cute Stamps projects on the Pretty Cute Stamps Facebook Page or in the Pretty Cute Projects Facebook Group. Thanks for visiting!

Supplies: Cardstock- White & Green / Canvas Corp Patterned Paper- Jolly Christmas: Candy Canes / Pretty Cute Stamps Clear Stamp Set- Nativity 2 / Ranger Archival Ink Pad- Jet Black / CTMH Markers / Gold Gelly Roll Pen / Pretty Little Studio Flair Button- Festive / Acrylic Snowflake / White Ribbon / Mini Gold Bell

Friday, October 23, 2015

Customer Feature ~ Nancy Boyd

TGIF, everyone! I have a fun fall themed Customer Feature for you today. Nancy Boyd from Kandy Krazee entered this adorable easel card in our Any Card challenge a while ago.

Nancy used all sorts of fun sentiments and images from the Harvest Happiness stamp set to create her card and a sweet decorated envelope. Here are some more views of the card, along with the stamp set she used. Isn't it amazing?

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Pumpkin Purse

Hello! Debbie here with a fun fall project for you all.

I am loving this fall weather we are having! With fall in the air, I have created a fun little pumpkin purse for you using Thanksgiving Eats. I just love the little pumpkin in this set.

I used this tutorial on making the purse, but cut my cardstock base 9" x 9" and then scored at 3" and 6" and followed the rest of the instructions.

The topper is a Nestibilities die. I cut two of them and glued them together to give the flap more support. I adhered the back to the center back of the "purse" and added 1/2 of a Fastener Tab from Tombow. I love that these are so thin and have very little bulk.

The velvet ribbon handle is adhered to the topper with mini brads. To me velvet just says "fall" and I love the extra texture to the project.

To create the pumpkin "button" closure, I stamped the pumpkin first onto the cream designer paper and colored the stem and leaf with Dual Brush Pens by Tombow, then stamped it again on 2 different designer papers.

I paper pieced those and then punched with a circle punch and punched 2 more on plain cardstock and adhered them all together. I knew I would need the sturdiness the bulk gave it as this is what will be open and closing the flap and I didn't want it to tear.

Here is a peek (although a bit blurry, sorry about that) of what it looks like opened. Now off to find some goodies to fit inside it.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Double Double Toil & Trouble!!!

Happy Wednesday everyone!!!!

Amy here today sharing a super cute card I made using Bewitched and Spooktacular!!!

Only a few more weeks till Halloween so I thought I would make you a fun card to celebrate!!!

I had so much fun combining these two stamp sets, its always good when you can mix and match stamp sets to get more use from them!!!

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

BOO-YA!

Hello Stampers!! I love 'whimsical' Halloween and had a great time creating this stair step folding card. I had a lot of fun looking through my collection of Pretty Cute Stamps to find other PCS sets that worked with the Spooktacular stamp set.

Mixing and matching up stamps is a great way to increase your stamps usage. You might be surprised at exactly what will coordinate together. Like my lizard wearing a witch hat. Keeping with the Halloween color theme I removed the lizard's tongue and decided he should wear the witch hat. You never know when you might need eye of newt for a spell!

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