February Calendar using Planner Stamps and More!

Hi friends! Karla here today. I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful weekend! The sun has been out, the snow is melting, and even though it's still a little chilly, it does feel like spring is coming soon! Today, I wanted to share our family's monthly calendar with you and the way I use the awesome stamps from Pretty Cute Stamps to plan the month.

I picked this planner up at Costco in the fall and really love the large spaces it has for keeping track of our family activities. At the beginning of each month I sit down and fill out everything I know that is scheduled, and then as things pop up I put them on throughout the month. My go to stamps each month are the School Planner and Everyday Planner stamp sets. Then I choose from the other sets I have depending on what is going on. You can see some stamps from the Happy Crafting set on the 3rd and 12th, and stamps from the Be Mine set on the 13th and 14th.

This month I've added a Happy Birthday for my hubby's birthday from the Little Llama set on the 24th. The coffee cup on the 23rd is from the Coffee Faces set (with a heart from Little Llama). On the 8th and 24th I used stamps from the Great Chemistry set as well.

I like to decorate the top of the calendar, and this month I used the Eskimo Kisses set. Love this cute girl and igloo! After stamping I coloured in the girl with coloured pencils, and I stamped the igloo with a Kaleidoscope ink pad, adding shading with my pencils. I love using these variegated ink pads for my planner and calendar stamping - I can choose a particular colour within a pad or stamp the colours together to get a different look.

Here's a look at the cute planner stamps I've used, and you can have a look at all the fun PCS planner stamps here.

 School Planner 

Everyday Planner 

Thanks so much for joining me today! Hope you have a fun and crafty week!

Praises for your Pals

Any one of your friends or family members will love one of these sweet cards 

that feature images and sentiments from Pretty Cute Stamps!

Eskimo Kisses

It is time to start creating valentines.

 (Especially if you are like me and failed to mail out any Christmas cards!)

Every punny sentiment needs matching brads!

These fruit brads make a sweet border for a CAS card with a pun!

Orange You Awesome

If you have a cat fanatic in your life,

pile on the Kitty brads.

Fur Baby

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Be sure to brighten someone else's day with your card!

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up.

Merry Christmoose

Hello friends. Larissa here today with a new Christmas card. I think this is one of my favorite card making holidays. I actually am using three different sets for this card. 

I am using 

Eskimo Kisses 

Warm Winter Wishes 

Oh, Christmas Tree

So I stamped all the images on to a piece of white cardstock and colored them using Sprectrum Noir markers. I cut each one out using a pair of detailed scissors. 

I took a piece of watercolor paper and trimmed it to 4 x 5 1/4. I used a few different shades of Artist Loft watercolors to make my background. 

I adhered the images to the watercolor paper using liquid adhesive and then popped the Igloo up with foam tape. 

I added a few snowflakes and a sentiment to the card front using white embossing powder. 

I hope you enjoyed my post today.
Have a wonderful day friends. 

Customer Feature ~ Dawn Mercedes and a SALE!!!!!

TGIF, everyone! This week I want to show you a card Design Team member Dawn Mercedes from Sunnyside Up created a little bit ago using a fun Pretty Cute Stamps sentiment. Dawn creates all sorts of projects using PCS stamps, and I wanted to share one of the extra projects she shared in the Pretty Cute Projects Facebook Group.

Dawn paired a sentiment she got from the Eskimo Kisses Stamp Set with some adorable little eyelets and some jute twine. Isn't this precious? You can check out all of the details about Dawn's project on her blog post HERE. Here's the stamp set she used:

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 share your projects here. So share, share away! :)

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Ooo, ooo!!!! I can't forget to tell you this. There's SALE going on right now at Pretty Cute Stamps. WHAT!?!?!?!  Yep! You can save 25% off your entire purchase if you buy between now and March 5, 2015. You don't even need a coupon code, or anything...just add items to your cart and the discount will be automatically applied during checkout. YAY!  So, what are you waiting for??? Get to shoppin'! ;)

December Release Sneak Peek Day 1

Happy Monday, everyone! I am so very excited to show you our first sneak peeks for our Pretty Cute Stamps December 2014 Release. Because the holidays are so very close, and my family and I will be visiting family during the week of Christmas, the New Release Sale will only last for 3 days (December 17-19) this month. Because of the short sale, I am going to go ahead and show you the full stamp sets that will be available for purchase starting Wednesday. That way, you can start making your wish list. :) Okay, here are our amazing sneak peek projects. Be sure to stop by these wonderful ladies' blogs to learn all of the details about their projects:

Dawn Mercedes Barrett from Sunnyside Up created such a pretty Valentine's Day card using some images and sentiments from the new Eskimo Kisses stamp set:

Raven Baca from Love 4 Stamps created this sweet little card using the new Warm Fuzzies stamp set:

And, finally, Janna Williams from Stamping with the Dogs created this fun card using the new Rock On stamp set:

Be sure to stop by these ladies' blogs to learn all of the details about their projects. And remember, all of these sets will be available for purchase starting Wednesday, December 17.

I'll be back tomorrow to share some more amazing Sneak Peeks that our other DT members created using the new stamps from the December release. We hope you'll stop by! :)