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!

Crafty Pocket Page Scrapbook Layout!

I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas! Karla here, and we certainly did! Today I wanted to share a crafty Project Life page I made using the Happy Crafting and Sew Amazing stamp sets from Pretty Cute Stamps.

I had some cute pics of my girls working on some crafty projects and these stamped images were the perfect embellishments to add to my pockets. I used some sewing themed paper from Carta Bella, added my photos and then my stamped images.

I cut the coordinating SVG outlines with my Cricut Expore, stamped them with Memento Ink and coloured them in with Prismacolor Markers. This little girl from the Happy Crafting set is so cute! I love how she can hold whatever crafty supplies up I choose!

I gently curved this Scrapbooking stamp while on the acrylic block so it would fit on my arrow sticker.

The Sew Amazing set was perfect to layer on this sewing themed journaling card! 

Here's a look at these stamp sets:

Happy Crafting 

Sew Amazing

Thanks so much for joining me today! Be sure to stop over at the Pretty Cute Stamps store to check out these and lots more awesome stamps. I wish you all a very Happy New Year!!

Just add Glitter

Hello friends. Larissa here with you today. I decided to use this adorable stamp set 

"HAPPY CRAFTING"

I stamped this little girl on a piece of white cardstock cut to a 4 X 5 1/4.
I colored her up using my Copic markers.

I added the little glue gun and scissors in her had with a few other crafting items around her.
I wanted to finish off the card front with something simple to not take away from the images.
I added some twine to match the cardstock color I used for matting and then finished it with a few clear turquoise sequins. 

I love the sentiment "When in doubt, just add glitter. "
Do you add glitter?

Have a wonderful day friends.
Don't forget to check back tomorrow to be inspired by our design team. 

June/July Sneak Peek Day 2

We're back!!!! We have some more cute, cute projects to share with you using two stamp sets that will be released on Thursday. Here they are:

I created this sweet little card using the new Happy Crafting Stamp Set:

Isn't that fun? I bet some of you can relate. Haha. I colored these images using my Copic markers, and I added some fun patterned paper to her shirt.

Karla Yungwirth, from Creative Love Affair made this adorable stationary set using the new Pen Pals 2 stamp set. Look at all of those fun details! Wouldn't you love to get a letter like this in the mail?

There they are....sneak peeks of two more of the new sets that will be released on Thursday. As promised, I have another free cutting/clip art file from Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons for you today. These Stamp Frames will be free for today only, then they will be available to purchase in the PPPR store:

Be sure to come back tomorrow to see our final sneak peeks. Oh, and don't forget about our June/July 2015 Release Blog Hop on Thursday. That's when I get to show you all of the new sets! YAY!