Llama Happy Birthday!

Hey there friends! Karla here today with a cute llama birthday card that I made for my daughter using the Little Llama clear stamp set. She turned 10 in January and made a special request for this llama wearing a sombrero to be on her card! I used my Prismacolor and Hobby Colour Markers, which are alcohol based to colour in this adorable llama and her pretty hat, which I popped up with foam dots. I thought I'd use the fun and festive BoBunny Believe papers from a 6x6 pad along with some pretty sequins.

I layered the sentiment from the set over a banner shape and added some hand drawn stitch lines.

Inside, I used the Happy Birthday sentiment and a couple hearts from the set - and since I forgot to take a pic before writing a sweet message to my girl I thought I'd share that with you too! I always make sure I add the date in the card so she'll be able to see when she got it.

Here's a look at this super cute set - with lots of sentiments for different occasions!

Little Llama

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope your week is looking fabulous!!

Snowmies Watercolor Card!

Hi there crafty friends! I hope you've all had a wonderful winter break. Karla here today to share a cute snowman card with you. It has finally warmed up here a bit, but we still have snow on the ground and there are a few snowman to be seen around the neighborhood. I must say that my favourite snowman are these cute watercoloured ones that I can create in my jammies! 

I stamped the snowman and snowgirl from the Snowmies stamp set on watercolour paper and used Distress and Tombow Markers to watercolour in my images. I've been loving purple lately and decided to pull some pinks and purples from the Pink Paislee background paper for a pretty winter feeling. I used the snowy background stamp included in the set to add white heat embossed snow as a resist in the background before adding some blue watercolour.

I used some snowflake and heart stamps from the Little Llama set - there are two sizes of snowflakes in this set and I used Distress Inks to add them to my wintery scene. I added a sentiment stamp from the Snowmies set right below my snowmen and used my Cricut Explore to diecut some cool snowflakes to add to the front.

Inside, I added the outside cut to the negative snowflake I put on the front, some matching paper and a couple more snowflake stamps.

I love the fun, wintery look of this card. A few pretty sequins add some shiny glimmer as a finishing touch!

Here's a peek at the cute stamp sets I used above:

 Snowmies 

Little Llama 

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderful, crafty week ahead!

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!

Include a Button Challenge WINNER!

TGIF, everyone! I have the winner of the Include a Button Challenge from last month. The randomly chosen winner of the $15 Gift Certificate to Pretty Cute Stamps is:

Sandra from Maverick Muses created this sweet little card using the Little Llama stamp set.

So adorable...I love the colors! Congratulations, Sandra! Contact me at lisanorris at prettycutestamps dot com to claim your prize. :)

Thank you for stopping by today, everyone! Be sure to come back tomorrow...we are kicking off our next Pretty Cute Stamps Monthly Challenge!

I llama wish you...

Hello stamp lovers!  I'm really excited today to be sharing my very first post for Pretty Cute Stamps!!
My first stamp set was Little Llama, so I thought it would be fitting to feature it.  This set offers a large variety of sentiments meaning that you will ink up this stamp set again and again!

I'm sharing two cards with you featuring two different sentiments.  Really, who doesn't love a llama?

Be sure to share your Pretty Cute Stamp creations with us on facebook.  Join our group Pretty Cute Projects!  We can't wait to see you there!

Happy Crafting,

MelissaO

Sneak Peek Day 2 ~ Snack Time!!

 

Welcome to the 2nd day of our January Sneak Peeks!

You will love what Pretty Cute Stamps has cooked up for you this month!

This set has some flavorful images...Be sure to hop along with us on Wednesday to see more of the images! Just the "Happy Birthday" comes from Little Llama. Just think of the possibilities that "Poppin by to say..." could end with! So fun!!

I made this envelope to tuck in movie tickets/vouchers! Birthday for teens is getting tricky...and expensive. But...a couple of movie passes would make anyone happy!

Thanks again for stopping by today.

Add "check out Dawn's Blog" to your to do list!

Falalalala la la la LLAMA!!! Sneak Peek

Happy Sunday, everyone! I hope you've been having a fabulous weekend! I have another fun sneak peek project for you today. I created a fun little wine bottle gift tag using one of the Pretty Cute Stamps November Release stamp sets that will be available for purchase on Wednesday, November 19th. Here it is:

This sweet little Llama, his clothes, and the silly sentiment all come from the upcoming Little Llama stamp set. I can't wait for you to see this set. There are so many cute little sayings included, and there are so many different ways you can use the llama. The hat and scarf are separate stamps, so you can use the llama all year round and use the accessories to dress up other stamps, if you want. :)

Here's a close up of my Copic Marker coloring and that fun little sentiment. By the way, I got the Bottle Tag from Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons and cut it with my Silhouette Cameo.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Be sure to come back on Monday and Tuesday for more awesome sneak peeks and then on Wednesday for our November Release Blog Hop. Here's all of the November Release events (click on the photo to see it larger).