Winter/Holiday Coffee Lover's Blog Hop

TGIF, everyone! Welcome to the Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!  My name is Lisa Norris, and I'm the owner/designer of Pretty Cute Stamps!

I'm so excited to have the opportunity to be a Super Sponsor of the hop...plus, I get to share some fun holiday and coffee themed projects I created using Pretty Cute Stamps!  Before I get to my projects, though, let me tell you that this hop is HUGE and there are some AMAZING prizes up for grabs. Be sure to check out the beginning of the hop HERE to find out about all of the sponsors and prizes and find out how to be eligible to win (one Super Sponsor Prize will be a $25 Gift Certificate to PCS, and a Flash Prize is also a $25 Gift Certificate to PCS, by the way). Oh, and the best thing about this hop is that YOU can participate by creating a holiday/winter themed project that features coffee/hot cocoa, or tea! How cool is that? So, stop by the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog to find out all about that. Okay...now for my projects:

First, I created this silly little card using the new Pretty Cute Stamps Coffee Faces Stamp Set along with the PCS Gingerbread Kisses Stamp Set. I know I turn into a big ol' Scrooge when I realize I'm all out of coffee! ;)  I colored this sweet little cup with my Copic markers and added a grouchy face from the Coffee Faces set.

I also created this clean and simple card using the hot cocoa mug from the PCS Sip Enjoy Relax Stamp Set, which I colored using my Copics and then added a face I got from the PCS Coffee Faces set. The sentiment is from the PCS Warm Winter Wishes Stamp Set, and I also added some snowflakes from that same set, which I stamped using VersaMark Watermark ink.

Finally, I created this flat postcard-y type card using the Santa from the PCS Dear Santa Stamp Set, along with a little coffee mug and face from the Coffee Faces set. To create the sentiment, I combined sentiments from the PCS Gingerbread Kisses, Coffee Sentiments, and Oh Christmas Tree stamp sets. I added some bling to the background, and my card was all done!

Here are the items I used for my projects today (click on the photos to find them in the store):

   

   

 

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Be sure to go back to the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog (the beginning of the hop) to check out the other stops.

Using Sentiments As Focal Images!

Karla here today, and I sure hope all of my US friends had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! We put up our tree and decorated for Christmas on Friday while we listened to Christmas music and had some very yummy snacks!

I'm sharing these cute cards and boxes today, and I wanted to let you know how I made them. I've been using a lot of the Heidi Swapp Believe paper this year and have also been enjoying the One Sheet Wonder video instructions by Angie at My Chic'n Scratch. I love that you can take one sheet of patterned paper and some cardstock to create all these projects!!

I used the sentiments from the Nativity 1 and Nativity 2 stamp sets, as well as one on the inside of my card (bottom photo) from the Oh, Christmas Tree set, by Pretty Cute Stamps as my focal images. They are beautiful sentiments and are printed in wonderful fonts. I absolutely love the adorable images, but I really wanted to focus on these amazing sentiments this time!

I love these cute little folded bags! The video link above shows you how to cut and fold all the pieces using just a scoring board and cutter. I love how CAS the cards are and even though I usually struggle with that style of card I am really happy with how they turned out. I think the sentiments really show up using these layouts. Below each card (bottom row) I've shown the coordinating inside sentiment.

Thanks so much for joining me today! Don't forget to check out our Gift Giving Challenge at this month and you could win yourself a fabulous gift certificate!

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. 

Pretty Cute Stamps December 2014 Release Blog Hop

Happy December RELEASE DAY, everyone, and welcome to the Pretty Cute Stamps December 2014 Release Blog Hop. YAY! My fabulous Design Team and I have some super cute projects to show you today that we created using the very newest PCS stamps.

But first, I want to show you all of the new stamps you can purchase now in the Pretty Cute Stamps Store. Oh, and, most importantly...all of the new items (even the bundle) are ON SALE until 11:59 EST on Friday, December 19. Woo HOO! The sale is a little shorter than usual this month because my family and I will be traveling for the holidays, and I won't be around to ship stamps for a while after the 19th. Anyway...here they are. You can click on each of the photos to see these in the PCS Store:

December 2014 Stamp Release Bundle (contains all of the stamp sets below)

 Eskimo Kisses 4x6" Stamp Set

 Let's Talk 4x6" Stamp Set

 Otterly Amazing 4x6" Stamp Set

 Rock On 4x6" Stamp Set

Warm Fuzzies 4x6" Stamp Set

Sip Enjoy Relax 2x3" Stamp Set (FREE with any 2 stamp minimum purchase during the SALE).

The SVG Outlines for the images on each of these new sets are also now available in the store. So, if you're not one who likes fussy-cutting around images and has access to an electronic cutting machine that can use SVG files, these could be a great resource for you. The stamp images are not included with these files...you need the stamp sets for those. Oh, and these SVG Outlines are also ON SALE until Tuesday night, too!

Okay, here is my project that uses the sweet little freebie Sip Enjoy Relax stamp set:

I decided to create a tag for my daughter's Christmas gift for her teacher. I colored this sweet little mug from the Sip Enjoy Relax set using my Copic Markers. I also added a face to the mug using my Oh, Christmas Tree stamp set (there are several faces in other sets that will fit this little cup, too). I stamped the image and sentiment on a tag I cut using my Silhouette Cameo and my Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons Layered Tags 1 Cutting Files set. I added a little bit of doodled stitching, and my tag was all done.

The best part about this set, in case you missed it, is that it will be included for FREE with any order of 2 stamp sets or more during the December New Release Sale (Dec. 17-19). Then, it will be for sale in the store for only $3.75!  WOW!

Okay, now how about a PRIZE????

One lucky hopper will win a $15 Gift Certificate to the Pretty Cute Stamps Store!  Here's what you need to do for a chance to win this Gift Certificate:

1.  Be a follower of EVERY BLOG in our little hop.  There are just 6 of us, so that shouldn't be too hard.  You won't be sorry...I'm super lucky to have such talented ladies on my Design Team.

AND

2.  Leave a comment at EACH blog along the hop.  Be sure to let us know you are a follower and leave us a way to get in contact with you if you win.

That's all you have to do.  If you would like EXTRA entries, you can also do one or more of the following:

3.  Like the Pretty Cute Stamps Facebook Page.  Leave me a separate comment on this blog telling me you did. (The separate comment is your extra entry.)

4.  Sign up for the Pretty Cute Stamps Mailing List and leave a comment on this blog telling me you did.  You'll get occasional emails telling you about new releases, sales, coupon codes, and events. (The separate comment is your extra entry.)

I will randomly choose a winner of the hop candy on Friday, December 19, 2014.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Your next stop on the hop is Dawn.

Here's the lineup of the whole hop, just in case you get lost along the way:

Lisa: http://prettycutestampsblog.blogspot.com/
Dawn: http://www.dawnmercedes.blogspot.com/
Janna: http://www.stampingwiththedogs.blogspot.com/
Karla: http://creative-love-affair.blogspot.ca/
Larissa: http://muffinsandlace.com/
Raven: http://www.love4stamps.blogspot.com/

Pretty Christmas Gift Tags!

Hi! Karla here today with a fun gift tag feature! I am so enjoying December! I've finally got my Christmas cards sent out, our tree is up, we've built our gingerbread house - we found a Frozen one this year, so the girls were really excited! Although, Erica, who's almost 3, couldn't understand why we couldn't eat it immediately after making it :)

We've been wrapping gifts as we get them ready, so there won't be so much to do all at once.  I realized I needed a few more tags, so I decided to combine some Pretty Cute Stamps sets to create these gift tags.

I started with some white cardstock, which I cut into tags, rounding the upper corners of each. Next I stamped the border with Versamark using the Any Better Than This frame, the snowflakes from Christmas Cheer, and a sentiment from the Oh Christmas Tree set. After I heat embossed with gold and silver inks I sponged the edges with Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean Distress Inks, leaving a white area in the center.

 For the second tag I used the frame and hearts from Celebrate Today and another sentiment from Oh Christmas Tree. I made the hearts into hanging ornaments by drawing lines and bows with some gold and silver pens.

I tied some gold and silver ribbons onto my tags and some bakers twine to attach them to my gifts. Now they are all ready to be delivered!

Christmas Cheer

 Oh, Christmas Tree

Any Better Than This

 Celebrate Today

How are your Christmas plans coming along? I hope you can take time to enjoy all the little things, from wrapping gifts to watching 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'. Thanks so much for joining me today, and be sure to check out the Pretty Cute Stamps store for a gift for someone, or for yourself ;) You can even email a Pretty Cute Stamps gift certificate to a lucky person on your gift list!

Customer Feature ~ Janna Williams and a SALE!!!!

TGIF, everyone! I hope you are having a fantastic Friday, and that my US friends had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I have a new Customer Feature for you today. This imaginative card was created by Janna Williams from Stamping with the Dogs. She shared this card with us on the Pretty Cute Stamps Facebook Page. Isn't it too cute?

Janna combined the Big Hairy Hello and Oh, Christmas Tree stamp sets to create this fun scene. You can find out all of the details for her project on her blog post HERE.

 

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! :)

Oh, and one last thing...Sign up for the Pretty Cute Stamps Mailing List so you'll be the first to hear about new items, events, specials, limited-time offers, contests, and more. CLICK HERE to go to the sign up form.

Wait....no, one more thing! There's a Black Friday thru Cyber Monday Sale going on right now. How could I almost forget that??? Here are the details:

Thank you so much for stopping by today! We'll be back next week with more PCS inspiration. Have a great weekend, everyone! :)

Oh, Christmas Tree Cards!

Oh! I was so excited to see the October releases by Pretty Cute Stamps! Karla here, and for my post today I couldn't help but share this adorable set, Oh, Christmas Tree (plus stamps from a few other sets shown below!) There are so many possibilities with this set! So many ways to decorate the tree, and so many wonderful sentiments!

I decided to make a couple cards for my Christmas card stash - I think we definitely have to start thinking about that now ;)

I used some 6x6 ME Christmas themed papers as my background papers and then the fun started! I get so much inspiration from watching my kids craft, and since my 2 year old decided to colour her tree pink - I thought I would colour mine pink too! I stamped the presents and coloured them with gel pens in some non-traditional Christmas colours  and popped some of them up along the bottom with foam dots.

I used Prismacolour markers to colour my tree, star and ornaments and then gel pens to colour the garland to look like popcorn. I had to add this happy face - soooo sweet! I used the frame from Any Better Than This stamped with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink on a kraft banner and the snowflakes from Christmas Cheer, which I white heat embossed.  I forgot to make sure the ink on the frame was dry before embossing the snowflakes, but I loved how it turned out! The sentiment, Oh Christmas Tree and star garland stamps to the left of the tree are also from the Oh, Christmas Tree set.

Inside, I hand cut some matching paper and layered on a piece of white cardstock and a piece of vellum stamped with one of the sentiments from the set, along with a tiny (how cute!) gingerbread man!

I had to make a second card, similar to the first, but decorated differently - there were so many ideas of what to do with this set! Take a good look at all the little bits included (below) - amazing! For this card I used Prismacolor Markers again on my tree and gel pens on the garland.

I used gold embossing powder to heat emboss the star and ornaments and silver for the little tiny hangers!! I used the frame from the Celebrate Today stamp set around the edge of my banner.

On the left side I layered a gold embossed sentiment on vellum and a silver embossed star garland, and popped up the tree banner with foam dots.

Inside I used gold embossing powder for the sentiment and silver for the stars on top of vellum and then added some white gel pen stitching lines.

These are all the amazing stamp sets I used, available right now at the Pretty Cute Stamps store!

Thank you so much for joining me today!! I had so much fun creating these cards, and I can think of a million more ideas for using them! Be sure to check out the Pretty Cute Stamps store to pick up your favourites and have a wonderful week :)