The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow - Get Well Card!

Hello! Karla here today to share a cute get well card with you, and since it is officially Spring I thought the PCS Rain Or Shine clear stamp set would be the perfect thing to use! I recently went through all my patterned paper and found this cute umbrella paper in my stash - it immediately made me think of this adorable stamp set!

I stamped the umbrella on some patterned paper and used my Prismacolor and Hobby Colour Markers to add some colour to the edges and handle before popping up with foam dots.  I really love the font on 'The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow' sentiment from the set!

I've been playing around with my new Distress Oxide Inks and created a background with some fun splatters! These inks are awesome!! I used my CTMH oval cutting system to cut out a piece of the background along with a black mat. I love the way the sunshine stamp in the Rain Or Shine stamp set peeks out from behind the umbrella! I added some yellow marker colour on the sun and then dropped some Glossy Accents over the oval and umbrella to look like rain drops.

I tied a pretty blue silk ribbon and added my favourite sequins from SpiegelMom Scraps!

I love all the fun sentiments in this set - and this was perfect for my get well card, and these little rubber boots are so adorable with a matching paper pieced print!

Doesn't this card just make you feel happier?!! I know it makes me smile :)

Here's a look at this cute set:

 Rain Or Shine 

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope things are sunny for you this week <3

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!

Mouse Happy Birthday Card!

Hi there crafty friends! Karla popping by today to share this cute mouse birthday card from a party that my 4 year old went to last month! This adorable little mouse holding a cupcake is the Mouse Birthday digital stamp. I printed her out on white cardstock and coloured her in with Prismacolor and Hobby Colour Markers.

I used my Cricut to cut out the scalloped circle and cut around the digi image with a circle cutter before layering the image on my background BoBunny papers. I use the PCS Birthday Elephant digital stamp for the presents, printing them in two different sizes and using two circle punches to cut them out. A little foam tape on some of the layers gives a bit of dimension.

Some pretty sequins and some ribbon trim added the perfect birthday touches!

Inside, I used a sentiment from Mouse Birthday, printed directly onto my pink carstock.

Here's a look at these cute stamp sets:

Mouse Birthday

Birthday Elephant 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you've been enjoying some crafty fun lately!

Birthday Splash!

Hey there friends!! Karla here today. I hope you enjoyed a wonderful weekend. We had sunshine and rain- but we managed to get out a bit, and even slept in the tent in our backyard Saturday night. The kids loved it, but I don't know if I'd say tenting is my favourite thing, lol.

Today I'm sharing this adorable Mermaid Kisses Digital Stamp set from the Pretty Cute Stamps store that I used to create this card. I opened the mermaid digital stamp in PicMonkey, a free online photo editing program and layered on the present and sentiment before colouring in the background with alcohol based markers.  You could also print out your images and layer them as you wish. Check out the TUTORIAL I created here to show you how easy this is!

I added Stickles and sequins and then edged my oval with Versamark and silver embossing powder to add lots of shiny sparkly fun!

Inside, I used the sentiment from the Merman Digital Stamp set. 

Here's a look at the digital stamp sets I used: 

Mermaid Kisses Digital Stamp set

Merman Digital Stamp set

Thank you so so much for joining me today! Don't forget this month's challenge is still going on - By The Sea! You still have time to enter for a chance to win a gift certificate. Have an awesome, crafty week! 

Mermaid Card With Digital Stamp Layering Tutorial!

Hi Friends! Karla here, and I hope you all had a lovely weekend. We had a lot of rain and even a little hail this weekend, but you gotta take the rain with the shine right! I'm sharing a card I made with the new Mermaid Kisses Digital Stamp this month from Pretty Cute Stamps. If you haven't checked them out you'll be amazed! They are so darn cute, and so fun to work with!!

I used some pretty papers from the Boardwalk Collection from BoBunny and layered on my printed and coloured image from the Mermaid Kisses digital stamp set. Alcohol based markers, such as Copics or Prismacolor markers, work well with injet printers. I even added some Stickles and Gelly Roll pens to my project after colouring to add some shimmer.

Inside, I added this adorable sentiment, included in the set!

I've put together a bit of a tutorial to show you how easy it is to print out a layered image using PicMonkey - a free photo editing program you open in your browser - no downloading required.

1. Open PicMonkey and choose EDIT at the top of the screen. A box will pop up allowing you to choose your JPEG image from the images you've downloaded from Pretty Cute Stamps. For this card, I chose the Lounging Mermaid. This opens it on your screen.

2. To the left of your screen you now see the Editor and you can add the stamps you want to overlay. Choose the Butterfly icon which opens Overlays and choose 'Your Own' at the top of the screen. This opens the file folder you just opened the mermaid from.

3. Choose the digital stamp you want to overlay - in the PNG format. I chose the present file - click Open.

4. This opens the digital stamp onto your background (Mermaid). You can resize your image by placing your mouse cursor at one of the corners and making it as small or large as you wish. You can even change the colour and turn your image!

5. I made my present smaller and placed it on her hand as if she was holding it. For my actual card you can see I put a cupcake in her hand and added two layered presents in different sizes at the bottom.

7. You can even add a sentiment directly to the image! When you have your image just the way you want it you can save it by clicking Save at the top of the screen, then Save To My Computer on the left of the screen. MAKE SURE TO SAVE YOUR FILE AS A DIFFERENT NAME THOUGH so you don't overwrite the original file!

Now you can print your file from your computer, colour and enjoy!! Think how cute this image would be printed in a larger size and framed!

Here's a look at this cute digital stamp set!!

Mermaid Kisses

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you'll check out all the super awesome stamps available at Pretty Cute Stamps and don't forget about our Summertime Challenge - where you could win a gift certificate just for sharing what you create with your PCS stamps and digital stamps!

Stitched With Love Card!

Hi friends! Karla here today. I hope you all enjoyed a relaxing weekend with a bit of crafty time for yourself. I'm sharing a card with you today using the Pretty Cute Stamps Sew Amazing stamp set. I love to sew, but don't do it often enough right now - however, this stamp set lets me have fun with all the stitchy elements and play with paper too!

 I started off by cutting a Project Life card down a bit. It already had this fun, funky stitching printed right on it! Perfect! I used some Distress Ink to sponge some colour around the edge before adding it to a folded card. I love the Stitched With Love sentiment from the stamp set and stamped it directly onto the PL card. I used my circle punches to punch out a few fun patterned paper items and added a stamped button from the set.

I stamped the fun sewing machine in the set directly onto my background as well as on a piece of Maggie Holmes patterned paper. Then, I fussy cut around the main part of the patterned paper stamped image before adding it to my background. A bit of coloured pencil highlighted the edges. You can see that I added some glittery purple thread onto my spool before attaching it!

Inside, I used the piece of the PL card I cut from the front and stamped the Just For You sentiment, also in the set. I added some zigzag and running stitches stamps and some stamped buttons that I used Distress Inks to colour. I wrapped some more shiny purple thread directly onto my cut out spool before adding it inside the card as well.

A few sequins, a pretty button and a couple rhinestones from my stash, add a bit of bling!

Here's a look at this awesome stamp set:

Sew Amazing

 Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope you have a wonderful week :)