This Little Piggy Pie

Good morning friends!  It's Thursday...one day closer to the weekend :D  Hope everyone is having a great week so far!

My good friend Katie over at Sweet n Spiffy has the cutest little girl {EVER} who has a favorite stuffed pig, whom she calls Piggy Pie.  How cute is that?!?!?  Ever since I saw the super cute picture of Katie's sweet little girl with her favorite pal Piggy Pie, I've wanted to make a card with the cute piggy image from the Button Buddies set.  I think this was one of the first sets I purchased when I went to my first card class and is still one of my faves!

Supplies Used:

Paper ~ Melon Mambo, Pretty In Pink, Cherry Cobber, Whisper White

Ink ~ Melon Mambo

Stamp Sets ~ Button Buddies, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Other Supplies ~ Stripes & Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folders, 2 1/2" Circle Punch, Owl Punch, Perfect Pennants Bigz, Subtles Designer Buttons, Cute Clips

I pulled my colors from this card from the latest Hand Stamped Sentiments color challenge.  These colors were perfect for this cute little Piggy Pie :)

Wishing you all a Happy Thursday and as always...Happy Stamping!

Mojo Pals CASE with a twist

It's after 9:00PM and I'm wondering where my day has gone!  Summer break is over, my big boys are back in school and my work load has doubled in the last week...whew!  At this rate, I better start my Christmas shopping ASAP because it will be here before I know it!  My days are just flying by!  Being so busy means that I don't have quite as much time in my craft room, but I make sure to squeeze some in when I can.  Thanks to all of the great challenge sites out there, I always have inspiration for some fun card designs!

I love this weeks sketch over at Mojo Monday!  Clean and simple...my favorite! 

I had stopped by Pals Paper Arts one day last week and saw that they had a color challenge this time around and I knew that I wanted to do a Halloween card with these colors:

One of the PPA designers, Linda Callahan, had made a super cute card using the Frightening Feline stamp along with the little pumpkin from Button Buddies.  I fell in love with her card and just had to CASE it!

So, here is my Mojo Pals CASE with a twist (I had to flop sides for the embellishment on the sketch to make it work with the Window Frame):

Supplies Used:

Paper ~ Elegant Eggplant, Lucky Limeade, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Polka Dot Parade DSP, Summer Smooches DSP

Ink ~ Elegant Eggplant, Lucky Limeade, Pumpkin Pie

Stamp Sets ~ Frightening Feline, Button Buddies

Other Supplies ~ Window Frames Framelits, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Spider Web Embossing Folder, Brights Collections Designer Buttons

I love this color combo!  I think this will make a fun card for one of my boys to send to their grandparents for Halloween :)

Off to wrap up the end of my day and get some sleep.  Mornings always come much quicker than I would like them too!

Happy Stamping!

Baby Boy Blues

School is back in session and as excited I get for school to start, I miss my boys like crazy during the day!  Thank goodness my sweet boy Owen still has a few years left before he's in school.  I'm going to have to borrow a baby when that happens!

I've been off a day this week with the holiday, but I'm slowly catching back up.  Made my way over to Mojo Monday for a little sketch inspiration this morning before the boys got up.  I was a bit stumped by all of the layers in this sketch and just couldn't decide what stamp set to use.  So, as I was trying to figure that all out, I hopped on over to Hand Stamped Sentiments and I was no longer stumped!  This week is a color challenge and the fun colors totally inspired me to make a baby boy card.

Take the Mojo Sketch and the HSS color challenge...

...and here's what you get...

I love the Button Buddies set!  Add the cute little duck from the Embellished Events set and you've got a super cute card.  I may have to make this card in some shades of pink too!  Lots of weddings this year means lots of babies coming soon :)

Supplies Used:

Paper ~ Whisper White, Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, Certainly Celery, Temping Turquoise, Brights Collection DSP

Ink ~ Daffodil Delight, Early Espresso, Night of Navy

Stamp Sets ~ Embellished Events, Button Buddies, Sweet Essentials

Other Supplies ~ Adorning Accents Edgelits, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Stripes Embossing Folder, 2 3/8" Scallop Circle Punch, 1 3/4" Circle Punch, Regals Designer Buttons

Better get myself out the door...early release at school today!  It feels good to be back into the school routine and have a set schedule every week day.  The more structure I have, the more I get done and the more free time I have for stamping...WIN!

Happy Stamping!