Plum Poppy Studio

Hello on this beautiful Saturday morning! We are busy, busy around the house getting ready for a birthday party for the youngest little. She is turning 11 and I just can't believe how fast those years have gone by. I tends to make me teary if I dwell on it too long. But, on to why I am really here. Today's challenge over on the 365 Cards blog is Two Techniques. Select any of the two following techniques to use on your card: sanding, masking, embossing, stamping with ink, shading with pastels or sponging. I chose to emboss and stamp, though I did do some sanding also, but it is difficult to see in the picture. Also, I made the tree out of tape by Bella Blvd. I laid it out on a white piece of paper and then cut out a triangle from it. The trunk is stamped with the Joyful Snowman sentiment from Market Street Stamps on some Core'dinations paper (which also makes up the matting) and then the edges were sanded slightly. I hope you have a great weekend...

Hello, hello, HELLO!!  Today is my turn to share a project over on the Market Street Stamps' blog and I am so getting into the Halloween spirit already! The stamp set featured on my card is Sweet Spooks and Angelica certainly made it that! It has the most adorable images that are perfect for the holiday. The paper is from Echo Park's The Apothecary Emporium collection from last year. The top piece of the patterned paper was run through the Cuttlebug with the Stampin Up embossing folder Spider Web. Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon!

Welcome back for the next challenge over at the 365 Cards blog . Today's prompt is Muted: Use colors and patterns that are opposite of bold, keep them muted instead. And here is my card: Don't forget to check out the rest of this weeks' challenges!

Happy Friday!!! Today starts the August over at the Market Street Stamps blog. And since the Paint the Town Color Challenge and the Block Party are overlapping, they decided to combine them! All of the info that you need to know is in this blog post here . And, here is the Paint the Town Color Challenge for you to be inspired by: And here is my card: I used the newly released Nuts About Nature and used my Tim Holtz Distress Markers. You have until Monday at Midnight to join in all the fun!!

Today is the final day of peeks from this month's Market Street Stamps August release and I have two cards to share. Before I get to them, I just want to remind you of your chance to win each of the new sets. You can find out all of the details on how to do that on the Market Street Stamps' blog . Also, all of the new stamps will be available for sale at 7am cdt tomorrow morning. This first one is from the stamp set Hit the Mark. And this next one is using the set Dreamcatcher. For the effect on the feather, I used three different colors of ink and pounced them around the stamp trying not to hit the areas with ink on them already.

Hello and welcome back to day two of the Market Street Stamps ' August Release!! I hope you enjoyed all of the sneak peeks from yesterday. All of the design team girls are so rockin' the new sets! Well, there are three more sets that are being sneaked today, and I have something from two of them. This first one is from Baby Basics. Such a super sweet set to work with! And the second card is from Nuts About Nature, another awesome set! Don't forget to swing on by the Market Street Stamps' blog too see much more sneaks!! And, you can't miss out for the chance of winning all of the new sets! Hope to see you back again tomorrow for the last day of sneaks!

Yay! It's that time again. Another Market Street Stamps release!! And we have some great things to share! That's right, there are three, count them three, new illustrators with releases this month. And don't their names look familiar? Yup!! They are all part of the Design Team! It's so awesome to see these girls' creativeness come out in stamps!! There are three great days of peeks, so make sure to stop back each day and then hop on over to the Market Street Stamps blog to check out what my fellow Design Teamers have done too! Now, here are my sneaks!! This first one features the Great Big Greetings. The second one here is using the Great Big Greetings and the ABC background. And, this last one was made using Teacher Notes. And don't forget, there is always a chance for you to win the new stamps. All of that info will be on the Market Street Stamps blog too. I look forward to seeing you all back here tomorrow!!