Pretty Cute Stamps Feature - Watercolour Gnomie Card!

Ohhhh, the stamps included in this Gnomies set by Pretty Cute Stamps are sooo cute! They make me smile every time I see them! I found a scrap of wood grain white cardstock in my stash and thought it would be perfect as the background for this watercolour card. I love the look of top folding cards and rounding the bottom edges just seems to add a fun element. And, in case your wondering, this very pretty paper in the background would be a piece from the Brushed Collection from CTMH!

I used a 'no line' watercolouring technique here - I stamped my images with Antique Linen Distress Ink onto watercolour paper and then used Distress and Tombow Markers to watercolour in the images. Because the Antique Linen is water reactive and a light colour it simply blends into the colour marker I used and you don't see a rigid stamped line!

I stamped the 'clouds' with a speech bubble from the Let's Talk stamp set from Pretty Cute Stamps - another of my favs! Then I used a white gel pen to draw stitching lines around the edge after watercolouring and stamping with a couple adorbable Gnomie sentiments.

Taking a cue from Raven, another one of the talented Pretty Cute Stamps Design Team members who is always doing something incredibly crafty, I used Shrinky Dinks plastic to stamp on the mushroom house and coloured it in with Prismacolor Markers before shrinking it with my heat gun. How cute?!! Wouldn't this make a cute charm for a bracelet?!

Inside, I stamped the speech bubble and added the Hello sentiment using the Let's Talk set. A few sequins adds the finishing touch.

 Gnomies

Let's Talk

 Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope you're inspired to do something crafty today :) The Pretty Cute Stamps store is always open and you can see what inspires you to create!

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Pretty Cute Stamps Feature - Poppin' By To Say...Hello!

Well, dare I say it... It feels like Spring is here! We've had lovely weather all last week - and for the most part this week looks great too. Now, a few snow flakes are par for the course here in lovely Alberta, but I'll take the sunshine any day!

I simply had to share this darling card with you today! I just realized I really haven't pulled out this Pretty Cute Stamp set -Snack Time enough! It is so darling with the adorbs popcorn, pop and pizza. I'm totally planning a scrapbook pocket page with this popcorn and some movie tickets.... But that's for next time ;)

 I paper pieced the popcorn container and added some Souffle gel pens to colour in the face and then added some shading with a Prismacolor Marker. I added a little Shimmer Spritz gold spray flicked onto the background around my popcorn - 'cause who doesn't like a little extra butter?!

I 'popped' my popcorn off the page with foam dots and added extra popcorn pieces around the page! I just love the two extra sizes of kernels in the stamp set. I added some gel pen around the kernels to give them a bit of buttery shine. 

This sentiment could lead into so many others - Happy Birthday, HI, Happy Father's Day.... hmmm!

Inside, I used the Pretty Cute Stamps set Let's Talk for the speech bubble and the Hello - I think everyone needs a 'Hello' script stamp - and this set goes so well with all the PCS sets!!

Here are the sets I used-

Snack Time

Let's Talk

Thanks so much for joining me today! I hope you'll 'pop' over to the Pretty Cute Stamps store to check out all the amazing stamps available and have an awesome week!!

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Pretty Cute Stamps December 2014 Sneak Peeks - Let's Talk & Sip Enjoy Relax

Oh my goodness, it's almost a week before Christmas day!! But, the exciting thing today is I get to share with you a sneak peek of two amazing stamp sets for the December 2014 release over at Pretty Cute Stamps!!

The first stamp set I'm sharing is the Let's Talk set. Oh! I can think of so many ideas with this set! Of course I love 'hello' cards, and all the awesome sayings included in this set give me so many ideas. And then, I thought how cute would these bubbles be paired with the other Pretty Cute Stamp sets and their sweet sayings?!!

 I coloured the speech bubbles in first with coloured pencils and then went over top with Prismacolor Markers to smooth out the colour. I layered them on paper from a 6x6 My Girl My Mind's Eye pad and added some bling!

I think this cute Hi! stamp is going to be one of my favs!

Inside I used the Happy Birthday from the Pretty Cute Stamp Wish Big stamp set - what did I tell you?!!

Of course, I had to share the Sip Enjoy Relax set. It is a 2x3 set that is free!!!! with the purchase of any two other stamp sets during the sale (December 17th- 19th, 2014) - you are going to love this one! I used the AC Jolly 6x6 paper pack and white heat embossed a stamped snowflake from the Christmas Cheer set on the cup, after colouring with Prismacolor Markers. I added some Stickles to the foam to add some glitter.

I tucked a cute little tag behind my main image and used Spellbinder's nesting dies in two sizes, layering on one of the sentiments that comes with the set as well as another snowflake from the Christmas Cheer set. I have been loving these snowflakes!

Inside, I used the another sentiment from the Sip Enjoy Relax set. Wow! I can think of so many ideas to use this stamp set with!!

I hope you are all enjoying the sneak peeks that are going on at the Pretty Cute Stamps blog! Be sure to hop over there to check out the full stamp sets shown early this month!! 

Come back tomorrow for the big Blog Hop! We have two new Design Team members - how exciting!! and we will all be sharing projects from the new release December 2014 stamp sets. All the new sets will be on sale from December 17-19, 2014, so you will definitely want to start making your list! 

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