Season's Greetings!!

Happy Thursday, y'all!! Hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful fall weather we are having. The humidity has packed its bags and the temps here in FL have been glorious!! (Too cold for swimming, but beautiful none the less!!)

Pink Cat Studio has a new digi release today!! Melissa has created some amazingly cute Christmas stamps this week! Perfect if you want to get a head start on your cards this year.

Did you see the super cute FREE stamp?? Those birds are adorable!
I used Lily the Elf Carrying Tree.

I pulled out some of my Cosmo Cricket Jolly By Golly DP along with some PTI cardstocks. I was in the mood for a non-traditional Christmas card! The sentiment is from a PTI set as well as the buttons and twine. I used deckled rectangle Nestabilities to cut out the digi image.

Here is a close-up of sweet Lily. I colored her with Copics and added some clear Stickles to the balls on the tree. It is kind of faint, but I airbrushed around the edges of the image with some BG10 Copic marker. The tag was airbrushed with some RV14 Copic Marker.

Supplies:

Stamps - Lily Elf (PCS Digi), sentiment (PTI)

Ink - Copic Markers, Memento

Paper - Jolly By Golly (Cosmo Cricket), PTI cardstocks

Accessories - Tag Nestie, Deckled Nestie, Snowflake Punch (Martha Stewart), Buttons and Twine (PTI), Copic ABS, Stickles,

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In Other News:

I have added some more Paper Bag Albums to my Etsy Store. You can click the links to each to see all of the cuteness!

Trick R Treat Album:
Noel Album:

Joy Album:

Post-It Note Desk Tidy

Happy Thursday to ya! I am chaperoning a field trip for my daughter's Jazz Band this morning, so I will be brief!

Pink Cat Studio has some new Digi stamps out today!!

Melissa is even giving away another free image with purchase today only!

I wanted this sweet image to 'live' on my desk, so I decided to create a Post-it Note Desk Tidy to display it! I am not sure about you, but I am always reaching for my post-it notes! It is a super-easy project and can be made with one sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper!

The dimensions for making your own Desk Tidy can be found here.

I altered the back pocket to be a little bigger. For the back pocket I used the following dimensions: 5.25 x 3.25. Score the 5.25 length at 1/2", 1", turn around and score this end at 1/2" and 1" too. Score the 3.25 end at 1/2" and 1". Do not score other end, this will be the top of the pocket. Here is a side view. You can see the pocket in the back that holds additional post-it notes.
Here is a close-up of this lil birdie. I colored her with Copics, sponged some Regal Rose around the image and added lots of Stickles. I used some Basic Grey Going Green DP and some Regal Rose card stock. I added some lime green dotted ribbon, a sentiment from PTI, a prima flower and some bling.

I hope I have inspired you to create one of your own!
Hugs~ Tori

You're A Star!!

Good Thursday Morning, Y'all! It is supposed to rain and be yucky most of the day today, so I guess I will stay home and craft....darn!

Today, Pink Cat Studio has a new digi release today. Isn't he cute?

I made a Tent Card for this image. The tutorial is here if you are interested. I used some Basic Grey Oh Baby Boy DP for this card along with some Certainly Celery and Summer Sunrise (PTI). The sentiment is one of Melissa's Free Digi Sentiments. The photo corners are a SU punch and the star punch is a Fiskars punch. I added some brads to match the jump rings I used.
Here is a close-up of Billy in his star costume. I added some lime stickles to the star he is holding, but it's a little hard to see.

Here is a sideview - so cute! These cards are super-easy to make!

Here are the digi images being released today - go check them out!

Be sure to stop by the other PCS DT member's blogs for more inspiration. The links are on the right side of my blog.

Hope you have a scrappy day! ~Tori

The Sky's the Limit!!

Good Morning, Y'all! It's Thursday and it looks like I am surviving another week pretty well. The weather is still chilly here, but sunny. Hopefully it will warm up before this weekend when the kids have soccer & lacrosse games.

Pink Cat Studio is having another digi release today!! You can find the new images here.

My first card uses the Billy Snowboarder image. This is my tribute to the US Men's Snowboarding Team, especially to Shaun White, since he won another gold! I don't know about you, I really enjoyed watching the Winter Olympics. I decided to step out of the box for this card and try my hand at an Easel card. I can't believe how completely easy they are to make! Here are the directions for making them.

I used some really old Basic Grey Dawson DP along with some Basic Grey (SU) & Bazzill cardstocks. I used a Heidi Swapp distressing tool to distress the edges of all of the papers and then added some Versa Mark chalk ink as well. I created the sentiment on my pc, cut it out with a nestie tag and then airbrushed it with some YR16. The snowflake border is an EK Success border punch. I used a MS snowflake punch and a phillips head screw brad that I colored with C7. The small snowflakes are were left over from the border punch. Here is a close-up of Billy. I masked him off and sponged some So Saffron around him. I used the following Copics: E0000, 000, 00, 08, 11, R20, YR12, 15, 16, B00, 02, 91, 93, 95, 97,
C1, 3, 5, & 7. I created his jacket using a colorless blender. I added some Liquid Glass (CTMH) to his goggles and snowboard.

Here is the inside of the card:
Here is my second card - Lily Snowboarder. I used a Magnolia-licious sketch for this card. I know this is super-bright, but it very cheery! I used some Basic Grey Lime Ricky. I bought this when it first came out, but I think this is the first time I ever used it. I thought it was perfect for this snowboarding princess! The sentiment was created on my pc and airbrushed with some YG25. I did not have any primas that matched this card, so I airbrushed them to match. Some Raspberry Fizz twill matched nicely with this DP. The bling is Doodlebug Designs.
I cut Lily out and popped her up on a background that I created a cloudy scene with my Copic ABS. I used these Copics on her: E0000, 000, 00, 11, 30, 35, 37, R20, RV11, 14, 17, 19, B000, 00, 02, 05, Y02, 11, YG 00, 21, 23, 25 & colorless blender.

Here is the inside of the card. I used a MS border punch to mimic the flowers on her board.Here is a peek of the new stamps that Melissa has in the store:
Be sure to check out the other PCS DT member's blogs - their addresses are on the right side of my blog.

Hope you have a wonderful day! I am off to play with some of my new stamps that came in the mail this week! I will be adding some new stuff to my Etsy store soon!

~Hugs, Tori

A Cullen Valentine!

Happy Hump Day! Hope everyone in the Northeast is staying warm and toasty! I was supposed to fly to Philly yesterday to take my son to see several specialists at CHOP for his asthma & immunology issues and I cancelled the trip due to the impending blizzard. There was no way for me to get from my in-laws house outside of Philly into the city for his appointments on Thursday with the weather they were expecting. They already have 20 inches on the ground and were expecting another 18-24 inches. Too much of the white stuff for this FL girl!

I made this card for my 13 year old daughter for Valentine's Day. She {hearts} Twilight and all things Cullen!

I CASED this idea from this card here. A good friend (Hi Terry!) recently turned me onto deconstructingjen's Blog and I am a huge fan! (ok, stalker!) I used some Mellow Moss, Blush Blossom, PTI Stamper's Select White and Basic Grey Porcelain DP for this card. I love this paper and have been hoarding it for sometime now! I was at LSS the other day and found a few more sheets and snatched them up! I created the sentiment on my pc using a free font I downloaded from dafont.com. I airbrushed the tag with some G21 - it was a pretty close match to the Mellow Moss. Here is a close-up of the crew! I {heart} these Greeting Farm digi's - only wish I could have gotten my hands on the Ltd Edition Twilight digi's that were released! The clothes on them are so cute! Anyhow, I used lots of colors for these peeps and I will try to break it down from memory for ya:

Skin (All): E0000, 000, 00, 11, R20

Edward - jeans: B91, 93, 95, 97; Shirt: E40, 41, 42, Hair: E47, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59

Bella - Dress: E40, 41, R00, 01, 02, Hair: E50, 51, 53, 57

Jacob - Hair - 100(black), C1, 3, 5, 7; Jeans: B91, 93, 95, 97, Shirt: E40, 41, 42, Jacket: G20, 21, 99

Ok, that's to the best of my knowledge!

Gotta run - Have a wonderful day! ~Tori

PCS Digi Release Thursday!

Happy Thursday Morning! Hope everyone is doing well today! It is supposed to be beautiful here in sunny FL! I am hoping to open my window and get crackin' on some new images and cards!

Today, Pink Cat Studio is releasing new Digi images! Go --> HERE <-- to check out the new stuff!

Also, Melissa decided to release the Itty Bitty Christmas set as digi's too! Aren't these little sweeties too adorable?

For my first card, I used the new PCS_BirdsMakeCupcake image for this one.

I whipped up this little 'cupcake' pretty quickly. I colored the image with my Copics and used my Circle Nesties to cut out and layer it. I sponged some Pink Pirouette around the edges of the sentiment and image. Of course, this is one of Melissa's new FREE digi sentiments! She is awesome to make these available for free! I had to pull out some of my Urban Prairie DP from Basic Grey for this card - it has to be one of my all-time favorite paper lines! I used some Kiwi Kiss and Baja Breeze to compliment the DP. I added a prima, some fern leaves (MS punch), and a BG pink pearl to embellish the sentiment.

Look Ma, NO sewing! Can you believe it? It has become one of my favorite embellishments, but my hubby gets upset when I do it during his beloved World Series game! LOL! (he watches TV with me in my studio at night) Men and Sports....I have enjoyed watching the Phillies play, though. I like post-season playoffs for most sports. I think there is more on the line, so it is more exciting!
Here is a close-up of my coloring - these little birdies are just, plain adorable! If you look closely at the cherry on top, I applied some Liquid Glass to it to make it shine!

For card #2, I used the BillyRidesPolarBear image. Isn't he sweet? I swear, my 6 year old, has a sweet face like this! I know, I know... I am his Mommy and I am supposed to say things like that, but it really is true! My 3rd punk - the 4yr old has a very mischievous look on his face most days, so you would not catch me saying that about him! LOL! He is a sweetie too, but also very headstrong!

Anywho, I dug deep into my stash and pulled out some Basic Grey Blitzen! (Goin' Old Skool!) I was so in love when this line came out eons ago, that I bought 2 fulls 12 x 12 sets! I still have lots of certain sheets left! Old Olive and Riding Hood Red cardstock goes great with this DP. I used my oval & ribbon tag trio nesties and another Free sentiment! I airbrushed the label with some B91 ink. Here is a close-up of my coloring. I think he turned out pretty cute! To make his fur trim look a little fluffy, I used my Copic colorless blander and used a circular motion to pull up some of the color. I really did not want to use any fluff or bling on a boy card! My 6 yr old would probably set me straight if I did! I did sneak in some stitching, though!

For card #3, I used the LilyRidesPolarBear image.I got the idea for this card from Debbie's (Thinking Inking) post here. I layered some Bo Bunny DP from last year and stitched the hills. (I did it in-between innings, so my hubby could not complain! LOL) I used some Ocean Tides and Kraft cardstock to accompany this DP. Isn't the tag cute? Of course, it is another one of those Free sentiments! I sponged some Ocean Tides ink around the edges and added some Ocean Twill ribbon too.
Here is a close-up of Lily. I colored the image with Copics and cut it out. I added some glitter to all of her fur trim to make it shimmery - I just love some sort of bling or shimmer on all of my cards!

Gotta get some stuff done! I am so glad the weekend is almost here! Sunday is my birthday (30-something) and my parents are coming over on Saturday night for dinner. My Mom is cooking steak au poivre - one of my favs! Med-Rare and with some mushrooms in the sauce of course! Yum-O! I am hungry just thinking about it! Well, I will let ya chew on that morsel! Hugs, ~Tori

New PCS Digi Images!! Mmmm....Cocoa

Hey Peeps! Hope you are having a Happy Thursday! Today, I have another class party to go to today, this time for my first grader's class! My other son had his yesterday, so we are almost done with all of this partying! Yesterday wore me out - 18 four year olds in costumes...so cute....so much work! LOL!

Today is New Digi Release Thursday over at Pink Cat Studio!

I have 3 new cards to share with you, so grab a cup-o-joe and settle on in!

The first project I am sharing with you today is the new Lily Hot Cocoa image. As soon as I saw these images, I just had to make another cocoa packet holder!! They are so quick and easy to make. Here is the template for making them. Isn't she so sweet with her cup of cocoa and marsh mellows? I {heart} hot cocoa....when it's cold of course! We got up to PA in the winter to visit family and being from FL, I freeze my keister off and tend to chug hot cocoa to stay warm! I am not much of a coffee drinker (except Starbucks Frappucino's of course), but I will fix a coffee with a packet of cocoa and a little milk in it - but only if it's not too hot here! It's still in the upper 80's in FL!! It got colder for about 2 days and back to the heat!

I am trying to use up some of my old Christmas Basic Grey DP lines. For these cards, I opened up Fruitcake. Yup, you read it right....I've had that paper pack for over 2 yrs and never opened it! I love the snowflakes on this DP and it matches Ocean Tides cardstock perfectly! The sentiment is another one of Melissa's awesome FREE digi sentiments available HERE. I used a label nestie to cut it out and then airbrushed it as well. My snowflake embellishment was made using a Martha Stewart punch, a PTI button and some linen thread. To tie the card shut, I used some white swirl organza ribbon from Creative Impressions - love this ribbon so much, I bought a whole roll (25 yds) in white! I have a ribbon obsession! LOL!

Here is a close-up of Lily with her chocolatey-concoction. I colored her with my Copics, cut her out and popped her up using foam tape. I used my Copic ABS system to airbrush Lily's background with a BG72 marker.
Here is the inside of the Cocoa Packet card. These Cocoa packets are so yummy! This one is actually a Cappuccino mix.
Here is a close-up of the sentiment inside. It comes from the PTI set Warm Happiness.

For my second card, I used the Cocoa Billy image.

He is too sweet! My little boys love 'hot cocoa'. I grew up calling it Hot Chocolate, but they are insistent on calling it cocoa! I used some more BG Fruitcake DP along with some Riding Hood Red and Old Olive cardstock. This snowflake embellie was made using a Marvy snowflake punch and an olive button and more linen thread. This is another FREE sentiment! I also added some stitching around the edges of the DP.

I colored Billy with my Copics, cut him out and popped him up. I used the Deckle Rectangle Nesties and airbrushed the background using a G02 marker.

For my third card, I used the Lily Elf image. Isn't she a cutie?

I wanted to use more of the Fruitcake DP and paired it with Blue Bayou and Old Olive cardstock. I added some whimsical stitching around the DP and some straight stitches around the colored image. I also sponged some Blue Bayou around the image and sentiment (yet another FREE sentiment - go check them out peeps!)

Here is a close-up of this little elf!

Ok, I am off and running....thankfully my kids are off school tomorrow, 'cause we have another busy weekend on tap! Happy Trick-or-Treating if I don't get anything else posted! ~Tori

New Winter Pink Cat Studio Digi's and a FREE Digi Download!!

Happy Thursday to ya! It has been a very busy and stressful week for me. Our router died on Tues, rendering our Internet non-existent! I went and got a new router and the software to load it crashed my computer! Ack! To add insult to injury, Parker, my 6 yr old, woke up with 102 degree temp and a slight case of bronchitis. He is on some antibiotics now and feeling better. The cherry on top was Tues evening when I opened my garage door to leave and a live snake fell out of the garage door (still wondering where it was), landing about a foot away from me! I screamed so loud! LOL! I finally coaxed it out of my garage and went on my merry way! And that was just Tuesday! You can only sit back and laugh at a day like that...or drink! Hee hee! I did get a new router and we are back in business. My 6 yr old is on the mend, so things are looking up!

Sorry for the book! LOL! Now on to the really important stuff!

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Would you like to try digital stamping for free?

Melissa has created an informative tutorial to show you how easy it is to download and print digital stamps. In the tutorial there is a free digi stamp that you can download and try out.
Here is a link to the tutorial if you would like to give it a try: http://www.pinkcatstudio.com/Digital/Tutorials/DigiStamps_TestItOut.htm

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Check out these sweeties that are now in the Pink Cat Studio digi store! Don't forget to check out the FREE sentiments too!

This is Winter Coat Lily. She looks so sweet!I colored her with my copics and cut out using Oval Nesties. I layered the colored image on Cool Caribbean. It is a good match to the Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses DP I used along with some Pretty in Pink. I ran a pink panel through my CB with a snow flake embossing folder. I added some stitching in a random pattern around the edges of the layered panels. This fabulous sentiment is one of Melissa's free ones in her store! (Check it out using the link above.) If you look close, I added a tiny punched snowflake with a blue pearl to the knot of the ribbon. The snowflake was punched using my EK Success snowflake border punch.
Here's a close-up of Lily. I added some white Fun Flock to her hand-warmer to make it fuzzy and soft and some white gel pen to her cheeks!

For my second card, I used the Santa Owl Tree Digi Image. The 2 little owls snoozing in the trunk are adorable! Maybe I went a little crazy with the embellishments - I added some Liquid Pearls to Santa Owl's cap, Stickles to the star and Christmas lights, Liquid Glass to the gifts and some Martha Stewart Snow Glitter to the ground! Yikes! That's a lot! I swear, it is really too cute in person, tho! I reached way back in my Basic Grey stash and found some Figgy Pudding DP. I paired it with some Riding Hood Red and Always Artichoke. I sponged a little Artichoke around the edges of the colored image and tag. I used another punched snowflake and some bling on the tag as well.

Here is a close-up of Santa Owl!

Well, that's all for today. I am taking my 4 yr old to the allergist today to discuss his multiple drug allergies. He is allergic to 3 classes of antibiotics already! We are trying to figure what he can take when he gets sick so he stops having reactions. Wish us luck!

Have a great day! ~Tori

New PCS Digi's Now Available!

Happy Thursday, Y'all! I am really looking forward to the weekend! It will be busy, but I am looking forward to it. We have soccer games all day on Saturday and then we are going out with some friends Sat night. We plan to decorate for Halloween this weekend too! I am just ready to get past all of the 'sickies' that have been floating around my house!

Check out these precious new digi images now available at Pink Cat Studio's Digi site HERE! My first card uses the new Betty Baked A Pie image:
I colored Betty with my Copics and used my circle nesties for layering. I sponged some Sweet Blush ink around the printed image. I thought she went cute with some of my new Basic Grey Indian Summer DP. I added some Primas, buttons from PTI, stitching, and some paper punched with the Martha Stewart fern punch.
Here is a close-up of this cutie-pie (no pun intended...well, maybe a little!) You can see I added some pink pearls from Basic Grey to her pig tails!

For my second card, I used the Bobby - Turkey Costume image.

This reminds me of my boys, who love to play dress-up in their old Halloween costumes! They are counting down for Halloween this year! Anywho, back to the card Tori! For this one, I used Autumn Abundance DP from PTI along with coordinating cardstocks. Bobby was colored with Copics and cut out using Labels 1. I inked the edges with Dark Chocolate ink. I added a little zig zag stitching, a PTI button, some linen thread and some more fern leaves punched.

Here's a little close-up of this lil man - his skin is a little darker than I like, but I ran out of E000 right in the middle of coloring him and had to finish up with E00. The good news is I did get a refill in the mail yesterday. The bad news, about an hour after I ordered the refill and few new sketch markers, I ran out of E30 and E31! I guess I used too much on these 3 cards! LOL! They are just some of my favs. I have never ran out of multiple colors all at once.

My 3rd card uses the Betty Rides a Turkey image!

She is another total cutie-pie! I used some more Indian Summer from Basic Grey along with some Crushed Cherry and Tangerine Tango. I am really on a fern punch kick! In my defense, they go so well for fall cards, tho! I had to tone down this orange prima with some tangerine tango and brown versa mark chalk ink - it was too bright!

Here is a close-up of this sweet girl!

Hope you enjoyed these cards! Hop on over to the other PCS Digi DT's blogs to see what they have created! Their blog links are on listed the right side of my blog. ---->

Supplies:

Pie Betty - sentiment (All That Scraps), Paper - Sweet Blush, Dark Chocolate, Stamper's Select White(all PTI), Indian Summer DP (Basic Grey); Ink- Copics, Sweet Blush (PTI); Accessories - primas, buttons (PTI), Nesties, Word Window and Modern Label Punches (SU), linen thread (SU), fern punch (Martha Stewart), pearls (Basic Grey), corner rounder

Turkey Bobby - Paper - Summer Sunrise, Dark Chocolate, Autumn Abundance DP, Stamper's Select (all PTI); Ink - Copics, Dark Chocolate; Accessories - Nesties, button (PTI), linen thread (SU), fern punch (Martha Stewart), sewing machine

Betty Turkey Ride - sentiment - PCS Digi; Paper - Crushed Cherry, Tangerine Tango (both SU), Stamper's Select White (PTI), Indian Summer DP (Basic Grey); Ink - Dark Chocolate, Tangerine Tango, Versa Mark chalk ink; Accessories - Prima, button (PTI), linen thread (SU), fern punch (Martha), Nesties

Sorry for such a long post! ~Tori