My Last Page Plans Sketch

As promised here is my last sketch card as a Page Plans guest designer. It has been such a fun month getting to design with the fun sketches and their wonderful Design Team! If you would like a chance to work with them, there will be a Design Team call starting September 5 - be sure to check out today's post on the Page Plans blog for all the details!

I have another 3 Step Sea Shells card today. I used a few of the smaller shells for this card - the sketch was perfect! :) I just love how pretty these shells are and they are so easy to stamp with! I used Vintage Words for the sentiment with my fun new Nestabilities ribbon slide dies!

I also used this as another chance to play with Becky Oehlers' beautifully designed paper, Demi Designs. She's just released a few fun new designs so be sure to check them out (along with what her Demi Divas have done with them!) - they are FREE!! Isn't that neat?! :) The papers I used here are from the Piffaro collection. Once I downloaded them and opened them in Photoshop I changed the color a bit by adding some color overlays. By doing this I was able to use the same paper but make it look slightly different. For the background paper I printed another design in the collection on a piece of Bali Breeze paper, I really like the subtle watermark look this gives it! There are so many possibilities with these digi papers - I have only scratched the surface I'm sure!!

Be sure to check out what the other Page Plans designers did using this sketch!

One last think I keep forgetting . . . September 1 is the next Paper Pretties Stamping in Your Jammies! We always have tons of fun at these parties - Charmaine comes up with great challenges, there are prizes and lots of chatting! Howdy Cowgirl will be released that night so be sure to stop by and join us for a fun night!!

Cardstock: Kraft (Papertrey Ink), White (GP), Patterned Paper: Piffaro (Demi Designs), Stamps: 3 Step Sea Shells, Vintage Words, Inks: Blush Blossom, Going Grey (SU!) Sweet Blush, Aqua Mist (Papertrey Ink), Desert Sand (Memento), Platinum Planet (Brilliance), Accessories: Ribbon (May Arts) Nestabilities , Bella Baubles, Dimensionals

P.S. I tried, I really did but 600+ posts are just too much for me to catch up on!! I had to "mark all as read" on my Google Reader last night - so sorry, I hate to miss anything!! I will work on slowly catching up as I make my daily visits. :)

Surprises!

I received a happy email yesterday from the nice ladies at Page Plans inviting me to be a Guest Designer for August! The site provides 2 wonderful sketches each week, one a card and one a scrapbook layout, as well as beautiful inspiration from their Design Team. I always love a great sketch so I am very excited to be working with them for the next month! Go check out the announcement on their website and give this week's sketch a try!

I got the sketch yesterday morning and was happy to get a little stamping time in! So here's my card. I just got this beautiful new Lattebella and decided to ink her up right away! I flipped the sketch so that I could use this image.

The other fun thing I used here was some beautiful new digi paper designed by my friend Becky Oehlers. Isn't it beautiful?! I am just in awe that with all she has going on she still found time to teach herself how to create paper and has come up with 3 beautiful lines that she offers to us FREE!!! She has named them Demi Designs and the one I used here is from the Piffaro line called Recorder. Go here to download them and give them a try! Kimberely Crawford did a fabulous tutorial yesterday showing you exactly how to download and print them so you have no excuse not to try!! :) Thanks so much for the pretty paper Becky!!

Phew, that's it for today. Thanks for letting me share and for visiting! See you tomorrow!

Cardstock: Dark Chocolate (PTI), Creamy Caramel, Bali Breeze, WW (SU!), dp is Recorder from Piffaro (Demi Designs), Stamps: Latte Bella, sentiment from Look Who's Perky (Paper Pretties), Inks: Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa (Memento), Accessories: Bella flowers, crystals, Nestabilities, ribbon (Martha Stewart), Copic Markers