Paper Smooches Giving Thanks Challenge

Hi everyone!

Today I created a cute little card for this month's Paper Smooches Giving Thanks Challenge.

Paper Smooches Stamps truly have "the" cutest critter stamps EVER!

I love coloring them up and using them on my cards....

Today I used this adorable little deer stamp.

My color scheme for my card was inspired by the colors I chose for the deer.

All patterned papers by October Afternoon

I combined two different Paper Smooches Stamps sets to create this card:

Chit Chat

Happy Camper

Thank you all for taking a look!

And the happiest Thanksgiving to all my American friends!

~Shilo

Make A Wish....Batty Birthday Card

Hello lovelies!

Today I am sharing with you a fun little card I made for my friends birthday.

I am just getting to know this beautiful soul, but I still wanted to create her a personal card.

She has a tattoo of bunch of bats on top of her shoulder and up her neck, so I used this as inspiration for her birthday card. Hopefully she will like it!

Both the bat and the "make a wish" sentiment are from Paper Smooches.

I also stamped "happy birthday" inside.

Anyways...thank you for stopping by and looking at my little creation.

Happy Tuesday!

~Shilo

Paper Smooches Christmas Cards

Hi everyone!
I don't need to go on and on about how long its been since I've posted....

BUT I will say this....I went on a scrapbooking retreat at the end of October with a group of long time scrapbook girlfriends. This seemed to light the creative fire again!! YAY!! I have been busy making cards AND scrapbooking ever since!!

Just wish I could have all my girls here to play with me....

Anyways....a little bit ago I started making Christmas cards....

just been in the MOOD!

Time to start decorating the house soon too...lol! 

YUP! I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!

Here's a couple of my favorites so far.....

All stamps and words dies by Paper Smooches....

if you want "cute".....they make the BEST stamps!

Thanks for looking and hope you are all at least STARTING your Christmas cards....time is flying!!

Happy day!

~Shilo

Layered Paper !! Paper Smooches June Challenge

Hello all!

When I saw what this month's challenge was over at Paper Smooches I knew I HAD to participate....

Layered paper....ummm.....I am the queen of layered paper...lol!

At least it is something I love to do...mix and match and layer up....

So here is my take on the challenge...I chose to layer up using the Foliage die....

it helped me create this pretty little whimsy card :)

Patterned Paper: Pebbles Garden Party 6X6 Paper Pad

Chit Chat

Foliage 1

Thank you so much for looking!

Hope you join in the challenge too!

~Shilo

I'm back, happy and playing along with Paper Smooches Sparks!

hi everyone!!

OH WOW!! 

what a summer!

so much has happened since the last time I blogged.

to fill you in would be a whole post all on its own....

so for now I will give you the short and sweet version:

I moved across the province to be closer to family.

my whole life has changed.

new town.

new job.

new apartment.

need to make new friends.

BUT...I am happy.

this was truly a good thing.

and now that I am mostly settled in,  I have the chance to be creative again.....

so here I am....

I created two birthday cards with my new Paper Smooches dies
(um, yup....I may have done a wee bit of shopping in anticipation of getting back to my creative space...lol...like I needed an excuse to shop, right?!)

anyways....

this week on the Paper Smooches Sparks blog the challenge of the week is ANYTHING GOES!!

So here are my two cards:

i was inspired by this sketch for this first card:

and I used the negative space to create my sentiment with this die set:

Birthday Words Dies

 this next card I made for my grandpa....he LOVES fishing....

this is the die I used, which happens to be the PERFECT size for making cards:

 Happy Birthday Words Die

and on both my cards I used some little hearts which came from this die set:

Hearts Dies

Paper Smooches makes my favorite dies.....and some of the cutest stamps ever....so

be sure to check them out at www.papersmoochesstamps.com.

well gosh! it was fun to get back into my creative space and make some cards...

thank you all for stopping by and checking in!
it is good to be back!
~Shilo

Happy 4th Anniversary Paper Smooches!

This sweet little stamp company is celebrating it's FOURTH anniversary this month!!

Check out all their adorable stamps here: http://www.papersmoochesstamps.com/

Cutest stamps. ever.

Happy Day

~Shilo

So EXCITED!!

I am so honored and excited!!!

I woke up this morning to find that my card was chosen as the winner for the 

Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge - Anything Goes!!

Thank you Paper Smooches!

I always have a ton of fun creating with your adorable stamps!

What a bonus to be recognized in this way!

Happy day all!

~Shilo

Anything Goes - Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge

Another Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge!

I'm kinda on a role!?

This weeks challenge: Anything Goes.

The Anything Goes challenges are always fun because I get to pull out my Paper Smooches stamps and create away freely....

I can go in whatever direction my creative juices get flowing! 

For me that usually means pulling out my stamps and going through all the adorable images and picking a couple that I really want to work with...whether its because I haven't really used them much, or I get inspired when I see them,  or I just really want to color the images...it really doesn't take much...just a jumping point. Once I have the stamps picked out the rest of the card usually comes together pretty easily!

Here's the two cards I came up with for this week:

 Fruitastic

 Thanks Word Die

Little Fella

Party Posse

For both of my cards I played with masking the images - I know this is a VERY basic stamping skill but it is one I VERY rarely use! It was fun to do something different and I really do like how they turned out. And of course, I had so much fun coloring these little guys....so cute!

I hope you enjoyed my take on the challenge....

I encourage you to head over to the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge blog yourselves and join in on the fun!

For all the details, click here.

Thanks for dropping by!

~Shilo

Paper Smooches - Picture Perfect Challenge

Hi everyone!!

I'm playing along this week with Paper Smooches newest challenge!

This week is a Picture Perfect Challenge...

Create a project inspired by this photo:

Here's the card I created:

I used the colors from the inspiration photo keeping the card very tone on tone...browns, cream and white. I love challenges like this since I usually go for brighter colors when creating my cards. I guess that's why its a challenge...to get us doing something out of the ordinary!

The adorable cow and sentiment came from the Green Acres stamp set.

The challenge goes until Saturday evening - which means there's still time to join me!

Thanks so much for checking out my card!

Happy Day!

~Shilo

Playing with Paper Smooches....Anything Goes!

Hi everyone!!

I hope everyone had a really great holiday?

I sure did....I got so spoiled!

Well, despite all the hustle and bustle through the holidays I still found some time to do some creating- yay!

Sooo.....I played along with the Paper Smooches Sparks challenge this week - Anything Goes

I needed to make a thank you card for one of the lovely Christmas gifts I received. I started with this large sentiment stamp and then perched the little cardinal on top to make it more "Christmas-ey"

I really love how this one turned out!

Since I was already playing with these large sentiments I created this second card as well....the "love you dearly" sentiment inspired me to combine this phrase with this cute little deer. I thought this might make a great Valentine's card (umm..yup, it's coming...although it seems a wee bit early to be thinking about it. But when inspiration strikes - we go with it, right?)

You can find the adorable stamp sets I used over at Paper Smooches:

Pretty Phrases

Warm Hearts

Happy Camper

Well, I hope you all continue to have a lovely holiday!

Happy New Year!!

~Shilo

Let's Go Chill Out - Paper Smooches DEC Guest DT Submission #6

Ok - so this is my final submission for the December Guest Designer call over at Paper Smooches.

I couldn't resist doing at least one card with the Chilly Chums, since it's been just so CHILLY here!

Thanks for stopping in and checking out all my submissions!!

Happy Tuesday!

~Shilo