Day 7 of 12 Days of Christmas from Paper Craft Planet!

Happy Monday Morning Everyone!!!

Today is Day Seven of our 12 Days of Christmas campaign over at Paper Craft Design Team and I am your hostess! For 12 days, the Super Novas of Paper Craft Design Team will each show you some awesome and easy gift giving ideas, and you can play along and win prizes by participating in a scavenger hunt! Keep reading for a clue and chance to win!

Today, I am excited to show you a lunchbox ornament that can be hung on your christmas tree with a little surprise inside!! I found this lunchbox in the $1 aisle in Target a long time ago and thought it would make a fun ornament to hang up. I altered the front of it and loved that when it is opened up - there is a little surprise waiting for a special person :) Here is a picture of the ornament as it hangs on the tree:

And here is a picture of the ornament when you open it up:

Project Ingredients:

Papers: Prism Cardstock

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, LadyBug Red

Stamps: Verve - O Christmas Tree

Accessories: Corner rounder, liquid pearls, rhinestones, dimensionals, sponger, EK success border punch

Today's scavenger hunt is sponsored by My Favorite Things! You could win a GENEROUS prize if you can solve our clue...

"This little GIRL is PURE and sweet.

STAMPing with her is really a treat.

All of your cards will give you a thrill

'cause she's holding SNOWBALLS and throw them she will!

Can you find the answer? It's an easy one too!

Link it below and we'll be so proud of you!"

Find the product on the My Favorite Things website that fits the clue and you could be our winner! If you know what the answer is then make sure you hop on over to Paper Craft Planet and leave a comment HERE (don't worry if the comments don't show up - I have turned the visibility off so that people don't see other people's answers!!!) Remember - you have through the rest of today to find the answer!!

AND make sure you check the Paper Craft Planet main page every day through December 12th to play along! (You can visit the this LINK for past projects!)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Big hugs to all!!

Sankari :)

Sweet n' Sassy Digi Stamp blog hop :)

Good Morning Everyone,

I couldn't be more excited to bring you a wonderful challenge from Sweet n' Sassy stamps who have wonderful Digi images that makes it super easy to create a card! Today the Paper Craft Planet SuperNovas are showing you their sweet n sassy digital creations! I used the Merry Christmas Candle DIGI stamp to create this card:

I love the poinsettia around the candle and printed it twice on Choice Buttercream cardstock from Taylored Expressions and then colored it with Copics. I like the fact that you can resize the digi stamps and make it bigger or smaller to fit the project that you have in mind :)

So what is the challenge??! Well, create a card with this sketch (I actually forgot to use this sketch for my card today because my brain is holes for cheese right now - but I can't wait to play along with this awesome sketch!!)

and then upload your card to the Paper Craft Planet photo gallery, and use the tag "SNSS1" -- all caps, please. (Here is a tutorial on adding pictures to the gallery, if you need it.) Sweet n' Sassy Stamps has generously offered a chance to win this adorable stamp for one of our lucky challenge players (you have to use the above sketch to be eligible for the stamp:)

I had a lot of fun playing with this sweet digi stamp - every Thursday Sweet n' Sassy releases new digi stamps and they even have a freebie on Thursdays!! Check out all of their Sweet n' Sassy yumminess here and also hop on over to see what all of the SuperNovas came up with:

Adela Rossol

Lynn Mercurio

Kim Burmeister

Wendy Price

Lori Tecler

Susanna Boyd

Thanks so much for visiting me today!!!

I hope you have a chance to play along with us!

Happy Friday Everyone!!!

Big hugs!!

Sankari :)

I Brake For Stamps - Blog Hop - Humorous Seniors :)

Good  Morning Everyone,

There is an awesome sketch challenge that is going on at Paper Craft Planet and I couldn't be more excited to tell you more about this challenge which is being sponsored by I Brake For Stamps. Just by creating a card with this sketch - you might be able to score a $30 Gift Certificate to I Brake For Stamps!!!!!  They have generously donated this lovely gift certificate to one of our challenge participants!!! Woo-hoo!!! 

AND check it out - I Brake For Stamps is going to give a 15% discount for all orders from now through Saturday - the code for that is "PCPlanet" - how nice is that??!!!  

To play along, create a card using this sketch and

post your project in the Paper Craft Planet photo
gallery, and use the tag "PCPIBFS" -- all caps, please. (Here is a tutorial
on adding pictures to the gallery, if you need it.)

All of the SuperNovas at Paper Craft Planet created cards using the stamp line called: Humorous Seniors - this stamp set has awesome sentiments and colorful characters - you can check it out here. One of my fave fave fave images is Rear View Ruth - isn't she sooo cute!! Here is my card using Ruth and the sketch:

And here is a closer look at the sentiment: Isn't it hilarious!!! 

Card Details: 

Paper: a mix and mash: some are from MME, DCVW and some from stash

Ink: Adirondack Expresso for the sentiment, Stazon Black for the image

Stamps: Rear View Ruth  from I Brake For Stamps.

Accessories: towel and flip flop embellishment, bling for the earrings and for the hat - paper piecing the hat and the bathing suit and prisma color pencils for the rest. Ribbon from Taylored Expressions (green and white polka dot)

I had a ton of fun stamping Ruth and I stamped a few different kinds of bathing suits for her when I was trying to figure out which one to go with - I can totally see a bunch of cards with different outfits and accessories from this set!!!

Don't forget to check out what the other Super Novas came up with:

Adela Rossol
Melanie
Muechinger
Lynn Mercurio
Kim Burmeister
Wendy Price
Jen Tapler
Tammy Hershberger
Erika Martin
Lori Tecler
Susanna Boyd

Thanks so much for visiting my little corner!!! 

Can't wait to see what you create with this sketch!!!

Happy Wednesday - ya'll!!!!

Hugs :)

Sankari :)

My Graphico Digi Stamps Blog Hop :)

Good Morning Everyone,

I am so pysched to be part of the Paper Craft Planet Blog Hop today, where we have a really fun challenge for you today -- it's a product challenge, sponsored by MyGrafico. To play along, create ANYTHING using one of the MyGrafico images -- they have a ton to choose from, but if you're trying to cut costs, here's  a link to some free images.  

Post your project in the Paper Craft Planet photo gallery, and use the tag "PCPgrafico". (Here is a tutorial on adding pictures to the gallery, if you need it.)  MyGrafico has generously  offered a       $10 store gift certificate  to one of our lucky challenge players

I was never quite sure about digital stamps - until I realized that you can resize things, print the images on different paper, and that its always there waiting for you on your computer!  This morning for our blog hop - all DT from PCPlanet used the Forest Friends digi stamp set for our cards. I used the tree and bird stamp set from and loved working on it and playing around with it! Here are two cards that I created using the same stamps:

For this card - I used Jen's Sketch For You to Try from this last week and used the bird stamp and one of the tree stamps from this set - in photoshop I created a little scene (and flipped one of the birds so it faced the other way).

Card Details: Paper: Ann Griffen,  and scrap, Stamps:Forest Friends digi stamp set from My Graphico and the sentiment stamp is from Year of Sweet sentiments from Taylored Expressions, Accessories: Circle Cutter from CM, ribbon from TE

I LOVE this tree (I think I am getting to be a tree image addict :) I could have printed it directly and colored it in - but I colored the images in photoshop and then printed it out twice and cut out some of the leaves and birds to give it more dimension. My DH's aunt and uncle are coming over today and we missed celebrating their golden anniversary - so I made this card last night for them. After making this card - I had an idea for another one - and it was so easy to use the same images and change it a bit in photoshop - and create a silhouette kind of image from the tree and just have the birds be colorful - so here is the second card (printed out two and then cut and popped up some of the leaves and birds on dimensionals):

Card Details: Paper: Scrap paper, Stamps:Forest Friends digi stamp set from My Graphico and sentiment is from Doctor's Orders from Taylored Expressions, Accessories: Circle Cutter from CM, EK success punch,  EK success punch, K&Co rhintestones, white color pencil, ribbon from my MIL's stash :) and corner rounder.

It was so much fun to make this second card  - can't wait to make some more (I resized the images so that they were about 2" or 3"). This is one of the nice things about digi stamps and it was fun to create a silhouette kinda card :)

If you haven't worked with digi stamps before, here are some little info tidbits:

• You do NOT have to have a photo editing software.  You can just open and pri these jpg images.
• If you have a photo editing program, the images come in both jpg and png files.  You can resize the images and combine them into scenes with just a click of the mouse.
• Digital images last forever and require very little storage space!
• There are several great tutorial videos over on Paper Craft Planet that will show you how to use digital images, if you have any questions.

Check out the awesome creations that the rest of the Super Novas came up with:

Adela Rossol

Lynn Mercurio

Kim Burmeister

Wendy Price

Tammy Hershberger

Erika Martin

Lori Tecler

Jessica Fick

Susanna Boyd

And now, it's your turn!  Take the challenge and let's see what you make! 

Thanks so much for visiting my little corner! 

Hugs!!!

Sankari :)

PS - I have to say that this is the craftiest vacation I have had, LOL!!! :)

 Hope you are all having a fabulous Weds!

A Bomshell Challenge from Paper Craft Planet

Good Morning Everyone, 

Today Paper Craft Planet is having a bomb awesome challenge! Its an inspiration challenge, sponsored by Bombshell Stamps. To play along - just pick something that you think is "the bomb" and make something from it!!! Post your project in the Paper Craft Planet photo gallery and use the tag "PCPBOMB". Shannon at Bombshell stamps has generously offered 2 stamp sets as the prize!!!

My inspiration came from my little DS who loves to play with his hotwheel cars - seriously he could play for h-o-u-r-s - he lines them up, rearranges it and is just so cute with how he takes care of his cars - so here is my inspiration pic:

and here is what I came up with:

Card Ingredients:

Paper: MME and DCVW

Ink: Stazon Black

Stamps: Vintage Raceway from Bombshell stamps

Accessories: circle punch and star punch from CM, SU scallop punch, spellbinders, ribbon stash

Check out what the rest of the Super Novas from Paper Craft Planet came up with:

Susanna Boyd

Kim Burmeister

Jessica Fick

Diana Gibbs

Erika Martin

Lynn Mercurio
Melanie Muechinger
Wendy Price

Adela Rossol
Jen Tapler
Lori Tecler

Alright, now its your turn - what inspires you? - create something that you think is "da bom" and upload it to the gallery at Paper Craft Planet with "pcpbomb" tag and you could win some sweet prizes!!!

Thank you Shannon for these wonderful prizes and a big thanks to Susanna for organizing all of this!!

Hope your week is going well! Its almost Friday - woot!

Thanks for visiting my little blog!!

Hugs,

Sankari :)