Some Of Our Favourites...

 It is the Quixotic Paperie Design Team Showcase of some of our Alina's favourite!  Alina has such a special way with her layouts, using those DPs beautifully!  

First up is her delicately sweet You Make Me Smile cards using Sylvia Zet for SCACD stamp -''Friendship Ties'' and Make it Crafty Lasercut Chipboard - the Fine Swirls set...

 

This next card uses the ever popular Uptown Girls by Stamping Bella called ''Molly makes a Detour'', using Make it Crafty Lasercut Chipboard - Fine Swirls...

And how about this quirky fun new home card using the Make it Crafty Steampunk House, with BasicGrey papers and Marianne D Creatables Open Flowers Trendy (behind the sentiment)...

And we all love the funky Kenny K stamp - Boogie Down, with My Mind's Eye papers -''Love me'' collection...

Our last lovely share uses one of the Beautiful Day Fairies from Paper MakeUp Sugarplum Fairy and  sentiment from the Paper Makeup Stamps set When There's Nothing Left to Say set...

I think you'll agree that Alina has such an original style!  Her soft colouring and use of papers are so lovely!  I hope she's aspired you to get your stash out and get creating!

And if you want a chance to win a £10 voucher to the Quixotic Paperie store, you still have plenty of time to join in the March/April sketch challenge here!

Celebrate you

Hi everyone!  Mary J here with a card using those gorgeous Quixotic Paperies goodies!

This gal is so elegant, don't you think?  She is Susana Loves Stamps - Classic Eyes or you can buy her in the Eyes of Dreams set of 4 stamps with a bonus stamp.  I used Viva Decor Pearl Pen and the Viva Decor Glitter Liner to highlight her headdress.  I used those gorgeous elegant papers from the My Minds Eye Miss Caroline Fiddlesticks pad and the sentiment is from the Paper Makeup Little Moments Mini set.  Lastly, I finished it off with embellishing with beads for the flower centres and a rich touch of Prima lace.

And do you like the layout?  I used my March-April sketch - if you want a chance to win a £15 voucher to the store, see all the deets here!

That's it from me - see you next week!

* SUSANA LOVES STAMPS NEW RELEASE *
*KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS MARCH RELEASE*

*MAKE IT CRAFTY CHIPBOARD*
*WHIMSY STAMPS SENTIMENTS & DIES*
*ELISABETH BELL COTTAGE CUTIES FROM WHIMSY*
*SYLVIA ZET WEE STAMPS FROM WHIMSY*

soRRy You feel so ickY

No, I haven't forgotten my grammar!!  Mary J here with a get well card because I just can't seem to make enough of these in the current horrid weather we are experiencing in the UK!!

This is for a male colleague and love this Paper Makeup Flubu Monster and that sentiment comes with him.  I used my fave Bazzill Smoothies Kraft cardstock for the base and papers from the Crate Paper School Spirit 6x6 pad - brilliant papers with this brilliant image!!  I also used Distress Inks stain in Picket Fence to soften the edges and papers - this is so easy to use for this technique!

And do you like my layout?  I used this month's Quixotic Paperic sketch - hope it has inpired you to play along for a chance to win a £15 prize!  Link your projects up here - I hope you can join in!

That's it from me today!  See you next Thursday but before I go, don't forget to check out the new goodies in store!

* KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS JAN RELEASE *
* NEW SOME ODD GIRL STAMPS RELEASE *
* NEW THE GREETING FARM RELEASE *
* KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS DEC RELEASE *
* SIMPLY GORJUSS - NEW RUBBER & A6 CLEAR SETS

Bookworm

Hey guys, its me, Lou. Sorry for such a late post. I'm typing this just now as I eat my bacon, egg and cheese bagel.. after I managed to drag myself out of bed from the most delicious lie in ever. Best get a move on though, I gotta get ready for work soon! :)

I made this little corner bookmark last night.. in the dead of the night, after my mother had my traipsing around Asda at 11 o'clock for our Christmas shopping!! Really?! Really. I coulda cried! I haven't been in the house long enough to make anything substantial over the past few days.

I've used one of my most FAVE sentiment stamps from Paper Makeup - EVA. I keep coming up with projects just so I can use it again. :) Heehee.

Paper Makeup Stamps - Read a Book Sentiment.

 I have stamped the sentiment in Rich Cocoa ink from Memento.

That's all from me until the New Year me thinks. So MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all, and ALL THE BEST FOR THE NEW YEAR!!

Take it easy and enjoy the holidays. 

I haven't seen you around..

Hi everyone! It's Sandie here with a project I created using one of the super cute Paper Makeup monster stamps. This little guy, hiding under a pile of leaves, is called Leif Monster and my papers are Basic Grey's Mellow

I coloured my Monster and shaded the background with copics and used nestabilities to cut out the circle/scalloped circle. The matching sentiment comes with the stamp.

I also used the sketch from the very first Quixotic Paperie sketch challenge when creating my card. Have you entered??? Don't forget - a random winner will receive a £15 prize to use at Quixotic Paperie! You can find the post HERE. 

I can see these cute monsters being firmly placed on my favourites list!!

Thanks for looking. 

Sandie

xx

Paper Makeup Stamps Spotlight Giveaway WINNER!

Thank you to everyone that popped along to check out the Paper Makeup Stamps spotlight here!

A winner has been drawn for the prize, and the lucky crafter is...

CARLYANN - SWEET 'N CRAFTY

Congrats!  Drop me an email to the address in the sidebar, with your choice of three individual stamps from the Paper Makeup Stamps range!

Company Spotlight: Paper Makeup Stamps!

As part of Quixotic Paperie's 2nd Anniversary celebrations we are throwing the spotlight onto some of the fantastic stamp companies available from Quixotic Paperie and we have another gorgeous stamp company for you this week:

Paper Makeup Stamps - 'Where Beauty and Paper Meet'

Paper Makeup is owned by Katie Cotton and to give you a clue as to where the name of her company came from - Katie is a professional makeup artist. Katie has some fabulous artists contributing to her company including Steve Hammond with the Monsters range, Diem Pascarella's Beautiful Day Fairies, Moody Girls by Cynthia Liu and the Retro Cutie Critters by Diem Pascarella.

But that isn't all, there are also some background and accessory stamps as well as some beautiful word art and sentiments and some fabulous sets all from various artists.

The Paper Makeup Stamps range is available in the UK/Europe at Quixotic Paperie. 

If you're in the US then you can find the stamps at Paper Makeup Stamps direct!

As part of the celebrations and the spotlight today, we have a PRIZE GIVEAWAY!  
Enter your details (no blog necessary) in Inlinkz at the end of this post, and you will be entered in the draw to win your choice of THREE individual Paper Makeup Stamps stamps!

A winner will be drawn after 09:00am UK time on Thursday 23rd June 2011.

So now for the inspiration! Hop on over to each of the blogs below to see some fantastic Paper Makeup Stamps fun!

- Elaine - Judy - Kim Dellow - Mary -
- Andrea - Tangii - Stephanie - Tina - Katie - Dawn -
- Randee - Lisa K - Jami - Anita - Michelle - Shaela -

PLUS check out this slideshow, featuring some of the past Paper Makeup Stamps creations from our fab Design Team!

Thanks for joining us, hope you're enjoying this spotlight!

DRAW CLOSED.

Shout Out for Kim Dellow!

Lovely DT member Kim Dellow has a fab watercolour marker technique article in the latest issue of Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine, featuring one of the awesome (and excellent value) Paper Makeup Stamps sets - Nature's Song.

Love the article, Kim - great way to show off these stamps!  Well done!

Foo!

I know what you're thinking - what?!  Mary J been working too hard and can't speak properly, heh?  Let me explain the title of my post by introducing you to Foo!

 

 

This little cutie Foo is by Paper Makeup and comes with that cool sentiment too - I have plenty of these days as I'm sure we all do!

I used my trusty Bazzill kraft cardstock and that checked paper is from the My Minds Eye Stella & Rose Hattie paper pad (I'm sad cos there's not much left of mine!) and you can buy sublime Divine Twine here!

Have you been to the Quixotic Paperie shop recently?  Echo Park 6x6 pads have arrived (get behind the queue!), along with the Summer Days 12x12 kit and Fancy Pants Beach Bum and Beach Babe 6x6 pads.

Whimsy Stamps April release is on preorder, due to arrive next week and lastly, restocks of the Sew-Easy tool and Bazzill Basics Jewel Templates arrived!



That's it from me today - thanks for visiting and see you next week!

A Change of A Dress...

Hello everyone, Rowena here! Popped in to show you some very fun note cards I've made with my recent Paper Make-up stamps purchase!

I thought it would be fun to make some 'change of a dress cards'-they're made with the New Retail Therapy Set. All the stamps in there are such a good size too-you could happily make the images feature images on cards:)

I've paper pieced the dress with the yummy Prima Annalee paper pad. Perfect combo me thinks:)

Well that's it from me-be back next week-don't forget to pop into Quixotic Paperie and check out all the gorgeous new stock Elaine keeps tempting us all with! Rowena xxx