Prickley Pear Release Party

Welcome to the Prickley Pear Rubber Stamp Release Party! We have 4 beautiful new
clear sets and dies we are so pleased to announce. Our Scalloped Circles Set,
New Butterfly, New Build a Bird, Blobby Flowers and Hearts! Visit the Design
Team's daily releases and our blog over the next 5 days to have chances to win
one of these beautiful sets.

Each day you have more than one chance to win. Start at the Prickley Pear Rubber
Stamp Blog. Simply post our logo onto your website, become a follower and leave
a comment on the Prickley Pear Blog for one chance to win. Then hop on over to
the day's release blogs and make comments there for more chances to win. Sounds
easy enough. And the bonus is that you'll see some fabulous paper projects
featuring the new sets. So lets get started! 


Go to the 

PRICKLEY PEAR BLOG

for all the details

Follow Prickley Pear

The PPRS team has been busy working behind the scenes to ramp up our blog.  We have fun challenges, tutorials, and other great things coming your way and we want to make sure you don’t miss out!  So, we’re hosting a followers’ drawing.  What’s this, you say.  Well, I’m glad you asked.  Prickley Pear will be giving away a fabulous prize to one random follower here on the blog.  All you have to do is add yourself to the followers and on Sunday, April 24th, we will choose a random winner.  How easy is that?!  So, come and follow us, we’re sure you’ll enjoy the ride.  Don't forget to tell your friends, too! 

Prickley Pear

Get your chicks in a row and 

head over to the 

Prickley Pear Blog

sure to find some inspiration 

don't forget to check out the new

releases too.

Just love this stamp.  It screams

"SPRING"

Prickley Pear News!!!

Hi folks, there are some exciting changes coming to Prickley Pear and we hope you will enjoy them as much as we do. Our design team has been gearing up with some fabulous ideas, challenges, and inspiration. But first, we want to see how YOU use your Prickley Pear stamps. Leave us a link to your blog or gallery in the comment section of this post and each week, we will highlight a few of the items we find. At the end of the month, we will randomly choose a winner from the highlights to win some rubbery goodness. So, leave us your link and get creative with your stamps, you never know when the PPRS fairy will stop by your blog.

Feelin' Prickley?

This stamp set is from Prickley Pear

I just love how this card turned out!!

I punched out a circle, then stamped

and embossed the image with white embossing powder

then took a sponge dauber and dabbed it in 

some black ink.  With a circular movement

I went over the images with a paper towel

to buff the embossed image through and make them pop out.

Then I layered that on top of a scallop circle.  

And embellished the center of the flowers with brads.

stamps: Prickley Pear

Brads: making memories

Paper: Target 

Clean, simple, straight

Clean, simple, straight

that's the theme today.

Just a little note.  This card was made

using the Clearly Beautiful Flowers set

from Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps

and you can never go wrong with

black, white and red.

Last chance to hop!!

Ok, you need to hop to each DT member's blog 

and collect the letters that spell a word then,

you email the word to 

service@prickleypear.com

You could win some new stamps!!

How easy is that??

Nicole

Dawn

Amy (that's me)

Michelle

Angelica

Leslie

Tesa

Jennifer

To start the hop from the begining go to Nicole's blog,

The letter for today is "A"

Good Luck!!

Hoppity Hop

**Day 3 of Prickley Pear's Blog Hop**

Ok, you need to hop to each DT member's blog 

and collect the letters that spell a word then,

you email the word to 

service@prickleypear.com

You could win some new stamps!!

How easy is that??

Nicole

Dawn

Amy (that's me)

Michelle

Angelica

Leslie

Tesa

Jennifer

To start the hop from the begining go to Nicole's blog,

The letter for today is "V"

Good Luck!!

Still hopping

Did you come back for some more hoppin'?

Well Prickley Pear's Blog Hop continues.

Today we showcase the new clear flower set.

Ok, you need to hop to each DT member's blog 

and collect the letters that spell a word then,

you email the word to 

service@prickleypear.com

Nicole

Dawn

Amy (that's me)

Michelle

Angelica

Leslie

Tesa

Jennifer

To start the hop from the begining go to Nicole's blog,

The letter for today is "L"

Good Luck!!

Prickley Pear

I feel in love with this butterfly stamp from Prickley Pear.

It has snowflakes on it.  

The technique I used is one I found on Splitcoaststampers.

It's called Black Magic.

I'm really happy with the way it turned out. 

Prickley Pear

I just love butterflies and when I saw this

Prickley Pear stamp I had to have it.  Both

the butterfly and the sentiment are from Prickley Pear,

and can be found in the store.

This paper is just perfect with the images.

Prickley Pear is having a Blog Hop starting 

Jan 29 - Feb 1

That's right 4 days long!!

You don't want to miss this.

Go check out the Prickley Pear blog to see what

the rest of the team has cooked up.

Prickley Pear

Merry Christmas!

I made this card with an image from

Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps.

I just love this paper.

I used a nestability to cut out the image.

I love that ribbon too.

It's big but it has wire in the sides

so you can shape it which makes ribbon

making easier.

There are little pearls on the 

scalloped ends.

Paper: Miscellaneous

Stamps: Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps

die: nestabilities

miscellaneous wired ribbon

miscellaneous pearl accents

Prickley Pear

I thought a little break from the Holiday Madness

might be nice.

This is a card I made for Prickley Pear to showcase

one of their "heart" stamps.

I love this paper. Hard to see in the picture but

the silver is very bright. Thought it would be

a nice break from the red that's usually

associated with hearts.

Prickley Pear leaves

I made this with a leaves stamp from Prickley Pear.

I've had this paper for a long time and I love it

but just couldn't seem to find the right card for it.

I stumbled on this technique on youtube and thought it

would be perfect. This is the second card I've made with this

technique. Check out the purple, black, etc. a few posts down. It's

a Halloween card with a cat on it.

You stamp the image on the paper of your choice with

Versamark ink. Then emboss with clear embossing powder.

Then take a dauber with your black ink on it and just make

circular motions over and around the stamped image.

Then buff out the embossed image with a cloth.

Stay tuned to the Prickley Pear blog

we hope to have some challenges coming up....

Prickley Pear Pumpkins

Isn't this fun?

You can find the tutorial here.

I made this with Prickley Pears pumpkin

stamp/die set. I just love it!!

Cut out pumpkin shape and stamp -- perfect!!

The leaves on the border of the card are also

Prickley Pear.

Interesting and easy!!

Rubber stamps: Prickley Pear

Paper: miscellaneous orange and

miscellaneous patterned paper.

PPRS "black" cat

I made this card with a

Prickley Pear Rubber Stamp.

An easy technique actually.

I stamped the cat on a piece of patterned paper

with Versamark ink then embossed it with clear

embossing powder. Then I took a sponge

dauber rubbed with black ink and rubbed in

circular motions around and over the stamped

image. After that I rubbed the image itself over

with a paper towel which cleaned it up and buffed it

out a bit making it pop off the paper. Now you

can see the patterned paper design in the background.

So easy!! Then I cut it out with nestabilities die and

finished layering my card. I tied the black ribbon

in a knot and thought, "that looks like a bat" so

there you go.....3 black bats to accent the card.

The "Goulish Greetings" sentiment is PPRS too.

This won't be the last time you see me use this

technique!

Stamps: Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps

Ribbon: Miscellaneous black ribbon

Paper: We R Memory Keepers

Die: Nestabilities

CARD PATTERNS SKETCH WITH PPRS

My card for the CARD PATTERNS SKETCH

this week. Using PPRS.

I used the stamp and die set (pumpkin) to

cut out and stamp the leaves that I hung from

embroidery floss.

I cut the sentiment (PPRS)

out with a new nestabilities die.

GOING BATTY WITH PPRS

This card was so incredibly easy to make.

The bat stamp is a new

Prickley Pear Rubber Stamp

I stamped it on patterned paper that was

in a set from the Target $1 section.

I simply stamped the bat in black over the paper

with words, layered that onto orange

cardstock then placed that on the star

background paper which was layered on top

of the actual orange card.

I cut out the stars using my Cricut.

sponged the sides of everything with

black ink to help soften it.

Tied the ribbon on the top and

Viola - Done!

Rubber Stamp: Prickley Pear

Paper: Scrapbooking Supplies (Target $1 section), The Paper Company

Ribbon: Scrapbooking Supplies (Target $1 section)

Ink: Archival Versafine

PPRS Jack-o-lantern

Have you seen the

Stamp and die sets

from Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps??

This jack-o-lantern set is just

ONE example. There are several

others including butterflies :)

this set comes with the leaf that I used on my

card two posts down. There are these 2 faces that

you can put on them and there is two "scene" stamps

you can use as well. You just cut out the pumpkin using

the die on your cuttlebug (or similar tool) then

STAMP IT!!

How easy is that. No tedious cutting with scissors

the time consuming part is done for you with the die.

Stamps: Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps

paper: The Paper Company

B&T: paper: Scrapbooking Supplies

die: Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps

Prickley Pear Stamps - Design Team Member

I'm happy to announce that I've

been chosen to be a

Design Team Member

for

Prickley Pear Stamps

They have tons and tons of stamps and much much more.

New to the store is stamps and die sets,

they also have beautiful transparencies.

There are so many things you can do with transparencies...

I had no idea. Stay posted for an idea list for them.

I'm so excited and honored to accept this position and

I look forward to making loads of things for them.

above card:

items used: cuttlebug folder, misc B&T paper

Prickley Pear sentiment stamp and leaf stamp

Autumn colored flower soft, tacky glue, brown

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