Reminds me of my favorite cupcakes...and a celebration is coming soon!

Greetings Little Paper Shop Friends!

We have another fun color challenge for you this week, and I have a quick announcement for you, too!

Did you know that the Little Paper Shop is turning ONE in April!? I can't believe it either! We are going to be having a month's worth of celebrating starting next Monday, so stay tuned! We will be doing weekly prizes for challenges, have some new digis being released, and our April stamp releases are amazing so be sure to stick with us ALL month for a LOT of celebrating!

Celebrations need cupcakes, and well, I can tell you that my favorite cupcakes are red velvet and also traditional chocolate cupcakes. When I saw this week's color combo, I couldn't help be reminded of BOTH!

I used the Jena Baking digistamp to create this card for this week's color challenge. I will definitely be using this "yummy" combo again and hope you guys can play, too this week! Leave us a comment letting us know you played! As always, too, if you upload to SCS or PCP, use keyword LPSC09. I feel bad I haven't gotten to do much "blurfing" lately due to having well, not the best internet while on vacation, but I will definitely be stopping by your blogs soon if you played last week's or this week's challenge when I get home at the end of the week!

Til then, I'll leave you with this fun challenge! Have a sweet week! ~Jessica :)

Are you up for the challenge?

Hi there everyone!



Hope today is the start of a great week for all of you! I know it will be for SOUTHERNSCRAPS, as (congratulations!) you are the winner of {Bound by the Heart}!!!

Please email Julia through the Little Paper Shop website to claim your prize....yay!

Sorry about the short post, but I am having major issues connecting to the internet, sorry!

I am able to stay for just enough time to tell you that our next challenge is:

CREATE A MONOCHROMATIC CARD.

Leave us a link here to let us know you played, or if you choose to upload to SCS or PCP, just use keyword LPSC08. Thanks!

I will be back with some samples from the DT later tonight or tomorrow...thanks for being patient with me! Cheers!

Release Day is HERE!

Hello all!

Welcome back for the March release and the full reveal of our two BRAND NEW stamp sets, {Blessings}and {Bound by the Heart}!

The sets are available today for purchase at The Little Paper Shop! Just as a reminder, you can earn FREE SHIPPING on any qualifying order of $45 or more, always! So thanks for joining us these last few days for this AWESOME release and treat yourself to a little shopping now!

CONGRATULATIONS TO Catherine (Maiah's Momma) Your comment was randomly drawn and you've WON THIS SET! Please email Julia your information via the LPS Website and we'll get that right out to you.

Last but not least, we have another little surprise for you...please join us in welcoming LORI TURNER as our March/April Guest Designer! Here is a card she made using our new {Blessings} set:

Lori's blog, Inkingly Yours, is adorable and inspiring! Here's a little more about our awesome new Guest:

"I am a Stampin' Up! Consultant of six years who is addicted to the world of paper crafting...all kinds!! I am a stay-at-home Mom to 2 wonderful kids ages 12 and 10, married to my best friend of 15 years, Quintin, I am a substitute Teacher Assistant at the school my kids attend, and am an active member on the School Board. I’m a very busy person, but wouldn’t have it any other way! Thank goodness I have all my craftin’ PEEPS to keep me sane! Hugs!!"

WELCOME LORI! Can't wait to get to know you better...we're a fun bunch here at LPS! Thanks again for joining us and don't forget about the Stitch it Up! Challenge! Winner will be announced on Monday, March 23rd here on the blog! See you then and Happy shopping!

Preview: {Blessings}

Hello everyone and welcome back!

We are really excited about this next set that we are previewing, {Blessings}. After seeing what the DT has done with this set and also its versatility, we are thrilled to be able to offer it to you.

In addition to being a great set for Easter, the set comes complete with quotes that are great for other occasions, too. Perfect for encouragement, sympathy, or just a thinking of you, we know you'll get tons of good use out of this set. I personally love the different looks you can acheive using the flourished cross vs. the solid and the fact that the quotes can be used for so many different things.

Check out what our DT has to show you today with these awesome samples:

Designed by Bonnie:

Designed by Mel:

Designed by Jessica:

Designed by Jennifer:

Designed by Sarah:

Designed by Julia:

Designed by Julie:

Designed by Cindy:

Designed by Taylor:
Want a chance to win this set? Leave a comment on today's post and ONE random winner will be chosen and announced here on release day, TOMORROW!

Congrats to LEANNE the winner of yesterday's contest!!! Your comment was chosen by Random.org from yesterday's post and the {Bound by the Heart} set is yours! Please email Julia at the Little Paper Shop to claim your new stamp set. Can't wait to see what you do with it!

Th {Blessings} set, along with {Bound by the Heart} will be available for purchase starting tomorrow, March 17th on the LPS Website!

Don't forget about our "Stitch it up" challenge this week, too! The winner will receive the new {Bound by the Heart} set and will be announced here on the LPS blog on Monday :) See you tomorrow for Release Day!

Preview Day: {Bound by the Heart}

Hey everyone!

We have a very special Preview for you today, a winner of our Got Digis? Contest, a CHALLENGE for you, and another chance for you to win FREE stamps!

We'll get to all of that in a minute, but without further adieu, I'd like to introduce you to our new sentiment set, Bound by the Heart. This is a gorgeous sentiment-only set that allows you to interchange all the quotes in them with the words Mother, Father, Mom and Dad. I can tell you that as a Mother, and also as a daughter to two wonderful parents, I am going to be using this set a LOT! I just love it and the sentiments themselves are so beautiful, heartfelt, and touching. I just know you'll love it, too! {Bound by the Heart} will be available for purchase this Tuesday, March 17th.

On that note, it was a funny thing that today happened to fall on the 15th, which is the day of our monthly DT challenge. Each month, the LPS Design Team gals take turns issuing a challenge to our fellow DT.

This month, it was Mel's turn. She issued a "Stitch it UP" Challenge, to use sewing, hand stitching, or faux stitching on a card.

Want to play along with us? Since it's Preview day, we'd like to extend this challenge to all of YOU! Just UPLOAD a card and LINK to this post by next Monday, and you'll be entered into a drawing to win the new BOUND BY THE HEART stamp set!

The winner will be announced next Monday (March 23rd) here on the LPS blog when we resume our Monday challenges. Good luck!

Here are some samples of this gorgeous new set made by our awesome DT, featuring our "Stitch it Up" Challenge:

Designed by Cindy:

Designed by Jessica:

Designed by Bonnie:

Designed by Jen:

Designed by Taylor:

GORGEOUS, aren't they? As if that weren't enough, I have even MORE to show you today made with this beautiful set:

Designed by Julie:

Designed by Sarah:


Last but not least, look at this absolutely STUNNING tag book that Julia put together. I knew she wouldn't make a big deal about it LOL, so *I* am going to! Isn't it breathtakingly BEAUTIFUL??? Ooh! And if you look closely, you just might see something that you might be seeing tomorrow ;)

Last but not least, I'd like to congratulate LJURECEK! You are the random winner of our Got DIGIS? Contest! Please email Julia and let her know what Free digital image you'd like to choose! Congrats!

Want another chance to win? In addition to the Bound by the Heart set that we'll be giving away to next week's challenge winner, you can also LEAVE A COMMENT TODAY to be entered to win the set! Lots of chances to win...GOOD LUCK and see you back here tomorrow!

LPS Monday: Got Digis?

Hey everyone!

We are gearing up for our BIG release next week, but before we do, we have another awesome challenge for you this week...and we're giving away a PRIZE!

All you have to do is create a card, altered item, or scrapbook page with one of our new Digital Images from The Little Paper Shop! Have you SEEN them? If not, head on over, they're on sale on the LPS Website now!

One lucky winner will be randomly drawn and will receive a FREE digital download of their choice. The winner will be announced on Sunday, March 15th, our first day of Previews for the March releases! That gives you 6 days to play! Just have your entries in (and leave a comment here on this post to be eligible) by Saturday night, say 11:30Pm CST. Sound good? Simple as that!

Don't have any digis quite yet? Don't fret! (ok, I soooo didn't mean to rhyme there hee hee) There are 8 adorable digital images for sale on the website and they are AMAZINGLY affordable...starting at $1.35 per image! So head on over if you haven't had time yet and browse through the adorable creations!

Need some inspiration? Here are some samples for you. This first one is by me, Jessica :) I just LOVE this Jena Book image. My DD is a very avid little reader and this totally reminded me of her! I love it and she's SUPER fun to color!

This next adorable creation is by Allison, using her Nestabilities to create this super cute Easter card. Love that little butterfly creeping up on the adorable bunny!

Julia created this SUPER CUTE card w/ the Katie Mushroom image. Seriously, how CUTE is this?? I love it!
Have a great week and we can't wait to see what you create for this challenge! Be sure to let us know you played...and good luck to everyone! See you back here on Sunday!

A Challenge of a Different Color...

Hey everyone!

Happy Monday! We have a fun new kind of challenge for you this week...a COLOR challenge!

Isn't it pretty!? We hope you can play along this week!

Isn't this sample just adorable? I am really excited to show you guys, because it was made by our very own, BRAND NEW DT MEMBER, Julie Lacey! We are thrilled beyond thrilled that she has accepted and couldn't be happier to have her on board!

Julie's blog, Stamps and Taxes, is wonderful and we hope you'll all stop by and make her feel at home! She brings a fresh, clean and super creative stamping style, a wonderful eye for embellishments, and a SUPER fun personality to our little LPS family! Congrats Julie and WELCOME!

Looking for inspiration? Check out the Gallery for tons of samples of all your favorite LPS stamp sets, includng the brand new digistamps! We are filling up the galleries weekly, so check it out!

Want to play along? We'd love it if you would! Be sure to leave a comment here for us to check out your gorgeous creations! If you upload to SCS or PCP, use the keyword LPSC05.

Have an awesome week!