Guest Designer Kristina Proffitt!

Please join me in welcoming our Guest Designer for October - Kristina Proffitt!  You may know Kristina from her blog:  one happy mama!  Kristina has created fun holiday designs with our newest stamps and I am excited to share them with you. 

But first, I'll let Kristina tell you a little about herself:

Hi there! My name is Kristina Proffitt. I’m from Nashville, Tennessee and I’m SUPER excited to be this month’s guest designer! Let’s see … a little about myself … I’m 32-years-old, married to my best friend for 8 years (this month), I have a sweet daughter who will be turning 5 next month and a little boy who is due in a few weeks! I also have a sweet dog named Maggie. I love any and all things crafty. That includes, of course, stamping, card making, scrapbooking, photography, writing and blog design. I’m a pretty simple gal – love simple design, every day photographs, shopping on Etsy.com, doodling and jotting down memories.

I got into stamping probably about 5 years ago, but only dabbled in it here and there at that time. I was more of a stamp “collector.” In the past couple of years, I have pulled out those stamps and had so much fun stamping. I love to use stamps on scrapbook pages as well. Inking up a stamp is therapeutic and so much fun. I wish I had gotten serious about stamping sooner but I am just thankful that I dusted off those stamps and started to enjoy them and not just collect them.

I want to thank A Muse for this wonderful opportunity!

And now.. her cards!  Kristina used some of our gorgeous shimmer paper on each of today's designs!  It is difficult to capture the shimmer on camera, but if you own this paper then you know how pretty it is!

Kristina paper pieced the owl so that he "pops"!  And black twinkle stickers were the perfect accent on his eyes.  Kristina use our classic alphabet to create the words and also added a handwritten "the" at the top.

On this next design Kristina used Papaya shimmer damask paper along with pink solid for the cardbase.  And the snowflakes are punched out of ocean shimmer and each have a white pearl in the center!

Kristina used more pink shimmer paper on the last design today.  Lots of twinkle stickers are perfect as ornaments on the tree!

I hope you enjoyed Kristina's shimmer designs!  I'll be back next week with more holiday cards and a scrapbook layout!  And now... it's giveaway time!  We asked Kristina to choose a stamp and pack of notecards to share with three lucky winners.  What did she choose?  Stay tuned to find out - we'll reveal the prize in one of her upcoming posts!  To enter for a chance to win, just leave a comment on this, and on each of the upcoming Guest Designer posts featuring Kristina's designs!  (one comment per post please)

Comments

[snw]

love the twinkle stickers on the tree.
snw

[Sonja]

Awesome cards. I love your color choices-simply beautiful!!

[Lindsay M]

Sooooo adorable!!!! I love everything!!! Especially the owl!! That tree is so darn cute!! And I love those snow Flakes!!!! Awesomeness!!!!!

Great job, and thank you for the inspiration!!!!!

~Lindsay~

[Theresa Kmieciak]

Love that Holidays are Hoot card.
A turn of the phrase and you have
a whole new perspective on those
busy days.

Theresa K

[Sarah Jay]

Love the blue, papaya, and pink combo in the second card! It's so fresh!

[Lori Barnett]

Fantastic cards Kristina!

[Erika M]

Your cards are very lovely!

[Bryn]

Pink for the holidays? Genius! Love your use of the twinkle stickers! Glimmer and shimmer take cards to the next level of fabulous !

[Sue D]

Very pretty cards! I like the use of twinkle stickers and the owl is adorable.

[Michel E]

Love the cards.

[Kelly Massman]

Sweet cards!

[Sandra Garza]

These cards are so cute.

[Suzi P.]

Great inspiration for the holidays!! Love the paper piecing on the owl..........

[Amy]

Cute cards - love the nontraditional colors!

[Nancy W]

Very pretty designs. I love the touches of shimmer as bling is my favourite accent.

[Denise Bryant]

Great cards Kristina! Love your color combos, and the owl card is adorable!
DeniseB

[Cathy]

Such cute cards! Thanks for the chance to win a fun prize.

[Jo Ann]

The shimmery cards are awesome! I love the twinkle stickers as ornaments on the tree.

[karen q]

Fabulous cards. The little owl card is so, so cute.

[Summer braxton]

So pretty and clean. Love your work.

[Susie P]

I love the shimmer paper! Really great cards and fun color combos!

[jen shears]

Great cards!! Congrats on being featured! :)

[Gill]

What gorgeous cards. I haven't come across shimmer papers - must look out for them.

[sue w.]

What an adorable owl card. the snowflake card and holiday tree are wonderful. stamping sue

[Louise]

I'm looking forward to more of Kristina's designs.

[steffi]

Ohhh great guest post. I love the pastel design :)

[Susan C.]

Cute cards!!

[Doris]

These are adorable! Love it!

[Judy]

Cute cards; I love the unexpected colors!

[Jill Foster]

SOOO cute! Love Kristina- she is so talented! That owl card is a classic! :)

[Jennifer Moore]

The sentiment on that first card is awesome. Beautiful cards.

[Doreen]

Great cards!....I especially love the "HOLIDAYS ARE A HOOT" line!

[anababy]

Love the owl card!

[Lisa Wakabayashi]

Great cards!
...loved the owl with the twinkle eyes!

[Ann]

Love how you used the twinkle stickers on the cards. Such a creative way to make owl eyes especially.

[Kristina Proffitt]

Thank you SO much for the sweet words, everyone! BIG hugs to you all! :-D

[{vicki}]

the snowflakes are my fave

[Sal]

excellent use of color coordinating on the "Gift for You" card

[Ingrid]

Cute cards! love the fresh colors.

[Lori Frost]

I love the pink shimmer paper.

[donna mikasa]

love Kristina's clean, fresh style! great cards...

[janet k]

beautiful holiday cards!!

[Mary Sara P.]

So adorable. Love the snowflakes and the use of the non-traditional holiday colors. Lovve that pink!

[Lisa]

Love the choice of colors. Looking forward to the next post!

[Beachcomber]

Cute cards.

[Karen from Ontario]

just super cards...so fun!

[Beth Rang]

Sweet cards!

[Bev]

Love the colors you have used...Pink for the holidays is so festive!!! Thanks for sharing.

[Marie Phillips]

Love the shimmery snowflakes - thanks for the chance to win!

[Jenna A]

I just love the choice of color for the holiday cards. The snowflake card is so different, adorable! I LOVE the shimmer paper it is gorgeous. I'd love to see these in person!

[Celina]

I don't usually think of pink for holiday cards but I do love the owl on the first card!

[Kathy (kathyb)]

I love the designs. Its never to early to get started on holiday cards. Thaks for the inspiration.

[Tina W.]

Congrats on being Guest Designer...love your card creations!

[Cat]

very cute! i just love the owl on the holiday card! TFS

[PennyH]

Great cards! Love the Owl card!

[Alanna (al_silver2)]

I love your designs...my fave is the owl!!

[pcm]

so excited that kristina is guest blogger!

[Jessica]

Love the Christmas tree!

[mimi]

I love how your christmas cards are not the plain old red/green color combos. Very sweet...just like you! :o)

[Shirley]

Love your style Kristina and that first card! Too cute!