Patterned Paper Woodland ~ The Card Concept 40 & FMS205

Happy Wednesday fellow stampers! I designed this card with The Card Concept #40 and Freshly Made Sketches #205 in mind.  

I suppose my card falls into the clean and layered category over at the Card Concept and I was totally inspired by the cute little woodland animals.  In fact I love these little critters so that  if I get time I'm going to try to play along again!

It kinda took a direction entirely different than I had originally planned.  The paper pieced trees and hedgehog were in my original design in my head, and then I saw a scrap of polka dotted blue laying on my desk and thought it might look good as the sky.  From there on it was patterned paper-palooza!  The interpretation of the sketch is a little loose, but I like it that way!  

I think this little mushroom is probably my favorite thing on this card....it's so cute!  I colored in the white dots with my white gel pen.  

Here's a list of my supplies.....

Stamps: Life in The Forest, Sprinkles of Life

Ink: Black, Crumb Cake

Paper: Various retired DSP's, Crumb Cake, White

Accessories: Hearth and Home Framelits, Bird Builder punch, circle punch, Linen thread

Purple Penguins ~ Merry Monday166, CTD351, & FMS195

Ohhhhh, I just love Penguins!!!  You might be able to tell that by my watermark :)

I was thrilled to find out that Merry Monday's Penguin challenge was a two week challenge!  I didn't have time to participate last week, but wanted to sooo bad! 

I used the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches and the color combo from Color Throwdown as well.

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My little penguin is from an old set from 2006 called {Polar Pals}.  I just love it!

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Celebration for FM209 & FMS186

Hey everyone!  It's my third week of being a guest designer over at The Friday Mashup and boy am I having a great time creating for the challenges!  This week we have a Crushed Curry, Bermuda Bay, Night of Navy color combo mashed up with celebrations.  I picked graduation for my celebration, since I always need so many of those cards this time of year.  

I also used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches 186.  

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Stained Glass Butterfly ~ FM208

Hey everyone, it's Friday!  This is my second week as a guest designer at The Friday Mashup for the month of May.  This week's challenge is to create a Mother's Day card and use recycled/upcycled items.  For mine I used a recycled mother-of-pearl button (which I thought was appropriate for Mother's Day!) and I also upcycled packaging tape to make the stained glass look on the butterfly cut-out.

I also used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches 185.

The stained glass technique is so cool and fun....and easy!  It produces some flashy results too! Here's a great video by LeeAnn Greff on how to do the Stained Glass Technique.

I just love all the sparkle this produces!!!!

Be sure to visit the Friday Mashup DT and leave them some blog love!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Brown Blended Bloom ~ FMS178

Happy Monday everyone!  It's the beginning of a new week...whoohoo!  That's a positive way to look at things, right?!?

I'm stopping by with a quick post for Freshly Made Sketches 178.  The link closes shortly and I wanted to get my card in there!  I had this bloom already colored( that I was going to use on another project and it just didn't work out) and had the sequins laying around my desk, so just a few snips of paper here and there and voila, my card was done!  It literally took minutes.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Enjoy The Fuss ~ FMS168

Brrrr!  It's freeeeezing up here in NE Montana!  We had -25 to -30 degree windchills today.  Boy, can the wind really blow here!  What's the best thing to do on a cold day, you ask?  Why spend the day stamping of course!!!

I came up with this one for Freshly Made Sketches 168. 

I originally made this card.....

but once I was done with it, I hated it.  So back to the drawing board.  

I kept the same color scheme and was much happier with the outcome the second time around.

It showcases a couple more products from the Occasions Catalog.  The diecuts are from {The Treat Bag Thinlits Dies} and the button is from {Sweet Dreams designer buttons}. 

For the stars, I cut twice....once on the designer paper and another on Hello Honey.  I popped the Hello Honey stars up over the DSP.  

Here's a list of my supplies...

Stamps: Big News, Good Greetings

Ink: Lost Lagoon

Paper: Lost Lagoon, Hello Honey, White, Moonlight DSP

Accessories: Treat Bag Thinlits die, Sweet Dreams designer button, dimensionals

Thanks for taking a peek!  

Jenny

Rustic Holiday Home ~ MMC133, The Challenge 18, FMS161

I'm combining three challenges with today's card.  They are:

Merry Monday 133, The Challenge #18, and Freshly Made Sketches 161. 

I actually forgot that The Challenge comes with a built in sketch and I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.  Merry Monday's challenge was to make a rustic card using browns and creams.  I threw a little red in there for good measure and that incorporated The Challenge #18!  

For this card, I actually embossed the little snowflakes that go with White Christmas, but you can't see them in the photograph.  I used to have the perfect light in my kitchen for taking pictures of my card, but we are remodeling and my light went away.  I'm trying to experiment with different lights in different spaces.  Nothing is working as good as my old one, which I'm bummed about.  I will figure something out eventually, I guess!

I also used my Signo gel pen to add some snow to the trees and house.  I love this cute little scene!  Holiday Home and White Christmas compliment each other nicely and are fun to use together.  

The little snowflake in the corner is a Momenta cut & emboss die that is from Hobby Lobby.

Here's a list of supplies I used.....

Stamps: White Christmas, Holiday Home, Hardwood

Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight & Crumb Cake Blendabilities.

Paper: Baked Brown Sugar, Very Vanilla, Real Red

Accessories: Homemade Holiday Framelits, Woven satin ribbon, naturals buttons, gel pen, linen thread, dimensionals, Momenta cut & emboss die.

Vanessa's Flamingo ~ FMS147 & CMCC31

I made this card for a good friend of mine who was having a birthday.  I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches 147 & Colour Me 31.

For the color challenge we could choose from two color combos....I chose to go with the pink and yellow, obviously because of  the flamingo.  I added black in there as a neutral.

Here's a list of my supplies....

Stamps: Flamingo Lingo

Ink: Strawberry Slush, Hello Honey, Basic Black

Paper: Black, Strawberry Slush, Hello Honey, Strawberry Slush DSP & Flower Pot DSP

Accessories: Petals a plenty EF, Petite Petals punch, Scalloped dotted ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Bitty Banners die, In Color sequins & In Color button

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Puffed Blended Bloom ~ FMS145

I made this card for Freshly Made Sketches 145.

Don't you just LOVE Pinterest???!!!  I sure do!  Especially when it makes it so easy to find and share cards and new (or new to me) stamping techniques.  This card uses a puffed up technique that doesn't really have a name, I guess.  I found this fun little tutorial by Deb Valder on YouTube via Pinterest.  You outline your image with a stylus and then glue a little bit of cotton ball to the back of the image.  When you glue your image to your card you get a raised or puffed up effect.  It's something new and neat to try!  

I tried to taking some photos to showcase the technique, but I think it's hard to see.

This one might be a little better.

Here's a list of my supplies.....

Stamps: Blended Bloom

Paper: Bermuda Bay, Hello Honey, Bella Bloom & Fresh Prints DSP

Ink: Memento Black, Coastal Cabana & Daffodil Delight Blendabilites markers

Accessories: Sequin trim, Hello Honey and Coastal Cabana ribbon, Sweet Stitches Designer button, Bermuda Bay bakers twine, Windows framelits

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

The Big G ~ FMS136

This post is for Freshly Made Sketches 136.  

My oldest son graduated from High School this past weekend and living in a small community we know lots and lots of other kids graduating too.  I needed 20 something graduation cards....

I thought this sketch worked perfect for the old set Great Grad.  

It came together quickly.  I'm also trying to use up all the SAB designer paper.  

Here's a list of my supplies:

Stamps: Great Grad

Ink: Versamark

Paper: Black, Silver glimmer, Calypso Coral & Sweet Sorbet DSP, White, Crisp Cantalope

Accessories: Black EP, Alphabet Press EF, 1/8" silver ribbon, Hung Up cute clips, Starburst Die, Circles die

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

You & Me ~ FMS117

       

 



I love pink, black and white together.  It makes such a striking combination, don't you think?  I added a little gold in the form of the NEW sequin trim from the spring catalog.  Isn't it cool? 

The sketch is from Freshly Made Sketches. 

The Ampersand embossing folder is also a new item from the spring book, and also soooo cool!  After I embossed it I rubbed it with a little gold metallic encore ink to tie into the gold sequins. The encore pads are being carried over from the holiday catalog to the spring....Oh, happy day! 

 

 

The You/Me stamp is an oldie from a hostess set called Best Yet.  The stamp really says "to you from me".  I just inked up the "you" and "me" with my black marker and used my stamp-a-ma-jig to place it on the ampersand.

 

 

Here's a list of my supplies....

Stamps: Best Yet

Paper: Black, Vanilla, Strawberry Slush, Modern Medley DSP

Ink: Black, metallic gold

Accessories: Ampersand EF, Gold Sequin trim

 

You can order most of these supplies HERE.

 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

 

  

Triple Six Sided Sampler ~ FMS99, FM123, & CCMC264

 

This card encompasses three challenges: Freshly Made Sketches 99, The Friday Mashup 123, and Create with Connie and Mary 264.   

 

 

For the Friday Mashup we are supposed to create a project using clear block stamping.  I inked up my block with a marker, spritzed it with some water and then stamped it directly on the white cardstock.  The paper ends up a little damp so I dried it with my heat gun.  Create with Connie and Mary called for Smokey Slate, which I don't have yet, so I subbed in Basic Gray (stamped off once to make it look a little lighter).

This was such a fun card to make, plus I got a chance to use my Six Sided Sampler.  It's the first time it's seen ink.  I alternated the colors and added three different kinds of buttons for embellishment.  I like the way this turned out.  A little border of the ruffled ribbon really makes this girly!  I thought about turning it into a baby girl card, but I need a birthday card for my friend. 

 

 

Here's a list of supplies....

Stamps: Six Sided Sampler

Paper: Pistachio Pudding, White

Ink: Blushing Bride, Pistachio Pudding, Basic Gray

Accessories: Honeycomb EF, Pistachio Stretch Ruffled Trim, Neutrals button, Twitterpated button, InColor boutique details

 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

 

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A Flower for the Mr. & Mrs.

 

Hello friends!  I've finally gotten another opportunity to stamp and low and behold it was for another wedding!  I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches #90 and the color combo from Colour Q Challenge #193.

 

The colors are kind of unconventional for a wedding card, but I thought they were fun and playful. 

I finally got my hands on a real, tangible, new catalog and I drew some inspiration from there.  I stamped right onto the patterened paper, which I had seen on a card towards the end of the catalog, and I tried the scrunched doily, which was a little photo tutorial within the catalog. 

 

 

Here's a list of supplies I used....

Stamps: Tiny Tags, Everything Eleanore

Paper: White, Bermuda Bay, Island Indigo, Pear Pizzaz, Red Glimmer, In Color DP

Ink: Pear Pizzaz, Island Indigo

Accessories: Blossom Party die, Labels die, Paper Doily, Everyday Enchantment brad, Bird Builder punch

 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny