Cherished Love digi kit

Another fun digital kit by JMC Designs is 

released today at Scraps-N-Pieces.com =

Cherished Love ! 

I created the above page using My Memories Suite.

The complete kit also includes an alphabet and numbers.

Components are below.

Be sure to visit 

http://jensenmotleycrewdesigns.blogspot.com/2016/02/new-release-cherished-love.html

for  a coordinating freebie!

This kit is on sale for half off 

through February 11th at

Scraps-N-Pieces.com

No Shadow!

My little groundhog did not see a shadow this year :) 

Everything Grows With Love digi kit

Time for a new digital Bits N' Pieces kit release by

JMC Designs at Scraps-N-Pieces.com ! 

Each portion of the kit is on sale for 

$1 each through February 8th

in the design store.

Everything Grows With Love digi kits:

Football Jersey Birthday Card

Time for a new challenge at House of Cards;

SHAPED CARDS ! No rectangles, no squares ;) 

This is going to be so much fun to see what all of you

create and share with us ! 

Yeah, yeah:
mine is basically a rectangle,
but I have created many other really fun
and unique shaped cards in the past.
You can see some of them here.

I've been waiting impatiently to share this project

since making it late last fall for a nephews birthday.

It is a football jersey shaped card!

It is not a  4.25 x 5.5" card like many of us create.

I had to make it larger to look right to me and be able to 

add the details that I did. 

I made it to fit a large envelope I had on hand. 

Unfortunately I did not think to trace it and scan the outline

for a pattern to share here before I gave it away.
It is cut from one piece of card stock
with an additional white piece inside to write on.

Marker, sponging of ink,

card stock scraps cut to fit

and stamped, heat embossed white letters

were all used to give detail to the jersey.

The 13 was cut out using my old Cricut Create machine.

Outside

Inside

Be sure to visit all of the other amazing 

House of Cards Design Team members

to see what shapes they've made into cards !

Cohenna | Donna | Dotty Jo | Em | Emily | Heather

Jane | Judy | Karen | Katarzyna Ewa * | Katy | Leslie* | Linda

Merethe | Merlina* | Michele | Paula* | Rocky | Rosi | Ruza

Shawna | Shirley* | Steph | Sue N. | Sue T. | Susan* | Tina* | Toni

Birthday Cards I Received

Two lovely hand made cards I received last month :)

Happy (e)Mail Day !

Boy, I sure needed a little pick me up after the past month I've had
and I received that both vial email and the postal service last week :)

Two of my projects were winners late last year and to my surprise, I received prizes from them !

The one in the mail threw me when I saw the Air Mail stamp peeking out from under the stack of bills and junk mail,  wondering who was it from and what was it.  It was two nice little holiday stamps from Christmas Cards All Year Round where my Triple Challenge Christmas Card was randomly chosen as the November winner (no stamping on the card). 

The other was a nice bundle of digi images from Dee Dee's Digi's,
that was gifted to me from Scrapbook Blessings Club where my "Dad's Truck" scrapbook page
was the random winner last September (anything goes).


Many thanks to the challenges and their sponsors. I look forward to participating in more this year !

Digital Scrapbook Freebies

There are two great new freebies from My Memories, but you must claim them by January 24th, 2015.


These can be used with other programs such as Photoshop Elements if you download the general files, otherwise they are available for bot Mac and PC in the My Memories form. 
Don't have this fun and easy digital scrapbooking (and so much more) software ? Would you like a discount on your purchase ? Use the code STMMMS23251 at checkout to receive $10 off (plus another surprise or two!). 

Pick up this stacked paper freebie here

Pick up this adorable quick page here

Wallpaper Card

I made this card today for the House of Cards photo inspirations challenge: 

use the colors and / or texture on your card.
You have until January 31st to share your card with us.

I was unable to get my design team card done in time

for the original posting of the challenge since all of my 

craft supplies were packed up in a box truck,

safe out of harms way due to potential flooding of my house.

I am finally getting nearly everything back in its proper place.

How I made my card:

In packing up then unpacking all of my crafty stuff recently,

I came across an old wallpaper sample book.

I knew I had it, just have never used it.

Since my craft dungeon was still in disarray,

all of my card making things not all easily accessible,

 I decided to make a card with some wallpaper !

I trimmed along the scalloped edge of the border piece

(the printing was off, there was a white border).

I also cut off the opposite edge that sort of looks like ribbon

and reattached it on top of the printed "cord" design.

This made the border piece narrower to fit a card front.

I added some dark brown textured card stock, 

carefully torn to follow the scallops.

Inside the card along the exposed edge I glued in coordinating

marbled wallpaper and another piece of the trimmed off  "ribbon" edge.

The wallpaper has lots of pretty texture and shimmer.

This is a nice, flat mail friendly card. 

Be sure to visit the rest of the design team

(those with the * by their name are new members!):

Cohenna | Donna | Dotty Jo | Em | Emily | Heather

Jane | Judy | Karen | Katarzyna Ewa * | Katy | Leslie* | Linda

Merethe | Merlina* | Michele | Paula* | Rocky | Rosi | Ruza

Shawna | Shirley* | Steph | Sue N. | Sue T. | Susan* | Tina* | Toni

Hey Mate digi kit

Greeting card front

12 x 12 scrapbook page

Two projects I created with the fun new 

digital scrapbook kit by JMC Designs.

It is now available in her store at 

Scraps-N-Pieces.com 

I used My Memories Suite software to create these projects.

A super useful new feature in Version 7 

is the ability to crop embellishments !

I cropped the black ric rac

and red ribbon on the card front to fit.

Another neat feature in the software is to insert

photos into png shape files.

The scrap page was made with the 

first January template challenge at Scraps-N-Pieces.com.

It is called a "dump" challenge and was designed by Jodi from

JMC Designs. She provided us with shapes to use then it was

up to us to design something with them. I imported the shapes

into the My Memories Suite 7 software then added photos to them

(actually the jpg files of her decorative background papers from Hey Mate). 

Hey Mate digital kit contents by JMC Designs

Weather Extremes

What a difference a week makes ! 

We went from major flooding 

to our first accumulating snowfall of the season. 

Mild temperatures with days of heavy rain

that are commonly seen in the Spring 

causing major flooding 

to falling temperatures creating ice on the floodwater

and now the snow today with subzero temperatures

tomorrow - right on time for January in the Midwest!

Note: is is difficult to tell in the photos,

but the water was three feet deep over the surface 

of the road at the deepest point

and was easily over eight feet deep in the field ! 

Too deep for vehicles to drive through, so we used boats.

In fact, our field became the

"road" for locals to boat through.

The above photos are my view from inside the house -

yes, the water was too close !