Little Moments digi kit

I LOVE the colors in the newest digi kit by Jodi at JMC Designs !

It is called Little Moments 

and is available now at Scraps-N-Pieces.com

 This layout is loosely based on the first April 2016 template challenge

by Double Trouble scraps at Scraps-N-Pieces.com 

I used My Memories Suite 7 to create this page,

simply adding shapes and embellishements to

recreate a layout similar to the jpg image of the

scrapbook layout shared in the template challenge forum.

As soon as I saw this new kit, I knew what I wanted to scrap -

a photo of my old 1979 Mustang coupe !!!! 

Poor old car has been sitting neglected in a barn for years now.

Can you find it in the top photo in the above layout ?

Sadly it is currently hidden by so much junk in the old barn.

Maybe one year it will be back out on the road.......

The above page was made in Photoshop Elements 10 using a 

free template from Mommyish.

I did reduce the opacity of the barn wood paper that

was inserted on top of a cream card stock background.

I really do like the wood look of the paper, 

but thought it needed to be a bit lighter for this layout.

I also had fun experimenting with extracting my
handwriting to create a transparent background png
"stamp" of the way I wrote my name way back when !
It took a little trial and error, but I'm happy with the result.

  

Note about the facebook timeline cover, first image shared:

   You can create a Custom layout in My Memories Suite 7

that will be perfectly sized for a facebook timeline cover / banner.

Choose DESIGN on the Welcome screen.

At the bottom of the pop up, you will see CUSTOM SIZE.

Choose pixels as your unit of measure

and type in 851 Width x 315 Height

then click CREATE.

You can also make them in Photoshop Elements.

Thanks for looking :)

Kit Contents: 

7 Cardstock - 12X12 300PPI

8 Journal CArds - 3X4 300PPI

24 Patterned Papers - 12X12 300PPI

and

72 Unique Elements

4 Arrows

Bird

3 Bows

Metal Bracket

Metal Brad

Butterfly

4 Buttons

Metal Camera

2 Clips

6 Flowers

3 LeaVes

2 Metal Bits

Metal Grid

Metal Heart

Metal Plate

Paper Star

WOoden Flower

4 Wooden Seals

Wooden Star

3 Circle Designs

3 Frames

2 Grunge/Paint

5 Ribbons

2 RicRac

2 Scatters

Staple

2 Stitchings

3 Strings

3 Tags

6 WordBits

Wire Swirl

THANKS FOR LOOKING :)

Fight Like A Girl Card

A card I made for my cousin.
The ribbon and background are gray for brain cancer awareness.

 This is one stamp set I'm happy to say I've never needed to use -

until now.

Thanks for looking !

Money Bouquet

Bouquet of roses made from real paper money !

A cousin of mine was diagnosed with brain cancer,

so monetary donations were accepted to help her family out.

 Remembering the money bouquet I made for her own

 daughter's bridal shower a few years ago,

an Aunt asked I make one for this particular cousin.

I wrapped a mason jar with a scrap of purple 

shimmery fabric from my years old stash.

A rubber band was used to hold the fabric in place

around the neck of the jar.

I then tied yellow grosgrain ribbon around it.

Not only did this dress up the vase, it hid the rubber band.

The tag was made with inks and stamps from Stampin' Up!

Yellow tissue paper was used as filler between the roses.

Roses made from dollar bills tutorial HERE.

I'm entering my rose bouquet made from real money

in the following challenges. Take a moment to look at

all of the fabulous design team projects and entries!

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

pdelinkyparty.blogspt.com - Anything Goes

Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking ! 

 *  EDITED TO ADD BASIC STEP BY STEP PHOTOS  *

Easiest way to make the stems:

pull apart a cheap set of flowers.

You'll need crisp bills, floral wire and floral tape.

Wrapped wire isn't necessary, it's just what 

I hand on hand and used for this bouquet.

Choose a container and insert foam

in the base to hold the flowers, filler items.

I hot glued mine in place.

Making the petals.

Four or five petals per rose plus a center piece.

Stack the petals, alternating placement

and wrapping with wire between each addition.

Use a sharp tool to poke a hole in the plastic calyx

if there isn't enough room to run the wires between

the stem and the hole in the base of the calyx.

Wrap the ends of the wire onto the stem with

the floral tape.

I chose to use tissue paper as filler

on this particular bouquet.

I used old picks from my stash.

Stained Glass Iris Get Well Card

This is a card I made and gave to my cousin who was recovering from surgery. 

The colors coordinate with the money rose bouquet I made for her 

from money collected from relatives (I'll share tomorrow)

The image is an old one from Stampin' Up!

I heat embossed it in black

then water colored it with ink from my ink pads

and an aquapainter. 

The embossed background was made using a 

stylus and scoring board, scoring lines 

to create the lattice like background.

Old purple Offray satin ribbon from my stash.

Scallop edge border punch.

The color is so off in this photo (or perhaps it is my monitor?),
it is a white background.

Thanks for looking =) 

Hippity Hoppity Digi Kit

Hippity Hoppity 

is a sweet digi kit now available from 

JMC Designs

at Scraps-N-Pieces.com.

I used My Memories Suite 7 to create my

scrapbook page and timeline cover posted above. 

You can create a Custom layout in MM7

that will be perfectly sized for a facebook timeline cover / banner.

Choose DESIGN on the Welcome screen.

At the bottom of the pop up, you will see CUSTOM SIZE.

Choose pixels as your unit of measure

and type in 851 Width x 315 Height

then click CREATE.

This full kit is 50% off until April 10th!

Hippity Hoppity Kit Includes:

Full Alphabet

8 Cardstock - 12 X 12 - 300PPI

24 Patterned Papers - 12 X 12 - 300PPI

8 Stackers  

92 Unique Elements

Arrow

Banner

2 Bees

Berries

5 Bows

6 Bunnies

Bunnie Applique

3 Butterflies

4 Buttons

Chicken

2 Cork Flowers

Easter Grass

3 Flair

7 FLowers

3 Leaves

Mushrooms

3 Small Flowers

4 Eggs

4 Frames

2 Grunge/Splat

Happy Easter

7 Jelly Beans

2 Paint

5 Ribbons

2 RicRac

Staple

2 Stitches

3 String

Trim

12 Word Bits

Antique Pickup Truck Card

I used colored pencils on this image of an Antique

pickup truck with a bed full of Apples for sale.

I normally use ink from my ink pads to watercolor. 

This image was printed from my computer,

the ink ran when it was wet so I decided to use pencils.

The image (Countryside) was sold by Stampin' Up! years ago

when they offered My Digital Studio .

The edges of the stamped panel are lightly stamped with a linen 

background stamp and rubbed with distress inks.

Slight distressing of the dampened card stock edge to finish. 

I made my own background paper with Acrylic paints

dry brushed onto Close To Cocoa card stock.

The button is also homemade: I freehand made the shape

(you can tell, it's a bit lopsided!) from a clay product,

stamped it to give the texture, baked then painted it with

acrylic paints. The base coat is copper then I brushed on and wiped

off black to try to help show off the texture. 

The happy birthday stamp image was from Stampin' Up!,

Think Happy Thoughts.

A couple of paper punched circles mat the button.

It kind of reminds me of a wheel and white wall tire !

It's been a while since I've played along at

Cardz4Guyz and seeing the new "something beginning with A" challenge 

(Antique pickup truck, Apples, Acrylic craft paints for antiquing)

and "Transport" (truck, baskets carrying apples) at Cute Card Thrusday

I knew I had to play along. I love making automotive

themed cards and this image worked well for both challenges ! 

I'm also playing along with the "going round in circles" 

(handmade round button, circle punches) challenge at

Make My Monday Challenge. 

Take a moment to visit each of the above challenges

for lots of great design team projects. 

Thanks for looking =) 

Feed the Ducks Digi Kit

Time for another adorable digital scrapbooking kit release

from JMC Designs ! 

This one is called

Feed The Ducks 

and is available at Scraps-N-Pieces.com.

It's a Bits N Pieces kit, meaning you buy just the portions you want.

There will also be lots of other great mini kits from other 

designers at SNP using the same color palette. 

I used My Memories Suite 7

to create the above 12" x 12" scrapbook page

and facebook timeline cover.

You can create a Custom layout in My Memories 7

that will be perfectly sized for a facebook timeline cover / banner.

Choose DESIGN on the Welcome screen.

At the bottom of the pop up, you will see CUSTOM SIZE.

Choose pixels as your unit of measure

and type in 851 Width x 315 Height

then click CREATE.

Each portion of the kit will be $1.00

through April 7th.

Thanks for looking !

I'll have another digi kit post

to share tomorrow

Celebrate Earth Digi Kit

Celebrate Earth is the newest digi kit release by JMC Designs !

 This will be the first of three digital scrapbook kit posts

 over the next couple of days, Jodi has been busy designing

terrific new kits that are releasing this week at

Scraps-N-Pieces.com

I used pieces from the kit and added my own text

in My Memories Suite 7

to create the above "printable"

and the facebook timeline cover, below.

You can create a Custom layout in MM7

that will be perfectly sized for a facebook timeline cover / banner.

Choose DESIGN on the Welcome screen.

At the bottom of the pop up, you will see CUSTOM SIZE.

Choose pixels as your unit of measure

and type in 851 Width x 315 Height

then click CREATE.

50% off until April 30th!!!

This huge kit includes:

Full Alphabet

9 Cardstock - 12X12 300ppi
30 Patterned Papers - 12x12 300ppi
16 Extra Papers - 12X12 300ppi
16 Flair
10 Journal Cards
73 Unique Elements:
5 Arrows
Banner
3 Bows
5 Buttons
Earth Love
8 Flowers
3 Frames
5 Grunge/Paint
Leaf
Leaf Charm
Leaf Scatter
3 Leaves
Heart World Sticker
6 Metal Bits
People Trim
4 Ribbon
2 RicRac
Scatter
2 Staples
3 Stitches
3 String
2 Swirls
2 Tags
Tree
8 Word Bits

Be sure to stop by the JMC Designs web site for a coordinating freebie !

Color Challenge - House of Cards

Above is the card I created for the newest challenge at 

House of Cards.

It's an inspiration photo challenge this month.

I used colors similar to the photo as well as script.

Stamps, inks, card stock, paper punch and seam binding ribbon 

were all from Stampin' Up!, most no longer available. 

"hello" die cuts (cream die cut stacked and off set over kraft die cut) 

are an old die from Cuttlebug. I don't recall the set name.

Signo white gel pen, paper piercer and a pair 

of scissors to distress the edges of the top portion.

Oh, and a piece of sponge to ink the edges of the hexagons!

I thought about running the bottom section through an embossing folder

to give it more of a quilt look, but was afraid to try it and have 

all the little stamping/inking details lost. It took quite a while

to make this piece, I didn't want to make another ;) 

Thanks for looking !

Be sure to check out all of the other inspiring

projects created by the design team:

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

You have all month to play along with our photo inspiration challenge

at the House of Cards Challenge Blog!

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:

Stampin' Royalty - Wonderful Words

Crafting For All Seasons - Die Cuts/ Punches

Crafting By Designs- Anything Goes