Birthday Card 5

Going through my scraps and adding some new bits n' pieces, I made several birthday cards.
All supplies were from Stampin' Up! and are now retired.

Thanks for looking =)

Birthday Card 4

Going through some old scraps, I whipped up this quick birthday card. Stamp image, flower eyelet and card stocks are from Stampin'Up!, embossing folder by Cuttlebug.

Thanks for looking =)

Birthday Card 3

Going through my scraps and adding some new bits n' pieces, I made several birthday cards.
Stamp image was from Stampin' Up! and now retired. I colored it with three shades of pink markers.

Thanks for looking =)

Birthday Card 2

Going through my scraps and adding some new bits n' pieces, I made several birthday cards.
This is the second of them. The rubber stamp images were from Stampin' Up!

Thanks for looking =)

Birthday Card 1

Going through my scraps and adding some new bits n' pieces, I made several birthday cards.
This is the first of them. All supplies were from Stampin' Up! and are now retired. This is a nice
flat mail friendly card.

Thanks for looking =)

Making Memories Challenge #1

Today is the very first challenge at the new 

Making Memories Crafting Challenge blog !

This is an anything goes / digital crafting blog
(please keep your projects family friendly).
The challenge runs for an entire month.
Be sure to read our simple rules first.

 This month the design team worked with images from Bugaboo Stamps
and Digistamps 4 Joy.

I chose the January word from Bugaboo 
to make a desktop computer background. 

Using Photoshop Elements 10, I filled it in with digital papers from the 

new digital scrapbook kit Winter Adventures by JMC Designs.

I don't have much know how when it comes to these sort of things,
but my daughter and I figured out something similar on another
project. Using what I learned on that project, I was able to
muddle my way through filling this image in with digi papers!

I originally colored it in to match the colors in the 
darker decorative snowflake paper. 

By filling it with papers instead,
I was able to fill the snow covered portions with glitter paper!
 The letters themselves are filled with textured card stock
and a snowflake overlay.

I saved it as a PNG so it could be imported into 

My Memories Suite 8 software as an embellishment. 

I used My Memories V8 software to complete the project.

I checked my computer screen details then set my canvas size

in My Memories 8 software to the correct pixels, width by height.

The background was created with layers of 
 papers from the Winter Adventures digi kit.

There is a neat calendar making feature in the software

that made it really easy to insert the calendar element !

I added a text box for the year.

I also added a large white drop shadow around the finished
January word art piece on top of the background papers.



Add more elements from the digital kit and a photo
to really jazz up your computer desktop background! 
Be sure to keep in mind the number of icons on your screen
and their placement in regards to the elements you want 
to add to your digitally designed, custom background. 

This is what is so much fun about digital creations:
you can change things up over and over 
without wasting actual paper crafting supplies !





Thanks for looking -
now take a few minutes to see what the
rest of the design team has come up with !

http://makingmemoriescrafting.blogspot.com/

Wishing you a Happy, Crafty New Year ! 

Winter Adventures digi kit

What a terrific new kit,

perfect for scrapping all of your snow much fun memories !

It is called Winter Adventures

 by JMC Designs and available at 

Scraps-N-Pieces.com today ! 

This is a special kit in that it coordinates

with the free daily downloads at the

Scraps N Pieces blog,

A different matching piece to the kit

is available for 24 hours all month long.

The kit is on sale all month for 50% off.

Should you miss the free daily downloads,

you can purchase the add ons,

also on sale for half off this month.

KIT CONTENTS:

24 Patterned Papers

Cardstock

60 Unique Elements - 

2 Bows, Boy on Skis, Boy on Sled, 5 Buttons, 5 Flowers, 3 Frames, Girl on Skis, Girl on Sled, 2 Leaves, Mitten, 6 Ribbons, 3 RicRac, Robin, Scatter, 3 Snow, Snowball Pile. 9 Snowflakes, Snowman, Snow Tracks, 2 Staples, 2 stitching, 4 Strings, 3 Tags, 2 Trees

ADD ON KITS:

Let's Be Cowboys digi kit

Let's Be Cowboys

is a fun kit for the little cowboys and cowgirls

in your life !  There are lots of great elements

and wonderful papers to use for other projects as well.

I especially like the patterned wood background papers !

This Bits N' Pieces kit is released today at 

Scraps-N-Pieces.com

and designed by JMC Designs. 

Each portion of the kit is on sale through January 8th for just $1.00 !

January House Of Cards Challenge

Happy New Year !

Time for a new challenge at 

House of Cards:

use a building and/or 

the color palette in the inspiration photo below.

I had the perfect stamp to use for this challenge

plus I used similar colors.

The finished card size is 5"x 7". 

The image was stamped onto water color paper.

I lightly painted in portions of the image with 

inks from a dye ink pad and water brush.

I also brushed some Pearlex paint onto the snow

and added Diamond Stickles to the trees.

The edges of the stamped panel were distressed. 

This is layered onto Riding Hood Red card stock.

Smoky Slate card stock was run through a snowflake

embossing folder then layered between the stamped 

panel and Crumb Cake card base.

I added some striped Riding Hood Ribbon

and snowflake dies with a rhinestone brad

to finish off the computer generated sentiment.

Lastly Diamond Stickles was run along the edges

of the sentiment strip which was attached with dimensionals.

Our challenge lasts all month,

so you have plenty of time to 

create a card to share with us!

Be sure to visit the rest of the design teams

blogs for more inspiring cards:

Chanya13 | Christi | Cohenna | Donna | Em | Heather | Jane | Judy 

Karen | Katarina | Leslie | Maria | Merethe

Michele | Mynn | Nancy |  Paula | Rocky | Rosi 

Shawna | Shirley | Sue N. | Susan 

THANKS for looking :) 

Have a Happy, Crafty New Year !

Happy New Year 2017 !