Every Day Is A Gift Card

Some old prestamped and colored images I never made into a card -
until now ! Images are from Stampin' Up!, paper is from an old Die Cuts With A View paper stack.
The image was watercolored. I also added a touch of glitter on the wings.

Thanks for looking =)

Upsy Daisy Card Set

A fairly simple set of cards made with some old

prestamped images that I never made into cards.

I'll stamp sentiments on them later.

The stamp image is from the old 

Upsy Daisy set by Stampin' Up!

Assorted card stocks, papers, ribbons.

Thanks for looking =) 

Golden Anniversary Framed Card

Today I'm sharing a project I made a few months 

ago to give to some long time friends.

I've been waiting to share it with you until now

as part of my design team duties for the

Love To Craft Challenge blog. 

This is an anything goes craft challenge.

Please keep you entries family friendly

and read our rules here. 

This is a card with frame gift.

The front has a space for them to 

insert a photo. I included a pattern

to trace and cut out an oval

to fit on the mats.

Closeup of the hand cut spiral flowers,

die cut leaves, mini flowers and swirls.

Computer generated saying printed

out onto vellum then hand cut.

Debossing and embossing details

Computer generated sentiment inside.

The finished size is 5"x 7".

Pattern

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Thanks for looking =)

Be sure to see what the other
Love To Craft Challenge Blog
design team members have
created to share with you.

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

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