Get Well Wishes Card

Old Stampin' Up! rubber stamp images, card stocks and inks were used to create this quick and cute card. The image was water colored with inks from my classic ink pads using an aqua painter. I used Versamark ink on a rubber stamp to create my own tone on tone background (light green base).

Thanks for looking =)

Blue Jeans Baby Digi Kit

Another lovely kit by

JMC Designs

is available now at 

Scraps-N-Pieces.com !

This kit is called Blue Jeans Baby.

It was created for the Bits' N' Pieces 

designer kits at Scraps-N-Pieces.

It is made up of several packs,

each of which are on sale for $1.00 USD

 through November 7th, 2016. 

I created a facebook timeline cover

and a card front with the kit,

using My Memories Suite 7 software. 

Below are images for each pack

and the contents of each.

Elements Pack:

60 Unique Elements - 2 Arrows, Heart Banner, Buckle, 3 Bows, 2 Butterflies, 4 Buttons, 7 Flowers, 3 Stamped Flowers, 2 Frames, 2 Grunge, Hearts, 4 Leaves, Leather Strap, Metal Flowers, Metal Heart, Metal Turtle, Owl Charm, Pocket, 5 Ribbons, 2 RicRac, Staple, 2 Stitching, 2 Strings, 2 Swirls, Denim Tab, 2 Tags, 2 Trim, 3 Wooden Hearts

Patterned Paper Pack - 24 Papers - 12X12 300PPI

Cardstock Pack - 7 Pack -12X12 300PPI

Extra Paper Pack - 24 Papers - 12X12 300PPI

Cluster Pack - 4 Beautiful Cluster to add to any layout

Washi Tape Pack - 8 Transucent Tape Pieces

Thanks for looking =)

Giving Thanks Digi Kit

Above are a facebook timeline cover

and a printable card front

that I created with the lovely new kit,

Giving Thanks

by JMC Designs.

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

and is 50% off for all of November 2016.

Be sure to visit the JMC Designs blog

for a free coordinating mini kit

that is offered as the Use It All Challenge

this month at Scraps-N-Pieces.com

I used the My Memories Suit 7 software

to create my projects.

KIT CONTENTS:

54 Accents - Flowers, stars, Stamps, Frames, Brads, Flairs, WordArt, Tags and Labels

Alphabet in 6 colors

8 Cardstock - 12X12 300ppi

24 Patterned Papers - 12X12 300ppi

55 Unique Elements - Acorn, Apple, Banner, 3 Bows, 4 Buttons, Canoe, Corn, 8 Flowers, 4 Frames, Grunge, 2 Indians, 2 Pilgrims, 5 Leaves, Pie, Pumpkin, 5 Ribbons, 2 RicRac, 2 Turkeys, Scatter, Splatter, Staples, 2 Stitching, 3 Strings, 2 Twigs

Thanks for looking =) 

25th Birthday Card

We have another lovely inspiration photo for you

to use this month for the challenge at

House of Cards:

lots of layers and/or colors

I used some similar colors on my card as well as lots of layers,

both inside and out !

The front is a shaker.

Visit the rest of the design teams blogs

to see more inspiring ideas ! 

Cohenna | Donna | Em | Heather | Jane | Judy 

Karen | Katarina | Katy | Leslie | Linda | Merethe

Michele | Mynn | Paula | Rocky | Rosi | Ruza

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




I've entered my card in the Anything Goes challenge at
 Through The Craft Room Door

Beach Memories Shadowbox

I've been waiting for a couple of months to share this project with you !!!

I'm sharing it as part of my design team duties for

Love To Craft Challenge Blog.

This is something I've wanted to make for a long while,

but couldn't find a shadowbox to fit the items I wanted to frame.

In late July, I took a little road trip with my Mom

to a craft supply store in search of shadowboxes and frames.

I was happy to finally find a couple of things I had been needing !

Sand from the beach was poured into a clean, empty frappe bottle.

I tilted it onto the side, gently shaking it to level it out. 

I then placed shells on top of the sand as best I could 

(how DO they build ships in bottles?!?),

using a long thin skewer to help move them about.

To make the sand "solid", I gently added drops of distilled water

through a straw, keeping the bottle on its side and as still as possible.

I wanted to get the top layer of the sand wet so that when it dried,

it would remain "glued" into place. I don't know that all sand would

react this way, but the fine sand from the beach we were on dried " solid".

I left the bottle uncapped, away from heat and sunlight, to dry. 

It took every bit of three weeks.

I wanted to make certain it was totally dry before capping the bottle

and placing it into the shadowbox. 

I painted the bottle cap with a stone effects spray paint

before screwing it onto the bottle.

I die cut numbers from chipboard,

gave them a heavy coat of clear drying liquid glue

then sprinkled sand on top of them.

Die cut tags and twine for a bit of "journaling"

are attached to the items.

The shadowbox I bought did not have a finished back.

In fact, there was a piece of paper from the manufacturer 

glued to it that had to be removed. The unfinished back had

 several holes in it from the hanging hardware that was attached.

It really needed to be covered up, I intended to anyway,

so I used water design paper from an old Die Cuts With A View paper stack.

I also used a sand design piece of paper from the same stack to 

layer behind the photos.

Thanks for looking !

Be sure to visit the rest of the design team members' blogs

 to see many more inspiring craft ideas ! 

Love To Craft Challenge Blog

This is a monthly, anything crafty goes challenge blog. 

Won't you share with us what you are crafting ? 

I'm entering my shadowbox in the following challenge:

Through The Craft Room Door Anything Goes

Happy Jacks Halloween Card

Old rubber stamp images from Stampin' Up!
Assorted card stock scraps, decorative paper from Die Cuts With A View, orange and white bakers twine, scallop edge border punch.

Thanks for looking =)

Witching You A Happy Halloween Card

Rubber stamp image is an oldie from Stampin' Up!
Decorative background papers are from an old Die Cuts With A View paper stack.
Tag topper paper punch to make my own tag also from Stampin' Up!
Orange organdy ribbon bought in bulk years ago from an online retailer no longer in business.

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Halloween Tree Card

Another really old stamp set of mine that I have hardly used and put to use to make a Halloween card this year. It was from Stampin' Up!

The background papers are from an old Die Cuts With A View Fall Stack.

Thanks for looking =)

Sanded Embossing Halloween Card

Simple enough to make Halloween card using scraps of card stock and an embossing folder. I lightly sanded the orange with white core card stock after it was embossed.

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Boo To You Halloween Card

This is such an old card !!! I made several of these years ago, too many actually so a few extras have been hanging around my craft dungeon. I've updated this one a bit. I removed the black raffia hanger that was originally on it, replacing it with narrow grosgrain ribbon. This makes it easier to mail.

I added the had cut stamped banner and brad this year.

I also removed the bat head and reattached it with a dimensional. The bat was hand cut wth paper punches and scissors. The ghost was hand drawn then cut out with scissors.

All rubber stamp images were from Stampin' Up!

Thanks for looking =)