And here's the finished calendar:
Now I have to go shopping for goodies to stuff inside! I think Phoenix is going to really enjoy this for years to come!
Bye for now!
Hmmm... What's my favourite product at the Jacksonbelle store? That's the challenge today! Create a project with my favourite product which is..........I would have to say...............there's too many products to choose....... okay, I pick Basic Grey!! I had some papers from last year's Christmas collection laying around and because I need to make way for NEW Christmas product I used that. I made 3 cards, and here they are:
Look, ma! No stamping! I used stickers in the paper pack as well as some ribbon, and some Prima "glitter spray." (the shiny leaf on the last card)...
To celebrate our favorites (and Thanksgiving), Lindsey has a HUGE sale going on in the Jacksonbelle store. EVERYTHING is 25% off. As a bonus, for every order you place between now and the end of the month you get your name entered into a drawing for a HUGE Jacksonbelle goodie package worth over $100!
Be sure to check out the blogs of all of the Jacksonbelle Rockstars:
Stephanie Hargis ~ Steph’s Stampin’ Stuff
Jimmi Mayo ~ Stamping & Shopping
Bethany Paull ~ It’s Not All Black & White
Michelle Philippi ~ Inside My Own Private Idaho
Carly Robertson ~ Paper in Bloom
Shemaine Smith ~ Scraptastic
Lynda Benden: Stamp Act
Jill Dunn: Ink Genious
Lindsey Botkin: Embellished
Trudee Sauer: Follow Your Bliss
Heather Lee-Reppen: The Best in Life
Keri Lee Sereika: Pink Lemonade
To celebrate our favorites (and Thanksgiving), Lindsey has a HUGE sale going on in the Jacksonbelle store. EVERYTHING is 25% off. As a bonus, for every order you place between now and the end of the month you get your name entered into a drawing for a HUGE Jacksonbelle goodie package worth over $100!
Be sure to check out the blogs of all of the Jacksonbelle Rockstars:
Stephanie Hargis ~ Steph’s Stampin’ Stuff
Jimmi Mayo ~ Stamping & Shopping
Bethany Paull ~ It’s Not All Black & White
Michelle Philippi ~ Inside My Own Private Idaho
Carly Robertson ~ Paper in Bloom
Shemaine Smith ~ Scraptastic
Lynda Benden: Stamp Act
Jill Dunn: Ink Genious
Lindsey Botkin: Embellished
Trudee Sauer: Follow Your Bliss
Heather Lee-Reppen: The Best in Life
Keri Lee Sereika: Pink Lemonade
I "cased" this card that was created using encaustic painting so I had to find a way to replicate the colours of the background. I stamped "rain" onto the blue that's barely visible in the photo, and I also sponged ink in the same blue colour and cream to create texture in the sky.
The tree and ground have glossy accents on them for the wet and rainy look.
| Stamps: My Favorite Things (rain drops, sentiment) |
| Paper: papertrey ink |
| Ink: aqua mist, vintage cream (PTI), Jumbo Java Versamagic |
| Accessories: Glossy Accents (ranger), pearls (Kaiser) |
This week's challenge was to pick a dress from this cute collection of girl's dresses. I wasn't a dress-wearing girl, but pieces like these make
me have a few regrets. *sniff, sniff*
This is the dress I chose. I saw layers of ruffles on a card RIGHT away so I got to work.
Each layer of ruffles were folded, sanded, glued, embossed with UTEE, then adhered
to a piece of cardstock with brads because they were SO THICK!
I also embossed the image!
Supplies: Stampavie image, Pink Paislee paper (brown), American Crafts
ribbon, Bazzill paper, PTI Paper.
Check out what the rest of the girls did, and PLEASE! Play along!!
I also embossed the image!
Supplies: Stampavie image, Pink Paislee paper (brown), American Crafts
ribbon, Bazzill paper, PTI Paper.
Check out what the rest of the girls did, and PLEASE! Play along!!
Stephanie Hargis ~ Steph’s Stampin’ Stuff
Jimmi Mayo ~ Stamping & Shopping
Bethany Paull ~ It’s Not All Black & White
Michelle Philippi ~ Inside My Own Private Idaho
Carly Robertson ~ Paper in Bloom
Shemaine Smith ~ Scraptastic
Lynda Benden: Stamp Act
Jill Dunn: Ink Genious
Lindsey Botkin: Embellished
Trudee Sauer: Follow Your Bliss
Heather Lee-Reppen: The Best in Life
Keri Lee Sereika: Pink Lemonade
This is a comparison of two inks that are great to USE WITH COPIC MARKERS! I have been using Nick Bantock ink in Lamp Black (by Ranger) for a LONG time. It was the ink I first used with Copics.. Then everyone said, "Try Palette!! It's the best!!!" and it wasn't... So I went back to Nick. Then everyone said "Try Memento! It's definately the best!!!" So I did.. And it's not! I'm sorry... Here's why:
"My ink" is just darker. A true black. And trust me, I stamped the same way and both
pads are juicy!
Memento:
Ranger:
And side-by-side.
I think the results are pretty clear! Give this ink a try and let me know what you think!!
(And NO I don't work for Ranger... I WISH! I just wanted to let you know what I like
about "my ink.")
Bye!
Everytime there's a VSN (Virtual Stamp Night) I try to fit in a few challenges and as per usual I fit in 4. So here are the cards:
These cards (and 6 more of the same) were made with a Unity set I won at SCS
from World Card-making day. Isn't it so perfect? I paired the stamps
with some American Crafts papers I've had hanging around for a while and
viola!
Cracked glass technique. Love it. 3 layers of UTEE (Ultra thick embossing enamel) heated
then allowed to cool. BREAK! (My favourite part) Stamps and all cardstock
is Papertrey Ink.
Very interesting Christmas papers by Pink Paislee.. When I first saw them I was like,
REALLY? Christmas? But when the project is done the papers make the card feel warm
and cozy.. The stamp is a Bella (duh) and the sentiment is Papertrey.
This last card was made again with Pink Paislee papers and a new-to-me stamp by Stampavie.
I grabbed the wrong paper so it was kind of finicky to colour, but it turned out
nice and warm like I wanted it to! Love those Copic markers... Here's a close-up
of the image:
Remember all Inkadinkado and Martha Stewart products are 40% off at Jacksonbelle! As an added bonus…Lindsey is also giving away a huge prize package of goodies to one lucky customer during the month of November. You can see the prize and details on how to win HERE.
REALLY? Christmas? But when the project is done the papers make the card feel warm
and cozy.. The stamp is a Bella (duh) and the sentiment is Papertrey.
I grabbed the wrong paper so it was kind of finicky to colour, but it turned out
nice and warm like I wanted it to! Love those Copic markers... Here's a close-up
of the image:
Remember all Inkadinkado and Martha Stewart products are 40% off at Jacksonbelle! As an added bonus…Lindsey is also giving away a huge prize package of goodies to one lucky customer during the month of November. You can see the prize and details on how to win HERE.
This was my idea of what a penguin looks like:
I was sitting there at my craft table thinking "Penguins are black, right??" hahaha...
This is a penguin:
Cute!!!! But totally makes me look like an idiot! haha
I finished the whole card, and everything!
Most supplies are from Jacksonbelle Embellishments: Stampavie Penguin, Jenni Bowlin paper, Ribbon, and cardstock. Sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.
When you make a purchase at Jacksonbelle Embellishments this month you will be
entered into a draw for a serious prize package! Check it out!
Jacksonbelle Challenge: Holiday Gifts!
- November 10, 2009
- By Tobi Crawford
- 8 Comments
The challenge for this week was to make a holiday gift item, so because I have about 20+ coffee bags (and I actually love using them for gifts) I thought I would get a head start on my Christmas stash..
I stamped on the coffee bag with Vintage Cream ink (Papertrey) and an old Stampendous snowflake. I stamped the adorable Stampavie penguin in Memento ink on Papertrey white paper and coloured with Copics. A couple dabs of flower soft here and there completed the image. (sentiment is Papertrey ink). I cut out the circles with the Creative Memories cutting system and scraped the edge of the red circle.
Wait 'til you see my funny version of this guy tomorrow. I kinda FORGOT what penguins look like (they're not really native to my area, hahaha) and I kinda well...... You'll see. hahaha.. anyway. Take a look at the rest of the team's gifty creations:
I stamped on the coffee bag with Vintage Cream ink (Papertrey) and an old Stampendous snowflake. I stamped the adorable Stampavie penguin in Memento ink on Papertrey white paper and coloured with Copics. A couple dabs of flower soft here and there completed the image. (sentiment is Papertrey ink). I cut out the circles with the Creative Memories cutting system and scraped the edge of the red circle.
Trudee Sauer: Follow Your Bliss Heather Lee-Reppen: The Best in Life
Do you ever make cards "just because?" I need to do it more because 1) I have a bunch of deadlines coming up and I need more cards, 2) it's nice to make something just for the heck of it and 3) there's no pressure to make it GREAT! It is what it is.....
I used all the same supplies as yesterday's card, just with a different stamp set. I used a really cutesy Unity Stamp set and paper-pieced the cupcake tops! All paper is Papertrey Ink, as well as the Polka Dot Basics stamp set. "Thanks" is a Kaiser rubon, and ribbon is American Crafts.
Have a great day!
I dug into some Papertrey ink paper for this one. Why do I guard it like it's gold? It's actually very inexpensive paper, even with the exchange, so why do I hoard it? I don't know.. But I pulled out 3 random colours and went to work. Now.... My bad on the sketch. I didn't add a "star" element, so I hope you J-belles aren't mad! It just seemed full enough when I was done with everything. Please play along, and if you do, link it to the Jacksonbelle blog, and tag your creation with the keyword: JBE078. Here's my card using an Inkadinkado set that's on clearance baby! (It's all 40% off!) 
I used a small image and stamped it in multiple colours (Berry Sorbet, Vintage Cream, Landscape, and Auqa Mist, all Papertrey Ink) on the white, then again on some scrap so I could punch the buggies out! I adhered the punched-out parts with dimensional squares and added the trails with Copic Spica pens!
The polka-dot background was stamped with Polka Dot basics (PTI) in Vintage Cream ink. Take a little time to check out the rest of the girl's creations, and have an awesome day!!
Here are some favourite moments from the last two days in preperation for my second favourite holiday (after Christmas, ofcourse!).Right now I can hear firecrackers being set off by teenagers at the elementary school across the street as two humungous bowls of Phoenix's candy sit in front of me on the counter...staring.. taunting.... must look away....
At left is one part of my neighbour's Haunted House extravaganza!! It's very cool to live right beside a local Hallowe'en destination. It helped all of us get in the mood!
Phoenix made these sucker-fronts (we stuck them to Sour Suckers..) from My Mind's Eye
chipboard and patterned paper. They turned out better than I'd hoped.
Here's a close-up of one:
After carving the pumpkin we always save the seeds and bake them up with some
olive oil and seasoning salt. Yummy!!
This was our entrance way this year. I was pretty happy with it, again, considering
I was too sick to buy anything new this year!!
Pumpkin:
Our cute lone pumpkin... Donation from Ian's mom.
And lastly my scurvy pirate son who got too much booty for his own good!!!
Happy Hallowe'en!! Remember to turn those clocks back! ;)
I have a lotta scraps on my table. It's starting to be a pile, really, so it was time for me to root through them and make some cards! I placed with my Slice to create the words and the labels. I used the Falala cartridge for all of the Slice cuts. Here's card #1:
I had a piece of kraft CS stamped with the woodgrain stamp (Hero Arts) and white ink. I know woodgrain and kraft aren't your traditional Christmas colours, but I thought it would funky! The paper in the background was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder and I rubbed white ink over the raised spots.
Card #2:
Here's another scrap of the woodgrain that I cut out with a label shape. Joy was inked around the edges. Ribbon is from Papertrey Ink and it's delicious!!
Card #3:
This is my favourite. I used the reverse of the cut-out and saved the pieces from the word to fill in the gap. How much easier can you get design-wise, but I'm just loving this one!!
Dare: Use a non-traditional paper/background stamp/stamp to create some holiday cards! You might be pleasantly surprised!
Post a comment if you take my dare! I'd love to get some more non-traditional inspiration!
Card #2:
Here's another scrap of the woodgrain that I cut out with a label shape. Joy was inked around the edges. Ribbon is from Papertrey Ink and it's delicious!!
Card #3:
This is my favourite. I used the reverse of the cut-out and saved the pieces from the word to fill in the gap. How much easier can you get design-wise, but I'm just loving this one!!
Post a comment if you take my dare! I'd love to get some more non-traditional inspiration!
There's nothing like stamping to get rid of the post-sickness funk. H1N1 seems to be a lingering bug, and although I'm not contagious anymore and am back at work. I still feel tired and not quite myself. It was nice, though, to have some purpose this evening when I set out to do this week's Jacksonbelle Challenge:
it's called1-2-3
1- stamp
2- embellishments
3- layers (maximum)
I used a new Kraftin' Kimmie stamp. Her name is Francesca and she's very quirky! So she was the 1 stamp, my 2 embellishments were the black ribbon (barely visible on top of the patterned paper), and the little gem in the corner, and lastly the card is 3 layers! I added some stickles to the strawberries and the sprinkles on the cupckake too! (i hope that's not an embellishment.. haha)
So take a peek at the rest of the DT's work, and remember that Martha Stewart and Inkadinkado stamps are still on sale at the store, so check it out!
Trudee Sauer: Follow Your Bliss Heather Lee-Reppen: The Best in Life
Krystie Lee has been making some really cute one layer cards with a rectangle stamp as the "background" and I've been loving the look. I don't have a rectangle stamp (WHY DON'T I HAVE A RECTANGLE STAMP????????) so I used post-its to block off an area to sponge my colour into.. I love how it turned out.
I used some old Buckaroo Blue paper from SU! and a new-to-me set called Pocket Silhouettes (also SU!). The sentiment is Whipper Snapper and the butterfly (my favourite part) is Amy Butler.
I have H1N1 (or just plain SWINE as we call it around here) and it's not fun, but it's not the worst I've felt either. I was afraid I'd die or something, and to my pleasant surprise it feels like the flu!! (it's not pleasant but you know what I mean....) But hopefully I will have some energy to craft tomorrow as I've been forced to take some time off from school. (I miss you guys!!!!)
So keep safe! Wash your hands! And don't jinx yourself by saying "I won't get swine!"
I have H1N1 (or just plain SWINE as we call it around here) and it's not fun, but it's not the worst I've felt either. I was afraid I'd die or something, and to my pleasant surprise it feels like the flu!! (it's not pleasant but you know what I mean....) But hopefully I will have some energy to craft tomorrow as I've been forced to take some time off from school. (I miss you guys!!!!)
So keep safe! Wash your hands! And don't jinx yourself by saying "I won't get swine!"
This week at JB we're featuring Inkadinkado and Martha Punches, and they are priced to clear!!! so I used some under-loved Inkadinkado stamps on this baby!
I used some Ranger Stickles on the butterfly to give it a little pizzaz. This colour-scheme is not
the most flattering for a butterfly, but considering the occasion, I think it works.
The background paper was made with a soft pink Prism cardstock and a stamp
from Papertrey Ink. I un-mounted the sentiment, and now I can't remember
who made it. I think it actually might be Inkadinkado as well, but don't quote me...
Check out the other ladies for their sketchy inspiration!
Stephanie Hargis ~ Steph’s Stampin’ Stuff
Jimmi Mayo ~ Stamping & Shopping
Bethany Paull ~ It’s Not All Black & White
Michelle Philippi ~ Inside My Own Private Idaho
Carly Robertson ~ Paper in Bloom
Shemaine Smith ~ Scraptastic
Lynda Benden: Stamp Act
Jill Dunn: Ink Genious
Lindsey Botkin: Embellished
Trudee Sauer: Follow Your Bliss
Heather Lee-Reppen: The Best in Life
Keri Lee Sereika: Pink Lemonade
I was a scrapbooker first. I started when I was pregnant (late 2001) and I wasn't very good! LOL.. I guess we're never any good when we first start something, but I was constantly second quessing myself, agonizing over simple decisions for HOURS. It was painful to scrapbook back then.
I got busy for a few years after Phoenix was born. I was a university student, single mom,
and I had a full-time job, so scrapbooking didn't really happen again till after I got my first degree in 2005.
Then, in 2006 I was introduced to stamping and card making, and I said to myself,
"I already have all the stuff, I wouldn't really need to
buy anything more to make a few cards here and there..." HA!
So I've been addicted to "carding" for 3 years now, and I don't really do much else. Read? Nope.
Watch TV? Not really. Compose/arrange music? Not unless I have to. It's sad really...
So I've decided that I am going to start scrapbooking again, and this time I have two
really great reasons: Wedding & Honeymoon! (I also have a couple of compositions
to get done so I should add those to the list).
So here are a two layouts I finished that are the beginnings of my Wedding scrapbook.
it would coordinate with my wedding pictures, so all I had to do was find some papers.
The MME paper I chose was not an obvious choice, but I think it goes really well
with all of the elements!
(Additional supplies: SU! Scallop punch, PTI Fresh Alphabet, Memento ink, Elzybells Kraft cardstock)
and isn't that prima so cool?
Next, using the same supplies,
I used OLW's word: Gratitude as a jumping-off point for my layout:
I wrote about being grateful that Phoenix was so involved in the wedding, that he loves
my hubby, and that together we made the day a day we'll remember forever.
(Additional supplies: American Crafts accents, Technique Tuesday stamps,
Spica Pen, chipboard die-cut letters)
This layout was quick and easy, especially because I used punches to cut out the squares. After I cut out the squares I laid them on white cardstock, measured an 1/8 of an inch on all sides and cut the white. The finished card is 4x6. I hope you like it! I used Basic Grey patterned paper, and May Arts ribbon.
