Apple Tree

This is a birthday card for my sister in NC. Her kitchen is decorated in Apples, thus the card theme. I used a cuttlebug folder for the clouds

, made the tree trunk and hill free hand. Papers are by Paper Studio. I added stickles here and there. The rosette was a fun element to make. I used Tim Holtz distressed inks to shadow around the tree and hill and then a Copic's marker to outline the cloud. The third picture shows some little earring holders I made for apple earrings I'll be giving to my son's teachers. Thanks for stopping by!

Jazzy Paper Designs #13 Challenge

Hi! This week, each of the designers for the JPD team got to choose their own inspiration from the very cool website: Verve Music Group! The awesome sponsor for this challenge is Limelight Papercrafts. They have donated a Basic Grey Jovial 6x6 Paper Pad to the random winner of our challenge! Take a gander at this pretty collection: Jovial.
Here is my card based on the album cover for artist Theresa Andersson. The album is pictured above. The card was for my daughter's 23rd birthday. She has taken to country western dancing and is really getting good! Thus, the cowgirl theme. The pink designer paper is by Paper Studio and called Pink Gothic Stripe. I cuttlbugged the "foot" portion of the boot to try to similate leather. I combined a couple of different boot patterns that I found online to get the right look and then paper pieced the whole thing, covering a base outline and popped the whole boot out on the green cardstock. For the sunflowers, I used a stained glass pattern found here.
I colored them with Copics and then sprayed them with Marshmellow Glimmer Mist. I used gemstones on the flowers and on the patterned paper. The embossed boot stamp on the inside is "Old Boot" by Stampabilities. I used Spellbinders dies for the inside frame for the sentiment. I distressed the edges of the card with a Tim Holtz tool. I used Rose Distress Ink around the edges of the boot.

I choose this album cover for the colors. But I enjoyed listening to some of this artists' music. Here is a sample: Theresa Andersson
Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you have a great day!

Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge #35: Flowers

Hi there. I am entering my card in SSIC challenge this week. The stamp is a Lockhart stamp. I've colored it with Sparkling H20's and Copics. I've spritzed it up with some Stickles. I Cuttlebuged the pink panel and used pearls to embellish. The flower is a put together by Taylored Expressions. The ribbon I got from Hobby Lobby. I ironed it to smooth it out and it wrinkled it all up because it was too hot, but I ended up liking the effect, so I still used it. Hope you like it!

Be sure to check out the DT cards. they are exceptional!

Jazzy Paper Designs Inspiration Challenge #5

This week, Jazzy Paper Designs is featuring Kenny Dorham's Trompeta Toccata, recorded in 1964. Kenny was an an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer. (1924 to 1972). Universally admired and respected by his peers and fellow trumpeters, Dorham worked with every major figure of the modern jazz movement--Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Max Roach. He was only 48 when he died of medical problems. There is now a "school" of Dorham trumpet playing. Here is a sample of his music on YouTube.

Aren't the colors of this album fun?!?! I have to admit, I wasn't too sure if I could pull it off, but I am happy with the combo after all! To make the Dahlia, I cased a card I found on Becca Feeken's blog. (She is soooo amazing) And Here is where you can find the instructions to make your own Dahlia. The sentiment is by Hero Arts. The center of my Dahlia is made with pretty pieces by Taylored Expressions.
Be sure to join in on the fun this week! We have a wonderful prize offering to the winner sponsored by one of our talented DT members, Betty!

Cupcake Card

I love this pattern for cupcakes! It's from Valita's Fresh Folds. She is so talented! This will be for my best friend's daughter's birthday. Hope you like it!

A card for 4 Challenges

I made a card to fit 4 different challenges! I really enjoyed putting it all together. Stamp Simply's challenge #126 was to use purple and green. (My favorite color is purple!) The Sketch is from I {heart} to stamp (a great sketch that I'm sure to use again), Stamping Sisters in Christ's #26 challenge is to let someone know how much God loves them, based on I John 4: 10 "This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins." They are giving a really cute Simon Says stamp set to the winner. And at Fred She Said, the challenge is to use one of Tracey's digis (she has lots of awesome freebies) on your creation. She is giving a $20 voucher to her store to the winner!

I used one of FSS's freebie digital flowers. I copied it 4 times on regular paper. I colored each blossom with watercolor pencils and blended with lavendar oil. (first time I ever tried this technique. Usually people use mineral oil, but I didn't have any. The lavendar worked nicely.) I used Copic marker to color the background of the medallion and along the edges of each petal. The ivory card base is Bazzil Shimmer paper, the dark purple green papers are from DCSW shimmer stack. I cuttlebugged the green panel. I wrote the sentiment on Tinsley by EK Success.

I love this color combo! I hope that this card will bless someone needing to know how much God cares about them.

Thank you for visiting me!

Crafts for Eternity, Our Daily Bread, and Saturday Spotlight Challenges

Hi. Here is a fun card that I made for three challenges: Crafts for Eternitywhich is a recipe challenge offering a mini card kit for the winner, Our Daily Bread: where you need to use red or pink and some bling and offering a $15 gift certificate for ODB stamps (which I would LOVE to win), and Saturday Spotlight: whose challenge is to use a household item to make your card. They are giving 4 digi's from Victoria Case as a prize.

Here is my card recipe:
The zebra is a chipboard from Debbie Mumm's Noah's ark, the polka dot paper is from Paper Studio, I've cuttlebugged the red panel and used a Spare Parts jumbo flower for bling. (I colored a pearl with a Copic marker and added tiny pearls around it.)The green panel paper is by Francis Meyer. I used a Spellbinders die for the red panel on the outside and the black one on the inside. I wrote the sentiment by hand. Now for the fun part: For a household item, I used two swimsuit bra hooks (Dritz) on the front with the striped ribbon through it. and then, most of you will recognize the bra extender on the inside.

I'm going to give this card to my sister-in-law who is quite buxom! I, on the other hand, am not! Hopefully, this card will not seem off-color to anyone. I hope it makes you smile instead.

Have a great day!

Babies, Babies, Babies!

I guess I've got babies on the brain lately!

I'm going to host a Welcome Baby shower in a couple of weeks for a friend of mine. She had a baby girl on Oct. 8th named Amelia. I made 22 invitations. Just thought I'd share pics of them.

Thanks for looking!

Be blessed.

Jazzy Inspirations #20 and Stampin Sisters in Christ #6

This week on Jazzy Inspirations we are using a really cool inspiration piece. It's an Art Tatum CD cover. The colors are Black, White, and Purple. You should see the creations of the DT! They are awesome! Above, you can see the picture of the CD cover.
The PRIZE for the winner this week is a stamp set from Autumn Leaves! Submit your entry by Oct 10th.

The challenge this week on Stampin Sisters in Christ is to make a card that comforts or encourages someone. My card hopefully fits the bill for this.

I've made this card using Nestabilities die cuts, Cuttle bug to emboss the 2nd panels, and pearls for the centers of the flowers. The stamps have all been heat embossed. The verse is a Printworks Clear Art Stamp from their Scripture collection and the other stmaps are from Inkadinkado's Gem Stone Flowers.

Thank you for visiting and have a blessed day!

Jazzy Inspirations 19

Hi! This weeks challenge for Jazzy Inspirations is inspired by an Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie poster!! The colors are: Light Blue, Purple and White!! Tenia is giving away some candy to the winner! She'll be giving away a couple of stamps from Autumn Leaves. So, be sure to enter by Sept 12.

My card is a project designed by Valita. She is soooo creative and talented. You can find her project HERE.

Enjoy your Labor day weekend!

hugs,
Jennifer

Jazzy Inspirations #17

Here is my card for our #17 challenge. This week we are excited about being sponsored by The Digi Shack. They have the cutest stamps! They offer a free stamp every Monday! Check them out. We had such a great turn out last week at Jazzy Inspirations! We hope to see another one this time!

I used a Spellbinders Impressabilities to make the lampshade and lamp base. I used a Spellbinders die for the red frame and white circle. I used a cuttlebug embossing folder for the red frame. The background text was done on my computer. I cut the lamp out and popped it up with foam backing.

Thanks for stopping by!

Jennifer

Jazzy Inspirations #16 Challenge and Blog Candy!

Good morning ladies! Happy Saturday to you. Today I made a card for the Jazzy Inspirations challenge this week. I love the color combo! The inspiration is a photographic print called Three Trumpets. See the picture above. If you haven't ever entered in our challenges yet, this would be a great time to do it because we have a new sponsor who will be offering two new stamps as a prize AND two of our DT members are offering HUGE blog candy! Stephanie is offering a $50 (yes, $50.00!)gift certificate to the shop of your choice!! And there's more!! Nicole is offering a wonderful assortment of goodies as well, including 3 of the so very cute stamps from Sunshine and Giggles, a Basic Grey 6x6 pad, Basic Grey brads, 3 bottles of Smooch, a bottle of Shimmerz Spritz, 1 bottle of Glimmer Mist, 1 pkg of Blue Moon Charms, 1 Fantastix Coloring Tool Brush Point, and Assorted Ribbon in Summery, Sunshiny Colors! Can you believe it?!? Hope to see you there!
P.S. There will be more blog candy connected to Jazzy Inspirations in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!
Hugs,
Jennifer
My card Recipe:
I used a cuttlebug folder to emboss my main panel. Cut three circles out using Nestabilites die cut, then did Iris Folding using mulberry paper. for embellies, I used ivory pearls and colored the three in the circles with a turquoise Copic marker.

Whimsie Doodles First Challenge!

Isn't this stamp the cutest?! And guess what~it's FREE!

I made this card for their first sketch challenge using their free turtle digi stamp. This was a really fun sketch to work with. I used my Cuttlebug to emboss a couple panels, I colored the cute little guy with Copics, used Stickles for some sparkle, and I distressed the edges with my fingernail! Whimsie included a sentiment stamp, but my printer decided to die on me, so I hand wrote it.

I'll give this to my Uncle in Fresno who is recovering from major surgery.

Basic Grey is Back!

Here is my challenge card for their grand re-opening. They had a great sketch to use! I have used a small piece of Lemonade Doilies from their Lemonade line. The butterfly and green flowers are from SU's Reason to Smile. I heat embossed the butterfly and sentiment. I used a cuttlebug embossing folder on two panels. I used the colors based on Jazzy Inspirations challenge this week.

Thanks for stopping by!

Three Challenges: Charisma Cardz #23 and CPS 120 and Simon Says

Here's a birthday card I'm going to give to a little 7year old girl today. The challenge for Charisma Cardz is "Diamonds are a girls best friend" which is very fun for me, because I love sparkles. The card has lots of Frosted Lace Stickles accents and the cuttlebugged piece is actually on shiny silver paper, which may be hard to tell on the pic. I also used a sparkly black Sakura Jelly roll pen to go over the cupcake stamp and sentiment. The sketch is based on thechallenge for CPS, found here: http://cardpositioningsystems.blogspot.com/2009/06/cps-120-sponsored-by-2redbananas.html
The challenge on Simon Says is Birthdays, so this works well! http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2009/06/happy-birthday-simon-says-stamp.html

The stamps are from Hero Arts birthday frame pack. I used Martha Stewart border punch for the pink strips. I cut the cupcake stamp out to make it 3D.

Thanks for looking, have a blessed day!

Weekend Sketch Challenge #81 and One Stop Craft Challenge #29

This was a great sketch to do by Charmaine! And the One Stop Challenge was to use the colors pink and brown (love that combo!)Here's the link to One Stop: http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2009/05/one-stop-craft-challenge-29.html

I've made a Get Well card for a special freind of mine who had emergency surgery.

I used the cuttlebug for one panel. I printed some encouraging scriptures on the tan paper and blotted the edges with Tim Holtz Distress ink Tea. The flower is a combo of Bazzill and a kit from Taylored Expressions. I got this pretty ribbon from Hobby Lobby. The sentiment is a gold peel off. What do you think? Thanks for looking.

Card Positioning Systems #116

Great sketch this week on CPS! Here is a card I made for my Dad who had shoulder surgery today. The image is by DJ Inkers, colored with Copics. I hand wrote the sentiment. I used Cuttlebug folders for two of the papers. The hanging pine are punched from Martha Stewart's fern punch. The card base is craft paper. I love mooses! do you like?

Stamp Something Challenge

Stamp Something has a great sketch this week and they have really nice prizes!
http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/2009/03/sketch-something-challenge.html
Here is my card for a friend of mine that had a baby on St. Patricks Day.
I don't know where I got the shamrock paper, the striped paper is Bohemian by My Mind's Eye and the paper with the crosses is Amazing Grace by Flair Designs. I cuttlebugged the brown square and used a tag I received from Jillibean Soup. For bling, I used some Hero Arts Gems, Stickles and Diamond Glaze on the Shamrocks. I made a matching envelope.

Thanks for taking a gander today.

Card Positioning Systems 106

Hi. This is a birthday card for my daughter-in-law who is expecting our first grandchild! I really enjoyed this sketch. Here's the link:
http://cardpositioningsystems.blogspot.com/2009/03/cps106-part-1.html
I punched out 4 different sizes of the daisy in mostly pink shades with some yellow and ivory, then stacked them together for two large flowers. I drew glue over the tips of the petals and applied Martha Stewart glitter. I used two-sided tape to glue the glitter onto the smaller flowers. For the medallion, I used Nesties, then stamped it with a Hero Arts sentiment, and cuttlebugged the inner circle. I hope she likes it!
Thanks for looking!

Jennifer