Pumpkin Bouquet

So, did you all have a great weekend? I woke up with a sore throat Friday that haunted me all weekend and has now turned into a sinus infection. I even took a sick day yesterday so I could rest. Sometimes, I really hate it when the weather changes. My sinuses just can't take it and I get sick every time. Thank God for Sudafed. It really helps me get back to the important things, like making cards!

I made this card over the weekend. I had so much fun coloring it. That's what so great about DRS Designs and why I love them so much--their images are so fun to color! This Pumpkin Bouquet is no exception! I love the color combo of this card as well. It's so very Fall-ish! I guess I mean Festive! LOL!

I used markers to color the image and layered it using my Nesties. I created the background by layering the yellow-orange cardstock and the dark orange-red cardstock. I tore the corners off the yellow-orange cardstock and added dark brown brads to the orange-red cardstock. I think the layout looks really neat with this image. Finished card size measures 5" x 6."

Stamps: DRS Designs- Pumpkin Bouquet, Thanksgiving Greeting Squares
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Bazzill cardstock, cardstock by Paper Reflections
Accessories: Bic Markers, Nesties, Brads from Joann's Scrap Essentials

Stay tuned for tomorrow's Card Sketch Wednesday Challenge. It's the first one posted for October!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Autumn Candle Set

Today begins the 5th DRS Designs blog challenge!! This challenge is to create "anything but a card." The challenge runs for two weeks but there is no time limit to participate. You can see a list of the previous challenges in the side bar on the DRS Designs Blog. You are welcome to play along at any time! If you do participate, please post a link to your creation on the DRS Designs Blog so we can all come and take a look! If you upload to an online gallery, please use the keyword: DRSC5.

For my "Anything but a card challenge," I made an Autumn Candle Set. I saw a tutorial here, and I just loved how hers turned out, so I had to give it a try!

Just like in her tutorial, I stamped all of my images first on white tissue paper that I cut down to the size of each candle. Then, I used my heat gun to melt the candle just slightly so that the tissue paper would adhere to it. As a finishing touch, I added sheer orange ribbon around the large candle and around each of the votive holder stems.

I am very happy with how each candle turned out, even more so that this is my first attempt at an altered item!

Here are some close up pictures:

Here are the back sides of the candles:

Stamps: DRS Designs- Small Silhouette Leaf, Tiny Fall Leaf, Small Autumn Greetings, The beauty of Autumn
Ink: Colorbox Fluid Chalk Inks in Tangerine, Warm Red, Yellow Ochre, Chestnut Roan, Lime Pastel
Paper: White Tissue paper from Target
Accessories: C&G Orange Sheer Ribbon, Heat gun, Large White Candle from the Dollar Store, small white candles from Party-Lite, Votive holder Vases from Joann's

Make sure to check the other Altered projects done by the other DRS Design DT members:

Angel Rivera
Cathy Indelicato (Team Coordinator)
Dawn Knight
Etha Schuette
Heather Lee-Reppen
Janette Olen
Jessica George
Jessica Knutsen
Vicki Parson

Have I ever told you that I Love Leaves? LOL!

Have a Wonderful Monday!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Fun Filled Friday...Under the Sea!

This week's Fun Filled Friday Challenge has a "Under the Sea" theme!

Kimmy and I will be making projects that deal with water, fish, sea, boating, sand etc--anything sea related!

We'd love for you to participate in this challenge as well. We post our finished projects on Friday, so you'll have to wait til then to see what we come up with. Feel free to post a link to your project anytime!

"Sea" you Friday!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Thanksgiving Greetings!

Just a quick post today to share with you another Thanksgiving card I recently made. This card is fairly basic, but I think the image speaks for itself. I love the way it turned out!

This is another new Thanksgiving/Harvest image now available by DRS Designs. I colored it with markers and played with my new Shimmerz. These next 2 photos let you see the actual image better.

You can see the Shimmerz better in this one.

This one shows the actual colors better.

Have you seen my gallery on the DRS Designs site? Click here to check it out!

Make sure to check out the DRS Designs Blog on Monday. The DT will be posting a new Blog challenge that you won't want to miss--it's all about using stamps in a new way! So, put your thinking caps on this weekend and join us next week!

Stamps: DRS Designs- Thanksgiving Greeting Squares
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Bazzill Cardstock
Accessories: Bic Markers, Shimmerz

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Pop-Up Card Technique!

For our Fun Filled Friday Challenge today, Kimmy challenged us to make Pop-Up cards. This was my first attempt ever at making a pop-up card! I used this tutorial on SCS. I love how it folds flat and can still be mailed (rather cheaply! This will fit in an A2 size envelope!) yet it has a 3D look once it it "pop-ed" into place.

This photo shows it folded flat. It still curves up a bit at the scored lines, but adding pressure with my hands or if I put it in an envelope it would lie completely flat.

Did you see the DRS Designs blog this past Wednesday? Heather talked about all the different possibilities you can do with DRS Designs unmounted stamps. Again, I used one of the techniques she mentioned in making this Pop-Up Card. The Happy Halloween image you see here is actually one stamp. I cut it apart so that I could use each word individually, as you see here, putting the words on either side of the pumpkin image. That's one of the great things about stamps from DRS Designs! You have the option of getting your stamps either wood mounted or unmounted, rubber only. Choosing the rubber only option makes these stamps so much more versatile!

Here's my Pop-Up card fully assembled in the 3D position!

The pumpkin image was colored with markers, and I heat embossed the sentiment using black embossing powder. Then, I added black ink with a stipple brush and inked the edges orange. I created the card tag as seen in the tutorial instructions mentioned above, and used a decorative corner punch on each of the top corners of the completed tag. I added a large yellow eyelet and threaded orange sheer ribbon through it to finish the tag.

Once I had the pop-up base assembled, I needed to add a little something to it, as the black cardstock alone looked a little plain. I added orange and yellow ribbon across it and formed a bow that I attached in the middle of the base. I colored 2 DRS Designs Pumpkin images with markers and cut them out. I used my Nesties to form 2 circle tags with them and added one to each side of the bow.

I have to admit, for my first time creating one of these cards, I think these little pumpkin guys turned out really cute!

Make sure to check here to see Kimmy's Pop-Up Challenge Card!

Stamps: DRS Designs- Pumpkin Stack Up, Small Jack O Lantern, 2 Line Vertical Happy Halloween Greeting
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Colorbox Fluid Chalk ink in Tangerine, Rubber Stampede Embossing Ink
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Bazzill Cardstock
Accessories: Bic Markers, Joann's Scrap Essentials 3/16" Eyelets, Dashes Dots and Checks Ribbon by Michaels, C&G Sheer Orange Ribbon, Nesties, Creative Beginnings Black Embossing Powder, EK Success Decorative Corner Punch

So, do you have big plans for this weekend? My hubby is out of town, so I plan on stamping and crafting the weekend away! Anyone else care to join me? I'm sure you'll find me right here on my computer on and off all weekend too!

Hope your weekend is a great one!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Thanksgiving Horn of Plenty!

With all of the Fall and Halloween cards I've been making, I've realized I've left Thanksgiving out! You can't have Fall without Thanksgiving, right? We don't want any hurt feelings around here. LOL! So, it's time to share one of the Thanksgiving cards I've recently made.

This card uses the cornucopia image and a sentiment taken from the Thanksgiving Greeting Squares image by DRS Designs. I colored the image with markers and matted it withmetallic copper and yellow-orange cardstock. I used my cuttlebug to create the dark brown cardstock panel and 3 orange brads. I decorated the bottom of it with fabric ribbon.

You can see the rest of the Thanksgiving and Harvest stamps offered by DRS Designs here.

Stamps: DRS Designs- Cornucopia, Thanksgiving Squares Greeting
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Bazzill cardstock
Accessories: Ribbon by Joann's Autumn Inspirations, Cuttlebug and Swiss dots Embossing Folder, Brads by Making Memories

Hope you have a great day!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Sketch Wednesday #12 and Halloween Pumpkin Patch

Did you get a chance to use the sketch in your card making today? Did you miss the details on the Sketch post? You can see them here. Remember...you have until Sept. 30th 11:59pm EDT to complete any of the September sketches to be considered for my blog candy drawing.

Here's the Card Sketch.

Here's my Card Sketch Challenge Card!

I love this Jolly Pumpkin Patch image by DRS Designs!

On the DRS Designs Blog today, Heather, one of our DT members explained about all the different possibilities in the ways unmounted stamps, like the ones DRS Designs sells, can be used.

I used one of the techniques she mentioned in making this card today. The sentiment "Happy Halloween," is actually part of another stamp. You can see it here. The full stamp actually reads "Just Witching you a Happy Halloween!" I cut my stamp in 2 pieces so that I could use the full sentiment, or just the "Happy Halloween" part, as I did with this card. See, 1 stamp, 2 different ways of using it!

I think this card is pretty much self explanatory as far as how I made it, so I'm not going to go into details. However, if you have a questions about it, just leave me a comment and I'll answer it.

Stamps: DRS Designs- Pumpkin Patch, Witching you a Happy Halloween Sentiment
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink in Tangerine
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored Cardstock by Paper Reflections
Accessories: Bic Markers, Inkadinkado Chalk, gray Copic Marker, Michael's Dashes, Dots, and Checks Ribbon, Making Memories Brads

Hopefully you can play with this sketch too! If you do, please post a link to your card HERE on this post, so we can all see it!

If you missed some of the previous sketches you can find them at the following links. Remember to be entered into the September drawing you must post a link to your card using any of these challenges by Sept. 30th 11:59pm EDT! Please post your card links to the appropriate challenge post below.

September 3rd

September 10th

September 17th

I'm looking forward to seeing your version of this sketch!

Happy Stamping and Card Making!

Smiles, Jennifer

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Card Sketch Wednesday #12

Are you ready for Card Sketch Wednesday #12? Today is the last sketch for September.

Sketch Wednesday Challenge Details:

The details are pretty simple--make a card of any theme you choose utilizing the card sketch posted on my blog and then on the sketch challenge announcement post, reply with a comment posting a link to your blog or online gallery so that everyone can view how you utilized the sketch. You have all month to complete each challenge. So there is no confusion, a "month" runs from the first day of the month through the last day of the month--example Sept. 1st-Sept. 30th.

Bonus Opportunity for Participating each month:

Each month, I will assign a number in order from all of the comments/links posted from all qualifying participant weekly sketch challenge cards and draw one lucky winner for a package of blog candy from me! All of the blog candy goodies that I will offer will be craft/card making related--embellishments, ink pads, images, stamps, ribbon, punches etc.

Card Sketch Wednesday #12:

You can see my version of this sketch later today...Stay tuned!

If you missed some of the previous sketches you can find them at the following links. Remember to be entered into the September drawing you must post a link to your card using any of these challenges by Sept. 30th 11:59pm EDT!

September 3rd

September 10th

September 17th

Go ahead, Give 'em a try!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Spooky Halloween Fun!

It won't be long before Halloween is upon us!

Here's another card I made with my new Fall/Halloween stamps by DRS Designs.

I created this patch work look by stamping my images on white cardstock and cutting them down to size and covering the paper edges with black and orange ribbon. All of the stamps seen here are from DRS Designs new release, except the pumpkin and the candy corn edger. I used markers to color them all, and used black chalk to shade around each stamp giving the smoky, spooky look. This card is large, approximately 6"x 5.5".

I really like the stamp in the upper right corner. This stamp could be used to decorate an envelope to a Halloween card you've made. The square you see on the tombstone behind the pumpkin is where you can put your postage stamp. The writing on the other tombstone reads "From the Dead Letter Office." You can see the image better here. Since I wasn't using this on an envelope, I decided to put the pumpkin there with a pop-dot to use up the space.

Stamps: DRS Designs- Dead Letter Postage Frame, RIP Headstone, Wicked Halloween Sentiment, Small Jack O Lantern, Candy Corn Edger
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored Cardstock by Paper Reflections
Accessories: Bic Markers, Ribbon by May Arts, Orange Brads by Making Memories, Pop-Dots, Chalk by Inkadinkado

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Happy Fall Ya'll!

It's--the--most--Wonderful--Time--of--year!

(Imagine the tune by Andy Williams playing here!)

Ok, maybe the words to that song don't quite fit, because today celebrates the first the day of Fall. Yeah! It's officially Autumn!

My favorite season, don't ya know? This is my most Wonderful Time of the year!

In honor of the season change, I made a card today that completely focuses on Fall and how the season is characterized with the color change and "fall" of leaves.

I love this card! I think it's one of my favorites! It was fun to make and it was one of those cards that worked out just like the plan my head. Do you know what I mean? Unfortunately, these pictures don't do it justice! It is so elegant and I tried my best to capture it so you could see it. This card also features some of the new stamps released just last week by DRS Designs. You can see their new stamps here.

To make this card I first used smooth white cardstock and stamped the silhouette leaf repeatedly in different colors using the stamp-off technique. Then I stamped the new Changing Leaves sentiment with embossing ink and heat embossed it using copper embossing powder over the leaves. I then inked the edges with orange ink. I matted it as shown and then punched a hole to set a copper eyelet near the bottom right corner.

Next, I created the hanging leaf tag, using the new Tiny Fall Leaf stamp and orange ink on smooth white cardstock. I colored it and shaded the area around it with chalk. I used my circle Nesties to cut it out and then inked the edges in orange. I matted it with copper cardstock and then used my scallop circle Nesties to create the scalloped base. I also added a copper eyelet to this as well.

I created the cardstock base from orange cardstock to measure for a 4.25" x 7" card. I cut ivory cardstock so that I could layer the base with it and see a small portion of the orange all the way around. The ivory cardstock was decorated by heat embossing the Leaf Edger stamp at the top and bottom with copper embossing powder. I then used orange chalk and colored in each leaf, and inked the edges of the ivory cardstock with orange ink. The ivory cardstock was then adhered to the cardstock base.

I used gold thread to loop the eyelet in the matted sentiment and the eyelet in the leaf tag together. This allowed the leaf tag to dangle when the sentiment was adhered to the card base. I love the pun here--It really looks like the little leaf is "Falling!" LOL!

Stamps: DRS Designs- Changing Leaves Greeting, Silhouette Leaf, Tiny fall Leaf, Leaf Edger,
Ink: Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink in Tangerine, Chestnut Brown, Yellow Ochre, Warm Red, and Lime Pastel, Embossing Ink by Rubber Stampede.
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Bazzill cardstock, and smooth cardstock by Paper Reflections.
Accessories: Gold Thread by Sulky, Copper Eyelets by Joann's Scrap Essentials, Nesties, Inkadinkado chalk

My Husband and I celebrate our Wedding anniversary in October, so we always plan a day together to spend at the cider mill...warm cinnamon donuts, fresh apple cider, and a long walk in the fallen leaves, just the 2 of us! I look forward to it every year!

Is Fall your favorite season too?

If not, what season is your favorite and why? What Fall activities do you enjoy?

Stay tuned...I have more Autumn, Halloween, and Thanksgiving cards to show you all week!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Wanna Try a Pop-Up Card?

This week Kimmy and I are going to try making Pop-Up Cards for our Fun Filled Friday Challenge. This is the tutorial we are going to use. Have you ever made this type of card before? Well, if not, now's the time! Kimmy and I would love for you to participate along with us. As an added bonus if you do, Kimmy has a blog candy drawing and you could win some stamping goodies!

This will be my first time trying this type of card. I have to admit, I am excited to try it. I love how it folds flat and it is still a card that could actually be mailed, yet it's so very 3-D!

I look forward to seeing your Pop-Up Card!

Have a great week!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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SC194-Pumpkin Frenzy!

Here's another attempt at the lastest SCS Sketch Challenge, SC194. Yes, I'm back to displaying my Halloween images. Sorry, I love the Fall and just can't get enough. LOL! I hope you like them too!

I colored this Stacked Pumpkin image with markers and matted it with black and orange cardstock. I used orange cardstock as my card base, measuring for an A2 size card. I cut the b;ack cardstock to be smaller than the card front and then cut the pieces according to the sketch. I did the same for the yellow cardstock but stamped on each piece before adhering it to the black cardstock. I used either black or orange ink to stamp on each piece using 3 different stamps by DRS Designs.

After stamping the candy corn border, I colored it with an orange marker and a white Gelly pen. I tied black ribbon around the largest piece as shown, and then adhered each piece to the card front.

Not too sure I like my background for this card, but I love that pumpkin image and this sketch was fun to work with!

Stamps: DRS Designs- Pumpkin Stack Up, Zig Zag Edger, Candy Corn Edger, Large Rectangle Stained Glass Background
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Colorbox Fluid Chalk in Tangerine
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored Cardstock by Paper Reflections
Accessories: Bic Markers, Ribbon by Bobbie M. Designs, White Gelly Roll pen

So, do you enjoy seeing all my Fall and Halloween cards? If not, leave me a comment and let me know what other themes you'd like to see right now. I'll take it on as a personal challenge and post them on future blog posts.

Hope you're having a great Weekend! Enjoy the Summer while it lasts...Monday is the first day of Fall! Yippee!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Reflection Card for FFF!

This week Kimmy and I were challenged to make Scenery Reflection type cards for our Fun Filled Friday Challenge. I thought I could tackle this challenge with no problems...until I started it! Wow! This is so much harder than I thought. All week long I knew what stamp I wanted to use for this challenge and then when it was time to get started I realized how big this stamp actually was and questioned how I was going to make this work.

Kimmy and I actually got together to stamp on Wednesday. She was able to offer me some advice to help me get started and steer me in the right direction. Here's my challenge card, although I'm not very happy with my image, I love the layout and the colors! I'll have to try this technique again one day & give it another shot.

So, as promised...this card is not Fall or Halloween related! I used this technique and created the trees and their reflection with black ink. I used Post-It Notes to mask off a "horizon" and sponged green ink along it, and then blue ink below it to resemble water. I used markers to add green to the trees and to draw in grass and weeds along the water line. I used chalk to shade the blue sky and the green reflection from the trees. I recently bought a few jars of Shimmerz and thought I'd try them out on this card. So, I used Sagebrush Shimmerz to add green tint and a little sparkle to the trees and their reflection, but it is hard to see in these photos.

The main image was cut out using my oval Coluzzle, then layered as shown with dark green, light blue, and lime green cardstock. I added a light blue brad in each corner, and used my horizontal Slot punch to create holes so I could add ribbon. I threaded the ribbon through the holes and ties it in a knot on the right side of the image.

I computer generated the "Happy Birthday" sentiment using PegsannaHMK, size 10 font, printed on cardstock. I cut it out and sponged it with green ink. I adhered it to my card front using a metal frame accent from TAC.

I created the card base from matching dark green cardstock that measures for a 5 1/8" x 5 7/8" card, and adhered my card front to it.

Stamps: Tree Image by Denami Designs
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Colorbox Fluid Chalk ink in Lime Pastel, Olive Pastel, French Blue
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored cardstock by Paper Reflections and DCWV
Accessories: Oval Coluzzle, Ribbon by American Crafts, Brads by Joann's Scrap Essentials, SU! Horizontal Punch, Shimmerz in Sagebrush, Bic Markers, Chalk by Inkadinkado, Metal Frame and brads from TAC.

Don't forget to check out Kimmy's Reflection card.

Did you make a reflection card this week? make sure to post a link here so I can see it!

Please leave me a comment, I'd love to hear from you today!

Have a great Friday & a Happy Stamping Weekend!

TGIF!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Witching You a Happy Halloween!

Here's another cute card I made yesterday. Yes, of course I'm still using my new stamps from DRS Designs. Are you sick of seeing my Halloween cards yet? I do have more to show you, but I'll give you a break, tomorrow's card will not have a Halloween theme! LOL!

The sentiment on this card is one of the new releases by DRS Designs. I made my own pattern paper for this card as well, using the Open Plaid Striped Background stamp and orange ink. In between the open spaces I stamped the Candy Corn Edger image and colored the candy with markers.

I stamped the sentiment with black ink and inked the edges with orange. I matted it with black & orange cardstock. (Remember the orange cardstock I made using bleach on this card? I used up part of those scraps on this card as well.)

The pumpkin image seen here is also by DRS Designs. I colored him with markers, used my Nesties to layer him creating a tag, punched a hole in the top, and then decorated it with some Halloween ribbon and adhered it to the top of my card.

Stamps: DRS Designs- Open Plaid Background, Candy Corn Edger, Witching you a Happy Halloween Greeting, Small Jack O Lantern
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Colorbox Fluid Chalk in Tangerine
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored cardstock by Paper Reflections
Accessories: May Arts Ribbon, Nesties, Bic Markers

Are you as excited about Halloween as I am?

Hope you have a great Thursday!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Card Sketch #11-Autumn Greetings

Sketch Wednesday Challenge Details:
The details are pretty simple--make a card of any theme you choose utilizing the card sketch posted on my blog and then on the sketch challenge announcement post, reply with a comment posting a link to your blog or online gallery so that everyone can view how you utilized the sketch. You have all month to complete each challenge. So there is no confusion, a "month" runs from the first day of the month through the last day of the month--example Sept. 1st-Sept. 30th.

Bonus Opportunity for Participating in Sketch Wednesday Challenges:
Each month, I will assign a number in order from all of the comments/links posted from all qualifying participant weekly sketch challenge cards and draw one lucky winner for a package of blog candy from me! All of the blog candy goodies that I will offer will be craft/card making related--embellishments, ink pads, images, stamps, ribbon, punches etc.


Here's today's sketch and my challenge card.

As you can see I turned the sketch.

This was a fun card to make. The main image, October Pumpkin with Leaves, is another new release stamp from DRS Designs that was just released on Monday. The small leaf in the leaf collage is new as well.

I colored the pumpkin/leaf image with markers. I used my Nesties to cut it out and then inked the edges with orange ink. I matted it as shown with different colored cardstock & some of my scalloped Nesties.

My cardstock base was made from light orange cardstock. This finished card size measures 6 1/4" x 5." Then, I cut golden yellow cardstock to fit on top of the card base so that it was slightly smaller than it, to allow an orange border to show once it was adhered to the base.

I created the look of patterned paper using 2 leaf images by DRS Designs, the Small Silhouette Leaf and the Tiny Fall Leaf with different colored inks. To take the whiteness out of the cardstock, I sponged the empty spaces with orange ink. I also used chalk to color in each of the tiny Fall leaves to add more color to my handmade pattern paper. Next, I cut the leaf paper down to the size I wanted and then matted it with dark brown cardstock. This was adhered to the golden yellow cardstock as shown in the sketch.

I then adhered my matted image to the left upper portion of the golden yellow cardstock and added a sheer orange bow to the bottom of it. I also used the same ribbon to form the vertical bar on the right hand side of the sketch, and adhered it to the underside of the golden yellow cardstock.

As a final touch, I heat embossed the sentiment, "Autumn Greetings" with copper embossing powder in the upper left corner of my card front. The card front was then adhered to the orange base.

Stamps: DRS Designs- October Pumpkin with Leaves (G1102) Silhouette Leaf (691), Tiny Fall Leaf (A1074), Autumn Greetings (B422)
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink in Chestnut Roan, Yellow Ochre, Tangerine, Lime Pastel, and Warm Red
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot,
Accessories: Bic Markers, sheer Orange ribbon by C & G, Copper Embossing powder, Inkadinkado chalk, Nesties

If you love Fall and Halloween, make sure to check here to see all of the new images released by DRS Designs just this week, including the new stamps I used on this sketch.

So did you play with this sketch? If so please leave me a link to this blog post so we can all check it out. Don't forget, you can't have a chance to win the blog candy if you don't play.

C'mon...give it a try...It's fun!

Have a great Sketch Day!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Card Sketch Wednesday #11

Are you ready for Card Sketch Wednesday #11? I hope you'll give it a try!

Sketch Wednesday Challenge Details:
The details are pretty simple--make a card of any theme you choose utilizing the card sketch posted on my blog and then on the sketch challenge announcement post, reply with a comment posting a link to your blog or online gallery so that everyone can view how you utilized the sketch. You have all month to complete each challenge. So there is no confusion, a "month" runs from the first day of the month through the last day of the month--example Sept. 1st-Sept. 30th.

Bonus Opportunity for Participating in Sketch Wednesday Challenges:
Each month, I will assign a number in order from all of the comments/links posted from all qualifying participant weekly sketch challenge cards and draw one lucky winner for a package of blog candy from me! All of the blog candy goodies that I will offer will be craft/card making related--embellishments, ink pads, images, stamps, ribbon, punches etc.

Card Sketch Wednesday #11:

I'll post my challenge card later today. Hope you will too!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Trick Or Treat

Did you place your order for the new Fall and Halloween stamps from DRS Designs? They were released just yesterday!

Today I am featuring another one of those new releases. It is this Trick or Treat Image.

I first stamped the Trick or Treat image and colored it with Bic Markers. Next, I cut it out and matted it with orange and black cardstock as shown. I created my cardstock base from black cardstock measuring for a 6" x 4.25" card. Then, I cut the yellow cardstock slightly smaller than the card front, and stamped the Candy Corn edger stamp along the bottom. I colored the candy corn using a white gel pen and an orange marker. I adhered my matted image in the center of the card front on an angle as shown and then stamped 'Happy' on the left side of the image and 'Halloween' on the right side using black ink. I added black and orange glitter to the letters and set it aside to dry.

Here's a close up of this new stamp!

Are you getting ready for Halloween?

Only 45 days until the creepy crawlies and the spooks come out!

Stamps: DRS Designs- Trick Or Treat (L1032), Happy Halloween (F255), Candy Corn/Leaf Edger (P567)
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored cardstock by Paper Reflections
Accessories: Bic Markers, Rolling Ball Writer by Sailor in Warm Cream, Black Diamond Stickles by Ranger, Orange Glitter Glue

Stay tuned for another Card Sketch Challenge that will be posted tomorrow!

Have a great Day!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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From ATC to Greeting Card!

Remember the last blog challenge DRS Designs held a couple weeks ago? It was to make Artist Trading Cards, or ATC's.

This week, DRS Designs is challenging you to make a Greeting card using the ATC you made.

From this: My ATC-A Holiday Snowman

To this:

My greeting card-A Holiday Snowman in a Winter Wonderland!

If you need the details to see how I made my ATC, you can find them here on my previous blog post.

To create this card, I first created my card base from Red cardstock. Next I cut a white piece of cardstock slightly smaller than my card front. I then used light blue ink and inked the inside of my Snowflake Cuttlebug Embossing Folder. I put the white cardstock inside the folder and ran it through my Cuttlebug. This created the soft blue look of my snowflake background. I adhered it to the card front.

Next, I matted my ATC with dark blue cardstock and then again with red cardstock as shown. I adhered the matted ATC to the center of my card front.

As a final step, I added Stickles to all of the embossed snowflakes on the card front. I love the background! It really makes it look like my snowman is in a Winter Wonderland! I tried to capture the sparkle in this picture.

Stamps: DRS Designs- Simply a Snowman, Tiny Happy Holidays
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink-Azurite Blue and Warm Red
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored Cardstock by Bazzill, and Paper Reflections
Accessories: Icicle Stickles by Ranger, Cuttlebug, Snowflake Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Ribbon by Bobbie M. Designs



***Don't forget the new Fall and Halloween stamps are being released TODAY at DRS Designs. Make sure to run over there & pick out all your favorites!***

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Fun Filled Friday Announcement

For this weeks Fun Filled Friday Announcement I have challenged Kimmy to create cards depiciting a scene. For example a forest scene with the trees reflecting in a pond of water etc. You can see some examples of what I mean here. These cards were created by members of the Stamp Shack.

We hope that you will participate in our challenges as well. Kimmy has a blog candy drawing every month for anyone who posts their challenge cards to our blogs.

Hope you have a wonderful week!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Floral Note Card

DRS Designs release some new floral images not too long ago that I've finally got a chance to play with.

The floral border you see here is brand new! I love the detail in these mini flowers. They really dress up your project.

My cardstock base is made from white cardstock and it measures A2 size (4.25" x 5.5"). I stamped the flower border stamp and the sentiment directly on the card base.

Stamps: DRS Designs- Flower/Zig Zag Edger, Flower/Butterfly Combo, Just a Note
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored cardstock by Paper Reflections,
Accessories: Bic Markers, Horizontal Slot punch by SU!, Ribbon unknown

Hope you're having a wonderful weekend!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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You're in My Thoughts...

So sorry for the delay in showing you my Fun Filled Friday Sympathy card. To be honest with this being such a difficult topic for me create cards for, I put it off until the last minute. I have to admit though, I'm happy with the results!

I had no direction for this card. It took me a while to decide what stamp to use, and when I did, I just pulled out my markers and colored it. From there, I decided what I wanted for my base card--light pink A2 size card base.

This card is unique for me, not only in topic, but also in layout. I tend to layer and layer (and layer! LOL!) my cards. Not much of that was done on this card. To create the serene impression I wanted my Sympathy card to have, I thought the simpler it was, the better for this topic.

So, what do you think? How'd I do? Does this fit the classic style for a Sympathy card? Or is it too cutesy/fun looking?

Don't forget to check out Kimmy's Sympathy card!

Stamps: DRS Designs- Rose image by Inkadinkado, Sentiment by Stampendous
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, SU! Rose Red for sentiment, Colorbox Fluid Chalk ink in Pink Pastel for distressing edges around Rose image.
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, colored cardstock by Bazzill
Accessories: Bic Markers, Ribbon by Bobbie M. Designs

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Halloween Dahlia Flower!

I know today is Fun Filled Friday and I'm supposed to be posting my Sympathy challenge card today...Well, I'm running a little behind this week, and wanted to show you this cutie first! So, no worries, my challenge card will be posted later today.

DRS Designs will be releasing new Halloween and Fall Stamps on Monday September 15th. How many of you love their Ribbon Slides? I know I do! They are so much fun & add a lot of dimension to your work. Well, here's another one to add to your collection!

To make this card, I first used house-hold cleaning bleach with a sponge and a paint brush to add lighter highlights to my orange cardstock. Then, I created the Dalia (the center flower) using the Dahlia Fold technique. You can see tutorials here and here.

I used my Marvy Uchida 1.5" scallop circle punch to punch out 9 scalloped circles. I used the tutorials above to fold them and create each petal. I found it best to use regular tape to hold the petals together as I created each one.

After I created the Dahlia flower, I stamped the pumpkin ribbon slide image on smooth white cardstock, and colored it with my Bic Markers. I cut it out, and also cut out the center portion. I threaded a small piece of black and orange ribbon through the center and adhered it to the back of the ribbon slide. I used my Nesties to cut a small black circle to put behind the ribbon slide, and then adhered it to the center of my Dahlia flower.

I formed my black cardstock base to measure for an A2 size card (4.25" x 5.5") but created it so that the fold was on the left, short side of the card. I layered cardstock as shown, and added one of the older Halloween sentiments by DRS Designs with black ink.

I love the dimension the Dahlia fold technique gives to each project. Here you can see just how much "lift" is created by each fold.

Make sure to stop by DRS Designs on Monday (September 15th) to check out all of the new releases. If you're a Fall and Halloween lover like me, then you're not going to want to miss it!

Stamps: DRS Designs- Pumpkin Ribbon Slide (to be released on Sept. 15, 2008), 2 Line Vertical Happy Halloween Sentiment
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, colored cardstock by Bazzill and Paper Reflections
Accessories: Chlorox Bleach, Bic Markers, May Arts Ribbon, Nesties, Marvy Uchida Circle Scallop punch

Have a great weekend!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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