CS193, CC183, and the Wizard of Oz Halloween Sneak Peek!

I decided to give the SCS Color Challenge (CC183) a try. This weeks challenge colors were to use gray, green, and red. I actually colored this image before I knew what the color challenge was so, I had to follow through and finish it as if I planned it that way. LOL! Once I was ready to figure out what layout would work for this image and a sentiment, I quickly realized that the latest sketch challenge on SCS (CS193) would be perfect! Completing 2 SCS challenges in 1 card is a first for me!

The main image and the sentiment are both part of the new Halloween release that will be available by DRS Designs on September 15th. It's perfect with this sentiment, huh?

I colored the image using my Bic Markers and matted it with black and gray cardstock. I created the cardstock base from green cardstock to measure for a 6" x 5.5" card size. I thought the red vertical column looked a little plain, so I stamped the Empty Spider Web image repeatedly on it with black ink. Once I had my layout assembled, I added Diamond Glaze to the window to make it look like glass, and red Stickles to the witches' ruby slippers. They were sparkly in the movie, right? The Stickles were a must here!

Stamps: All stamps by DRS Designs
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Colorbox Pigment Brush Pad in Silver
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, colored cardstock by Bazzil and the Paper Company
Accessories: Bic Markers, Xmas Red Stickles by Ranger, Diamond Glaze by Judi-Kins, Ribbon from Jolie Chocolat/SEI, Nestie

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

TGIT! (Thank God it's Thursday--today is my Friday! No work for me tomorrow!) I'm going to craft away my Friday! Stay tuned to see my latest project!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Card Sketch #10 and Halloween Sneak Peek!

WOW! Can't believe this is my 10th week posting card sketches! Did you make a card using this sketch?

Here's my Sketch Challenge card!

All you Halloween lovers out there, this ones for you! This card features 2 new stamps by DRS Designs which will be released on September 15th. Start making your wish list as the other Design Team members and I will be showing off stamps from this next release all week.

I used black embossing powder on orange cardstock with the silhouette image and the sentiment. I then used a craft knife to cut out the eyes, nose, and mouth on the pumpkin and put yellow cardstock behind it to make it look like it was glowing. I used my Nestabilities to create the yellow scallop behind the image and to create the entire tag. To finish the card I just layered cardstock following the layout in the sketch. The sentiment tag is pop-dotted to give this card some dimension. The cardstock base measures 7 5/8" x 4 1/4."

You can find these stamps on September 15th at DRS Designs.

You can find the blogs of the all DRS Design Team Members on the right hand column of my blog or on the DRS Designs Blog. Make sure to check out their sneak peeks as well!

Stamps: DRS Designs- Halloween Silhouette Image, A Treat for You! sentiment
Ink: Rubber Stampede Embossing Ink
Paper: Cardstock by Paper Reflections
Accessories: Creative Beginnings Black Embossing Powder, Nesties, Ribbon by May Arts, 3D-Dots

Have a great Wednesday!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Card Sketch Wednesday #10

Are you ready for Card Sketch Wednesday #10? I hope you'll give it a try!

Card Sketch Wednesday 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 #10:

Make sure to check back later to see my version of this sketch!

Smiles, Jennifer

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Snowflake Delight!

Here's another winter card I've recently made. I just can't get away from that snowflake background stamp or the new ribbon slides recently released by DRS Designs!

I had this sketch already created on paper, so the first thing I did to create this card was to create my cardstock base. It was made from white cardstock and measures 4" x 8." I then decorated it with the Snowflake Background and blue ink.

Next, I heat embossed the ribbon slide 3 times using silver embossing powder and light blue cardstock. I cut each one out and cut out the middle portions so that I could thread ribbon through them. I used sheer light blue ribbon to tie a knot in the center of each one. I used my Nesties to create the embossed white square and dark blue scallop square behind each one.

Then I cut a long light blue rectangle column and matted it with dark blue. I adhered each of the matted snowflakes as shown and added a snowflake brad above and below the center snowflake. I adhered this column to the left side of my cardstock base and added the same light blue ribbon with a knot on the right side of the card base.

I have to admit, the pictures here do not do this card justice. It is so pretty in person. I wish I could be with all of you, so you could see it for yourself!

• Stamps: DRS Designs- Snowflake Background, Snowflake Ribbon Slide
• Ink: Rubber Stampede Embossing Ink, Colorbox Fluid chalk in Azurite blue
• Paper: Cardstock by Paper Reflections
• Accessories: Silver Embossing Powder by Creative Beginnings, Nesties, Ribbon-unknown
  

Hope you're having a great day!

Smiles,
Jennifer

PS: I just learned that DRS Designs will be releasing some new Fall and Halloween Stamps on September 15th! Stay tuned for later this week as I will be revealing a few sneak peeks! (I'm so excited!!)

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Quick and Easy Happy Holidays!

Need to make some quick and easy holiday cards? Here's an idea for you!

(Sorry for awful shadow around my scallop tag.)

I used the "Happy Holidays!" sentiment by DRS Designs and repeatedly stamped it & stamped it off using red and green ink on white cardstock. Then I cut the cardstock to size and matted it with green cardstock. I tied a red ribbon around the bottom. The cardstock base was made from red cardstock and measures standard A2 size, 4.25" x 5.5." I made the circle tag by stamping the sentiment once in red ink & using my Nesties to mat it in a red plain circle and a green scallop circle. I used a pop dot to adhere the tag to the card.

Stamps: DRS Designs- Tiny Happy Holidays Stamp
Ink: Colorbox Fluid Chalk ink in Warm Green and Warm red
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, colored cardstock by Paper Reflections
Accessories: Red ribbon by Bobbie M. Designs, Nesties, 3D-Dots


Smiles,
Jennifer

PS: Make sure to check back on Tuesday, I made another card using the famous DRS Designs Ribbon Slides!

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Fun Filled Friday Challenge Announcement

This weeks fun Filled Friday Challenge is not so fun. However, there's a time when we all need them, and I have mixed feeling about creating them. (I can see the puzzled look on your face as you wonder what the heck I'm talking about.) Well, I'm talking about Sympathy cards.

For the longest time I had this idea in my head that sympathy cards should not be made, they should be bought, you know, like from Hallmark. I believe that hand made cards should always be kept. But, in times of Sympathy, who would want to keep a card that was made in times of true sadness? Especially if the recipient kept the hand made card, and then remembered the sad occasion every time they saw that card.

Well, I have changed my ways of thinking and now believe that it's OK to create sympathy cards. From all of the galleries I've searched and from all of the blogs I've read, I see how truly beautiful sympathy cards can be. In times when sympathy is needed, I've realized that a hand made card can really help comfort the recipient. I've learned that recipients cherish the thoughtfulness that hand made cards display and honor special remembrances of their loved one and the times you may have had with that person.

I don't think the mixed feelings I have about making Sympathy cards will ever really go away, but I am trying to become more open minded about making them.

So, with that in mind, this weeks challenge is to create a sympathy card. Won't you join us in this challenge?

Please leave me a comment. I'd like to see how everyone else feels about this topic.

Do you make Sympathy cards or do you buy them when necessary?

How do you feel about making/receiving sympathy cards?

Make sure to check back on Friday to see my card.

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Sketch Challenge SC192

I usually find the Sketch Challenges on SCS rather easy to complete. However, the last 2 sketches I have struggled and struggled to finish. I guess it's because the sketches call for 2 different types of coordinating patterned paper, or at least that's how I'm interpreting them! Well, I'm trying to use up supplies that I already have rather than make any more purchases, so finding matching paper for this was a bit difficult!

Well, I finally came up with something I was happy with. How'd I do?

The image was colored with pencils and then I decorated the corners with a corner rounder. I matted it a few times and used a corner rounder on those corners as well.

I picked my patterned paper and coordinating cardstock colors for the card base & matting layers. This finished card measures 5.75" x 6." I hid the dividing line between the 2 patterned paper with ribbon and then used a slot punch to add a touch of ribbon to the image. I adhered the matted image to the center of the patterned paper, and added a dark brown brad to each of the 4 corners. This was then adhered to my card base & that's it...my card was finished!

Stamps: DRS Designs- Sunflower Pumpkin Patch
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Paper: Smooth white cardstock from Office Depot, Bazzill cardstock, Patterned paper from the Paper Studio
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, Joann's Scrap Essentials Brads, Michael's ribbon-Dashes, Dots, and Checks, Brown Zig marker for doodling, SU! Horizontal punch

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

Have a great weekend!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Sunflowers and Bleach!

Happy Fun Filled Friday everyone! With the Holiday last weekend, this week sure flew by didn't it?

Well, Sunday I announced that we were going to use bleach in our card making this week. Did you give it a try?

Here's my card:

This is my first time using bleach with my card making! Normally, I use it with laundry and that's it, but I think I like this new way of card making! I'm sure you can plan on seeing more bleach cards from me in the future!

This card was rather quick for me to make. First, I heat embossed the image with black embossing powder. Then I used a paint brush to apply bleach to the areas I wanted to highlight and lighten. Once the bleach was dry, I trimmed the area around the image and then mat it with several different colors of cardstock to help "pop" the bleached areas. I used a yellow Bic Marker and some yellow chalk to add yellow tones to the areas highlighted with bleach. Sunflowers are supposed to be yellow, right?

Next, I formed the background column that I used to add some green brads and green ribbon to my design. The card base was made from green cardstock and it measures 5.5" x 5.75." I then adhered the background piece to the center of the card base and then adhered the matted image to it.

So, what cha think?

Don't forget to check out Kimmy's Bleach card here.

Stamps: - Inkadinkado
Ink: Embossing Ink by Rubber Stampede
Paper:
Accessories: Black Embossing powder by Creative Beginnings, Household bleach, a paint brush, Bic Markers, Chalk by Inkadinkado, Ribbon by The Paper Studio Ribbon Trends, Brads by Making Memories

Have a great weekend!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Sketch Challenge Blog Candy Winner!

The Blog Candy Winner of my Card Sketch Challenges for August is

GrammaStamper (Barb)!

You can see her sketch cards here.

Thanks so much for playing, Barb! I'll have your package in the mail by the weekend.

Just a reminder, I posted the first Card Sketch challenge for September yesterday. Make sure to check back every Wednesday for a new sketch. You never know...the next Sketch Challenge Blog Candy Winner could be you!

Thanks for visiting today!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Religious Christmas Card

This card features one of the new Christmas Stamps by DRS Designs called Luke 2:11-14 Holiday Verse.

I created the back ground from the Interlocking Stars background stamp. I colored them with Bic markers and then used red and green Stickles to give the card a little sparkle. The verse was stamped with green ink and then I used red ink to distress the edges around it. Although it is hard to see, the cardstock base is dark green and measures 4.25" x 6."

Sorry this picture has a yellow tint, but I wanted to get a close-up picture so you could read the verse and see the font well. It truly is a very elegant image!

So, have you started making your holiday cards yet? Only 113 days til Christmas! (yikes!)

Stamps: DRS Designs- Interlocking Star Background, Luke 2:11-14 Holiday Verse.
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Paper: Smooth White cardstock by Office Depot, colored cardstock by Paper Reflections
Accessories: Bic Markers, Stickles in Xmas Red and Green , Colorbox Fluid chalk in Warm Red and Warm Green, Red Grosgrain ribbon by Bobbie M. Designs

Have a Wonderful Thursday!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Elegant Birthday Card for Card Sketch Wednesday

Today is Card Sketch Wednesday on my blog and earlier today I posted this challenge sketch. Did you give it a try? Are you planning on working on it later? I'd love to see your version.

Here's my Card Sketch Wednesday Challenge card. I love the Red, Black and white, and think this turned out so elegant.

I used one of the new Ribbon Slides by DRS Designs on this card. I'm loving them lately. They are fun to use & add a lot of dimension to your work. Plus, my favorite part is that they are a paper/flat embellishment. No heavy metal to worry about if you need to send a card through the mail. You can see the rest of the ribbon slides by DRS Designs here.

For those of you unfamiliar with how ribbon slides work, they are really quite easy to use. All you do is remove the areas that have an X on them, using either an exacto blade or by poking a hole with a pointed pair of scissors and then cutting the X portion out. (That's what I do.) Then, they work like a buckle with the ribbon sliding up from the back and down over the center portion, or tying a knot over the center post.

This particular slide is designed to be punched out with a 1" circle punch, making it quick and easy to use.

Have you noticed how similar this ribbon slide is to the Cuttlebug Textile Texture Embossing folder? The patterns are so similar it's practically a perfect match! I think they complement each other very well.

Well, after I punched out the ribbon slides I felt they need something more than just the ribbon in the center. I thought they would look nice matted in red, a scallop just as I had done with the sentiment. Well, I didn't have a scallop punch that fit them, and my scallop Nesties were too big, so I improvised, and it worked!!

I used a Flower paper punch to create those red scallop mats you see behind each ribbon slide. I punched 2 flowers for each ribbon slide and adhered them on top of one another. Then, I adhered the ribbon slide onto the matted flowers and Viola! the appearance of a scalloped circle that fit around the ribbon slides perfectly!
This is a pic of the scrap piece of red cardstock I used to punch out my flowers to give you an idea about the punch I used.

This finished card size measures 5.5" x 4.25" (A2)

Stamps: DRS Designs- Flourish Ribbon Slide, Happy Moments/Happy Days Sentiment
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Rubber Stampede Embossing ink, Colorbox Fluid Chalk in Charcoal
Paper: Smooth cardstock by Paper Reflections
Accessories: Creative Beginnings White Embossing powder, Black brad-unknown, Red Ribbon-Unknown, Textile Texture Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Nestabilities, EK Success Flower Punch

Please make sure to post a link to your card in my comment section so we can all check out your card and I can make sure to enter you in my blog candy drawing for giving it a try.

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Card Sketch Wednesday #9

Are you ready for Card Sketch Wednesday #9? 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 #9:

Please reply with links to your challenge cards here on this blog post.




Stay tuned for my card...I'll heading to my craft room soon to work on it and I'll post it later today when I get it finished.

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Happy Birthday!

I made this card last week and forgot all about showing it to you. I can't believe it!

This card features one of the new Word Frame images from DRS Designs. They can be used with many of the simple sentiments that DRS Designs offers. Here you can see I've used it with the Happy Birthday sentiment.

The background was made by heat embossing the Flower/Dragonfly background stamp on blue cardstock and matting it with copper cardstock cut with my Nesties. I also embossed the Delicate Flower background as my main image. The ribbon was tied vertically around the scalloped piece in the background and then tied in a knot and adhered in front of the main image. This finished card measures 4.25" x 6."

• Stamps: All images by DRS Designs


• Ink: Rubber Stampede Embossing Ink


• Paper: Bazzill cardstock, smooth cardstock by Paper Reflections.


• Accessories: Copper Embossing Powder, Offray Ribbon

Make sure to come back and visit tomorrow for the first Card Sketch Wednesday posted for September.

Please leave me a comment. I'd love to hear from you!
Smiles,
Jennifer

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ATC Challenge

Have you seen the new challenge posted today by DRS Designs? The challenge is to make an Artist Trading Card (ATC). For all you ATC lovers out there, this one's for you! We'd love for you to join us in our challenges. Make sure to hang on to the ATC you make and check back to join in on the second part of this challenge in 2 weeks! Be sure to post a comment with a direct link to your project so we can come check it out! If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword DRSC3.

For those of you unfamiliar with ATC's you can see a tutorial here. ATC's are small pieces of art that measure 3.5" x 2.5." They can be used for trading with other artists, or be used as an embellishment when creating a larger art piece, such as on a greeting card etc.

The weather here in Michigan is hot and humid again, near 90 degrees, so I'm thinking of the Holidays again to cool off. This snowman from DRS Designs is perfect for that!

To make this ATC, I first stamped and colored the snowman image with markers. Then I trimmed the white cardstock down around him, and used my corner rounder punch on each corner. I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to position the Happy Holidays as shown. (The "Happy Holidays" sentiment is actually one stamp, however, when I stamped it, I only inked up the word I wanted.) Next, I matted it with dark blue cardstock and used the corner rounder on it as well.

I created my ATC base by first cutting my red cardstock to ATC size. Then I found a coordinating light blue piece of cardstock from my scraps and cut it so that when matted with the red cardstock you could see a thin border of red around it. I decorated it with the snowflake background and light blue ink. After I did this I thought it looked a little plain, so I ran it through my snowflake Cuttlebug embossing folder to give it some texture. To make the base match my matted image piece, I used the corner rounder on it as well.

I added red grosgrain ribbon down the center of the ATC to add more red to ATC without going overboard. Next, I adhered the matted image in the center of the ATC. I added Stickles to the snowman as a final touch and set it aside to dry. You can see the sparkle of the Stickles really well in the picture below. Sorry it has a yellow tint!

• Stamps: DRS Designs-Simply a Snowman, Happy Holidays, Snowflake Background
• Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Colorbox Fluid Chalk in Azurite Blue and Warm Red
• Paper: Smooth white cardstock from Office Depot, Bazzill Cardstock
• Accessories: Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Icicle Stickles by Ranger, EK Success Corner Rounder Punch, Bic Markers, Bobbie M. Designs Red Grosgrain Ribbon
  

Make Sure to check out the ATC's from the rest of the DRS Designs DT:

Angel

Cathy

Etha

Dawn

Janette

Vicki

Heather

Jessica

Have a Wonderful Labor Day!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Challenge Announcement...Bleach!

Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope you are all having a Labor-Free weekend. I know I'm loving the time off work! Yeah!

Well, it's challenge announcement time for this weeks Fun Filled Friday Challenge. The challenge...(drum roll please ) is to use the Bleach Technique. You can find the instructions here.

This is a new technique for me. I've never tried it before. Hope I come up with something nice!

Oh, I'm sorry, are you unfamiliar with our Fun Filled Friday Challenges? Click over to this post. It explains all the details about how the challenge works.

Won't you play along? Kimmy is offering a chance to win Blog candy to everyone who participates for the month of August. C'mon! It will be fun!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Blog Candy Opportunity Reminder

Do You like Card Sketch Challenges? Read below for details!

Just a reminder...You have until August 31st 11:59pm to try the card sketch challenges that were posted for the month of August to be considered for the August Blog candy giveaway. Click on the links below to see each sketch. If you participate, please post a link to your card on the appropriate post so I can give you credit and enter you in the drawing.

August 27th

August 20th

August 13th

August 6th

July 30th


Thanks for playing and Happy card making!


Smiles,
Jennifer

PS: Make sure to visit my blog again this Wednesday Sept. 3rd to see the first sketch for September!

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Fun Filled Friday Vellum Challenge

Yeah! It's Friday!

This week Kimmy challenged me to use vellum. I was a little nervous about this one. It's been a very long time since I've created with it. However, once I started making this card, everything seemed to fall right into place. I know a few week's ago we had a challenge to use heat embossing, but I couldn't resist it on this challenge & just had to use it again. And yes, I used that snowflake background from DRS Designs again as well. I love it!

So, without further adieu, here's my Vellum Christmas card!

The first step in making this card was to create my cardstock base. I had a layout in my head about what I wanted to do with this card, but I just needed to make sure I had enough space on my card to do it. The card base was created from white cardstock and the finished size for this card measures 4.25" x 6." My next step was to cut a piece of red cardstock to create my card front. Then, I stamped the snowflake background on the vellum with embossing ink, sprinkled it with white embossing powder, and then heat set it. Next, I tore the vellum to create the panel that I used on my card front. I attached it using 4 red brads, one in each corner. I then stamped the other side of the card (on the red cardstock) using the snowflake background and embossing ink. I sprinkled it with white embossing powder and heat set it just like I did on the vellum. My next step was to add the sentiment to my card.

I used my Nesties to cut a plain oval, large enough to accommodate the sentiment. I stamped the sentiment with embossing ink on the oval, sprinkled it with red embossing powder & heat set it as well. I thought there was too much white space around the sentiments, so I used the snowflake background to place a single snowflake above the sentiment. I heat embossed this in red too.

To decorate the bottom of the card, I used white grosgrain ribbon and another new ribbon slide by DRS Designs. I heat embossed the ribbon slide in red embossing powder and then cut it out. I slid the ribbon though it, centered it on my card front and then adhered the ribbon in place on the back of the red cardstock. My final step was to adhere the card front to the white cardstock base.

• Stamps: All images by DRS Designs- Bow Ribbon Slide, Snowflake Background, God's Love sentiment


• Ink: Rubber Stampede Embossing ink


• Paper: Smooth White Cardstock from Office Depot, Colored Cardstock from Bazzill, and Paper Reflections, vellum


• Accessories: Creative Beginnings embossing powder, brads by Making Memories, Bobbi M. Designs white grosgrain ribbon, Oval Nestabilities

Make sure to click here to see Kimmy's challenge card. Wonder if she used vellum like I did or if she used some fancy technique?!?! I guess we'll find out soon enough!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Lights and Ribbon Slides!

Have you seen the new ribbon slides recently released by DRS Designs? I'm having so much fun with them! They allow you to get so creative beyond the "normal" uses of ribbon. Take a look at this Jolly Holiday card I made the other night! Gotta love a strand of holiday lights!

This card was tons of fun--a little tedious and took some time to create, but I love the finished product!

My first step in making this card was to stamp the single bulb ribbon slide repeatedly on white cardstock. Next, I colored them all with my Bic Markers and then cut them all out--yes, all 10 of them. I actually made 12 of them, but thought that would be too many once I started planning the layout of my card. (I told you this card was a little tedious! LOL!) Then, I cheated a little. I used my Crop-a-Dile to poke holes in the ribbon slide portion, rather then use scissors to cut them out. This worked well for this project because I used embroidery floss rather than ribbon in the slide portion of each image.

Knowing that I wanted to use majority of the bulbs I made, I knew this would have to be a larger card. I created the card base from green cardstock. The finished card size is 5 3/4" x 5 1/2." I thought the bulbs looked best on a lighter background, so I used yellow for the background rather than red or green, even though this was a holiday card. I matted the yellow cardstock with red cardstock as shown, and stamped "Have a Jolly Holiday!" in the center of my yellow cardstock. I placed a pop-dot on the back of each bulb, and then threaded the embroidery floss through the holes in each bulb. I arranged the bulbs around the sentiment, adhering each one in place before I moved on to the next one.

I then wrapped red grosgrain ribbon around the upper left corner of the card front, and the bottom right corner. I tied a bow and attached over the ribbon as shown.

Most holiday light bulbs are glass right? Well, to finish off this card I added Diamond Glaze over each bulb to give it that shiny, glassy look.

I love this card! I think it's so cute! Hope you like it as well!

• Stamps: All images by DRS Designs- Single Bulb Ribbon Slide, Jolly Holiday Sentiment
• Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
• Paper: Smooth White Cardstock from Office Depot, Colored Cardstock from Bazzill, and Paper Reflections
• Accessories: Bic Markers, Diamond Glaze, DMC Embroidery thread, Crop-a-dile, Pop-dots

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog today. I appreciate your visit. Won't you leave me a comment to let me know you were here?

Happy Thursday!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Sketch Wednesday #8 Challenge Card!

Earlier today I posted the card Sketch Challenge below. Did you give it a try?

Here's my sketch challenge card! What do you think?

I know, I'm still on my Fall and Halloween kick. I promise the cards I post later this week will be a different theme! Hey, I couldn't help myself. I just participated in a Fall Halloween image swap on the Stamp Shack and this cute image from Penny Black was one that I received. It was begging me to color it up...so I did!

I colored this image with my Prismacolor Pencils and used Gamsol on parts of it, but I also tried out my new colorless blender pencil. I still need practice with that one. It's definitely a different type of blending, I'm just not used to it.

I used my Nesties to cut out the image and mat it a few times. I realized that my matting was going to cause me to make a larger than normal card if I was going to follow the sketch. This finished card measures 6 1/2" x 5 1/2." I added the square brads and then set it aside to work on my card base. The base itself is made from orange cardstock, and I layered black cardstock on top of it to help the patterned paper "pop." I adhered the matted image in the center and then created the side bars using black cardstock matted with yellow cardstock. I set the orange brads in place according to the sketch, and adhered the side bars on either side of the image. For a little extra "pop," I added Stickles to the pumpkin's eyes and mouth.

Stamps: Penny Black
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Charcoal Colorbox Fluid chalk
Paper: Smooth White Cardstock from Office Depot, Colored Cardstock by Paper Reflections and Bazzill, patterned paper by Heidi Grace Designs
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, Prismacolor Blender pencil, Gamsol, Nestabilities, Golden Rod Stickles by Ranger, Brads from Making memories and Joann's Scrap Essentials

Ok, Now it's your turn...Let me see what you did with this sketch.

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

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Sketch Challenge Wednesday #8

Here's the Sketch Challenge details for August 27th! Hope you'll play along!

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 Aug. 1st-Aug. 31st.

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 #2:

Please reply with links to your challenge cards here on this blog post. You have until August 31st 11:59 pm EDT to post your link to be considered for the August Blog Candy drawing. All entries posted after this time will go towards the September drawing.

Have fun playing with this sketch! I'll be back later today to show you the card I've created. I hope you'll give it a try as well. Make sure to comment here on this post if you do. I can't wait to see your Sketch Wednesday Card!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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