more cards to share...

Hello!   Wow... time sure is flying by isn't it!?  We are already at the end of March and Easter is just a few weeks away!   Sharing a couple of cards today.  One that I actually made a few weeks ago and one that I made just the other day.  First up is the one I made a few weeks ago.  This is one final card for the Reverse Confetti March stock your stash challenge to make a spring or Easter card.  This one is an Easter card that I made using the Cross Confetti Cuts die and the Easter Blessings stamp set.  I also used some patterned paper from the pretty Reverse Confetti Pattern Play 6x6 pad.  I cut a piece of the patterned paper to fit my card front and adhered that to the card base.  I then cut a piece of light gray cardstock to cover one half of the card front.  I positioned the stamp I wanted to use on the piece and stamped the sentiment using VersaFine CLAIR Morning Mist ink.  I then placed the cross over the sentiment and die cut it from the panel.  Additional crosses were cut from white cardstock.  I then adhered the die cut piece to the card front.  I started to inlay the pieces by using one of the white crosses I had cut and then adding in the light gray interior pieces that had the stamping on them.  I added the remaining crosses finishing with the light gray one.  I did this so that the cross actually has some height to it.  I finished off the card with light pink sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.  A very clean and simple design.   I'm also going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.

The second card is another card for the March Altenew Inspiration challenge as well as the Paper Players.  I recently purchased three sets of Altenew mini ink cubes one of which has different shades of red.  I used that set to stamp the flower from the Build a Flower: Chrysanthemum.  I then die cut it with the matching die.   One of the things that I like about this set is that it has a die that allows you to cut portions of the flower so that you can lift those petals up to give the flower more dimension.  The leaves were also stamped with Altenew inks and then die cut with the matching dies.  I cut some light blue cardstock and dry embossed it with a woodgrain embossing folder.   That was adhered to a white cardstock base.  I then worked to figure out what I was going to use for the other two elements in the sketch.  I decided to go with a strip of silver glitter cardstock because who doesn't like glitter?  I adhered that and then arranged the flower and leaves.  I didn't want to totally cover up the flower so I used vellum and embossed the sentiment on it using WOW! black embossing powder.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Card #1:  Cardstock:  PTI white, SSS fog; Patterned paper:  Reverse Confetti; Stamps and dies:  Reverse Confetti; Ink:  VersaFine CLAIR; Sequins:  Pretty Pink Posh

Card #2:  Cardstock:  Recollections white, Reverse Confetti light blue, MFT silver glitter, PTI vellum; Stamps and dies:  Altenew; Inks:  Altenew and VersaMark; Embossing powder:  WOW! black

Happy Wednesday!

Hello!  Hope your week is going well!  It is Wednesday and that means I have a project up on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today.  Here is a little peek:

Hope you will head over to the A Jillian Vance Design blog to see my project and to let me know what you think.  Have a wonderful day!

flowers and fish!

Hello!  Another two card post today.  Hmmm... I seem to be doing a lot of that lately, lol!  Anyway today I have cards that feature flowers and fish!  First up is my card featuring flowers.  The other day I spent part of my afternoon coloring some images from the Honey Bee Stamps Winter Anemone stamp set with my ZIG markers.  I had been planting daffodils earlier in the day and I guess I had yellow on the brain because I colored my anemones yellow!  Once they were all done I die cut them with the matching dies.  Now I colored all the images prior to knowing that the color combo for Color Throwdown would be yellow, green, red and white.  So I only had to figure out how to work red into my design and I had my card for the challenge!  I went with red enamel dots since I have lots of them and need to use them on projects.   The sentiment from the Honey Bee Stamps Thinking of You stamp set was stamped in VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne on the card base, the flowers arranged in the corner and then I finished with the enamel dots.    Also going to post this to the Flower Challenge.  This month it is anything goes.

The second card features the fish, obviously!  This one is heading to CAS(E) this Sketch and CASology (the theme there is ocean). In order to make my idea work for the CTS layout I turned it on it's side.  I recently got the March My Monthly Hero kit.  It is jam packed full of stamps and dies.  I purchased this kit because I have two other ocean theme My Monthly Hero kits from previous years and I knew they would work perfectly with the new kit.  I used two of the Hero Arts reactive inks that come in the kit.  One called Sea Glass was used to ink up the white cardstock panel for my bit of ocean.  The second color called Blue Water was just to stamp the kelp.  I then stamped two fish one in an emerald green and the other in a color called Tranquil Tide.  It is a blue/green/gray color.   Die cut them with the matching die.  I splatted on some water and them removed it with a towel to get the look of bubbles.  The sentiment was stamped in VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne.  I die cut the panel with a rectangle die, adhered it to a light gray card base and added some of the little droplets that come in the kit.  I think I will post this over at Less is More, too, as I did use the kelp image three times and there are three of the droplets.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Card #1:  Cardstock:  PTI white, Strathmore Smooth Bristol; Stamps and dies:  Honey Bee Stamps; Ink:  VersaFine Onyx Black, VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne; Watercolor medium:  ZIG Clean Color Real Brush markers; Enamel dots:  Freckled Fawn

Card #2:  Cardstock:  PTI white, SSS fog; Stamps:  Hero Arts; Dies:  Hero Arts and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  Hero Arts, VersaFine CLAIR, Stampin Up! Emerald Envy and Tranquil Tide; Hero Arts droplets

Happy First Day of Spring!

Hello everyone... today is the first day of spring!  And since it is Wednesday that means I have a post up on the A Jillian Vance Design blog.  Here is a little peek of my card:

Thanks for stopping by... I hope you will head over to the AJVD blog to see the full card. 

be happy!

Hello!!  I'm popping in on this beautiful Pacific Northwest day with a card that I made with the Spellbinders small die kit for March.  I think this is the first time that I have actually gotten the kit and made something with it before the end of the month!  Yay me, lol!  Anyway... there is absolutely no stamping on this card... all die cutting.  I am going to post this one to the following challenges:  JUGs (colors), Less is More (use 3 of something) and Fab Friday (sketch).   For the colors I went with a darker purple and so in the photo it is reading as more of a navy, but it is purple... honest!  My three things for the LIM challenge are three flowers and three colors.  My friend Greta has been guest designing for JUGs this month and I just had to play along at least once!  The March small die kit is loaded with dies two of which are bunnies and I can. not. wait. to use them!   They are stinkin' adorable.  For this card I used two of the flower dies and the flower stem die, as well as the word dies.    I created my flowers, adhered them together and then added the little twine bow.  I die cut the small rectangle from woodgrain cardstock and matted it with another rectangle die cut from the purple cardstock.   I die cut plain white cardstock with a rectangle die and then adhered the two rectangles to my card base along with the flowers.  Finished with the die cut sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SSS fog, PTI white and Lemon Tart, Tim Holtz distress woodgrain, SU! Taken with Teal, Grape; Dies:  Spellbinders and A Jillian Vance Design; yellow baker's twine

bunnies... and a flower!

Hello!  I'm back with more bunnies and a flower!  The first card has the bunnies on it and is for the MFT sketch challenge.  Just like the other bunnies from the Bubble Over with Joy stamp set these were colored with distress markers and die cut with their matching dies.  Per the sketch I used the smallest die in the Inside Out Stitched Rounded rectangles die set to die cut my rectangles from Tim Holtz distress woodgrain cardstock.   A piece of white cardstock was die cut with the largest AJVD Stitched Dot rectangle die and then all the little rectangles were adhered to it.  I then positioned all the bunnies to make sure I had the right about of room for my sentiment that I stamped on white cardstock with VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink and then die cut with a die from the MFT Slanted Sentiments Strips die set.  That was adhered and then I added the little bubbles that I colored with a Broken China distress  marker and then covered with Glossy Accents for some shine.  I adhered the panel to a kraft cardstock base.  I was a little worried that the cards would look too plain, but in the end I think it turned out perfect!

The second card features the flower and is for the Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash challenge to make a spring or Easter themed card.  This one is spring themed.  I used the sketch from Sunday Stamps so I will be adding it to their gallery.  My friend Greta often plays along with the challenges at Retro Rubber and this month she is a guest designer!  I have never played along, but since Greta is the guest designer I'm adding this card to their challenge to use stripes.  The Reverse Confetti set I'm using is just over a year old so it makes the cut for their challenge.  I stamped the flower and the leafy images from the RC Tall Blooms set on smooth bristol and colored the images with ZIG clean color makers and a bit of water.  Once dry they were die cut with the matching dies.  I die cut the RC Tall Stripe Panel Confetti Cut from Tim Holtz distress woodgrain cardstock and adhered it to some dark pink cardstock that I die cut with the AJVD stitched dot rectangle die.  The flowers were then adhered to the tall stripe panel.  I die cut the RC Confetti Cut hello die from black cardstock three time, adhered them together and then adhered to the panel.   The panel was adhered to my card base and then I added the dark pink twine bow to finish things off.

Thanks for stopping by... have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Card #1:  Cardstock: PTI white, Ranger distress woodgrain; Strathmore smooth bristol; Stamps:  MFT; Dies:  MFT, AJVD; Ink:  VersaFine Onyx Black, VersaFine CLAIR; Watercolor medium:  Ranger distress ink markers

Card #2:  Cardstock:  PTI white and black, Ranger distress woodgrain, SSS dark pink, Strathmore smooth bristol; Stamps:  Reverse Confetti; Dies:  Reverse Confetti and AJVD; Watercolor medium:  ZIG clean color markers; Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black; Dark pink hemp twine

Happy Wednesday!

Happy Wednesday everyone!  I have a post up on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today.  Here is a little peek of my card:

Have a wonderful day and I hope you will check out my project!

bunnies... and carrots!

Hello!  I'm stopping in with a couple of cards that feature bunnies and carrots!  First up is the card featuring the bunnies.   For the last few years we had tons of bunnies in the neighborhood, but as spring approaches there have been no bunnies.  I'm so sad.  Unfortunately I think they have fallen victim to the cayotes and eagles.   With the lack of real bunnies I decided to color up some super cute MFT bunnies and use a couple on a card for this week's MFT sketch challenge, as well as the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge to create a scene.  I stamped the bunnies on Bristol cardstock with VersaFine ink and then colored with distress markers.   Once they were all dry I die cut them with the matching dies.  I built my little scene by die cutting a circle using an AJVD polka dot backdrop die and then blending on Lucky Clover and Broken China distress oxide inks.  I stamped the sentiment on white cardstock and die cut with a MFT fishtail flag stax die.  I stamped a balloon string on my card base and then adhered my "balloon" and all the little pieces of my scene and the sentiment strip.  Love how it turned out.

The second card features the carrots and is for Freshly Made Sketches and the Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash challenge to make an Easter or spring themed card.  When Reverse Confetti released the fun Triangle Trees stamp set Jen, the owner of RC, made a super cute card using one of the tree images as carrots.  My card is a bit of a case of that card.  To make the tops of the carrots I used the stick part of the tree from the RC Branch Out Confetti Cuts set.  I simply trimmed off the bottom part of the tree.  I used two different colors of green cardstock, but they are super close in color.  I stamped the polka dot tree and then trimmed them out because I currently don't have the triangle die.  I think when I bought the set the die was sold out.   I then adhered the tops to the carrots.   For the long strip element in the sketch I used the Polka Panel Confetti Cut that I cut down further using the die a second time.   What I did is pretty easy, but a little complicated to explain.  I then backed that with some of the green cardstock I used to die cut the carrot tops.  I adhered everything to a die cut piece of white cardstock and then added the little sentiment and the twine bow to the center carrot.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Card #1:  Cardstock:  PTI white, Strathmore Smooth Bristol; Stamps:  MFT, Simon Says Stamp; Inks:  VersaFine; Dies:  MFT, AJVD; Watercolor medium:  Ranger distress markers

Card #2:  Cardstock:  PTI white, SU! Pumpkin Pie, SSS Green, MFT Green; Stamps:  Reverse Confetti; Dies:  Reverse Confetti, AJVD; Ink:  SU! Pumpkin Pie, VersaFine CLAIR; Black hemp twine

wednesday with ajvd...

Hello everyone!  Wednesday has rolled around and that means I have a post up on the AJVD blog today.  Here is a little peek of the card I am sharing:

I hope you will head over to the AJVD blog and have a wonderful day!

i thougth about you...

Hey there!  I hope your week is off to a good start.  Mine is... I got to make something today!  This card is for a few challenges:  CAS(E) this Sketch, The Paper Players (spring fever - I used flowers) and Fab Friday (color challenge).  Have you ever had one of those days when you thought the card you were making was going to be easy to make and then it turned out to be really hard?  Well... that was my day today, lol!  Things started well as I stamped the image from the beautiful Stampin Up! Climbing Roses stamp set on smooth Bristol paper and then watercolored the image with distress markers in Forest Moss, Abandoned Coral and Spun Sugar.  Once that was done I die cut the image with the matching die from the Rose Trellis die set.  Then things started to get hard.  Mainly because I decided that I wanted to emboss my square on to my cardstock and I hadn't done that in awhile.  So the first one didn't get embossed, but it did cut out the square!  Finally one the third try I got things right and ended up with a nicely embossed panel.  That was die cut with an AJVD stitched dot rectangle die.  Then I had to make sure that I got the sentiment stamp correctly.  Thankfully I was able to use the square that I accidentally cut to help me make sure that everything was straight!  I stamped the sentiment, adhered the floral image and then adhered everything to a light gray cardstock base.  Hope the next time I make a card things go easier for me, lol! Also going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white, SSS fog; Stamps: Stampin Up!; Dies:  Stampin Up!, Spellbinders and AJVD; Ink:  VersaFine; Watercolor medium:  Distress markers