Wednesday with A Jillian Vance Design...

Hey friends!!  Popping in with a quick post to let you know that I have a post up on the AJVD blog today.   Here is a little peek of my card:

 

I hope you will take the time to head over there to check out the full project!  Thanks for stopping by today...

 

you're the friend...

Hey!!  Been getting more crafty time lately and so I'm taking advantage of it to participate in some more challenges.  Today's card is for the current MFT Wednesday sketch challenge, the Essentials by Ellen Mix It Up challenge (mixing Essentials by Ellen products with MFT!) and the current ColourQ challenge.  The horizontal stripes in the sketch made me think of the MFT Stitched Fishtail Flag Stax dies and so I used the smallest die to cut my banners.  Since they were too long for the card base I experimented with cutting them down and not messing up the stitching.  Once I got my experiment banner cut to the right length I finished up the rest of them.  The Essentials by Ellen portion of the Mix It Up challenge comes in the form of the EE Bold Blooms stamps and dies.  The flower was die cut and stamped with corresponding image using Melon Mambo ink.  The leaves were die cut and then stamped using the Pool Party ink.  After figuring out the arrangement for the banners I stamped one with the sentiment from the MFT set Delicate Pretty Poppies and then adhered them down.  The flower and leaves were layered on and then a few Pretty Pink Posh sparkly clear sequins were added.   Going to add this to the current Word Art Wednesday challenge of anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by today...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft, SU! Blushing Bride, white; Stamps:  My Favorite Things and Essentials by Ellen; Dies:  My Favorite Things and Essentials by Ellen; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, SU! Melon Mambo and Pool Party; Sequins:  Pretty Pink Posh

happy birthday...

Hey friends!!  The weekend is upon us and the sun is shining here in the PNW... yay!!! This morning it was foggy and it has been cold all week so I will definitely take the sun!  I have a card to share that uses the current Freshly Made Sketches layout and the yummy color combo from Color Throwdown.  I used a lovely stamp set from Stampin Up! called Watercolor Wings to create my butterfly.  There are matching dies too!  I stamped the butterfly using Simon Says Stamp Fog ink and Stampin Up! Coastal Cabana ink and then die cut it.  The white cardstock panel was die cut and then I used a smaller rectangular die to cut the panel as you see.  I stamped another image from Watercolor Wings using SU!'s Pumpkin Pie ink and then die cut some stitching holes using a PTI Stitching Lines die.  The same die was used to cut holes in the butterfly and then I stitched the butterfly to the panel using orange hemp twine. I stamped the sentiment in black, attached the panel to a SSS Fog cardstock base and then finished everything with some Pretty Pink Posh clear sequins.  Adding this to the current Time Out challenge which is a birthday theme, but I don't have the twist.

Thanks for stopping by today...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  white, SSS Fog; Stamps:  Stampin Up! (Watercolor Wings and Butterfly Basics); Dies:  Stampin Up! (butterfly), A Jillian Vance Design (rectangles); Pretty Pink Posh clear sequins; Inks:  Stampin Up! and Simon Says Stamp; Orange hemp twine

Wednesday with A Jillian Vance Design...

Hey friends!!  Popping in to let you know that I have a post up on the AJVD blog today.   Here is a little peek of my card:

I hope that you will hop over and have a little look... maybe leave some love, too.  Thanks for stopping by today...

 

White Christmas...

Hey friends!!  Yes... I know... Christmas is over, but Merry Monday Christmas challenge goes on all year and this week's challenge is white on white... I couldn't resist!!  I'm also playing along with the Taylored Expressions Share Joy challenge (sketch and CAS). I flipped the sketch as I liked how the image I was going to used looked down at the bottom rather than at the top.  I have a few older TE stamps set that I haven't pulled out in ages.  The set I used is called Poinsettia Bouquet.  I'm a total sucker for anything poinsettia, lol!  I stamped the image using VersaMark watermark ink, applied Liquid Platinum embossing powder and heat set.  Once that was done I trimmed the image out.  It has a matching die, but unfortunately I don't own it!  The main panel was die cut using my AJVD Polka Dot Rectangle background dies and then the triangular piece was also cut using a smaller die from the set.  I love that I was able to create my triangle with a nice finished look!  The banner was die cut using an MFT fishtail flag stax die, the sentiment stamped in VersaMark, Liquid Platinum embossing powder applied and heat set.  Layered everything up on a Simon Says Stamp fog cardstock base and added some Pretty Pink Posh marshmallow sequins.   Going to add this to the current Less is More challenge (neutrals), as well as the new CASology challenge:  simple.  Keeping everything white creates a very simple design and the layout is simple.

Thanks for stopping by today...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Simon Says Stamp (fog), Recollections (white); Stamps:  Taylored Expressions; Dies:  A Jillian Vance Design and My Favorite Things; Ink:  VersaMark; Embossing powder:  Liquid Platinum; Sequins:  Pretty Pink Posh

amazing...

Hey friends!!  Happy New Year!!  Did you stay up until midnight to ring in the new year??  I did not, lol!!  I was in bed and woke up for a few minutes at midnight because some neighbors were shooting off fireworks and then went back to sleep!  On new years day the hubs and I took the boys up to the Seattle waterfront.  Unfortunately the place we wanted to visit was closed so we had some lunch and then headed to the Boeing Museum of Flight.  All in all a very good start to the new year!  Well... I do have a card to share.  A little something that I made for the current ColourQ challenge and the current MFT Wednesday Sketch challenge. My take is a little stripped down, but I think you can still see the sketch in there, lol!  I used a combination of MFT stamps and dies and Precious Remembrance Shop stamps.  My all time favorite PRS set is DIY and I used elements from that to create the background on my panel.  The word "amazing" (from the MFT Amazing die set) was die cut from black cardstock 4 times, adhered together.  Since the A is actually separate from the rest of the word I was able to add a few loops of gold metallic thread behind it before adhering everything to the panel.  The sentiment is from the MFT Amazing stamp set.  Love the aqua, black, gold and white color combo... think I will be making something else using it! 

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SU! Coastal Cabana, PTI black, white; Stamps:  My Favorite Things and Precious Remembrance Shop; Dies:  My Favorite Things and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks: SU! Coastal Cabana; Memento Tuxedo Black; Delicata Golden Glitz; DMC gold metallic thread