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

Fun with MFT...

Hello!  Hope your week is going well!  The other night I sat down and did some watercoloring with several different MFT stamp sets and today I'm sharing two cards that I made using those efforts.  First up is a card for this week's Paper Players challenge which is a lovely sketch.  I used smooth Bristol cardstock and Ranger distress markers to color up the sweet little girl with her umbrella from the MFT/Birdie Brown stamp set called Rain or Shine.  I was thinking of my little niece Kaia and her bright pink Ugg boots as I colored up this sweet little girl!  May just have to send this card to Kaia!  Once I was done I die cut her with the matching die.  Then I found patterned papers that would work with the colors I used for my little girl.  After cutting the rectangles and laying them out on my card base I decided to do a little stenciling with the MFT Mini Raindrop stencil using MFT Blue Breeze ink.  The sentiment was stamped on a strip of white cardstock that I die cut with an A Jillian Vance Design sentiment strip die and then I got to layering up all my elements.  To finish things off I added a little sun peeking out from behind the clouds.  I will also add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.

The second card features a little boy and his umbrella from the MFT/Birdie Brown set called Puddle Jumper.  This card was inspired by my little nephew Max.  He isn't old enough to actually jump in puddles, but I still couldn't help but think of him as I colored this little guy!  I used distress markers to color him, as well.  When he was finished I die cut him with his matching die.  The layout comes from the MFT sketch challenge.  I used the Mini Raindrops stencil on this card, as well.  But this time I used Ranger Texture Paste transparent gloss.  I love the fun shiny raindrops!  I die cut some green polka dot paper (from MFT) with an AJVD slippery slope die and adhered it to my card base.  The sentiment was stamped on another piece of MFT patterned paper and die cut with an MFT fishtail flag stax die.   I colored up a little puddle for my little boy to jump over and then adhered all the pieces to the card base.   May have to send this card off to him, too!

Hope you have a wonderful day!  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:  Card #1:  Cardstock:  SU! blue, PTI  white, Smooth Bristol; Patterned paper:  MFT; Stamps:  MFT; Dies:  MFT, AJVD; Ink:  VersaFine, MFT; Watercolor medium:  Ranger distress markers; Stencil:  MFT

Card #2  Cardstock:  PTI white, Smooth Bristol; Patterned paper:  MFT; Stamps:  MFT; Dies:  MFT, AJVD; Watercolor Medium:  Ranger distress markers; Ink:  VersaFine, VersaFine CLAIR; Ranger texture paste

Happy Wednesday!

Hello and happy Wednesday everyone!  I have a fun card up on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today that I made using a fun new die set from AJVD!  Here is a little peek of my card:

I hope you will head over to the AJVD blog to see the full project and to let me know what you think!  Have a wonderful day!

two more cards...

Hmm... I seem to be doing a lot of posts with two cards lately.  Guess it just seems to make sense to me.  Anyway... the first card is for Color Throwdown.   The color combo is really pretty, but also one that I wouldn't even think of to use.  When that happens I fall back on what I like to refer to as collage stamp... one of my favorite ways to stamp.  Collage is the technique of taking various materials to create a design.  Obviously I don't use different materials, but different types of images.  For this card I went to some of my favorite Stampin Up! set for images to use.   I generally have a good idea how colors will work together so it is just a matter of determining what types of images that I will be using.   I actually figured out how I was going to stamp this card, changed my mind to try something different, didn't like it and went back to my original idea, lol!  Anyone else do that?  Once the stamping was done I die cut the panel with my trusty A Jillian Vance Design Stitched Dot Rectangle die and then adhered it to a light gray cardstock base.  The inks used are from Stampin Up!, Close to My Heart, PTI and Imagine Krafts.

While the first card is all about stamping the second card is all about die cutting.  I recently received the Spellbinder's small die kit of the month and actually managed to make a card with it before the new kit has been revealed!  This card is for Freshly Made Sketches and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of dies only.   I turned to my large collection of patterned paper pads and pulled out an oldie, but goodie from My Mind's Eye Collectible Notable collection.  (I just checked and it is from 2013!)   I die cut the large die cut piece from some green paper from the pad and then the little flowers and butterflies from various coordinating papers.  Cut the piece of blue striped paper to fit the bottom portion of the card base, adhered the large die cut and then adhered the piece to my cardstock base.  I then added all the little flowers and the butterflies.  Because the large die cut is actually larger than the card front I trimmed off the overhang.  The sentiment was die cut from the same yellow patterned paper as the little flowers multiple times, adhered together and then adhered to the card front.  I did add little clear Pretty Pink Posh jewels to the center of the flowers.   Can't wait to use this beautiful die set again to create another spring themed card!

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Card #1:  Cardstock:  PTI white, SU! Smoky Slate; Stamps:  Stampin Up!; Inks:  Close to My Heart Pansy Purple, Stampin Up!, PaperTrey Ink and VersaFine CLAIR

Card #2:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Patterned paper:  My Mind's Eye; Dies:  Spellbinders; Embellishments:  Pretty Pink Posh jewels