Monthly Archives: June 2022

Summer is for Teachers – The Cat’s Pajamas June Release

Posted on June 25, 2022 | 1 comment

Hey there, Foxy Friend, happy summer!  I am still having fun with this month’s TCP release and finishing up teacher thank yous!  My kids go to school wicked late into June, but Monday is finally their last day.  The Silly Animals and Gnome Sighting SVGs made it very easy to produce several of these cards at once.  Our schools mascot is the fox, so our teachers are really going to love this sweet guy!  I used my Brother ScanNCut to cut all the pieces of the fox from white cardstock and sponged them with Tea Dye and Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide ink.  Then, to add a little extra interest, I used black Enamel Accents for his nose instead of paper.  I cut four of the tree frames from the Gnome Sighting set using brown and green cardstock.  The sky background is simply a swirl background stamped with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink.

The perfect finishing touches of this card were a great sentiment from the Vintage Summer digital stamps and some Stickles to add some shine to the leaves.  My kids are so thrilled with these cards and can’t wait to give them to their teachers!

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Best Things in Life – Featured Stamper Challenge #802

Posted on June 23, 2022 | Leave a comment

This week’s Featured Stamper is mschoener! Maggie is such a delight and I really enjoyed browsing her gallery. I landed on this card because I loved the sentiment.

I’ve also combined with Barbara’s CC900 (CC845) Color Challenge colors with metallic for dessert. The metallic convinced me to foil my sentiment–it doesn’t take much. I finally jumped on the foiling bandwagon and I’m really enjoying the ride. I created the sentiment on my computer, printed it out with my brand new Brother laser printer and foiled it in gold.

I don’t have that sentiment stamp, so I had to create it myself.  If you’d like to use this on your cards just right click on the image below and save it to your computer.  If you use it, I’d love to see it, so please tag me @cardsbyjennifrann and #thestampingactuary.

This funny cat was on my to-do list. There is a fish bowl for him to be looking at, but I went with a cupcake to match the sentiment. I’ve colored this chunky cat to match my friend, Liz’s cat. It’s heading her way for her birthday. I realized after I took the picture that I forgot to add the Stickles sprinkles on the cupcake.

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Satisfactory – Clean and Simple Challenge #695

Posted on June 23, 2022 | Leave a comment

It’s been a very very busy couple of weeks for me.  Two different baseball teams and the end of the school year have me so busy that I keep forgetting to post my cards.  I also didn’t have time to fully participate in the June VSN.  Here is my card for Brenda’s “Workers” VSN Challenge.  Father’s Day always puts me in the mood for dad jokes and I thought this was a good one for the worker theme. I used this Paper Smooches stamp to make factory and I arranged the clouds to look like smoke coming from the factory. Quick and easy!

If you’d like this dad joke as much as I do and you want to use it on your cards just right click on the image below and save it to your computer.  If you use it, I’d love to see it, so please tag me @cardsbyjennifrann and #thestampingactuary.

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Celebrate! – The Cat’s Pajamas June Release

Posted on June 11, 2022 | 2 comments

It’s June! Let’s celebrate!  This month’s TCP release is so much fun!  When I saw the Vintage Summer Digis I knew I wanted to try foiling them with my new laser printer.  It was my birthday gift to myself.  I tried a few different variations to get comfortable with my new toy.

It printed beautifully on the X-Press It paper and foiled really well with my laminator.  I foiled the negative on a sheet of toner paper to get the inverse design.  As you can see the one that I printed on black didn’t come out great, but I refuse to ever throw anything away.  It made a fun rustic background for the Aim High bunny.

I added in some clouds from the What a Blast digi to make sure he really seemed to be soaring high with that firecracker.  The other two main foiled images were made into tags which I attached to some fireworks DP and finished with die cut bows and some Stickles on the edges.

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First Father’s Day – Free For All Challenge #642

Posted on June 10, 2022 | Leave a comment

It’s Friday and time for a Free For All Challenge.  Today, Shirley has challenged us to make Father’s Day or masculine cards. I needed to make a first Father’s Day card, so today was the day. The father in question has twins–a boy and a girl. So this Cat’s Pajamas stamp was PERFECT! Then I went looking for ideas for a first Father’s Day card and came up with this fun dad joke.

It took me a while to come up with the perfect font for my sentiment, and I finally chose Raleigh’s font. We made this font using Raleigh’s handwriting on calligraphr.com.

If you’d like to use this on your cards just right click on the image above and save it to your computer.  If you use it, I’d love to see it, so please tag me @cardsbyjennifrann and #thestampingactuary.

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