Monthly Archives: September 2022

Sweater Weather – TCP September Release

Posted on September 28, 2022 | Leave a comment

I couldn’t let September pass by without showcasing this sweet knitting bunny.  It’s sweater weather, you guys!  The Ugly Sweater Season Digital Stamp Set is just so cute and so versatile.  Naturally, my first instinct was to make an “Ugyly Sweater Season” Christmas card. And what better way to feature different patterns of paper in honor of ugly sweater season than to make a Pop Up Slider Card.  This card was so easy to make with the Cutable and the video tutorial!

I printed the sentiment on the paper that I wanted to use for the tag and cut each individual piece of the card with different patterns.  Assembly was very quick and easy and adding the bunny was fun to do.  I thought he could use a couple of tacky Christmas trees behind him, and then I realized that an ugly sweater simply had to be paper-pieced.

But the best thing about this set?  It doesn’t have to be Christmas.  So I made a second card!

I thought the Chevron Cutable made the best background for it.  Don’t you?  I had so much fun playing today.  I hope you’ll find some time to play with the September release too!

Here are the products that I used today:

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C-I-E-I-O – Ways to Use It Challenge #915

Posted on September 23, 2022 | Leave a comment

The Ways to Use It Challenge is “Down on the Farm”.  I had the perfect joke ready for it!

HA! As always, 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.

I used SC256 for my sketch, because I thought it would be good for the rolling hills and the farmer and his cow.

It’s close, but not quite right.  I don’t care.  The sketch inspired me and that’s what it’s all about, right? I had this pack of patterned paper out from my card from yesterday and I liked the patterns for the field and sky. This is a very Jen card and I love it!

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Women’s Magazines – Clean and Simple Challenge #708

Posted on September 19, 2022 | 1 comment

This week’s CAS challenge is best friends. I decided to make this card inspired by sleepovers with my best friends when we were in our teens. I think it was Seventeen magazine that we would read. Taking the quizzes and following the makeup tutorials. Here is the whole sentiment:

It reminded me of those nights with my friends and I thought they would get a kick out of this card.

As always, 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.

I’ve also combined this challenge with the Featured Stamper challenge spotlighting Carol Dee. Carol’s gallery was so fun to browse. It was like looking through my digital stamp collection. I saw a lot of cute images that I forgot that I had. But I went with this card for my inspiration.

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Stampers Delights September Spotlight – Week 1

Posted on September 7, 2022 | 1 comment

It’s September and all this month Stampers Delights is spotlighting Fall/Halloween images!  This card uses the Kawaii – So Corny digital stamp.

I’m pretty much obsessed with foiling lately, so I decided I wanted to make a foiled background of these fun candy corns.  I used my laser printer to print out a bunch of random candy corns to make the background.  Then I ran it through my laminator with gold foil and colored with Copics.  I love the look of the foil on the candy corn.  Here is another photo to see the metallic gold shine.

This week’s Sketch Challenge helped me with the card design.

Here are the outside and inside sentiments of my card.  As always, 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.

Are you a member of the Stampers Delights Facebook Fan Group?  The Progressive Challenge is on hiatus right now, but there is a major sale going on instead!  Click below for details:

Linking to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – Always Anything Goes

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