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A Tearful Card – Clean and Simple Challenge #699

Posted on July 18, 2022 | 2 comments

Today’s Clean and Simple Challenge is fresh produce. My card actually uses an onion that has been in my fridge for a while, so it wasn’t exactly freshly picked. Fortunately, I didn’t form too much of an emotional bond with it and was willing to sacrifice it to make this card. I feel a little bad about it, but I take solace in the knowledge that the onion will live on in this fabulous background. I also stamped a few extra backgrounds because I thought the onion stamp looked so cool.

I had this cute TCP chef bunny that came with a little knife and an empty tray and knew he was perfect for this card. I drew the onions onto the tray with a gel pen. They looked pretty weird until I colored them in and brought them to life.

Isn’t this sentiment fun? I made it using the Arten font that you can download for free from fontbundles.net. 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.

Linking to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Make Your Own Background

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No Work – Clean and Simple Challenge #698

Posted on July 11, 2022 | 1 comment

This Monday I am hosting the Clean and Simple Challenge and we’re on vacation. I don’t have any vacation time planned this month, but a whole lot of my coworkers are taking vacation time. In honor of the lazy month of July, my challenge is to not work.

I have friends that give me cute bits that they’ve pulled off of old cards because they know I would like to use them. I have a whole drawer full and today it was time to finally use this fun popsicle. I found a cute strip of DP that had just the right matching colors. I did die cut the entire panel and stamped the sentiment, but otherwise no work!

I had so much fun not working that I made two samples!

How could I possibly choose between the cute popsicle and these sweet bees and flowers? They both came out of my drawer of random goodies that I can’t throw away. I knew they’d be so fun on a card. I just grabbed a cute piece of flowered DP and stamped a fun sentiment onto a die cut circle. Quick, easy, and very very little work!

Linking to the following challenges:

Anything Goes

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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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Baby Tag – Clean and Simple Challenge #690

Posted on May 15, 2022 | Leave a comment

It’s Monday and this week I’m hosting the Clean and Simple Challenge. My first baby turned 9 last week and we’ve been celebrating his birthday all month. I also thought it would be fun to follow Mother’s Day with a celebration of all things baby. Let’s see baby cards, baby animals, baby humans…anything baby on your cards. I hope you’ll join us! My card was really quite CAS until I cut it into a tag and went looking for some cute baby DP to put behind it. It was a tough choice and I think I chose the least CAS option. Ooops. Do you think I made the right choice?

And then I reached for an extra piece of ribbon for my bow. Sometimes I just can’t help myself.

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Kid’s Meal – Clean and Simple Challenge #687

Posted on April 25, 2022 | 1 comment

Happy Monday! It’s time for another Clean and Simple Challenge. This week Lisa has challenged us to show the inside of our CAS cards. I found this to be a tough challenge, but I’m looking forward to seeing the insides of everyone’s cards. This retired FSJ burger has been on my to do list and I decided what better way to showcase the inside of my card than with a good punchline. I used my very own handwritten font for the sentiment. Making your own font is so easy at calligraphr.com. I highly recommend it. I printed the sentiment on Fabriano Hot Press watercolor paper and stamped the burger above it. Then I did a very quick watercolor with my Spectrum Aqua markers.

As always I’m sharing the sentiment here if you’d like to use it. Just right click on the images below and save it to your computer. If you use it, I’d love to see it, so please tag me @cardsbyjennifrann and #thestampingactuary.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

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Seas the Day – Clean and Simple Challenge #685

Posted on April 10, 2022 | Leave a comment

I am hosting this week’s Clean and Simple Challenge and we’re commemorating the 110th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic with boats or nautical cards. I had this cute Cat Ships Captain digi from Craftin Desert Divas waiting on my to do list. Craftin Desert Divas closed in 2019 and I bought a ton of stamps and digis. Two and a half years later, I’m still trying to get around to using them all. To keep this card CAS, I just printed the digi kind of small and masked it to sponge a bit of Broken China sky behind him.

The sentiment is created using Amastery Hand font duo that I downloaded from fontbundles.net. Sometimes I get a little stumped as to how to finish off my CAS cards. I didn’t want it to just be a one layer card, but should I matte it on colored paper on a white card base? Just die cut and put on a colored card base? I can never decided. That’s when the store bought printed card bases the I’ve picked up from The Christmas Tree Shop come in handy. I found two card bases that I liked with the cat image. I was pretty excited about the star background for my card inspired by The Titanic which was operated by the White Star Line. But I really like the way the gingham looks. The color coordinates so well with the cat, don’t you think? Which one do you like better?

As always, I’m happy to share my computer generated sentiment. If you’d like to use this on your cards just right click on the image 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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Wants and Needs – Clean and Simple Challenge #673

Posted on January 16, 2022 | 2 comments

I’m hosting this week’s CAS Challenge and we’re starting off the new year with some healthy habits–well we’re trying at least. These fun Waffle Flower hippos have their exercise routine down, but they can’t seem to lay off the junk food.

I created this sentiment with the Tired Panda font duo (Caps and Script) that I downloaded from The Hungry JPEG.

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

Linking to the following challenges:

Anything Goes

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Not My Cup of Tea – Clean and Simple Challenge #672

Posted on January 9, 2022 | 3 comments

Lisa is hosting this week’s CAS challenge and she wants us to feature our favorite drinks. Tea has always been my favorite. I’ve been drinking it since I was a kid–several cups a day. So I went searching the internet for a fun tea joke and found this one.

This is made with my very own font that I designed using calligraphr.com. If you’d like to use this on your cards just right click on the image and save it to your computer. If you use it, I’d love to see it, so please tag me @cardsbyjennifrann and #thestampingactuary.

Linking to the following challenges:

Anything Goes

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Bad Ass – Clean and Simple Challenge #659

Posted on October 10, 2021 | 3 comments

This week’s Clean and Simple Challenge is Polka Dots. I chose to make my polka dots with Nuvo Glimmer Paste and a polka dot stencil. I think it makes a very fun background for This funny Unity stamp.

I’m also playing along in the AAA Cards Clean And Simple Challenges Game #200:

The theme is celebrate. To make the donkey more festive, I masked him and stamped a party hat on him. I cut him out with my ScanNCut and grounded him with the MFT Grounding Elements die. And to really put it over the top, he needed googly eyes.

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