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Couldn’t Turn It Down – Color Challenge #910

Posted on August 23, 2022 | 2 comments

Karen is our hostess for this week’s Color Challenge and she has chosen Tahitian Tide, Parakeet Party, and Blushing Bride for our colors. And for dessert–music.

Well, I have several music related jokes waiting to be featured on my cards. This was an easy one, because I have this fun boombox stamp. I used my gelli plate to make a background using my best approximations of the colors (I used Tattered Rose, Twisted Citron, and Mermaid Lagoon). I cut and flipped the pieces to give it some added interest and finished off with some music background stamps.

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.

That’s not the only joke I used so far this week.  My card for this week’s Featured Stamper Challenge also cracked me up.

This week’s Featured Stamper is Craftea19. Her gallery is very fun and I really enjoyed browsing it. This card inspired me because this Snoopy image is one of my favorites and Sabrina was kind enough to stamp off a few for me. I had one left. I also had this other cute car image that either Heather or Joanne sent to me. I can’t remember!

This sentiment describes me perfectly. I created the sentiment using Groundnut font that I downloaded from fontspace.com.  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.

And here’s the inside:

Always fun for a birthday card.

Linking to:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – Always Anything Goes

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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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More Sugar! – Free For All Challenge #605

Posted on September 24, 2021 | 1 comment

Today’s Free for All  Challenge is Halloween cards with monsters. I just bought this stamp from The Cat’s Pajamas clearance sale, so I was excited to use it. This is pretty much a one layer card until I added the sentiment banner. I stamped the zombie and masked a moon around him. Sponged the night sky and the ground. Splattered water and some white paint. Then I colored the zombie and drew in the ground and a bit of a shadow line. As usual, I got my Tim Holtz Grunge stencil out for the craters of the moon. To finish off the edges, I rubbed them with Nuvo mousse.

I saw this zombie joke on Facebook recently, and I thought it would be fun for the inside.  It was certainly fun to design using Courtside and Showcard Gothic fonts.  Here is the PNG if you would also like to use it:

If you’d like to use it 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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Dust! – Technique Challenge #865

Posted on September 20, 2021 | 2 comments

Monday is my favorite day because it means it’s time for the Technique Lovers Challenge. Lyn is our hostess this week and she has challenged us to try Dina’s Double Water Stencil Technique.  It’s so fun.

This is my kind of Technique Challenge. Two fun backgrounds for the price of one. And I love the way they both came out. I decided I wanted to use this mouse digi from Craftin Desert Divas, so I grabbed a polka dotted stencil for a cheesy feel to the background. I used my Fabriano Hot Press paper for the technique, because I know I can always count on that paper where water is involved.  I sponged it with Mustard Seed, Wild Honey and Tea Dye DOX inks.

For the sentiment I used Birdy font that I had downloaded free from Fontbundles.net.  I created it in Microsoft Word and saved it as a PNG file for future use.  If you’d like to use it 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.

I’m playing along with the following challenges today:

Anything Goes

Lots of Layers

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May the Forties by with you – Color Challenge #861

Posted on September 15, 2021 | 2 comments

Tuesday’s Color Challenge hosted by Karen Barber was looking for Cajun Craze, Pool Party, and Mossy Meadow.

I approximated those colors by using Distress Oxide inks in Fired Brick, Tumbled Glass, and Peeled Paint.  I needed a birthday card for our friend who just turned 40.  He’s a big guy–almost like wookiee sized.  Everybody calls him Chewie.  So I needed a Star Wars card.  It might be hard to see the colors in my background, but I do love the look of Distress Oxides on black paper.

I sponged a sort of aurora look on the black and then splattered stars across the sky with white acrylic paint.  The Chewie and Han Solo bear digi stamps are so cute, aren’t they?  I got them as a prize from 2 Cute Ink.  Then I was left with the question of how to make this card a 40th birthday card.  So I did some googling and found the perfect sentiment:

I created the sentiment in Microsoft Word and saved it as a PNG file for future use.  If you’d like to use it 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.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

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Many Mermaids – Inspiration Challenge #812

Posted on June 28, 2021 | 2 comments

I had fun with my boys making mermaid cards for this week’s Inspiration Challenge.  I wanted to combine the challenge with Nichole’s mermaid VSN challenge. Desmond chose this surf board for our inspiration.

The mosaic design made me think of the splotchy look of a wrinkle free distress background. So we got to work making a light blue and a dark blue. I liked Desmond’s background better than mine.

For my card, I die cut an oval frame as an approximation to the surfboard shape and popped my mermaid up in front. Raleigh left his background plain with solid blue cardstock and some glittery accents.

I love it when my boys craft with me.

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Digi Mojo Midsummer Mushroom Hunt – Stampers Delights

Posted on June 25, 2021 | 4 comments

Have you seen the Midsummer Mushroom Hunt that is going on this weekend in the DigiMojo Facebook group? If you’re not a member of the group, make sure you join so you can play along!  There are sure to be lots of great freebies and prizes.  This card is made using the Stampers Delights Fawn image that will be featured over the weekend.  Make sure to stop by and join the Stampers Delights Fan Group.

I really enjoyed coloring up this image with my Copics.  I drew a hill for the faun to sit on and masked both the hill and the faun so I could sponge a golden sky with sun rays.  Then I masked the sky to sponge the hill.  After I finished inking it up, I splattered with water for a more magical look.  After I die cut the paper, I decided that it needed a golden border to really frame the scene.  So I rubbed the edges with Nuvo expanding mousse.

Entering these challenges:

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Rainbow Welcome – Technique Lovers Challenge #852

Posted on June 21, 2021 | 3 comments

Monday is my favorite challenge day – Technique Lovers Challenge. Today Lyn challenged us to combine repeat stamping with Emboss Resist.  I’ve done some extra combining too.  Combined with this month’s Waffle Flower challenge which is to make a rainbow scene.

My rainbow scene is welcoming my friends’ new great granddaughter. Also a great combo with Lee’s Unique Rainbow VSN challenge. I did my repeat stamping using the sentiments from the Congrats set, “Congrats”, “Celebrate”, “Yippee”, etc. Then I sponged on my “unique rainbow” using my favorite Distress Oxide rainbow of Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Broken China, and Seedless Preserves. I used the Autumn Time set to mask and stamp the scene of a sweet sleeping fox in the flower bed.

This card is off to my dear friends Paul and Myrna to congratulate them on the birth of their first great granddaughter.  I’m so excited for them!  I constructed the sentiment using various Paper Smooches and Honey Bee Stamps sentiments.  You know I always make two of each card, but I only needed one great granddaughter card.  I made the second one as a straight forward woodland fox birthday card.  It’s fun to see how different two otherwise nearly identical cards can be.

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Love You Deerly – Featured Stamper #749

Posted on June 13, 2021 | 5 comments

This week’s Featured Stamper is ScrappyHappy. What a fun and lovely gallery! I browsed the entire gallery, but I came back to this gorgeous scene.

I was looking for inspiration for a Father’s Day card that a friend asked me to make and I thought a scene like this would make a nice masculine card. I loved the dreamy kind of glow that Laura’s card has with the darker edges, so I kept that look as I stenciled my scene using my new Mountain Scene Builder Stencil from Erin Lee Creative. I had to dig around in my scraps for a mask to sponge a white moon because I forgot I was going to mask a moon. I do like the very soft look of this moon.

I wanted a very woodsy feel because my friend does live very much near the Freetown State Forest and this sweet deer stamp really looks like the adorable little fawn that walked through my yard with her mom the other day. I also realized I had the perfect sentiment for this card. I decided I wanted to cut it with my ScanNCut, but I wanted to emboss it in white on black. So I first stamped the sentiment on white with black and scanned it to recognize and make the cut file. I cut it out of black and then embossed in white.  I also had to draw a border around the deer and teepee in order to cut them out with the ScanNCut.

The sentiment is popped up on foam squares and I finished with some stars in white gel pen. I’m very happy with this card and can’t wait for my friend to see it! Thanks for the inspiration, Laura!

Linking two these two challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Create a Scene
Word Art Wednesday – Anything Goes

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Do Epic Stuff – Ways to Use It Challenge #848

Posted on June 10, 2021 | 2 comments

Today’s Ways to Use It Challenge is torn paper.  I always love the look of torn paper masking, so that is my choice for Sabrina’s challenge. I tore some mountains and sponged them and stamped them with the Weathered stamp according to the Faux Tearing Tutorial. Then I tore another paper to sponge the ground and stenciled in some clouds. I just got this stamp set in the mail yesterday. The Cat’s Pajamas has 1/2 off everything right now and you know I can’t resist a sale like that.  I was excited to get this and another graduation stamp set.  I’ve felt like I don’t have any graduation card mojo lately.

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