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Hokey Pokey – Teapot Tuesday Challenge #749

It’s Tickle a Teapotter time and Jean is our hostess this month! She has provided us with a Pinterest board of glass paper weights for inspiration. I chose this one because I thought I could get a similar look with my Ranger stencil.

I could have sponged and stamped some ink through the stencil, but I felt like playing with some gel printing. This fun sock puppet was on my to do list. I love the look of this stamp. And he needed a funny joke, so I found this one:

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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Won’t Get Fueled Again – Featured Stamper Challenge #824

I think this is hilarious and I hope my dad does too. It’s his 74th birthday today, and he did listen to The Who quite a bit when I was growing up.

Here is the full dad joke.  It uses “jungle” font that I had downloaded for free at fontbundles.net.  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.

It’s Sunday and that means it’s time for the Featured Stamper Challenge.  I knew I wanted to use this joke today, but I went to our Featured Stamper, joejaykandi’s gallery for inspiration. I liked this card, because I could use the humor element and the sheet music background for my card:

I printed the sentiment, then stamped this fun bus and drew on the flag design to really make it look like a Who tour bus. Then I stamped the sheet music background on some shimmery gray paper and added a bit of hand drawn border for a little added interest.

Linking to the following challenges:

Anything Goes

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Happy Tacos – Free for All Challenge #662

I never got a chance to upload my card from Friday!  This is a combination of both of Friday’s challenges.  The MIX Challenge was to use cardboard and the Free for All Challenge was Clean & Simple Foods.   OK, so the CAS element got away from me. Go ahead and judge me.  I based the card on a funny meme that I saw that said this:

The sentiment uses my very own font that I created 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.

I used this cute SSS dog and taco that Jacqueline had sent me, since she knows I love cute critters (especially in hats or clothes!). I added a bit of cardboard for the MIX challenge and called it done!

Linking to the following challenges:

Anything Goes

Anything Goes

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Here I Am – Ways to Use It Challenge #918

For this week’s Ways to Use It Challenge, Polly challenged us to be inspired by a fairy tale. “Fairy tale” is a keyword that I use in my Color My Life stamps database, so that was easy. But I didn’t want a princess because I needed a card for my boss for Boss’s Day. Although, I have a new boss as of next week. This is one last card from the team before we break up. The entire sentiment is “Every once in a while someone amazing comes into your life.  And here we are.  You’re welcome.”

As is my usual routine, I made a second card.  But the second one said this:

As always, if you’d like to use this on your cards just right click on the images 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 started with the frog prince and felt like pairing him with a fun background from my background drawer. So then I had the card almost all finished with the background stuck down and the sentiment popped up and couldn’t figure out how to ground the frog. That’s when I turned and saw these two leafy branches left over from my last card. I tucked them in behind him and voila! I love it when a plan comes together.

Linking to the following challenges:

Anything Goes

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Stampers Delights September Spotlight – Week 1

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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Couldn’t Turn It Down – Color Challenge #910

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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Stampers Delights August Spotlight – Week 1

OK.  I know it’s August and not May, but you know I’m a sucker for a good dad joke and when I saw this one I couldn’t wait to use it.  Plus, I had the perfect image from Stampers Delights.  It’s never too early to start on your Cinco de Mayo cards, right?  This Kawaii Cactus is just too much fun!

I printed him out, cut him with my ScanNCut and colored with my Copics.  I pretty much always make two cards, because it’s so easy to make a second as long as you’re making one.

This week’s Sketch Challenge helped me to make a fun and festive card.  I liked the use of the strips and added a nice warm sun as the circle.

I created the sentiment using Sailboat 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.

Dismayed.  HA!  I will hold onto this until May and then when I inevitably miss someone’s May birthday they will get this belated birthday card.

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

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge – Summertime Blues

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Octopi – Free For All Challenge #650

Today’s Free for All Challenge is funny animals! Yes please! I had this dad joke just waiting for a card.

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.

HA! I love it! I’ve also combined this with the loose watercolor MIX challenge. I stamped the 3 octopi (?) and loosely watercolored them. Then I dug out this fun gelli print out of my background drawer and printed out the first part of the joke for the outside. It was a quick and easy card to make before we left for the beach this morning.

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A Tearful Card – Clean and Simple Challenge #699

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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Wise Doctor – Free For All Challenge #647

Yesterday, for the Free for All Challenge, Jeanne challenged us to make blue cards. I had this guy on my to do list and thought he would look good in blue. Then I dug through my background drawer and found this background that had been made by stamping with big bubble wrap and water. I had seen this funny doctor joke somewhere and wanted to use it on a get well card. Once I had it printed out, I had the idea to ink up my embossing folder that looks like illegible script and stamp that onto the background. I love the way it came out.

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.

This wasn’t the only get well card that I made yesterday.  A friend asked me for a card for her friend that broke his leg.  I suggested this design and told her that I have a ton of old road maps.  She asked for Scranton, PA on the card.  I’m so excited about this map that I had.  It’s from 1973.

Linking to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Make Your Own Background

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