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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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Bliss – Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

It’s time for the 2022 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and The Cat’s Pajamas is one of the amazing sponsors.  Alma has a fabulous blog post up on The Cat’s Pajamas blog, and I wanted to join in and play along too!

I like the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, because it reminds me that I should make cards for the coffee lovers in my life.  Personally, I’m a tea drinker, so it never occurs to me to make a coffee card.  But who could resist this sweet Bliss Digital Stamp?  I know I can’t.  I kept it pretty simple with just a fun gelliprint/stenciled background to let that bunny shine.

Here is the digital stamp set that I used:

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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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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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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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Thinking of Birds – MIX Challenge 473

We’re all about birds this week on SCS. Yesterday’s Ways to Use It Challenge was birds, but I couldn’t fit a bird onto yesterday’s card, but that’s OK because we’re challenged to use birds again in today’s MIX Challenge! We’re also challenged to use background stamps in today’s Free for All Challenge. This Geometric Swirl background is probably my favorite background stamp. I used it on a gelli plate to make a mixed media background. First, I printed the digi and die cut the stitched postage stamp die. Then I masked the image and applied washi tape around the edges to keep them white. I knew I was going to want two cards, so I had to cut two masks. That was the hardest part of making this card. I applied Speckled Egg DOX ink to the gelli plate and just took a plain print of that. Then I applied glitter acrylic paint and set the stamp into the paint. I stamped one card with the painted stamp (not pictured) and pulled a print of the negative with this one.

I love the look of that glittery acrylic paint.  After I removed the masks, I colored with SN and Copic Markers. I reached for another background stamp (French Script) to add some interest to my card base. A coworker’s father-in-law just passed, so I needed a sympathy card. I really like the way this came out. I hope it brings comfort to her and her family.  A little bit of Stickles on the flowers added just the right amount of sparkle to the image.  The photos don’t do it justice!

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Dino Classmate – MIX Challenge #466

It’s Friday and today’s MIX Challenge was hosted by Lydia who gave us a very fun background technique to try.  I rarely think to use my gelli plate but I’m always excited when a challenge calls for it,   I thought my background had a prehistoric quality that would be cool for this Tea Rex. I had a store bought card with this joke that made me laugh so hard, I had to use it.  And I think the fact that he is standing there sipping tea really adds to the fun.

You can find the whole saying below if you want to save it for yourself:

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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