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TCP 12 Days of Crafting Day 4

Posted on November 28, 2022 | Leave a comment

Hello and welcome to The Cat’s Pajamas 12 Days of Crafting!  It’s Day 4 and the theme is “Kid Friendly”.  Of course I would sign up for that one–I love crafting with my kids!  And each year we like to make ornaments, so that’s what we made this year.  First of all, my boys love to color, so they both picked out a Christmas digi to use.  The penguins were a big hit, so I also chose a penguin digi.  I cut them with my ScanNCut and we all colored them.  Then I laminated them to make sure they’d last through the years.

Then I used my ScanNCut to cut out some wreath forms.  To make the wreaths, we simply wrapped yarn around the circle to cover the paper.  I inked up the paper with green ink in case and of the paper showed through, then Raleigh decided he wanted to use red yarn.  He is very clever in finding ways to make his project different.

Come on over to the Cat’s Pajamas Blog and check out the rest of the 12 Days of Crafting.  There’s plenty of time to play along to win fabulous prizes!

We each decorated our wreaths with Nuvo drops or Stickles and I tied bows for each of the ornaments.

Now it’s time to hang them on our tree and enjoy the season!

Here are the digital stamp sets that we used:

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Stampers Delights November Inspiration

Posted on November 27, 2022 | Leave a comment

Hello and welcome to my last Design Team post for Stampers Delights.  It’s been such a great experience and I’m thankful to Janice for giving me this fun opportunity.  For the month of November, we’re highlighting Christmas/Winter images on the Stampers Delights blog.  I’ve used the Kawaii Coco 4 Coco digital stamp for today’s card. What a fun image to warm up a cold winter day!

I felt like making her a fun mixed media background and here is my step by step process:

I started by pulling a piece of cardstock out of my background drawer that I had stamped with big bubble wrap.  Then I stamped big snowflakes all over it.  I drizzled some acrylic paint on top.  The pain has glitter in it, so it really sparkles.  After I took that last picture, I also rubbed a bit of blue Inka Gold in some spots to give it more depth and I finished off by applying Nuvo Mousse and Glitter Paste through a snowflake stencil.  I love all the shimmer, shine, and texture!

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Penguins of October – TCP Release

Posted on October 23, 2022 | Leave a comment

I couldn’t let October pass without playing with the fun penguins from The Cats Pajamas October release!  My first card features the Happy Pumpkin Day digital stamp.  I made this card for this week’s Ways to Use It Challenge to use buttons. That challenge gave me just right idea to put my project over the top.  I little (but giant for the penguin) button on his scarf.  Doesn’t he looks so stylish?  I don’t know about you, but fall means plaid to me, and I had an idea to print out the buffalo check pattern from the Black & White Spring Digi Papers.  I never knew I needed digital paper until these came out.  I love the printer-friendly black and white and I love adding a little something to them.  This time, I used my Copic markers to make a colorful fall plaid.  You know a Jen card is never finished without a little bit of sparkle.  I couldn’t find a place to add Stickles to this one, so I went with Wink of Stella on the jack o’lantern face, the scarf, and the small pumpkin.

For my second card, I wanted to play with the Gobble It Up Digistamps.  This time, I checked the Free for All Challenge for inspiration–use dies.  I did use some retired dies on my card, but to go with the cutting theme, I chose to try out the Triple Side Step Cutable.

What a fun and easy to use cut file.  I love that it not only cuts the card base, but also cuts the matting pieces!  It was so easy, I made two!  I used my ScanNCut to cut two bases, then I cut the other pieces with two different papers, so I could mix and match.  I stuck with the same marker color palette, because turquoise just looks so good with orange.  You’ll notice I also couldn’t stop the plaid–adding some simple lines to give the tablecloth some character.  The sparkle on this card ended up on the leaves.

I hope you like what I’ve done with these fall penguins and I hope you’ll get a chance to play along with them too!

Here are the products that I used today:

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MWAHH! – TCP October Release

Posted on October 11, 2022 | Leave a comment

It’s October and time for a new release from The Cat’s Pajamas!  And this release includes one of my all-time favorite Halloween sets.  I was so happy to use the Mwahh Digital Stamp set for my card this month.  And what a great way to showcase such a fun image, but this Slimline Diorama card featured in yesterday’s Technique Lovers Challenge.  Fortunately, it was a really easy fold to do, as I am notoriously fun-fold-challenged.  And the bats from the Witch Please Digistamp/SVG were the perfect cute embellishment for the card.

You know this digital stamp set is a fun duo of vampire and zombie.  Here is a card that I made last year which featured the zombie image:

You’ll notice they both have my favorite moon technique which is sponging ink through a splatter stencil to look like the craters.  Check out last year’s blog post to find the fun inside sentiment of that card.

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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!

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Christmas in August – TCP Release

Posted on August 27, 2022 | 1 comment

It’s still August and I’m still making Christmas cards.  This August TCP release is just so full of fun!  There are so many options that I just couldn’t stop playing!

For this card I wanted to use the Christmas Cookies digi stamps and the ideas just kept coming.  They pair so well with the Christmas Cutouts and Ornaments SVGs.  First I had the idea to print the tree “cookie” digi and cut that out using the tree SVG.  That paired beautifully, by the way, with the Woodgrain Coverplate.  I love the look of that!

But then I thought about how fun it would be to print out that Santa beard “cookie” digi in light gray on white and cut that out with the beard SVG.  I paired that with and Every Day Tag printed with one of the Digital Paper designs.

But I still had more ideas in me.  What if I printed the ornament “cookie” digi with my laser printer and foiled it.  You know I can’t go too many days without foiling, or I suffer from foiling withdrawal.  So I cut that out with one of the Ornaments SVGs.  Doesn’t it look so fabulous in that metallic gold?

There are so many more options with this awesome August release!  What kind of ideas do you have?  We’d love to see them!

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Stampers Delights August Spotlight – Week 1

Posted on August 11, 2022 | 2 comments

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.

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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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Bless Your Hearth – TCP July Release

Posted on July 28, 2022 | 2 comments

I know we’re all excited for the August release soon, but I am still having fun with the fun Christmas in July release!  How is you Christmas card stash coming along?  I’ve made some decent progress this month.  I was particularly excited to make a card with the fun Bless Your Hearth digital stamps.  And this week’s Sketch Challenge inspired me to also use the Holiday Toppers SVGs.

I use Microsoft Word to print out my digital stamps and when I inserted the two stamps into my Word document, I decided to also bring in the Holiday Toppers file to see how it would all work out and see how well it worked for the sketch.

It’s exciting to see how closely the card comes out compared to the original plan.  This one worked out just right.  I tried something a little different on this card.  I normally cut my images out with a border.  But I used my ScanNCut to cut these penguins without a border.  Then I added a border and cut again on plain black cardstock.  I offset it a bit behind the image as a shadow.  Something about the glow of a fireplace inspired me to have a shadow.

I added a few finishing touches of Stickles for sparkle, Nuvo glaze for the glass of milk, and some sparkly rhinestone snowflake stickers.  Feels pretty festive to me!

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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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Christmas in July – The Cat’s Pajamas July Release

Posted on July 14, 2022 | 1 comment

Season’s tweetings!  Are you ready for a little bit of Christmas in July?  It’s never too early to start on your Christmas card stash.  Actually, I think I’m a little late!  This month’s TCP release has everything you need to catch up on those Christmas cards.  I just love the Winter Elements SVGs.  I mean, seriously, how cute is this sweet cardinal?  Add in the Holiday Toppers and Holiday Sayings and I could play for days.

I’m excited because I tried something new on this card.  I have a friend that uses heat transfer vinyl (HTV) on her cards often.  I’ll admit to thinking that was crazy until I realized I have a lot of small bits of vinyl left over from other projects that would be perfect to use on a card.

What do you think? Look how good that sentiment looks.  The hardest part was remembering to mirror the file so it would cut properly.  All the other bits are cut out of paper and embellished with Stickles and Nuvo Glaze.  I dare you to add some HTV on your cards!  And let me know how it goes!

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