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Feliz Gnavidad – TCP Gnovember Release

Posted on November 16, 2022 | 7 comments

I hope you’re having a great Gnovember!  Have you had a chance to play with this month’s TCP release? The Cat Pack has created some fabulous cards with these gnomes and I wanted to take a turn with the Tree Cup Gnome Digital Stamp.  He comes with some fun sentiments.  My favorite is “Feliz Gnavidad”, so I printed that on his cup.  It’s rather understated, but still fun, don’t you think?  I cut him out and colored in festive colors.  Then I tried out the technique from this week’s Technique Lovers Challenge–Wet Paper Watercoloring.  I made two backgrounds, one in greens and one in blues and cut them up according to today’s sketch.  Christmas cards always need glitter, so I embossed the snowflakes with iridescent glitter embossing powder and then I added Stickles to the image.  After I took this photo, I realized he needed some more glitter, so I added more Stickles to his mittens.

The 2022 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is still in full swing and The Cat’s Pajamas is one of the amazing sponsors.

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.  I’m not so sure this is a coffee card, though.  I think he’s sitting in a hot cocoa cup, don’t you?

Here is the digital stamp set that I used:

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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.

Here are the products that I used today:

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Daily Challenge Guest Designer!

Posted on August 3, 2022 | 4 comments

I’ve been invited to be a guest designer on the Color Challenge team for the month of August!  It’s always so fun to be a part of such a talented team!
This week Barbara had chosen Coastal Cabana, Polished Punk, and Basic Black.

I’ve combined my card with this week’s Technique Lover’s Challenge and made my faux handmade paper by daubing white and the closest thing I had to Coastal Cabana on black cardstock. The instructions said to also daub metallic but I opted for a simple gold rub around the edges. Barbara’s choice of birds for dessert had me looking for a stamp with a bird and flower. I bought this sweet Stampendous Cling Cherry Bird stamp at a clearance sale recently and knew these colors were perfect for it!

But, wait, that’s not all.  I was also invited to be a guest designer on the Sketch Challenge team for the next six months!  I had so much fun the last time I was on this team, I stayed on for a whole year!

A friend of mine asked me to make an 80th birthday card for someone who loves to sew. I didn’t have room on the front of this card for an “80”, but it says “Happy 80th birthday” inside. On the outside, I chose this adorable Penny Black Sew Nice stamp and a quilted look to the background.  I bought this at the same clearance sale as the Cherry Bird.  That was a good day. And isn’t this PTI sentiment just wonderful and perfect for this card?

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Nine Patch for Technique Lovers Challenge #900

Posted on May 30, 2022 | Leave a comment

I’ve combined today’s TLC with last week’s TLC which I didn’t get a chance to do. I couldn’t not play along with challenge #900! This is a sympathy card for a coworker who just lost her sister. I thought a quilt look would be comforting and this Unity sentiment says everything. This silhouetted wildflower adds a nice touch.

I like to make two of each card, so I’m not so sad to part with the first one.

This one turned out quite a bit different from the first. I cut a different number of squares for the original patchwork on this panel and made it into a birthday card. I held this patchwork quilt on top of a bunch of different patterned papers and none of them were quite right until I got to this lovely pink weathered wood pattern. It’s perfect! I think it absolutely made the card.

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Stampers Delights March Release – Kawaii Carrots

Posted on March 4, 2022 | 1 comment

It’s March, and that means it’s time for a new release from Stampers Delights.  You can find the entire March release here.  This card uses the Kawaii Carrots digital stamp.  

I love all the carrots in this set and was so excited to use them to make my own designer paper.  That’s always fun to do with digital stamps, don’t you think?

Now that I had my DIY designer paper, I decided to use the technique that was showcased in a recent Technique Lover’s Challenge. It’s a pretty easy fun fold.  The only kind I like to do.  I did print out my rabbit a little bit too big to fit in the circle.  Oops!

But it gives it character, right?  Here is the inside of the card:

It’s pretty neat how it opens up in layers.

 

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Oh my gosh! Isn’t she the cutest!  I can hardly stand it.

Linking to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – Always Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Add a Die Cut

Stay tuned for more from Stampers Delights this week. Click here to find lots more inspiration on the Stampers Delights blog.  Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

 

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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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Good Things Come in Pairs – Technique Lovers Challenge #858

Posted on August 2, 2021 | 1 comment

It’s Monday and that means it’s time to Try a New Technique!   Sabrina has challenged us to try the Burst Through technique.  I love a fun and easy technique and that’s what we’ve got for a challenge today! I was glad that I watched Dina’s video for the tips about curling the paper with a quilling tool. I don’t have a quilling tool, but my tweezers worked great.

I thought this technique would be fun for another Expecting Twins card. This is what happens when a friend has a big life event. I have to make cards not just from me, but from everyone else as well. I’m certainly not complaining about this. It’s very good to be needed. These two mischievous twin bunnies are bursting through the paper with my own computer generated sentiment.  You can right click and save the PNG file to your own computer here:

It’s done using the Bumble Bee font that I got for free at fontbundles.net.

This is going to the great-grandparents, so the inside says “You put the GREAT in great-grandparents.” Here is that sentiment as a PNG file.  You can right click and save this to your own computer as well.

This one is made using the Baby Crab font that I downloaded from The Hungry JPEG.

Babies are such a great reason to celebrate and twin babies are an extra good reason to make cards!  Let me know if you like my computer generated sentiments and if you do use them, please tag me with #thestampingactuary

I’m also entering this card into the following challenges:

ANYTHING GOES

ANYTHING GOES

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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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Linda’s Cup of Tea – Teapot Tuesday #667

Posted on May 4, 2021 | 2 comments

It’s Teapot Tuesday and today’s Tea Party is for Linda (Hotwheels). We’re sending some kind words and encouragement as we mark the second anniversary of her dear mother’s passing. Polly is our hostess and she has challenged us to make our cards with something that reminds us of our own mother. When I read that Linda and her mother liked tea, I knew I had to make a tea party card. I get my tea drinking habit from my mom. When I was growing up, she always had a cup of tea on the table while she sewed, and now so do I. Well, except I’m making cards instead of sewing. I wish I had picked up the sewing skills too.

This ended up being a combination of last week’s MIX Challenge to paper piece with mixed media backgrounds, because I was looking at these sweet Bo Bunny teacups and thinking they would look good paper-pieced. I had small strips of paper that I had used to soak up the watercolor from yesterday’s Technique Lovers Challenge.

I love the Fabriano Hot Press paper.  The pad that I have right now is 11 x 14.  I’m able to cut six card fronts out of each piece, and I’m left with two strips of 5.5 x 1.25.  I always soak up the remaining ink of my workspace with a scrap of paper and yesterday I decided that I should use those strips.  Lo and behold, those strips that I used to soak up the bird color made beautiful teacups.  To make it a truly mixed media card, I added gold Wink of Stella to the rims of the teacups, colored the flowers with metallic markers and added Stickles to the petals and flower centers.  Love that sparkle.

I’m also linking to this week’s Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge which is looking for Feminine cards.

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