Oprah Magazine

Very excited to hear fantastic news from my crafty friend Jessica.  Her companies, JessicaLynnOriginal and JLMould Etsy will be featured in the February issue of Oprah's "O" Magazine! It will hit newsstands on January 15th. 

Thrilled to already own many of her fabulous stamps...she is about to get swamped.

Emily's Cards

While I took a trip to Nashville in November, my daughter decided to have some fun and get into my stamp/craft area. She just happened to pick all stamps by Jessica Lynn Original. (Oops...the little girl was a digital I had printed out. Maybe she is by Victoria Case?) The following below is all Emily's typing.

These are the cards I made when my mom went to Nashville. The cat one was the easiest to make.The cookie one was fun. I like the little girl one the best.

The popcorn one was ok. I liked making the Thanksgiving one.

Christmas Cards

I think it should be a rule that no one is required to blog in December!!

Here is a shot of what my Christmas cards look like. Finally finished and they are in today's mail. The card is a total case of one Nicole Heady made back in September. Blue is my favorite color, so I fell in love with it right away!

I used my labels one nestability cut in half for the front sentiment, and a paper crimper to make the textured strip along the bottom. I have the ribbon, but decided not to put it on my cards (and it made it a touch faster to complete them!). Cute little crystals are in the center of the snowflakes.

As I was working on putting these together today, I was totally having fun singing along with my new "Glee" CD! Good thing no one could see...or hear me!

In case I'm not back before...Have a Merry Christmas!!

Sharon

Swap card

Been under the weather for quite a bit, and not up to standing to make anything. However, I have a "Winter in the Forest" swap due next week. Went with a very simple design and used all Papertrey products on this one.

Happy crafting!

Sharon

Oh deer!

I will admit, I cased a card by Dawn McVey for today's creation. Love her style and use of color! She is one of the first blogs I found when I discovered the blogging world.

What a cute little deer from Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses! I matched him up on some Papertrey Ink card stock cut out & embossed with Labels One nestabilities. I layered some Eskimo Kisses design paper onto New Leaf cardstock. "Noel" is from Dawn's Signature Christmas (finally got it out of it's packaging!) Sparkle added under the sentiment.

While putting this all together, the card base under the deer needed a little something more, and I did lots of playing around to come up with this look. I stamped Versamark ink onto the Impressabilities Snowflake, put that on top of the base and ran it through the cuttlebug. Then, sprinkled with "Bridal" embossing powder. It gives a shimmery, iridescent look to the snowflakes.

Many of the goodies on the card today came in my November guest designer prize package from Kate at i {heart} papers! She has hundreds of items for sale, so be sure to take a look-see!

Happy crafting!

Sharon

Brentwood finds a tree

Those little Charlie Brown trees...standing by themselves at the tree farm. You think how cute they could be in some small corner of the house, or a little room. Brentwood thinks the same thing, and brought home this little beauty, plus a wreath.

He is colored with Copics and has some fun flock added to his hat to help keep his ears warm. It does not show in the picture (of course not, because it's very sparkly in person) but I used my clear spica glitter pen on the ornament, the ribbon tag, and words in the sentiment. It reads: Trimming the tree with happy hearts, that's the way the holiday starts. I had used some silver/glitter embossing powder, and it had lots of sparkle & shine, but was harder to read, as it "bled" some. For another small touch of "sparkle" Christmas red (how appropriate!) stickles were added to the berries in the wreath.

Happy crafting!

Sharon

JLO Challenge

Hi there! This card was made for a sketch challenge on the Jessica Lynn Original blog. There are just so many cute stamps from the JLO line to choose from, that I went back and forth between many! I think I'll use this layout to make up some more, perhaps for the "Cards for Heroes" drive. I will pick a different DP, as no glitter is allowed..."Cards with glitter pose a problem because glitter can be seen with night-vision goggles". The paper is from a pack of Martha Stewart Christmas paper that I bought last year once it went on clearance.

Happy crafting!

Sharon

Gate Fold

Hi all, my posts will be few this week. School starts back up, and I'll have some early mornings/late work days for bit, then things will settle into a routine!

I made this card for a challenge to make a gate fold. First time for trying one, and it was easy! I think next time I'll do a regular long card rather than a square. I used the tutorial over on SCS to figure out what to do. The image tucks behind the sentiment to keep the card closed.

My image is from Victoria Case, and colored with Copics and Bic Mark-it's. I used distress ink around the image, because it was just too much bright white for the old fashioned feel of the designer paper (Basic Grey-Wassail). The top picture looks as if there is yellow...but there isn't. Gold stickels were used on the star, and Papertrey Ink sentiment.

Happy crafting!

Sharon

Blog Hop

One of the reasons I started a blog was so I could participate in Papertrey Ink's Blog Hops.

Nichole says, "'Tis the season to recycle! Your challenge this month is to repurpose leftover holiday trimmings such as Christmas cards or gift wrap and create something all-new! Not only will this be fun, but also budget & earth friendly at the same time!"

When I began the card, I knew I wanted to use the "HoHoHo" card front. Originally I was going for this weeks SCS card sketch. However, I never could find a panel for section two that did not totally clash. I'll save that layout for another day.

Thanks to my Aunt Glenda for sending the Christmas card that I was able to repurpose into a new card. Santa was on the inside of the original card...he was all in gray, so I used Bic Mark-it pens to add some color. Inkssentials pen added some white to the fur trim of Santa's hat & coat. A touch of Icicle Stickles was popped onto the hat puff ball (hmm, if I owned Fun Flock, that would have looked cool on the white parts). Ribbon is from Target $1 Spot. The sentiment and kraft card base are both from Papertrey.

Happy crafting!

Sharon

Merry Christmoose!

I made this card several weeks ago using this sketch from Jen Del Muro. Guess what?!? It uses paper from the Making Memories FaLaLa pack! I do own other paper, I promise ya! Moose stamp is from one of the Walmart clear stamp sets for $2.97--can't beat that price! The circles are punch outs from the pack. A cream colored card base was used to match with the DP. White would have just been too bright! I still have yet to start addressing any cards! I don't send until after the 10th, but I normally have them ready to go by now! How are the rest of you doing if you send cards?

Sharon

Splitcoast sketch challenge 204

I'm really liking the downhome look and feel of the paper from the Making Memories FaLaLa pack. So easy to pick out several papers knowing that they are going to look good together and coordinate. The glitter star brads are from the FaLaLa set, too. Walmart clear stamps. I did this for the sketch challenge 204 at Splitcoast Stampers. Just made it yesterday. Oh well, they say no time limit on the challenges!




Sharon

First Posting

Well, like many others out there, I've decided to start up a blog to post my pictures and other various ramblings on life. An easy way for those who know me to see some of my creations. I think my little daughter is as thrilled about this as me, and has already requested to be allowed to post some of her creations. Our internet connection has not been working well the past several days, so we'll see how this goes. I'm setting it to post at midnight on December 1st, so it might be easy to remember when I started this all!

First offering is a card made for two different challenges. First, for the Stamp Something Black Friday Challenge and second, for the Paper Craft Planet 12day1 challenge.

I used the Walmart clear stamps, PTI Kraft paper, Making Memories FaLaLa design paper from the 8x8 pack, black ribbon, and scrap black card stock that had been run through the cuttlebug. Ink is Brilliance graphite black. I just used my permanent marker to make the stitching look around the stamped panels.

Leave me a comment and say, "Hi!"

Sharon