MCV10 + ATSM153 & CTS131 + Virginia's View #16

I have a couple of cards to share today.  The family was driving somewhere on Sunday, talking about plans for the week, and my son said he'd been invited to the zoo with his friend and the friend's grandmother. That prompted me to ask about the grandfather, who I knew was in poor health. There was a moment of silence before my son said "he died". Ack, do not rely on a 16 year old boy to keep you informed. The poor kid had to listen to his dad & I for 10 miles let him know that is the kind of information he needs to pass on to us. I phoned to offer our condolences, but still wanted to send a card.

I was already planning to pair the PTI Graceful Greetings with my Hero Arts butterfly stamps to make a card based on the CAS(E) this Sketch #131, so this card came together very quickly. It is also being entered in Virginia's View Challenge #16 100% Stamped.

My second card is inspired by Chriss Blagrave's card for Muse: Christmas Visions #10 and the Addicted to Stamps and More! Challenge #153 Holiday.

I love the colors and textures in Chriss's card and used an embossing folder to create a knit striped panel. The sentiment is made by combining a SSS die with a PTI stamp and a few sequins add a bit of shine.

A white and red die cut are layered for more stability and the white is trimmed off where the die cut is adhered to the green part of the panel.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Merry Monday #153: Angels + Virginia's View #14 & MIM #208: Ombre Stamping + Seize the Birthday

I almost walked away from the Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #153: Angels or Cherubs because I don't have any angel stamps, but then I realized I could easily papercraft an angel and this is the result.

I cut a 4"x 3.5" panel of Christmas designer paper and scored every 1/4" to create a fan fold dress. A pearl is slipped on a Maya Road crystal pin and the pin is adhered to the center fold of the dress. The top of the fan is pinched together with a bit of wet glue between each fold and a piece of wire wrapped around the top to hold it together until the adhesive dried. A little glitter washi tape is wrapped around the top part of the dress once it was dry.

The Delaney and Cheviot butterfly dies create the vellum and glitter paper wings and the sentiment is cut from red glitter paper and adhered to vellum banners.

This card is also being entered in Virginia's View Challenge 14: Layers and Dimension.

My second card is based on Laurie Willison's tutorial for Make It Monday #208: Ombre Stamping. I had feathers on my mind after capturing photos of this wild peacock when picking up my daughter from a friend's house. He is usually hiding in the shade but decided to take a walk around the yard while I waited. 

I pulled out the largest feather from PTI's Feather Finery and stamped it with Tropical Teal, Hawaiian Shores and Aqua Mist inks to create the ombre design.

The sentiment was made with a Swoosh stamp and die and a few sequins and raindrops were added before the white panel was popped up on the teal card base. This card is being entered in the Seize the Birthday challenge in the Anything Goes category.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

CQC#285 + JUGS#287 + Virginia's View #14 + AAA Cards #36 + Curtain Call: Beginnings

I loved the color palette for the Colour Q Challenge #285 so much that I immediately pulled out my inks closest to the Stampin' Up colors listed so I wouldn't forget to play along this week. Somehow, it still took me all week to come up with a version of this card that I like and I am just squeaking in before the deadline (and did miss the deadline for entering it in the CASology: Spring challenge.)

The masked square on the card base is inked with a stencil and part of the sentiment is stamped before it is all framed with a couple of layers of PTI Slide Frame die cuts.

The "sending" die cut is inked with Mustard Seed Distress Ink and adhered along the frame with the Massa Leaf and Butterfly dies layered in the opposite corner.

ETA The butterfly dies are from Poppystamps. Delaney, the pink detailed die, has been discontinued and Cheviot, the solid die on the bottom, is still available. Although sold separately, Poppystamps has a number of beautiful butterfly dies that go together.

This card it being linked to a few other challenges - you can check out all the details by following these links,

Colour Q Challenge #285

Just Us Girls #287

AAA Cards Game #36

Curtain Call: Beginnings

Virginia's View Challenge #14

I hope everyone celebrating Easter and Passover had a wonderful weekend with family & friends. We follow the Orthodox calendar, so will be celebrating and feasting this coming weekend.

Thank you for stopping by,

Jacquie

MIM #207: Double Partial Die Cutting + Virginia's View #14 + The Challenge #28 & Muse #111

I've been playing around with Laura Bassen's great double partial die cutting technique demonstrated for this week's Make It Monday #207. Check out her tutorial here and put a sharp blade in your exacto knife.

This first card uses the same "HUGS" die that Laura used, along with a Spellbinders label die to create the bigger opening. I inked the card base and selectively stamped part of a sentiment from Thank You Kindly Stamp set.

Before I adhered the dark gray panel to the card base I decided to cut a channel with a Building Block die to nest in a line of buttons. This card is also being linked to Virginia's View Challenge #14: Layers & Dimension and The Challenge #28: Anything Goes in celebration of their one year anniversary.

This second card is inspired by Kristie Goulet's card as the Muse #111.

I played around with another attempt at the double partial die cut technique on this card. This was a bit trickier to pull off until I remembered I had a smaller On the Edge cutting plate which made it easy to partially cut the tree die to one side of the panel and the oval after.

The card base is inked to create a sunset/sunrise (you decide) and the sentiment is stamped and heat embossed before the panel is adhered with foam squares.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Muse #100 + Virginia's View #11 Clean Slate

I have all sorts of Valentine bits and pieces sitting on the desk as I struggled to put the design in my head onto paper this week. In the end, a happy accident brought me to this card that I am entering in the Muse Challenge #100, where the talented Michele makes her debut as a Design Team member, and Virginia's View #11: Clean Slate.

As Michele had challenged us to "Accentuate the Negative", I was playing with layers of heart die cuts but things weren't lining up as perfectly as I wanted. I started to tidy my desk a bit and uncovered the leftover center of a die cut where I'd used the outer frame on this card. 

Jennifer McGuire had recently posted a video on making Faux Laser Cut cards and when I realized this center portion would fit perfectly behind my heart, I was thrilled.

The second part of Michele's challenge was to use a line from a song as a sentiment, which I struggled with. I kept getting lyrics in my head that I didn't have a stamp for and I didn't want to send my finished panel through the computer. Addicted to Love was the song stuck in my head and I don't know any stamp company with an "addicted" stamp :)

After looking at the options, this Avery Elle sentiment fit the card best.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Merry Monday #134: Ornaments + Virginia's View #9: Metallics & CASology 121: Festive + Muse #93 & Festive Friday #44

It is starting to feel a little like Christmas around here. This morning the family attended a local holiday breakfast and toy drive with Santa. It is the second year we have been involved with this event and we almost missed it as I would have bet money that it didn't take place until after Thanksgiving last year, but I was wrong.

My son, who we have forgiven for aiming corner kicks into the pool equipment, was off for his first driving lesson so I distracted myself by making a few holiday cards.

This first one is for the Merry Monday Challenge #134: Ornaments. The challenge is to create a card with ornaments in silver/gray and blue.

I created a a silver & blue card, with ornaments. The tree is stamped with Delicata Silver Shimmer ink and the ornaments with Memento Paris Dusk ink. Dots of Glossy Accents are added to the stamped ornaments to create baubles.

A Hero Arts sentiment is stamped and heat embossed on a vellum banner to finish the card off.

I am also entering this one in Virginia's View Challenge #9: All Things Metallic.

This second card is my favorite for the day. I loved Therese Calvird's clean & simple triangle tree on her card as the Muse #93 and played around for a while with my Christmas tree stamps.

I wasn't happy with any of them and started looking through my collection for triangle shapes until I found exactly what I was looking for in PTI's Hello Sunshine stamp set.

The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday's Jingle All the Way stamp set. This card is also being entered in CASology Week 121: Festive challenge.

The final card is inspired by the photo for Festive Friday Challenge #44.

Are you surprised that I didn't use my Rustic Wreath on this card :) The photo reminded my of this pretty MFT wreath die which layers up beautifully.

This is another clean & simple card, with three layers of the wreath, a few enamel dots and a red silk ribbon paired with a larger PTI sentiment,

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

MIM188: Ombre Backgrounds + Virginia's View #9: All Things Metallic + PC&S November Gallery Challenge

I was having a very nice day, looking forward to a family movie night, when my sweet little boy came in and said "mom, I think the pool is leaking". Confused, I follow him to our equipment and see the coupling connecting the pump to the filter has been sheared off?! 

I'm trying to process what I'm looking at when my husband comes up behind me and says "that must have been one heck of a kick." The good news is someone's soccer kick has reached a whole new power level, the bad news is it looks like family movie night will be postponed for family pool pump repair night.

While I'm waiting for the needed pieces to be picked up, I thought I'd post this card I made for a few challenges.

The Dangling Stars were die cut from gold shimmer card stock, but it wasn't until I saw Laura Bassen's Stamped Ombre Backgrounds challenge for Make It Monday #188 that the design came together. 

The Wet Paint Holiday sentiment is stamped and clear embossed on a white panel before a Memory Box Wave stencil is used to ink on layers of color.

I started with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink, then added Salty Ocean, Faded Jeans, Dusty Concord and a touch of Pumice Stone. The stencil was shifted so the waves of color blend and overlap and no white is left showing.

The die cut is attached to the top of the inked panel and a few stars adhered to the panel, a few popped up a bit with glue dots and some left to hang free.

I am linking this card to Virginia's View #9: All Things Metallic and Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking's November 2014 Gallery Challenge to use gold.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

CTS95 + CQC261 + Virginia's View #8 CAS + Seize the Birthday & Splitcoaststampers Featured Stamper 399

I have a couple of things to share with you. First of all, I was a little stunned and hugely honored to get a message from Julie Warner at Splitcoaststampers earlier this week to tell me I am the Featured Stamper! This means, anyone who wants to play along is CASEing my gallery. I go by Jacquie J at SCS and you can see my gallery here and all the beautiful CASE cards here or search FS399 at SCS.

I found a little time to make a card this morning before things heated up too much. Yes, we are being hit with high temperatures again after a beautiful cool few days, but at least it is a dry heat that comes with the Santa Ana winds.

For this card, I cut an Avery Elle chevron die three times from white card stock and then from scraps of teal, terracotta and chartreuse. The three white die cuts are layered together and the colored pieces inset, with a few layered to different heights.

The sentiment was stamped in dark brown ink before the diecut was adhered to the card base. 

The color palette came from the Colour Q Challenge #261 and the card design from CAS(E) this Sketch! #95. I am also entering this card in Virginia's View Challenge #8 Clean And Simple and Seize the Birthday, where I think it fits Anything Goes even though the chevron reminds me of a Banner.

I'd love to see you join in the fun over at Splitcoaststampers!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie