{RCC74} Thanks A Bunch{RCC74} Thanks A Bunch

Have you played along yet with this month's Ribbon carousel Challenge?!  We are now doing monthly challenges with a big 'ol prize at the end for one lucky challenge participant!  

Each month we are giving away a Ribbon Carousel 

to one of our randomly chosen challenge participants!

This month's theme is

Giving Thanks/Fall

 I made a CAS kind of card, which isn't normally my style but I have been feeling under the weather, and like most moms I know, have not heeded my body's warnings! Yesterday I had a super hard workout at the gym (my trainer kicked my hiney!) and then cleaned my house like a crazy person getting ready for my sister in laws baby shower, which I hosted last night! So with all that, I had no energy for my initial plan (which was to use the same MFT Turkey Girl image like the AMAZING colouring goddess Wendy R! Thank goodness I ddn't colour the same thing as her- it would have been downright embarrassing;)  Plain and Simple it was!

I've used all Stampin' Up! goodies, minus my favorite natural jute twine from the Ribbon Carousel.

Ready to play?! 

There are three rules to be eligible for the prize:

1.  You MUST use ribbon or twine on your creation 

2. Your project must be based on the theme of the month

3. You must add  a NEW project  to the inlinkz below and link directly back to your project on your blog or online gallery.

You have until November 30th to add your creation to the link below. The random winner of the ribbon carousel will be announced here on the blog on Monday, December 3rd!

To link up your project, click HERE and go to the bottom of that post!    

Good luck!

Ryan's Treat Bags

Hey there! Just a little look into what I worked on today! Ryan is in Grade 3 this year, and his class is going to be trick or treating in the classroom tomorrow during their Halloween party, so we have to send in goodie bags for all the kids in his class. I loved these little treat bag kits that Stampin' Up! has available in their holiday catalogue, so I bought three! Glad that I got to use them, as they weren't quite big enough for the popcorn balls I am handing out tomorrow to the little goblins that will be coming to our door! I love living out in the country, because we only get about 15-20 kids each year, so I can get a little bit more generous than we used to have to be in town when we'd get 50+ kids!

I stamped the little mummy and bat from the coordinating set in versamark onyx black ink and added the 'from: Ryan' with a copic multiliner. Aren't the googlie eyes hilarious!

Hope you all have a Happy Halloween!!!

{CTD179} Happiest Birthday

Hi there! I am back from my vacation and I am glad to see that Blogger came through for me and everything I pre-posted went live when it was supposed to!!!! Yay! You never know with Bloggers frequent mood swings......she can be a testy one;)
It's Wednesday, and that means another fabulous colour challenge from the talented ladies at The Color Throwdown....

And I just so happened to get some new Stampin' Up! goodies and it's been too long since I made a project using only SU products! I knew this new DP from the occasions mini would be perfect, as well as the sweet little button and spanky new stamps and steel dies (HELLO! these are nice- cut like buttah!)....

I stamped in Crumb Cake and coloured the flowers a tad with copics and added some adhesive pearls. Crumb Cake taffeta ribbon and the blush button tied off with a linen thread bow add a little softness:)

If you want to play along with this weeks CTD challenge, use the keyword CTD179 if using online galleries and link up your creation to the CTD blog.

Krafty Saturday {Hoppy Easter}

Hope you all are having a wonderful Easter weekend! My hubby is away at work, and so on Good Friday my boys and I went to my mom and dads for our Easter dinner....baked ham, scalloped potatoes, sweet potato bake, salad, buns, sweet and sour meatballs...and for desert- flapper pie with whipped cream and chocolate cupcakes (I made them;) Mmmmmm! So good!
 This is the card that I made for my mom and dad for Easter. I was so busy with work this past week that I only got ONE Easter card done! Crazy!! Anyway- I am still guest designing for Kraftin' Kimmie until the end of April (gonna be sad when thats over) and todays challenge is to make your card 'frilly'.

I used this cute little bunny stamp from KK that I love- they looks so mischevious, don't they? Like they've just been caught in the act. I coloured them in various shades of copics (warm, cool, neutral and toner families), and added CE to the noses and eyes. The grass and flowers are also coloured with copics and I used a colorless blender to 'remove' colour in dotty areas. I also added some adhesive pearls to the flower centers. I used a swiss dot embossing folder on the white square behind the circle of bunnies, and used MFT border die to cut out the white strip under the bunchy SU pink ribbon. The white lacey ribbon is also SU.

And here is the inside..pretty simple and plenty of room for me to write in my little message:) The sentiment is from Stampin' Up!

For more details about this challenge, or to see samples from the Krafty Girls and April Guests, visit the Kraftin' Kimmie blog!

Hope you enjoyed my little bunny card and that you all have a Blessed Easter!!

Jenny

Cased Cards

Hello friends! Want to see what I've been up to? Tonight is my monthly Stamper's Group. Twelve ladies, plus myself get together once a month for some stamping fun! Here is what we're making tonight...

This first card was one that I found on Splitcoasters here. I altered it a bit and changed the colour pallette to suit the brighter, spring colours that I was going for. I used the new SAB 'Bliss' set from SU, and I think this is gonna be one of my favorites! I also used the new dp that is in the SU mini- can't remember what it's called (the one with the buttons, patterns, and dolls on it), actually everything is SU, being that it's a Stampin' Up! group:) And I love this colour combo: peach parfait and melon mambo...FUN!! I used the 'Rock and Roll' technique on the butterfly, using pumpkin pie (don't have peach parfait) ink and then the melon mambo around the edge, fussy cut it out and then added some pearls.

This second card is almost exactly like the original. I found it on a fun little blog called Understand Blue. It's pretty funny and has some sweet little projects, as well as being great for a laugh over morning coffee! This card is made using the faux-pressed flower technique ...doesn't it look  like the fabric is inlaid into the paper?? Tres cool I think!!
Thanks for stopping in! See you next time & Happy Stampin!
Jenny

{WSC} Love Bunnies!

Greetings All! I have been a busy girl all day doing laundry and trying to get my house cleaned up for my 'Scentsy' party tomorrow night as well as the usual 3 loads of laundry per day..I think I've created little monsters in my kids, as they refuse to wear the same clothes or even jammies twice. That equals alot of laundry, LOL!! And I have been finishing up my last minute prep for my Monthly Stamper's Group that meets tonight. We are making some sweet Valentines projects...someday I should actually take a pic and show you what we create:)
I made this card for my husbands brother and sis in laws anniversary. It was actually the 27th of December, but with Christmas season, it always seems to get away on me! Maybe my New Years Resolution should be to actaully make cards that people get on their actual day rather than days or even weeks late! I used the current WSC getting sketchy #2 over at MFT for this one and inked up a neglected Stephanie Fizzer set.

I coloured my bunnies with copics (C1, C3, C5, C7) and shadowed a bit under their tushies and ears with the C1. I wanted a bright but elegant kind of colour scheme, as I tend to think of baby cards when I think bunnies, and I wanted this to clearly not look baby-ish. I tied some black satin ribbon around the card and fixed a bow to that. I blinged it up a bit with some SU large rhinestones (over top of small punched out black circles) and tiny twinkles on the sentiment tag. The half circle panel and bunny stamped panel are popped up on boosters.

I used SU's 'teeny tiny wishes' for the inside, and wouldn't you know it I smudged the ink...Grrrr! I hate it when that happens!

Recipe:
Stamps: MFT (bunnies, 'hoppily ever after' sentiment), SU ('happy anniversary' sentiment)
INK: Memento
CS: SU
DP: Papertrey ink
Other: dies- Spellbinders, punch (SU), rhinestones (lrg- SU, small- TE), dimensionals (SU), ribbon (SU), bigshot

Thanks for stopping by!!
Jenny

{MOJO173} Crafty Cuppie

Happy Sunday everyone! How was your weekend? My dh and I had a nice afternoon in town yesterday while grandma and grandpa kept the boys. I went to Michaels and Scrapbookers Paradise, spent my Old Navy gift certificate, and wandered around a few other stores! Then we went to the yummy "It's All Greek To Me" restaurant for some delish saganaki, kleftika, and chicken skewers!! Mmmmm! Then we went to 'Country Strong'. It was really good I thought! Today was my neice Elliot's 2nd birthday party. Lots of fun!!
I made this card for my mom to give to my aunt. She wanted something with a scrapbooking feel, so I went with this crafty cuppie from Taylored Expressions. I used MOJO's sketch this week for the layout.

As you can see from the picture, my sewing machine is still not sewing worth a crap....and I just got it back from the repair store..Grrrr! I used some Thrift Shop paper from October Afternoon. I coloured Cuppie with my copics, added some glitter pen to the container of embossing powder/glitter or whatever's in there;) I used my oval and scalloped oval nesties to cut out the image. I threaded some buttons with twine and used some always artichoke seam binding ribbon. Crystal Effects were added to Cuppies cherry as well as a little white opaque pen for a little highlight.

For the inside, mom wanted to be able to put in a little coupon for a scrapbook that my aunt can make with us when she comes to visit. So I made a giftcard type of holder to slip the coupon in, as well as another slot to put the greeting into.

The 'Buttons' note is a new SU set. I used the crafty sentiment set for the 'I'd Rather be Scrappin'.

Recipe:
Stamps: Taylored Expressions, Stampin Up!
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
CS: SU
DP: OA (thrift shop)
Ribbon: SU
Other: Copics, spellbinders, crystal effects, sakura clear glitter pen, kitchen twine, Bigshot, sewing machine, thread, SU circle punch, buttons (unknown)

Sparkle Baby

Hi there! Old man winter has reared his ugly head around these parts!! It's been snowing and blowing and FREEZING! When we have had such a mild fall, getting used to this bitter temperature is going to be tough! Hayes and I were going to go into town with my mom and take my Grandpa out for chinese food while the other 2 boys are in school, but with the roads so icy, we have decided to stay in:( We are pretty bare bones in the fridge, so I will have to challenge myself in the cooking department;) I'll pick up some milk when I drop Jake off at preschool, but that's about all that rinky dink grocery store in the village has to offer! lol! We have a freezer full of beef that we just got done, so we'll get our protein fix, but our chances of not contracting scurvey might be another story!
On a super exciting side note, my card (balloon boy) was chosen as a winner over at ATS!! Whoo Hoo! Free stamp sets are always welcome around these parts! I love starting off the day as a champ, and I didn't even have to eat wheaties for breakfast:) hehe
This is a card that I made for the BasicGrey challenge, which was to use any BG products and use any 'winged thing'. I also used the SSSC as my layout inspiration.

I used this little cutie from CC Designs. Ain't she sweet?? She always reminds me of my niece Harley for some reason...maybe it's the round little tummy and piggy tails? I always seem to give her blonde hair like my muse. For the BG challenge, I used the Kioshi line. I love the colours and whimsical patterns! I crazy stitches around each panel and popped up the panel that the little sprite is on. I coloured her with copics and paper pieced her bodysuit, leggings (I usually make her legging-less, but it's darned cold out here this time of year!) and sockies. I applied 2 different glitters to her wings after colouring and added stickles and purple rhinestones brads to her antennae. I glittery prima flower finishes off the front:)

The inside has the sentiment 'sparkle' to go along with the sparkly cardfront. I stitched as well, punched out a strip of dp and added stickles to the center of each flower.

Recipe:
Stamps: CC Designs, Stampin Up! (sentiment)
Ink: Memento tuxedo black
CS: Stampin Up! (Black), TE (choice snow white)
DP: BasicGrey (kioshi)
Flower: Prima
punch: SU
other: stickles, glitter (SU), brads (SU), sewing machine, thread, glue pen (creative memories), copics

Sunshine Lollipops & Rainbows

Not a super fitting title seeing as how I'm in a cranky mood tonight...lol..not sure why!? Nothing terrible happened to me. I actually had a decent day on the whole. I think it might be hormonal (TMI)...and I am feeling really sad that my hubby flies in on friday and I won't even see him until sunday night because I will be at a scrapbook/quilting retreat (which I am excited about...can you say 'sleep through the night'??) Somedays it's hard to raise 3 small ones mostly by myself. I try not to complain, because there are so many mothers out there that have it SOOOO much worse! My husband is not deployed and fighting a war in some awful place, he is alive and well, he is providing for his family, he is an amzing father and husband and is so hands-on and his favorite thing to do is spend time with our boys and do family things, etc, etc...but sometimes self pity gets the best of me and I have a few hours of 'poor, poor pitiful me' ringing in my ears;) Okay, I feel a little better now that I ranted!! haha! I hope there is someone out there reading all this jabber that I write daily...I don't get much for comments (*Hint Hint*) and it would be nice to know that I don't suck entirely....whoops, I'm on another rant! LOL- Better save some whining for tomorrow:)
Okay, on with my card! Obviously I didn't make this cheerful little number for you today (or it would have been black with a tornado plastered on the card front)..I actually made it yesterday afternoon. It was a really quick one for once! No intense colouring, die cutting, 4000 layers, bows with bad attitudes and a cantankerous sewing machine to deal with! A tiny bit of colouring, a few simple layers, easy peasy ribbon and some brads...not even teensy little button holes to thread on this button!!

The image is from Unity Stamps. I stamped it on the TE snowhite CS, coloured with copics, went over the candy jar lids and labels with a clear spica pen, covered the jars in CE glaze to make them look like glass, and went around the signs with diamond stickles. The ric rac die is MFT and i just ran the centre strip through the big shot again, repositioning it a bit to make it thinner.  The bottom stripe wavy strip is the negetive cuts from the ricrac die. The bakers twine that runs accross the ric rac strip is TE and the button is MFT. The square crystal brads are SU. The DP is My Minds Eye (I think?) and the CS base is SU, as well as the new Peach Parfait coloured ribbon (I love SU's new colours!!). The little tag and stamp to go with it are SU. I did decorate the inside, but for some reason forgot to photograph it?? Oh well, not gonna loose sleep over it (I'll loose sleep for other reasons (read: children))!

This is my take on this weeks MOJO sketch challenge:) Thanks for looking! And comment people! (see above complaints)...I'm not doing this blog for my health;) lol

See ya soon! Jenny

Oh, and I got a nice little package from Taylored Expressions yesterday, so tomorrow I'm going to play with some new stamps and embellies:) Stay tuned!!

Snow Adorable

Hey there! I don't know about all of you, but I am still trying to recuperate from Thanksgiving weekend;) I had a wonderful weekend with my down-south family..I always hate leaving them, but it's good to get home. Even though the laundry is taller than my 4 yr old:) lol! I have had a poor, sick boy this week, so he has been home from school all week. Hopefully he is feeling better by tomorrow! He was up at 12:30 and was pretty much continually throwing up until 6 am. Which was not even the reason that he was home from school in the first place. He started off with a wicked cough that sounded like it went into his chest and then out of nowhere a GI bug?? Kids. You just can't figure them out.
This card was really fun to make, as I am a 'boy mom'. The challenge over at MFT WSC this week is to make a boy, or masculine card. I was going to use my new little MFT superhero guy, but then I had a dream last night (or maybe it was just a hallucination, being that I was practically awake all night,and  during my periods of dozing off to be jolted back to reality by the serene sounds of dry heaving?) about making a tone on tone style card. I thought that this little winter guy would make for a nice monotone (??) kind of scene. I also used Jen's SFYTT this week.

This little man is stamped and only his face and boots were coloured. His hat, sweater, scarf and pantsn were all coloured using a q-tip and ink pads. I think it gives a watercolour or chalked look, without all the work. I also tried to make his pants and toque look like actual wool. I like the look I think. And I think I may have invented this;) I don't remember seeing anyone else do it...never know;) The brownish silver snowflake BG panel was run thru the bigshot using SU's new snowflake folder. I used the negetive side. I also used the swiss dots folder for some added detail. Everything is distressed  and sponged a ton to give it a vintage look. I used assorted SU punches and dies, and a spellbinders nestie. The main image panel and snowflake are popped up on dimensionals. I also used smooch paint on the boys mitts, dogs scarf and the small snowflake, as well as on the inside of the card (on the swiss dots and snowflake)

I used SU's new glass glitter on his hat pom-pom and scarf tassel. Man, is it ever cool stuff!!! I can't wait to get the other champagne colour now (this is the silver). The little vintage tag is SU as well.
Recipe:
Stamps: MFT (boy and dog, inside sent- not sure of name), SU- Tiny tags (card front tag)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Chalk ink- toffee, SU- soft suede
CS: SU- soft suede, early espresso, white, shimmer white
DP: SU (retired)
other: SU punches, dies, spellbinders die, embossing folders (SU), twine (SU), antique brad (SU), baby brads (tim holtz), smooch, vintage tag (SU), Crystal effects (dogs nose- SU), Copics, glass glitter (SU), tombow glue, dimensionals, big shot, q-tips

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Well, this will be a short post as me and my boys are heading south to spend the Thanksgiving weekend with my family down there. The hubby is still away working in Saskatchewan, and my family is all busy harvesting, so we thought we may as well go for a little trip! I whipped up these cards this morning so that I'd have something to take them;)
I mass produced quite a few in a short time. Wish I could take credit for this idea, but I actually saw a similar card made by someone else and thought that it was a pretty fun and simple idea, so here is my version of the Button Tree card:

 Recipe:
Stamps: Grateful Greetings, Season of Friendship (SU)
CS, DP: SU
Punches: SU
Ink: chocolate chip (SU)
Ribbon: SU
Other: sponges, dimensionals, buttons (unkown)

A very quick but cute card! Thanks for looking:)
And a very Happy Thanksgiving to you all!!!!
Jenny

Eyeball soup anyone??

Did the title of my post grab your attention enough? Bwahaha!! I hoped it would;)
I'm back from a few days hiatus...I've had a wee bit of a cough/cold and the headaches have been ridiculous, so stamping was put on the backburner:( But I managed to grind this little goodie out for ya! It's a fabulous sketch by Mercy and I am lovin this one! It's one I know I'm going to use in the future....ah, I loves me a good sketch...This is also a TCPTUES128 challenge for the coveted position of swanky stamper of the month..doesn't that sound like a fun title to have?? I would practically feel like royalty if I could call myself that;) Haha!

Now, the challenge over at The Cats Pyjamas was to use PJ the Bear, and I only have one PJ and used him/her for the last TCPTUES challenge, so here we are again with another bear:) This time I tried to mix it up a little and so I coloured my PJ purple and made a halloween card.

I stamped her and cut her out after colouring with Copics. I popped her up on a sponged nestie that I framed with black CS and black lace that I ruffled around the nestie. I paper peiced the apron and added some tinsel glitter to the apron strings. I drew in some eyeballs with my copic multiliner and coloured the brew a slimy green. The steam is sponged green and srickles added and the eyeballs have crystal effects applied. I also coloured the cup and saucer with a clear spica glitter pen. Pj's nose and eyes also have a coating of CE.

I stitched around the panels with black thread on my sewing machine and added a black rhinesone to each outer corner.
The panel size is definately 'off' from the sketch, but thats the way the cookie crumbles sometimes;) lol

Thanks for dropping by!
Jenny

Recipe:
Stamps: Have a Cuppa (TCP), Stampin Up- sentiment
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, SU (old olive), Memento tangelo
CS: SU, TE (white)
DP: SU
Other: Ribbon (offray, SU), spellbinders label 13, rhinestone, spider brad (recollections- Michaels)
Cord button (SU), Copics (sketch, multiliner), Spica glitter pen- clear,  Crystal Effects (SU), Stickles diamond glitter, sewing machine, thread, bigshot, Onyx tinsel glitter (martha stewart)

A Sympathy Card

Good morning my friends....I finally had a chance to sit down and stamp a sympathy card for my friend who lost her dad about a month ago. I know- it's really late, but Between our 3 week holiday and getting back into the school grind, it just got pushed to the backburner:( I made her a batch of yummy muffins that I'm going to deliver. I used the same SSSC layout as my last post. It's such a quick and easy sketch and it flows nicely.

I stamped the tree in memento rich cocoa and the Verve sentiment in old olive (SU). The image is cut with a circle nestie. I used my brand-spankin new dimensional pearls and daubed each and every leaf with 'espresso', and then went around the circle with 'bottle'. Very simple, but elegant. I like to make my sympathy cards without alot of extras, just heartfelt and to the point, with a clean and simple design.

I love Verve for the fact that they have some really nice Christian sentiments. You don`t find that often and they are so beautiful and the fonts are absolutely gorgeous! And an added bonus, you can buy these individually rather than having to fish out for a whole set:)

Supplies:
Stamps: Thoughts and Prayers (SU), Proverbs 3:5 (Verve)
Ink: Memento rich cocoa, SU Old Olive
CS: SU
DP: SU
Ribbon: SU
Dies: Spellbinders
Other: Dimensionals, Dimensional Pearls (Ranger)

OMG!! and an anniversary card....

OMG. One of my favoritest stampers, the talented Sankari Wegman, left me a comment on my last post and you can't even imagine the happiness I felt when I read it!!! I had an ear-to-ear grin on my face for about an hour, lol!! I was practically giddy! She is a phenomenal card maker and designs for one of my fav companies Taylored Expressions! I feel so lucky! She is one of the co-creators of the Cinema Challenge blog that I made the Sleepy Hollow-ish card for. How cool is that!!! I am now inspired to show you another card that I  made. This one was for my Ma and Pa's 35th anniversary. No fancy sketch to follow or anything, just a simply made card from inside the mind of Jenny;)

I stamped my image onto TE's Choice Snow White with Memento Rich Cocoa and coloured with copics. I used some spellbinders labels (11 I think??) to cut it out and sponged with old olive ink. I used the larger label and cut out some dp and outlined the embossed area with a signo white gel pen to add a little bit more pizazz. The gourds/pumpkins and boots were stamped separately and cut out and popped up with dimensionals. I also coated the boots with crystal effects to make them look 'rubbery'. The DP is Cosmo Crickets Garden Variety. I also stamped the sentiment and cut out with a spellbinders ribbon slide label and sponged it. I gave it a ribbon treatment using Dusty Durango polka dot ribbon, red twine and a green button. I love this card. It is soooo 'mom and dad'!!! They are farmers and rubber boots are always found at their door. This is definately not a typical anniversary card, but I think the message is subtle and meaningful. Love and marriage basically boil down to having another pair of shoes next to yours in the porch:)

Supplies:
Stamps: SU! (Scene in A Garden, Teeny Tiny Wishes)
Ink: Memento, SU!
CS: SU!, TE
DP: Cosmo Cricket
Fibers: SU!
Other: Copics, crystal effects, dimensionals, button (unknown), Spellbinders. Signo white gel pen, scalloped edge punch (SU!)

Thanks for stopping by!! See you tomorrow:)
Jenny