Puppy Love

Hi everyone! It's Friday--yeah! My daughter is in a play tonight, and she's having a party tomorrow...it's going to be a busy weekend here.

Today, I'm up on the Maya Road blog sharing a card, ways to alter metal clips, and a tutorial for embossing metal clips. I've developed quite an addiction to the Maya Road clips. They are so cute!

The clip I altered is on this new puppy hybrid card:

I started by embossing the background with the MFT Polka Dots Cover-up. Next, I layered digital patterned papers from the From Where I Stand collection by Paislee Press.

There are more photos and a tutorial showing how to alter the clips on the Maya Road blog. I hope you check it out!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!


Supplies
Cardstock: (white) Papertrey Ink
Patterned paper: (From Where I Stand digital collection) Paislee Press at The Lilypad
Ink: (Opaque White Mr. Huey's) Studio Calico; VersaMark
Embellishments: (Framed Sayings Transparency; Vintage Doily Transparency; Gold Heart Tag Charm; Lucky Star Wood Button; Mini Pom Pom Trim; Man's Best Friend Clip; Our Home Kraft Tag; Princess Jute Cording) Maya Road
Embossing powder: (Sunshine) Sparkle 'n Sprinkle

January Paper Smooches DT Blog Hop

**This is my second post of the day. For my Maya Road post, please click HERE. 

Hi everyone! 

It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paper Smooches February release with you! FOUR new stamps and EIGHT new dies will be available to purchase on January 31st at 8:00pm PT. Once our release goes live, you will find our new products HERE.

To add extra fun to our blog hop...we are offering up a prize! The prize - a $25 gift code to choose what you like at the PS online store. Here are the details:

• FOUR winners will be chosen at random from any of the design team blogs and the PS Blog to win the $25 prize. 
• Just leave a comment on any of the design team blogs listed above or the PS blog for your chance to win (you do not need to comment on all blogs to qualify, but it increases your chances). 
• Deadline: You have until midnight PT on Sunday, February 1st to leave a comment. 
• Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Monday, February 2nd to see if you are one of the FOUR lucky winners. 

Here's the order of the hop:

Ashley Marcu
Emily Leiphart
JJ Bolton
Jocelyn Olson <--You are here
Kalyn Kepner
Kay Miller
Laura Bassen
Laurie Schmidlin
Michele Boyer
Pamela Ho
Teri Anderson

To increase your chance of winning:

• Tell us that you Facebooked about our blog hop (leave another comment) 
• Tell us that you Tweeted about the hop (leave another comment) 
• Tell us that you posted on your blog about our blog hop (leave another comment) 

I made a card set using Religious Words dies. Here's one:

I used the "faith" die from the Religious Words dies and glittered it with white glitter. I layered it over the huge butterfly from the new Graceful Beauties stamps and a left-over Roses die-cut from THIS card. I was going to double-stamp the butterfly, but I kind of liked the more rustic look. The papers are hand-cut...my paper cutter isn't that bad. ;) 

Here's the set of cards:

Each card has a different color scheme. They weren't really meant to match...I just used a bunch of left-over die-cuts and scraps to determine the colors. :) I figured they would work as sympathy or encouragement cards.

See the "God" die-cut? That's from the new Religious Words, too. I used Reflections stamps and Reflections Leaves dies on two of the cards, and the "loves you" from the new Have Faith set.

Here are close-ups of each:

Thanks for stopping by! Next up is my sweet and very talented friend Kalyn!

Supplies

Dies: (Faith, God from Religious Words dies; flowers from Roses dies; leaves from Reflections) Paper Smooches
Stamps: (butterfly from Graceful Beauties; sentiment from Have Faith; leaves from Reflections) Paper Smooches

Cardstock: (Rustic White) PTI; (White Solarcrest) Neenah; (vellum) Hobby Lobby

Digital: (script papers, navy/light blue papers from Paislee Press) The Lilypad

Patterned papers: (stripes) My Mind's Eye
Ink: (Versafine Onyx Black) Tsukineko; (Grass, Lemonade) Fresh Ink; (Red Hot Hybrid) My Favorite Things; (Grass Chalk) Hero Arts
Glitter: Martha Stewart
Clip: (yellow star) Freckled Fawn

October Paper Smooches Design Team Blog Hop

Hi everyone! It's almost Halloween--yippee!

It's also Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paper Smooches November release with you! FOUR new stamps and EIGHT new dies will be available to purchase tonight (October 30th at 9:00pm PT or midnight ET). Once our release goes live, you will find our new products HERE.

To add extra fun to our blog hop...we are offering up a prize! The prize - a $25 gift code to choose what you like at the PS online store. Here are the details:

• FOUR winners will be chosen at random from any of the design team blogs and the PS Blog to win the $25 prize. 
• Just leave a comment on any of the design team blogs listed above or the PS blog for your chance to win (you do not need to comment on all blogs to qualify, but it increases your chances). 
• Deadline: You have until midnight MT on Sunday, November 2nd to leave a comment. 
• Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Monday, November 3rd to see if you are one of the FOUR lucky winners. 

Here's the order of the hop:

Ashley Marcu
Emily Leiphart
Erin Lincoln
JJ Bolton
Jocelyn Olson <--You are here
Kalyn Kepner
Kay Miller
Laura Bassen
Laurie Schmidlin
Michele Boyer
Pamela Ho
Teri Anderson

To increase your chance of winning:

• Tell us that you Facebooked about our blog hop (leave another comment) 
• Tell us that you Tweeted about the hop (leave another comment) 
• Tell us that you posted on your blog about our blog hop (leave another comment) 

Here's my card using The Welcome Wagon:

The Welcome Wagon is the November TAM set, so it's *free* if you spend $60 at Paper Smooches. Score! I couldn't believe how many different phrases I could make, and I like that they are different than other stamp sets I own.

I stamped three of the sentiments from The Welcome Wagon and added the new Welcome Word die-cut. Aren't those snowmen the cutest ever? They're from the new Cool Dudes set and matching die. I used digital patterned papers from Paislee Press for the layers. Yup, had to make it a hybrid card. ;)

Here's a close-up:

Thanks for stopping by! Before I sign-off, I wanted to give a shout-out to our new team member Kay Miller. Welcome, Kay!

Next up is my sweet and very talented friend Kalyn!

Supplies

Stamps: (sentiments from The Welcome Wagon; snowmen from Cool Dudes) Paper Smooches

Dies: (welcome from Welcome Word die; snowmen from Cool Dudes Icons) Paper Smooches

Cardstock: (white) PTI; (silver glitter cardstock) Hobby Lobby

Patterned papers: (From Where I Stand by Paislee Press) The Lilypad

Ink: (Graphite Black Brilliance; Tuxedo Black Memento) Tsukineko

Copics

I Love a Different Sentiment

Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great week!

It's day 3 of Neat & Tangled's release week! Today we're sharing projects using the My Plate is Full stamp set and coordinating dies. Danielle is sharing pictures of the set and dies on the Neat & Tangled blog.

Here's what I made:

I felt like I haven't been hybriding as much (and yes, I made up that word), so I decided to use my new One Little Bird digital papers for this card. After resizing and printing the papers, I stamped the sentiment, swag, and rings from the new My Plate is Full set on one of the patterned papers. I thought the sentiment would work for an invitation or a hostess thank you. I love that it's a different sentiment!

I die-cut the leaves on my Cameo and strung them together like I did in THIS card and knotted the ends.

I finished the card with some mist and Neat & Tangled sequins the Orchid Satin sequins matched perfectly.

There's a giveaway! Comment on the Neat & Tangled blog to win the My Plate is Full stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by!


Supplies
Stamps: (sentiment from My Plate is Full) Neat & Tangled
Cardstock: (Nightshift) My Favorite Things; (Premium Matte Photo Paper) OfficeMax
Digital papers: (Who I Am) One Little Bird; (grey stripe from Where I Stand) Paislee Press
Ink: (Nautical Blue, Lilac Posies, Dandelion Luxe) Tsukineko; (Dandelion Fireworks mist) Tsukineko; (Opaque White) Studio Calico
Embellishments: (Orchid Satin, Crystal Clear sequins) Neat & Tangled; (White cord) Hemptique

Fall Gratitude Journal

Hi everyone!

I'm up on the Glitz blog today sharing the beginning of a Gratitude Journal. I've seen some really cool journals, and I thought I would try it for a month. Hopefully I can keep up. ;)

Here's the journal:

The mini is hybrid, and many of the papers are digital, including some older collections. I mostly used the Glitz Black and White and Hello December collections. The sentiment on the cover is from the Carpe Diem Element Pack 3.

Here's a close-up of the cover:

The yarn and pom pom trim are from my deep, dark stash (at least 5 years old). I'm so glad I was finally able to use them!

For each prompt, I started with the phrase, "I'm grateful for..." and finished the sentence as my journaling. I cringed a little at some of the fragments, but I wanted to keep the journaling short.

Here are some close-ups of the tags:

The awesome giant rhinestone from the Glitz Black and White collection. I used the same Paper Smooches Leaves 1 Die and tag Toppers Die throughout the Gratitude Journal.

Here's the third day:

The fourth page has a lot of subtle layering--stickers, papers, tulle, tissue, vellum (pretty much anything white I could find). When the 77 foil sticker along the side hits the light, it is so pretty! I used a leftover leaf die-cut from the Rose cut-files. 

Here's the fifth tag:

Isn't that Studio Calico acrylic camera cute? I stapled the yarn in an Emily Branch style. 

I'd love it if you would stop by the Glitz blog and see the rest of the pictures. Thanks!! :) 

Thanks for stopping by!


Supplies
Cardstock: (white Linen Essentials) Ellen Hutson; (vellum) Hobby Lobby; (gold glitter cardstock) Best Creations
Patterned paper: (Stripe paper from Black and White; Polka paper from Carpe Diem) Glitz Design
Dies: (Leaves 1, Toppers dies) Paper Smooches; (Inline Alphabet) Mama Elephant
Stickers: (Black and White Alphas and Accents; 77 Alphas and Accents) Glitz Design
Fibers: (yarn, pom pom trim, tulle) craft supply
Ink: (Letterman's Jacket, Opaque White Mister Huey's) Studio Calico; (Marigold) Lindy's Stamp Gang
Embellishments: ("4" from Number Badge Set) Studio Calico; (heart Giant Rhinestone Black and White collection) Glitz Design; (roller stamp) American Crafts; (sequins) Scraptastic Club; (leaf wood veneer) Crate Paper; (acrylic camera from the Jubilee kit) Studio Calico
Digital: ("Raven" Element Pack 2; "Carpe Diem" Element Pack 3; "Black and White" Paper Pack 2; "Hello December" Collection) Glitz Design

Hero Arts & A2Z Scrapbooking Digital Blog Hop

Hi everyone! I'm super excited and honored to be participating in a special blog hop today:

A2Z Scrapbooking will be the new Hero Arts digital retailer, and to celebrate the collaboration, we're having a blog hop. If you're just joining the hop, you can start at the Hero Arts blog.

I made a couple of cards using a few digital techniques. Here's the first one:

I used the Sunshine Flowers cutting files and digital stamps. Instead of cutting the jumbo flower, I clipped a Just Jaimee digital patterned paper to it in Photoshop. If you wanted a one-layer card for mailing, the clipping technique is the way to go. The sentiment was die-cut on my Cameo out of white cardstock. I used two spray mists to watercolor a gradient on the die-cut.  

I added some splatter over the flower to give the flower some shimmer. 

And yes, the sentiment is different in this card. I made a set of four cards and die-cut two of the sentiments and using the digital clipping technique for the other two. I'm fickle. ;) 

My second card is a little more masculine:



For this card, I used the Firmament set and a few different digital techniques. I started with a digital patterned paper and stamped the falling stars with the digital brush. Next, I stamped some of the sketchy stars, rotating the brushes and resizing them. 

After adding the sentiment from the same set, I printed two copies. I trimmed the stars out of one of the copies and added them on top for some more depth:




I also printed one of the stars on vellum and added it to the bottom corner. I love the added translucency of printing on vellum.  



As part of the hop, there's also a giveaway! A2Z Scrapbooking is giving away a $50 gift certificate to one lucky commenter. The winner will be selected from all comments on the blogs, so the more comments you leave, the better your chances. The giveaway ends on Sunday, August 31st at 11:59 ET.

Here's a list of the participants:

Hero Arts
Tami Hartley
Kelly Latevola
Kymona Tracey
Lisa Spangler
Michelle Liimatainen
Kathy Wade
Lucy Abrams
Chitra Nair
Char K
Ruth Bosner
Jocelyn Olson <--You are here
Zoey Scarpelli
Stephanie B
Kelly Rasmussen
a2z Scrapbooking

Thanks for stopping by! Next up on the hop is the fabulous Zoey Scarpelli!


Supplies
Hello Sunshine
Stamps: (flower from Sunshine Flowers) Hero Arts digital
Cardstock: (white) PTI; (Premium Matte Photo Paper) OfficeMax
Patterned paper: (digital Ice Cream Painted Paper from Just Jaimee) The Lilypad; (yellow from Jen Hadfield) Pebbles; (stripe) PTI
Die-cut: (sentiment from Sunshine Flowers) Hero Arts digital
Inks: (Pink Ginger, hot pink) Maya Mists

Written in the Stars
Stamps: (sketchy stars, falling stars, sentiment from The Firmament) Hero Arts digital
Cardstock: (white, linen vellum) PTI; (Premium Matte Photo Paper) OfficeMax
Patterned paper: (digital Stargazer paper by Dawn by Design) Pixels & Co.; (orange stripe from Jubilee) My Mind's Eye
Embellishments: (puffy stars from Daily Flash) October Afternoon; (sequins) Avery Elle
Dies: (stars from Large Holiday Shapes) Simon Says Stamp

Scribbles and Doodles

Hi everyone! I hope you had a great weekend. We went to the county fair this weekend, and the kids had fun on the rides and playing the games. I even got to pet a 4-day-old pig, who was pretty darn cute. :)

I'm up on the Glitz blog today sharing projects related to a trend. I've got to tell you, I thought a lot about different trends (I'm so geeky, I even made a spreadsheet). Finally, I settled on scribbles and doodles, which I am suddenly seeing everywhere.

I made a trio of cards with a mix of Glitz lines incorporating the scribble trend. Here's the first card:

Using my Silhouette, I die-cut the scribbles in white. I fussy-cut around the die-cuts with papers from Glitz's Brightside, Felicity, and 77 collections. I finished the card with the Thanks Word die from Paper Smooches.

I used the Avery Elle Custom Panels die to cut the arc and then popped up some of the scribble flowers for a little dimension:

The next card is a little softer, and I used some hybrid elements:

The Glitz Black and White collection has an awesome scribble Floral paper. Using the digital version of the paper, I recolored a few of the scribbles, resized them, and fussy-cut them. The black and white paper competed with the colored flowers, so I added some vellum.

The sentiment sticker from the Felicity collection has a cute little heart doodle. Love it!

I went CAS for the last card:

I die-cut the Sketched Stars from Brightside papers and layered it over Felicity paper. I had a left-over die-cut scribble and added it under the sentiment sticker from Carpe Diem.

You can see the project (and others!) on the Glitz blog.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day. :)

Supplies
Cardstock: (white, linen vellum) PTI
Patterned paper: (Floral 12x12 from Black and White collection; 6x6 Brightside papers; 6x6 Felicity papers; 6x6 77 papers) Glitz Design
Stickers: (Felicity Stickers Titles and Accents; Carpe Diem Stickers Titles and Accents; Brightside Stickers Titles and Accents) Glitz Design
Digital elements: (Black and White paper pack 2; Brightside paper pack 1) Glitz Design
Dies: (Thanks Word die) Paper Smooches; (Sketched Stars) Papertrey Ink; (Custom Panel die) Avery Elle
Embellishments: (doily) Freckled Fawn; (Crystal Clear sequins)  Neat & Tangled; (Neon Orange twin) Hemptique twine
Ink: (Opaque White Mr. Huey's) Studio Calico

Beach Girl Card Set

Hi everyone! Happy weekend!

My friend Elena designed the cutest stamp as a giveaway on her blog, and today, a few of us are sharing cards using the stamp. The beach girl stamp is just too cute! You can get it from Elena's blog.

It's been a while since I've done all-digi--it was great to do a full digi card again. :) I decided to make a card set. Here's one of the cards:

For the beach girl, I resized her and then digitally paper-pieced her. Yep, all of the coloring on the girl (including her skin), are different digital papers from The Lilypad. The girl is the same for each card, but I changed the papers for the flags. This technique is great for making multiple cards or for paper piecing small areas. If you want a tutorial, let me know, and I'll make a video. :)

I layered her over a Lili Niclass (digital) watercolor journaling card. After I printed each panel, I stamped the sentiments--the one above is from Mama Elephant and the one below is from Paper Smooches:

See? Paper piecing but no layers. I also added the smile digitally using the Paper Smooches digital sun stamp. I added a few sequins on each and layered the panels on papers from the American Crafts #Summer line.

Here's a picture of the whole set:

If you want to see other cards using the same stamp, here are the other folks participating:

Elena 

Deasy

Laura

Dana

Iwona

Miriam

Jocelyn <--That's me!

Audrey

Cheiron

Veronica

Jingle

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Let's Go Mini Album

Hi everyone!

I'm sharing a hybrid mini album on the Glitz blog today. I'm also sharing how I added the sentiments onto the photos (they're journaling cards and colored sentiments altered in Photoshop).

Here's the cover:

Even though summer isn't over, I wanted to make the first mini album sharing a few of our everyday activities during the summer.

Here are pictures of the inside:

For the "You are here," I colored white embossing paste with three colors of stamp reinkers. When I made THIS card, I made two panels (I can never estimate how much embossing paste I'm going to use). I had the second one in my scrap pile and decided it worked with the album. Yeah for scraps! :)

I used Brightside papers and a sticker. The papers on the page with my son were supposed to look like sunrays. Yeah...not so much. LOL! I love yellow, though, so I decided to leave it. For the flowers, I used a digital element from the Brightside collection, enlarged the flowers, and fussy-cut them.

The sentiment on the left is a journaling card from the Carpe Diem Element Pack 2. I converted it to an overlay. I used a traditional Brightside journaling card on the right.

I used a mix of Brightside and Felicity for these two pages. Since I used digital flowers (instead of a sticker), I was able to flip one and resize them.

The pocket was die-cut from Brightside paper using the Paper Smooches Deco Bag, and I was able to add some journaling inside. The flower on the outside is the Paper Smooches Poinsettia die--it's a very versatile flower die!

I think this photo was my favorite of the summer (so far) since it really shows my kids' personalities. The sentiment from the Glitz Felicity Element Pack was perfect.

My daughter is a big reader, and I wanted to capture that. For the page on the right, I wanted to create something like my son's tie-die shirt, so I stitched through some Glitz Brightside rays.

Thanks for taking a peek at my album. If you get a chance, please check out the Glitz blog. Thanks!

Have a great day!


Supplies
Cardstock: (Linen White) Ellen Hutson
Patterned papers: (Butterflies, Circles, 12x12 Bits and Pieces from the Brightside collection; Brightside 6x6 paper pad; Black & White 6x6 paper pad; Felicity 6x6 paper pad) Glitz Design
Stickers: (Brightside Alphas & Accents Sticker Sheet) Glitz Design
Embellishments: (Silver Glitter Washi Tape) Glitz Design; (You Are Here stencil) The Crafter's Workshop; Hemptique twine; (yellow clip) Studio Calico; (doilies) Freckled Fawn, (mists) Studio Calico; sequins
Dies: (Deco Bag, Poinsettia) Paper Smooches
Digital elements: (Brightside Element Pack, Carpe Diem Element Pack 2, Felicity Element Pack, Black and White Element Pack 1) Glitz Design

Shake It Up

Hi! Anyone else remember that Cars song? I'm totally dating myself. ;)

I hope you're having a great week! I'm still catching up from my vacation, but I wanted to share a project I had on the Glitz blog last week.

It's a hybrid shaker card using the Glitz Brightside papers and digital Brightside Element Pack. I have a step-by-step tutorial on the Glitz blog to show a different way to make a shaker card (other than foam adhesive).

Here's a close-up:

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!


Supplies

Glitz Design "Brightside" 6x6 paper pad

Glitz Design Digital "Brightside" element pack

Sequins: Neat & Tangled, Scraptastic Club, craft supply
Dies: (Circle STAX) My Favorite Things

Flamingos + A Video!

Hi! I hope you're having a great week. I accidentally published my Glitz post...whoops! I've revised it below.

I was on the Glitz blog last week sharing a video with how I turned a patterned paper from the new Felicity collection into a die-cutting file. [You can watch the video in YouTube to see it in high definition.]

To make my first card, I backed the flamingos die-cut with one of the 6x6 Felicity papers:

Next, I opened the sweet "I love you" sentiment in Photoshop. I reduced the size and added the heart on the bottom. The sentiment is also a sticker, but I wanted a slightly smaller element to show off some of the layers:

Here's a close-up to see the layers of Felicity papers:

For my second card, I used the single die-cut flamingo:

I used papers and stickers from Felicity. Isn't the flower pretty?

There is a sticker that has "Beautiful" on it, but I used a digital element to create a longer banner. I die-cut the flower using Paper Smooches Pocket dies. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies

Glitz Design "Felicity" 6x6 paper pad

Glitz Design "Felicity" Alphas and Accents Sticker Sheet

Glitz Design "Felicity" washi tape-Silver Glitter

Glitz Design Digital "Felicity" paper pack 1

Glitz Design Digital "Felicity" element pack

Other: white linen cardstock, Silhouette Cameo, Paper Smooches dies, sequins, white mist