65th Wedding Anniversary

Hi, Friends......

I am struggling to get this card blogged because of my injured hand.....sprained my fingers when I fell and bent three fingers completely backwards trying to catch myself. YOWCH!! Talk about a hand that is painfully swollen and black and blue!!! Ugh. I don't recommend it.

A very special couple at church is celebrating their 65th Wedding Anniversary this weekend. WOW.... SIXTY-FIVE YEARS together...what a blessed milestone!!! So.....despite a messed up hand, I just had to make a card for them. It had to be simple because of my injury, but I love how it turned out.

Sorry I can't dig up links to the supplies, but I used some American Crafts glittered numbers and puffy hearts, DCWV paper, and Sizzix dies for the gold frame.

Hope you enjoyed seeing it and I hope they like it!! Thanks for your thoughts and prayers for my hand.

🖤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Frame It
2. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - AG
3. Through the Craft Room Door - AG (week of May 28)
4. Crafty Hazelnut's May Patterned Paper Challenge
5. Unstampabelles May Challenge - To Have and To Hold
6. Word Art Wednesday Weeks #388-389
7. CARDZ-TV AG Challenge #90
8. Double D Challenges - Frames

 

Christmas Toys for Kids - Rudolph Days

Hi, Friends.......

UGH....I am typing this with an injured hand.....
(2 badly sprained fingers plus a 3rd one that is also likely sprained....still not sure there isn't something broken inside the hand.....and it happened on a weekend so, of course, I didn't go to the doctor...sigh) 
.....so please forgive errors and lackluster conversation in this post. Crafting was a trick, but typing with these fingers is even worse!!!!! OUCH.

Background is repurposed used gift wrap tissue decoupaged onto kraft cardstock. The red frames for the images are cut from a repurposed used red envelope.
 




Used MFT Sketch #439

Supplies used include:
Various small Christmas stamps of toys, etc from stash (some Hero Arts)
Versamark ink
Red embossing powder
My Favorite Things Die-namics - Stitched Square STAX die set
My Favorite Things Die-namics - Stitched Oval STAX die set
Spellbinders small frame dies
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set
Serendipity - Merry Christmas sentiment
Mod Podge Matte finish

That's about all the typing I can handle for this post. I have one other post still to do. Ugh.... Thank you for stopping by. Say a prayer for my hand if you think of it, please! Thanks!!

🖤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. May Rudolph Days at Scrappy Mo's
2. Christmas Kickstart Challenge #11 - Christmas Kids (I used kids' toys on my card).
3. ABC Christmas Challenge - K is for Kids
4. MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge #439
5. Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge #353
6. Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #439
7. Crimbo Crackers Challenge #185- AG Christmas
8. Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Frame It

For You with Affection - Graphic 45

I totally LOVE the "packing peanut" bubble bath!!!  (In a box, of course...) 

Hi, Friends......

Here's another Graphic 45 Mother's Day (or other special May occasion) card. I added more "stuff" this time. Since I used a square format, instead of an A2 rectangle, I had more room to play. :)

Supplies used include:
Graphic 45 "A Place in Time" collection May cutapart sheet and chipboard elements
K&Co. Patterned Paper
Distress Ink in Walnut Stain to ink edges
Verve - Sprightly Sprigs die set (retired)
Scraps of DCWV shimmer cardstock
Core'dinations/Darice kraft cardstock
Buttons from stash
DMC Embroidery Floss
Lace ribbon from stash

Hope you like this card. I think it turned out really sweet and romantic!! Thank you for stopping by and leaving your sweet comments!!

🖤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Butterfly Challenge #122 - Butterfly + F is for Flax + Flowers  
2. Crafty Hazelnut's May Patterned Paper Challenge 
3. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - For a Special Lady
4. Kat Scrappiness May Card Challenge - Coffee and/or Mom
5. Papercraft Challenge #37 - Ribbons

Fondest Wishes - Graphic 45

Hi, Friends......

Here is a very simple Mother's Day (or any other special lady occasion in May) that I made with the lovely chipboard and May elements from the Graphic 45 - "A Place in Time" collection. I added a bow and some coordinating patterned paper.

Supplies used include:
Graphic 45 "A Place in Time" collection May cutapart sheet and chipboard elements
K&Co. Patterned Paper
Distress Ink in Walnut Stain to ink edges
Core'dinations/Darice kraft cardstock
Ribbon from stash

Hope you are enjoying these fun and easy cards. Don't forget to USE your Graphic 45!!! :)

🖤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Butterfly Challenge #122 - Butterfly + F is for Flax + Flowers  
2. Crafty Hazelnut's May Patterned Paper Challenge 
3. Word Art Wednesday Weeks #386-387 - AG
4. Kat Scrappiness May Card Challenge - Coffee and/or Mom
5. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - For a Special Lady
6. Papercraft Challenge #37 - Ribbons

Graphic 45 May Flowers with Vintage Postal Card

WOW....that's one amazing cat!!

Hi, Friends.......

I used a bunch of my Graphic 45 bits and pieces from the Place in Time - May sheet to make several cards suitable for a lady on Mother's Day or any special occasion this month. The vintage designs look so pretty on kraft.

Supplies used:
Graphic 45 Place in Time collectionn May cutapart sheet.
Distress Ink in Walnut Stain to ink edges
Core'dinations/Darice kraft cardstock

Hope you like this pretty card!!  I plan to be back with a couple more soon.

🖤
Janis


Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Graphic 45 May Challenge #G45LightSide - The Light Side (use a light color palette)
2. Butterfly Challenge #122 - Butterfly + F is for Flax + Flowers
3. Word Art Wednesday Weeks #386-387 - AG
4. Kat Scrappiness May Card Challenge - Coffee and/or Mom
5. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - For a Special Lady
6. CARDZ-TV Anything Goes Challenge #89
7. Crafty Hazelnut's May Patterned Paper Challenge
8. Virginia's May Show and Share - Anything Goes
9. Papercraft Challenge #18 - Anything Goes w/ opt. Mother's Day
10. DL.ART May Linky Challenge

For a Special Mother - Lavender Garden

Hi, Friends......

Squeezing in a late evening card.....and hoping all the ladies out there had a nice Mother's Day! Even you gals who don't have kids of your own have a huge influence on the young people in your circles. So I am honoring ALL ladies today with a special note of appreciation for the many things you do for those around you.

I made a pretty card with a DCWV Chateau Lavender patterned cardstock panel. I love the restful look of this stack on kraft. I think it looks esp nice with a touch of vintage style ribbon and a sprig of die-cut foliage.

Supplies used include:
Mother's Day stamp from my stash prob from dollar bin at a craft store
Versafine ink in Toffee
Panel from DCWV Chateau Lavender stack
Verve - Sprightly Sprigs die set (retired)
Ribbons and shimmer cardstock from my stash
Core'dinations/Darice cardstock for card base

Hope you liked this card. Have a lovely Mother's Day!!!

🖤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Kat Scrappiness May Card Challenge - Coffee and/or Mom
2. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - For a Special Lady
3. CARDZ-TV Anything Goes Challenge #89
4. Crafty Hazelnut's May Patterned Paper Challenge
5. Papercraft Challenge #18 - Anything Goes w/ opt. Mother's Day
6. Word Art Wednesday Weeks #386-387 - AG
7. Cut it Up Challenge #173 - Mother's Day

Kentucky Derby Party Invites

Hi, Friends......

I am here to share a super-fun project I did for a friend. She was off to the races at the beginning of the month.....her first time to travel to the Kentucky Derby. But back in January, she had a Kentucky Derby party so some of us could come over, eat, and watch the movie "Secretariat" together. I had the Graphic 45 "Off to the Races" collection and offered to make invitations. 

Things have been so crazy the last few months that I never got them blogged. When I saw Dar and Diane were having a Kentucky Derby Hat inspiration board on their challenge blog, I knew I needed to hurry while there was still time!

Here you can see the front of one of the invitations.......no two were alike. You can see the inside of another in the background. It was so much fun mixing and matching a couple of different Graphic 45 collections....(Cafe Parisian and Off to the Races).

Here's the entire group of 12 invitations. (You can click on the photo to enlarge it if you wish to see them in more detail.) My friend loved them, by the way!!

Supplies used include:
Graphic 45 "Off to the Races" and "Cafe Parisian" collections
DCWV Cardstock

Hope you enjoyed this set of invitations. It was really fun to make. Hope my friend had good luck on whichever horse she put her $5 on last weekend!! LOL...

🖤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this set of party invitations in the following challenge(s):
1. Double D Challenge - Off to the Races













2. Through the Craft Room Door - AG
3. Crafty Hazelnut's May Patterned Paper Challenge
4, Word Art Wednesday Weeks #366-367 - AG
5. DL.ART May Linky Challenge
6. CARDZ-TV Anything Goes Challenge #89
7. Virginia's May Show and Share - Anything Goes
8. Tales from the Craft Room Challenge #4 - Floral Frenzy
9 .Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - For a Special Lady

Cup of Love - Happy Birthday

Hi, Friends......

I am here with one more card for tonight. I used one of Julee Tilman's wonderful coffee digi images from back when Verve was still up and running. HOW I MISS VERVE!!!!

Does anyone remember Add a Little Dazzle craft metal sheets????? Do you still have any of these lovely pieces hidden away in the back of your stash??? I have quite a few sheets in different colors carefully hoarded away, since it is not made anymore. :( 

Well, I threw caution to the wind and snipped a very tiny piece off the edge of one of my pink sheets to die cut some hearts for this card. I hope to get brave in the future and use my craft metal sheets every once in awhile.....no guarantees, though! Ha.

Supplies used include:
Verve Stamps - Love From Me digital stamp set (retired)
Distress Markers for coloring
Lawn Fawn - Hang in There stamp set for sentiment
Versafine ink in Majestic Blue
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Audrey Cutaways die set
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set
Add a Little Dazzle craft metal sheets (retired)
Doodlebug - Mini Doilies
Core'dinations/Darice Cardstock

Hope you enjoyed seeing my card and appreciated getting a rare glimpse of my craft metal!! Hahaha.... Thank you so much for stopping by. Enjoy the hop!!

🖤
Janis


Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. SSS Wednesday Challenge - Happy Birthday
2. SSS Monday Challenge - Use something metallic (My die-cut hearts are metallic.)
3. MFT Birthday project, birthday and favorite drink 
4. Kat Scrappiness May Challenge - Mom or Coffee
5. Through the Craft Room Door - AG
6. Three Amigos - Food and/or Drink

Happy Birthday, Pretty Lady with Blossoms and Butterflies

Hi, Friends......

I am here with a springy butterfly card to share. I fell in love with this particular piece of DCWV patterned paper years ago.....prob the reason I purchased this stack!! Pretty pieces like this are so handy for making quick cards. Here I layered the background, added an embossed sentiment, ribbon, and butterflies for a simple but lovely card.

I made another very similar card with white and silver ribbon. Which card do you like better??? I prefer the first one with more pink. :)

Supplies used include:
Unity Stamp Co. - "Happy birthday, pretty lady" from Sabrina {fashionista}
Versamark ink
Ranger - Embossing Powder silver
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Audrey Cutaways die set Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set
Metallic butterfly sequins from stash
Ribbon from stash

Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving your nice comments. I hope you are having a lovely week.

🖤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. SSS Wednesday Challenge - Happy Birthday
2. Lost Coast Challenge #75 - Begins with B (Birthday greeting, Butterfly, Blue, Blossoms on patterned paper)
3. All Sorts Week 518 - Pretty in Pink
4. Butterfly Challenge #122 - F is for French Rose + Flowers
5. SSS Monday Challenge - Use something metallic (My heat embossing and butterfly sequins are metallic.)
6. Word Art Wednesday #384-#385 - AG
7. Crafty Hazelnut's May Patterned Paper Challenge

Double Embossed Pink Butterfly Card

Hi, Friends.......

I am here with one more shaped card. This time it is a pink butterfly birthday card with double embossing. I love doing backgrounds like this where I dry emboss, coat the raised parts with Versamark ink with my brayer, sprinkle on embossing powder, and then zap with my heat gun. Magical!!

In case you are wondering how the pointy bottom of this card is supposed to stand up for display, I will show you the unfinished inside. Notice how I have cut off the pointy part of the back of the folded card base. That gives it a sturdy flat surface to rest on while  the front balances easily on that fancy point.

Supplies used include:
Sizzix - Fancy Labels die set
Darice - Ranunculus embossing folder
Versamark ink
Pink sparkle embossing powder
Winnie & Walter - Sentimental: Gift stamp set
Versafine ink in Onxy Black
Metallic butterfly sequins
Ribbon from stash
Core'dinations/Darice Cardstock

Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you are having a lovely spring at your house. The fruit trees here are in full bloom and the hummingbirds are very, very busy working the feeders and the trees. Hummingbirds hungrily devour aphids and mosquitoes and other small insect pests, so I like to encourage them to visit my yard. :)

🖤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Word Art Wednesday #384-#385 - AG
2. Lost Coast Challenge #75 - Begins with B (Black Birthday greeting, Butterfly, Bow)
3. All Sorts Week 518 - Pretty in Pink
4. Butterfly Challenge #122 - F is for French Rose + Flowers
5. SSS Monday Challenge - Use something metallic (My butterfly sequins are metallic.)
6. Double Trouble Challenge #28 - Spring/Summer theme (Only doing Thing 1 this time.)
7. SSS Wednesday Challenge - Happy Birthday
8. Cupcake Inspirations CIC469 - Shaped Card 
 
 

Country Kitchen Tea - Happy Birthday

Hi, Friends.......

I'm here to share a sweet and simple birthday card for the Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

It's another circular card that I made with a scalloped die. I like this one for shaped cards because this creation can easily stand on a couple of the scallops that I position at the bottom of the project. One thing about shaped cards, though.....I certainly have a smaller canvas play on. I can't add nearly as much "stuff" to my card as usual. Eeek!!

I am very excited that I *finally* opened up some tea-themed wallpaper border paper that my daughter picked up at a thrift store for me a long time ago. It's been in my Coffee/Tea stash for ages and I am glad to use it here today. It reminds me of a sunny country kitchen....esp with these butter and sky blue colors.

Supplies used include:
Sizzix - Circles, Scallop die set
Cardz-TV - Potpourri stamp set
Versamark Ink
Blue Embossing Powder
Thrift Store Wallpaper Border Paper
Core'dinations/Darice Cardstock
Crinkle Ribbon from stash

Happy sunshiny spring!!! Thanks for stopping by on the hop.

🖤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
2. Lost Coast Challenge #75 - Begins with B (Blue Birthday greeting, Bow)
3. Crafty Hazelnut's May Patterned Paper Challenge
4. DL.ART Thankful Thursday #243 - Coffee, Tea, or Cocoa
5. DL.ART May Linky Challenge
6. MFT Birthday project, birthday and favorite drink
7. SSS Wednesday Challenge - Happy Birthday
8. Word Art Wednesday #384-#385 - AG
9. Double Trouble Challenge #28 - Spring/Summer theme (I did all three things, add the beverage, entered at Three Amigos)
10. Three Amigos - Food and/or Drink
11. Cupcake Inspirations CIC469 - Shaped Card
 

Black Cat Birthday

Hi, Friends......

I am here with a fun birthday card. It's pink, kind of artsy....and it has cats, flowers, and a doily. What's not to love??? 

I made the sprayed, splattered, and stamped background quite awhile ago and unfortunately I can't remember which flower stamps I used. :(  So if anyone recognizes them, please let me know....because my brain is blank. Thanks!

Do you like the fancy jewelry the kitties are wearing?  :)

Supplies used include:
X-Cut - A5 Mixed Cats die set
Prima - Pearls Mini-Swirls 570347 (retired)
Winnie & Walter - Sentimental: Gift stamp set
Versamark Ink
WOW! Embossing Powder - Opaque Bright White Regular
Canson - Mixed Media Paper
Imagine Crafts - Fireworks Ink Spray in Rosebud
Flower stamps - but I can't remember which ones....(sigh)
Versafine Ink in Onyx Black
Doily from my stash
Sizzix - Circles, Scallop die set
Core'dinations/Darice cardstock

Hope you liked seeing my card....and can help me identify those flowers!! lol... Thank you so much for stopping by today.

🖤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. SSS Work it Wednesday - Pets
2. SSS Wednesday Challenge - Happy Birthday
3. Cards und More Shop Blog Challenge #35 - Sketch or Splatters (I chose splatters.)
4. SUYP Challenge 41 - Furrything Goes
5. Word Art Wednesday #384-#385 - AG 
6. All Sorts Week 518 - Pretty in Pink
7. Artistic Stamper May Challenge - Textures
8. Lost Coast Challenge #75 - Begins with B (Both kitties are Black and wearing Bling)
9. Dare2BArtzy May Challenge - Flowers
10. Double Trouble Challenge #28 - Spring/Summer theme
 (Just going with Thing 1 this time - Spring theme with the flowers) 
11. Craft Stamper May TIMI Challenge - AG with Stamping
12. Cupcake Inspirations CIC469 - Shaped Card

 

Meowy Good Day - Coffee Lover's Hop

Hi, Friends and Coffee Lovers......

I'm here with a sweet card for the Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

This is such a fun event with sooooooooo many activities and participants that sometimes I feel overwhelmed by it all and just hide in my craft room until it's all over. This year I am truly hiding in my craft room....(door is CLOSED!! lol)....but I made a card for the festivities.  Who knows....I might even make another!!   :)

I am using the pretty colors from the MFT Color Challenge:

And I used the sketch from Power Poppy:

Supplies used include:
Winnie & Walter - Purrfect with Evelin T Designs stamp set
Tsukineko - Memento Ink in London Fog
Distress Markers for watercoloring
Canson - Mixed Media Paper
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set
Chipboard heart from stash (that Karen L. sent me a long time ago! 💗)
DCWV patterned paper scraps from stash
Core'dinations/Darice cardstock

Hope you liked this adorable pair of kitties in the coffee cup. Enjoy the hop!!!

🖤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
2. MFT Color Challenge #116
3. Power Poppy Creative Confetti - Sketch
4. SUYP Challenge 41 - Furrything Goes
5. Lost Coast Challenge #75 - Begins with B -Both kitties are in a Big cup with Blue as one of the colors.
6. Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge #351 - Use Snippets
7. Crafty Hazelnut's May Patterned Paper Challenge
8. Word Art Wednesday #384-#385 - AG
9. Double Trouble Challenge #28 - Spring/Summer theme (I did all three things, add the beverage, entered at Three Amigos)
10. Three Amigos - Food and/or Drink
11. DL.ART Thankful Thursday #243 - Coffee, Tea, or Cocoa
12. DL.ART May Linky Challenge

Christmas Kickstart - Bunny/Hare Warm Winter Wishes

Hi, Friends.....

I am here with a wintery card for the Christmas Kickstart Challenge Bunny/Hare theme.  Jo's Guest Elf this fortnight is Gail, everyone's favorite Crafty Nomad, who happens to be the one who sent me the wonderful stamp that I used today. (THANKS, Gail!!)  We also are celebrating Gail's 21st Birthday.....again!!  lol....  Happy Birthday to you, crafty friend!!!







I used this fabulous sketch from Power Poppy:












And.....I used the neutrals from the current Winnie & Walter Color Combo Challenge:

Supplies used include:
Crafty Individuals - Hare Amongst the Trees CI-202
Winnie & Walter - Comfort + Joy stamp set
Versafine Ink in Smokey Gray
Clear embossing powder
Darice - Snowflakes embossing folder
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set
Sizzix - Circles, Scallop die set
Assorted DCWV and Core'dinations/Darice cardstock and patterned paper scraps

You still have a couple of days to get in on the Christmas Kickstart Bunny Challenge, so hop on over with the rest of us!!

🖤
Janis


Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Christmas Kickstart Challenge #9 - Bunnies
2. Winnie & Walter April Color Combo Challenge
3. Power Poppy Creative Confetti - Sketch
4. Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #436 
5. Dare2BArtzy - Animals
6. Dragonfly Journeys Challenge #138 - Bunnies
7. Crimbo Crackers Challenge #183 - AG Christmas 
8. Word Art Wednesday #384-#385 - AG