Back to School, but Wishing I were Fishing....

Hi, Friends.....

I am here with a back to school card. I think with this humorous vintage image, however, it could also be used as a September birthday card for an older gentleman who might get a kick out of it.  

I am entering this in the Winnie & Walter August Color Combo Challenge - Any Palette Goes. This is the palette I chose for my card:

Again, I pulled out one of my Graphic 45 collections.....this time it's their "A Place in Time". Isn't the bored expression on the young would-be scholar's face priceless?!!  I can just imagine this lad wishing he were anywhere besides back in school again. lol....

I sanded my embossed wood-grain background.  Love this look!! 

Products used include:
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set
Graphic 45 "A Place in Time" collection
Darice Core'dinations - Vintage Collection
Darice - Wood Grain embossing folder
Core'dinations Sand-it Gadget
Distress Ink in Walnut Stain
Buttons and DMC embroidery floss from stash
Core'dinations Vanilla cardstock for card base

Hope you enjoyed my card. Thank you so much for stopping by today!!!

<3
Janis


Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. UnstampaBelles Challenge #84 - Emboss with optional twist of Make it Masculine
2. Winnie & Walter August Color Challenge - Any Palette Goes
3. HIMCR Challenge #366 - Use Die Cuts 
4. Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper August Challenge - Use Patterned Paper
5. All Sorts Week 480/1 - From Boys to Men
6. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Back to School
7. Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #17 - Blast from the Past (play any of their 2018 challenges) (I chose Challenge #16 - Embossing.)
8. Crop Stop August Linky Party #42 - Anything Goes (I used Distress Ink, Darice embossing folder, and Core'dinations cardstock, and Core'dinations Sand-it Gadget)
9. Mod Squad Challenge Blog - Back to School
10. CARDZ-TV Anything Goes Challenge #61

Paris Travel Card

                                                          Le Chat de Grumpy                                   (My best guess at French....which is only because I have a Le Chat coffee mug that I use all the time.  But oui internet travelers have to pick things up wherever oui can!  Ha.)

Hi, Friends......

I am here with a masculine card to share today. I made this card especially for a couple of different challenges:

1. UnstampaBelles Challenge - Susan, the lovely hostess from the underside of the globe, comes up with fabulous challenges where there is no stamping allowed. :) My Graphic 45 collections are always perfect because they have lots of sentiment strips which match their wonderful papers and can be used in lieu of stamping. This month Susan is asking us to include embossing and, as an optional twist, to make it masculine. Out came my G45 Cityscapes collection that I have been pining to use. For some odd reason, I love the look of cityscapes, even though I am a country girl through and through!

2. Winnie & Walter August Color Combo Challenge - This month Heather's challenge is Any Palette Goes. Fun!!! To help me along with my card, I chose a color palette that goes with my Cityscapes collection . I added a few neutrals to my card, too.

Now....before summer is over, let's go to Paris!!!...................

You can't imagine how much courage it took for me to tear this embossed background!!  I knew it would tend to tear along the embossed lines....and it did....too much in some places!  But I soldiered on and actually like how the tearing turned out.  :)

Products used include:
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set
Graphic 45 - Cityscapes collection
Sizzix - TH Texture Fades - Notebook embossing folder
Core'dinations Cardstock - Neutrals
Distress Ink - Walnut Stain
Baker's Twine from Dollar Store
Core'dinations cardstock in vanilla for card base

Hope you enjoyed your little sight-seeing trip! Thank you for stopping by today. We made it safely through the thunderstorms the other night. There were no ground strikes in our area and no new fires in our part of Idaho. So thankful for God's protection!

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. UnstampaBelles Challenge #84 - Emboss with optional twist of Make it Masculine
2. Winnie & Walter August Color Challenge - Any Palette Goes
3. Word Art Wednesday Week #348-349 - Anything Goes
4. Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper August Challenge - Use Patterned Paper
5. All Sorts Week 480/1 - From Boys to Men
6. DL.ART August Linky Challenge
7. Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #17 - Blast from the Past (play any of their 2018 challenges) (I chose Challenge #16 - Embossing.)
8. Crop Stop August Linky Party #42 - Anything Goes (I used Distress Ink, Sizzix embossing folder, and Core'dinations cardstock)
9. DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge #234 - Summer (Summer is for traveling!!)
10. CARDZ-TV Anything Goes Challenge #60
11. HIMCR Challenge #366 - Use Die Cuts

Christmas Card with Hot Colors

Drum Kit(ties) - This is what it would look like at my house if I had drums.  <3

Hi, Friends......

I am here with a Christmas card to share. I was inspired by the theme over at Christmas Cards All Year Round to make a holiday card with HOT colors. Such a fun theme that I had to try it out. I made one using traditional red earlier this month, but I felt like rising to the challenge and really using HOT colors.

The Winnie & Walter Color Challenge this month is Any Palette Goes, so I found this hot, hot, hot one to use: 

I have been on a Graphic 45 kick lately, so I teamed up a fun 12 Days of Christmas chippie with some DCWV scraps and a Doodlebug doily for my card. I dressed up the doily like a wreath by adding some rhinestones in warm colors. See that fish-tail banner.....oh, how I wish I had some nesting dies in this nice wide shape, but alas...no. I had to cut it out myself...so don't look too closely!

Supplies used include:
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Audrey Cutaways die set
Graphic 45 "Twelve Days of Christmas" Chipboard
Doodlebug - Mini Doilies
DCWV scraps
Distress Ink in Rusty Hinge
Rhinestones - various colors of individual ones and the red row from Fiki (THANKS, FIKI!!!)
Ribbon from stash
Core'dinations cardstock in kraft

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you are staying safe in all the heat. We have a fire weather warning for tomorrow with a now updated 40% chance of thunderstorms that is keeping us all on pins and needles. Please keep all those affected by severe weather in your prayers!!

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Winnie & Walter August Color Challenge - Any Palette Goes
2. Christmas Cards All Year Round August Challenge - Use Hot/Warm Colors
3. Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #398 - AG Christmas
4. Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper August Challenge - Use Patterned Paper
5. ABC Christmas Challenge - PQR (I used Q is for Quotes.)
6. DL.ART August Linky Challenge
7. Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #17 - Blast from the Past (play any of their 2018 challenges) (I chose Challenge #15 - Machine Die-cutting.)
8. Crafter's Castle Challenge #8 - Anything Goes
9. Crop Stop August Linky Party #42 - Anything Goes w/ the opt Twist: Striped Background
(I did the Twist and I used Distress Ink, Doodlebug Doily and Core'dinations Cardstock)
10. CARDZ-TV Anything Goes Challenge #60

Gold Butterfly Tri-Fold Card

Hi, Friends.....

I am here with another entry into Mrs. A's Butterfly Challenge. This time I played around with a glittery gold Dollar Store butterfly and made my tall format card into a tri-fold. (I guess tri-fold is the right name for it. It only has TWO folds, so it seems like it should be bi-fold. But I am sure I have seen these called tri-fold before, though, so who knows? Do you think I over-analyze things????? lol....)

I also used some Zva pearl flourishes to give flight to my butterfly. I love these flourishes, but am I the only one who has trouble with the crystals coming off of them while positioning them on the card? These were pearls, instead of crystals, and they all stayed stuck for some odd reason. Ha!  But the old wisdom is good: don't ask questions when something actually goes well....just enjoy it!

I love anything sparkly and also love gold against blue. These DCWV scraps of foiled gold and blue seemed perfect for this card. I just hope this color counts close enough to French Blue for Mrs. A's Challenge!

I extended the flourish trails onto the next panel to make a little scene, of sorts. I left the third panel plain for personalizing with a stamp or note. However, I did add some narrow strips trimmed from the other pieces on each side of that third panel to add continuity. (Also to show that I intended to leave it blank....not that I just forgot to do something there! Hey...that COULD happen with me!!!)

Supplies used include:
Dollar store glittery gold butterfly
DCWV scraps
Zva adhesive pearl flourishes and swirls
Scrapbook-Adhesives - Photo Corners in gold

Hope you liked this card with its sparkly butterfly and gleaming gold. Thank you so much for stopping by!!!

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Butterfly Challenge #105 - F is for.... I used Butterfly + French Blue + Fold (more than one)
2. Crafty Animals Challenge #17 - AG Animals
3. Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday August Challenge - Feature a Creature
4. Dare 2B Artzy August Challenge - Anything Goes
5. DL.ART August Linky Challenge
6. Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #17 - Blast from the Past (play any of their 2018 challenges) (I chose Challenge #10 - AG)
7. Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge #332 - Use Snippets
8. CARDZ-TV Anything Goes Challenge #60
9. ARTastic August Challenge - Things that Fly

10. Double D Challenge - Don't Bug Me!

Butterflies in Pink against Blue Sky

Glad they are not REAL spiders!  Ugh...  My son had to dispatch two big ones that were webbing around in the rafters of my front porch recently.  One of them made such a stout web that when I unwittingly brushed against one of its "guy wires", I thought I had bumped a small gauge extension cord!!  Imagine my horror when I realized what I had touched and how big its occupant was!!  Yeeeeech!!!  =:o

Hi, Friends.......

I am here with a pair of butterfly cards to share with you today. Even though bugs and crawlies of all kinds give me the creeps in real life, I love making pretty butterfly cards. Somehow, they are NOT the same thing! lol....  Mrs. A's Butterfly Challenge this time around is open for four weeks , instead of the usual two, so that gives everyone a nice chance to participate.....even me!! :) (It closes Aug.28th at her time of "something o'clock" which means a completely different time to most of the world, so you better just check for yourself...hehehe!)

For these two cards, I'm letting some bright pink/fuchsia floral patterned vinyl wall sticker butterflies from the dollar store flutter around in my blue sky (from my pile of watercolor marker refill water backgrounds). I applied my stickers to a large sheet of my background and then die cut the panels for a nice finished stitched look around the edges. (I was so proud of myself for using the rest of this sheet of stickers from my butterfly box...until I was rooting around in there later and found three more unused sheets!! Ha. Another day....another day.....)

Here's the second card in this light and airy butterfly set:

Products used include:
Dollar store vinyl wall stickers
Technique Tuesday - You Did It stamp set
Versafine ink in Onxy Black
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set
Canson - Mixed Media Paper Spiral Bound Notebook

Hope you like this pretty set of fast and easy cards! Thank you for stopping by.

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering these cards in the following challenges:
1. Butterfly Challenge #105 - F is for.... I used Butterfly(ies) + Flowers + Fuchsia
2. The House That Stamps Built - A818 Tic Tac Toe (I chose Friendship, Watercolors, and Bright Colors.)
3. Simon Says Stamp Work-it Wednesday July Challenge - Watercolor
4. Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday August Challenge - Feature a Creature
5. Dare 2B Artzy August Challenge - Anything Goes
6. Crafty Animals Challenge #17 - AG Animals
7. Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #17 - Blast from the Past (play any of their 2018 challenges)
(I chose Challenge #15 - Machine Die-cutting.)
8. DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge #234 - Summer
9. Word Art Wednesday Weeks #346-347 - Anything Goes
10. The Cat's Pajamas Challenge #349 - Birthday
11. CARDZ-TV Anything Goes Challenge #59
12. Tuesday Throwdown Challenge TT404 - Anything Goes
13. ARTastic August Challenge - Things that Fly

14. Double D Challenge - Don't Bug Me!

  

Daisies, Daisies, and More Daisies

Hi, Friends.....

I am here today to share a fun daisy card I made for the Winnie & Walter Color Challenge for July. I am so glad this monthly challenge had some spill-over days into August because July was a total bust for me as far as crafting!! Heather H. chose this fabulous inspiration photo and palette for us to use. LOVE!!!

I had just the right products to use (Winnie & Walter - In Bloom: Shirley's Blooms) and decided to stamp and heat emboss on vellum and use my Prismacolors on the reverse to color the flowers. I'm not a great colorist and after finishing the images I thought the whole thing looked a little blah. I decided to throw caution to the wind (as is usual in my crafting!) and color some outlines around the images, too. I think it livens it up a lot.

The vellum sheet I used was larger than I needed for the front panel.  So after I die cut that piece, I cut a strip from the remainder and glued it on the inside of the card.  So pretty!!!

I used a variety of daisy sizes...some solid and some open. The solid flowers provided convenient places to hide the blobs of glue I used for attaching the vellum. Yay!

Products used include:
Winnie & Walter - In Bloom: Shirley's Blooms stamp set
Thrift store package of vellum already cut into 4-1/2"x6" pieces
Versamark Ink
WOW! Embossing Powder - Opaque Bright White Regular
Prismacolor Colored Pencils
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Audrey Cutaways die set
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set
Winnie & Walter - Sentimental: Gift stamp set
Versafine ink in Smokey Gray
Core'dinations cardstock in gray and white

I really love how this card turned out and I hope you like it, too! Thank you so much for taking time to stop by today and for leaving your kind comments. Stay safe and cool during this terrible heat!!

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Winnie & Walter Color Challenge for July
2. Artistic Stamper August Challenge - Anything Goes with Stamping
3. CARDZ-TV Anything Goes Challenge #59
4. Joy Clair August Challenge - Anything Goes
5. Dare 2B Artzy August Challenge - Anything Goes
6. Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #17 - Blast from the Past (play any of their 2018 challenges) (I chose Challenge #16-Embossing)
7. Craft Stamper TIMI August Challenge - Anything Goes with Stamping
8. Crafter's Castle Challenge #8 - Anything Goes
9. The Cat's Pajamas Challenge #349 - Birthday
10. Stick it Down: August Card Sketch Challenge

 

Merry and Bright (delayed July Rudolph Days)

I can only guess that someone actually took their cat to sit on Santa's lap and this happened!!!

Hi, Friends.....

Scrappy Mo was enjoying a vacay and delayed her Rudolph Days Challenge for July to the first week of August (thru the 7th, so you still have time to participate!!). I made a Graphic 45 card for this Anything Goes Christmas challenge, using cutaparts from the Place in Time collection. Instant card....I LOVE it!!

Supplies used include:
Graphic 45 - Place in Time collection
Core'dinations kraft cardstock and scraps for mats and card base
DCWV scrap for background

Hope you like this super-easy, but nostalgic card. Thank you for stopping by!

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Rudolph Days at Scrappy Mo's "July" Challenge - AG Christmas
2. Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #397 - AG Christmas
3. Christmas Cards All Year Round August Challenge - Use Hot/Warm Colors
4. Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper August Challenge - Use Patterned Paper
5. CARDZ-TV Anything Goes Challenge #59
6. DL.ART August Linky Challenge
7. Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #17 - Blast from the Past (play any of their 2018 challenges) (I chose Challenge #10 - AG) 
8. Crafter's Castle Challenge #8 - Anything Goes