February Rudolph Days - Merry Christmas with Graphic 45

 

Hi, Friends......

I almost was unable to get this Rudolph Days card posted in time to get under the wire.  Not only is February a short month, but there were birthday festivities for me this weekend....not to mention that we have a fussy teething grandbaby in the house who isn't feeling well at all.  Then to top it off we were without power for the afternoon and evening today!  Whew!  I am delighted to be able to share my entry after all that. Yay!!

I opened up my new Let It Snow Graphic 45 collection the other day to make my Rudolph Days card.  Love!!!  I did a couple very simple cards....using cutaparts, borders, and pretty background paper.  Easy peasy and so pretty!!!  This is another of my "Use the pretty stuff before I die projects".  :)

Here's my second one....

Supplies used include:
Graphic 45 Let it Snow collection
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set - retired
Forest Green cardstock
Distress Ink in Pine Needles and Faded Jeans

Hope you enjoyed these cards.  This is your gentle reminder to use your Graphic 45....before you die!!!  lol...
Thank you for stopping by today.

❤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering these cards in the following challenge(s):
1.  February Rudolph Days
(Maybe more later.....)

C is for Cat - Set of ATCs

 

Hi, Friends.....

It has been several years since I made any Artist Trading Cards.  In fact it was 4 years ago this month that I celebrated my online ATC 60th Birthday Party where I had weekly ATC challenges for you to participate in.  In honor of my birthday month this year, I am revisiting ATCs.  

I am also joining in with this last-minute entry at the Think Pink (and shades of red) Challenge over at Lost Coast Designs.  I used the Lost Coast Designs - Two Cats stamp on my cards...but only one cat on each ATC.  lol...  

I wanted to stamp a sentiment across the heat embossed image....so I dug out my StazOn ink pad that hadn't been used in years and years.  Amazingly, it only took me a few minutes to find!  It was dry of course but I have a reinker.  Now that I have it freshly re-inked, I need to use it again soon so I don't waste it!!  I added splatters of black to help tie in the black sentiment to the cards.  

(If you wish to see detail, please click on the image to enlarge.)

Supplies used include:
Lost Coast Designs - Two Cats stamp
Lost Coast Designs - ATC Lattice Set
Versafine ink in Crimson Red
Clear embossing powder
Distress Ink in Lipstick Pink, Walnut Stain, Fired Brick, and Black Soot
Hampton Art - Graphic 45 - Raining Cats & Dogs stamp set (sentiment)
StazOn Ink in Black

Hope you enjoyed seeing my ATCs.  Are you interested in trading?  If so, send me an email  (jwoolbright at gmail dot com).  I might have to make more ATCs if more than three of you want to trade with me...since I want to save one for myself!  :)

Thank you for stopping by today.  Happy Valentine's Day to all!!

❤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this set of ATCs in the following challenge(s):
1.  Lost Coast Designs - Think Pink (and shades of red)
More later, maybe.... :)

The Lord God is a Sun and Shield

 

Hi, Friends.....

How about something bright and colorful and warm and sunny for a change?????  Sometimes I get weary of living in a monochrome winter world of ice and snow and need some color.  What about you?  For our Southern Hemisphere friends, these are the colors they will be seeing soon.  For me I can dream of warm golden days.  :)

Supplies used include:
Verve - Scripture Medley 2 stamp set (retired)
Versafine Ink in Onyx Black
Clear Embossing Powder
MFT - Sunny Skies Die (retired)
My Favorite Things Die-namics - Stitched Square STAX die set (retired)
Prima - Gold Doilies

Hope you enjoyed this warm ray of sunshine today.  Thank you for stopping by!!  

❤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. PIP Challenge #2205 - Sunshine
2. Word Art Wednesday Weeks #529-530 - AG
3. HA Stay Crafty Feb Challenge - AG
4. All Sorts Week #661 - AG
5. Double Trouble Challenge #102 - Thing 1: AG
6. CHPP February Challenge - Use Patterned Paper

Sorry For the Loss of Your Furry Friend

 

Hi, Friends......

As many of you know, my hubby is a veterinarian.  He sometimes needs an extra special pet sympathy card for friends he helps through the difficult time of losing a pet.  He requested I make a card this week for him to send.  When he saw it, he liked the design so well that he asked if I might make him several to have on hand.  I made some for dogs and some for cats.  

I had the idea of this card from how pets leave such a hole in our hearts when we lose them.  That is symbolized by the dog shape die cut out of the heart and the pawprints leading away with the dog nearly out of sight.  The CAS design is uncluttered and straight to the point.  I was able to use scraps for the heart and the dog.  

Supplies used include:
KI Memories - Pets stamp set (retired) - pawprint
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set (retired)
Paper Smooches - Feline Friends stamp set (retired) - sentiment
Find It Trading - Amy Design - Animal Medley die set (retired) - dog
Darice - Nesting Hearts die set
Versafine ink in Smokey Gray
Scraps of red and shimmery gray cardstock

Hope this card inspires you to perhaps have a pet sympathy card or two on hand.  They can be difficult to make when you suddenly need one.  

Thank you for stopping by today.  Hope all of you in the path of the winter storms stay safe!!

❤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Snippets Playground Challenge #420 Ruby's Memory - Use Snippets
2. Cut It Up Challenge #244 - Hard To Say
3. DL.ART Feb 2022 Linky Party
4. Double Trouble Challenge #102 - Thing 1: AG, Thing 2: Entering at Dies R Us
5. Dies R Us Challenge 186 - Valentine's/Love
6. Word Art Wednesday Weeks #529-530 - AG
7. Double D Challenge - Hearts

8. Colorful Options Feb 2022 - Rosey Red

9. Die Cut Divas Feb 2022 Challenge - Angle It  (I have the pawprints angled up from the heart.)

January Rudolph Days - Another Chickadee Card

Hi, Friends.....

I am here to share a card for the January Rudolph Days.  When I played with this lovely stamp a couple weeks ago, I stamped several images and was not satisfied with any of them.  After coloring the first one, it looked better than I expected!  So I was emboldened to color another one and make it into a second card.  

The cardstock I used for this one was a cool beige....as opposed to my first card HERE in warm tones.  I decorated this one with gold sequin waste and net ribbon for a festive holiday look. Which of the two do you like better?  I think I like the warm tones better, but I like the gold on this one. 

Supplies used include:
Lost Coast Designs - Megan's Christmas Bird stamp (wood-mount)
Versafine Ink in Onxy Black
Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers
Gesso
Distress Ink in Walnut Stain
Scraps of patterned paper, ribbon

Thank you for stopping by today.  I am going to be out of town this week so that's why I am getting my Rudolph Days card posted so promptly!  lol...   That gives you time to get yours ready before the end of the month too!  Hope you will join us!

❤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenge(s):
1. January Rudolph Days

All Nine Lives With You

 

SPECIAL NOTE:  Many thanks to those of you who have dusted off your dragonfly supplies and joined in the brand-new Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges that I recently mentioned.  See my winter-themed dragonfly card HERE.  Several of you have made a card and linked up already.  So happy to see people jumping in to support this new challenge blog that is all about dragonflies.  ❤❤❤

Hi, Friends......

I am here with a kitty valentine card I'm going to give to my hubby.  Awwww.....  💑😻  To make it seem masculine, I used dark tones, navy and taupe.

I followed the sketch over at the MFT Sketch Challenge #577.

I  am also entering this card in the Lost Coast Designs Challenge - Man Cave with a Masculine theme.

I opened up two fabulous stamps that I had never used before for this challenge: Lost Coast Designs - Star Cat plus a couple of the stamps from the Lost Coast Designs - ATC Lattice Set for background stamping.  The sentiment is from a new set, too: The Project Bin - Feline Good stamp and die set.  Don't you love it??  

I used a piece of cardstock in my scrap bag that looked like it had been the backing from a gummed notepad. I tore the edges of the panels and even managed to tear out a little heart shape that is somewhat recognizable as a heart!!  ❤  My navy blue background is one I had on hand that I had previously splattered with some leftover gesso that I was loathe to just throw out.  :) 

Supplies used include (most of these I already mentioned):
Lost Coast Designs - Star Cat stamp
The Project Bin - Feline Good stamp
Versafine Ink in Majestic Blue
Clear embossing powder
Lost Coast Designs - ATC Lattice Set
Distress Inks
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set - retired

Hope you enjoyed my card.  I can post this early since my hubby doesn't visit my blog.  lol...  Thank you so much for stopping by today.  Have a wonderful weekend!

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Lost Coast Designs Challenge - Man Cave - Masculine theme
2. MFT Sketch Challenge #577
3. All Sorts Week #659 - Add a Heart
4. Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge #74 - Furrything Goes
5. We Love Stamping January Challenge - Anything Stamped + Opt of Wings
6. Word Art Wednesday Weeks #527-528 - AG
7. TFJB Challenge - Out with Old, In with the New (my stanp sets were new and the paper was an old scrap.) 
8. DL.ART January Linky Party

Rainbow Christmas Tree

 

Hi, Friends.....

I am here to share a shiny card for the Christmas Kickstart - Rainbow Christmas challenge.   

I had to think about this one....how to incorporate rainbow colors into a Christmas card....Hmmmm.  I happened to have a rainbow paper pad out for a different project and leafing through it found a gorgeous foiled piece that I thought would be perfect.  Yes, you heard it correctly.  I pulled out a brand-new gorgeous uncut piece of cardstock to use....not a scrap or snippet to be found on this card!  

One of my crafty resolutions for 2022 is to NOT DIE before I use at least some of the pretty things in my stash!!!!  lol...  I do not always HAVE to use scraps.  I give myself (AND YOU!!) permission to use the pretty stuff.  You're welcome.  ❤

I went rather CAS with this card, but attaching those fiddly thin die-cuts on the embossed background without a bunch of gloozing was harder for me than it looks!  You know what I mean by gloozing...where the liquid glue oozes out from beneath the die cut.  I've tried cutting these out with adhesive sheets, but I get adhesive webs that I have to clear out.  Ugh..reminds me of spiders!!  Eeek.  

The rainbow tree has little mini-dots on it, so I used a dotty embossing folder for the background, too, that reminds me of snow falling.  I love how this turned out. 

Supplies used include:
Clearly Besotted -Tree and Tinsel dies (retired)
Poppystamps - Fancy Merry Christmas die (retired)
Darice - Dot Background 5"x7" embossing folder (retired)

Thank you so much for stopping by today.  I hope you liked my card.  The  Christmas Kickstart - Rainbow Christmas challenge is open for another week and a half, so there is plenty of time to join in!  See you there!!

❤
Janis 

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Christmas Kickstart - Rainbow Christmas
2. Word Art Wednesday Weeks #527-528 - AG
3. DL.ART January Linky Party
4. ABC Christmas - A is for Anything Goes Christmas|
5. Papercraft Challenges #77 - Winter Wonderland
6. STAMPlorations January CAS Challenge (CAS + Opt twist Rainbow)