Edwin with Butterfly

This is one of the Edwin stamps from the Magnolia Butterfly Dreams Collection. I wanted to make a simpler card with the image - so many of the samples out there are very heavily adorned with embellishments. I colored him with Copics - colors can be seen below the card. The hardest part of the card was cutting him out. I love to cut, but some of you might find this challenging. I layered a stripe DP with some coordinating Bazzill cardstock and wrapped a May Arts ribbon around the seam for Edwin to sit on. The "hello" stamp is from a Flourishes set.

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Jeannette

A Pirate Moose!

I had to make a card for my nephew who is turning 22 on Monday. These are the toughest cards to design - in my opinion. Guys between 17 and 30. Seeing that the pirate theme always goes along well, I saw the Pirate Riley image and thought "This might work!" So I colored him with Copic markers (colors are shown below). It is a lot of colors, but there are a lot of little things to color on this stamp! I used the BoBunny Double Dot Designs striped cardstock for the background and the red and teal colored standard double dot cardstock for accents. I added the black ribbon with the white stitching for some accent (not too girlie, mind you!) and punched out the happy birthday design and layered it to a black scallop circle cut from a Spellbinders die.

I think he will like the card - now we just have to hope that the rain ends before his surprise party!

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Jeannette

Glitter and Copics

Several weeks ago I published a card sent to me by Elizabeth Crafts Glitter using Copic markers to color glitter. Today I decided to play with this technique for an upcoming class. I used the warm highlight glitter and then carefully colored the white with various colors of Copic markers. You start with a color, then blend it out with the "0" blender pen. While I do not use the "blender pen" when I color with Copics on cardstock to blend colors, it works wonderfully on glitter! The biggest trick is keeping the glitter out of the tip. First you make certain that you remove all the loose glitter and then try to limit brushing the marker tips and do more of a dab with the brush tip. The wording on this card is by Penny Black.

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Jeannette

Delight in the Unexpected...

Sorry I have been so bad about posting. I always have great plans - just don't always seem to execute them as well as expected.

This card features Marcie - one of the characters from LaLa Land Crafts - which is one of the newer companies that we recently picked up for the store. In this image, she is sitting, which always poses a challenge for designing a card, so I had her "sit" on a piece of ribbon. She is colored with Copic markers and cut out. I used an EK Success border punch on 2 different pieces of cardstock - one is an embossed cardstock from Bazzill and the other is a print cardstock from Kaiser. After punching out the borders, I butted the 2 ends together on a lighter purple Bazzill layer, put that on a green layer and wrapped the ribbon piece around where the 2 pieces came together. Then I mounted all that onto a darker purple card and attached Marcie with foam tape so she is sitting on the ribbon. The words are from Hero Arts - I stamped them on green cardstock (same color as the green layer below), then punched them out with a circle punch and added a purple scallop circle cut from a Spellbinders die. That is also attached with foam tape.

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Jeannette

Have a Sweet Day!

This card was made with an "A La Mode" stamp from My Favorite Things. I have had these stamps in the store for a while - and just made a couple cards from this line and they are WONDERFUL! Now I wished I had picked them up sooner! These are great designs and can be used for young and old alike. I really like the fresh style and think that they would be great for teens and young adults - a group we always have a hard time coming up with designs for them! This image was colored with Copics and I did some fun layering. To perk up her dress, I added some white dots with a white opaque pen after coloring. It really changes the look - and is simple to do!

Sorry for the delay in posting! Been crazy getting ready for the show. Be on the lookout for updates. Thanks for stopping in!

Jeannette