Playing with Tissue Paper Doilies for Cheery Lynn Designs...

Hello Friends,
I'm back!!!!  I have been away for a bit from my blog.  I was enjoying some warmer temperatures in Maui with most of my extended family to celebrate my parents 50th Wedding Anniversary for the past couple weeks.  It was my son Tim's first airplane ride, first trip to Hawaii and our first vacation in several years.  We had a lovely time away but it is also nice to come home and back to all that is familiar - including my craft room and some card making.

Welcome to all of my new subscribers too!  So fun to have new crafty friends to share with! 

Now that I am back I am hoping to get around to everyone's blogs this week to see what everyone has been creating while I was away! 

First, however, upon my return I had an email asking if I could do a guest design spot at Cheery Lynn Designs today so this post shows what I have been putting together over the past couple days. 

You can see my cards for the guest design team post at Cheery Lynn's blog: HERE.  Or below:

As most of you know I just love Cheery Lynn Doily Dies.  They are intricate and beautiful and there are so many to choose from!  I have been wanting to experiment with tissue paper doilies so that is what I played with for my guest design project.  All of the doilies on this card are made from tissue paper that I cut after folding a couple pieces up to fit into my Vagabond.  I cut them all at one time using my metal shim and making several passes back and forth through the machine after taping the die in place. 

The butterflies are also from Cheery Lynn Designs.   The larger one is called the "Small Lace Butterfly with angel wing" die - DL156.  The smaller butterflies are called "Exotic Butterfly Mini - DL112/DL112A(angel wing).  I cut all of the butterflies from sweet blush cardstock and then used the coordinating angel wings to create a tissue paper back for each of them.  I added stickles to all of the openings on the fronts to make these beautiful glittery butterfly embellishments.  The tissue paper becomes saturated with the glitter glue and the butterflies can be seen through in the light once everything dries.  Some pearls added for the butterflies bodies finish them off nicely I think.

Same card design but in Fuschia:

And last but not least a circle doily card:

The sentiment panels are all from a newer die set called: "Sentiment Frame #1" - B189.  I cut them out of both vellum and cardstock and layered various pieces together and embellished with pearls.

Thanks for taking a look at my cards.  I hope you will visit Cheery Lynn Designs main blog as well as their challenge blog and hopefully join in this weeks Doily challenge!  There is always a lovely prize up for grabs (usually a $20.00 Cheery Lynn Designs gift certificate) so that you can get some lovely new things.  Like some Cheery Lynn Dies!  They are also looking for guest designers so throw your hat in the ring and join the fun!

These cards made me feel like spring!  I came home to a front yard full of purple and yellow crocus and mini iris reticulata!  Even my daffodils are coming up and some of the tulips are pushing their greenery up from the ground.  Spring is on its way...at least here.  But for those of you that are buried in snow there is always virtual spring in our card-making! 

Thanks BJ and Sandy!  I enjoyed guest designing so much!!  If anyone has questions about how I put the butterfly embellishments together let me know in the comments.  I can always make a quick YouTube video to show you!

Enjoy your day!
Crafty Hugs,
Jill
 

February 2013 Blog Hop Challenge- Papertrey Ink: Marvelous Monograms

Hello Friends,
Here with a card for the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop Challenge for February 2013 - Marvelous Monograms.

Here are the inspiration photos from Nichole's Blog:

 

 I had so many ideas floating around in my head for this challenge after viewing these photos and browsing through Pinterest.  I even created a new board on Pinterest with some of my favorite monogram related pins:  HERE.  But alas as I am very limited for time I was only able to complete this card:

I used some beautiful pearl pink card stock for my card base.  I also used sweet blush and white.  The focal point frame is from the mat stack two collection and was embossed in gold embossing powder.  I then stamped a "J" in sweet blush ink with some Anna Griffin alphabet stamps that are at least 9 or 10 years old!  I surrounded my die cut window which was made with the Mat Stack 1 layering dies with some additional stamps from the Mat Stack two collection to finish the card off.  I made a bow and some embossed flowers to add to the card front but decided I liked it with just the stamping - simple and elegant!

P.S.  I alway struggle with embossing but really wanted to add the gold so I really, really, really rubbed my white card stock with a dryer sheet before embossing and this seemed to help with the embossing powder ONLY sticking to the image I stamped in versamark ink.  Yeah!

Thanks for taking a look at my card! 

:) Jill   

Celebrate Your Day!

Hi Friends,
Here today with a card using a new to me sentiment set from Paper Sweeties.  It is a birthday card as my birthday card stash is very, very low and I am trying to replenish.

I used the Paper Sweeties Sketch Inspiration #3 when making my card.  Here is a picture of the sketch:

 

I actually flipped the sketch so that the 3 small embellishments at the bottom are on the top right of my card.

 

I used a border stamp of little drawn hearts from a There She Goes Clear Stamp set called "Cute as a Button" to create the background panel on the left side. The other panel is a digital paper from Etsy from "Iralamijashop".  It is called "Victoria Backgrounds". I also like a new paper she has out that I just saw today called:  English Rose Collage.  Maybe someday....LOL!

 Here is a close-up of the little cupcake I made out of paper! I had to add some glittery sweetness to it!  

And since I made a little hand-sewing goof on the upper corner of my card I added some glittery goodness to the top right corner and bottom left corner to carry all that yummy glitter through the card and help direct your eye.  Probably difficult to see in the pictures unless you click to enlarge them.

Thanks for taking a look!  Debbie released some lovely new Paper Sweeties this week.  They are just so adorable and fun!!

:) Jill

Frame by Frame...feeling a little trigger happy today...

Hello Everyone,
Well I finally made a card for a Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World.  I think this may be my first ever entry into a challenge in the lovely Moxie-Land!!!  Or my second???  I have watched for a long time, watched and hopefully learned a little bit of something....still learning all the time and having fun doing it.

Here is the trigger photo:

Image Credit

I love to crochet and how I would enjoy making these frames! They are so very sweet!!  For some reason when I looked at them I thought of snowflakes falling..unique shapes each...drifting down.  And soft texture....so I thought FELT!!!

Anyway...here is what I came up with...a birthday card for a very dear friend.  It is a dark, rainy, cold and ugly Seattle day so this is the best picture I could come up with - I apologize for the color and lighting in advance!!!:

 

The sentiment says:  "Wishing you a cozy Winter Birthday" and is from the Papertrey Ink set: On ice.

Buttons, Felt, Sweet Blush Cardstock - Papertrey Ink.  Teal Dot Cardstock - Bazzill I believe - from my stash of 12 x 12 cardstock.  Sew Mini machine from Janome.  The sewing is supposed to symbolize the wind tossing the snowflakes around....either that or you can chalk it up to sewing with a badly bruised finger....more on that later...

 

Thanks for taking a look at my card. 

Here is one other card I made today - for Christmas:

 

This card uses a new Christmas stamp set called  "Stitched Stockings" designed by Lisa Johnson of Poppie Paperie for MFT Stamps.  I am loving this set!!! So fun for very quick Christmas cards with lots of style!

 

That is it for me tonight.  I am in the process of re-covering my dining room chairs and I hit my pointer finger with the hammer a couple days ago so card making (and sewing on my machine) is a wee bit on the painful side right now...as is typing...

so...

nighty-night...

see you in blog land soon...

:) Jill

 

A little birthday card for my sister

The other night I made a sweet but very simple card for a Papertrey Ink contest but my husband wasn't feeling well and I did not get to upload it in time to enter it into the contest.  So tonight I am posting it after the fact.  It is a birthday card for my sweet sister.  Her birthday is right around Valentine's Day so it has a little heart doily on it.  It also uses a free Anniversary design from Nichole's blogpost at Papertrey Ink:   pti-anniversary-tag-download pdf  .  There are great images on this download that can be used over and over again for card making.

The images are made to fit a 1.75 inch circle punch which I do not own currently.  So I cut the image by hand the best that I could...it is sort of vintagey and imperfect but the card still turned out cute.  Here is a quick pic (the only one that turned out on the dark day I took it) and then I am off to hopefully make a couple of thank you notes using the wonderful color combos on today's papertrey ink blog post.  You can see all the anniversary posts here on Nichole's blog for Papertrey Ink:  Papertrey Ink Blog

Here is my sweet little card....for my sweet little sister....shhh don't tell her about it as I won't be mailing it out to her for a few days!
Supplies:
Doily:  stash
Patterned paper:  K & company - Sweet Nectar Line
Tag: K & Company
Adhesive:  Glue Glider Pro - High Tac cartridge; glue dots
Bling:  Recollections
Sentiment circle:  papertrey ink free pdf- see link in post above
Edge Punch:  Martha Stewart Crafts