No Time To Stamp?

I have a bridal shower to attend in about 2 weeks, but no stamps specific to a bridal shower.  Soooooo — I figured with all the cute new images out by JustRite Stampers and their variety of sentiments that I could figure something out — and I did!!!  Versatility, compatibility — aren’t those words we think of with the JustRite products?  Well, I used an interesting combo today to make my Bridal Shower card — take a look:

Are you putting the pieces together to see what I did?  Well, I’ll show you in a minute, but first let me just say I used the Textured Cardstock by SU (love it!) and my White 100% Silk Ribbon by May Arts, the bow being made on the Bow Easy.  See this post  for how I did the ribbon treatment.  And my corner rounder is by SU as well.

My Congratulations border is from Celebrations Demi Phrases, used on the 1 3/4 x  2 5/16″ Oval Stamper.  My cake is from Friendship Set, but that cake is a birthday cake with candles.  I just stamped the cake as is, colored with Copics, then cut it out, cutting off the candles and the cake stand.  I also used a Signo White Gel Pen and tiny Kaiser Pearls on my cake, and it is mounted on SU Dimensionals.  The oval dies are the CLASSIC Oval Nestabilities by Spellbinders.  There isn’t much to this card — just simple and pretty — and sometimes that’s enough!

Here’s a visual for you of  the Friendship Set. It is made to work with the 3 1/4″ Round Wood Stamper.  LOVE this set — it has SO many possibilities for year round fun!  And check the photo below for a closeup to see how I’ve cut out my cake image.

Cutting the image to get rid of the excess rubber allows you to easily stamp the image alone without any unsightly ink marks from ink that has accidentally collected on the excess rubber.  It’s simple and only takes a minute — I do it all the time!  And see how the Congratulations from Celebrations Demi Phrases fits onto the 1 3/4 x 2 5/16″ Oval Stamper?  Sweet, isn’t it!  All the Demi Phrases can take on many sizes/shapes, making them valuable additions to your JustRite collection.

And here are all the Celebrations Demi Phrases, 15 in all .  The packaging says they are for the 2″ Round Stamper, and they are, BUT they also fit the 1 5/8″ Round, 2 3/8″ Round, and the 1 3/4″ x 2 5/16″ Oval.  Versatility PLUS!!!  You can also use your JustRite 15 pt font to complete the phrases on the lower 1/2 of the oval or circle, but today I needed the room for my cake, and Congratulations was appropriate in and of itself.

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Stamps:  Friendship Set, Celebrations Demi Phrases Set, used on the 3 1/4″ Round Wood Stamper and the 1 3/4 x 2 5/16″ Oval Wood Stamper, all by JustRite Stampers

Paper:  PTI White, SU Pretty in Pink Textured

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black for Image; VersaFine Onyx Black for Sentiment; Copics to color.

Accessories:  May Arts Silk Ribbon, Bow Easy, Spellbinders Classic Oval Nestabilities, Signo White Gel Pen, Kaiser Pearls, SU Dimensionals, SU Corner Rounder, Scor-It

Shopping:

JustRite Stampers for their entire line of JustRite products.  And visit the JustRite Blog for more inspiration.

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store carries the following products used on today’s project:

Friendship Set, 3 1/4″ Round Wood Stamper, Celebrations Demi Phrases, 1 3/4″ x 2 5/16″ Oval Wood Stamper, all by JustRite Stampers

1.25″ and 1/4″ 100% Silk Ribbon by May Arts along with the Bow Easy

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink

Classic Oval Nestabilities by Spellbinders

Scor-It Score Board

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Thank you so much for stopping in again today — I truly do appreciate your visits so very much!  Hope you had a wonderful weekend and that your week is off to a great start!  See you real soon!!!

The moment I saw an Old Fashioned Christmas Set by JustRite Stampers, I KNEW I wanted to play first with the darling snowman included in the set.  He is just so cute with his stocking cap.  And this set is in one of my very favorite sizes — the large 3 1/4″ circle.  And I decided to use this large stamp on a rather small card — a 4.25″ square card, and it worked out just fine.  Take a look:

A fun size card for a change!  Works great for a gift enclosure, to tuck into a gift bag or even a stocking!  And using just this one image made it quick to produce.  My snowman is Copic colored, Nestie cut, and mounted with dimensionals onto another circle stamped with the border I chose to use, all resting atop the red scallops.  Simple and quick layering.  And I thought the Swiss Dots might look a little like tiny snowflakes in the background!  A big red button and twisted rope add a little adornment!  Here’s a visual of the set for you:

An Old Fashioned Christmas contains 4 Centers and 4 Borders that you can mix and match for a variety of looks.  It is used on the 3 1/4″ Round Wood Stamper.  And I do so love the old fashioned charm of these images — totally fun! 

As I said above, I stamped my image, colored it and cut it out.  Then on a separate sheet I stamped my border and cut it out (all cutting is with my Petite Circle Nestabilities).  This gave me 2 layers to play with, giving me some added dimension.  And can you see how I’ve cut out my snowman image.  I do like to cut my images as it makes them easier to use when used alone without a border.  It prevents the ink from collecting on the rubber edges and leaving unsightly marks when you stamp.  Totally FUN set and I know I’ll be using these images alot for my Christmas cards and gifts this year.

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Stamps: An Old Fashioned Christmas used on a 3 1/4″ Round Wood Stamper, both by JustRite Stampers

Paper:  PTI White, SU Black and Real Red

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics to Color

Accessories:  Cuttlebug and Embossing Folder (Swiss Dots), Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders, June Bug Button by Basic Grey, Twisted Rope by May Arts,  Scor-It, SU Dimensionals.

Shopping:

 JustRite Stampers for this set as well as the entire line of JustRite Products.  Also check out the JustRite Blog for more inspiration using their fun sets.

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store carries the following items used to make this card:

• Old Fashioned Christmas with the 3 1/4″ Round Wood Stamper by JustRite

• Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders

• June Bug Button by Basic Grey

• Twisted Rope by May Arts

• Scor-It Score Board

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Thank you so much for stopping in today.  I hope you enjoyed your visit and that you are having a wonderful weekend!  Hope to see you back real soon!!!  Thanks much!

I was so pleased to be able to play with a new Gina K set this week. Melanie Muenchinger’s newest set “A Year of Leaves“ is now available for purchase! (You can see the full set under “What’s New!” at Gina K Designs.) This is a year round set including an assortment of leaves and nature images with coordinating quotes and greetings to suit any occasion.  A FUN set with tons of versatility!!!   Take a look at my first card with it:

Clean and simple with the focus on those beautiful leaves!  This is a single leaf image.  I first stamped the leaf on the left, masked it, and then stamped the right leaf.   This set is filled with beautiful leaf images of all shapes and types and lovely sentiments that carry you throughout the year. I’m really loving it so far and can’t wait to play some more!!!  My card is large, 5.25 x 7.75″ high.  I’m really enjoying this larger size of late — it gives me plenty of room to use larger images with wide ribbon and still have some white space for a clean and fresh look.

My image is Copic colored.  There are so many fun leaf  images in this set to color!  My ribbon is Moss Silk and the bow is done on the Bow Easy.  This post tells you how I do this type of ribbon treatment – fun and easy!  My sentiment is mounted up on dimensionals and my fun fall buttons are from Basic Grey, Sugared.  I had so much fun making this card and am anxious to share more with you from this set later in the week!!!

You can see more samples today using “A Year of Leaves” on Melanie’s blog, and from the lovely and talented  Laurie Schmidlin and Geri Utterback!  Be sure to check out their creations!

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Stamps:  A Year of Leaves, Gina K Designs

Paper:  White, SU Bravo Burgundy, Old Olive

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black for the image; Versa Fine Onyx Black for the sentiment.  Copics to color.

Accessories:  May Arts 1.25″ and 1/4″ Moss Silk Ribbon, Bow Easy, Ivory Jute String, Basic Grey Sugared Buttons, Classic Rectangle and Long Rectangle Nestabilities by Spellbinders, Glue Dots, Dimensionals, Adhesives and Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Glue.

Shopping:

Gina K Designs for A Year of Leaves by Melanie Muenchinger

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store for the following items used to make this card:

Versa Fine Onyx Black Ink

100% Silk Ribbon (Moss), Jute String (Ivory), and Bow Easy

Basic Grey Buttons (Sugared)

Scor-It

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If you are looking for my Friday Stamp Simply Challenge, it is one post down.  Thanks so much for stopping in again.  Hope you have a chance to check out the other designers linked above and get some beautiful, autumn inspiration in the process!  Have a wonderful weekend!!!

Let’s Leave our Comfort Zone — OK, we all know we have one and most of us don’t like to leave it, at least not for very long.  But today, that is just what we are going to do - we are going to leave our stamping style comfort zone and do a card or project in a style TOTALLY unlike what we normally do.  For example, if you always are drawn to doing cutesy things — go elegant, or masculine, or anything OTHER than cutesy.  Get the drift?  Do something that does NOT come natural to you.  THEN in your post, make sure you tell us what your usual style is and WHY this is different.  This will be fun!!!!

Keyword ssnotime102 - There is no time limit. You can play this challenge and upload your project at Splitcoast and/or your Blog, anytime at all. You (and that means anyone and everyone, blogger or not!) can play as many times as you like!!! The point is to keep it simple, quick and have fun!!! Please link back here.

Check out the great samples for the Stamp Simply Challenge today on the blogs of these fabulous designers:

• Pat Adam, August Guest Designer
• Janine 
• Jennifer 
• Julie 
• AJ
• Tammy
• Deb
• Barbara
• Jenny

Please bear with us all as we each upload and link on Thursday night.  Everyone should be up and set by Friday morning.

You may see all SCS Gallery Submissions here.

And here’s what I created for today:

This is my attempt at creating a cutesy card!  Cutesy I am NOT!  So I used this adorably CUTE ladybug image from a set by Our Craft Lounge called Just Bugz! Is she cute, or what!!!  I really do love this clean and simple card, and what a FUN set to play with (more on that in a minute), but I do feel I rather failed at meeting the requirements of this challenge — so sorry.  I tried very hard to make this cutesy and *different* than my norm, but I think it looks pretty much like what I always do — LOL!!!!  I guess you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?   But I tried, and I had fun, so that’s what counts!

And how did I get my hands on this set?  Well, I had a visitor — an online friend all the way from Florida, and she brought a few fun sets with her for us to play with — how SWEET!!!  So WHO was here — a current SCS Dirty Girl, DebDeb, Deb Felts!  We had so much fun!  It was just a short visit one afternoon earlier this week, with a couple others,  No time to dig in and stamp, but we did Copic color for a bit and that was fun!   So glad you came, Deb!!!  Thanks!!!

Image is Copic colored, cut and matted with Classic Rectangle Nesties.  And doesn’t she look like she’s just looking at you saying “What’s New?” — LOL!!!  That sentiment is included in the Tiny Words Set by JustRite.  Again, just because the stamp is round and used on a round stamper, doesn’t mean you are tied to a round sentiment - oval suited me better today — so oval it was!  Cut with my Petite Oval Nesties.  And the 1.5″ wide Gingham Ribbon is simply knotted.  I wanted to use wide ribbon, but a bow would have overpowered this card, so a simple knot did the trick! 

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The following items used to make this card are available at the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store:

Tiny Words Set used on the 1 3/16 Round Stamper, both by JustRite

Versa Fine Onyx Black Ink for sentiment

1.5″ Gingham Ribbon by May Arts

Petite Oval Nestabilities by Spellbinders 

Scor-It

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Thanks so much for stopping in — hope you get time to try to leave your comfort zone, too!  Would love to see where you head!  And I do have another post popping up in the morning where I’m allowed to do my normal thing — so normal it will be, early tomorrow morning!  Hope you can stop back in and see what I have to share then!  Thanks everyone!  See you soon!

We’ve received an unusual number of wedding invitations this summer, far more than normal.  But I guess it’s just the cycle.  25 years ago (in October) we got married, and though we were a bit older than most to be newly married, we shared those years of baby showers, birthing stories and years of birthday parties with all of our friends — gazillions of birthday parties.  They soon turned into graduation parties that seem to have lasted for years.  And now — weddings.  And though I am so happy for each and every couple we have, or will, celebrate with this summer, it saddens my heart and brings a tear to my eye.  Where HAVE those years gone?  We were once the brides and grooms, the young parents, the ones running PTA and bake sales and coaching Little League, encouraging our youngsters to read those 100 books for the year-end T-shirt, and on, and on, and on.  And now we’re going to weddings, to their weddings — our neighbor girl, our best friends sons, nieces and nephews.  The cycle has come full circle, and now we can sit back and watch it start all over again, praying to God that he’ll Bless this generation as much as he has ours.  And my tears turn to a smile — because that’s just the way it is –

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And now, with a dry eye, let’s take a look at the formal wedding card I made for this weekend’s wedding, along with a photo tutorial for my fun and flirty bow.  Here’s the card:

As expected, a simple card — black and white, Cuttlebug embossing, single initial monogram for the newlyweds and my fun and flirty black silk ribbon treatment.  I’ve received a lot of emails asking how I do this.  I have explained it previously, but never with photos, so this time I’ll try adding photos and see if that helps. It’s really so easy:

These are the pieces I start with:  a black top fold card, my white panel and my monogram.

Photo 1 - Using a good heavy double sided tape, adhere the ribbon on the card front so it will be UNDER the monogram.

Photo 2 - Run the ribbon up the card front and secure on card back with the same type of tape.

Photo 1 - Going back to the card front, adhere your monogram using SU Dimensionals

Photo 2 - Using a 1/4″ width of matching silk ribbon, run it UNDER the wide ribbon, as shown.

Photo 1 - It’s hard to see as the ribbon is so black, but I just drew the ribbon tails up and tied into a tight knot, then cutting my ends short and turning that ribbon so the tails end up UNDER the wide ribbon.  It helps to use tweezers to do this.

Photo 2 — Make a bow on the Bow Easy

Note:  If you are good at bow tying - you can skip the narrow ribbon and the Bow Easy — just run another length of wide silk under the wide silk strip attached to the card, draw up your tails and tie your bow.

And here’s another look at the final result.  My bow is glued on with Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Glue (very cheap/Wal-Mart). I added clear rhinestones to the Damask monogram image.   A quick and simple card with a bit of a formal look!

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The following items to make this card are available in the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store:

Damask Monogram Kit with Special Occasions Font from the Special Occasions Monogram Kit, OR Special Occasions Kit with the Damask 1-Letter Borders, all by JustRite

Black Silk Ribbon in 1.25″ and 1/4″ widths by May Arts with the Bow Easy

Versa Fine Onyx Black Ink

Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders

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Thanks much for checking in again today — I do so appreciate it!   Wishing you all a wonderful week — we certainly do have the feel of autumn in the air already — ready or not — it is ALMOST here!!!  See you soon!!!

Just a quick post tonight — Sundays are busy at our house, but I wanted to get in a quick Christmas card before I called it a night, so I used my never fail go-to quick card items — Journal Notes, Silk Ribbon and a single sentiment, and today I added some Flower Soft snow as well.

Simple, quick, but still pretty — I think anyway!   I used both the image and the journaling panel from this page in my Christmas Journal Note Pad.   My single layer sentiment is from A Merry Little Christmas by JustRite — it’s so simple and pretty — I love it!  No layers, just quick and easy cut on a Petite Circle Nestability.  My button has Pink Jute String run through it and it’s sewn on.  This card is 5 1/4 wide by 4 3/4 high.

I used Polar White Flower Soft for the snow on the ground and the snowball in the girl’s hand.   I think it adds a lot, especially if you could see it in real life!!!  Nice sparkly snow!!!  Quick and easy to apply with the Flower Soft Glue.

That’s it for tonight — here’s the shopping list:

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SU Paper:  Very Vanilla, Close to Cocoa, Blush Blossom

Flower Soft:  Polar White Flower Soft and Flower Soft Glue

The following items to make this card are available at the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store:

A Merry Little Christmas Set and the 1 5/8″ Stamper, both by JustRite

Christmas Journal Notes by Crafty Secrets

VersaFine Vintage Sepia Ink

Ivory Silk Ribbon and Pink Jute String by May Arts and the Bow Easy

Petite Circle Nestabilities

Scor-It

Buttons

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Thanks so much for stopping in!  Hope you had a wonderful weekend and are prepared for one of the last weeks of summer — oh, WHERE did it go!!!!  But autumn is SO beautiful, we enjoy it probably even more than summer!!!  I still have many autumn creations to make and much goodness to look forward to yet before winter!!!  Thanks for stopping — see you real soon!

OK, the party from last week is over, but we are all still dancing!  We’re doing the polka!!!  Well, not really — but we ARE playing with POLKA DOTS today!!!  So let’s see some polka dotted creations from all of you — that’s it!!!  We’re not fussy – just get some polka dots in somewhere on your project, and the more, the merrier!!!  Have fun doing the Polka!

Keyword ssnotime101 - There is no time limit. You can play this challenge and upload your project at Splitcoast and/or your Blog, anytime at all. You (and that means anyone and everyone, blogger or not!) can play as many times as you like!!! The point is to keep it simple, quick and have fun!!! Please link back here.

Check out the great samples for the Stamp Simply Challenge today on the blogs of these fabulous designers:

• Pat Adam, August Guest Designer
• Janine 
• Jennifer 
• Julie 
• AJ
• Tammy
• Deb
• Barbara
• Jenny

Please bear with us all as we each upload and link on Thursday night.  Everyone should be up and set by Friday morning.

You may see all SCS Gallery Submissions here.

And here’s my dotted creation for today:

I *Stamped Simply* for today’s Halloween Card.  As you can see, my only stamped image is the BOO sentiment from Witch Way to the Treats by JustRite.  I used a darling image from Halloween Journal Notes by Crafty Secrets, used 1.5″ Gingham Ribbon as a background element and made a blue Silk Bow on the Bow Easy.  Just a quick and fun card to put together!   My Halloween Paper by Moxxie is something I just got and I can tell I’ll have fun with it — I am carrying it in the Halloween Section of Page 3 of the Stamp Simply Ribbon store in an easy to use 6 x 6 size.

The simply stamped sentiment was cut, matted and framed with my Petite Circle Nestabilities.

This fun and flippy little bow is made of Blue Silk and done on the Bow Easy.

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SU Product Used:  Black, White and Soft Sky cardstock.

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store carries all other items used to make this card:

Witch Way to the Treats Stamp Set on the 1 3/16 Round Wood Stamper by JustRite

Halloween Print Designer Paper by Moxxie

Versa Fine Onyx Black Ink

Halloween Journal Notes by Crafty Secrets

1.5″ Orange Gingham and 1.25″ Blue Silk Ribbon by May Arts and the Bow Easy

Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders

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So glad you had a minute to stop in again.  I love when you come!!!   Wish we could sit and actually chat IRL — how fun would that be!!!   If it fits into your schedule, hope you can show us some of your dotted creations this week — dots are SO FUN!!!  Have a great weekend everyone — it’s very rainy here right now, but that is GOOD — much needed!!!

Total class!  That’s just what I thought the moment I saw this years Halloween DP by SU — LOVED it, in a big way!!!!  Today is my first use of it and I’m just as happy as I thought I’d be — take a look:

An easy card, nothing hard, nothing fancy — simple layout, small focal point layered up – but I think it packs a punch!  It’s that FAB DP paired with the Black Silk Ribbon — LOVE it!!!  And how about that darling little pumpkin image — oh my gosh!  I didn’t realize till I’m sitting here looking at my monitor - I forgot to color his leaves and stem — OH, I do this way too often — they say the mind is the first to go — case in point!!!  OH well, I’ll color them later, and just leave this picture as it is — life’s too short,  good enough for now– LOL!!! Anyway, I was saying - darling little pumpkin image!!!  He’s one of  10 centers in a JustRite Special Edition Halloween set called Witch Way to the Treats — fun set with these little images and borders that are made to be used with the smallest of the JustRite Round Stampers — 1 3/16″.  I’m really loving this size as well as all the sets that go with it — this size is so very usable in such a variety of applications.

Just a close up of the focal image.  The pumpkin is Copic colored and I used my Petitie Circle Nesties to cut and mat him.  Those are then layered on top of some layered ovals done with my Petite Oval Nesties.  Added some buttons and we have a fun focal point.

I’m happy to say that today I am adding the 4 packs of Petite Circle Nestabilites, Petite Oval Nestabilities and Classic Oval Nestabilities to the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store, Page 2 Tools.  I love these products and use them daily, so thought I’d like to offer them here along with my other must have and favorite items.

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Shopping:

Products used by SU:  All cardstock - White, Black, Old Olive, Perfect Plum, and Cast-a-Spell DP; SU Corner Rounder, Mat Pack and Paper Piercer, Dimensionals.

Products used available in the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store:

Witch Way to Treats Stamp Set and 1 3/16″ Round Wood Stamper, both by JustRite

Black Silk Ribbon and 100% Jute String by May Arts

Petite Circle Nestabilities and Petite Oval Nestabilities by Spellbinders

Buttons by Basic Grey and Rusty Pickle

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Thank you so much for stopping in again.  It sure feels good to get back to making cards a bit more regularly.  And in that light, I’ll be back on Thursday evening late with the Stamp Simply Challenge for this week - another super easy and fun one!!!  Hope you can check back in — and have a great day!!!!

The winner has been selected for the Blog Candy offered during our Stamp Simply #100 Challenge Blog Hop.  The number selected by random.org as the winner was #166, who is Gabriela.  Congrats, Gabriela!  Here’s what she had to say:

Gabriela

I love ribbon… but I love polka dotted ribbon the best in great colors. Thanks for the chance to win this blog candy!!

Aug 16, 12:50 AM

I’ll be emailing you Gabriela!  You have $20 to spend on ribbon of your choice from the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store — have fun!

First a little talkin’, then on to a simple project.  I’ve been receiving an unusual number of emails lately from people telling me they didn’t know I had the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store buried here in my blog — LOL!!!  Well, I do!  It’s a simple little store you access by clicking the tabs above my blog header.  The emails continue with  the two most asked questions of — where’s the button to click to buy? — when will you have a *real* internet store?  I don’t talk about the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store a whole lot here, other than to link to product I carry, as the main purpose of this blog has been, and always will be, to show you projects with the hope of inspiring you and, on occasion, teaching you a little thing or two — I’m just a low-key kind of gal, I guess. But I will do a little explaining now in answer to the above questions.

Why is there a Stamp Simply Ribbon Store? Well, truthfully, I love to sell things — LOL!!!  Pure and simple.  I have never worked in sales per se in the real world, but have always felt a strong desire to share and help in the realm of my stamping world.  I absolutely love what I do here — creating, sharing, talking with you all and on occasion actually meeting some of you IRL.  The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store actually started with about 10 or 12 striped ribbons this past March.  I loved them, I had a lot, so thought I’d see if any of you wanted some, too.  Well, you did!  They sold out immediately, so I got some more, and some more, and some more — LOL!!!  And I’m still getting more!!!  So those were the beginnings of my simple little store. 

Where’s the button to click to buy?  There is none!  Again, my store is small, simple and low key.  Just browse, write your list, and email it to me.  I then send you a PayPal invoice, which gives you a button to click to pay.  Or you can send a check.  Very simple.  Nothing fancy.

When will you have a *real* internet store?  Well, likely never (course, I’ve learned long ago to never say *never*).  But for now — It’s Just Me, My Blog, and I.  It’s not broken, so why fix it?  I like it this way.  I like the communication with my customers.  When customers email me their orders, some like to chit chat a bit, and that’s fun!  Some are down to business, and that’s just fine, too!  It all works, so for now I’m not trying to fix it!

And one last comment I get a lot is — I didn’t know you had so much:  Well, I’m glad if anyone thinks I have a lot, but I don’t, really.  All I have is contained on the 3 tabs above my blog header.  But I will tell you one thing about what I have – I HAVE it in my store because it is product I use on a regular basis, it is product that I love, and it is product that has been proven tried and true, by me, time and time again.  I will ONLY list for sale what I use, what I love, and what I know to be a good value. I do design work for a few companies and I’m proud and pleased to be able to offer you the full line of products by both JustRite and Scor-It, both of whom I design for.  The full line of JustRite is not shown in my store at this point, but more is coming regularly and I can get anything for you in 2-3 days time, so it’s not a problem.  I also am so proud to carry products by Crafty Secrets, and I think anyone whose been to my blog before knows how much I love the Cotton Scraps and Journal Notes, and there’s more Crafty Secrets coming soon, too!!!  And I routinely add in other tools and supplies that to me are essentials!  And, of course, the May Arts ribbons that grace just about every project I do — could NOT live without them.  And I do add different types of ribbons regularly — just can’t control myself there!!!

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Anyway, enough about that — now, let’s move on to my project for today – just a simple  and quick Christmas card because, at least for me, I need a lot of cards at Christmas, and simple is the ONLY way to go — so my Journal Notes to the rescue, once again. They have 32 pages of images in themed booklets, so that equates to a lot of easy projects!

Darling vintage girls that just begged for a pop of color today!  My Velvet Zig Zag Ribbon and colorful buttons do the trick!  Buttons are sewn onto the panel with Jute String (easy, just place your button, punch holes with a piercer and use a large-eyed needle with the Jute String — sews on in seconds with the holes pre-punched).  My Make it Merry and Bright sentiment was perfect here today.  To make it quick I punched the center with my 1 1/4″ SU punch, and the frame is Nestie cut. I used VersaFine Vintage Sepia Ink.   The sentiment is from one of the new JustRite Christmas releases, A Merry Little Christmas:

Here’s the full set for you to see — it has 10 centers and 10 borders, giving you a ton of variety and options.  It fits the 1 5/8″ stamper, which is the original stamper so many of you have with your monogram kits.  Or you can purchase a stamper separately if you don’t have one.  And the good news is, I have this set available for purchase right now, with immediate shipment — no waiting!  You can see it on this page, just scroll down a bit.  I have more coming for Christmas real soon, so check back in often.

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Stamps:  A Merry Little Christmas by JustRite, used on the 1 5/8″ Stamper

Paper:  White and Basic Grey Wassail DP

Ink:  Versa Fine Vintage Sepia (Sentiment), ColorBox Chalk Creamy Brown (DTP edges)

Accessories:  Christmas Journal Note Pads by Crafty Secrets, Velvet Zig Zag Ribbon and Jute String by May Arts, Buttons, Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders and from SU:  1 1/4″ Circle Punch, Corner Rounder, Piercer and Mat Pack

Shopping:

The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store carries the following items to make this card:

• A Merry Little Christmas Stamp Set and Wooden 1 5/8″ Block

• VersaFine Vintage Sepia Ink

• Christmas Journal Note Pad

• Velvet Zig Zag Ribbon

• Jute String

• Buttons by Basic Grey

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Now, I must say I honestly feel like we’ve rushed into Christmas and I haven’t had much of a chance to work on Autumn and Halloween projects — so those are what will be coming next — hope to see you back soon!  Thanks much, everyone!!!  Wishing you a great summer day!!!