No Time To Stamp?

This trio of coordinated Christmas cards using Christmas Joy by JustRite Stampers is super easy to make.  I like things quick and easy when it comes to Christmas preparation.  These cards are a  quick, quicker and quickest type of project - -LOL!!!  Here’s the trio:

To make this project move quickly, I used the same image from Christmas Joy, stamped it in Memento Rich Cocoa and Copic colored the tiny leaves.  I used a Gold Spica Glitter Pen on the bow and a Red Spica Glitter Pen to dot over the berries.  The images are all cut with my Classic Oval Nestabilities by Spellbinders.

This card is the quickest.  My image is merely die cut once, no layers, popped up on dimensionals.  For all these cards, my bottom dotted DP is cut 1.5″ deep.  Fun paper that I’m loving!  It’s the Dear Santa Collection by Kaisercraft.

This card was stepped up just a bit with the addition of a strip of 1.5″ wide Silk that is shirred under the oval with a strong double sided tape.  The focal oval is also matted.

This card is the most decked out of today’s trio.  Again, the bottom dotted DP is cut 1.5″ deep. This card is a side fold allowing me to wrap my Antique Gold Silk around the card front.  Instructions on how to do this type of fun and flirty bow can be seen here.  I used the Bow Easy.

A close look at this pretty image — it colors up so quickly!  There are 6 centers and 6 borders in Christmas Joy and it is used with the 1 3/4″ by 2 5/16″ Oval Stamper, which is the Small Oval Stamper.

Here’s a visual of Christmas Joy for you.  Love this set for Christmas.  It  has so many fun styles — spanning from the fun penguin to the lovely image I used with a vintage feel.

Please check out all the samples for fun projects at the JustRite Blog.  It’s a good stop!

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Shopping: 

JustRite Stampers has the Christmas Joy set as well as the Small Oval Stamper required to use it, as well as their full line of JustRite product.

The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store carries these items used on todays card trio.

Christmas Joy Set with the Small Oval Stamper by JustRite

Dear Santa Collection DP by Kaisercraft, Memento Rich Cocoa Ink

100% Silk Ribbon by May Arts (Antique Gold) and the Bow Easy

Classic Oval Nestabilities by Spellbinders and the Scor-It

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Thank you kindly for stopping in.  I’ll have another few posts popping up over the weekend, featuring brand new product from both JustRite Stampers and Flower Soft, so I best get busy!!!  Hope to see you all soon and wishing you a GREAT weekend. Oh, and stay tuned for a fun Flower Soft Blog Hop on 11/01, which is Sunday.

Feeling Square? - Today’s challenge has to do with shape — squares.  NO rounded corners on todays card — so that means NO oval or circular punches or die cuts — only square shapes.  The card must be square, any size, as long as it’s square and all layers added must have squared corners.  Only your small embellishments can be round or oval — so you can use buttons, brads, primas, etc. as embellishements, even though they may be round. So if you’re feeling a little square, today is YOUR day!!!  You know, it’s TOTALLY HIP TO BE SQUARE!!!!  Have fun!!!

Keyword ssnotime110 - 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:

• Amy, October Guest Designer
• Janine   
• Julie 
• AJ
• Tammy is taking the night off!  Get a good rest, Tam!
• Deb  has some great Blog Candy today!
• Barbara
• Jenny
• Barb Schram (Barb is kindly filling in for a bit as Jennifer Buck takes some much needed time off — enjoy your break, Jennifer — we’ll miss you!)

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 Square creation for today:

A 5.5″ square card — Stamped VERY Simply.

Image is from Old Fashioned Christmas by JustRite, used on the 3 1/4″ Wood Stamper, stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and it is Copic Colored — the square is 2.5″.

Sentiment is from Many Merry Messages by SU, stamped in Versa Fine Onyx Black Ink, my favorite ink for crisp and clean sentiments.

Double Embossed Lines are made with my Scor-It, spaced 1/4″ apart.  Using Perga Soft  makes your scoring tool just glide over even the heaviest of papers.

Trying to show you how deeply impressed you can get your embossed lines when using a Scor-It.  Makes for very professional looking embossed designs.

All items linked in the text above are available at the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

Thanks much for stopping in — it’s been an exhausting day so I’m signing off without much chit chat! 

If you are interested in any of the JustRite Monogram Kits at 30% off, please scroll down one post, or click here to read about them — thanks!  See you all real soon!!!

A clean and simple gift card holder that is masculine, seasonal (autumn) and personalized with the recipients initials.  I used a collection of varying stamps on this simple little project, but they all blended wonderfully.  Here it is:

Leaf image is from A Year of Leaves by Melanie Muenchinger for Gina K. Designs (copic colored).  A great set for year round use!  Initials done with 60 Pt Font contained in the 1 3/16″ Wood Stamper with Bonus 60 pt Font and Damask Borders by JustRite.  Paper (Autumn Traditions DP), hardware and inside sentiment are all by SU.  I used a strip of White 5/8″ Double Sided Suede. I love this suede on guy cards.  It adds the ribbon touch we love, but without the fru-fru that guys don’t particularly love — LOL!!  The touchy-feeliness of this suede is wonderful and is very suited to an autumn card!  I want to add that I don’t typically like to cut my ribbon at the edge of the card — I prefer to wrap it around; however, with this suede ribbon, it cuts beautifully with no fraying or ravelling, so I did adhere it to the card front only and cut the sides — works GREAT with this suede ribbon.  It is all held closed with a self-adhesive Velcro Dot.  Here’s the inside:

Can you see the closure?  It’s my favorite self-adhesive Velcro Dots, and I just added them in 3 colors to Page 3 of my store.  I usually try to make my cards so all the hardware backs are hidden between layers, but on a CAS card sometimes that harder to do, and it’s OK if they show - especially on guys cards — LOL — they don’t care!  This has a nice little pocket to tuck in some cash, a check or gift card!

This is my favorite quick and easy Gift Card Holder template and I’ve used it dozens of times.  I originally got the measurements from an SCS challenge years ago.  Start with a 1/2 sheet of paper - 8.5 x 5.5 - and using my Scor-It I scored in 2″ from one short edge and 2.5″ in from the other short short edge.  When folded, the 2.5″ flap is the top while the 2″ flap is the pocket (adhere on the sides with red sticky tape).  Then just decorate away.  This is a GREAT little template that comes in so handy time and time again.

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The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store carries the following items used on this project:

1 3/16″ Wood Stamper with Bonus 60 pt Font and Damask Borders by JustRite

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink (image) and VersaFine Onyx Black Ink (sentiment)

5/8″ Double Sided Suede Ribbon by May Arts

Self-Adhesive Velcro Dots

Scor-It

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Thanks much for stopping in today.  I have one more masculine gift card holder to make in the next day or two and it will be for Pastor Appreciation Month.   I really should make a few masculine birthday cards as well - this just may be a masculine week here on my blog — time will tell!!!  We have some gorgeous sunshine and pleasant temps today — hope you are enjoying pleasant days as well!!!  See you soon!

ABC/123– Today’s challenge has to do with making letters or numbers a focal point of our project.  Steve and I are celebrating our 25th Anniversary this week, so visions of cards in a store display with 25 or 50 on them came to mind — LOL!!!  However, we have lots of options using numbers or letters as a focal point — my first thoughts go to birthday cards or monogrammed projects — the range is wide open — so have some fun getting elementary with your ABC’s and 123’s!!! 

Keyword ssnotime107 - 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.

Today begins a brand new month, so that means we have to sadly bid farewell to Charlene.  THANK YOU so much for having played with us this past month, Charlene — we loved  your work and fun spirit and hope you continue to play with us as time permits!!!  We’ll miss you!!!

And I’m thrilled to pieces to announce October’s New Guest Designer – a friend I met several years ago over at SCS, and from my neighboring State of Wisconsin — please welcome Amy Rohl, a/k/a rohla at SCS and by her Blog, Ink About Me.  I’ve always loved Amy’s clean designs and can’t WAIT to see what she does for us here.  Welcome, Amy!!!

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

• Amy, October Guest Designer (Amy’s upload will be early Friday morning)
• 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:

A simply stamped monogrammed wedding card.  Not a lot of explaining needed — Bella Bleu SU DP with Very Vanilla and Kraft cardstock,  Taupe 100% Silk Ribbon (shirred in the center under monogram just by tying tightly with a 1/4″ piece of like ribbon), Damask Monogram Kit used for monogram that I chose to cut into a rectangular shape today rather than the traditional circle (this particular border lends itself very well to a rectangular shape), accented with Pearls.

Can you see the subtle pearly shimmer on the embossed upper portion? That is quickly done using Perfect Pearls — run over embossed image with Perfect Medium, brush with Pearl colored Perfect Pearls, wipe off excess with Swiffer cloth (YES, what you use for dusting).  Done!  Gorgeous effect!

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The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store carries the following items used on this card:

Damask Monogram Kit by JustRite

100% Silk Ribbon by May Arts

Perfect Pearls by Ranger, Kaiser Pearls (not shown, but I have them), Versa Fine Vintage Sepia Ink, Scor-It

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As always, thank you SO much for stopping in — I truly do appreciate it.  Hope you are all off to a wonderful weekend ahead!!!  I’m going shopping, so that’s always fun!!!  See you soon!

Rich Autumn Leaves- To me the colors of autumn are rich and earthy.  Today we will create a project with leaves, and remember we’re easy, so if you don’t have actual leaf images, trees, flowers with leaves, acorns, pinecones, etc. are all OK.  But the added element is to make the project rich in color and texture by adding sponging to create that richness and depth of color.   I can’t wait to see your gorgeously rich creations today!

Keyword ssnotime106 - 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:

• Charlene, September Guest Designer
• Janine 
• Jennifer 
• Julie 
• AJ
• Tammy took the night off due to other committments!
• 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:

An autumn card, rich in texture and color, with NO ribbon — wonders NEVER cease!  The Antique Gold Silk actually went very nicely with this paper, and I did debate the issue, but decided to forego the ribbon today as I thought this card stood very well on its own and I really wanted the focus on the image/leaf.  A simple style I use so often, with my *piping*.  Although my focal image is clean, my edges are all sponged as well as the leaf.

The image is from Autumn Blessings by JustRite, Copic colored, cut with Petite Oval Nesties.  I like using the Petites as it allows me room on the side for *something* — usually pearls, but today brass brads.  I’ve been making these same leaves each autumn for years.  The punch is by McGill and it’s quite old.  I drew in the vein lines with a pen and sponged the leaf and edges in Soft Suede by SU.  The leaf was punched from the goldish paper in the DP pack, Autumn Traditions by SU.  I tied a bit of 100% Jute String on the leaf stem, and that was ribbon enough for this card.  The focal image and leaf are mounted on Dimensionals.

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Shopping:

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

Autumn Blessings Set and the 2 1/4 x 3 1/16″ Oval Stamper by JustRite.

Petite Oval Nestabilites by Spellbinders and Scor-It Score Board

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink (not shown in store yet, but I have it available)

100% Jute String by MayArts.

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Thanks much for stopping in.  I hope we have inspired you today to create some beautiful, rich and earthy projects this week.  Sponging is a wonderful compliment to autumn creations!  Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.  I plan to be back tomorrow with a card for a fun sketch challenge — hope you can check it out!!!  Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!! See you soon!!!

Hi everyone!  GLAD to be back connected to the world.  2 days without internet access is a little frustrating!!!  I came home from our usual Sunday activities to find service, and I’m one happy camper!!!  I’ll get to all my emails throughout the evening - thank you for your patience!

I have  a simple CAS remake to share with you this evening.  DS#2 needed a birthday card for 6 year old Emily - like NOW!  Well, nothing in this house ready to go for little girls, so I did some scrambling.  Does anyone remember this card?  Well, I thought that just might do for a 6 year old if I switched out the sentiments.  So, off came Summer and on went her name, Emily, plus a button for good measure.  Here’s the remake:

Please see original post for specific details.  Image is by Cornish Heritage Farms, Copic colored.  I created Emily’s name using font by JustRite — Times New Roman, both Uppercase and Lowercase, used on a Harmony Rectangle Stamper.  And please remember, all the font is still on sale at JustRite Stampers through Sept. 24.  Be sure to check it out!

You’ll also note if you compare the two that I added Flower Soft in Nut Brown to the flower center on Emily’s remake.  Sure adds a lot of interest IRL — I love the addition.

Please note I have a good supply of JustRite Products shown on Page 3 of my store.  Also just want to let you know that I have some FUN new RIBBONS in, as well as a few other little items  – I’ll get them photoed and up on the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store hopefully tomorrow (Monday) sometime!  So stay tuned — I’ll post here when the new ribbons are all listed.

Thanks much for stopping in and for your patience with me while I was out of service.  Keeping my fingers crossed that doesn’t happen again anytime real soon!!!  Have a wonderful week, everyone.  I’ll be back as soon as I can!

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Editing to Add:  In reading comments, it has reminded me that not everyone understands all the lingo we use when writing posts.  I think there has been some confusion on the meanings of CAS and CASE, though similar in appearance, very different in meaning.  Let me explain:

CAS means Clean and Simple, as in style of card.

CASE is a term people use, “to case a card”.  Some people refer to is as to *Copy and Share Everything*.  Others refer to it as meaning to *Copy and Steal Everything*.  In either situation, when you CASE a card, you are copying someone else’s work.

 Hope that helps!

Today begins the Mega JustRite Font Blog Hop and with 54 designers sharing ideas it continues through tomorrow as well.  Be sure to read through to the end of my  post.  Tons of links are shared as well as info on the week long Font Sale at JustRite and some fun Blog Candy offerings.  Now, on to my project.  I have a lot of photos, so I’ll be brief with my words.

A trio of Christmas cards — Stamped Simply — using both Times New Roman Uppercase Font and Times New Roman Lowercase Font on the Harmony Rectangle Stampers.  I feel it’s best to keep projects simple for the holidays.  These cards were a pleasure and a breeze to make.  What a feeling of accomplishment when they go together so quickly.

Here’s a visual of what I used — Times New Roman Font Uppercase and Lowercase on the Harmony Rectangle Stampers.  I’m loving these 2 sentiments for this style of Christmas card, so I’m sure I’ll be leaving the letters in tact for some time yet.  I’m blessed to have several stampers — something you may want to consider, too, especially now when they are on sale!

My sentiment is gold embossed, outlined with a gold leaf pen (I actually use a Calligraphy Pen by Marvy Uchida — it’s my latest favorite gold pen — the tip is a bit smaller than some).  My sentiment is then nestled between rows of double embossed lines.

A similar card in a vertical orientation.  Note here how the sentiment is only adhered on the ends, allowing it to rise up over the ribbon — kind of a nice touch, I thought!  Kaiser rhinestones are used to add some glitz.  My Red 100% Silk Ribbon by May Arts is tied in my favorite fun and flirty fashion with the Bow Easy.  You can read this post to see how it is done.

This card is the same as the first, just reversed with the ribbon at the bottom.  Can you see how I’ve lined the insides of the cards in pure white? I like an inside that is easy to write on and also easy to read.   The card itself is Gold Brushed Metallic paper.

To emboss the double lines in my cards today, I used my Scor-It Mini.  I left a 1″ space for my sentiment to be placed and my double lines are 1/4″ apart.  If you use a Scor-It, using the Perga Soft on your scoring tool tip helps the tool to glide over your paper.  It feels like you are gliding over butter — totally effortless.

I have a hard time taking pictures to get the embossed lines to show up as they do IRL.  That’s what I’m trying to show you here.  I really like the depth of the embossing when using a Scor-It.

Here’s a nice closeup of the heat embossed sentiment, lined with gold leaf pen.  A couple of tips for you:

1)  People think they can’t draw a straight line so they couldn’t use a gold leaf pen. WRONG!  The pen tips are soft, like a marker.  You push the tip into the paper, starting at one corner, and draw the pen towards you with just a tiny bit of pressure. The paper forms sort of a groove in the tip and the line comes perfectly straight.  It truly could not be more simple — if you haven’t done this, give it a try.  An easy way to dress up a simple project.

2)  Another common question — how do you get the sentiment so straight on that small piece of paper.  Well, I don’t — LOL!!! I don’t stamp on a small piece.  I stamp on at least a 1/4 sheet of paper.  Once your stamper is loaded with letters and ready to go, line up the bottom edge of the Rectangle Wood Stamper with the bottom edge of the paper so it’s nice and straight and stamp there.  Now your sentiment will be straight with the bottom of the paper, so now you can easily trim it down to size on your paper cutter.  If you were using Nesties to cut your sentiment, then it would be of no concern — but today I was cutting my sentiments myself on the paper cutter.

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Shopping:

JustRite Stampers has the Font Sets I used today, Times New Roman Uppercase, Times New Roman Lowercase and the Harmony Rectangle Stampers, as well as their entire Font line on sale for one week.  Take advantage and pick up some extra Harmony Rectangle Stampers as well!

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store  carries the 100% Silk Ribbon by May Arts in 21 colors, the Bow Easy and the full line of Scor-It products.

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JustRite is celebrating a Mega Font Blog Hop, a two day extravaganza with 54 designers, in style with a Super7 Day Font Sale.  If you’re looking for some fabulous font sets, you won’t want to miss this sale, they are offering 30% off all JustRite font sets and the Horizontal and Vertical Font Stampers.  The sale begins September 17th and ends September 24th.

There’s Mystery Blog Candy being given away during the Two Day Just Rite Font Blog Hop!!! Why is it a mystery? Well there will be three blog candy giveaways on each day and you can only win by leaving a comment on the right blog!  The real surprise is you won’t know which blog has the candy. Even the designers don’t know!  So, as you visit each of the 54 designers over the two day event, take time to leave a comment. You may be one of the lucky winners! You have until 12:00 noon on Sunday to leave comments for your chance to win. You’ll want to check back at the JustRite Blog on Sunday evening to find out if you’ve won.

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And now it’s time to start hopping.  Here are the links for today’s player — so grab your cup of coffee or tea and settle in for some fun hopping!  (I’m sorry if these links, or anything else on this post,  are a garbled mess, I’m working on it - MAJOR blog issues going on here today — so sorry.  You can scroll down to an old-fashioned link list if this one doesn’t work.)

Michelle Wooderson

Sankari Wegman

Heidi Blankenship

Eva Dobilas

Beate Johns

Sharon Harnist 

Barbara Anders 

Sharon Johnson 

Deb Saaranen 

Becca Feeken

Kazan Clark 

Lauren Meader 

Tammy Hershberger 

Linda Beeson 

Jenny Gropp 

Lori Craig

Tanis Giesbrecht 

Jenn Balcer 

Lisa Somerville 

Karen Maldonado 

Pamela Smerker

Karen Taylor 

Latisha Yoast 

Julie Overby 

Mary Pfaff

JustRite Blog

Thanks so much for stopping in today!  Truly enjoyed having you here — enjoy your Hop and I’ll be back late Thursday evening with our weekly Stamp Simply Challenge.  Hope to see you then.

Michelle Wooderson
http://michellewooderson.blogspot.com
Sankari Wegman
http://sunnysankari.blogspot.com
Heidi Blankenship
http://embellished-dreams.blogspot.com
Eva Dobilas
http://evafromca.blogspot.com/
Beate Johns
http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com
Sharon Harnist
http://paperfections.typepad.com
Barbara Anders
http://barspaperpursuits.blogspot.com
Sharon Johnson
http://notimetostamp.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com
Deb Saaranen
http://deborahlynnesdreamincolor.blogspot.com/
Becca Feeken
http://www.amazingpapergrace.com/
Kazan Clark
http://nunutoolies.blogspot.com
Lauren Meader
http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com
Tammy Hershberger
http://stamphappy-tammy.blogspot.com
Linda Beeson
http://pkod.blogspot.com/
Jenny Gropp
http://www.onekraftykat.blogspot.com/
Lori Craig
http://loricraig.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
Tanis Giesbrecht
http://papercanvas.wordpress.com/
Jenn Balcer
http://jbalcer.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
Lisa Somerville
http://www.lisasomerville.com
Karen Maldonado
http://reallifeinpictures.blogspot.com/
Pamela Smerker
http://www.paperaskew.blogspot.com
Karen Taylor
http://creativeyearnings.blogspot.com/
Latisha Yoast
www.crafteebee.blogspot.com
Julie Overby
http://joverby.blogspot.com/
Mary Pfaff
http://crafty-cabin.blogspot.com/

…of JustRite.  Clean and simple, fresh and fun.  IF you want it to be — and today, I did!  This doesn’t get much more clean and simple, and it fit my mood perfectly today!

After making Tanya’s card the other day with this same image, I had a few of these stamped and laying around my kitchen, so I colored this up quickly today while making dinner.  I do find if I leave stamped images and my Copics in the kitchen, that I color much more frequently than if they are all in my stamp room — so in the kitchen they now reside — whatever works!

Paper is SU Textured Almost Amethyst.  My image was colored, then cut out and mounted onto the circle with SU Dimensionals.  And don’t ask me WHY I had to cut it out — just remember, I WAS making dinner at the same time — LOL!!!  Take it from there!!!  See the little white flower centers?  Such a little thing, but adding them makes SUCH a difference.  They were done with a Signo White Gel Pen.  LOVE this image from the Friendship Set by JustRite.

My favorite bow treatment of recent, using Celery Silk Ribbon and the Bow Easy.  You can read this post to see how I do this.  The bow is glued on with Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Glue — REALLY lovin’ that stuff — it holds tight, the nozzle doesn’t plug, and it’s at Wal-Mart for very little money.  You can see some glue on my bow.  It will dry clear, I was just too impatient to wait.

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

Friendship Set used on a 3 1/4″ Round Wood Stamper, by JustRite.

Celery 100% Silk Ribbon by May Arts and the Bow Easy.

Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders.

Scor-It Score Board

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STAMP SIMPLY RIBBON STORE ANNOUNCEMENT

As many of you know, I have been out of the Celery and Pink Silk Ribbon in 1.25″ width for a few weeks.  May Arts has been out of these colors for a few months and their shipment FINALLY arrived — I am doing the happy dance, for sure!  Mine will arrive on Friday of this week, so I can ship out on Saturday.  Those of you on a Wait List or a Backorder List will be contacted.  Anyone else, feel free to place your orders.  I will process them and ship out as soon as it arrives (Saturday, 9/12 is my anticipated ship date).  Thank You!!!  I so appreciate all of your orders — you keep me hoppin’ and I LOVE it!!!

That’s it for tonight!  Have a wonderful Labor Day Weekend everyone!  See you real soon!!!

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!!!

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!!!