No Time To Stamp?

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!

Today I made a Christmas Gift Tag for this week’s 2 Sketches 4 You weekly sketch challenge.  JustRite Stampers is sponsoring this week’s sketch and they are offering a $100 Gift Certificate to the weekly winner. I’m a bit late in playing myself, but you still have until midnight, Mountain Time, tonight (Sat., 10/17) to enter if you haven’t already.  It’s a fun sketch, it’s fun to play and you JUST might be the lucky winner.  Check it all out here.

I followed the sketch provided to make my Christmas Gift Tag, personalized with our family name and year.  This tag is all set to be adhered to a box or have another length of ribbon run through it and tied to a bag.  The small blank tag on top is all set for me to write in the name of the recipient.  I’ll add this to my stash for use this Christmas season!

Here’s a closeup of my focal image.  I think it’s so pretty in these colors.  The paper is all Fruitcake by Basic Grey, a 12 x 12 pack.  In those packs you get a sheet of tags.  The large tag I used was one of those tags you just punch out — easy and fun!  My image is colored with Copics and as I wanted white candles I just colored them with a Spica Clear Glitter Pen and they are SO pretty IRL.  I used Petite Circle Nestbilites to do all my cutting and Kaiser Pearls in Snow for the accents.  I like to use Versa Fine Onyx Black for crisp and clear sentiments and I used Memento Tuxedo Black for my image that was to be Copic colored.  My ribbon is 100% Silk by May Arts — totally scrumptious!

These are the 3 sets I used to make my focal image.  The 2″ Wood Stamper with Bonus 15 pt Font was used to create my personalized message, “From the Johnsons 2009″, along the bottom of the border.  I use one of the Holiday Demi Phrases, Warm Winter Wishes,  along the top of the border.  My pretty trio of candles comes from a Merry Little Christmas Set, used on the 1 5/8″ Wood Stamper. 

Here’s how I set up my stampers.  Now, some of you may remember, several weeks back I set up the 2″ Stamper with our name and date.  And I left it, and I will leave it until the Christmas season is over. It is all set for me, whenever I need it.  (That’s the advantage of having more than one 2″ Stamper on hand!) I used a Holiday Demi Phrase on top, and I can quickly change that out to suit the theme of my project.   My pretty candle image is on a 1 5/8″ Wood Stamper.  And please note that I did cut the image out.  It was a circle, but I cut off the excess rubber along the edges.  That rubber sometimes has a tendency to pick up ink from the ink pad and leave ink marks on your paper, so to avoid that it’s easy enough to just cut it off!  Don’t be afraid to cut your JustRite stamps!

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Stamps:   2″ Wood Stamper with Bonus 15 pt. Font and Center, Holiday Demi Phrases and A Merry Little Christmas used on a 1 5/8″ Wood Stamper, all by JustRite Stampers.

Paper:  White and Fruitcake DP by Basic Grey.

Ink:  VersaFine Onyx Black and Memento Tuxedo Black.

Accessories:  100% Silk Ribbon (1.25″ and 1/8″) in Burgundy, Petite Circle Nestabilities and Tag Trio Dies by Spellbinders, Kaiser Pearls in Snow, Dimensionals.

Shopping:

JustRite Stampers carries the items used on this project (all linked above) as well as their full line of product.

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

2″ Wood Stamper with Bonus 15 pt. Font and Center, Holiday Demi Phrases and A Merry Little Christmas used on a 1 5/8″ Wood Stamper, all by JustRite

100% Silk Ribbon by May Arts

Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, and Kaiser Pearls

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So glad you stopped in today — hope you have time to try at winning the $100 Gift Certificate offered by JustRite!  I hope to get a little more stamping done this weekend if things go as planned and I wish you good and relaxing times this weekend as well!!! See you soon!!!

It’s the first of the month again, so that means another fun Flower Soft Blog Hop! Our challenge this month was to create a Halloween themed project using our favorite Flower Soft. Well, my card is more fall or autumn than it is Halloween, so in keeping with the spirit of things, I went with an orange and black color scheme!!! Take a look:

Fun card to make! The white die cut accents pop off the black and the Copic colored JustRite image is accented with just a tiny bit of Flower Soft on the leaves — and oh my — how the addition of that tiny bit of Flower Soft just made the image pop and come to life — amazing. Here’s a close up of it:

Can you see just a tiny bit of Flower Soft on the leaf centers? I applied my Flower Soft Glue to the tiny leaves with the tip of a paper piercer and it worked great. In retrospect I wish I had taken a *before* picture without the Flower Soft so you could compare — it really adds so much. We were asked to use our favorite Flower Soft color — well, my favorite changes depending on the type of project I’m doing. Today I just had to use the Autumn Mix Flower Soft – love it for autumn themed cards. The colors are just lovely and work so well with  fall type images. 

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Stamps: Autumn Blessings by JustRite

Paper: SU Black, White, Pumpkin Pie, Cast A Spell DP

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics

Accessories: Autumn Mix Flower Soft, Flower Soft Glue, Petite Oval Nestabilities by Spellbinders, Martha Stewart Fence Punch, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder and Corner Dies, SU Corner Rounder, Xyron X

Shopping:

Flower Soft for all Flower Soft products as well as those used today, linked above.

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store carries these items used on today’s project: Autumn Blessings Set, 2 1/4 x 3 1/16″ Oval Stamper, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink (not yet shown, but I have it),  Classic Oval Nestabilities, Scor-It

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Now, check out the Flower Soft Blog and the links below from the rest of the team to see som FAB projects and get inspired.  And as an added bonus we have a Guest Designer this month, too – welcome, Jeanne! 

Jeanne

Jennifer Buck

Deb Saaranen

Charmaine Ikach

AJ Otto

Thanks much for stopping in!  I’ll be back later tonight with our weekly Stamp Simply Challenge, so hope to see you then! Thanks much!!!  Have a great day!

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!

I have a trio of Christmas cards to show you today and when I set out to make these I had 3 criteria I wanted to meet:  1)  I wanted my Christmas cards to be personalized; 2) I wanted them to be easy to reproduce in bulk; and 3) I wanted a good dose of  *Pretty* and/or *WOW*.  Here’s a group shot:

They are rather hard to see in this photo, so I will give you close ups below.  First I’ll show you the personalization I was after:

It’s clean, it’s simple, it was easy to color and VERY easy to reproduce once the 2″ Stamper with Bonus 15 pt Font was set up with my personalization.  Starting with the mistletoe center from A Merry Little Christmas – I used it on the 1 5/8″ Stamper, colored with Copics and cut and embossed with a Petite Circle Nestability.  Next I set up my 2″ Wood Stamper using *Sending Holiday Joy* from Holiday Demi Phrases on top.  Demi Phrases are 1/2 circle sentiments for the top of the circle, allowing us to customize the bottom half, which is just what I did.  The 2″ Stamper can be purchased with Bonus 15 pt Font. This 15 pt font can be used in the border circle — see how I’ve done *From the Johnsons 2009*?  It probably took me 5 or 10 minutes to set up my stamper, but once its done, it’s done!  I’m fortunate to have several 2″ stampers, so I’m going to leave this one just as is through the Christmas card making seaon.  It’ll be ready for me whenever I need it.  I can easily insert any variety of images into the center.

Here are the stamps as I have used them.  The 15 pt Font comes on a tray along with little tweezers you can use to pick out the letters and insert them into the border ring.  It’s kind of hard to see, but can you see the Demi Phrase on top, and my own lettering on the bottom?  Now I’m all set for my holiday card making!!!  The 1 5/8″ Stamper shown holds the mistletoe image.  And remember, it’s a good idea to cut the excess rubber off the center stamps so they don’t collect that excess ink and leave unsightly marks.  Cutting is A-OK — I do it ALL the time!

This is what the 3 sets I used look like in their packaging.  A Merry Little Christmas is laying on the bottom — the title doesn’t show.  And I do want to point out, if you do want an extra 2″ Stamper  just so you can keep your holiday personalization set up through the season, they can be purchased separately as well.  In my opinion, it’s well worth it.  I also keep one stamper set up through graduation season as I like to personalize those cards with our school name and the year.

OK, now on to better views of each card.

Aren’t these colors gorgeous for the holidays? I just love them (listed in recipe)!!!  My ribbon is the  Burgundy 100% Silk and my bow is made on the Bow Easy.  The DP is SU.

Three simple layouts today — tried and true.  I firmly believe in keeping it simple for Christmas. There is so much to stress over during holiday preparation — let’s enjoy making our cards without a lot of fuss and fretting! 

The first 2 cards were standard A2 sized at 4.25 x 5.5″.  This one is a 4.25″ square.  I do like this size for a change every once in a while!  You can read this post to learn how to do this bow treatment.

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Stamps:  A Merry Little Christmas Set, used on the 1 5/8″ Wood Stamper, Holiday Demi Phrases, used on the 2″ Wood Stamper with Bonus Font and Center, all by JustRite

Paper:  PTI Vintage Cream; Prism Spring Willow Dark and Blush Red Dark; SU Merry Moments DP.

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black for image; VersaFine Onyx Black for sentiment.  Copics to color.

Accessories:  100% Silk Ribbon by May Arts, Bow Easy, Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders, Scor-It, SU Corner Rounder, SU Dimensionals, Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Glue

Shopping:

JustRite Stampers offers the sets used today (all linked above) as well as all of the JustRite Line.

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store offers the following items used on today’s project:

A Merry Little Christmas, Holiday Demi Phrases, 2″ Wood Stamper with Bonus  Font, 1 5/8″ Stamper, all by JustRite

1.25″ and 1/4″ Burgundy 100% Silk Ribbon By May Arts and the Bow Easy

Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink

Scor-It

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And that’s it for my project, but I have MANY fun places to link you to today to inspire you further with Christmas projects in mind.  Here we go:

The 3 sets I used here today are the subject of today’s Product Focus over at SCS.  You can click here to read the reviews AND to see the UTube video  showing how to fully utilize the 2″ Stamper. Don’t miss it!

And these JustRite Designers have come up with some GREAT projects for you using these same 3 sets:

Michelle Kovack
Lauren Meader
Sharon Harnist
Lisa Somerville
Kathy Jones
Angela Barkhouse
Debbie Olson

Barb Schram
JR Blog

Michelle Wooderson will have a project up on Thursday.

Thank you all for stopping in today.  I truly do appreciate it.  I’ll be back on  Thursday night with our Friday Stamp Simply challenge this week — a fun one!!!  Hope to see you then!!!  Have a great Thursday, everyone!

…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!!!

This card was an absolute pleasure to make for 2 reasons:  1) it was a special request from DS#2, and 2) he made all the decisions, so all I had to do was execute them!  So WHO gets the credit here, him or me???  LOL!!!  Seriously, all my boys usually ask me for are thank you notes, with instructions that they be kept very simple, so today’s request was surely a change of pace.  He picked out the focal image, the border sentiment, said he wanted Tanya’s name on it, that it had to be pink and white with ribbons and bows.  Well now, a boy after my own heart — I figured I JUST might be able to do this — LOL!!!  Here’s the result:

He did pretty good, didn’t he — LOL!!!!  I met all of his criteria — even Tanya’s name on the little hanging tag.  Adding the Cuttlebug die cut in the upper corner was my contribution!  I am having so much fun with this set, I may just have to declare this my latest favorite JR set — it’s The Friendship Set to fit the 3 1/4″ Round Wood Stamper.  It’s large, and I love it!  But the focal images are a wonderful size, perfectly suitable for using alone as well, which I will, another day.

Just a closer look.  Image colored with Copics and flower centers highlighted with a Signo White Gel Pen.  My Petite Circle Nestabilities were used to cut and mat the image.  And my Pink Silk Bow is double, done on the Bow Easy.  To write Tanya, I used my 15 pt font that came with the 2″ Round Wood Stamper with Bonus Center and 15 Pt Font.  I just popped my letters into the nearest stamper, which was a 1 5/8″ Round Wood Stamper, stamped them and cut with my Spellbinders Tags Trio die, ran a 1/4″ silk ribbon through the hole and tied it on!  Fun touch!  It is supported and help in place with 1 SU Dimensional.  I used SU’s Textured Pretty in Pink, SU Tea Party DP and PTI  White.

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The following items to make this card can be purchased at the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

Friendship Set, used on 3 1/4″ Wood Stamper,  2″ Wood Stamper with 15 pt Font and Bonus Center, 1 5/8″ Wood Stamper, all by JustRite

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink (used for Sentiment)

1.25″ and 1/4″ 100% Pink Silk Ribbon by May Arts and Bow Easy

Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders

Scor-It

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That’s it for tonight — just a quick post!  Hope you enjoyed the card!  I’ll be back on Thursday evening with our Friday Stamp Simply Challenge.  Thanks for stopping in today and hope to see you again 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!!!

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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