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3 Panel Accordion - Accordion cards are some of my favorite things to make, and that’s just what we’ll do today.  We’re taking it easy with just 3 panels today.  Your accordion may be as large or as small as you like it.  It may serve as table decor or it may tie closed as a little gift waiting to be opened. Anything goes — just do a 3 panel accordion card. But beware — they are ADDICTING!!!  Be sure to check out all the DT girls links to get some GREAT ideas and to get your juices flowing!

Keyword ssnotime111 - 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 
• Deb  
• 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.

Now I must apologize for this very late post.  Today just did not go the way I had planned — it’s nearly 4 a.m. so I’m only going to post the photos of my project.  I’ll come back tomorrow morning to add the supplies and details for you — thanks for understanding.  Editing:  Added!!!  Measurements provided below as well!

Journal Notes (Christmas),  Flower Soft Vintage Envelope Sentiments, Flower Soft Polar White, Flower Soft Glue,  SU Dazzling Diamonds applied with Quickie Glue Pen, Basic Grey Buttons, May Arts White Ruffled Faux Suede Ribbon, Offray Wired Ribbon from Wal-Mart, Hairy Yarn from Wal-Mart , SU Bella Bleu DP, Pewter Jumbo Eyelets and Felt Snowflake covered with Dazzling Diamonds

There is NO stamping on this project and it is so soft and pretty, IRL, with tons of texture from the Flower Soft snow on each panel and the glitz of the Dazzling Diamonds, which is lost in the photos — so sorry.

All images are from the Christmas Journal Note pad I carry in the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.  Here I’ve made my snowy border very textural with Polar White Flower Soft and added a bit of glitz to the birds and berries with Dazzling Diamonds.  Doing something on this order to a Journal Notes image would make a quick and easy card front for Christmas!

This center panel is SO sparkly and glitzy IRL.  The bottom is the Polar White snow and the trees are all Dazzling Diamonds.  The piece is a bottom half (journal portion) from the Jouranal Notes pad.  I intended this panel to be where the giver would sign the *card*.  These cute envelopes are all from the Vintage Envelope Sentiments by Flower Soft, put on with an SU Dimensional.  They add a nice touch!

This panel is the bottom half of the first bird panel from the Journal Note sheet (Christmas).  I am LOVING this 5/8″ Ruffled Faux Suede.  The pure white looks so good with a Christmasy/wintery theme.  It’s soft and easy to tie.  My buttons are all by Basic Grey.

Here’s the how-to for this sized accordion:

Cut paper 12″ x 5″.  Score at 4″ and in again 4″, or at 4 and 8.  This gives you the 3 panels.

Working on a surface with diagonal lines (I used my Scor Pad), use a ruler and pencil to mark your *peaks*.  Take to paper cutter and cut on your pencil lines.

Cut DP strips 4″ wide and adhere one strip over each panel.  Once applied, it is easy to now come with scissors and cut the DP along your *peak* lines - no measuring — super easy. 

Apply ink direct to all edges of panels for a finished look and decorate away.

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Please note the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store has several sales running right now:

30% off on the boxed JustRite Monogram Sets — Damask, Special Occasions, Curlz

15% of on ALL ribbon orders BY THE SPOOL (not cut yardgage)

Buttons at greatly reduced prices.

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Thanks for stopping in!  I hope all the great DT samples encourage you to try a fun 3 panel accordion card — I just LOVE decorating these fun little projects!  I have many more projects to share over the weekend, so hope to see you soon.  Have a wonderful weekend ahead!

I’m winding down on Hallloween cards, but wanted to get one more in at least!  This was a fun one to make for many reasons.  I used an image from the Halloween Journal Note pad, gave it a little extra zing with 2 colors of Flower Soft, added a sentiment from Witch Way to the Treats by JustRite and used some fun new ribbon I have in stock called Chenille Dots.  Take a look:

Love this pair of  trick-or-treaters!  Can you recognize my background?  I had many odds and ends of the journaling portion of the sheets from the Halloween Journal Note pad so I put them all together in collage fashion to make my background — totally happy with the result and I will surely use up my leftover pieces this way again.

I used Black Flower Soft on the buttons and I used Polar White Flower Soft as a little Snow on the Pumpkin, or hair, whatever you think it looks like — LOL!!!  The girls dress bodice, hat and duck wand are highlighted with Spica Glitter Pens — sparkly and fun IRL.  I finished it off with my sentiment circle from Witch Way to the Treats, my Rusty Pickle Buttons, and my fun and new Chenille Dots Ribbon. This card is rather large at 6.5″ wide x 5.5″ high.

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Shopping:

Paper all by SU:  Very Vanilla, Black, Basic Gray, Really Rust, More Mustard

Flower Soft carries the Black Flower Soft, Polar White Flower Soft and Flower Soft Glue I used on this project, as well as a full line of fun products.

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store carries the remaining products used:

Witch Way to the Treats (on sale now), used on 1 3/16″ Stamper by JustRite; VersaFine Onyx Black Ink; Halloween Journal Notes by Crafty Secrets; Chenille Dots Ribbon by May Arts; Rusty Pickle Buttons (on sale now);  Scor-It and Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders.

Check out Page 3 for Halloween items on sale.

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I’m so glad you stopped in today - thank you.  I apologize for my absence again, but we’ve been on the run.  This past weekend we were gone for 3 days to the Detroit area.  We toured the Henry Ford Museum (my DH could have stayed in there forever) and also the Rouge Plant where they make the F150 trucks.  Amazingly, I found touring that assembly line plant totally fascinating and it interested me more than the museum — I could have watched the workers on the line for much longer than we did.  I really enjoyed the movies they showed at the plant as well.  It got a HUGE thumbs up from me!!!  Definitely worth the time if you are in the area!  Well anyway, back to cards — I’ll have our weekly Stamp Simply post up on Thursday evening as usual — and I’m anxious to make this card — I think it’ll be fun!!!  Hope to see you then!

Halloween is Almost Here! - Today’s challenge is to make a card or project for Halloween, or perhaps a bag or container for treats!  Anything goes.  And I realize some don’t care to do Halloween, and that’s just fine — then just incorporate a pumpkin into your project!  Everyone can play, and we hope you do!!!

Keyword ssnotime104 - 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 - Julie is taking the night off tonight!
• 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:

It’s a small piece of wall decor!  Actually, I like to make hanging things to hang on my cabinet knobs in the kitchen.  You know how you like to just *look at your stuff* after you make it — or am I the only one who does that — LOL!!!  I usually have something hanging on a knob in my kitchen, so this will now replace the summery floral I currently have there.  It just makes me feel good to have a created object right where I can always see it — NUTS, or what - LOL!!!  That’s OK — I’m happy!!!  For this photo it is displayed in a photo stand.  I actually picked up a couple of these photo stands at a gas station in Wisconsin on our way to Shipshewana this summer.  I thought they were the neatest things.  Anyway, not much to say about my project, so I’ll just leave you with the recipe — oh, it’s 3 3/4 x 5 3/4″ high.  The Buttery Gold Silk Ribbon is knotted so it can hang on my cabinet pull.

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Stamps and Ink:  None

Paper:  Black and Halloween Journal Notes

Accessories: Silk Ribbon, Button, String, Bow Easy, Deco Corner Punch, SU Pewter Jumbo Eyelet, Cropadile, Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Glue to adhere bow.

Shopping:

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

1.25″ Buttery Gold Silk Ribbon and Black Jute String by May Arts

Halloween Journal Notes by Crafty Secrets

Bow Easy

Button by Basic Grey

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Thank you much for stopping in!  Hope you all have a wonderful weekend ahead.  See you soon!!

Overstamped Sentiment -Today’s challenge is simple.  Merely stamp your sentiment OVER your image.  I love this look and just haven’t done it in ages.  Can’t WAIT to see your cards!!! 

Keyword ssnotime103 - 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.

Waving a sad *gooodbye* to Pat. Pat, we loved having both you and your sense of humor with us for the month of August.  Your creations WOW’d us all!  Thank you SO MUCH and we DO expect you to keep on playing with us, OK?  You’ve gotta keep tickling our funny bones!!!  Thank you, Pat, a/k/a The Rubbermaid!

And I’m thrilled to pieces to announce our September Guest Designer.  Many of you already know her well from her long-time association with SCS and the Challenges over there and her blog,  Where M & M’s Gather.  Drum roll, please — for Charlene Merrick!  WELCOME, Charlene!  We are SO happy to have you this month!!!  Thank you so much for accepting the invite!

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
• 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:

For starters, apologies for this poor photo.  I lack in photography skills.  The layer behind the focal image is that highly polished Gold Mirricard and it truly is reflective like a mirror.  I have never yet been able to get a decent photo when I use that paper — sorry — but it does look so nice IRL.  Anyway, moving on, my sentiment is stamped over a pre-printed image from the Christmas Journal Note pad.  It is Friday, Stamp Simply day, so I’m sure you KNEW I’d take the easy way out — LOL!!!  And it worked great!

I first adhered my cut image onto a piece of cardstock for more stability as I was going to heat emboss it.  My sentiment from Christmas Treasures by JustRite was stamped in VersaMark and then heat embossed with gold embossing powder.  I then took my VersaMark pad and DTP’d (direct to paper) all the edges, then embossed them with the same gold for sort of an old world look.  Nothing too fussy, just quickly DTP’d my edges, and it comes how it may — no rocket science involved here!

See the cutout?  It was done with my 3/4″ SU punch.  I knew I wanted my bow to be over a bit more than the image would allow, so I made the cutout to allow for my bow to scootch over that much more.  The edges of my cream panel are edged with a Marvy Gold Calligraphy pen — super easy. 

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Stamps:  Christmas Treasures used on the 3 1/4″ Round Wood Stamper by JustRite

Paper:  PTI Vintage Cream, Prism Rose Light, Gold Mirricard, Christmas Journal Notes by Crafty Secrets

Ink:  VersaMark, Marvy Gold Calligraphy Pen

Accessories:  Mauve Silk Ribbon, Gold Embossing Powder, SU 3/4″ Punch

Shopping:

The following items used on this card can be purchased at the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store:

Christmas Treasures Set and 3 1/4″ Round Wood Stamper by JustRite

Christmas Journal Notes by Crafty Secrets

Mauve 100%  Silk Ribbon by May Arts

Scor-it Scor Board

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So glad you stopped in again today — truly do appreciate it!  Hope you can find some time to play and share your creations with us.  Wishing you a safe and wonderful Labor Day Weekend, whatever your plans!  Have fun, be safe, and see you real 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!!!

JustRite Blog Hop Day — LOVE these posts — always a fun day!  Today we are all featuring JustRite’s new Christmas releases, and there are a lot of them!  Please make sure to click on all the links at the end of this post — 33 links in all — LOTS of designers playing with JustRite for Christmas — fun, fun!!!  And here’s my contribution — a trio of Christmas cards that were easy to make, with a nostalgic, vintage feel:

I truly enjoyed every moment I spent making this trio of Christmas cards!  I used the new JustRite set called Christmas Joy that fits on the 1 3/4″ x 2 5/16″ Oval Stamper.   I loved the beautiful sentiments and images in this set, as well as the gorgeous borders, but I was just in one of those moods to play around, so I decided to pull out a new box of SU Hodgepodge Hardware I had just gotten, just to see if the sentiments would work and, much to my delight, they fit into the hardware frames just perfectly!  So, I decided to run in that direction — framed sentiments it would be!  And as I’ve said many times before, just because a stamp is in the shape of an oval or a circle, and used on an oval or a circle stamper, doesn’t necessarily mean you are bound to those shapes — with many of the JustRite stamps, the sky is the limit — just play around to expand your usage of these fun sets for Christmas!

Here’s the packaging for Christmas Joy.  You can see the fun centers and borders included, 6 of each.  On my project today I used 4 of the centers.

This is the first card I made, framing my Blessings sentiment with the SU Hardware, resting that atop a Nestability Labels Three die cut.  What a perfect fit in the hardware!  I was pleased!!!  That’s a double bow of Ivory Silk made on the Bow Easy and the DP is by SU, Merry Moments, new for this holiday season — I love it!  The embossed borders are all with a Martha Stewart Punch.

Just a closer view of the framed sentiment.  Love how it pops when placed over the Nestie die cut.

Here’s my 2nd card.  You all know me by now — I love to take the easy way out, and one of my easy way’s out is by using pre-printed images, such as this from the Christmas Journal Note pads.  That beautiful little angel looked *magical* to me, so I thought she was the perfect image to go with this sentiment.

A closer view again, and isn’t this sentiment just a perfect fit as well for the hardware frame?  I thought so!  But if you look at the stamp below, you’ll see that there are some holly boughs above and below the sentiment.  I used the very simple technique of masking the stamp to be able to use the sentiment only, without the boughs.  This is an old trick to seasoned stampers, but if you’re new to stamping, here’s how:

Photo 1 shows how the stamp appears.  Photo 2 shows how I have *masked* off the part of the stamp that I don’t want to print, in this case, the boughs.  Post-it notes are a common thing to use as they have a sticky strip.  Personally, I use a 1.5″ tape I keep around — it sticks well and is only on the stamp momentarily so it cleans up easily.

Once your stamp is masked properly, tap it on your ink pad, making sure all areas are covered with ink.   Yes, the ink gets all over your mask.  BEFORE YOU STAMP, remove the masks, as shown in Photo 2.  Now you are all set to stamp with ink ONLY where you want it.  Easy peasy, as they say!

And here’s my last card in this trio.  I used one of the centers to color, the bells, and used my Petite Circle Nesties to cut and mat it. 

The image is colored with both Copics and Spica Glitter Pens.  The bells are done with the gold Spica pen.  They truly look so nice and glittery IRL, but that is miserably lost in my photo — please just take my word for it!  This is a triple bow of Ivory Silk done on the Bow Easy.  My ribbon tails are held in place with mini glue dots.

And I used a square frame for the word Joy, running my ribbon through the holes of the frame, rather than attaching it with brads.  Simple and fun!  The word Joy is on a center and is surrouded by a wreath.  I masked off the wreath, just as shown above.  It took a little more masking, but still was very quick and gave me this simple little Joy that was just perfect for what I wanted.

Another idea:  Rather than masking these stamps, you could very easily use your SU markers and just color the portion of the image you want inked!  Super easy, peasy!

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Stamps:  Christmas Joy used on the 1 3/4″ x 2 5/16″ Oval Stamper, both by JustRite

Paper:  All by SU:  Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Merry Moments DP

Ink:  VersaFine Onyx Black, Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers, Spica Glitter Pens

Accessories:  May Arts Silk Ribbon, Bow Easy, Crafty Secrets Journal Notes, Martha Stewart Embossed Scallop Punch, Spellbinders Labels Three and Petite Oval Nestabilities, and SU Designer Label Punch, Styled Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware, Piercer and Mat Pack

Shopping:

JustRite Stampers for the Christmas Joy set used on this project and their entire line of products

Spellbinders for the Labels Three and Petite Circle Nestabilities

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store for the May Arts Silk Ribbon, Bow Easy, VersaFine Onyx Black Ink and Christmas Journal Notes by Crafty Secrets

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And here’s the link list to all the other FAB designers sharing JustRite Christmas projects today — get yourself a nice cool (or warm) drink, pull up your chair and enjoy your time — it WILL be time well spent!!!

JustRite Stampers-Blog
Becca Feeken
Sankari Wegman
Sharon Johnson - That’s me — YOU ARE HERE!
Kazan Clark
Sharon Harnist
Laura Davis
Debbie Olson
Michelle Woerner
Taylor Van Bruggen
Jenn Balcer
Michelle Wooderson
Lori Craig
Lauren Meader
Beate Johns
Barb Schram
Kimberly Crawford
Michele Kovack

Jami Bova

Kellie Fortin
Jennifer Buck
Heidi Blankenship
Angela Barkhouse
Lisa Somerville
Gerrie Johnnic
Kathy Jones
Debbie Seyer
Kim Sonksen
Terre Fry
Sheryl Dickinson
Bonnie Sharp
Mary Pfaff
Holly Simoni
Angela Robledo

Thanks much for stopping in — I’ll be back tomorrow with more Christmas projects to share.  See you soon — and have a GREAT day!!!

Keyword ssnotime98 - 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.

Lovely Lace - I have always loved lace — nothing is so pretty and delicate and it adds such a charming touch to a card.  Today’s challenge is to incorporate lace into your work.  It can be real lace, punched lace, stamped lace, sticker lace — anything at all - as long as we have lace to grace our creation!  That’s it - have fun!!!

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

• Rose Ann, July Guest Designer
• Janine is taking this week off — have fun, Janine!
• Jennifer 
• Julie 
• AJ
• Tammy
• Deb
• Barbara
• Jenny

Please bear with us as we are all uploading and linking on Thursday night. Everyone should be uploaded by Friday morning.

You can see all Gallery Submissions here. Thanks, girls!

And here is my lacey creation for today:

A super simple creation for the Stamp Simply Challenge!  My stamping was minimal — just the fun and very pretty *What’s New* sentiment from Tiny Words by JustRite, cut and matted using my Petite Circle Nesties by Spellbinders.  My beautiful image is from Birds and Botanicals Journal Notes.  The image was the upper half of the sheet and the BIRDS was the lower half of the sheet.  Here’s a closeup of the lace and other embellishments:

The lace is vintage from my stash, and under it is the 7/8″Gingham Checks by May Arts.  The stick pin is merely a very inexpensive corsage pin with a scrap of Burgundy 1.25″ Silk Ribbon tied on it.  And I’m loving all my new buttons — and I have plenty stocked up in the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store, Page 3.  These are the buttons by Rusty Pickle that come in the adorable little glass jars with latching lids — so fun, and so many buttons in each jar — I’m really loving them!  They are sewn to the black panel with the 100% Jute String in black.  I just used a large eyed needle and it was really quick and easy.

Stamps: Tiny Words Set by JustRite used on the 1 3/16″ Wood Stamper

Paper:  SU Black, PTI Vintage Cream, Prism Papaya Puree Light

Ink:  Versa Fine Onyx Black

Accessories:  Birds and Botanicals Journal Notes; 7/8″ Gingham Ribbon, 1.25″ Silk Ribbon and 100% Jute String, all by May Arts;  Rusty Pickle Button Bottles; Vintage Lace; Corsage Pin, Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders, Scor-It, a variety of adhesives.

Shopping:

JustRite Stampers for the Tiny Words Set and the full line of JustRite products

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store for Birds and Botanicals Journal Notes by Crafty Secrets, Gingham Ribbon, Silk Ribbon and Jute String by May Arts,  Versa Fine Onyx Black Ink, Button Bottles by Rusty Pickle, and Scor-It

I’m so glad you stopped in today and I hope you have time to play if you can!  I’ve got a busy weekend.  Friday morning I have some out of town blogging friends coming over for lunch.  Then Friday afternoon our Stamping in the UP of Michigan event begins and runs through Saturday early evening.  I can’t wait — it will all be fun.  I’ll be sure to share some pictures of your Blogland friends on Sunday.  Have a wonderful weekend everyone!  Thanks for stopping in!

This is my Stars and Stripes card for the Stamp Simply Challenge on Friday that I missed.  Since the 4th is nearly over, I went with a summer theme and a light-hearted, fun card.  This lady perched on her post just made me chuckle.  Love these fun vintage images for a quick card!

Another simple creation done in the tent topper style I just love, created by Michelle Wooderson – a GREAT card design — just a little different and fun for a change.  The card base is 4.25″ square and the image is mounted so to make the card 5.5″ high, just like a normal A2 sized card.   

And do you remember when I did this card using JustRite Font,  I said I was going to stamp some *Summer* sentiments  just to have on hand?  Well, came in handy today!  Something you may want to consider when building words on your Rectangle Stampers.

Stamps:  Times New Roman Font by JustRite, both Uppercase and Lowercase, used on the Harmony Rectangle Stamper

Paper:  SU Sage Shadow, Bravo Burgundy, PTI Vintage Cream, Image is from Summertime Journal Notes

Ink:  SU Sage Shadow, Versa Fine Onyx Black

Accessories:  1.5″ Striped Ribbon and 100% Jute String, SU Large and Small Star Punches, Brad, Glue Glider, Double Sided Carpet Tape

Shopping:

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store offers the Summertime Journal Notes by Crafty Secrets, the 1.5″ Burgundy Striped Ribbon and the 100% Jute String by May Arts

JustRite for the Font and Rectangle Stampers

Hoping you all had a wonderful 4th of July!  We are going to the fireworks tonight — our yearly ritual.   We order a take out pizza and some pop and sit in the car and watch the fireworks.  LOL!!!  We’re a real exciting bunch — LOL!!!  Have fun everyone and be careful! 

I’ll be back early Monday morning to share a project I love — something pretty — and to introduce you to some new friends I’ve met and provide you with some new links (they were new to me anyway)!  I think you’ll like all that you will see.  PLUS there are fun and games that you can participate in — so hope you can stop in on Monday — see you soon!

Today I have a simply made card for my Dad for Father’s Day.  He’s had a tough year, with the last  month being particularly difficult, but he is ever filled with hope, so when I saw this image I thought it just may work for his Father’s Day card.

As I said, simply made.  No stamping at all.  I’ll write the message inside.  A favorite layout of mine that always works well for a quick card — not a lot of fuss to put together.  I used 1/8″ Jute Cording for my stringy embellishment.  I do try to avoid actual ribbon on guy cards when I can, and since I do like to use some *stringy* feature on bird cards when it works, I thought the cording was perfect here.  It is a twisted 3 strand rope.  Once untwisting the 3 strands, I then untwisted the 4 strands in each of the 3.  Just roll it between your fingers and it untwists very quickly.  I just made this card, and as you can see, my glue is still wet and showing.  It will dry clear.  I’ve been a real glue dot fan for years, but I’m really liking my new bottle of Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Glue for adhering buttons and bows of late.  It was from Wal-Mart, very inexpensive, holds super tight and my bottle tip has not yet gunked up — my pet peeve with glues!

Just wanted to show you the message included on this sheet from the Birds and Botanicals Journal Note Pad.  Hope…  what would we all do without hope!  Our hope is that which is offered freely by Jesus Chrst!

Stamps and Ink:  None

Paper: SU Basic Black and Ruby Red; Image is from Birds and Botanicals Journal Note Pad

Accessories:  1/8″ 100% Jute Cording,  Glue Glider, Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Glue and Button from Wal-Mart

Shopping:

The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store carries the Journal Note Pads by Crafty Secrets and the Jute Cording.

May you all enjoy a wonderful Father’s Day spending time with the men in your lives!