Oh happy Day

Good morning!

I have a fun card to share with you this morning that I made for my guest designer gig over at i{heart}papers using two Avery Elle stamp sets: 

Roll with It

O Happy Day 

I wanted to keep the card relatively clean and simple, so I stamped the bicycle image and did just a minimal amount of coloring with a couple of Copic markers, using some Stardust stickles to embellish the wheels and headlight.  

I hand-drew a double line around the white mat and colored with a light blue gray Copic marker and then added some scrap patterned papers from my stash, cutting notches in them freehand.  

Have a 'happy day!'

Jessica

The Twinery: Pinterest Inspired Challenge

Good morning!

Today I'm sharing some cards that I made for the new challenge just posted this week over at 

The Twinery: Pinterest Inspired.

Here's the card I pinned for my inspiration:

artist's original link

My first card is a pretty obvious CASE of the original.  I loved all the patterns Connie included as well as the die cut, twine, and ruffled trim.  I used a variety of My Mind's Eye scraps which I adhered to a 3x4 card stock mat.  Then, I die cut the apple and leaf shape from WPlus9 Pretty Patches Apple stamp set and coordinating Apple die (which I picked up over at Simon Says Stamps).

Then, I laid the die cut mat over the card front where I wanted it to be and traced lightly with a pencil mark to help guide my stamping.  I removed the mat and stamped with some Hero Arts shadow inks (purchases from i{heart}papers).  The lace border die is from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and the twine I used was Blossom baker's twine.

I couldn't stop there though, so I made this second card using many of the same inspiration points for it.  This time, I wanted to stamp my sentiment on an angle - something I've seen quite a bit lately out there in 'blog-land' but haven't done much myself.  I used more scraps from My Mind's Eye scrap bin along with a couple more stamp sets I found over at i{heart}papers: Avery Elle's Celebrate and WPlus 9 Quilt Prints, stamped with a variety of inks from Memento.

Please check out all the details on this fun challenge over at The Twinery's blog.  We hope you'll get the chance to play along - you could win this yummy prize from The Twinery!

Have a wonderful day!

Jessica

You Float my Boat

Good morning!

I have a card to share with you this morning that I made with Avery Elle's Knotty

stamp set that I purchased over at i{heart}papers.  I stamped the boat on a circle die cut and colored the image with Copics, adding some stardust stickles to the boat once it was finished.  I curved the sentiment a bit to fit on the flag banner die cut.  

The background stripes are from the Knotty stamp set too.  I added some glue and white Doodlebug glitter to the white parts of the stripes.  Some Midnight Blue baker's twine was the only other embellishment I used for my card.  I wanted it to be a bit 'masculine' so I could give this one to my husband.

Have a great rest of your day!
Jessica

Sweet

Good morning!

Today's card was made with a couple of stamp sets from i{heart}papers: Avery Elle Celebrate (for the sentiment) and WPlus9 Fresh Cut Florals stamp set and coordinating dies.  The swirls were also from the Celebrate stamp set, which I stamped in white ink.

These flowers and coordinating dies are so fun to play with and I've been seeing them all over 'blog-land' lately so I know I'm not alone in that thought!  During the summer months especially I love bright greens, oranges and pinks together, so that's the bouquet I built using inks primarily from Memento.

I thought the Cantaloupe baker's twine matched the papers, flowers, and button quite nicely.  The patterned papers are from My Mind's Eye - I'm not sure which pack though since I throw my scraps together.  Kate has a great selection of patterned papers in her store and she always has a sale going on too!  Here's the link to the 6x6 paper selection on her store.

Have a great day!
Jessica

You Rock!

Good morning and Happy July!

It's amazing how quickly the months fly by, isn't it?  Today, I'm honored to be joining the designers from i{heart}papers as their July/August design team.  Kate's store is stocked to the brim with lots of fun products so it was fun doing some shopping to find products to make cards for her for the next few months.  Today is also a big day since Kate will be revealing the new designers she's adding to her team.  If only I had time to do more playing in my stamp room, I would have applied for this awesome gig!  Congrats to the new designers!  

If you've been following along on the hop today, you should have arrived here from Wida's blog.  If not, please consider starting at the beginning so you don't miss out on any of the inspiration today!

My card for today's hop was made with a couple of 'new to me' stamp companies' products and oh my am I ever in love with their stamp sets that Kate has in her store!  I used Avery Elle's Celebrate stamp set for the fun "You Rock" sentiment {LOVE those fonts together!!} and their Roll with It stamp set for the "so happy for you" sentiment. Then, I used several WPlus9 stamp sets for the focal image:  Fresh Cut Florals  and dies  for the adorable floral bouquet along with their A Pocketful set & dies.

The patterned papers are from My Mind's Eye Collectable paper line - specifically their Notable 

and Unforgettable paper packs.  The inks for the flowers were all stamped in Memento inks while the denim pocket was stamped with a blue Versafine ink.

Next up on today's hop is Chunyuan.

i {heart} papers  is THRILLED to be adding six new amazingly talented design team members to their current team. To help celebrate they will be offering 6 - $10 gift certificates. Winners will be selected from all of the blog comments you leave as you congratulate and help welcome them to the team so be sure to hop along and comment! 

Comments close Friday July 5 at noon EST and winners will be announced on the IHP blog the following week. (You must visit the blog to see if you've won. You will not be contacted.)

Blog hop list:

• Carole
• Deb
• Gretchen
• Judy
• Lindsay - **NEW**
• Lizzie - **NEW**
• Lori
• Sarah - **NEW**
• Stacey - **NEW**
• Tracy
• Vera - **NEW**
• Wida - **NEW**
• Jessica, our July/August guest DT - you are here!
• Chunyuan, our June/July guest DT
• Libby, social media coordinator
• Kate

Also, be sure to follow IHP on Facebook, Twitter and join their newsletter for sales, new products and other announcements. Plus every month a random newsletter subscriber is selected to win a $10 gift certificate just for being a subscriber. Sign up on the right side of the store homepage. Thanks for hopping along today!

Happy Hopping!

Jessica