I pick you!

Good morning!

Do you love fall as much as I do?  I have to admit that I prefer spring and summer (because I love the warmer weather of summer and the bright, beautiful colors of spring) but once fall arrives I am reminded of how much I love that season too... the warm, rich colors are the primary reason.  Oranges, reds, yellows, browns all around in nature are so beautiful but bittersweet since I know that the deadness of winter is quickly approaching.

Today's card is made using products from My Favorite Things - stamps, dies, and papers.  This sweet Pure Innocence girl was paper pieced and colored with Copics.  I added a tiny little marigold twinery bow to her wagon handle because it's pretty hard for me to make a card without my twine!  I used MFT's fresh cut grass die, sunshine die, woodgrain fence die, and PI's Pumpkin Patch girl stamp set.

Have an enjoyable rest of your day!
Jessica

Back to School

Good morning!

It's that time of the year again - back to school!  Since I'm a teacher - I have to admit that it's one of my favorite times of the year!  I love the possibilities of the new year - so many opportunities are to be had for both the students and the teachers!  Today's card is made with products from both My Favorite Things and PaperTrey Ink.

I used MFT's ala mode's Miss You a Latte stamp set and after coloring her with Copics, embellishing the coffee cups with glossy accents, trimmed around the entire image to layer over the Sizzix Tim Holtz stone wall embossing folder.  The flowers are also from MFT - they are the Rolled Daisy die-namic die that I cut from white felt.  The circle stamp set is from PaperTrey Ink's Tag-it 6 stamp set.

Have a great rest of your day!
Jessica

Happy Anniversary

Good morning!

Today's card is a rather bulky layered card that I made using dies from a variety of companies.  The large doily is from My Favorite Things, the rosette is from Tim Holtz/Sizzix, the circles are from PaperTrey Ink, and the embossing folder is from Stampin Up.  The heart circle image is from PTI and the sentiment from Verve.  It's fun using some of my favorite things from some of my favorite companies all together... something that I need to do more often!

I'm sorry I don't have links to all the products I used today, but if you have questions please let me know and I'll search them for you!

Have a great day!
Jessica

Happy 8!

Good morning!

Today I have another Fred Bear birthday card to share... love this bear image with the birthday hat and cupcake!  I also used the Lil Inker Designs Texture Plate frame 1 for the background.  Just a bit of Copic coloring along with some die cuts from PaperTrey Ink made the card come together pretty quickly while still keeping it fairly masculine or boyish.  Since it's hard to make a card without a bow, Twinery Twine is my go to 'ribbon' of choice for masculine cards!  Love double and triple twine bows like this one too...

Card Details

Stamps: Fred the Bear has a Birthday (MFT)

Ink: Memento

Card stock: PTI; DCWV

Other: Dies from PaperTrey Ink; twine from The Twinery; Copic markers; Lil Inker Designs frame impression plate

Have a wonderful rest of your day!
Jessica

How... old are you?

Good morning!

I have a fun birthday card to share today with another Fred Bear stamp set from My Favorite Things.  This one is called Fred Bear Plays Indian.  Isn't Fred cute all dressed up like an Indian? lol!  I can always use more boy/masculine birthday cards in my stash, so this one was a fun one to make!  I used lilac and shore twine from The Twinery as the coloring inspiration my card.

Card details
Stamps: Fred Bear Plays Indian (MFT)
Ink: Memento
Card stock: PTI; DCWV
Other: PTI impression plates; Copic markers; sanding block; MFT fishtail & label dies; shore and lilac twine from The Twinery

Have a wonderful day!
Jessica

Happy Graduation!

Good morning!

I have a couple of graduation cards to share with you today that I made for some very special Kindergarten boys.  I teach at a small Christian school in the K4, K5 and 1st grade room.  This year, the kindergarten class only had 2 boys in their class - a rather small group, but believe me they kept me on my toes this year! When thinking about the cards I wanted to make them, I decided up this adorable Fred Bear Graduates stamp set because it was perfect for both of them and their personalities!

Card Details
Stamps: Fred Bear Graduates (MFT)
Ink: Memento; Versafine
Card stock: PTI white; SU patterned
Other: Copics; MFT fishtail banner; Lil Inker Designs bow die; yellow stickles; copper nailhead; denim twine from The Twinery

By changing the patterned papers and the colors of the bears I was able to crank these two CAS graduation cards quite quickly.  Love Fred Bear!  And, that bow die from Lil' Inker Designs?  DIVINE!  It works so much easier with lightweight patterned paper, but certainly worked fine on the first one with card stock.  This is the small size - there is also a large size that I may need to pick up soon!

And, here's the graduates themselves... See, why I thought Fred worked well for their cards? *wink*

Have a great rest of your day!
Jessica

Choose Hope

Hi there!

I love the sentiment on today's card, "Once you choose hope, anything is possible."  Thinking positively and stopping the negative, poisonous thoughts and attitudes that arise in our minds and even what we hear from others is so important for our mental, physical and spiritual health.  And, for those who are struggling with life and death illnesses such as cancer, it's even more important for them, isn't it?  That's just another reason to love this stamp set from My Favorite Things called Who's That Girl Chooses Hope.  It's a great stamp set to have in your collection for not only the images but the positive sentiments Kim has included in the set.


I did a bit of paper piecing along with some Copic coloring for the focal image and then layered it all together on this 4 1/4" square card.  Because of the size of the card, I knew that I could add the tab label, allowing it to over hang on the right side of the card because it would still fit nicely in a regular envelope.

Have a great rest of your day!
Jessica

I Support You

Good morning!

I love the simplicity of today's card because the image and sentiment are the most important part of it.  This was a card I designed for a sample board for the My Favorite Things wholesale store accounts.  It uses several items from MFT - the Pure Innocence Have Hope stamp set along with Prima Donna Petals die-namics  and one of the ribbon tails from the First Place Award Ribbon die-namics.   I love that while the image is good for our loved ones dealing with cancer, I think the heart ribbon is appropriate for a variety of other heartfelt occasions, don't you?  After coloring and paper piecing the image, I added a layer of pink stickles to the ribbon heart for some added sparkle.

Have a wonderful day -
Jess

Toad-ally miss you!

Hi there!

I have a card to share with you today that I made with several My Favorite Things products - love Kim and her online store.  She has a fabulous set of designers on her design team too and they all are some of my favorite designers too!  My card uses -

• Pure Innocence Feeling Froggy stamp set
• Die-namics Prima Donna Petals 
• Die-namics Dog tag (can't find it to link it)
• Die-namics Open Scallop (small layering one - can't find it to link it)
• Blue Skies Felt

I used My Mind's Eye Every Day Flair for the patterned papers along with some bright yellow Lemondrop twine from The Twinery.

Have a wonderful day!
Jessica

You're My Hero

Good morning!

Today's card was made with My Favorite Thing's ala mode's Blue without You stamp set and My Mind's Eye patterned papers.  I love this image of her saluting our military - it's perfect with that sentiment, isn't it?

It's going to be a busy day at school today!  We have our Christmas Party in the afternoon and lots of time practicing in the morning for our Christmas program (which will be tomorrow night.)  There won't be much time (or ability to concentrate) for school work, so I've planned some fun Christmas-themed activities and worksheets to try to keep those little ones busy while not asking too much from them, as I know they will be VERY excited.  And, when 4-6 year olds are excited, it's pretty hard to expect much from them, isn't it?

I hope you are doing well and finishing up your Christmas shopping, baking, and plans.  I'm working on it - still have some to do on all those lists, but it's coming!  I'm thankful for my schedule now that I'm back to teaching, since that means I get Christmas vacation with my kids!

Have a great day!
Jessica

It's Your Day!

Good morning!

I have a quick post today to share a 'masculine' birthday card I created recently using a couple of different stamps from My Favorite Things and PaperTrey ink.  Just a bit of a mix and match kind of a card - using up some scraps and experimenting with new stamps... and this was the end result!

Card Details
Stamps: My Favorite Things; PaperTrey ink
Card stock: Lily Bee Designs; Stampin Up
Ink: Versafine; Stampin Up
Other: Sewing machine; Marvy paper punches; SU ribbon; paper piercer; EK Success star and postage stamp punch

Have a great day!
Jessica

I Support You

Good morning!

This card was made entirely with scraps!  We all have a box of scraps and extra die cuts, etc. don't we? This bird die cut from My Favorite Things is a really nice size and shape.  I put two bird 'friends' flying together on this layered scallop die...

Card Details
Stamps: sentiments from My favorite things and Paper Trey ink
Ink: Versafine and distress
Card stock: MME patterned and Stampin Up solid
Other: My Favorite Things dies - bird, open scallop, ticket; Spellbinder circles; Sizzix embossing folder; may arts flower, ribbon, and leaf 

Have a great day!
Jessica

A hundred hearts

Hi There!

Today, I'm sharing a few cards I designed for My Favorite Things new wholesale sample board.  Every couple of months, I am privileged to design a new board of 8 cards using a variety of new MFT stamps and dies for Kim to use for her wholesale store accounts.  I adore Kim and MFT - so, it's always a joy when I see a new box of goodies in the mail from her.

The cards I'm sharing today primarily use some of their new dies - love MFT dies!

Card Details
Stamps: Bon Appetite stamp set and die (MFT)
Ink: Versafine
Card stock: MFT
Other: open scallop die MFT; May Arts ribbon; MME patterned paper; Sizzix polka dot embossing folder; 2" circle punch; Twine from The Twinery; corner rounder

Card Details
Stamps: Contempo Cage and stamp set (MFT)
Ink: Versafine
Card stock: MFT; DCWV silver
Other: Twine from The Twinery; Woodgrain fence, flat bottom clouds, and 

Card 1 Details
Stamps: Clearly sentimental about Love (MFT)
Ink: Versafine
Card stock: Stampin Up; MFT; MME patterned
Other: Contempo Cage, hearts a plenty and Vintage Flourish dies; SU ribbon; Sizzix embossing folder


How's the Christmas shopping going for you?  We did some shopping yesterday but still have lots more to do!  I'm loving shopping online this year even more than ever...  It's just a bit TOO easy to hit 'add to cart', isn't it?!

Have a great rest of your day!
Jessica

Life is Good!

Happy Friday!

I am just popping in quickly to share a card I created for fun awhile back and am now just getting around to sharing it!  My day will be full today with parent teacher conferences - so send good thoughts my way as I meet with each of the student's parents to talk about the amazing progress each of them have made in the first 9 weeks of school!  It really is amazing how much they have all learned already!

Have a wonderful day and thank YOU so much for checking in on me today!  Life truly is good, isn't it?
Jessica

Card Details
Stamps: Birthday Balloon Joline (My Favorite Things); Verve Sentiment
Ink: Versafine; Memento
Card stock: Stampin Up, DCWV, Copic Xpress it blending card stock
Other: Spellbinder dies; Copic markers; Quikutz embossing folder; sewing machine; twine; sanding block; Sizzix embossing folder; Martha Stewart butterfly punch; white gel pen

You Fill my Heart

Good morning!

Today's card uses the adorable MFT Pure Innocence - Little Angel stamp set.  I love her little dress she is wearing, don't you?

Card Details
Stamps: MFT PI - Little Angel
Ink: Memento; PTI white
Card stock: Copic Xpress it; SU; October Afternoon dp
Other: Spellbinder deckled rectangle die; Copics; Corner rounder; MFT notebook edge die; EK Success heart punch; twine; pearl; buttons; black pen; Tim Holtz mini stapler

here's the inside -

Have a great Friday!
Jessica

Better Get Better!

Hi there!

I thought I'd share a get well card that I created using My Favorite Things PI Better Get Better since I'm not feeling the best myself today.  Those rotten sinus infections - it seems like every 4 or 5 months or so I get one.  Blech!  But, I'm waiting on my medicine to be filled, so all will be well soon!

Card Details
Stamps: Better Get Better (MFT)
Ink: memento
Card stock: October Afternoon dp; Copic Xpress it blending
Other: Copic markers; SU ribbon; Corner rounder; sewing machine; MFT felt & cloud dies

Have a great day - hope you are feeling well!
Jessica

Smile!

 

Good morning!

I have a very quick and easy card to share this morning that I created using the adorable MFT Picture Perfect ala mode stamp set.  I used one of my favorite card layouts and went minimal on the design itself so the that focus would be on the stamp image.  I've been working on creating birthday cards that easily fit in an envelope and don't require any extra postage costs... don't you hate how expensive it can be to mail cards now days?

Card Details
Stamps: Picture Perfect (MFT); unknown sentiment
Ink: Memento
Card stock: MME; Copic Xpress it; SU
Other: Doily; Copics; button; baker's twine

and the inside view (sentiments from PaperTrey Ink):

Have an enjoyable rest of your day!
Jessica

Hello

I've been sharing some of my most recent PaperCrafts' Magazine Stamping Royalty project rejects on my blog and today I have another one to show you.  This little shaped card was a fun one to make - I really do love those adorable MFT Pure Innocence stamp images!

The card base itself is a Spellbinder Label 8 die cut paired with some Cosmo Cricket Salt Air 6x6 patterned papers and the sweet Are We There Yet Pure Innocence stamp set.  The sentiment is from PaperTrey ink's Communique Curves stamp set.

Card Details
Stamps: Are we There yet (MFT); Communique Curves (PTI)
Ink: Versafine black
Card stock: Copic Xpress it; Cosmo Cricket Salt Air
Other: Spellbinder label 8 and petite oval dies; Copics; SU ribbon; Martha Stewart butterfly punch; Marvy oval punch; paper piercer; detail embossing powder

Have a great rest of your day!
Jessica

Something Special

Hi there!

I have a card this afternoon that I wanted to share that I created using this week's sketch on Card Patterns.  Here's the sketch:

I enjoyed combining lots of October Afternoon scrap patters from several of their collections to create this card with  this adorable little MFT Pure Innocence Birthday Princess image.

Card Details (size 5x5)
Stamps: Birthday Princess (MFT)
Ink: Versafine black; Distress
Card stock: Copic Xpress it blending; GinaK white; October Afternoon patterned
Other: Sewing machine; SU label punch; Spellbinder rectangle dies; MFT border & butterfly dies; SU ribbon; Copic markers; dauber; detail clear embossing powder

and the inside view...

Enjoy the rest of your day - thanks for stopping by!
Jessica

Moxie Fab: Make Mine a Double!

Hi there!

This afternoon I had the opportunity to make a card for this week's Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger Inspiration photo: A Burst of Blooms

I was inspired by a couple of things in this photo.  First of all the size - I like the brown chair with the afghan draped over it and decided to use a 3" x 11" scrap of Kraft card stock for my card base (scored at 5 1/2").  Then, I was drawn to the shape of the flowers in the afghan and thought of this PTI doily die mimicked the shape quite well.  Lastly, the afghan itself had a 'polka dot' feel to me, so I pulled out some October Afternoon polka dot scrap paper to use on the card front.

Card Details (3 1/4" x 5 1/2" card size)
Stamps: Make Mine a Double (MFT)
Ink: Versafine black; Distress tumbled glass & broken china (inside)
Card stock: Copic Xpress it; MFT solid; October Afternoon patterned
Other: Sewing machine; MFT scallop die; PTI doily die; May Arts silk ribbon; Copic markers; detail clear embossing powder; dauber; Spica glitter pens; Spellbinder long rectangle die

and the inside view...

It was quite enjoyable using up several scrap patterned papers to make this card - love to mix and match patterned papers from a variety of October Afternoon lines.  It just makes me happy that all their collections work so well together!

Thanks for checking in on me today!
Jessica