Just Us Girls Photo Inspiration Week Challenge #451- Let Your Dreams Bloom

Hello and welcome!  I'm here with a card for the new Photo Inspiration Challenge at Just Us Girls hosted by Nancy.  Here's the photo she chose:

Isn't that lovely!  Stop by the JUGS blog and see the beautiful inspiration from the design team and Julia Aston, our special guest designer for this month.

Here are the supplies I used for my card:

Distress Inks and water

Unity Stamp set:  "Big Summertime Bouquet"

Striped embossing folder

Versafine Clair Nocturne ink

MFT stitched scalloped edge die

Pink small gems

White card stock from Gina K Designs

Here's a couple of additional views:

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Hope you can join us this week with a creation inspired by the photo Nancy chose!  I can't wait to see what you create!

Christmas in July with Joy Clair Dog Gone Christmas

Hello and welcome!  I'm here today with a card for our week long "Christmas in July" event!

I used the Joy Clair Dog Gone Christmas stamp set.

Here's how I made my card:

1) I stamped all the images and colored them with Leisure Arts Colored pencils.  Then I decided which ones I wanted to use and saved the others for another card.

2)  I cut them out, however, you can use the cutting files that come free with every set that you buy.

3)  I added Spectrum Sparkle pen to the string of lights on the dog house.  You can see the sparkle below:

4)  I took Distress Inks in greens and blues and inked with a ink blending tool, the clouds with a cloud die cut and used Post-It tape to mask off a line for the grass.

5)  I cut the panel with a wonky rectangle die, and I cut an extra wonky die from plain white for the inside of the card.

6)  I laid everything out on the card so I would know where to place my sentiments, etc. then I stamped the paw notes and sentiments from the same set with my mini Misti and Versafine Clair Nocturne ink.

7)  Next, I added the dog house and popped up the singing puppy on foam tape for dimension.

8)  Lastly, I added the finished panel to a top folding red A2 card base and added the white wonky die on the inside.

Here's a close up look:

And one final view of my card and the supplies I used:

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I had so much fun playing with this adorable stamp set:   Joy Clair Dog Gone Christmas!  Joy Clair has lots of holiday stamps to check out HERE!  Come back tomorrow for more inspiration from the amazing Joy Clair design team!

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #302 - Make Your Mark

Here's this week's new challenge!

So pull out your markers, pencils, paints, chalks, and make some marks!

I just love this cute stamp set from Your Next Stamp!  

Here's the list of supplies I used:

Your Next Stamp Flowers and Smiles stamp set

Versafine Clair Nocturne ink

Zig Clean Color Markers

Black and white dotted patterned paper

Black and white card stock

And one last view:

I hope you will find the time to join the Make Your Mark challenge this week!

Can't wait to see what you create!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Just Us Girls Color Challenge #450 - Hello My Friend

Hello and welcome!  Today starts a new challenge over at Just Us Girls hosted by the awesome Lisa!

It's a color challenge and here are the colors she chose:

Come on over to the JUGS blog to see what our guest designer, Julia Aston and the whole team has prepared for you using these fab colors that Lisa has chosen!

For my card I used the following supplies:

Unity Stamps "Hello my Friend" stamp set

Distress Inks for watercoloring in pinks

Zig Clean Color markers in pinks and aquas

Scissors for fussy cutting

Foam tape

Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink

MFT scalloped stitched edge die

Dotted paper from Papertrey Ink

White card stock from Gina K Designs

Here's a closer view of my card:

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will find some time to join us this week for the color challenge at JUGS!

Celebrate Love - 50 Year Anniversary!

Hello and welcome!

I made this "Celebrate 50 Years Anniversary" card for a friend using the following products:

Simon Says Hearts Alive Die - cut several times for paper piecing
(last time out of black, then trimmed down edges to overlay first cut)
Double sided patterned paper from an older Simon Says Stamp monthly kit
(the script is the back side of the pink flower pattern)
Silver glitter paper
Black and white card stock
Number dies from my stash
Celebrate die from MFT Stamps
Scalloped stitched rectangle die from Wplus9

Here's a close up view:

Thanks so much first stopping by!



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Joy Clair Color By Faith Many Names & Crackle Background for Bible Journaling Pages

Hello and welcome!  It's Angie and I'm over on the Joy Clair blog today with 2 pages from my Bible Journaling journey.

I used the new set Joy Clair "Many Names" stamps along with the new Joy Clair "Crackle Background" stamp and an older set called "Chain Breaker" along with Leisure Arts Colored pencils.  Here's a look at the new stamp sets:

For my journaling today, I chose Isaiah 26:13 - 

"LORD, our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone do we honor."

There are so many names used for God in the Bible, this new set is a wonderful reminder of them!  This set uses such lovely different fonts for each name.

Here's how I created these two pages:

1)  I stamped on tracing paper to practice so I could lay out the names and find different dies in my stash that would fit the names.  Then I cut them out of post-it notes to use for masking.  I also masked off the border on the left side with post-it tape.

2)   I took Leisure Arts Colored pencils, in pinks and blues. along with Gamsol and a blending stump, to color the left side of the page after masking off the border and the blank places I needed for the names.  When I removed the masks, I outlined each shape in black marker.

  

3)  I stamped some of the names in the white masked areas, then took more Leisure Arts Colored pencils in yellows and oranges and colored the edges of the shapes (from darkest on the edge to lighter in the center) to highlight them better.

   

4)  I put the masks back on and inked up the Joy Clair "Crackle Background" stamp in Versafine Clair Warm Breeze ink.  Then I removed the masks and added a thin strip of striped orange washi tape.

5)  Next I used the yellow pencils to highlight the verse and all the names of God in the Bible text on the both pages.  And I also used a black marker to draw some crosses and hearts in the yellow boxes.

         

6)  In the picture below you can see how the Leisure Arts colored pencil looks before the Gamsol and on the right, how it looks, after several coats of the pencils and blending it with Gamsol.  It really smoothes out the color so nicely.  I used a thin strip of blue dotted washi tape to mask off the border.  I removed it later because my stamp didn't fit there with it.

    

7)  Next I stamped the "There is Power in the name of Jesus" from the Joy Clair "Chain Breaker" stamp set on the right page and added a Paper Smooches cross cut from black card stock and some turquoise  paper I had made with Lindy's Magicals a while back.  I love the marbled look of it!  The picture below has a different cross laid on the page as I was trying different ones before I decided on the marbled one.

8)  Lastly, I stamped almost all of the names from the Joy Clair "Many Names" stamp set randomly over both pages.  Here is a closer look at the left page:

     

And a closer look at the right page:

And a final look at both pages with the supplies I used:

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope I have inspired you to experiment with your craft supplies when you are studying The Word.  It makes your Bible study time so meaningful! 

Joy Clair has wonderful stamp sets in their Color By Faith series to make the Bible Journaling you want to do very easy and they are all so pretty too!  Don't forget to check out these Leisure Arts Colored Pencils - they are so easy to use and turn out so pretty!

Check out the all the great new stamps in the Joy Clair new release here too!

God Bless You!

Dies R Us - Hello Summer!

 

Hello, it's Angie here today with a fun summer card using some dies from Impression Obsession and Cheapo Dies.  I also used patterned paper from Carta Bella called "Beach Day".

Here's how I made this card.  First I did all the die cutting, the Hello Summer die from Impression Obsession and the flip flops from Cheapo dies. 

 

I glued both sets of flip flops (brown and striped) together so it would look like the soles were brown with stars. This Cheapo die cuts really well, but the pieces also stayed in the whole cut so it made it easy to put together with just regular scotch tape on the bottom, then glued the striped part on top with the Zig 2 Way Glue Pen.

Next I too one sheet of the "Beach Day" patterned paper in woodgrain with stripes at the bottom and then another piece of the woodgrain patina color and covered some of the stripes below the green one, because the other colors made the background too busy.  Then I cut that panel down a little on the side so the strips would show on the side of the card.  I love the papers in this pack!

The sun dies I used is from an older retired summer set in my stash but there are other suns in the Dies R Us store right HERE.  Next I added Nuvo Morning Dew drops to the middle of the sun, above you can see what it looks like before it dries.  Below is one more look at my finished card:

I hope you enjoyed my card today!  I had so much fun making it!

Summers in Texas are so hot - especially in July!

Thank goodness for air-conditioning!  

Thanks for stopping by!

Here's my list of supplies:

Carta Bella Beach Day paper pack                   Impression Obsession Hello Summer Die           

                                      

Cheapo Dies - flip flops                                      Big Shot Machine

                                       

Zig Two Way Glue Pen

Don't forget to come join in the fun at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog. There's a new challenge theme offered on the 1st and 15th of each month and one lucky randomly drawn winner will receive a gift voucher prize to the Dies R Us Store.

For your convenience, all the important Dies R Us links are provided below.

click below for:

STORE 

 CHALLENGE BLOG

  FACEBOOK

  INSPIRATION BLOG

FRIENDS OF DIES R US PINTEREST PAGE

I will enter this in:
Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge
Simon Says Monday Challenge