An inspired valentine

Today’s card is a Valentine that was inspired by the Tuesday Trigger Challenge. 

I love the colors and pattern of the paper (lid top?), the sweet little white fudge hearts, and the colors of the ribbon!

I used the scallops from the fluted cups, the pattern and colors of the paper (with the help of a Rubbernecker stamp), the hearts, and the ribbon colors as a jumping off point for my card.

The stamped image--under the die cut heart window is from Rubbernecker Stamp Company. I colored it with colored pencils.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Floral Circle SKU:507-02 by Rubbernecker
• Paper: various cardstocks and dp from My Mind's Eye (red/pink)
• Ink: StazOn Jet Black
• Accessories: heart and corner punches, spellbinders dies, colored pencils, home made glimmer mist (perfect pears + water), foam tape

Thanks Moxie Fab World for the fantastic inspiration!

~Juliana

Paper Piecing & Pennants

Has there ever been a technique that you are slow to try out?  For me it is pennants!  I think they are so darn cute on other folk’s creations, but I had never incorporated them into my own…till today!

Materials and details:

• Surprise Juniper and sentiment from Starving Artistamps;
• StazOn Jet black;
• Designer papers from: Cosmo Cricket, Chatterbox, DCWV, and My Mind’s Eye;
• Punches from Martha Stewart, EK Success, and $ spot at Michael’s;
• Foam tape and Liquid Pearls (lemon yellow); and colored pencils;

Juniper’s dress and headband are paper pieced from a yellow patterned paper with white pin dots.  The pennants were cut by hand, inked and sanded from the same paper.

I love her party shoes!  Did you have little mary janes when you were younger??  I only had black ones—but my daughters have have many colors through the years—FUN!

Thanks for stopping by, today!

~Juliana

Jewel Tone Flowers

Moxie Fab World is having a few color challenges…and this one was calling my name!

Though I couldn’t find the specific colors in my local stores, I found very close matches in my stash.

Materials:

• Garden Box Set (SKU:509), one flower from Create a Garden set; and Garden Phrase Set (SKU:508); all from Rubbernecker Stamp Company;
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Concord Grape; Black Soot; and Broken China); Stampin’ Up! Classic Ink (Summer Sun);
• Stickles (diamond)
• Foam tape
• Stampin’ Up! Very Vanilla Cardstock; Dark purple cardstock (unknown)

I stamped the boxed flowers on cardstock and hand trimmed them.  I stamped the flower and the sentiment in the center of the main card.  The 3 boxes were attached with foam tape.  The main card was attached to the dark purple card base and stickles were applied to each flower center.

A clean and simple card (CAS) that lets the colors really shine!

Since these stamps are from Rubbernecker Stamp Company…I wanted to take a moment to welcome 3 new design team members to the Rubbernecker Team!

Maria Gurnsey

Jacquie Peifer

Jenny Erickson

I hope you can take a moment to visit each of them!  All three of them are so very talented and the Rubbernecker Family is so blessed that they are sharing with us!

Have a great day!

~Juliana

It’s just one of those days…

Yeah, some days it is.

Stamps: Drama Queen sentiment; Madge and sofa by DoodleFactory; ALL from Starving Artistamps;

Paper: Bazzill cardstock and My Minds Eye patterned paper;

Ink: StazOn Jet Black;

Accessories: foam tape, colored pencils; corner rounder;

I am hopin’ that today is not “one of those days” for you today!
~Juliana

Shades of White

I love color.  I love to color.  Basically, I cannot leave anything white!  When I moved into this house, ALL the walls were white!  Once I got a few painted, I INSTANTLY felt better—and actually more at home. 

But…

There was THIS challenge on the Moxie Fab World Blog.

That is one WHITE cake!  I love how, though there isn’t any color, you don’t miss it because of the texture!

So I came up with this:

The images are from the Juniper and Jupiter stamps from Starving Artistamps.  The image is colored with colored pencils—using as little color as I dared.  If you look closely one of the layers is stamped with the “ornate tooled leather” background stamp (also from Starving Artistamps).

Other materials I used to continue the “white on white” theme:

Martha Stewart Hydrangea punches; Spellbinders die; Liquid Pearls (white opal); Stickles (crystal); clear glitter embossing powder; Adirondack Pigment Ink Pad (snow cap); foam tape; Perfect Pearls (perfect pearl) and water in a misting bottle;

Aren’t they a sweet couple?

Thanks Cath for the great inspiration—and the push to get me out of my color dependency!

~Juliana

Fresh Eggs!

Well, not really…

Below is a gift set for my husbands secretary.  She raises chickens so I thought she would appreciate a set of cards using my “Kittie Kit-Cause a Scene-Chicken Coop” set.

Materials:

• Kittie Kit-Cause a Scene-Chicken Coop stamp set from Rubbernecker.com;
• StazOn Jet Black for outlines and Tim Holtz Distress Ink-refills to watercolor
• Watercolor paper; Cosmo Cricket DP; Not quite navy SU! cardstock; Pre-folded cards from Michaels;
• Foam tape and Martha Stewart border punch; Spellbinders dies; May Arts Ribbon;

If you haven’t tried a Kittie Kit—I highly suggest trying one (the Outdoor Master is a good place to start).  They are fun and easy to use.

Thanks for stopping by!

~Juliana

Rejoice!

One of the other churches in our community is celebrating 100 years as a congregation this year.  One of our church leaders commissioned me to make a card “from all of us to all of them”.

I like the lighthouse theme and how it relates to a church (or what a church is meant to be): a light in the darkness; a guide in a storm.  So, with this theme in mind I set out to create this card:

The stamp was designed by Donna Duquette, one of my fellow design team members from Starving Artistamps.

• Stamp: Donna's Lighthouse from Starving Artistamps;
• Color Medium: Watercolor;
• Other Materials: watercolor paper, stickles; Judikins’ Diamond Glaze;

The inside of the card accordion folds out to let MANY people sign and still have room for a greeting.  I will not attach the front till we (our congregation) have all signed it, so fingerprints on the front image won’t be a problem.  Also, the ribbon on the front is left a little long since there will be some handling before the card is sent.  I will re-trim the ribbon before sending.

I have done a few “from the group” cards before, and this method seems to work best.

Thanks for stopping by, today, I hope this post was a blessing to you!

~Juliana

Brrrr!

Happy New Year!

Today I am using the layout from Mojo Monday #171;

This card uses an image from the new "Juniper and Jupiter" stamp set from Starving Artistamps.
The paper is from Reminisce and the letters are from American Crafts.  I colored the image with colored pencils.

Isn’t he a cutie!

I hope your new year starts off warm!!

~Juliana