Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Another Christmas card

Here's a Christmas card I made using leftovers.  When I made my previous batch of cards, I cut one layer the wrong size, and I cut 5 of them before I realized it!  I challenged myself to create a card using the piece of DSP without trimming it.  My solution was to cut it into 4 equal parts.  I flipped 2 of them to show the other side of the paper.  I adhered those to a layer of Early Espresso and wrapped vanilla velvet ribbon around the middle.  This is attached to a Wild Wasabi cardbase.  The medallion is silver glimmer paper with a sentiment from Perfect Punches.
Happy stamping!
Jana Signature

Monday, November 28, 2011

Non-traditional baby card

I made this card for a co-worker who's having a baby boy.  A girl card would have been easy, but I rarely if ever use Bashful Blue.  I saw this sketch online and thought it would be fun.  It's from Create with Connie and Mary (CCMC176).  It was really hard for me to find DSP that would work.  I think this is stretching it a bit for a baby card, but I like how it turned out.  The DSP is Greenhouse Gala (retired), and the stamp set is called So Many Scallops.  It's a long-retired SAB set.  I used markers to color it.
Happy stamping!
Jana Signature

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Mama's birthday card

One of the Creative Crew challenges this month is to make an easel card.  I've never made one before, so I was surprised at how easy it was!  SCS has a great tutorial.   I used Baja Breeze on this card because it's Mama's birthday card, and that's her favorite color.  The base is Blushing Bride.  I stamped the Medallion in Baja Breeze and added Baja Breeze seam binding ribbon.  I put silver glimmer paper on the bottom of the inside of the card and punched the eyelet border punch on the card front so you can see the glimmer paper when the card is closed.  The sentiment from Perfect Punches is popped up, and it holds the card open for display.
Here's a close-up of the star of the card!  It's a rosette; pretty fancy, right?  This was featured in the December Stampin' Success magazine, and I had to try it right away!  You won't believe how easy it is.  I started with a 2 X 8 1/2 piece of Shimmery White cardstock.  I scored it every 1/4" (super easy with Simply Scored).  Next, I punched it with the lace ribbon punch.  After punching, I folded it, alternating the folds (mountain, valley, mountain, valley).  I adhered the 2 ends together then opened it to lay "flat".  I scrunched it into position and adhered it to a small circle of cardstock then added an antique brad.
P.S.  It took 3 stamps to mail this to Mama, and I also added a piece of cardboard to the envelope to protect it.  I hope it worked!
Happy stamping!
Jana Signature

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Workshop projects

Here are the 2 projects we made at Rhonda's workshop Monday night.  They are so fun!
On the left is a punch art Santa that I saw on Dawn Olchefske's blog.  She even posted a picture of all of the pieces!  I love that it uses 6 different punches so I get lots of use out of those things I already have.  We put M&Ms or Smarties into the cello bags.  I folded a punched circle over the top of the bag and stapled it to make sure my candy didn't come out and also to have something to adhere Santa to.
On the right is a nugget purse.  This is from Angie Juda's blog.  Inside is a Hershey's nugget.  We used It's a Wrap Holidays to stamp and wrap an address label around the nugget to dress it up.  The nugget purse measures 5 X 1 1/2, and is scored at 1 1/2, 2 1/2 and 4.  It's a great way to use up scraps, and the Simply Scored board makes it a snap to whip out a bunch of these!
Happy stamping!
Jana Signature

Saturday, November 5, 2011

One of my Christmas cards this year

Here's one of the Christmas cards I'll be sending this year.  It's mostly based on a card I made previously for a Creative Crew sketch challenge.  I just changed the tag to a layered image.  The stamps used are Contempo Christmas and Perfect Punches.
The card base is Very Vanilla with a Real Red base behind it.  The Holly Berry Bouquet DSP is layered onto Wild Wasabi.  I love the pop of silver glimmer paper behind the sentiment!  The star on the tree is colored with So Saffron and has Dazzling Details on it.
Happy stamping!
Jana Signature

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Non-traditional Christmas card

Here's my non-traditional Christmas card.  Can you guess why I love it?  First of all I love the colors; no surprise there!  Second, I LOVE the silver glimmer paper.  Can I use it on every card?  I hope so!  Third, I love that it's a simple card but has a few details that add a lot: ticket corner punch, scallop border, embossing on the card front, and Frost White shimmer paint.
The color combo is a dynamic duo: Wisteria Wonder and Elegant Eggplant.  The card base is 4 1/4 X 11, scored at 5 1/2.  I ran the card front through the Snowburst embossing folder.  It shortened the front of the card, so I used the scallop border punch on that as well as the Elegant Eggplant layer behind the silver shimmer paper.
I stamped the pine tree in Elegant Eggplant ink onto Wisteria Wonder, then I stamped again with Frost White shimmer paint.
Happy stamping!
Jana Signature