St. Patrick's Day!

Supplies: sun & rain stamp from Market Street Stamps;
cloud stamp from The Greeting Farm;
Palette Noir and Versamark inks;
rainbow/pot of gold from Jolee's;
Martha Stewart fringing scissors; corner rounder

Nearly forgot to post this! Luckily Lisa's post at dahlhouse designs reminded me :) I knew I had one more St. Pat's card in me for the CREATE challenge!

Yesterday was my class at the Joggins Fossil Centre - we had 10 kids participate, and it was a lot of fun! Luckily I had help - one of Riley's classmates came along, my mother-in-law, and a friend brought her daughter. It made it a lot easier to have more hands on deck, since there were some younger kids who needed more help than I'd thought. Next year (since I was asked to come back - yay!) I may do two classes so that the older kids can do more advanced things. I've taken pictures of the cards we set out to make, but haven't uploaded them yet...because while preparing for the class, my husband replaced part of the bathroom ceiling...and rather more than intended, because while removing the intended part, another piece as large came down too. This old house is held together with spit, I think.

xoxo,
Jessi

Birthday Fishes!

Since Cath posted the latest Moxie Fab World Challenge: The Cure for the Winter Blues, I've been staring at this paper from My Mind's Eye & wondering what I was going to do with it. Then I read this week's CREATE blog challenge to use confetti, and wah-lah, got it! I'm hoping the confetti trend really is on an upswing, because I've been having a hard time finding it the last couple of years, and people really love the fun of shaker cards. Well, really, what's not to love?

Supplies: papers from MME;
super cute blowfish from Imaginisce (from Allison!);
coloured with Prismacolor pencils;
sentiment from Hero Arts;
Palette Noir ink;
microbeads & confetti from stash

Hard to capture, but a slightly better look at the balloon & heart confetti

For the CREATE challenge to use confetti, you've got until Thursday morning (March 8) to email your card & blog post to Paige (details are at the bottom of the quilt-inspired gallery). For the Moxie Fab Cure for the Winter Blues challenge, you have until Sunday March 11 to link up.

xoxo,
Jessi

More Barbles goodness, and my first CREATE challenge!

I've finally added a label for the Barbles posts, because it seems to me there are going to be enough posts to group them together! Now to go through & tag the rest of the posts :)

GO DO IT. You know you wanna!

For this card I was inspired partly by the colours, and partly by the diagonal layout I saw within the photograph:

rose-colored glasses

And, for my first time, I've managed to create something for the CREATE challenge before the deadline. Rolled paper? I'm ALL OVER rolled paper! Here's my card:

Supplies: paper from Basic Grey "Lemonade;"
flowers quilled by me;
white sparkle die-cuts from K & Co;
rhinestone swirls & individual gems from $ store

and pretty much the same picture, but without the envelope.

And a second card, this time just for the rolled paper challenge at CREATE:

Supplies: papers from Basic Grey "Sweet Threads;"
Marvy vase punch;
Martha Stewart banner & leaf frond punch;
sentiment from MFT; stamped with Palette Noir & black EP;
heart doily from Royal;
pearls from $store

xoxo,

Jessi