New release day at Bugaboo Stamps!

Busy blog day!

My Snarky Anniversary & blog candy post

My Tuesday Morning Sketches post

My Shopping our Stash post

It's my last new release day as a guest designer for Bugaboo Stamps, and this week we're showing off this darling ChiBi Ballerina:

Supplies: Bugaboo ChiBi Ballerina; Spectrum Noir markers; classic small oval Nesties; Shrinky Dink clear; AC thickers #3; Basic Grey letter stickers; Sakura Stardust glitter pen; bling strips from Dollarama; various glitter, microbeads, and confetti for the shaker contents

So hard to get a good photo of a shaker card! This is for a special little three year old, so lots of glitter & girly goodness. I sparkled up the letters of her name :)

I'm entering this over at Quirky Craft Challenges for their Window challenge!

xoxo,

Jessi

My Favourite Christmas Stamp

I've had this stamp for years, and it comes out to play a lot - who doesn't love a cute little puppy, and the sentiment? Right up my alley! I'm entering this card in two challenges - Naughty or Nice Winter Holidays  and Quirky Crafts' Shake It.

Supplies: stamps from Inkadinkado; Memento Tuxedo Black ink; Spectrum Noir markers; Bo Bunny paper; classic small circle Nesties; sequins, microbeads, and iridescent glitter flakes for shaker contents

Usually I colour the snow behind the dog yellow - but this time I was thinking of my dog, who will approach something icky & then look at me pretty much like this when I say YUCK! (I interpret this look as saying "but MOOOOMMMM, it looks delicious!")

Quirky Crafts Challenges

There'll be a few more posts today - after catching up with all the cards I had to get finished for orders I had to have some free play :)

xoxo,

Jessi

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry!

I pointed out the Quirky Crafts challenge to my Snarky Sisters when it went live - wine? Sounds like our kind of challenge! I thought about it for a while, but didn't come up with an idea I liked until I saw the sketch this morning at Jingle Belles - designed by  the fab Amy Tsuruta - and BOOM I had my plan!

I won this FUN stamp set and gold ink from my sistah Lindsey a few weeks ago - I believe the stamps are from Simon Says?  Perfect for this:

Supplies: Stamps & ink from Lindsey! (gold Brilliance pigment ink); Versamark; Festive Berries & Mowed Lawn distress inks; clear EP; Memento Tuxedo Black ink 

To make sure I didn't end up smearing the gold ink, I embossed it with clear EP - I inked the sentiment stamp with Versamark first, and then the Distress inks, to get a clearer impression.

Here's the Jingle Belles sketch:


And the Quirky Crafts challenge!
xoxo,
Jessi

Quirky Crafts Challenges - Reminder Post

Welcome to the mid-challenge post for the current Quirky Crafts Challenges Christmas in July challenge! (That's a lot of challenge. lol!) Besides making a Christmas card, we'd like you to use Dies or Punches when creating!

For my card this week I've used the 12 Days of Christmas - Day 4 digi stamp from Delicious Doodles, from Stitchy Bear Stamps, this fortnight's sponsor: 

Supplies: digi image from Delicious Doodles; paper from Memory Box; Spectrum Noir & Bic markers; PTI snowflake stamps & die; Versamark & clear EP; scrap blue vellum; Martha Stewart branch punch; Bow Easy; twine & bells from stash 

I've used both dies and punches this time, to create a little swag for the birds to nestle in. And I mean the decorating swag, not the ridiculous teenager "SWAG" that goes with YOLO and idiots. lol!

The bottom layer is three stamped, embossed, & die cut vellum snowflakes. I then added the punched branches, and topped it off with a loopy twine bow & some bells sewn in place. I love adding bells to Christmas cards :)

I hope that you can join in with this terrific challenge - and I thank the Quirky team once again for having me play along  :) You've got until July 19th to link up, and there are PRIZES! Just sayin' :)

xoxo,
Jessi

Guest Designer at Quirky Crafts Challenges!

Hurricane Arthur hit us a little less severely than expected, but we still had plenty of wind (and power outages throughout the day). I don't remember having a hurricane this far north this early in the year. Thankfully besides wind & rain, Arthur brought some relief from the extreme humidity & heat, so I can possibly get back to making cards without sweating on them :)

All that aside, I am super excited to be the Guest Designer for Quirky Crafts Challenges #14!  The theme is Christmas in July with Dies/Punches. 

I've used Bunny in Stocking from sponsor Delicious Doodles on my card, as well as my trusty oval Nesties & a sweet heart from Lil Inkers:

Supplies: Bunny in Stocking digi from Delicious Doodles; Spectrum Noir markers; white & red Fun Flock; classic small oval Nesties; SRM stickers 'merry'; paper from Bo Bunny; Corner Chomper

The heart was in a bag of die-cuts from my dear Barb and was the perfect size for adding the sentiment. 

The Quirky Challenges run for 2 weeks, so you have until July 19th to come & play along! Thanks to all the lovely designers at QCC for having me :)

xoxo,
Jessi

Merry Monday & Quirky Crafts Challenges

I know, I know, just when I get everybody expecting my Merry Monday cards on Sunday I start posting them on Thursdays. Sorry. I hate to be predictable ;) I have two cards to share, one for the white-on-white challenge at Merry Monday, and both for the Stencils/Masks challenge at Quirky Crafts. 

For both cards I tried some new stuff. The Christmas card I used snow paint on the stencil. It gave dimension very much like embossing paste:

Supplies: Tim Holtz stencil; Aleene's Glitter Snow paint; Inkadinkado Angel stamp & white detail, moonstone EP; Versamark; Flourishes "joy" stamp; Labels 4 Nesties; wilton doily; pearls & lace from stash

Since it was so hard to get a good photograph I did an auto-contrast edit in Picasa to show the details a little better:

Embossing shine & look at the great texture from the snow paint!

For my second card, I combined masking & stenciling - I wouldn't necessarily do it again, though, because BOY WHAT A MESS! I masked off the butterfly shape and stenciled on top, and the moisture in the embossing paste meant the post-it tore when I peeled it off. It did work, just that I got yellow EVERYWHERE.

Supplies: Making Memories stencil; PTI stamps; Memento Tuxedo Black ink; Mustard Seed, Squeezed Lemonade, and Spiced Marmalade distress inks; yellow glitter fabric paint; Wplus9 banner die; Recollections pleated ribbon; Dreamweaver embossing paste; Ranger Yellow re-inker

I mixed several drops of Yellow ink into a dab of embossing paste with a toothpick, and then applied it to the stencil with my fingers. I suppose I was going to have yellow all over the place anyhow :) I peeled the butterfly mask off right away, as I've noticed the paste works really well as glue once it's dried. After it WAS dry, I stamped the layers of the butterfly. 

The boys are finally settling into a summer routine of sorts, so we're a little bit calmer. To celebrate, Riley and Rob are both sick (and now I'm coming down with it too - feels like I swallowed glass). It's always something, right? At least everybody's in a half-decent mood from all the sinus medication!

xoxo,

Jessi

Quirky Fairy

First of all, I've got to apologize to all my blog buddies - I marked my bloglovin' feed as read. The last couple weeks have been crazy town and I was never ever going to catch up. I figured a fresh start might help. June is the month of transitions, and kids with autism+transitions....well, you can imagine.

Anyway, onto the crafty bit. Karen (my Snarky Sister) is the guest designer this month for Quirky Craft Challenges, and they've got a great fairy challenge going - and I lurrrve fairies :) And since fairies have wings (whoa) this is also perfect for the current (for another 10 hours) Open-Minded Crafting Challenge, Things with Wings.

Supplies: Fairy & sentiment from Flourishes; cloud dies from Paper Smooches; Spectrum Noir & Bic markers; Broken China & Shabby SHutters distress inks; Picket Fence & Tumbled Glass distress stickles

OOOH, SHINY!

For the Quirky challenge, you also had to choose three items from the fairy ring:

I've added a punched circle for my sun, the clouds, and LOTS of sparkles with Stickles. Actually, I guess I used 4, since I also added a sentiment. 

xoxo,

Jessi