Silver White Winters~

FLLCNOV, WT243, SC253, stampinB

Welcome! Using Roxies fun sketch this week I came up with this; rather country feel, for the stampin B's Christmas card theme. The beautiful image is Flourishes Doves and Holly colored in pencil and mounted with foam tape. I added faux stitching around the edges. The Pearls and corners are my stick-ons for the WT 243 challenge. Flourishes has a Favorite Things challenge where we are to be inspired by the words to the song from The Sound of Music. Silver white Winters that melt into Spring seem to fit the feel of this cozy card.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things

Well, I've shared a few of my favorite things with you today, and hope you've enjoyed! Thanks for stopping in;-)
~Jeanne

The Beauty of Simplicity~

Welcome to the weekend! Today I have a project that was particularly enjoyable for me as I was able to work in my favorite colors of purple! The Divine Divas, and the SCS WT242 challenged us to use the color purple in our work. I followed the Mojo Monday sketch design, to come up with this beautiful Iris card.

My image is a digital image I found in the Cottage - maybe it will be one of the New Digital Stamps Belinda will have in the store soon."
The background panel was embossed with the Cuttlebug script folder, then I sponged on burnt umber ink lightly to bring out the texture. The focal image was colored with Prisma pencil, then cropped and embossed using square nesties. A simple sentiment was added to complete this clean and simple project.
Thanks so much for stopping by - hope you have a great weekend!
~Jeanne

Challenges:DDIC15 MOJO111 WT242 Digital Tuesday 31

Recipes:
Stamps: Digital from Clear Artistic Stamps, Sentiment Studio G Alphabet
Ink: Palette Burn Umber, CTMH Outdoor denim
Card Stock: Bazzil, CTMH, Neenah classic
Accessories: pewter pearls Kaiser Craft, Cuttlebug Script emb. folder
Technique: Prisma Pencil

Just a quick note~

FTTC40 Cottage Rumble 18

Happy Friday! In the Cottage Studio another Rumble has started! Today Jeanie is our host, and she has challenged us to working with Inchies! I had heard of inchies, but really had no idea just how popular they were. Well thanks to the Google gods I found just thousands of sites pertaining to these tiny little jewels. I ended up casing Cindy Lyles Starlit Studio for some inspiration. She has some wonderful tutorials, and I love her clean and simple style. Per casing rules to change 3 things: Stamp set, No embossing, and cardstock/shimmer papers. For more details on my project and to see more of Inchies from the girls in the studio head over to The Cottage Studio.

Flourishes' Timeless Tuesday challenge this week is to combine a colored image, texture or textures, and any shades of neutrals we want. I've added texture on my background blocks by scoring and embossing, then attaching to the natural linen cardstock from Clear Artistic Stamps.

Thanks for stopping in, and have a great weekend!

~Jeanne

Recipe:
Stamps- Clear Artistic Stamps Stationery in Time
Ink- Close to My Heart Pansy Purple
Cardstock- Clear Artistic Stamps Shimmer, and Linen paper
Accessories- raffia
Technique- Prisma pencil and oms, Spellbinders square nesties

Serenity in nature~

~When God is unseen~
Deuteronomy 31:8 "The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.

What encouraging words! This week Stampin' Sisters in Christ have challenged us to make a card of encouragement. Usually when you feel that God is no where to be seen, is just about the time that God makes himself visible. It only takes a few steps outside my home to see the beauty in His magnificent and awesome creation that is the source that continually inspire me.

Poppies from Sketching Stampers Digi Stamps was colored with Prisma pencil. My color choice was inspired by a picture in my Joann's flyer this week. To create the background I used a rounded rectangle cutout for a template, and sponged burnt umber ink onto the Colonial White cs from CTMH. Using an unknown wheat grass stamp from my stash, I inked in Outdoor Denim allowing the image to overlap the poppies. The Serenity sentiment is from Clear Artistic Stamps Delicate Moments. To balance the card out I added butterflies using Martha Stewart butterfly punch.

I'm so glad you could stop in today. I hope you have a wonderful week.
~Jeanne

Additional Challenges:
2Red Bananas- colors red, yellow, orange, and brown
Digital Tuesday 30- colors kraft, orange, and any other
Clean and Simple 37- sympathy
SCS Stampin B's #30 Thanksgiving/autumn

Birthday Wishes

FTTC39

I've been browsing the galleries, and I when I saw Heather Telfords beautiful work, I was really taken back by this simple, but striking card she did. Here is my version.

Per casing rules, the three changes to my card are the stamp, sentiment, and pierced corners.
Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenges us to use border punches or Piercibilities. I've gone very conservative on this piece by just doing some single line piercing in the corners. The image is Flourishes Gerbera Daisies, and stamped on linen cs from Clear Artistic Stamps, using Olive ink. The cropped image was stamped on Neenah Solar White cs using Burnt Umber, then colored w/Prisma pencil. The Happy Birthday sentiment if from the Sweet Violet set also from Flourishes.

I hope you will give Heather's blog a visit, her work is very inspiring!
Thanks for stopping by today!
~Jeanne

Halloween Fun~

The kids are getting ready, and so am I! My three wonderful Granddaughters are planning for their big night of silly costumes and lots of candy. I will definitely be ready for them! Jack-O-Lantern Penny is the free stamp I won from 2 Red Bananas Challenge a couple of weeks ago. HOW CUTE IT THAT! Perfect timing - it came just in time to make the girls cards. This week 2 Red Bananas challenge is to use a Square, the color Red, and 3 buttons! Whew!!! Very specific I'd say! Well, my red is the Barn Red type, and I've used a 4" x 4" easel card with the three buttons to create the stop. My image was colored with Prisma pencils. The background was inked and distressed. You can find the directions for making this easel card here<... One more challenge for this card is for Our Creative Corner where we are to create a card that related to your favorite Holiday books and movies. Well, pumpkins always remind me of It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.

I hope you have a great Halloween with your kiddo's and be safe!
Thanks for stopping by,
~Jeanne

Recipe:
Stamps: 2 Red Bananas
Ink: Palette Burnt Umber, CTMH Outdoor Denim
Cardstock/DP: CTMH It's a Guy Thing collection, SU Basic Black
Accessories: Spellbinders tags, Craft Button Spring collection from CTMH
Technique: Easel fold card, Gamsol Magic Prisma Pencil

Crumpled Flower Fun~

Happy Monday! Today is my day to host in the Cottage Studio, and I've prepared a really fun and easy card using the Joy Fold technique. But, before you head over to the Studio, I'd like to show you how to make crumpled flowers for embellishments to add to your projects. These could be used in card making or scrapbook pages. I tend to like worn and distressed textures in my work, and really fell in love with the look of these crumpled flowers.

You will need three sizes of cut out flowers for this project. I used my digital cutter, but you could just free hand a simple flower in three sizes. Mine measure aprox. 1", 2", and 2 3/4". I used the left over cut out as a template for more variety of flowers.

Cut a piece of cs slightly larger than each template, and then crumple the paper.

Sand the paper.

Stack all 3 together and either glue, use a brad, or in this case I secured with a button and twine.

Starting with the bottom flower, start crumpling it more by pushing it in towards the center. Do each layer until it looks the way you want. At this point you can add a little chocolate ink to distress it more.

You can make singles, or reshape the flowers for different looks. Let your imagination go wild!
Thanks for checking in today, and be sure to head over the The Cottage Studio for a complete tutorial on The Joy Fold Card<.....

This card qualifies for Just us Girls challenge to make a 3-d flower - How perfect is that!
~Jeanne