Let's Celebrate Freedom Blog Hop Reminder

Let's Celebrate Freedom Blog Hop

July 1st to July 6

We want you to join us for a week of techniques from The Hens' Den Design Team; each Design Team member will be showing you how they made something and in the process give you a look at different ways of documenting such a wonderful day in the lives of Americans.

The blog hop will start on the 1st of July and end on the 6th of July. Here is what you need to do.

You will start HERE at The Hens' Den Blog; each DT Member will have the next link on their blog that you need to move onto. You need to leave a comment on each blog so that we know you were there.  The LAST stop is to go to our FB page and leave a comment about the blog hop.

Design Team Members

The Hens' Den

Anita Mulcahey

Moriah Macdonald

Carolyn Lontin

Lori McClellan

Janet Bagnall

Nicolle Kramer

Charlie LaBonte

Facebook Page for The Hens' Den

On Sunday, July 7th, we will pick one random person who visited all the blogs and they will be our winner.

What do you win you ask!!!  A bag full of goodies from Tim Holtz , Dyan Reaveley and Claudine Hellmuth Distress Ink, Distress Stain, Dylusions Ink, Distress Paint, Studio Acrylic paint and a hand full of tags to play with.You will have fun getting messy and inky, so have those baby wipes and paper towels handy.

We hope you will join us and have lots of fun.

Dynamic Duos #59 challenge

Hey:

It's Saturday and time for the new challenge over at Dynamic Duos.  This week, you get to pick one color to go with Basic Gray and as you can see, my choice was pink.  It was a hard choice though because gray goes with so many colors.    

I hope you head over and join in on the fun.  You have until Thursday at noon to enter and remember, you can use a neutral color along with the two main colors.

Have a great weekend.

Janet

Mabry Mill featuring Teresa Collins' Memories collection

Teresa Collins' Memories

Mabry Mill layout

Created by Janet G. Bagnall

Hi everyone:

I hope you are all enjoying this week so far.  It has been hard getting back from vacation, but I made it through the week :)  Speaking of vacation, I have created a layout of Jim (which rarely happens) taken while on vacation.  We drove down the Blue Ridge Parkway and along the way stopped at Patrick's favorite spot, Mabry Mill.  It was rainy that day, so Jim insisted on carrying an umbrella (luckily, it didn't rain while walking about - it waited until we go back to the car).  I don't prepare many layouts with Jim or myself, but am really glad I did this one because with this collection, it turned out great.

The one neat thing about this collection is there are folders to use.  Now, I have to be honest here and say that I really struggled with those because I have never used them before.  I asked my friend and fellow DT member, Nicolle, for some suggestions and she said to stuff things in them and such, so I took her idea and place one of the folders behind the larger one that the picture lays on.  It then dawned on me that I have no room for journaling, so came up with the idea of putting the journaling inside that folder.  I used the Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow tabs to make it open up easier and the clip to keep it closed.  How great is that?  I love it.

When I finished putting everything down, it just didn't look finished, so I decided to go in and distress around it to make it look at little more rustic.  I just love to distress my pages :)

When I picked up the photo from Walgreens they had given me two copies of my picture, but didn't want to throw the extra one away, so I popped up one to give it some dimension.  I've never done that before but do believe I will do it again.

I hope you all enjoy the weekend and head over to The Hens Den to take a look at all the goodies Charlie has for sale.

Supplies:

Teresa Collins Memories 12x12 stickers

Teresa Collins Memories Enamel Dots

Teresa Collins Memories Chipboard and Buttons

Teresa Collins Memories File Folders

Teresa Collins Memories Garland

Teresa Collins Memories - Word Paper

Tim Holtz Distressed Antique Linen Ink

Tim Holtz Distressed Walnut Stain Ink

The Hens Den Let's Celebrate Freedom Blog Hop

We want you to join us over at The Hens' Den for a week of celebrating our freedom.  Each design team member will showcase a different technique and in the process, give you a look at their way of documenting such a special day.

The blog hop will start on July 1st and end on July 6th.  On Sunday, July 7th, we will pick a winner at random from all of those who follow the rules.  Here is how it will work:

You will need to start HERE at The Hens' Den blog, then visit each blog as follows:

Anita Mulcahey

Moriah Macdonald

Carolyn Lontin

Lori McClellan

Janet Bagnall -- YOU ARE HERE

Nicolle Kramer

Charlie LaBonte

Facebook Page for The Hens' Den

You will need to leave a comment on each blog to be eligible for the wonderful goodies up for grabs.  What will you win, you ask?  A bag full of goodies from Tim Holtz, Dyan Reaveley and Claudine Hellmuth Distress Ink, Distress Stain, Dylusions Ink, Distress Pain, Studio Acrylic Paint and a handful of tags to play with.

You will have fun getting messy and inky, so have those baby wipes and paper towels handy :)

We hope you will join us and have lots of fun.

It's that time ...

... for a new color challenge over at Dynamic Duos and I really hope you will join in on the fun.

We had an interesting color challenge this week and I'm not one to usually use these colors, but when you combine them, they work very well together.

This is another one of the cards I made for our friend from work.  I was on vacation last week, so I am anxious to see how her first treatment went - I pray it went well.  I appreciate everyone's kind comments and well wishes for her - I will make sure she knows you are all keeping her in your thoughts and prayers.

Well, we are back home from vacation so I have a lot of cleaning (washing specifically) to do, so I'm off.  Enjoy your Saturday and I hope you stop by with your creation using this weeks colors.

Janet

Hello card featuring Teresa Collins' Memories collection

Teresa Collins' Memories

Hello Card

Hi everyone:

I hope you are all enjoying this week so far.  Me, I'm on vacation, so I do believe I'm having a great one :)  I'm back again using Teresa Collins' Memories collection and it has been so much fun.  

I mean, look at these great details I used in this card.  I am working on a box of upbeat, cheerful cards for a friend from work to brighten her day through the next few weeks and do believe this one will be that - the colors are just great.

I hope you all enjoy the rest of this week and head over to The Hens Den to take a look at all the goodies Charlie has for sale.

Supplies:

Teresa Collins Memories 12x12 stickers
Teresa Collins Memories Enamel Dots
Teresa Collins Memories Flowers paper
Tim Holtz Distressed Ink Dried Marigold

May Arts Sheer Ruffle Edge black ribbon

A pick you up using Dynamic Duos Challenge #57 color challenge

Hi everyone:

It's Saturday and that means it is time for a new color challenge over at Dynamic Duos, which I really hope you will come over and enjoy.

I have a friend who discovered recently she has pancreatic cancer and we are planning on sending her a card every week to try and brighten her day.  I thought the colors for this week would be great because even though one of the colors is black, if you pair it with pear pizzazz, it makes it cheerful (well, it does to me).

I really hope you join in on the fun we have over at Dynamic Duos and have a great week.

Janet

Dynamic Duos Challenge #56

Good morning:

Today's Dynamic Duos color challenge is just lovely.  These are wonderful colors and I really hope you are able to join us this week.

When I started creating my card for this week's challenge, I was at a loss on how to put it together, so I went to my folders that I have saved on my laptop for inspiration (this was before I heard of  Pinterest) and found this wonderful card created by Narelle Farrugia and knew it would be perfect for what I was wanting to do.

This is a short post, got a lot of things going on today, but I hope you all have a great Saturday.

Janet

Happy Birthday Nancy featuring Teresa Collins' Memories collection

Teresa Collins' Memories

Happy Birthday Card

Happy Friday - WOO-HOO :)  I hope you are all ready for the weekend.  I know I am because I'm going to do a lot of creating the next few days.  When Charlie asked us which kit we would like to receive for this month's projects, I looked at the store and Teresa Collins' Memories line kept calling me and am so glad this is the one I picked, because it is lovely.  The colors are just adorable and I love the embellishments that go along with it.

My great friend Nancy celebrated her birthday this week and when I was showing her this kit after it came into the office, I knew I was going to use these goodies for a card for her.  I am really pleased with how it turned out and do believe it went over well :)

I hope you guys have a great weekend and hope you head over to The Hens Den to take a look at the great items Charlie has waiting for you.

Supplies:
Teresa Collins Memories 12x12 stickers
Teresa Collins Memories Enamel Dots
Teresa Collins Memories Flowers paper
May Arts Ribbon Crochet Gray 1.5 in ribbon
Tim Holtz Distressed Ink Dried Marigold

Dynamic Duos Challenge #55 reminder

Happy Tuesday:

Just wanted to remind you about this week's color challenge over at Dynamic Duos - hope to see you there.

Have a great one

Janet

Dynamic Duos Challenge #55

Good Saturday morning:

I hope you all had a great week.  We sure did but am glad the weekend is here.  This week's challenge at Dynamic Duos was a challenging one, I must admit.

I created 4 different cards with these colors and finally decided on this one :)  I used the SU paper daises and colored them in using this weeks colors - I like the sunburst effect.  I used SU silver shimmer smooch spritz on the whisper white cardstock (you can't really see it) to tone it down a bit - it looks really pretty IRL.

I hope you are able to head over and join us this week at Dynamic Duos.

Thanks

Janet

Supplies:
SU whisper white, raspberry ripple and wisteria wonder cardstock
SU baroque textured impressions embossing folder
SU rsapberry ripple stitched satin ribbon
SU Itty Bitty Banner stamp set
SU Bitty Banners Framelits Die
Pearl brads
SU raspberry ripple ink
SU silver shimmer smooch spritz