We make the difference

Hi everyone:

I hope everyone had a great week and looking forward to a new one.  Our daughter, Elizabeth, asked me to create some cards for her this past weekend so she could write a note to the 7th grade teachers at the school she teaches.  Elizabeth was given the honor of be being named "lead teacher" for the 7th grade at her middle school and we are so proud of her.  She had gotten so discouraged a few years back and had almost stopped teaching, but she put in an application at the last minute (and last minute means 5 days before the 2018-2019 school season started) at the school she is at now and got it.  She has now informed us that this is the place she is going to retired from.  She loves it and I'm so excited for her.  

 

I had attended a stamping retreat given by my friend Hattie a few months back and we created a card like this as part of the make n take and when she saw it, she was like, "YES, that's what I want".  I took what I had created before and changed up the colors and designer paper - she asked me to make 7 in total. 

I really love this card because not only is it a great card for a group of teachers or any type of work team, but it's also great for all types of crafters, because when we all work together, we DO make a difference and a great one at that.

 Have a great week

Janet

Supplies:

Cardstock - Stampin UP thick whisper white, night of navy, calypso coral, mint macaroon, granny green apple, daffodil delight and rich razzleberry.

Designer Series Paper:  Stampin Up come sail away, bird ballad, perennial essence, garden lane, botanical butterfly

Stamp Set - Stampin Up Artfully Aware

Embossing Folders - Stampin Up Tufted Dynamic; Stampin Up Tin Tile Dynamic; Stampin Up Subtle Dynamic

Miscellaneous - Hero Arts oval die cut; Gina K Designs connect glue; Gina K Designs tape runner; Stampin Up dimensionals; varies twine & ribbon from Stampin Up; Tim Holtz Trimmer; Teflon bone folder; Cuttlebug die cutting machine

Goodbye to a co-worker

Good day everyone:

We said goodbye to a co-worker yesterday and was asked to create a card for him to say good luck.  If you know me, you know I have trouble making masculine cards, but the more I do them, the more comfortable I get.  This one turned out great because it is calming and I think signifies strength, which is something Paul has - strength and determination.

When I was putting the images together, I wasn't happy with the background as I thought it was too bare, so decided to take the smaller tree in this stamp set and make my own background - I enjoy doing that.  I even decorated the inside of the card, even though the strip along the bottom is not straight 😢, but oh well, that's okay

This is a short post because since it's so hot outside here in SC, I'm going to stay indoors and create all day long😀

See you soon

Janet

Supplies:

paper - Stampin Up crumb cake, Stampin Up very vanilla; Stampin Up early espresso
ink - Catherine Pooler Icing on the Cake; Simon Says Khaki
stamp sets - Stampin Up Itty Bitty Greetings, Verve Stamps Kind Words, Stampin Up Golden Afternoon
miscellaneous - Taylor Expressions ink blending brushes; Stampin Up button brads; Gina K Connect Glue; fun foam;

Very special birthday cards

Good day everyone:

Today, I'm going to share 3 very special birthday cards with you.  My wonderful friend, Nina, has been asking me to create birthday cards for her family for the past several years now and I have enjoyed it so much every year.  She started off by asking me to make her oldest son a card and then when she had her twins, I started creating theirs.  Nina gives the children a themed birthday party each year and she lets me know ahead of time what the theme is going to be and I create a card surrounding that theme.  This year, she has asked me to create a card for her husband as well, so I created an extra one.  

Her daughter, Ani, is having a beach themed party in pink and purple.  I made this card into a shaker card and had so much fun creating this card - I haven't created many beach themed cards and have to make more for sure.

Her son, Hamilton, is having a party at Dave and Buster's, which is an arcade place here in Columbia, and the birthday theme is tennis against baseball (fun theme, I thought).  Now, I had to get a little creative with this one because I didn't have an arcade theme stamp so Patrick helped me find some images online and did some fancy Photoshop editing to change the color and add the year.  I stamped the happy birthday on there and fussy cut it out (should have used my scan n cut, but didn't think of it until later).  I found some tennis ball and baseball equipment clip art to create the background.  The game viewer is covered with glossy accents to give it that window effect.  This was such a fun one to come up with.

 Nina also wanted me to create a card for her husband with the world on the front.  Well, I thought I had this wonderful world stamp, but come to find out I had given it away, but again, the world wide web helped me out 😀 here.  I took an image and used several green, blue, yellow and gold gansi tambi watercolors to give it some depth.  I really like this one.

These were just so much fun and am so excited for next year to create more fun and creative cards.  She gave me possibilities for her oldest son, so I'll be sharing that when finished.

Thanks Nina for asking me to do these for you, I truly enjoy doing these for you and your wonderful family.

Janet

Belated Happy Birthday

Happy Sunday everyone:

I hope everyone is having a great weekend.  I haven't been able to do much creating this weekend, but that's okay, because sometimes we all need a day to recharge :)

I had a friend who celebrated her birthday last week but I was out of town and didn't get a card made for her until I returned.  I have been do a lot of alcohol inks lately and love this color combo so thought it would be perfect to create a belated birthday card for her.

I'm going to keep this short because I'm off to start a new day of my weekend.  Enjoy

Janet

Supplies:

Paper - Stampin Up Thick whisper white; YUPO paper; Gina K black onxy

Alocholol Ink - watermelon; pink sherbet; shell pink; gold; blending solution

die cut - Simon Says stamp sweet tulip die; Avery Elle Custom Panels Die Set

miscellaneous - Tim Holtz glass mat; versamark ink; NUVO crystal glaze; Brutus Monroe alabaster embossing power; WOW embossing heat gun; cuttlebug die cutting machine; Gina K connect glue

"Three times a charm"

Well, this is my 3rd post this week and the post title meaning gives me the encouragement to keep on going (as well as the card hop we participated in yesterday).  Let's keep our fingers crossed that this saying will bring us luck in keeping me going.  So far, so good with these 3 posts 😃

For my card today, I'm using inspiration from my good friend Debbie Henderson.  She shared a card she made a few days ago that made my light bulb go off because this is such a beautiful card.

I have a friend from work whose birthday was yesterday, but I went off and forgot it at home (I was letting the nuvo drops dry), which I was so sad about, but luckily I did have one at work to send her.  

I am usually one that likes to add a lot to my cards, but I really enjoyed the simplicity of this card and the colors are so pretty together.  I will be using this combo more often, I'm sure.

I hope you have enjoyed my come back this week and I'm going to be working this weekend to have more to come next week.

Have a great weekend.

Janet

Supplies:

Paper - Stampin Up thick very vanilla card stock; gray granite card stock; terracotta tile card stock

Ink - gray granite; terracotta tile

Stamp sets - Stampin Up Itty Bitty Greetings; Stampin Up All Adorned

Nuvo - Strawberry jewel drops; silver lining crystal drops

Miscellaneous - Fun foam to give dimension; Tim Holtz trimmer; Gina K connect glue

 

Encouragement Card Hop

Well hello everyone:

I hope all is well with everyone.  I am back for a second post in one week and am so excited to be because I am part of a fun "ENCOURAGEMENT" card hop.

I recently went to an On The Make Crafty Event hosted by Koren Wiskman and Mary Polanco in Morehead City, NC and had such a wonderful time (I'm sure people are tired of me talking about it by now, but I just can't because it was such a great time).  These two wonderful and beautiful ladies are a true inspiration to me and was just so excited to meet them and make new friends while I was there as well. 

Not only was it a great time, but it started up my creating mojo 😍

The other aspect of getting my mojo back is participating in this Encouragement Card Hop hosted by Courtney Keebler, Mary Polanco and Jenn from Scrapbena Creations.  It's not the typical blog or video hop, but a card hop.  It is an event for ALL crafters regardless of whether you blog, YouTube or no social media at all.  The three ways to participate is by a YouTube video, a blog post or you could have mailed in a card that will be featured in a video coming up soon.  Isn't that wonderful, especially for those that don't do any type of social media.  I still haven't gotten the courage up to do a YouTube video, so am doing this blog post instead 😊.

We were asked to create an encouragement card and it comes at the perfect time because not only am I wanting to encourage other creators, but I have a friend who is going through a tough time and this is going to her to say don't give up on your dreams, to keep on pursuing them and that I'm here for you always.

So thanks Courtney, Mary and Jenn for putting this together because not only is it a great way to get ALL creators to come together and share our creations, but it gets us excited in participating and encouraging creators out there to go create💓😍.

The next person on this hop is Tanya Boser with a video. Head over and watch.  Enjoy !!

Talk soon

Janet

Supplies:

Stamp set - Unity Stamps Let Your Dreams Bloom
Paper - Dollar Tree poster board; Stampin Up Thick White; Gina K black onyx; Vellux Vellum; Clear Vision gold foil
Ink - Gina K. Amalgam Ink; Versamark Ink
Alcholo inks - Ranger Enchanted Alcohol Pearl; Intrique Alcohol Pearl; Gold Mixative
Coloring Mediums - Finetec gold paint; Zig Real Clean Brush Markers:  pale pink, pink, light pink, light carmine, mud green
Adhesive - Gina K connect glue; Tonic funky tape runner; Stampin Up dimensionals
Tools - teflon bone folder; Tim Holtz stamping platform; splatter box; black silver paint brushes #2; Azeilab tweezers
Miscellaneous - Spectrum Noir clear glitter pen; Stampin Up white satin ribbon; Nuvo Crystal clear drops; Finetec gold paint