Jackson with a girlie touch

Hi folks,

While I wait for it to dry up a little more outside so I can start this year's garden planting, I decided to pop in and share another creation (or two) using the Jackson papers from Close To My Heart.

I figure this first card can work for either a guy or a gal.

For these next three, I wanted to show that you COULD dress up the Jackson papers a little differently and make them a little more feminine. The teal zipper ribbon that I got during last year's Ribbon Revelry promo was perfect for the task. The little eyelet accents in the zipper are great.

And, let's not forget, the flowers from the Junebug puffies!

Yippee! Four more cards for the stash!

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, white card base
• patterned papers: CTMH Jackson
• stamps: CTMH Happy Everything - Operation Smile (D1653)
• embellishments: teal zipper ribbon, CTMH Junebug Puffies

Challenges for these cards:

• Sister Act Card Challenge #108: Anything Goes
• Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes Birthday

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Jackson and Dizzy Circles

Hi folks!

Back again to share a couple more cards I made using the Jackson papers from Close To My Heart - again with my favourite style of card - CAS (Clean And Simple).

Clean. Simple. Pretty. Same layout - just changed the orientation. Two more for the stash.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, white card base
• patterned papers: CTMH Jackson
• stamps: CTMH Dizzy Circles (C1610)
• embellishments: Glacier Extra Thick Twine

Challenges for these cards

• Simply Create Too: Keep it Simple

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Playing with the CTMH Jackson papers

Hi everyone,

If you are a regular follower of the blog, then you know I sometimes get a little carried away when I start playing with some new papers.

That was DEFINITELY the case during a recent crafty play date with my pal Tanya.

All I'm going to say is that these are the FIRST ten cards that I made (I'm saving the rest to post later).

There's five each of two different designs (from a card workshop for the Close To My Heart Jackson papers). You know me though - no two cards can be the same so I played around with the orientation, embellies, and stamps so they were all a little different. A great way to quickly build a stash of cards.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, CTMH White Card Base
• patterned papers: CTMH Jackson
• stamps: CTMH "Finding the Words" (D1646) - yep, just one stamp set for all of these cards. Awesome don't you think? 
• embellishments: CTMH Oceanside Sequins, Glacier Extra Thick Twine, Teal Shimmer Trim, Brave Enamel Shapes, Resin Flowers

Challenges for these cards:

• Seize the Birthday: Anything goes birthday
• Simon Says: Anything Goes
• Tuesday Throwdown: Anything Goes

As always, thanks for stopping by!

And the GIU winners are

Hi everyone,

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend! If you stopped by to see who the lucky two winners are of the twenty five stamps from Unity Stamp Company then I won't make you wait. The winners are:

From the Day 4 post: heidiscoll
From the Day 1 post: Teresa Doyle

You both have two weeks to send me your snail mail details (there's an email link in my sidebar) so I can pass it along to the fine folks at Unity.

I figured I'd wind up the GIU winners announcement post with a few more cards featuring stamps from Unity.

I'm playing along with the current Unity {Be Inspired}Challenge with these.

Here's the photo for the colour inspiration challenge:

And here's my card:

Here's the card sketch challenge:

And here's my card:

card #1 details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, white card stock base
• stamp: "Happiness will find you", flowers coloured with Copic YG21, YG23, V000, V01, V04, V06
• patterned paper: My Mind's Eye "Up and Away"
• card stock: CTMH "Thistle"
• embellishment: fabric butterfly from my stash
• layout: Freshly Made Sketches #187
• tools: Stampin' Up Ticket Corner Punch

card #2 details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, white card stock base
• stamp: "You make me ... mushy". I paper pieced the mushrooms.
• patterned papers and embellishment: Basic Grey "Herbs & Honey" (a perfect paper collection to go with these stamps. Thanks Tanya!)

As always, thanks for stopping by! Hope to see you again soon!

Growing in Unity - Day 5

Hi Everybody!

Welcome back to the last of my week long posts as the Growing in Unity Gal.

The hardest thing about doing the posts this week has been CHOOSING which stamps to use! As I've said earlier this week, Unity has so many delightful stamps for your card-making (or scrap-booking or art-journaling or mixed media) projects you are bound to find something that suits your taste.

Since my tastes are varied, my collection is also varied. From the cheeky and snarky to the make you giggle to the make you pause, I have them all.

One of my favourites - that really sums up my life philosophy is "Whiskey than Tea". I used it on this card for my sweetie to celebrate fifteen years of us.

I partnered it with an appropriate present - new whiskey tasting glasses and a really nice bottle of bourbon. He seemed to really like it.

I also came across the "I like it dirty" stamp in my collection. I'm pretty sure I picked this one up because a friend of ours is a BIG fan of martinis (me, not so much).

I'm thinking I should make her a set of cards with all of the sentiments in this set.


card #1 details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches
• stamps: "Whiskey than Tea"
• patterned paper: CTMH "Jackson"
• embellishments: CTMH Glacier Extra Thick Twine
• layout: Viva La Verve May 2015 Week 1

card #2 details:

• finished size: 6 x 6 inches, black card stock base
• stamps: "I like it dirty", martini glass coloured with Copic E31, YG93, YG95, W00, W0, W1
• patterned paper: Graphic 45 "Couture"
• embellishments: CTMH "Stuck on You" Puffies, black sparkly ric rac from my stash
• layout: Splitcoaststampers SC539

Thanks for stopping by today. Don't forget to leave a comment below to be entered into the draw for 25 stamps from Unity Stamp Company. I moderate the comments so you won't see your comment below until I approve it. I'll announce the two lucky winners on Monday.

And I can't forget a BIG THANK YOU to the folks at Unity Stamp Company for the wonderful opportunity this week to get crafty and share some of my creations with their delightful stamps.

Growing in Unity - Day 4

Hi Everybody!

Welcome back for the fourth of my week long posts as the Growing in Unity Gal.

Another big part of my Unity stamp collection revolves around sentiments that would make cute/romantic cards for my sweetie. In some respects though, my definition of cute/romantic might differ from what other people think of as a lovey dovey card.

In my house, we are both BIG geeks/nerds (see the picture in the left sidebar? The Whovians among you will understand). Anyways, when I saw "Talk Nerdy" I knew it was another stamp that had to be added to my collection (I had the perfect papers to pair with it hoarded in my collection just waiting for the perfect stamp).

card details:

• finished size: 6 x 6 inches, CTMH Chocolate card stock base
• stamps: "Talk Nerdy". Glasses are coloured with Copic BG11, Y35, YG23 and B01
• patterned paper: Jillibean Soup "Atomic Soup" (just the names of each of the patterns makes the geek in me squee with delight)
• embellishments: Basic Grey "Jovial" buttons, CTMH Colonial White Waxy Flax

Thanks for stopping by today. Don't forget to leave a comment below to be entered into the draw at the end of the week for 25 stamps from Unity Stamp Company. There will be two winners chosen from all of the comments left this week. I moderate the comments so you won't see your comment below until I approve it. And be sure to stop back tomorrow for my final post as the Growing In Unity Gal!

Growing in Unity - Day 3

Hi Everybody!

Welcome back for the third of my week long posts as the Growing in Unity Gal.

Another of the things I LOVE about Unity Stamp Company are the punny sentiments and the cute little images that go with most of them. They just make me smile and giggle.

Today I'm sharing just a few of the punny stamps from my collection.

One of my many hobbies is canning (both water bath and pressure canning) so when I saw "Pun in the Kitchen" I had to have it.

And aren't I lucky to have had the perfect papers to pair with this set? Of course, once I got started playing with those papers, I had to pull out the rest of my punny, fruity Unity stamps and have a little more fun.

Here's a card featuring "Lemon Squeeze"

and last, but not least, a card featuring "When life gives you limes..."

Though, in our house, we more often reach for the mint and rum to make mojitos! But I wouldn't turn down a margarita!

card details:

• finished size: (card #1) 4.25 x 5.5
• stamps: (card #1) "Pun in the Kitchen" coloured with Copic R81, R35, R37, G24, "Lemon Squeeze" leaves coloured with Copic G24 and the lemon is paper pieced,  "When life gives you limes..." the margaritas are coloured with Copic G21 and G07 with a little bit of Diamond Stickles around the rim.
• patterned paper: CTMH Taste Of Summer
• embellishments: (card #1) CTMH Stuck on You Puffies, (card #2) CTMH Sunny Yellow brads from my stash, (card #3) ribbon from my stash
• tools: ticket corner punch (card #3)

Thanks for stopping by today. Don't forget to leave a comment below to be entered into the draw at the end of the week for 25 stamps from Unity Stamp Company. Remember, there will be TWO winners selected from all of the comments left this week! I moderate the comments so you won't see your comment below until I approve it. And be sure to stop back tomorrow for my Day 4 post as the Growing In Unity Gal!