Stamps & Stretchy Pants

Hello friends! Welcome to a new fantastic year…Cheers to YOU in 2022! Thank you for following along on my crafty journey and for checking out all of the fantastic projects on this month’s Hop! Our theme was “Switcharoo” fun! We chose a card to case for inspiration while changing up colors or other small details!

Personally, I was so happy to see rainbows back in the JJ catty! I hope they stick around for our Annual catalogue as they have so much potential. You can find the Rainbow of Happiness Bundle on page 18 of the JJ catty and the card I used for inspiration is right at the top—it is the Just Jade card that features the Cloud Punch—another new favorite product of mine! Fingers crossed it stays too!

I decided to change the orientation of the card and mix up the color palette slightly! I landed on Fresh Freesia as my card base and I used a layer that I ran through the new Gingham Embossing Folder. Now I noticed that this photo makes it look like there is white on the base layer but its just the way the light was hitting the details of the impression left from the folder.

I did some stamping on the background similar to the catalogue sample using the Rainbow of Happiness stamp set. My rainbow itself is stamped in Bermuda Bay, Polished Pink, Versamark with Gilded Leafing (remember you need to use Versamark, Heat’n Stick Powder, and then the Gilded Leafing—rubbing the leafing into the powder), and Fresh Freesia!

The whole rainbow is on some of the new Vellum 12x12 Layering Designs which just gives it a subtle detail.

I also took the sentiment and layed it out FLAT on a long acrylic block—you may notice in the catalogue that this stamp set is arched. Because its designed used photopolymer we can manipulate these stamps somewhat. I was able to stamp it in Polished Pink ink on Basic White and then trim the words apart to create a new sentiment orientation. This is one of my favorite things to do with our sentiment stamps!

My absolute favorite part of this card are the clouds. I used the new Cloud Punch to create two clouds that are so AMAZING! They are from the Mother of Pearl 12x12 Specialty Paper which is so outstanding. It is completely smooth and has the most fantastic shimmer. Definitely hit ADD TO CART on this product!

I added a couple Fresh Freesia flower embellishments from the Loose Flower Flourishes—we always want people to shop or remember our Annual Catalogue too! I can’t wait to see what all the other gals in the Hop have created with this super fun theme to kick off the year!

Please visit Tricia’s blog next to see what she has designed and leave everyone some warm fuzzy comments!

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Happy New Year!

Hello everyone! Welcome to another amazing fantastic year! Yes, 2021 was a challenge. It was hard. I cried a lot, I worried about my kids and felt sad for what I thought they were missing out on but I have given up trying to make sense of things. I am however so blessed to have a fun supportive group of friends and a job/hobby that I truly love that helped give me purpose and direction!

I look forward to new creative direction and opportunity in 2022. I promise to always try something once! And maybe again if I find out I like it! You never know until you try (I am hearing my moms voice in my head at the moment, hahaha!).

So HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS, let’s have some fun together this year!

Happy New Year friends! Blessing abound for you in 2022!

I created this card to mail out to some special friends and I thought it was a fun one to share! I have been loving my Blending Brushes lately and this is a fun technique that you can try with them—its known as the Bokeh Technique. In photography, Bokeh, is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in ‘out of focus’ parts of an image. So we can imagine these ‘dots' or ‘circles’ as being out of focus on this card project. Fun right?

Here are the supplies you will need to create this card but keep in mind you can reproduce this Bokeh look with any colors! I just went for a color palette that felt like night time, when the clocks would turn over into a new year!

I used my trusty finger Daubers for the smaller circles and the Blending Brushes for the larger circles. You could always make yourself a stencil, but I didn’t feel the need because the Picture This Dies were so perfect! The die is easy to wipe off and move around the front of your card stock.

I started with Misty Moonlight card stock and use the die and Whisper White Craft Ink for the first layer. It is important to start with white dots and then build from there. I like to layer white over white too and have lots of overlap with the colors and dots. The other colors used were Misty Moonlight and Gorgeous Grape. It also looks more natural if you have a few dots off of the edge of the card stock too.

This is a really fun technique that gets you messy fingers and each card front will be unique!

Happy is die cut from the Christmas Cheer Dies and is from the Mother of Pearl 12 x 12 Specialty Paper. It is AMAZING! You can’t see the awesomeness of it in this photo, but trust me! It has a really solid texture and is so beautiful when it catches the light. I paired it up with ‘New Years’ which is from a set called A Wish for Everything, I tend to hang onto these sets that have more unique sentiments that we don’t see as often. I added a few random sequins from the Subtle Shimmer Sequins collection. They were the perfect touch!

I hope you will give this fun Bokeh technique a try and I wish you all the blessings of a year new. Lets go forward with the spirit of positivity and keep ourselves open to experiences new things!

Happy New Year!

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Here are the items I used for this card! Product List