September Swap

Happy Friday! Today I am sharing my swap for September. I guess this is the week of swaps, haha! After today I will be all caught up on sharing my swaps. Now I just need to get to work on my October swap. I had a lot of fun making these cards. Our theme for September was Fall/Halloween. I knew I wanted to do something with the cat image from Foxy Friends so I went with a Halloween card. How cute is that little cat!?!? My favorite part of the cat is the little bat she has on her ear. Can you see it? That bat is from the Home Sweet Home thinlits. I had quite a bit of die cutting on this card but it wasn't too bad. I saw a little trick to punch out the cat from scrap cardstock and use that as a template when stamping your images. That way you can punch everything out all at once. So that was definitely helpful in punching out those cats quickly.

As you can see I do have 2 slightly different cards here. My original one (on the right) uses the Fancy Frost sequins but as I was putting the swaps together I decided to go with the star sequins. I thought that gave it more of the effect of a nightime/Halloween card. Which one do you prefer?

I hope you enjoyed the week of swaps. :)

Thanks for stopping by.

Stamps: Foxy Friends, Timeless Textures, Sweet Home
Paper: Black, Elegant Eggplant, Pumpkin Pie
Ink: Archival Black, Smokey Slate, Pale Plum
Accessories: Home Sweet Home thinlits, Fox builder punch, metallic sequins, Crushed Curry bakers twine, Layering circle thinlits, Woodland embossing folder

August Swap

Hello! I am back with my swap for August. The theme for August was a color challenge: Night of Navy, Sweet Sugarplum and Soft Sky. I really liked Sweet Sugarplum when it first came out but I’ve struggled to use it. Purple is my jam so I figured this would be my go to but I haven’t used it as much as I would have liked. So since I was the swap host for August, I wanted to use it and see what everyone else could do with it. I received lots of great ideas from the other swappers.

My card features the Jars of Love set again. Since I didn’t really use too many of the flowers from the set for the swap in July, I wanted to use it again. I really love this set and I love how this card came out. It would look great in other colors. I was having fun making these swaps until I cut and stamped my background pieces and THEN realized that I used Pool Party and not Soft Sky, haha! It really wasn’t that big of a deal to fix it but sometimes I’m on limited time in my craft room while the kids are playing so I need to be efficient and that wasn’t helping. Oh well! One thing to note is that the one image from the flower was stamped off on paper before stamping it on the cardstock to make it a little lighter. Another thing I love about this card are those cute little enamel shape embellishments and the staple. They are so simple but such a cute touch!

I hope you are enjoying seeing my swaps each month. I would love for you to play along and make some cards using the different themes.

Have a nice day!

Stamps: Jars of Love, Woodgrain
Paper: Blooms and Blossoms DSP, Night of Navy, Soft Sky, Crumb Cake
Ink: Night of Navy, Sweet Sugarplum, Mint Macaroon, Soft Sky
Accessories: Everyday Jar framelits, In Color enamel shapes, stapler, Banner triple punch

July Swap

Happy Tuesday. I hope everyone had a great weekend. We had a nice weekend enjoying a wine festival at a local winery. Then the rest of the weekend was filled with boring household chores. I was able to sneak in some time to do some crafting. However, I can’t share any of that yet. I’ve actually been crafting up a storm lately and will be able to share it soon!! It’s some fun stuff. But in the meantime I will share some of the recent swaps I’ve done. I haven’t shared my swaps for July, August and September. We haven’t received ours for September yet so it will be a few days before I can share those. Today I will share the swaps for July. July’s theme was to CASE something from the catalog. My card was cased from page 74. I liked the idea of making a shaker card from the Everyday Jar framelits. I decided to use some of the Blooms and Blossoms DSP for the background where I cut out the mason jar. Then I just stamped and cut out a couple of flowers and leaves from the framelits. Since the rest of the card had minimal elements on it, I then cut out “you” from the Hello You thinlits. The sequins I used are from the June paper pumpkin kit. I loved the sequins in this kit (Of course)! I had ordered a couple of extra kits so I had LOTS of sequins!! YAY! One day my craft room is going to be completely decorated in sequins, haha!

I hope you enjoyed today’s card. Shaker cards are so much fun. They are a great way to make a simple card stand out. I hope you try to make some as well.

Stay tuned later in the week for August’s swap card. It is one of my favorites!

Take care!

Stamps: Jars of Love
Paper: Blooms and Blossoms DSP, Mint Macaroon, Flirty Flamingo
Ink: Archival Black, Flirty Flamingo, Tip Top Taupe, Emerald Envy
Accessories: Everyday Jar framelits, sequins (June 2016 Paper Pumpkin), Hello You thinlits

Holiday Card Class (Series #2)

Hello! I am so excited to share the second set of cards in my 3 part holiday series classes. See details on the first class HERE. I am not normally one to get such a head start on Christmas like this but I just loved the new sets in the holiday catalog and wanted to get a jump on Christmas cards. I keep saying that time just goes faster and faster and I'm sure it's not helping that I'm rushing into the holidays already. :) Oh well at least I will be on top of it for my christmas cards.

Here are the details on my next class using the Greetings from Santa bundle. This is the cutest Santa ever!! In this class you will make 6 cards (2 of each design).

Date: October 26th 7pm
Location: My house, Frenchtown, NJ
Cost $20
RSVP: October 20th

Please contact me to sign up! (If this date doesn't work for you, please contact me and we can work on a date that fits better for you and your friends.

Please stop by for holiday card making, cookies and music! It will be a blast!

Holiday Card Class

Hi Everyone! I have a quick post for you today. I just returned from my beach vacation on Saturday and now I'm off to Indianapolis for work tomorrow so I'm short on time. Our vacation last week was so nice. We went with 2 other families so there were 5 kids under the age of 4, which made it interesting. Way more stressful than beach vacations when I was single but still so much fun. They loved the beach and the water as well as the boardwalk.
Now after all of the summery beach talk, I'm going to get right into Christmas. :) My next class is my Holiday Card class. This will be the first in a series of 3 classes. In each class you will make 6 cards (2 of each design). The goal is to have a large stack of cards ready to mail by December. The first series uses the super cute Cookie Cutter Christmas set. I just love these stamps!! And the cookie cutter punch makes these cards a breeze!

Date: September 30th 7pm
Location: My house, Frenchtown, NJ
Cost $20
RSVP: September 26th

Please contact me to sign up! (If this date doesn't work for you, please contact me and we can work on a date that fits better for you and your friends.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kitty Birthday

Hello everyone! Today's card is a super cute card I made for my niece's 2nd birthday. My niece shares a birthday with me :) and is about 12 days younger than my daughter. It is so much fun to see them grow up together.

Here is a photo of the 3 of us.

(My daughter is in the middle).

Of course it's impossible to get them both to smile and stand still at the same time. And if I want any pictures of my daughter lately, I have to do them in selfie mode because she wants to see herself in the pictures all of the time, haha!!

So for the card, I wanted to use the Foxy Friends set to make a kitty card. My niece has a cat and we have cats so I've become a little cat obsessed lately. (Like I want all of the cat/kitten clothes for my daughter, haha!). And I wanted something cute and fun that she would like and I think I succeed. I think my favorite part is the pom pom trim around the oval or maybe all of the kitty faces in the background. The sequins on the card are from the new Holiday Catalog. Aren't they so pretty!

I hope you like today's card and if you have any questions on how I made it, please feel free to contact me.

Have a great day!

Stamps: Foxy Friends, Thoughtful Banners
Ink: Pink Pirouette, Smokey Slate, Black, (Bermuda Bay, Emerald Envy - water colored background)
Paper: Pink Pirouette, Pool Party, Flirty Flamingo, Peekaboo Peach, Dazzling Diamonds glimmer paper, Shimmer paper, Pop of Pink DSP
Accessories: Pom Pom trim, Frost sequins, Oval framelits, Duet banner punch, Mini treat bag framelits (used on the glimmer paper), Fox punch, Banner punch, stapler, Banner triple punch

Jars of Love Card Class

Hello! Happy August!! Where oh where is the summer going??? I always have all these thoughts of things and places I want to do over the summer and every year, the same thing happens, summer whizzes by in a flash! And speaking of whizzing by, my little baby is going to be 2 next week!! How did that happen?? I feel like I was just pregnant.

Anywho, today's post is about my next card class. Finally!! I've been dying to get a class together with this set because it's oh so cute!!! And I'll let you in on a little secret.... there may be some coordinating items to go along with the Framelits in the upcoming holiday catalog... wink wink!! So there may be a fun holiday class coming up. :)

Details:
In this class we will use the super cute Jars of Love stamp set and Framelits. We will make 4 cards plus a fun little tag for the bag to package them in. Keep these cards for yourself to send out or give them as a gift. The recipient will love these!

Cost: $20 (includes supplies for 4 cards and the bag, plus envelopes)
$35 includes all of the supplies plus the stamp set

Date: August 24th, 7:00pm
August 26th 2:00pm

Location: Frenchtown, NJ

RSVP by August 20th.

If you are local to me, please join us!!
Can't make these dates. Contact me to set up a private class for you and your friends in your home.