JustRite Daisies

Hi everyone, hope you're having a great week. Today I have some cards to show you that I created with JustRite's Beautiful Blossoms Borders & Centers stamp set. I have two thoughts that I'd like to share with you today:

One is that you don't always have to stamp your images on white or cream cardstock to color them with the wonderful Copic Sketch markers. I stamped the pretty daisy bouquet onto PTI Kraft cardstock and still got beautiful results with my Copic markers. When I color on Kraft cardstock, I think of the colors I want to use and then usually reach for the next shade or two darker. This helps the colors really pop off the paper like my yellows in the daisy centers on my cards. If you want white, like on my daisies, Kraft cardstock is another excellent choice. Simply use a white gel pen to color in the daisies. If you zoom in on my photo, you'll notice that I left the black outline of the flowers and simply scribbled in the white color. It's not so much the artistic ability here but just giving the impression of the color white. Works for me. :) Glitter on white looks awesome too, so try that also,

The second thought I had for the day is that you don't always have to cut out oval stamped images with oval die cuts or punches (or circles for that matter). Most of JustRite's stamps are ovals or circles but what happens when you're not in an oval or circle mood? Simply cut your image into a square or a rectangle like I did on my cards today. I rounded the corners and inked all the edges with PTI Fresh Snow ink to make the image pop off the card. I really love this simple look.
To complete my cards, I used some Papertrey papers, ribbons and buttons along with the new PTI scalloped die. And see the little word *friends* on my card? I stamped a sentiment from Joyful Hearts and cut out the word *friends*, and adhered it to my card front with some small pieces of pop dots. Just another way to use sentiment stamps. Oh, and zoom in on the image above. You'll notice that my outline around my daisies image is a peachy color. That's a YR02 marker and it really makes the white in the flowers pop. Man, I'm just full of tips today.

I forgot to take a photo of my Copics but I used Y15, Y38, YR02 and the colorless blender....along with the white gel pen and some glitter to finish off the flowers. Hope you enjoy!

Egg Decorating Kit

Happy Monday. It's time for another kit to go up in my Etsy shop. Today I have a somewhat vintage looking kit called The Egg Decorating Kit. It's just as fun to dress up paper eggs as it is the real thing with this kit.

Here's a photo of the kit contents below.
Lots of my vintage dyed ribbon, ric rac and tags....scallop cut patterned paper along with some vintage text book pages....
Dye cut eggs and sentiment tags, buttons and twine...punched butterfly and bunny...and more!

I created a little sample for you too, using some items from the kit contents. It's a fun little *Hello Spring* card that is sure to brighten someone's day. I embellished one of the eggs with my vintage dyed ribbon and ric rac, some purple beads and the epoxy sticker doodad. All eggs are cut from the Egg Hunt patterned paper. The *Hello Spring* piece is a combination of stamps from Egg Hunt and Fillable Frames #1 stamp set. The die is Fillable Frames #1. Vintage Buttons are tied with Rustic Jute Twine. The bottom of the card features more flower stamps from Egg Hunt, the scallop die cut patterned paper from Pretty Pastels and a pretty, polka dot Lavender Moon ribbon. Hope you enjoy. These are one of a kind kits so get 'em while they last. I noticed many of you asked for the instructions on how to get the vintage look to my ribbons. :) I have to keep that a secret but stay tuned for some fun additions to my Etsy shop coming in the near future.

{Hello Spring Card}

Stamps:Egg Hunt, Fillable Frames #1

Ink: True Black, Fresh Snow

Paper: Egg Hunt, Pretty Pastels, Kraft Cardstock, vintage text book page

Other:Fillable Frames #1 die, Lavender Moon Swiss Dot Ribbon, Vintage Buttons, Rustic Jute Twine, Epoxy Sticker, pop dots, purple beads, yellow dyed twill, purple dyed ric rac, glitter

Vintage Easter Notebooks

Oh, how I love making the notepads. I created these vintage inspired Easter goodies using some new egg paper I found at my local scrapbook store. Karen Foster has a great vintage Easter patterned paper line this year. The egg paper is a favorite of mine. For the notepad toppers, I used the Egg die from Papertrey and a new Martha Stewart bunny punch I picked up at Michael's. I punched the bunnies out of green, pink and blue patterns from the Pretty Pastels collection. I stamped both the egg dies and the punched bunnies with a small script stamp from Background Basics: Text Style. The eggs are embellished with ribbons that I hand dyed, Vintage Buttons tied with Rustic Jute Twine and papers cut with Papertrey's Medium Scalloped die. The *happy happy spring* sentiment is from Pine's Egg Hunt stamp set.
The cream notepads are from Papertrey also, the perfect size for supply list, grocery lists, etc.
For simple wrapping of the notepads, I used large glassine sacks from Papertrey. I tied the sacks with a simple vintage dyed ribbon and vintage stained tag. So simple, but so pretty.
Hope you enjoy! There's a few more left in my Etsy shop.

{Vintage Easter Notepads}

Stamps:Egg Hunt

Ink: Ranger Distress Ink, Fresh Snow, True Black(Papertrey)

Paper: Kraft, Pretty Pastels (Papertrey), Vintage Easter (Karen Foster)

Other: Rustic Jute Twine, Lined Cream Notepads (Papertrey), Martha Stewart bunny punch, pink dyed twill, yellow dyed ric rac, pop dots, snow glitter

Etsy Shop Update

I just updated my Etsy shop with some new Easter items. More Easter items coming soon. :)

JustRite hello friend..

TGIF peeps! Did you know that every Friday JustRite issues a fun challenge? The challenge is issued each Friday and then you have til the next Thursday to upload your project. Winners get a prize! Check out the JustRite blog each Friday for the weekly challenge. Today's challenge is all about tags. Any kind of tags, any kind of project using JR stamps.

For my project, I made these cute circle tags using Stitched with Love Borders & Centers stamp set. It's got the cutest sewing themed images and borders. I chose the little patchwork heart and paper pieced the centers with some Fancy Pants patterned papers. The tags were created by simply punching out circles. I finished them off with tied buttons and some ribbon stapled to the tops with my tiny Tim stapler.
Tags are so fun because you can use them on any project. My tags would be super cute on little gift sacks or a scrapbook page but I decided to use them on cards. I simply LOVE this card design below. In my notes, I had jotted down that it was a layout from a Stampin' Up! catalog.
I started my cards with PTI Kraft cardstock and Fancy Pants patterned paper. I stamped the Dots and Flowers background stamp from Hero Arts on my Kraft cardstock with Fresh Snow ink.
Then the really fun part came into play. I punched circles and cut scallops....tied ribbon....colored the hearts with Copics. So much fun!

Next up, I devised a strip to sew all of the punched circles to. By sewing the circles to this strip of cardstock, I was was able to keep everything in line and then simply attach the strip to my card. This also gives the look of stitching on the front of my card but without the stitches showing on the inside of my card. I cut my strips to 5-1/2" wide, adhered the circles and then stitched. After I adhered the circles strip to my card front, I then adhered my JustRite circle tags to where the blank spot is with pop dots.

From this view, you can see that I curled the circle edges of the circles up a bit to add more dimension to my cards.
A nice little stash....oh, how I love to see a little finished pile of cards.

Hope you get a chance to play along with the challenge. Also, check out this sale going on now at JustRite...20% off all month on the 1-5/8" products.

Take Three: Spring

Good morning everyone. I have my little one home sick from school today. It seems the sickies are back in town. Today I have another card from my February Papertrey gallery to show you. It uses Take Three: Spring. In the set there are three images of leaves and three images of bunnies along with supporting sentiments. I used the three leave images on my card. I first embossed the leaf images with clear embossing powder. Then I rubbed Spring Moss ink over the images. By wiping off the excess with a paper towel, the embossed images just pop. I love that shiny look to the embossed images, you can zoom in to get a closer look. My card was finished off with patterned papers from the Pretty Pastels collection and tied Vintage Buttons.
Here's a fun sketch to go along with my card. The long strip is perfect for lining up multiple stamps in a row. Enjoy! (This card has been added to my Etsy shop too.)
{Take Three: Spring Card}
Stamps: Take Three: Spring
Ink: Spring Moss, True Black, Versamark, Fresh Snow
Paper:Kraft, Rustic Cream, Pretty Pastels
Other: Fiskars Edge Punch, Rustic Cream Twine,Vintage Buttons, Clear Embossing Powder

JustRite hello from the heart...

I got a little crafty today and made some cards using JustRite's Stitched with Love Borders & Centers Round 2-3/8" stamp set. It's perfect for sewing themed projects.
I paired my colored image with papers from Fancy Pants, so pretty and vintage looking.
Here's a close up of my colored images. I used my Copic Sketch markers to color the pretty hearts, buttons and needles. The background ric rac circle stamp is also from the Stitched with Love set. I think it looks extra crafty when cut out with the Spellbinder's Pinking Dies.
The inside of the card reads *hello from the heart*. I think there's one more of these cards left in my Etsy shop today. Stay tuned this week for new additions to my shop...Vintage Easter themed items, cards and more!
Thanks for stopping by today. Lots to do this month and I want to get an early start so I better get a crackin' at my to do list. Have a nice day. Oh, yesterday I went to the city with my folks....I found a great vintage stapler...and it works, woohoo!! I also found some more jello molds for buttons,etc. I snatch them up every chance I get.

Asian Fusion Birthday Card

Today I have a card that I created for the February PTI gallery using Asian Fusion. I paper pieced the vase using a Bitty Dots paper in Melon Berry with matching flowers and stems in Spring Moss ink. The Kraft background was stamped with Background Basics: Tin Type. White ribbon and tied Vintage Buttons finish off my card.
And here's a great sketch to keep on hand for images that are taller, like the vase of flowers in Asian Fusion.
Hope you enjoy!