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Posted by on Aug 21, 2017 in Beautiful You, Brushwork Alphabet, Eclipse, Jars of Love, Labeler Alphabet, Painted Autumn, Wood Words | 4 comments

Total Eclipse…

It is finally here! Today is Total Solar Eclipse day! Yeppie!! We get to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and Total Eclipse of my Heart over and over!!! What fun ?  Seriously, though it’s a big event in the USA.   I’m really excited about getting to see the Eclipse. No, no, I’m not going anywhere special to see it or look at it with out my eclipse glasses.  But, I am going to look at the shadows it creates on the ground through trees.  I plan on looking for some stars and planets that will be viable.  And well just enjoy the experience of a solar eclipse! It’s going to be fun watching all the people who have their head in a box.  literally in a box!!!!!   I just might be one of them!

 To celebrate the moon’s great photobomb moment, I made some cards featuring my own solar eclipse.  I have a whole little collection of cards.  So let’s get started.    

I love trying to stretch my supplies!  It is fun to see how just using a few supplies you can make several completely different cards.  Just by changing the design or shape of the card you get something completely new!

To make my eclipse I used the Painted Harvest Stamp Set. (Available Sep. 1)  I love this stamp set! It is just perfect for fall.  The sunflowers it creates are beautiful!  It also has a fern, leaves, and an acorn.

Painted Harvest

I also used a mask made from vellum and a 1 1/2 inch circle punch. The sentiment come from a variety of places.  Jar’s of Love has a tinny “you light up my life”   So many Shells has “miracles happen”   Beautiful You has “wishing you brighter days to come”   The hope and sunshine are dies from sunshine wishes.  There are some other really amazing sentiments in the Annual catalog that would be awesome for an Eclipse card. Expecially the High Tide and Watts of Occasions!

The cards all have a few things in common.  The Eclipse, the use of Whisper White, metallic, and Tranquil Tide.

This little mini card is 3 by 3! The card base is basic gray. The Designer Series Paper is Painted Autumn.   I took this card and added a few more layers to it to make a larger square card.  Both cards have the same design concept.

I love the little mini cards. They are just to adorable.  I also love that you can transform that mini card into a full size card. By just adding a background frame.

I added a copper layer to the original mini card.  Then added the Tangerine Tango Foil Frenzy paper to create a card base.

Both of these cards use the same basic card design.  The “miracles happen” card is a 4 bar card.  The total eclipse card is the same design popped up on a card base and copper twine added.   I used two different alphabet sets to create my own sentiment. Brushwork Alphabet and Labeler Alphabet.  I just couldn’t resist making a card that says Total Eclipse …of the heart.   

That adorable yellow heart is out of Wood Words!

The next two card use lots of the same elements but, they are arranged in a way on each card that makes each card their very own!

The hope is cut from the Soft Sky Foil Frenzy DSP.  Then is stacked on three Tranquil Tide hope die cuts. I used silver foil for one of the layers for some extra shine.  Though it looks more copper or gold in the picture. 

The sunshine die cut is stacked just like the hope.   The difference is that I used silver leafing with just a touch of gold and copper to guild the word.

To make the eclipse, stamp one of the two sunflower layers from Painted Harvest in Daffodil Delight.  Then I made a mask with vellum and a 1 1/2 inch punch.  Lade the mask over the flower and used a sponge dabber to add basic gray ink.  You can still see the yellow through the gray after it dries.  I think this added to the look of the eclipse.

Each of your comments makes me smile! Please, comment HERE.

If you would like to know more about the solar eclipse, including how to make your own solar glasses…

A new live class registration is open.  We will be using the Coffee Cafe’ and Merry Cafe’ stamp sets! The class is August 26th from 1-3 at Westside  Coffee Place & Café

Sign Up now!

The Holiday Catalog goes live on September 1st!! If you would like a copy just let me know via email. I will be happy to send you one!

The Carols of Christmas Early Release is now available for you to purchase. You are going to love this set so much. It is my must have from the Holiday Catalog. It is amazing!!! So very easy to use and just simply perfect!!! It will remind you of why you love stamping in the first place. The stamp set pairs with the Card front builder dies! These dies rock!!!! They will make every Holiday Card sing in glory!!!!

There is a Paper Pumpkin sale going on and it is pretty sweet! This is definitely the time to join!!!

Here is the supply list.  If you have any questions about today’s card, products used, or Stampin’ Up! feel free to email me at westsidepapercreations@gmail.com

 

Price: $110.00

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I hope everyone has a safe day enjoying the eclipse. Here in North Alabama we will have about 98% coverage during totality of the eclipse. I know you know this but, don’t look at it directly unless you have the correct protection.  Have a great Eclipse Monday!

Peace be with you all-

 

Jennifer

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Posted by on Aug 20, 2017 in annual catalog stamp sets 2017-2018, Naturally Eclectic Designer Series Paper, Playful Backgrounds, Stylized Birthday | 6 comments

Happy Birthday!

There is a wonderful little stamp in the Annual Catalog that is very easy to over look.  This stamp is a single wood mount stamp that says Happy Birthday! The wonderful script oc the stamp makes it one of my favorites in the catalog! Stylized Birthday stamp set is perfect for all your birthday card!!!

Stylized Birthday

I just love this stamp so much.  It works well with Designer Series Paper, other stamps, and watercolor!

Today I paired it with one of my favorite Designer Series Papers, Naturally Eclectic. I love the watercolor look of this paper. And the colors are to die for!!!

 

Pool Party
Tranquil Tide
Lemon Lime Twist
I love theses three colors! They make the world a more beautiful place! And we all could more beauty in our lives!

  • The bold Designer Series Paper pairs well with the script of the Happy Birthday!
  • I kept the design simple so that the stamp could do its thing! The stamp is bold enough that it looks well all alone on the DSP.
  • The ombre Lemon Lime Twist ribbon brings the colors together and adds some visual interest
  • I tried adding some texture to the Pool Party layer.  Actually, several texture impressions.  In the end the plain jane paper won out!  It just goes to prove. In some cases less is more…

Each of your comments makes me smile! Please, comment HERE.

It is always fun to decorate envelopes! Expecially, when it is a special Birthday.  For the envelope I used the same DSP and the Playful Backgrounds stamp set to add a “watercolor look”.  I love using fast fuse adhesive to add the DSP to the back flap of an envelope!

The card base is a standard A2 card.  To make the base you want a piece of Lemon Lime Twist that measures 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches.  You will score and burnish it at 4 1/4 inches on the 8 1/2 side. The next layer, Tranquil Tide, is 5 3/8 by 4 1/8 inches.  The DSP layer is 5 1/4 inches by 3 1/2 inches.  The Pool Party on the same layer is 5 1/4 by 1 1/2 inches.  They over lap to make a layer that is 5 1/4 by 4 inches. The Lemon Lime Twist ombre ribbon covers where the two papers overlap.   The three happy birthday layers are Lemon Lime Twist 3 3/4 by 2 3/4 inches. Tranquil Tide 3 5/8 by 2 5/8 inches.  And Whisper White 3 1/2 inches by 2 1/2 inches.

A new live class registration is open.  We will be using the Coffee Cafe’ and Merry Cafe’ stamp sets! The class is August 26th from 1-3 at Westside  Coffee Place & Café

Sign Up now!

The Holiday Catalog goes live on September 1st!! If you would like a copy just let me know via email. I will be happy to send you one!

The Carols of Christmas Early Release is now available for you to purchase. You are going to love this set so much. It is my must have from the Holiday Catalog. It is amazing!!! So very easy to use and just simply perfect!!! It will remind you of why you love stamping in the first place. The stamp set pairs with the Card front builder dies! These dies rock!!!! They will make every Holiday Card sing in glory!!!!

There is a Paper Pumpkin sale going on and it is pretty sweet! This is definitely the time to join!!!

Here is the supply list.  If you have any questions about today’s card, products used, or Stampin’ Up! feel free to email me at westsidepapercreations@gmail.com

 

 

Thank you for stopping by! I hope each of you have a very blessed Sunday!  I hope you get to have a moment of creativity.  And that you share what you love with others.

Peace my friends-

Jennifer

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Posted by on Aug 19, 2017 in Berry Burst, Heat Embossing, InColors 2017, Lemon Lime Twist, Lift Me Up, Silver Embossing Powder, Thoughtful Banners, Touches of Texture, Up & Away | 4 comments

Take 2 with #GDP1000

The Global Design Project is celebrating their 100th challenge!!! How fun is that. Earlier this week I cased the fabulous, Brin King.  You can see my card here.  Today, I am caseing my friend Shawn DeOliveira.  Shawn and I officially met last year at World Card Making Day in Atlanta!  Though we know each other in the cyber world much longer.  So, I knew I had to CASE his awesome card for the Global Design Project 100th Challenge!

I love this card so much! The colors are awesome! The use of metallic is just perfect! One think that always impresses me about Shawn’s cards is the graphic feel they have.  That, and how he uses ribbon is beyond amazing!

Here’s the banner for Global Design Project. I hope you all will hop over to see the design team’s cards for this very special challenge!

I wanted to use metallic, like Shawn did! I also wanted to case his card design.  I love the clean and beautiful feel his card had.  I loved the texture of the background so, I wanted to case that as well.  That gave me a starting place…Matallics, design, and texture!!!

So the only thing let to decide on was the stamp set!

I decided on Lift Me Up! Mainly because, I thought the dies and stamped balloons would work as a focal point. Much like the sentiment, vellum, and ribbon all draw the eye to a certain point on Shawn’s card.  And, well, I love this set! And I had not used it recently.  So, it was time to dust it of…

Lift Me Up Stamp Set

I love how cute this stamp set is! And it is even better that the stamp set and coordinating dies work together to make verity of balloons.  What fun!!!

  • I decided for the metallic I would use the Foil Frenzy Designer Series Paper paired with silver foil.  What a fun combination! Lemon Lime Twist and Berry Burst complete the color combination
  • For the texture I added silver embossing with the touches of texture stamp set. This was added to the Berry Burst background and to the large balloon
  • The sentiment is outlined with a banner border from Thoughful Banners.  Look how wonderfully the sentiment fits right in there!

Each of your comments makes me smile! Please, comment HERE.

A new live class registration is open.  We will be using the Coffee Cafe’ and Merry Cafe’ stamp sets! The class is August 26th from 1-3 at Westside  Coffee Place & Café

Sign Up now!

The Holiday Catalog goes live on September 1st!! If you would like a copy just let me know via email. I will be happy to send you one!

The Carols of Christmas Early Release is now available for you to purchase. You are going to love this set so much. It is my must have from the Holiday Catalog. It is amazing!!! So very easy to use and just simply perfect!!! It will remind you of why you love stamping in the first place. The stamp set pairs with the Card front builder dies! These dies rock!!!! They will make every Holiday Card sing in glory!!!!

There is a Paper Pumpkin sale going on and it is pretty sweet! This is definitely the time to join!!!

Here is the supply list.  If you have any questions about today’s card, products used, or Stampin’ Up! feel free to email me at westsidepapercreations@gmail.com

 

Price: $110.00

Jennifer

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Posted by on Aug 14, 2017 in Beautiful You, Coloring Tools 2017, ink as watercolor | 4 comments

Beautiful You with a simple watercolor

One of my all time favorite  stamp sets is Beautiful You!  I love the way the ladies are drawn in this stamp set!  The sentiments are fabulous as well.  I love that they give you the option of coloring in the stamps or using the sketchy watercolor looking stamps.  This lends to lots of different looks that you can achieve.

Beautiful You Stamp Set

I adore how this set is classic yet modern!

One of my favorite things to do is watercolor with Stampin’ Up! ink refills.  It is a quick way to add some color to your card.  It is also fun to watch how the ink reacts with each other and water.  I have not watercolored much lately, so I was ready to relax and watercolor!!!

  • I love this clean and simple layout paired with the classy lady.
  • The watercolor panel is shimmery white cardstock.  On the shimmery white stamp the image in Archival Basic Black. Then use your aqua painter and ink refills to watercolor the image.
  • For the watercolor I used pool party, tranquil tide, and lemon lime twist
  • The dress is watercolored in pool party. Then I dropped in tranquil tide and let the watercolor do its thing.  The umbrella is done the same way, but lemon lime twist with pool party and tranquil tide dropped in
  • The watercolor panel is popped up with soft sky and stampin’ dimensionals

The paper is all new in the Holiday Catalog (Available Sep.1) ,  Painted Autumn. This paper is full of beautiful fall designs and coordinating patterns.

 The ribbon, lemon lime twist ombre ribbon, is also a new products. It made its debut in the 2017 Annual Catalog!

The card is a 4 bar size.  Stampin’ Up! makes some wonderful notecards and envelopes in this size.  Unfortunately, I was out of very vanilla. It is quite easy to make this size of card! Though I do recommend the Stampin’ Up! set. Because, you get the coordinating envelope!!! And you can decorate the envelope flap with the dsp! How cute !

To make my card base use Thick Very Vanilla paper.  Cut it so that it is 5 by 7.  On the 7 inch side score and burnish at 3 1/2 inches.  There is a soft sky layer that is 3 3/8 by 4 7/8. The next layer is made up of two panels one dsp that is 2 1/8 by 4 3/4. And tranquil tide that is 1 1/8 by 4 3\4. These two layers my overlap just a bit! That’s okay. It will be covered by ribbon. The next layers are the watercolor panels.  The soft sky is 3 1/8 by 2 1/8. The watercolor layer is shimmery white 2 by 3

Each of your comments makes me smile! Please, comment HERE.

The Carols of Christmas Early Release is now available for you to purchase. You are going to love this set so much. It is my must have from the Holiday Catalog. It is amazing!!! So very easy to use and just simply perfect!!! It will remind you of why you love stamping in the first place. The stamp set pairs with the Card front builder dies! These dies rock!!!! They will make every Holiday Card sing in glory!!!!

 

There is a Paper Pumpkin sale going on and it is pretty sweet! This is definitely the time to join!!!

Here is a list of items used to make this card. If you have any questions about this card feel free to contact me at westsidepapercreations@gmail.com

Supply List

Thanks for stopping by! I love this sweet little card! It would be perfect for a gift set to give to a friend.  I hope each of you have a great Monday! Lets all go out and be creative and share the things we love with others!
Peace and love my friends-

Jennifer

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Posted by on Aug 12, 2017 in Happy Birthday Gorgeous, Heat Embossing, Message in a Bottle, Playful Backgrounds, Silver Embossing Powder | 0 comments

Message in a Bottle…

This week has been full of excitement! Everything from being picked as a Team Choice over at the Tic Tac Toe Challenge!!! Yeppie! You can see my card here and the other chice designers here.  

The Pal’s blog hop was Wednesday! This day is always fun and full of inspiration! If you missed the hop.  Check it out here!!!

And then yesterday I was Guest Designer on Brian’s blog at Stamp with Brian. I was super honored  to share a cool technique with his readers.

Today I am sharing with you a card that was made from a piece of tissue after doing the Faux Batik technique.  If you would like to see the Batik card you can click here.

I really wanted to use the circles for a water scene.  The obvious choice was, Magical Mermaid.  But, I wanted to try something different!  Therefor I went with Message in a Bottle.

Message in a Bottle

This is one of the most adorable stamp sets ever!!! I have been in love with it ever sence my friend Shawn made a card with it! He used the octopus and the message “you octopi my thoughts” . How precious and adorable is that.  Anyway, I have wanted to use this stamp set ever sence.  So, today is the perfect opportunity!!!

  •  The background is Playful Backgrounds stamped on tissue paper and heat embossed with silver embossing powder
  • The colors used for the background are Pool Party, Bermuda Bay,  and Tranquil Tide
  • Then I added ink to it using the Faux Batik technique.  Instead of discarding the tissue paper. I let it dry and made this background.
  • After the tissue is dry,  I mixed multipurpose glue a little water. Painted it onto a piece of cardstock.  Then added the tissue on top.
  • The bottle is stamped in Basic Black., the water in Pool Party, and the whale in Basic Gray
  • The sentiment is stamped inside the classic label in the Happy Birthday Georgius stamp set . Then punched with the classic label punch
  • It is hard to see in the card, but, I added a little silver thread and some metallic enamel dots

The card base is Daffodil Delight with Basic Gray layered on top!

Here is a close up of the water bubbles and the bottle!

Each of your comments makes me smile! Please, comment HERE.

The Carols of Christmas Early Release is now available for you to purchase. You are going to love this set so much. It is my must have from the Holiday Catalog. It is amazing!!! So very easy to use and just simply perfect!!! It will remind you of why you love stamping in the first place. The stamp set pairs with the Card front builder dies! These dies rock!!!! They will make every Holiday Card sing in glory!!!!

There is a Paper Pumpkin sale going on and it is pretty sweet! This is definitely the time to join!!!

Here is a list of items used to make this card. If you have any questions about this card feel free to contact me at westsidepapercreations@gmail.com

 

Supply List

 Thanks for stopping by! I have really enjoyed sharing with you guys this week! I hope each of you have a awesome weekend!!! Let’s all find a little time to be creative and shre what we love with others!!!
Peace my friends-

Jennifer

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