Happy New Year

I've been in suck a funk lately.  Absolutely no motivation to create.  Thankfully, this weekend the creativity was really flowing.

I had a lot of stamped images stored away for another day, including these fun gnomes from MFT. 

It all started with the LOVE die. I had eyed it for a while, a finally bought it on my last shopping spree.

I cut a piece MFT Shiny silver cardstock down and cut the LOVE out 

For the first card, I cut strips of pink and blue cardstock and glued them down to horizontal A2 card.  Then placed the negative die-cut over the top.

The second card I cut the die 2 more time out of white cardstock and glued them all together for dimension.  I used the negative as a template and glues it down.  

I colored the gnomes using copic markers in pink (RVs)  and blue (Bs) and fussy cut them out.

Hopefully, I can keep this mojo going strong.   I felt so good to create

Mirror Image Tutorial

 Have you ever tried Mirror Image Stamping? It’s super easy and I'mshow how to do it without any any special tools or stamps. You can use what you already have to extend your stamping.

I started out by stamping the fun little frog from the Happy Birthday, Princess stamp set in Eclipse Black ink on a scrap piece of white cardstock. Now for the fun part. The castle in this set has a large back side. Large enough to fit the stamped frog. I flipped it over onto my glass mat and carefully stamped the fog onto it. Making sure not to wiggle the stamp. I then pressed the cardstock on the image. Using my Impression Smoosher to make sure I get a good transfer.

This short video shows exactly how I did it.

I colored the frogs with my Copic Markers.

Frog – YG00,YG03, YG17, YG67

Crown – Y00, Y11, Y15, YR24

Next I stamped one of the princesses from the Pretty Princess set. These are a little smaller and fit the setup of my card better. Again I used Copics Markers to color.

Hair – E42, E43, E47

Face – E50, E51, E11

Dress – B000, B00, B02, B04

I fussy cut all three stamped images and added dimensional foam tape to the back and aligned them in center of each circle.

I then cut a thin ¼in strip of cardstock and stamped the sentiment, adding foam to it too.

I hope you try mirror image stamping. It really is as easy as it looks.

Until next time - Jackie ❤

Spread your Wings

 The first part of March is perfect time to work in my garden. So this last this weekend, I went to the nursery to replace all my plants that I’d lost over the winter. I especially wanted to rebuild and expand my butterfly garden. Something about seeing the colorful butterflies flittering around really changes my mood.

So I’m here today with this slimline card featuring Build A Butterfly Add On stamp set. I stamped the butterflies three times using Eclipse Black ink. I then grabbed an assortment of Copic markers in rainbow of colors. It took quite a bit of blending to get the rainbow affect, but so worth the time.

For the background, I grabbed an array of Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink and created another rainbow of color on Yupo paper. The colors are so much more vibrant with the Eclipse Black cardstock. After prepping my card stock with a anti-static tool, I stamped the sentiment using Clear Color Hive ink and heat set white embossing powder.

To assemble the card, I glued the yupo paper to Ultra White Heavy Weight Slimlime Card Base and then the Eclipse black die cut cardstock on top of that. I added dimensional foam tape to the multicolored butterfly and adhered the solid butterflies directly to the card.

I hope you like my card. Can’t wait to have some of these butterflies in my garden

Until next time – Jackie

Just Because

I can't be the only person that has a bin full of colored images.  Today I finally dug through it and was able to make this card for some of those pieces. 

I die cut the Honey Bee lattice from Neenah #80 cardstock and sprinkled it with purple and black ink.  I then glued it to an ink blending card base.  The Pink Fresh floral image was  colored with Copic markers and cut using my Scan n Cut.  I then added foam tape to the back to give it dimension.  

Two for Tuesday

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday Friends

This is going to be the final Two for Tuesday.  I'll probably bring it back later in the year.

Today, I have 2 cards using the same stamp, Altenew Leaf Canopy

This first card, I inked up the stamp with 2 colors of Altenew ink, Autumn Blaze and Sunkissed.  I spritzed it with a tiny bit of water and stamped it onto watercolor paper.  After it was dry, I stamped the outline in Versafine black ink.

I love this sentiment from The Greetery  I used the same Altenew ink colors for the Hello.  To give it more dimension, I used to coordination die cut, and cut 3 additonal sentiments from black cardstock.

By now you know I love using my Copic Markers.  I actually prefer to use them over anyother medium.  I just used the outline stamp of the Leaf Canopy set.  I stamped the smaller stem in Memento tuxedo black ink.  Then I masked it off and stameped the larger stem over top.
The die cut ribbon around the stems pulls it all together and gives it a finished look.  The Hello sentiment is from the same stamp set.

Thank you again for stopping by.  Wishing you all a happy, healthy week.

❤- Jackie

Busy Weekend

Good morning and happy Monday. 

Hope you all had a great weekend.  Thankfully, I was able to spend almost the entire weekend in my craft room.  

I've been cleaning and organizing.  What a difference it makes!  I feel like I have room to breathe.

Now for some of the cards I worked on last week.

This first card I made to enter into the Simon Says Stamp Flickr group. 

It's pretty simple.  I just made the background using alcohol pearl ink on Yupo paper .  

 I cut the Mod Leaf Oval twice from 80# card stock and glued them together to add a little dimension.  I then carefully heat embossed the sentiment using white Brutus Monroe embossing powder.

During my cleaning, I re-discovered a lot of 6x6 paper packs that I have squirreled away.  I was bound and determined use it on at least one card.

I stamped and slightly modified the boot from Honey Bee Stamps Oh my Wiskers.  I colored it with Copic markers and cut it out using my Brother Scan n Cut.  I added foam tape to the colored images to add some dimension.

This last card was actually quick to put together.  I love these multi stamping sets from The Greetery.  They require no coloring, just a couple different ink colors.  The sentiment set Written in Ribbon,  is the same concept.  I stamped it once using It's a Girl light pink ink, then again with the second stamp in a darker ink.

If you have any questions, be sure to leave me a comment otherwise have a great week!

💓- Jackie

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day my friends.

Today I want to show you this adorable digital image from PolkaDoodles.  It was a free download last week. 

I had plenty of Valentine's cards so I decided to add a sentiment that could be used any time of the year.

The gnomes were colored with Copic marker and cut it out used my Brother Scan n Cut.  I ink blending the background using this stencil from Sugar Pea.   Finally, I stamped the sentiment from Simon Says Stamp in a light pink, then moved the  paper slightly to the left and stamped again with the darker pink. 

To finish off the card, I used  clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush of the large hearts 

Hope you all have a great weekend.

💓 Jackie

 After more than a month, I think I finally got my mojo back.  This last week, I had lots of time to craft and I'm super happy with how my cards turned out.

First up is this cards using Transformation stamp set from The Ton.    I stamped the butterfly on watercolor paper and colored it in with Arteza Gouache paint. 

Now for my second card, I used the Honeybee stamp set Love Enclosed.  I think it pairs super well with the new Miss You die from Simon Says Stamp.

The last card for today is probably my favorite.   I used Copic markers to color this fun pick up truck from Honey Bee stamps.  

Thank you for looking.

Tranformations  - The Ton

Love Enclosed - Honey Bee

Little Pick Up - Honey Bee 

Cup of Cheer

I'm slowly and I mean slowing, opening my new purchases from the holidays. 

Today I'm using a couple sets from my MFT purchase.

i stamped ALM Love You a Latte  with Memento black tuxedo ink and colored her with Copic markers.  Then I taped off a section on my cardstock and blending Catherine Pooler ink in Fiesta Blue and Garden Party.  

I finished off by stamping the sentiment from LLD Hug in Mug and adding colored jewels in blue and green.