Nifty Fifties - Birthday Card - Inking It Up Crazy Challenge

Hi again,
I just love being able to craft and share, and since Kassidy at Inking It Up Crazy is having a Birthday Challenge well, I just had to oblige. I wanted to make a Birthday card for my cousin and I figured I should use a cartridge I HAD to have. This had me pulling out my Nifty Fifties and choosing a couple of images that I cut out and created with. The first one is this little bird:

Background paper is from DCWV Flower stack cuttlebugged with the spots and dots folder, other paper is from my stash, some pink floss, glossy accents on the eye and music notes. Doodling and a stamp from MPS Punny-licious.

Blessings (and enjoy the Super Bowl this evening!!),
Jenny

Peachy Keen Challenge - Monochromatic & Sketch

Hi All -

Amongst design team posts, I was also able to work on the Peachy Keen Challenge this week - monochromatic and sketch. This was a tough one (hence the word challenge - LOL). First I had to think of an image and what could I use that would allow me to use several shades of the same color. OK - look through the Peachy goodness that I have - SCORE - I have a frog. This could be used amongst many shades of green:

I colored the little guy with my Prisma water color pencils and then used a blending pen all around. I then cut him out using my nestabilities. I inked all around the white with some Martha Stewart ink and pop dotted the image up. Paper is from my stash although I believe the patterned one is from SU. The flowers are small primas that I added a brad to, doodling and ribbon from the stash.

Blessings, Jenny

FIF Challenge - Lips from Indie Art

If you are looking for the Inking It up Crazy design post -http://kozfam5.blogspot.com/2011/02/inking-it-up-crazy-first-design-team.html Thanks!

Welcome to another Flaunt it Friday Challenge. This week we were challenged to use the Indie Art cartridge selecting the Lips feature. Thank goodness Provo Craft gave this as a free download to my gypsy girl otherwise I would have not had the image. Valentine mode around here still so I thought I would make a treat bag with some yummy Hershey kisses.

I used Glossy accents on the lips and the word SMACK. I used the candy cuttlebug folder on the black to give it some dimension. I have to say, my family was in wait, as soon as my project was done and the photo snapped the kisses were GONE ~ LOL!!

To check out all of the other great projects just click here: http://flauntitfridays.blogspot.com/2011/02/fif-10-indie-art-lips.html

Blessings, Jenny

Inking It Up Crazy - First Design Team Post

YIPPIEE!!!

I am SO beyond excited. I have been selected with some other VERY talented designers to work with Kassidy from Inking It Up Crazy on her design team. Our first project was anything goes. Since I am still working on some Valentines Day decorations for around the house I thought I would make a Banner of Love (LOL).

Anyway here is my banner with the recipe below:

 The Banner itself is from the Straight From The Nest cartridge. The banner can be found on page 65 of the handbook. I cut 4 of them out at 4 1/2 with the layer and the shadow. The letters for the word LOVE are cut from the Rock Princess cartridge using the heart alpha feature. I cut them at 2 1/2 with patterned paper and then at 2 3/4 with white to add a layer, I also added stickles to the heart on the letters and doodled around on the white to try and add dimension. The rosettes were cut with the Tim Holtz die and my cuttlebug using the extended plates. All paper and ribbon is from my stash.

In the banner mode, I also made this love banner for my Cricut Circle Valentine Pal:

This banner was cut out using the hearts from Doodlecharms. I used the Tim Holtz rosette here are well and the Rock Princess letters. I sprayed some Tattered Angels on the rosette and letters and used some flowers in the corners. I hope she liked it.

Thank you Kassidy for this opportunity and to my fellow design team members ~ I look forward to getting my craft on with all of you.

Now, you can meet everyone too by hopping on back to Kassidy's site at: http://inkingitupcrazy.blogspot.com/


Blessings, Jenny

The Greeting Farm Stamps - Paper Playtime Challenge

Paper Playtimes Challenge this week is to use a stamp - the team all used Digi Stamps and I am just learning to play with those (sizing and all). I wanted to play along and I recently just got some stamps from The Greeting Farm - can I say they are ADORABLE!! This is my first card made with them although you will be seeing many more.

I colored this cutie with my Prisma water color pencils and used a blender pen. The background paper is a 6x6 pad from Imaginesce princess line. I used a Martha Stewart loopy border punch, a prima flower with a brad in the middle, a spellbinder die around the image inked around Martha Stewart stamp pad and some white seam binding for the ribbon. I bought the seam binding to start dying it and have not gotten around to it yet - soon I hope.

Hope you like it.

Blessings, Jenny

Playing With My Imagine

I made a commitment to myself to start playing with my Imagine. I really do love it and cannot wait to be able to use it to its full capability. I have only used the Images as they have appeared I have not made any changes - next on my to learn list.

Anyway, one of my dear friends was having a really bad day yesterday and I had actually made a card for her this past weekend so this was a wonderful opportunity to write a note and put it in the mail. I hope she likes it:

After taking a picture of this I did add some doodling with my black gel pen as I thought it looked a little plain here. On the inside aside from the note I added that she is the butter to my toast - LOL. Anyway hope you like it. Look for more Imagine projects in the future.

Blessings, Jenny

Surprise Birthday Card Request for FIF Pal

One of my Design Partners on FIF requested the team to send Happy Birthday wishes to her daughter who was turning 18. I made this card using Nifty Fifties.

The dress and large label were cut with Glitter paper from DCWV, the white paper is from my stash embossed with the swiss dots cuttlebug folder, the background paper is from a stack from Hobby Lobby. I used Glossy Accents on the black stand, doodled around the edges and used an MPS stamp for the sentiment. I used nestabilities with my cuttlebug for the layering behind the dress form. I hope she enjoyed this!

Blessings, Jenny