Happy Birthday Card - JustRite

  JustRite Papercrafts has a fabulous selection of birthday sentiments in a variety of fonts and styles.   You'll be reaching for these sentiment stamps year after year because birthday wishes NEVER go out of style. 

I received the new stamp releases from JustRite Papercrafts and I'm having a ball stamping to my little heart's delight. 

I used 

JustRite -Happy Birthday Sentiment One -clear stamp for the sentiment and made the background by stamping with the JustRite Mod Stars Cling Background  stamp. 

I used JustRite Watercolor Paper Layering Swatches for my image. This product comes in perfect card size: 4"x 5.25"  and contains 100 sheets of watercolor paper perfect for layering.

In order to create my watery background, I inked the JustRite Mod Stars Cling Background  stamp with distress inks, misted the stamp lightly with water, then stamped onto the JustRite Watercolor Paper Layering Swatches

ink....

mist....

stamp...

Just that easy.  

Thanks so much for your time.

JustRite -Happy Birthday Sentiment One -clear stamp CR-05504
JustRite Watercolor Paper Layering Swatches
JustRite Mod Stars Cling Background CL 06004

Quick Birthday cards from Justrite

Let's Have A Birthday Party

JustRite has a line of birthday sentiments that should be headed to the top of your list when you need a quick birthday card. 

I've created some quick cards for those times when you need to "dial it back" a bit (embellishly speaking) and make a cute, simple card.  

Included in this new line of greetings are to stamp sets that I'd like to feature today: 

JustRite Happy Bird-Day Clear Stamps  

 JustRite Happy Birthday One -Clear Stamps 

The images above and below are from the JustRite Happy Bird-Day Clear Stamps   set.  The details are totally darling.   You can see the whole stamp set if you scroll down a bit. 

The cards are clean, simple and actually "do-able" in a few minutes.  Sometimes you need a quick card, perhaps for a child's birthday.  Heck, no child wants to receive a card with a bunch of fancy flowers on it (my typical style).  And no child wants to be "that kid" who goes to a clasmates birthday party with a flowery over embellished card - once again, my typical style.  

Like I said, sometimes ya just need to "dial it back" and make a card. 

I used JustRite Watercolor Paper Layering Swatches for my image.

This is the second clean and simple card I made.  This was created using JustRite Happy Birthday One -Clear Stamps stamped onto JustRite Watercolor Paper Layering Swatches.

It's bold, fun and eye-popping.  And even better - made in a snap. 

The JustRite Watercolor Paper Layering Swatches  comes in perfect card size: 4"x 5.25"  and contains 100 sheets of watercolor paper perfect for layering.

Have a wonderful day and keep life simple today.  

Here are the products I used: 

JustRite Watercolor Paper Layering Swatches 

JustRite Happy Bird-Day Clear Stamps CR-05506

JustRite Happy Birthday One -Clear Stamps CR-05504

Autumn Birthday Wishes

Autumn Wishes

A relative has one of "those" milestone birthdays approaching.  

I set out to create something fitting with the colors of Autumn featuring rich warm oranges, reds and yellows.  

  JustRite Papercrafts has a fabulous selection of birthday sentiments in a variety of fonts and styles.  These are stamps that you will reach for year after year because birthday wishes NEVER go out of style. 

For this card I used the following JustRite products: 

JustRite Happy Birthday Sentiments Two - Clear Stamp Set 

JustRite A2 Graceful Lines Die  

My paper choice was from an older collection of Reminisce paper.  I love love love anything plaid and this warm collection satisfies my vision for the Autumn themed Birthday card.  Best of all, the paper is still available.  

Reminisce - Autumn Harvest Collection - Autumn Plaid

Reminisce - Best of Harvest Collection paper pack

After cutting my Graceful Lines Die  , I felt like I needed to add a dab of Distress Ink -Walnut Stain  to the edges of the die to help make them pop.  I felt the die got lost in the plaid pattern with out some sort of bolder accent. 

Here is one more view of the card showing the dimension of the embellishments. 

Thanks for stopping here today.  

JustRite Happy Birthday Sentiments Two - Clear Stamp Set CR-05505
JustRite A2 Graceful Lines Die DIE-05046
Reminisce - Autumn Harvest Collection - Autumn Plaid
Reminisce - Best of Harvest Collection paper pack
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink -Walnut Stain

Halloween Means Candy Corn and Haunted Houses

Candy Corn and Haunted Houses

Are you ready for Halloween yet? 

 I'm almost ready.  Got a few more decorations to put around the house and a couple more cards to make and send.  Then I'll sit back and adore the spooky festivities.  

According to retailers, Halloween is the second largest holiday in  the U.S. in terms of spending.   Well, who can blame us when companies like Spellbinders have hauntingly darling designs for the season? 

Spellbinders -Die D Lites Haunted Manor Holiday 2017 

Spellbinders Die D Lites Candy Corn Holiday 2017 

I've used only a few of the Spellbinders Halloween dies on these cards but you can see them all right here.  

Here are a few other cards I made using some other amazing dies from Spellbinders.  

Link to the shaker card post

Spooky Cat card link

Time to share the cards one at a time.  First one is the haunted house card.  I adore the little bats that come with the Spellbinders - Haunted Manor  also.  

The frame die I used for the background of the house was Spellbinders Nestabilities Oval Ironwork EtchedDies - a great die to use for so many occasions.  

This is my candy corn card.  Man I just LOVE candy corn.  Sad that these little nuggets of delight are around just one a year.  

While I realize there are other marshmallow shaped candies available, like pumpkins,  it's gotta be candy corn shaped.  No other shape will do in my opinion. 

All others need to step aside.   

My paper choice for both cars is Pebbles -Midnight Haunting 6x6 paper pad .

Spellbinders -Die D Lites Haunted Manor Holiday 2017 Etched Dies  S2-265

Spellbinders Die D Lites Candy Corn Holiday 2017 Etched Dies S1-019

Spellbinders Nestabilities Oval Ironwork EtchedDies SKU: S4-739

Pebbles -Midnight Haunting 6x6 paper pad 733660

Make A Wish Card - DIY Tutorial

Make a Wish

I received the new stamp releases from JustRite Papercrafts and I'm having a ball stamping to my little heart's delight. 

I combined some stamping with embossing.  

JustRite Starburst Flowers Cling Stamp

JustRite -Happy Birthday Sentiment One -clear stamp

My vision for this card:  

Create a card with a lot of whitespace.  The whitespace will have some texture from an embossing folder.  Add some clean simple stamped sentiments.  

My vision seems easy enough and yet my first attempt failed because I did not think through the process.  I forged ahead and got caught up in the fun creativity (which is a good problem to have I guess).  

And just what was my failure?  

I was having fun embossing with Spellbinders Flourish Stitch Em-bossing Fold'ers Quilt It and liked the way it turned out.  Then I decided to add the perfect finishing touch to the card - a stamped sentiment using JustRite -Happy Birthday Sentiment One -clear stamp.    

Womp Womp....nope - cannot stamp after embossing .  While obvious to most, I simply didn't realize the stamping would not be crisp when added over the raised embossing.  Like I said earlier, I got caught up in the fun creativity.  

I thought I'd share a quick tip/tutorial because of my embossed and stamped combo card failure.  I'm trying to save you some misery, time and products as we learn from my mistakes.  Though I am sure most of you are waaaaayyyyy ahead of me and would not make this mistake. 

First Things First

This card has a few steps to it.  First I created my focal point - the stamped flower image.  I thought this resembled dandelions gone to seed.  I used to love to blow then in the yard to make a wish.   

I used JustRite Watercolor Paper Layering Swatches for my image. This product comes in perfect card size: 4"x 5.25"  and contains 100 sheets of watercolor paper perfect for layering.

After I stamped the image, I set it with Clear Embossing Powder (super fine).  Next I colored my stamp using Watercolor Brushes  and some Tim Holzt Distress Inks. a with a  Seedless Preserves and Peacock Feathers.

Here is my tip for Embossing and Stamping:

Step 1. After your artistic image has been created,  draw a circle in pencil around the stamped image.  This helps you determine where your stamped sentiment will be placed. 

Step 2.  The clear stamps are flexible and I thought the sentiment would look great mirroring the curve of the circle so that's how I placed the stamp on my clear stamp block. 

Step 3.  After the sentiment is stamped, you can then emboss.  I used Spellbinders Flourish Stitch Em-bossing Fold'ers Quilt It.

Here is one last image of the ( successfully) completed card.  

Thanks for stopping today.  

Here is my complete list of products used: 

JustRite Starburst Flowers Cling Stamp CL-06002

JustRite -Happy Birthday Sentiment One -clear stamp CR-05504
JustRite Watercolor Paper Layering Swatches
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Seedless Preserves
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxides -Peacock Feathers
Watercolor Brushes
Clear Embossing Powder (super fine)
Clear Embossing Ink
Heat It- Heat Gun Embossing Tool
Misti Stamping Tool - (Most Incredible Stamping Tool) 
Spellbinders Flourish Stitch Em-bossing Fold'ers Quilt It by Lene LokSKU: SES-013

Enchanting Halloween Shaker Card Made With LOVE Plus Handy TIP

For the Love of Halloween! 

Here's an enchanting card I made with love. 

Clearly many folks love all things Halloween. 

It's wild popularity has some websites suggesting it to be the second biggest holiday next to Christmas. 

Count me as one of those folks who adores the decorations and festivities of this quirky, fun holiday. 

Spellbinders has given us Halloween fanatics some hauntingly wonderful products to celebrate the season.  

I created a shaker card to send to a family member enchanted by Halloween.  I thought the Spellbinders - Nothing But Love Stamp  by Tammy Tutterow would be a cute twist to use on the background of my card.  After all, it's all about the LOVE of all things Halloween. 

Scroll down the blog post and I'll share my handy recycle tip and money saving for shaker cards. 

These are the Spellbinders products I used:

Shapeabilities Witch on Broom Holiday 2017 Etched Dies  S4-834

Spellbinders - Nothing But Love Stamp Set Happy Grams #4  by Tammy Tutterow SBS-153

Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Heart Die S4-136

Here is a better image to show the dimension of this card. 

And aren't those bats simply darling? 

Handy Shaker Card Tip

Don't have any acrylic to make a shaker card?  This is what I do....I eat the rest of the baked goods I bought for the family - this one happens to be the beloved cheese danish.  Just wash and dry and instantly I have acrylic that's proudly been recycled.  

Better yet, have a friend over and share the goodies.  Eat, laugh and make a day crafting together creating Spellbinders shaker cards.  

Look at the top of the container....all that lovely usable acrylic begging to become a shaker card.  

The possibilities are endless - baked goods, fresh fruit and veggies, packaging from your crafts and crafting flowers....search the house high and low, then eat up! 
.....but  PLEASE be mindful of products with allergens like peanuts if you are giving cards to others.   

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a bewitching Halloween season.  

• Here's a link to help you shop for Spellbinders  products 
• Here's a link to shop for Spellbinders Halloween goodies.  
• Here's a link to the gorgeous "Nothing But Love Stamp"  by Tammy Tutterow. 

Shapeabilities Witch on Broom Holiday 2017 Etched Dies  S4-834
Spellbinders - Nothing But Love Stamp Set Happy Grams #4  by Tammy Tutterow SBS-153
Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Heart Die S4-136

It's Snowman Time - Cute Christmas Card

 Snowman season is upon us so I thought I would create snowman cuteness.  
I'm here to share a card I made by combining two Maja Design holiday collections: Maja Design - A Gift For You and Maja Design - Vintage Winter .

I love that the collections can often be used together.  That's part of the magic of Maja Design.  We all know that paper and papercrafting products aren't cheap, so make the most of your supplies!

That's the added value of Maja Design collections.   While some of the papers in the Holiday/Christmas collections certainly have images that are "themed " for the holidays, the B sides of the papers offer prints that can be used for any occasion.  

 The papers I used are shown in the image above and are as follows:  

Maja Design A Gift for You - paper collection - Made by Me paper 

Maja Design - Vintage Winter collection - December paper

Maja Design - Vintage Winter collection - Season's Greetings ( B side)

My darling snowman die is from Memory Box die - Snowman Heart Collage .  I think it's adorable.   Accented with some Flowers,  pine branches and he's all set for the Holidays.  

Thank you for choosing to spend your time visiting.  

 Shop internationally for Maja Design collections using the  Store Finder Link.  

Here are some quick links to help make your shopping easy: 

• Buy the Maja "A Gift For You" collection here.  
• Buy the Maja " Vintage Winter" collection here. 
• Shop internationally for Maja Design collections using the  Store Finder Link.   

Maja Design A Gift for You - paper collection - Made by Me paper GIF-699
Maja Design - Vintage Winter  collection - Season's Greetings ( B side) VIN-482
Maja Design - Vintage Winter collection - December paper
Memory Box die - Snowman Heart Collage style 99801

Autumn Thankful Card

Feeling Thankful

I'm feeling thankful.  While it may feel like life is spinning out of control, the world has gone crazy and work/family/life is stressful,  remind yourself of the many reasons to be thankful.  Thankful for supportive family, friends and co-workers.  Thankful for health and a warm home.  Thankful that everyday is a new day to start over. 

And let's not forget to be thankful for the simple things in life that bring us joy...for a papercrafting hobby that brings peace, happiness, a way to relieve the stresses of the day through beautiful papers and crafting supplies.  

I've got Maja Design and Spellbinders
 to thank for this.  Or more specifically Spellbinders Die D-Lites.

I used Maja Design - Walking in the Forest paper collection and topped with leaves and the perfect sentiment from Spellbinders Die D-Lites - Fall Leaves Holiday 2017 to make this card pop to life. 

I made a card for a person who has helped me in my job for 10 years.  She is a treasured client of mine and is moving to a new position.  I value her assistance and level-headedness in the times when work seems like it can gobble me up.  

My gorgeous paper choices perfect for the season are from Maja Design - Walking in the Forest paper collection. Featured below are the papers I used to create my card:   

Maple ( both A and B side)

Mountain Ash (B side)

I grabbed another great product perfect for the season - 

Spellbinders Die D-Lites - Fall Leaves Holiday 2017

Here are a few more closeups of the papers and embellishments on my card.  

I am thankful for your visit and support.  May your Autumn season be full of reason to be thankful.  

Here are some quick links to help make your shopping easy: 

• Buy the Maja "Walking in the Forest" collection here.  
• Shop internationally for Maja Design collections using the  Store Finder Link.   
• Click here to chop for Spellbinders dies and stamps
• Use this link to grab the gorgeous seasonal Spellbinders Die D-Lites - Fall Leaves Holiday 2017 

Maja Design - Walking in the Forest paper collection :Maple ( both A and B side), Mountain Ash (B side)

Spellbinders Die D-Lites - Fall Leaves Holiday 2017 S3-270