LWD Design Team Showcase: Pink Paislee Snow Village Collection

Hello there! It's me again, showcasing the lovely and very chic Pink Paislee Snow Village line today for Lone Wolf Designs. 

Since it's that time of year - Advent - I thought I'd show you a few different designs for gift card holders. We give several gift cards during Christmas (and throughout the year!). Each year we give our daughters' teachers gift cards - usually to Target - and I like finding fun ways to present them. 

My youngest's preschool teacher is going to l.o.v.e this beanie holder. The pattern is so 'her'!  

PP: Snow Village paper
Stampin' Up clay rosette (colored with marker)
ribbon unknown

You can find the tutorial here. I didn't add the pom-pom on top as I was picturing more of a cloche than a beanie. :)

This next gift card holder is very simple to make! Let me first show you my sad first attempt:

This is why you ALWAYS, ALWAYS do a test spray of any mists or sprays. GRRR.  But isn't that little keep calm image cute? It's included in this page in the 6x6 pad:

Okay, so then I tried again with another of those cute little 1x1.5" squares:

PP: Snow Village paper
Stamps: PP Snow Village
Ribbon: Stampin' Up
Card stock: Gina K

Cute, huh? I stamped the 'Dec' and '25' from the coordinating Snow Village stamps.  You can find a tutorial here for this holder. These are small and go together very quickly!

This one is super fun. I think kids would love this! Heck, my husband loved it. :)

The ribbon works really well... that way you don't have to worry about your
closure band needing to slide off and your card front getting in the way!

You can find that tutorial here. Here is the inside:

PP: Snow Village
Card stock: Bazzill
Ribbon: unknown

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Best,

Jen

Growing in Unity - day 5

Hello friends! It's my last day as Growing in Unity girl for Unity Stamp Co. My daughter's favorite board book is What Should we Do with the Boo Hoo Baby so I won't be all boo hoo hoo because truth is this week was so much fun... but I'm not sorry to see it end because it doesn't end!! We have the Unity Facebook page, Pinterest, and Friends with Flair every Friday  for inspiration and camaraderie.  :)

This is kind of going to be a show-and-tell kind of post but with more showing and less telling, 'cause I know you all have more important things to do:

Mini cards; thought these might be a fun thing to tuck in a teacher gift for Christmas:

Jillibean Soup/Unity Jolly Good Fun (left)
Unity's Christmas Bough set (right)
Marvy Urchida markers/gel pens

This stamp is completely underwhelming if you do not emboss it. Know what I also hate am allergic to, besides coloring? Heat embossing, though I did it anyway 'cause I like you guys... Oh, and loose glitter too. Did I tell you my daughter's Halloween costume was sparkly and shed glitter? Guess who is still cleaning up glitter eight days later... I'm not sure what happened with the color here. The green appears much less neon-like in real life.

Unity Christmas bough
embossing powder
Gina K card stock; SU ribbon

Then I thought I might try it on the kraft. My sentiment inks did not get fabulous coverage so it's slightly underwhelming. Love this big branch though!!

Unity Christmas Bough
SU ribbon, Gina K card stock

My Mind's Eye paper
Unity's Chrismtas Bough set (image)
 Jillibean/Unity Tis the Season for Joy set (sentiment)

Thank you for visiting me! Unity will give two Itty Bitty's to a winner from the comments I received this week, so go back to the previous posts and comment if you haven't already done so - better odds are a good thing! And then go shop, cause those new punny stamps are AMAZING. :)

Jen

Unity's FWF 10/25

Hey all, it's Unity's Friends with Flair day (link up, comment, win prizes, get inspired, it's all good) and it's also my 10 year wedding anniversary! :)

So... just a quick card share. Because the kids are fighting. Of course they are. They haven't seen each other alllllllll day long while the oldest is in school so playing together nicely? Nah.

Unity Stamp Co sentiment
My Mind's Eye paper
Quickkutz heart dies
Gina K card stock

Still love struck after 10 years! :) This sentiment is from a random grab bag... anyone know which set it was from? It's cute!

We are headed to Puerto Rico in 3 weeks to celebrate our anniversary, sans kids... oh gosh I cannot wait!!

Have a great weekend,

Jen

Lone Wolf Design DT Showcase: Lawn Fawn, a little Pink Paislee, and Tattered Angels

Happy Friday, everyone! It's me again with another Lone Wolf Designs product showcase... and yes, I just can't get enough of Lawn Fawn! I was inspired at Scrapfest @ the Mall of America in September, so... I went home and placed an order for some more LF goodies (see the link at the bottom of the post for how you can order and save!!) and then I had fun making some stuff.

Did you know that Christmas is only 60 days away? 

I also picked up some Tattered Angels glimmer mist at Scrapfest. I thought it might be fun to add some mist to some of my projects... and holiday was the name of the game.

I had such fun playing with the newer Tag, You're It Lawn Cuts and coordinating Winter Gifts stamp set!

 I stamped the background with some of the smaller stamps from Winter Gifts and colored in the leaves and berries. I stamped the banner tag on patterned paper and added one of the Winter Gifts sentiments, a little twine, and then assembled and misted!

This is the glimmer mist I chose:

It's sugar maple, which is a lot less orange than it looks in the photo, thank goodness! It's a really pretty copper tone. :)

The Lawn Fawn make & take I did last month used the jar from Summertime Charm (and coordinating Lawn Cut die) to make the bell jar into a snow globe. Adorable, right?? I added a little kraft envelope behind the green panel so you could add a gift card! The sentiment is from Let it Snow and I embossed it in gold to go with the pretty Pink Paislee snow village paper. :) I added a little clear Stickles to the snowflakes as well.

Then I realized I had an abundance of Lawn Fawn winter sentiments, so I decided to make some subway art tags.

And then I just used the Winter Tags stamps and dies to find the best placement and cut out two tags!

 I sprayed them both with the Tattered Angels mist. SO pretty with the red ink! The top banner die is another cute little tag I made.  It would easily attach to a small gift bag, and doesn't even need to be a holiday gift... win/win!

And one tag I put on a card. How fun is that? This paper is also by Lawn Fawn.

The Tattered Angels mist is shimmery and it does rub off a bit on your skin... just an FYI for those who do not care for glimmer/glittery products! The shimmer is subtle and though it takes a little practice to get your spritzing just right, it's fun!

Here are two bonus tags... they kind of got sprayed by accident (yeah, I'm not at my best after 10 pm. I'm more of an early bird) but I actually loved the end result. These are Pink Paislee stamps and paper (cut using the Lawn Fawn largest tag die). I used the stamps from the Snow Village set and a little tag from the Snow Village paper pack for the bottom tag. The top tag was one of those "happy accident" tags... I stamped in a color that wasn't quite what I wanted, so I shadow stamped over the top with a neutral color and then I kind of liked how it made it look more aged... and then a tiny bit of glimmer mist at the edges gave it even more of an antique look. Bonus!

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Now, I know you are thinking "this would be so fun and easy to make a whole bunch of holiday tags at once. I should really call my sister/my mom/my best friends and plan a little coffee and crafting time to get started on holiday stuff."  You are correct, you will also need something chocolate, and you're welcome. :)

Have a GREAT weekend, friends!

Jen

OWH MWT - pink/green love

Hey, just popping in with a quick card share for today's Operation Write Home challenge! The challenge is to make a love card with pink and green, and I made a card the other day that fits the bill. :)

This was one of those "happy accident" cards. I was going to use the pink heart that I die cut for the sentiment, but - not thinking - I stamped it in gray ink, and it was hard to see. SO, miracle of all miracles, I realized that I had lined up the die cut pretty well and I just used the negative space against the green and framed it out with a faux layer, i.e., tiny strips cut to 1/4". :)

Of course you are all the final say on whether or not it actually works! :)

My Mind's Eye papers
Quickkutz heart die
Paper Smooches love sentiment

Thanks for visiting!

We had snow flurries this morning. AHHHHHHHHHH! I'm not ready!

Jen

OWH sketch 193

Time for another Operation Write Home sketch - did you hop yesterday for the World Cardmaking Day blog hop? I did, though I only made it about 2/3 of the way through the hop. I can finish off the rest today. There's so many great cards! If you didn't see my card, be sure to scroll down to the next post (there's blog candy!). 

Today's sketch is number 193. I really like this sketch! And since my eldest has been sick this weekend, no Mass for me today. :/ She went to bed still feeling really sick but woke up chipper and happy, which is wonderful, but I don't want her to over-do. And heaven forbid we share germs... no other family wants what she had! :(

These were my first efforts. The ribbon tab card was #2... my seven year old decimated my bling stash the other day, and I wasn't liking what bling I had to add on the left side, so I added ribbon tabs.

My Mind's Eye papers
Twinery twine
Gina K card stock

Then I decided to make a couple more changes, and I really really really liked the end result. See what you think. The left card was #3 and the right was the final card, which is my favorite of all of them.

My Mind's Eye
Gina K card stock
Lawn Fawn sentiment

And I think this is my last Scrapfest photo: Jillibean Soup class cards

Thanks for visiting me today! Remember Sandy is asking for holiday cards to arrive by October 15 if possible. I already sent a bunch and I'll be sending my final batch next week! Then on to Valentine's Day. :)

Jen

OWH sketch 192

Happy Sunday! It's time for Operation Write Home sketch 192. I'm at the very tail end of this Jillibean Soup paper pad, so I think I may make a few more of this theme. :)

Jillibean Soup designer paper
Unity Stamp co clipboard and sentiment
kraft is embossed with a woodgrain folder
Gina K chocolate brown for the layers

And... a couple of promised photos from Scrapfest last weekend! I still have to show you the Jillibean Soup photos and the Unity ones. These are the make & takes that we did; we didn't have much time between classes:

From l-r: Bo Bunny, Lawn Fawn, Simple Stories

There were others I would have LOVED to do. We spent nearly an hour waiting in the Lawn Fawn line, but it was so worth it! That's the bell jar turned upside down for snow globe!! :)

And then these are three of the cards I made from the Doodlebug class. We only had time to make 3 in class and we brought three home to complete. Their stuff has glitter, FYI, not OWH safe and not my preference, but the cards turned out very cute. Washi flags are HARD to do but the result is very very cute (top card).

That's all for me tonight! Thanks for visiting!

Jen

OWH sketch 191

Happy Sunday, people! I'm recovering from a long, busy day at Scrapfest yesterday. It was so much fun!! I owe a HUGE thanks to my bloggy and now real-life friend Sarah for saving the day - I was supposed to attend with a local friend, but she was unable to come at the last minute. Sarah agreed to come and take her place at the classes, so I rocked some tunes and diet coke and made the 2.5 hour trip there and back yesterday. 

AND she is as lovely and funny as you would expect reading her blog. I'm so glad we got to meet and hang out all day! :)

I will review some of the classes and share some of the projects this week, so stay tuned! (Hint - my favorite class (AGAIN) was Jillibean Soup. Love Jill!!!)

It's time for another Operation Write Home sketch, this week is 191. I made this card:

Jillibean Soup apple cheddar soup
Paper Smooches sentiment
Gina K dark chocolate card stock
labels 8

And if you can't tell anything odd about it, I will thank you greatly. (The labels don't 'nest' well, so I die cut the sentiment and then trimmed the red around it. Can you tell?)

I'm not sure about that green apple background, so give me a yay or nay in the comments, will you? 

And my moment of shame... I bought these yesterday:

In the Archiver's 'sale' section. 8 paper pads, people! The problem is, they all call to me. And the truth... I had more in my basket that I put back! This is most of my haul. Technique Tuesday! I'm not sure why we didn't hear more squeals when we were shopping... oh the good stuff to be found!

Jen

OWH sketch 186

Time for another Operation Write Home sketch! Today was kind of a lazy day. It was actually over 80 today, which it hasn't been in over two weeks, so the kids played outside in the sprinkler while I lazed on the deck with a good book and some diet Coke. Ahhh, the life. :)

I've been trying to use up this My Mind's Eye 'the merry days of Christmas  pad and it's just not my favorite. I went to it for this sketch thinking Christmas but I ended up just making a masculine card. Hmm.  Now I'm thinking harder about using up these papers, if I can use them in a non-holiday way! 

Behold, sketch 186:

MME merry days of Christmas paper
Gina K warm cocoa card stock
Unity Stamp Co sentiment
big eyelets and twine from stash
CTMH desert sand & TH antique linen inks

Also linking up with the Drunken Stampers blog challenge, which is to use twine! (hey, ladies!)

Happy start of the week! Thanks for visiting me today.

Jen

OWH MWT - fall theme

Autumn... say it isn't so! The summer is flying by; school starts in less than 30 days. I need to finish school shopping... thank goodness for Catholic school uniforms, at least. (Yeah, retailers, I'm looking at you. Clothing for seven year olds should make them look like seven year olds, not teens. Thanks.)

Since this week's Operation Write Home challenge is to make fall cards, and I don't have much "fall" stamping stuff so I dug into my stash of "gotta use this up" baggies that just have a few pieces of random paper lines. This is Authentique, I do believe, what line exactly has escaped me. I wasn't all that keen on it. :)

It still made a nice card, though!

Authentique paper
Gina K card stock in dark chocolate
Paper Smooches sentiment

Thanks for visiting me today! 

Jen

OWH/ODBD challenge for August

Yes that's not a terribly exciting title. Sorry, it's been one of those days. It's 5:30 pm and the girls fell asleep about 45 minutes ago. Do you see my problem??

Oh goodness gracious.

On the other hand, I do have a card for the August Operation Write Home & Our Daily Bread Designs challenge. Each month the (lovely) ODBD people challenge the (creative & talented) OWH people to make cards based on a theme for our heroes. If there are 25 cards linked, they will pay the cost to ship one box of cards overseas to our heroes; if 50 are linked, they will sponsor two boxes! What a generous thing, right?

The theme this month is using the colors brown, green, and pink. Voila:

Card stock: PTI ripe avocado and Gina K chocolate brown
Jillibean Soup patterned paper and embellishment
sentiment by Ali Edwards for Technique Tuesday

Thanks for visiting me today!

Jen

OWH MWT - any hero cards

Hey! It's Wednesday - seriously? We had a longer weekend up north... thanks to the telephone company needing to make a service call on Monday, so it feels like Tuesday to me. Oh well, I guess the weekend will get here that much faster! :)

Today's OWH challenge is to make Anyhero notes. I had part of one last sheet of this K & Co. Americana pack, so I sliced it up to make 12 of this design:

Cuttlebug stars embossing folder
Nestabilities labels 8
Paper Smooches sentiment
K&CO. paper, Gina K ivory cardstock
Twinery twine

 Just a few were blue, most were the red and white stripe.

My mom helped assemble! She's better at bows than I am.

I embossed the kraft piece, used my white ink pad over the surface to make the stars pop a little more, and adhered the banners. I tied on the twine and added the die cut sentiment and done! 

Thanks for visiting me today!

Jen

OWH MWT - Christmas in July

Hello... is it Friday yet? It is HOT and HUMID here in Wisconsin. I've not been able to let the kids play outside much this week due to the heat... but we have taken advantage of our community pool's free swim program. For 45 minutes daily they are open for free; then they close and reopen an hour later. A little time to swim and then I'm not the bad guy who makes everyone leave when they were having so much fun? Total win/win. :)

Today's OWH mid-week challenge is "Christmas in July." Um, yeah. Last year I challenged the OWH ladies on Facebook to join in making a few cards per month with me... and a few did. This year I challenged them again and we had a LOT of ladies join in. It's very informal, but every now and then someone will update with how many she made for the month. I think it's awesome!

My goal is 5 per month until October, but some months I did one or two... others I made 20. Go figure. I'm packing up a few to start sending to Kris, so I pulled out a couple of my favorites:

MME designer paper, Gina K ivory card stock
Lawn Fawn stamps and sentiment
Sizzix snowflake emobossing folder
Nestabilities ovals

MME scraps - I couldn't bear to throw these, so I made a quilt card!
Paper Smooches sentiment
Bazzill card stock

Thanks for visiting me today! :)

Jen

Unity's FWF 6/21 - so this is love

Happy Friday! I'm so excited to once again be linking up with Friends with Flair over at the Unity blog! Last weekend I went to a local shoebox (card making) swap and since we had only 9 women, we had everyone make 2 cards so you could make one and take one from each person.

Last week I shared the first card I made; today is the favorite card reveal:

 Basic Grey Kioshi
Unity Stamp Co sentiment (so this is love set)
ribbon flower
PTI plum pudding card stock and ink
Gina K ivory card stock

Okay, I should clarify. We did vote on 'best card.' This was not the winner, but it is MY favorite and considering I taught several in the group how to make those ribbon flowers AND their own homemade glue dots I'd say this card definitely taught some of the group a new trick or two! And it's my favorite card. So there. :)

I made some with a different (non-Unity sentiment); this card showcases a much better ribbon flower. The above one I was clearly hyped on too much Diet Coke!

Thanks for visiting me today!

Jen

OWH MWT & bootcamp

Hey there! It's challenge day over at the Operation Write Home blog and today's challenge is cards for kids! I'm sharing a card I made recently from some scrap pieces... gotta love it when you can use it up! See, people, this is why I leave my crafting space in disarray so often. Then I have to clean it, and it never fails that 10 minutes in I've found several things that could make a card and then I'm off crafting again. :)

Anyhow, this also works for the OWH Bootcamp repetition class:

Jilibean Soup dp scraps
Unity Stamp Co sentiment
Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder
Momento Danube blue and dandelion inks
Really Reasonable Ribbon crinkle ribbon
Gina K card stock

I thought this made a fun and cheery kid birthday card... those number papers work really well for kid birthdays, in my opinion! I think you can see the repetition here... there's a lot of dots! 

Thanks for visiting me today!

Jen

Drunken Stampers challenge 132 - Monty Python

Hello! Saturday has rolled around once again and I'm super excited for today... not only is it the new Drunken Stampers challenge, it's shoebox swap day! I'm headed to a local shoebox (card) swap where we'll make and take cards and eat some REALLY yummy food. I should know, I made my famous lemon dream cake for dessert. (Okay, it's not famous. But family requests it at least twice a year, which I think gives it total edge.) :)

The Drunken Stampers theme this week is Monty Python. Yeah... never seen it. All I know is they told me rabbits. I got those! They're even in my yard getting - as my seven year old says - "a free lunch" from our small container garden. Yeah. Not anymore, bunnies! I raised the containters and they better find a free lunch elsewhere! My children suggested catching them in cages so we could have bunny pets. Um, no.

I love how this My Favorite Things stamp set includes little sentiments that fit right in the heart. SO CUTE.

My Favorite Things stamps
Basic Grey paper
Gina K and Papertrey Ink cardstock
Nesties ovals/scalloped ovals
ribbon from stash

Thanks for visiting me today! Hop (haha, get it?) back to the Drunken Stampers blog to upload your own rabbitty creation and see all of the other inspiration projects!!

Jen

The Paper Players #148 = what's the scoop

Just a quick post to link up a card I made for the recent Paper Player's challenge #148. The theme is "summer holiday" and though I think most of us enjoy ice cream year round, there's something different about a melty, drippy cone in the summertime heat. :) 

Well, maybe not if you live in a warm climate. Here in Wisconsin, we appreciate the heat because we know winter will last six months! LOL

Here you go:

Papers by Stampin' Up
Sentiment unknown
Gina K chocolate card stock
CM circle punches
Old Olive (SU!) ink

Thanks for visiting me today! :)

Jen

OWH Memorial Day bloghop - you're a good egg

HEY!

Sorry to yell. I'm just so excited for this Operation Write Home Memorial Day bloghop! :) (Click on the link to get back to the thumbnail list.)  On a weekend where we honor the lives of those who have died fighting for our freedom, it's so fitting to also think of how we will serve those who are currently fighting.

• This is Operation Write Home sketch 59. 
• I was going for masculine; I think I got gender neutral (but that's ok, happy accidents - right??).
• Paper Smooches stamps are SO fun. Love them! I know this isn't quite a 'thanks' sentiment, but it's close... and I stamped the 'thanks' inside.

Stamps: Paper Smooches wake up set
My Mind's Eye Breeze papers
Gina K cardstock
Glossy accents, SU not quite navy ink

And if my card didn't make you grin, this might: a set of Chrismtas ribbons AND a whopper collection of various Unity Stamp Co stamps (some sentiments, some images). :) 

Comment to win; for an extra chance leave a second comment telling me that you will mail at least 5 cards to Operation Write Home in the next two weeks (they can be Anyhero cards, too!).  

Now go hop some more! 

Jen

Unity's FWF 5/24 - hope you're swell

It's been waaaaay too long since I've joined in with Unity's Friends With Flair Friday, so I'm back with a quick card to share!

I got this sentiment stamp in a random bag over a year ago. I LOVE IT. It's one of my most favorite sentiments. :) If you know which kit it's from, please comment and let me know!

anyhow:

Stamp: Unity
Paper: My Mind's Eye
Gina K cardstock

I hope YOU are swell and you have a good Memorial Day weekend... not the weekend of barbeques and picnics, but the weekend to honor those who died fighting for our freedom. 

In honor of Memorial Day, Operation Write Home is hosting a blog hop tomorrow. I'd suggest visiting me again; I may just be giving away some Unity!! :)

Jen

Drunken Stampers #126 - Braveheart challenge

Time for another movie inspiration challenge at the Drunken Stampers blog and the Bahama Mamas are up with Braveheart (gingham/plaid/tartan) pieces!!

I remember seeing this movie in my teenage years (am I dating myself? LOL). Oh, Mel Gibson..... :) I pulled out some gingham - I'm a big fan of it! - and went for a simple lovey-dovey card.

Cosmo Cricket material girl paper
Gina K ivory and craft card stock
Hero arts for OWH sentiment
CTMH ink

This is a new favorite sketch of mine (from Operation Write Home, it's number 164).  Thanks for coming over to see my creation; be sure to go back to the Drunken Stampers blog so you can see everyone else's inspiration piece and upload your own creation!

Jen