Thanks for being you ~ Whiff of Joy DT card

Happy Thursday. Why are the weeks flying by so quickly? I cannot believe that the kids have been in school for a month now! Today I have another card using my favorite fall color combination!

I have used one of my favorite Whiff of Joy images: Melinda reading a book and after having colored her, I masked her and stamped this SU! French script over on top. I lightly sponged the edges with Antique linen distress ink.

I used the wonderful sketch from Papertake Weekly although I have moved some of the elements around! I also am entering it in the Whiff of Joy challenge which is to create a “thank-you” card. As you can see, I have a small tag that pulls out from behind the image.

The tag was created using one of the new metal dies from Whiff of Joy. I am LOVING them! As you know the new collection will be released on October 1st. Many of the DT have posted some sneak peeks! I just received my DT kit yesterday so I will have some new cards to share with you at the beginning of the week.

 

Katharina is offering up one of the new Stamp Kits. It is a compliment to the Christmas Blessings kit. The link is in my side-bar!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Cowgirl Tilda and Stamps for Sale

Happy Wednesday! Well, the weeks are flying by and the Canada geese have started to fly south. The kids love to see their V-formations flying overhead and hear them calling to each other. For me, it truly means that Autumn is in full swing. The trees have already started to change colors and there is a definite crispness to the air. I love Autumn!

My card today features one of the sweet images from the Bon Voyage collection. As I was coloring this sweetie up, I starting thinking about the Magnolia Fall Stamp Kit. I ordered it awhile ago and am wondering if it will soon be shipped out?! Does anyone know?

My little Tilda was colored to match my yummy designer paper. Yet some more SU! paper that I have been hoarding. I am afraid that I have gone a little crazy with this color palette lately and so you will be seeing a lot of it in the next week or so! LOL! The sentiment is from Verve Stamps :Blue Skies set that I won a few weeks back over at the Mojo Monday challenge. I was thrilled that they chose my card as one of the winning ones!

I have followed the wonderful sketch over at Just Magnolia challenge. It is a wonderful one and I know that I am going to be using it again.

Stamps for Sale:

If you check under my “For Sale” tab at the top of my blog, you will see that I have several stamps and stamp sets listed for sale. I just have soooo many stamps and as much as I love them, I know that I probably will not be inking them up again. It is a little painful to let them go but I would rather someone uses them than for them to sit neglected on  my shelves. I have listed a price beside each and if you are interested, just email me jeanettecomerford(at)sympatico(dot)ca and I will get you a shipping quote for you to add to the price. I don’t believe that it will cost overly much to ship. I will ship internationally and I would like to be paid through PayPal.

Thanks for stopping by! I appreciate your support!

High Hopes Challenge

Happy Tuesday! Thanks for swinging by today! I have my card for this week’s High Hopes Challenge to show you. Lacey has created a wonderful sketch for us all to play with!

It is the Birthday of our High Hopes Blog and so this week our prize is EXTRA special! There will be 3 large prizes to celebrate the blog's birthday so I hope you will get the chance to participate!

I have used the sweet new image Mouse Tails and for a change, I colored it up using Prismacolors and OMS. It is a bit of a softer look than using copics. The designer paper is from Cosmo Cricket’s Material Girl  paper pack and the ribbon is from SU! I haven’t added a sentiment yet but I picture something going across the red checked circle!

If you are looking to purchase High Hopes stamps why not check out our Diva's stores:

Nikki Fairbairn - Bunny Zoe's Crafts based out of the UK/Europe
Lacey Stephens - Stamp and Create based out of the US
Amy Leggate - Paper Romance based out of Canada
Karen Goguen/Cathy Siroski - The Rubber Room based out of Canada
Amy Wegener - Stampin' Stuff based out of Australia

Have a great day and I hope you get the chance to get a little inky!

Stamp & Create Spotlight & A Video Tutorial

Happy Monday! Hope your week is off to a fine start! Today I have a card for you that features a stamp from this week’s Stamp  Create product spotlight: My Heart Stamps for You. These cutie will be on sale this week at 40% off!

The stamp that I used on my card is from the Dressed up Bunny stamp set. You get the same image in two different sizes which I think is pretty cute! Now, I see that Lacey has actually sold out of this particular one but there are many sets that feature this same bunny which I am sure you will love. You can see them all ~here~.

I picked my Copic Sketch markers to match the fun patterned paper which is from Kaiser Crafts Hippy Girl collection. I think you can see how glittery it is and I love this particular color combo! I added a Wilton Doily as a background and by snipping a little on either side, I was able to run my satin ribbon through it. Just a simple A2 card!

Just a few more days to enter my Explosion Box challenge for a chance to win a WoJ stamp. You can read about it ~here~ and I have added my 2 part video tutorial to this post!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Sketch Saturday

Happy Saturday to you all! Thank you for stopping by my little blog today. I have my card for this week’s Sketch Saturday to show you!

I inked up another one of the Tildas from the Bon Voyage Collection. I colored her using the colors from my patterned paper as inspiration. The paper is from Kaiser Crafts Lush Collection . The little scrolls on the side were made using a Cuttlebug die and the scallops were made using a Martha Stewart border punch and the ribbon and filigree brad are both from Stampin’ Up.

That is it for me! I hope you have a great weekend and don’t forget you still have a few more days to participate in my Explosion Box challenge to win a Whiff of Joy stamp! You can find the link to that post at the top left of my side-bar!

Double Challenge Friday

Happy Friday Everyone! I for one, am glad that the weekend is upon us. It has been such a busy week and I am tired. I had many meetings to attend this week and so I lost my evenings!

This week it is my turn to host the Friday Sketchers Challenge. It is always nerve-wracking for me to come up with a sketch and so I hope that you like this one and perhaps be tempted to play along! Of course we have a lovely sponsor this week (Simon Says Stamp)  and that may provide some further temptation! LOL!

this card is available for purchase on Ebay ~here~

I was one of the very lucky winners of dear Anki’s Hanglar candy and this gorgeous image is one of the ones in my package! Thank you sweetie!

I started with the image and then pulled out some papers from Basic Grey’s Cappella pad. I love the soft greens and blues and thought it would be a wonderful palette for my image. I added some stickles to the ornament for that little touch of bling and I used some Brushed Corduroy distress ink and the WoJ Christmas swirls to create some interest around the border of my image. The flower is Prima and was in my stash. I layered my ribbon using first some ivory crochet lace and then this gorgeous rose braided one. I love how vintage it looks.

Here is my little sketch:

Be sure to check out all the samples that my fellow DT sisters have created for your inspiration.  As always they have totally rocked it!

Aud, Bea, Carole, Claudia, Tanja, Jacque,  Jacqueline, Janneke, Inge

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My second card today is for the Wags ‘n Whiskers Challenge which this week is diamonds and pearls.

I used the very sweet Toby’s Big Day for my card and went with a standard A2 format for a change. The pearls are Martha Stewart and I used Diamond Stickles to meet the diamond requirement! The paper is some very old SU! that I still have in my stash and am trying to use up.

Please join us in our challenge. We would love to see what you create and there is always a wonderful prize up for grabs!

Well, that is it for me today. I have a bunch of things that I want to get done around the house today and I hope to spend some time in my craft studio working on some new cards to share with you all next week! Have a great day and thanks for swinging by!

Stamp & Create Product Spotlight & High Hopes Challenge

Happy Tuesday! I am a little behind in my postings. My little guy fell in the school yard yesterday morning and hit his head quite hard. I took him to the ER and there we were for 6 hours. He is perfectly fine. No concussion or ills effects and the nasty bump has gone down considerably. It was very scary but thankfully he is fine.

Boys. There is never a dull moment with them. I hope that my post makes sense because I AM sleep-deprived after waking Mr Magoo  every two hours to make sure he was alright.

This week, the product Spotlight over at Stamp & Create is the adorable stamps by Crafters Companion called: SWALK. They are really very sweet and I love the whimsical look to them.

That means all SWALK stamps will be on sale 25% off through Sunday. What a great deal! Here is my sample card:

I used the SWALK stamp Old Friend. I colored up the image with my copic markers and added Diamond stickles to the flower centers. I created the bow using the Bow Easy and this wonderful Olive Silk Ribbon. A couple of Prima Flowers were the final touch. The inside of the card has the rest of the sentiment which reads" to grow an old friend". I forgot to take a photos :(

If you haven’t already entered, click the above banner to enter the drawing for the Birthday Candy!!

My next card is for this week’s High Hopes Challenge which is “country”. I took the opportunity to ink up and color this sweet bovine couple “American Cowthic” and almost died laughing as I added this hilarious sentiment “Love One An-Udder”!

I had already colored up my image over the weekend so last night I literally whipped this card together! I used some Nestie Labels dies, the paper is from Basic Grey Nook & Pantry which you can find ~here~ and the gingham ribbon can be found ~here~.

I hope you can find the time to join our challenge! The random winner of this challenge can chose 3 High Hopes stamps of their choice!!! Not 1 but 3!!!

If you are looking to purchase High Hopes stamps why not check out our Diva's stores:

Nikki Fairbairn - Bunny Zoe's Crafts based out of the UK/Europe
Lacey Stephens - Stamp and Create based out of the US
Amy Leggate - Paper Romance based out of Canada
Karen Goguen/Cathy Siroski - The Rubber Room based out of Canada
Amy Wegener - Stampin' Stuff based out of Australia

Sketch Saturday…a day late

Happy Sunday! I am just getting round to posting my card for this week’s Sketch Saturday! We had a busy Friday and Saturday, but better late than never! LOL!

I inked up this WoJ Henry Mouse cutie. Isn’t he just the most adorable mouse? I love him to bits and also have a fun time coloring him up. The sentiment is also WoJ and comes along with another stamp. Click on the pictures below that are linked to where you can get them! Once again, I have used old SU! patterned paper but the cardstock is from the new colors that SU! have just released. I really love them: Pear Pizzaz and Poppy Parade.  The ribbon is Pear Pizzaz 1/2” stitched. Love this one too.

Whiff of Joy is having a special sale as well as a Guest Designer call. Just click on them and they are linked for you!

 

That is it for me now. I have to take son #2 to his hockey goaler try-out to see which division he will be placed in!

Hugs Jeanette

Double Challenge Fridays

Happy Friday! I have two cards to show you today and a reminder to check out my Challenge ~here~. The winner will get a free Whiff of Joy stamp and I will showcase their work here on my blog!
This week it is the super sweet and talented Janneke that is hosting the Friday Sketchers Challenge and she came up with a really fun sketch for us all to play with.

 *** this card is available to purchase on Ebay ~here~ ***

I am really embracing this wonderful time of the year and so all my pretty “Summer” papers have been put aside to bring out my gorgeous and vibrant “Fall” ones! I colored up this sweet little Tilda from the Bon Voyage collection and paired it up with some old SU! papers that I have been hoarding. I am really trying not to buy any more DP until I get my piles down to a reasonable level. The background was airbrushed with my Copic ABS using B32.

I typically make square cards but Janneke’s sketch inspired me to go with a rectangle and so this card is a regular A2 size.

We hope  you will be able to play along and post your own creation on the Friday Sketcher blog.

This weeks sponsor is Lauretta's Digital Stamps.

Be sure to check out all the samples that my fellow DT sisters have created for your inspiration:

Aud, Bea, Carole, Claudia, Tanja, Jacque,  Jacqueline, Janneke, Inge

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My next card is for the Wags ‘n Whiskers Challenge and this week the theme is “birthdays”. I knew right away I was going to use this cute little tiger! This stamp is called “Toby’s gift” and is available ~here~.

Once again I used my Copic Sketch markers to color him up and the paper is from an old Basic Grey pad. I used the fun sketch from this week’s Card Patterns challenge.

Please swing by our blog to see the rest of the Divas’ creations and I hope you get the chance to play along!

That is it for me today. Have a great one!

My Explosion Box Challenge and Blog Candy

Happy Thursday! I have a fun little project to show you and a little challenge for you as well! I have created a two part video on how to make an Explosion Box and it is posted over at the Whiff of Joy Inspiration & Tutorial Blog. You will also find some more pictures as well as my supply list.

I first saw one of these explosion boxes over at Suzanne Dean’s blog and found the tutorial over at Splitcoasters. I created my own modified version and posted it to my blog about a month ago. Since then I have had so many requests that I created a video for all of you to follow!

 

Here is my challenge to you! Create your own Explosion Box and post it to your blog. Make sure that you add a link to this posting as well as the posting at the WoJ Tutorial blog that has my video tutorial and supply list.

Then link your card up here using the inlinkz blue frog at the bottom of this posting! The winner will receive their choice of one Whiff of Joy stamp. Stamp must be in stock and not be part of a stamp kit :)

The challenge will run for 2 weeks. You have until midnight (EST) on September 30th to enter and I will announce the winner the next day!

Have fun!

Please Add the link to your card here:

High Hopes Challenge ~ Spots & Dots

Happy Tuesday! Hope your week is off to a great start! The weather is turning quite cool so I am going to have to get cracking if I want to harvest my basil leaves and make some pesto! This year, my basil plants grew to gargantuan proportions and we had fresh basil all summer long. Yum. I just love it. Today I am going to take pretty much the rest of it and turn it into pesto that I will freeze into tiny cubes to use all fall and winter long.

The High Hopes Challenge has moved to another day ~ Tuesdays! This week our challenge was given to us my the very sweet Debby is spots and dots and I knew right away what I wanted to do!

I colored this super sweet snowman “Snowman’s Cup of Love” based on the colors of my DP (again retired SU!) and then added the spotted background using the same colors. I just love the effect it gives! To make my snowman “pop” I outlined him with my C1 marker.  The ribbon is my Papertrey gingham. I just have a sweet spot for gingham!

I hope that you will get the chance to participate in our challenge! The random winner of this challenge can chose 3 High Hopes stamps of their choice!!! Not 1 but 3!!!

If you are looking to purchase High Hopes stamps why not check out our Diva's stores:

Nikki Fairbairn - Bunny Zoe's Crafts based out of the UK/Europe
Lacey Stephens - Stamp and Create based out of the US
Amy Leggate - Paper Romance based out of Canada
Karen Goguen/Cathy Siroski - The Rubber Room based out of Canada
Amy Wegener - Stampin' Stuff based out of Australia

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a great day!

Birthdays ~ Stamp & Create Product Spotlight

This week Lacey’s amazing and wonderful store: Stamp & Create turns ONE! What better spotlight this week than the theme of “birthdays”! All birthday related stamps will be 25% off.

I decided to use one of my favorite Whiff of Joy stamps:  the adorable  Melinda Blowing Kisses. It is from one of the older collections but I do so love her and it was fun to ink her up again and color her! I chose my Copic Sketch markers to match the October Afternoon Fly a Kite designer paper. The sentiment is from Verve Stamps and I used the SU! Top Notes die to cut it out. I lightly sponged around the edges with Vintage Photo distress ink. I wanted to keep my card simple and so the only other addition was to use the bow-easy and some gorgeous ivory silk ribbon to create a big bow

To celebrate Stamp & Create’s birthday, Lacey has a pretty amazing candy!

She is  giving away a $50.00 gift certificate to Stamp and Create!! To enter, please become a follower of our blog, then sign up to the link in this post.
The candy will be open until Sunday Night. The winner will be announced next Monday.

I just want to congratulate my dear friend Lacey on the 1st birthday of her incredible store! It is incredible to be part of your DT and to be able to work with such fine and talented people as well as the BEST stamping products! Girl, you taste is impeccable and you are a joy to work with!

Have a great day everyone. I have a bunch of DT things to get ready so I am hoping to devote a nice chunk of time to that today!

One Card/Two Looks ~ Sketch Saturday Week #120

Happy Saturday! Once again it is time to show you the card I made for the Sketch Saturday Challenge. Our wonderful sponsor this week is:

For my card, I used one of Motivet Stamps’ new releases. It is a wonderful scenery stamp called “Old Tree Scenery” and it was so much fun to color in! After I colored it up with my sketch markers, I lightly dabbed at the leaves in the trees with a piece of cloth and some colorless blender. This gave it such a great textured look. The sentiment is by Verve stamps and I used a Papertrey die and stamp set to create the fun tag. The paper is OLD Stampin’ Up. I loved this series of DP so much that when it became available a while back as a special clearance item , I bought two more packs! I have decided to stop hoarding it and use it! LOL!

At the back of my mind as I was creating this card, I was thinking that this would make an awesome background to one of the new Magnolia Bon Voyage stamps. I think that these two stamps are a match made in heaven and I bet that many of our cute little Tildas would look magical with this background!

So, hence my title “One card/Two Looks”. Thanks for stopping by today. I so very much appreciate that people come and take a look at my little creations! Have a great weekend!

My Double Challenge Friday!

Happy Friday! The week just whizzed by! the kids are settling into school and the family is getting into a nice routine! So far, so good! I think next week will be the true test as they will start up their music lessons and hockey as well.

My first card today is for the Friday Sketchers Challenge and dear Jacque has provided us with a phenomenal sketch! Very simple yet so many ways to interpret it!

 

I used another Sweet November stamp (can you tell how much I {heart} these? This one is Baby Trick or Treat Witch and I got her from Stamp & Create ~ here~. I paired her up with this Magnolia sentiment that was part of their Halloween collection last year. I did a little sponging to make it match my patterned paper which is all left-over from last year. My card was looking a little plain so I added some SU brads to the corners and then made some fancy swirls with my Tim Holtz die. I remembered to take a picture of the markers I used:

Be sure to check out all the samples that my fellow DT sisters have created for your inspiration.  Our wonderful sponsor this week is 7kids college fund.

Aud, Bea, Carole, Claudia, Tanja, Jacque,  Jacqueline, Janneke, Inge

We hope  you will be able to play along and post your own creation on the Friday Sketcher blog.

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My second card is for the Wags ‘n Whiskers Challenge. This week we are challenged to use Fall colors. I wanted to ink up one of the older releases and chose this very sweet image; Snuzzle Love which is available ~here~. The first thing I did was to choose my paper. I decided to use Cosmo Cricket’s Earth love because the colors were perfect for a fall theme. Then I picked out some Copic Sketch markers that matched the DP! This is not a color palette which I have ever used but I am really pleased with the way it turned out. The final touches were this gorgeous Magnolia blossom and my very favorite ribbon: May Arts Silk. It is so gorgeous and I love the luxurious feel of it!

This wonderful sketch is from this week’s Papertake Challenge!

We have a wonderful prize up for grabs as usual so I hope you will find a little pocket of time this week to join us in this Fall challenge!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Just for fun

Happy Thursday! Today I have a card that I made just for the pure fun of it! That’s right. I didn’t follow any challenge…I just stamped colored and went with the flow.

 

I fell in love with this sweet Tilda from the Bon Voyage collection and I was finally able to ink her up. I loved the fact that I had the Magnolia tree stamp image that they have used on their DP. So fun! Tilda was colored with copic markers, masked and then airbrushed. Then I stamped the tree a few times making sure to place the branches to create a nice look. I used  Cryogen paper to color on and then added more glitter with some twinkling H20s and sakura pens. You can see the effect in the picture below which was taken with a different camera angle:

this card is up for auction over at eBay ~here~

Thanks for stopping by! I appreciate your wonderful visits. Until tomorrow!

Stamp & Create September Challenge ~ Pearls & Gems

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by! It has been a little bit of time between my postings…..I had a very busy back to school  week with the kids and Labour Day Weekend was super busy. I am hoping now that things will slow down and I can get back to a normal routine!

Here is my card for the Stamp & Create challenge which this month is pearls & gems. Click ~here~  to go to the proper posting to enter. There is an amazing prize for the winner:

I took the opportunity to ink this cute Sweet November stamp up! I used the sketch from this week’s Mojo Monday and it fits the ATS Wednesday challenge which is lace, and Magical Monday’s challenge which is also lace. I hope this little guy qualifies as something magical!

• Stamps: Sweet November Baby Trick or Treat Dragon, SU! Halloween Sets
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper: SU! Basic Black, SU! Retired Halloween Paper,
• Coloring: Copic Markers
• Embellies: Kaiser Craft Pearls, Black Crochet Lace, Gingham ribbon from Papertrey

Copic Sketch Markers Used: B0000, B000, E000, E00, E11, E74, E77, E79, G00, G12, G14, G16, G28, YG03, YR04, Colorless Blender
Tomorrow I am hoping to get a lot accomplished in my craft room and hopefully start filming some more videos for you all!

Stamp & Create Labor Day Sale

 

Labor Day Sale!!

It's is a Holiday weekend here in Canada and in the States!! The schools are out on Monday - as well as many businesses, too! So that means...a 3 day weekend!

To celebrate, Stamp & Create is having a sale!!

10% off everything in the store!!

Use discount code: laborday (all one word, all lowercase) through Monday to recieve 10% off our everyday low prices!!

Because of the Holiday, we will not have a new product showcase on Monday, but we will have a new challenge!

 

Just wanted to let you know. Lacey had the most incredible products in her store and so I didn’t want you to miss this opportunity.

I am behind in my cards but will work hard to get them done so I can show them to you!

My Turn to Host Sketch Saturday

Happy Saturday! I hope that your weekend is off to a fantastic start. We have a wedding today, a birthday party for my little nephew tomorrow and on Monday we are “doing our tomatoes”. My neighbour and I can 10 bushels every year and then have delicious sauce for the rest of the year! What are your plans?

Today it is my turn to host the Sketch Saturday Challenge. I am super excited to share my little sketch with you and also let you know that Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps is sponsoring my week! Whoo Hoo! Kimmie is going to give the winner three stamps of their choice! What a great prize!

To top off my excitement, I also get to choose and invite a guest designer for the month of September! I am so happy that my good friend, the incredibly sweet and amazingly talented Inge agreed to be our guest!

Without further ado, here is my little sketch. I hope you like it :)

Here is my card featuring one of Kraftin’Kimmie’s Moonlight Whispers stamps: Emelia 

The little airplane comes with the stamp and is perfect to add as a little embellishment. I added some felt that I cut into the shape of clouds behind the plane itself. The paper is all old SU! which I have in my stash and I love the fall colors. They inspired my color palette for the image. The sentiment is from an old Verve Stamps set. I just love their gorgeous fonts and inspirational sentiments. I got my stamp from Lacey’s store Stamp & Create.

So, I hope you will find a little pocket of time this week to join our challenge and try out my sketch. If you only knew how nerve-wracking I find it to create a sketch!

Please pop over to the Sketch Saturday Blog. Dear Kimmie also found some time to make a card for the challenge. You can see her card and Inge’s as well as the rest of the SS DT. We also are welcoming some new members to our team. I’m not telling you who….just come on over and be ready to be INSPIRED!

Thanks for stopping by!