Heaven Sent

I purchased a gift for a friend who recently had her second baby boy! The romper and frame were the inspiration for my card and frame embellishment. I mimicked the romper material using my white Inkssentials opaque pen on gray cardstock. Random lines along my ruler edge, so no measuring! The star reaches beyond the card to create a tent topper card.

A photo of card with the frame. The frame embellishment is the very same stamping and paper as used on the card star. Stitching on the card helps to reflect the fabric feel. Heaven Sent label is cut using Tags 5 die from Spellbinders. SU circle punches and Marvy Uchida yellow scallop circle punch along with brads, adhesive pearls, and button add to the card's embellishments and design elements.

A darling romper...the idea springboard for the card and tag message. I loves the star theme for a little boy and when I saw the star frame along with this outfit, I knew I would make a card to complete the set for gift giving!

Heaven Sent was stamped with my 50pt and 25pt Brayton font. You have heard me say it many times, and here I go again! The reason I love JustRite, is I can PERSONALIZE or spell anything I need to accompany my stamping creations. And the ability to combine fonts, along with JustRite sets is a huge plus too!

An example of this, is how I used this center, from the new Friendship Set on my 3 1/4" round wooden stamper for the star center. Perfect isn't it? Children are one of Life's most precious gifts, certainly Heaven Sent! Memento London Fog ink was used for all stamping. Papertreyink white and blue cardstock along with SU yellow and grey are the papers utilized.

JustRite is gearing up for their July 16 BLOG HOP! The team is busy creating some terrific ideas, Just for you! I am so excited to show you what I have been up to! For me it is definitely treat time again! And all those goodies are trying to find out witch way to go! Hmmm...it's going to be a tricky blog hop, for sure!

Take good care! I am so appreciative that you stopped in today! Hope the summer sun is shining where you are!

Have a great weekend, friends!

Friendship IS Happiness

I needed a special thank you card for a dear friend and pulled out two new JustRite sets that are being released today! HOORAY! You do not have to preorder, all July 7 releases are ready to be ordered and shipped! This card will be hand delivered, so I pulled out the wide ribbon for the bow! Visit Sharon's ribbon store HERE!

From this Friendship Set, I used the outer border shown on my 3 1/4" round wood stamper. All ink is Memento Tuxedo Black. This set offers a full array of friendship sentiments and images.

For the copic colored floral image, I stamped a portion of the Thinking of You stamp (the middle stamp image shown on package) after cutting it apart. Take a peek in the photo below. Some stamps are easier than others to cut apart, so I only cut ones that I can be sure to have room for a clean cut and have the ability to place the pieces together again for stamping.

This picture shows the two cut pieces placed on my OVAL 2 1/4" x # 1/16" wooded stamper. I stamped the image twice, once to the left and turning stamp around and stamping again to the right of previous stamped image! At first I thought I would stamp a border of sorts, but after two images stamped, I saw a butterfly, so I went for it!!! Even though the wings are not mirrored images, it works. I simply cut around the image to create the butterfly shape.

Here are the copics used. All paper aside from the SU green, is from Papertreyink. PTI Berry Sorbet is embossed with my Cuttlebut "Leafy Branch" older and slightly sanded. Antennas are small silver straight pins from my husbands dress shirts! Friendship and Happiness ring is cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities.

These are just two of the JustRite sets being released TODAY, July 7! Check all the other release sets and products HERE! For daily updates, take a peek on JustRites blog and right hand blog bar to locate all current JustRite creations! You will be inspired!

THANK YOU for visiting, I am working on taking pictures of my studio. The construction is complete, just have to organize the goods! I am excited for you to see! Stay tuned!

Take good care!

Slow, But Sure!

I unpacked my last box, many items are not yet in their place, but that will come. Slow, but sure! I have put away and rearranged items already in my new studio! I most likely will do that several times as I dig in and get some serious paper crafting accomplished. So, without further ado, I want to share my first creation since the move. New address cards, of course!

I had purchased packages of 5.5" x 5.5" cards from Michael's dollar bin last winter to make quick holiday cards! Well, that didn't happen! I love the embossed texture the paper gives to my house template! I cut the cards down to 5.5" x 4" with the fold on the left side. To create our last name letter medallion, I used my new JustRite WOOD 1 3/16" ROUND WOODEN STAMPER SET. LOVE the bonus 60pt. font and borders. This new set will be released on July 7. Check it out July 7 in the JustRite online store! Be sure to catch all the many inspirational preview samples using the new release products the JustRite Team have been creating! This is but one of the versatile sets available, beginning July 7.

To create the new address label, I utilized my 25pt. and 50pt. Times New Roman font and 1 3/8" x 3 1/2" Harmony Rectangular Stamper. StazOn black is used for all stamping.

A look at two of the cards together! All other papers aside from the Michael's cards are PaperTreyink. Ribbon is also PaperTreyink. Adhesive pearls are Kaiser and can be found at Joan's Gardens. The label and colored circle are cut using my Spellbinder Nestabitities. The inside address information is computer generated.

Thank you so very much for visiting today! I appreciate your patience with me during my recent move and blog absence! I hope you did not give up on me and will come visit again! I have a lot of catching up to do! Recently JustRite added two new team members, Kathy Jones and Michele Kovack. Visit their blogs along with the entire team to see what they have been up to! What an inspirational, talented group of women they are! AND check out the spectacular JustRite stamp storage idea that Kelli Fortin has shared on the JustRite blog...pure genius, I tell ya! YOU will love it!

Studio Before

A few pictures of what the builder calls "The Flex Room" and what I am calling The Studio! Here is the entry to the room. Love the glass atop the doors...allows for more light! Even though it was a cloudy day when I took these pictures.

Doors open! WELCOME! You can see pretty well across the room, it's that small! But I'm not complaining at all! With what the builder is going to do, I think it will allow ample space for some serious creating!

We're starting on the left side of the room. And there is a closet, obviously! LOL I have seen so many great ideas utilizing this space!

A view of the closet doors somewhat closed! The walls are definitely a khaki color even though it kinda looks different in each picture!

South wall between the closet and window wall. The blinds are white and wooden slats. I will leave the window treatment as is for now. Maybe add some color later.

And this brings us back to the right side of the room and the entry doors. This is my makeshift computer access table! Printer on the floor! LOL I can view the deck outside the window, and it is very accessible to take picture of cards and creations! I am hoping this improves my photos!

There you have it! The studio before! Can't wait to take pictures of the completion! Stay tuned! Hope all of you are having a wonderful summer time so far!

Take good care, friends!

A New Home!

I'm still here! It's a ton of work moving! Didn't matter how organized I tried to be...it still took much longer than I expected! But the good news is my little studio will be done this weekend, to finally start the unpack! Can't wait!

Until then I have a moving story for you. For those of you who visited my blog and knew I was moving saw the blog candy offerings and knew there were three winners! I got #1 candy packaged and mailed! Congratulations Niki!

Blog #2, winner Debbie Fisher, and Blog #3 winner Gigi Acker packages were carefully placed in my new studio wastebasket because I never got back to the post office before the actual move and the wastebasket was transported to the condo along with all the other belongings.

You know where this is going...my hubby, who is very helpful, decided to empty the new wastebasket. Yes, it's true. Blog candy #2 and #3 were thrown away! Can you believe it? Ugh...I have replaced the blog candy and it is being sent to them as I write this email. Gigi and Debbie are most understanding. It has been confusion at its best and I look forward to more settled days ahead!

Hope you all have been doing well and enjoying the warmth of the summer! Take good care!

Packing away!

I am still packing away! It seems to never end! The more I pack the more I find to pack! LOL I can start to see the end in sight though! And that's a good thing! Thank you for all your comments! I hope all of you who want to get those albums completed do just that! Thank YOU for all your inspiration! I am excited to get scrapping again!

We have the winner of BLOG CANDY #3!
Debbie Fisher (debbiedee) said...
Yes, I scrapbook, but am so far behind! I am hoping to put a big dent in my pile of pictures this summer!
Congratulations, Debbie! Email me your address and I will get the goods out to you!

I still have not heard from BLOG CANDY #2
Dizzy Broad said...I like red with khaki; blue also works really well. But not sure if you'd want to paint a room with those colors though - may be just the trim :-) Good luck with packing, moving and unpacking! Congratulations! Please send me your email and I will get those goodies in the mail!
PLEASE CONTACT ME BY MONDAY, 5PM eastern standard time! I will have to draw another winner if I do not hear anything by then!

Take good care! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Thanks so much for stopping in! I will get one more post in before we shut down the computer! I appreciate your patience!

BLOG CANDY #3

JustRite Favorite Occasions

GinaK Retro Boutique by Rupe Shevde

Blog Candy #3! Thank you for all your color suggestions! I will post pictures of the room when complete! There is much work to accomplish yet! It looks like our computer will be shut down on Monday or Tuesday! So, this blog candy will be up for grabs until Sunday, May 31st, closing at 11pm eastern standard time. Good Luck!

Leave a comment sharing if you scrapbook! I used to, then as the years flew by I gathered quite a collection of scrapbooking memorabilia, pictures galore, and plenty of supplies. Below is a picture of what will go to the condo, to the lower level closet for now! I even have one more bin of albums. And this is after I sorted through it all and kept only half! Another moving goal, start scrapbooking and get those books completed! JustRite's Favorite Occasions is perfect for those scrapbook pages! It covers a entire year of special memories to complete an album!

Now onto The winner of BLOG CANDY #2:

Dizzy Broad said...
I like red with khaki; blue also works really well. But not sure if you'd want to paint a room with those colors though - may be just the trim :-) Good luck with packing, moving and unpacking! Congratulations! Please send me your email and I will get those goodies in the mail!

Hope you've had a great week! There is more packing to do, sorting, labeling, cleaning, sorting, packing, cleaning! LOL Take good care and I thank you for stopping in!