July 2014 – Page 2

Artisan Wednesday Wow – Happy Birthday Shaker Card

July 8, 2014 Jentimko 5 Comments

Welcome to the second Artisan Wednesday Wow hop of our team’s last month! It is so hard to believe that this year is almost over. If you just came over from the amazing Jeanna, welcome to the next stop. If you are starting here, just continue around using the next buttons until you get back to me.

I thought it would be fun to focus on the new Little Letters Thinlits today! They are great for punching out letters for your projects, of course. But they are also wonderful when use in the negative version. Just line them up to create a word and roll through your Big Shot. For this one, I rolled just one “P” through and then created the rest of the word with a second roll. I wanted this to be a shaker card with a masculine flair so I kept to the Black/Vanilla colors except for the touch of gold from the sequins. To create the shaker, I first backed the “HAPPY” piece with a Window Sheet. Then using the edges from my Dimensionals page, I created a rectangle just a bit bigger than the words and put in a bunch of sequins pulled off the Gold Sequin Trim. I added the Basic Black backing and the shaker is done. Easy! I love the numbers print from Typeset DSP and it seemed to be made for a birthday card! All I needed was a few extra sequins and I think I created a nice masculine card? What to you think?

Okay, off to go visit the awesome Mercedes Weber. I can’t wait for you to see what she has created! Make sure you hop around the whole loop to take a look at beautiful creations by the whole team…you’ll be happy you did!

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Stamp: Four You; Ink: Basic Black; Paper: Basic Black, Typeset DSP; Accessories: Big Shot, Little Letters Thinlits Dies, Window Sheets, Gold Sequin Trim, Dimensionals, Multipurpose Glue

Happy 4th of July!

July 4, 2014 Jentimko No Comments

Just a quick post to wish a happy Independence Day to all of my US readers! I hope that wherever you are celebrating, you have a fun and safe holiday! I know that some of you have been seeing nature’s fireworks over the last few days (I’m in Newark unplanned right now because of some of those!) but I hope that you get to enjoy the brightly colored ones too!

A quick share on a project I made with June’s Paper Pumpkin kit. I held a Paper Pumpkin Fun Night for my local subscribers and we worked together to make the cute little pinwheels. As we were creating, we discussed fun ways to use them. I pulled out this wreath that was already wrapped with burlap ribbon and started placing the pinwheels and thought it was coming together. My mom (who was in town visiting) suggested some red ribbon. So I added this stitched ribbon (retired). I thought a great party idea would be to attach the pinwheels to canning jars and use them for drinks/decorations.

See how she put names on each one? Cool, huh?! She used my Alphabet Rotary Stamp to personalize them!! (Sorry for the picture quality….taken with my phone)

I took some of mine and made this cute little centerpiece.

What will the next Paper Pumpkin hold?? I can wait to see!! If you would like to try it out, you can become a monthly subscriber (see link in my sidebar) or you can try it for a prepaid period of time. Click the image below to check it out!

Ok….off to work I go. Maybe I’ll see you flying around the system this weekend! Keep an eye out for me! Hope your weekend is loaded with fun and maybe even some time for crafting! See you soon!

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Stamps: MPP June Kit, Alphabet Rotary Stamp; Ink: Night of Navy; Accessories: MPP June Kit, Wreath Form, 1-1/4″ Burlap Ribbon, Real Red Stitched Ribbon (retired), Glue Gun

Freshly Made Sketches #143

July 2, 2014 Jentimko 6 Comments

Oh, do we have a fun one for you this week at Freshly Made Sketches!! The oh so creative Cindy Lovell is our hostess this week so it is no wonder the sketch is cool! And speaking of cool….did you hear the news??!! Blendabilities are officially available for order!!! Yes, these wonderful markers can now be yours! There are six colors available plus the skin tones, color lifter and the coordinating Memento Black Ink. To celebrate, I’m sharing this with you.

I have a confession to make. I did not color this whole flower. I was showing my mom the new markers last week during her visit and my 8 year old son want to color too. Who can say no to that?! Not me!! So he chose his colors (Coastal Cabana) and started a few petals at a time like I taught him. Being an 8 yo boy, he lost interest about halfway through the flower and told me that I could finish it, lol. But can you tell my coloring from his….I can’t! Still not sure about these fun markers or how to use them? Check out this section of tutorials from Stampin’ Up on YouTube:

Blendabilities Tutorials from Stampin’ Up!

There are lots of ways to blend and many are just personal preference. Just get the markers and start experimenting. You’ll be so happy you did! Just so you know, all the colors are not available yet but they are coming. Demos get to order some more colors now and customers will be able to on August 1. Need another reason to become a demo now? I didn’t think so, LOL. I’d love to have you join my team if you are interested!

Ok…back to the card. Sorry to digress but the news was too good not to share. After coloring the flower, I cut it out and went back around the cut edges with my Basic Black Marker to clean up cutting variations (make sure you come from behind the image). For the sketch I backed the flower with a Tea Lace Doily and added a Bermuda Bay panel and some of the new Hello Honey Stitched Satin Ribbon. I was out of Curry buttons but no fear, Blendabilities are here! I took a So Saffron button and colored it with my darker marker from the Daffodil Delight set and voila! A matching button. More blendies coloring on the pearls to use as accents. The sentiment is from the always awesome Teeny Tiny Wishes!

The team has a fabulous variety this week so I hope you’ll go visit them and thank them for the inspiration! Hoping to be back later this week with one more post. Hoping I’ll get a little more creating done later today. Until then….have a fabulous day!

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Stamps: Blended Bloom, Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper: Smoky Slate, Bermuda Bay, Whisper White; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Blendabilities – Coastal Cabana and Daffodil Delight; Accessories: Hello Honey Stitched Satin Ribbon, Tea Lace Doilies, Basic Pearls, Buttons, white thread

Artisan Wednesday Wow – Celebrate!

July 1, 2014 Jentimko 7 Comments

Welcome to the first Artisan Wednesday Wow hop of our team’s last month! It is so hard to believe that this year is almost over. If you just came over from the amazing Jeanna, welcome to the next stop. If you are starting here, just continue around using the next buttons until you get back to me.

Well, it may seem like an obvious project but this card just called out to be made! Using the new Stars Framelits with the updated Silver Glimmer Paper is the perfect combination! I cut out the two larger stars by first using the smaller framelit and then placing the larger one around the cut out and cutting again. I left one silver and colored the other using my Real Red Stampin’ Write Marker. Then, using my star punch from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack, I punched out the smallest star and colored it Night of Navy. The Large Scallop Edgelit created the border piece. I stamped the sentiment from Fabulous Four after inking just the “Celebrate” part with my marker. Finally I added on some Basic Rhinestons that had been colored with Blendabilities.

This is the perfect card for Independence Day or any other patriotic event! It could even be used for a summer party along with the pinwheels from the latest Paper Pumpkin kit!

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Stamp: Fabulous Four; Ink: Real Red, Night of Navy; Paper: Whisper White, Night of Navy, Silver Glimmer; Accessories: Big Shot, Large Scallop Edgelit, Stars Framelits, Basic Rhinestones, Blendabilities, Dimensionals

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