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Freshly Made Sketches #153

September 10, 2014 Jentimko 16 Comments

Time for the middle of the week fun from Freshly Made Sketches! Just take a look at this fabulous sketch from the lovely and talented Jen Brum. I just know you are going to love this one! So many fantastic ways to interpret it!

I chose to stick with my fall theme and created a little wreath for the sketch. I took a 1-3/8″ and 1-3/4″ Circle Punch to create the wreath form out of scrap card stock. Then I cut the edge off a piece of Burlap Ribbon and simply wrapped it around the form. It is secured with Glue Dots. Then I used my Flower Fair Framelits leaf to punch out the three leaves from Champagne Glimmer Paper and Color Me Autumn. I added some Linen Thread and the Gold Metal Button to finish the wreath (also secured with Glue Dots). The sentiment is from the lovely set Truly Grateful and I added one more Gold Metal Button to try to match the sketch a bit more. This is a simple card to make but I think that wreath is kind of a wow. Hope you like it too…let me know what you think!

Today is the last day to sign up for Stamps on the Fly Bright & Beautiful Edition. I hope you’ll join me!

Click HERE to purchase these wonderful Stampin’ Up products!

Stamp: Truly Grateful; Paper: Color Me Autumn DSP, Champagne Glimmer Paper, Naturals Ivory; Ink: Soft Suede; Accessories: Big Shot, Flower Fair Framelit, Gold Basic Metal Button, Linen Thread, Dimensionals, Glue Dots

Deadline Approaching – Stamps on the Fly

September 9, 2014 Jentimko No Comments

I am so excited about the response to my Stamps on the Fly – Bright & Beautiful Edition! Thank you so much to all of you who have already signed up. This stamp set is so beautiful and I can hardly wait to share all my ideas for it! But time is running out and I don’t want YOU to be left out of the fun. The deadline is tomorrow, Sept. 10th! All of these projects are created solely by me and I’m looking to bring the same style you have seen in my Artisan Design Team 2013 and Dirty Dozen Design Team work.

Don’t forget the sneak peek on my YouTube channel:

Bright & Beautiful Trailer

And here is another little one. *smile*

The summary of the program:

The monthly fee is $45 each month for three months (includes shipping and tax).

The first month will include the Bright & Beautiful Clear Mount Stamp Set, Frosted Sequins and Silver Foil Sheets. It also includes shipping and the materials needed to make September’s four projects.
The second two months will include approximately $30 each in Stampin’ Up products plus shipping and materials for the remaining eight projects (four per month).
Every month you will receive detailed measurements and video tutorials for each project.

** Cost includes clear mount stamp. If you prefer wood, your fee in the first month will be $53.

What kind of projects will we make?

Project ideas will vary but they will be cards and 3-d projects. These are stepped-up projects with clean lines and beautiful details. Stampin’ on the Fly style! And of course the bonus projects will continue throughout to help inspire you!

How do I register?

Email me (Jen Timko) at jentimko@gmail.com

You can see all the details here: Stamps on the Fly Bright & Beautiful Edition

Don’t delay, sign up today!

Seasonally Scattered – Fall Thanks

September 7, 2014 Jentimko 5 Comments

Today I have another card to show you from my Convention Display Board projects! (Remember to click on the button above to link to all the other display stampers on our Pinterest board)

I thought you would enjoy the fall colors of this card as we get more into fall mode. These are such great ones too! I started with my new In Colors and chose Mossy Meadow, Tangelo Twist and Hello Honey then added in some Early Espresso. I markered up the stamp putting colors where they seemed to make sense. Then I lightly spritzed the stamp with water to get the colors to bleed just a little. The image was stamped onto Naturals Ivory paper and then cut with an Oval Framelit. I good a piece of Mossy Meadow Card Stock and embossed it with the Honeycomb folder then layered some Burlap Ribbon and a Tea Lace Doily behind the image. A button tied with Linen Thread completes it.

I am a little late on my post today. It has been soccer madness for my family this weekend! Two games for the oldest and one for the youngest. Great playing and fun watching for all! But whew…we are tired. I hope your weekend was equally wonderful! Until next time, thanks so much for stopping in!

Don’t forget….signs up are open now for Stamps on the Fly Bright & Beautiful Edition

Click HERE to purchase these amazing products from Stampin’ Up!

Stamp: Seasonally Scattered; Paper: Mossy Meadow, Naturals Ivory; Ink: Mossy Meadow, Tangelo Twist, Hello Honey, Early Espresso; Accessories: Big Shot, Ovals Framelits, Honeycomb TIEF, Burlap Ribbon, Tea Lace Doily, Dimensionals, Linen Thread, Neutrals Button

Freshly Made Sketches #152

September 3, 2014 Jentimko 10 Comments

I am happy to be back today with this awesome sketch for Freshly Made Sketches! Our sketch hostess this week is the oh so lovely Cindy Hall. I just love her style of stamping and you could not hope to meet a nicer person. And she came up with a fabulous clean sketch for us this week that I know you will love.

So yes, I did use this stamp for last week’s FMS card. But surely you can’t expect me to put it down. It is awesome! I love fall. Fall in Virginia is amazing. Leaves turning, apple orchards, pumpkin patches, beautiful weather. So I am inspired by fall stamps sets and colors every year. For All Things is one of those go-to sets. I combined it with the Color Me Autumn DSP and it is a match made in heaven. I popped the leaves out of the DSP with my Flower Fair Framelits. Yes. You were all caught up in the pretty flowers and didn’t notice the leaves. I did the same thing until I was scouring about trying to figure out how to accessorize this. Beautiful papers plus great framelits equal fabulous! All I had to do was add a little bit of Linen Thread and a Gold Basic Metallic Button to finish.

The FMS team has tons of inspiration for you this week. And…if you didn’t see it….we could not let Kim Singdahlsen leave our team so she has agreed to stay on as a permanent member! We are so thrilled!

My boys are finally both back in school and I am stamping away. Some of my work is for my Stamps on the Fly edition (see below) and some is for Dirty Dozen. But I hope to have something new to show you later this week if United doesn’t call me in to fly. I hope you September is off to a great start and I am so glad you stopped in to visit me today.

Don’t forget….signs up are open now for Stamps on the Fly Bright & Beautiful Edition

Click HERE to purchase these wonderful Stampin’ Up products!

Stamp: For All Things; Paper: Color Me Autumn DSP, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso; Ink: Early Espresso; Accessories: Big Shot, Flower Fair Framelite, Gold Basic Metal Button, Linen Thread, Dimensionals

Because I’m Happy….

August 31, 2014 Jentimko 2 Comments

Why am I happy??!!! In case you’ve been hiding, I need to remind you that the new Holiday Catalog is now live. Yes…oh and the Big Shot special is still ongoing. But today is the last day for that! What does that mean? You need to order and now! I have links below to the Big Shot and the bundles so check them out.

I’m also happy to share this card from my Display Stamper collection. Can I confess that the Pharrell Williams song was in my head while I was making this? And then I made variations of it as a swap card for the other display stampers. That was a LOT of happy going on! So I took the stamp from Amazing Birthday and inked the words with Real Red, Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight and Rich Razzleberry. Then I just cut them apart. Finally, I took the markers back to the edges to clean up my cutting. They are up on Dimensionals with a background of Moonlight DSP. Add in a Vintage Faceted Button and some Crushed Curry Baker’s Twine and you have a fun card!

Don’t forget….signs up are open now for Stamps on the Fly Bright & Beautiful Edition

And….I’m REALLY happy that you can get the Big Shot bundle (either the Big Shot with the Bright & Beautiful Stars Bundle or simply the Bright & Beautiful Bundle at the 15% discount) and still get the discount on my Stamps on the Fly program. You can read about the whole thing HERE if you missed it.

Big Shot

$99.95

Bright & Beautiful Stars Clear-Mount Bundle

$43.95

Bright & Beautiful Stars Wood-Mount Bundle

$50.75

Click HERE to purchase these wonderful Stampin’ Up products!

Stamp: Amazing Birthday; Paper: Whisper White, Moonlight DSP; Ink: Real Red, Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight, Rich Razzleberry; Accessories: Vintage Faceted Button, Crushed Curry Baker’s Twine, Dimsensionals

Fancy Friday – Faux Painting

August 28, 2014 Jentimko 5 Comments

I am so excited to be able to share with you a new monthly hop! If you just came over from the amazing Jeanna, welcome to the next stop. My friends and I want to be able to share with you our ideas in a monthly format. We will use different themes each month – sometimes colors, sometimes a sketch, sometimes a stamp set focus. The one thing you can count on is that it will be fancy! Over the last year “fancy” became our word to describe the best projects, the best new clothes, even the best pedicure colors. Now we want to share with you our take on “fancy” each month. This month we have a color challenge that the whole team will be using as inspiration. And you know what? You can join in too! Just use our inspiration piece (all or some of the colors) and post a comment with your link on any of the team Fancy Friday team’s blogs.

For my card I wanted to show you this new technique I learned in a Watercolor for Card Makers class I have been taking. I love the idea of being able to paint an image but that is definitely NOT my talent. Thank heavens for the artists at Stampin’ Up who create them for me! But I can cheat and look like I know how to paint. How? Well, I inked up my flower from Gifts of Kindness using my Stampin’ Write Markers in the colors from the challenge and stamped it on Watercolor Paper. Then, using a paint brush dipped in water, I blended the colors and the lines to create this image that looks like I painted it by hand. Then I took my Aquapainter and added the Island Indigo (really watered down) around the edges of the paper. Once everything was dry, I added some water drops to it and the sentiment from the same stamp set. The image here is the star of the show so I simply attached it to an Early Espresso card base using Dimensionals (a lot of them since the paper tends to curl after all the water was added). I had so much fun with this that I’m looking for more stamps I can use with the technique!

Wanna chance to play along and with the challenge and have a chance to win the Seasonally Scattered stamp set? Be sure to leave a comment on any of our blogs with a link back to your creation, and ONE lucky participant will win! Here are the rules for the challenge: 1. Leave a comment on one of our blogs with a link to your creation, comments/links MUST be left by Friday, September 19th 7:00 PM MST in order to be eligible for the prize. 2. Please use the color palette provided. You can use any combination or all of the colors provided as well as any neutrals. Although SU colors are listed, you can use any colors you have on hand as long as they are similar. 3. You MUST put a link in your post back to the challenge. **Winner will be announced during the September Fancy Friday Blog Hop! (the last Friday of September).**

Okay, off to go visit the awesome Mercedes Weber! You will love her project!

Don’t forget….signs up are open now for Stamps on the Fly Bright & Beautiful Edition

Click HERE to purchase these wonderful Stampin’ Up products!

Stamp: Gifts of Kindness; Paper: Watercolor, Early Espresso; Ink: Real Red, Blackberry Bliss, Tangelo Twist, Island Indigo, Early Espresso; Accessories: Aquapainter, paint brush, Dimsensionals

Freshly Made Sketches #151

August 27, 2014 Jentimko 13 Comments

Happy Wednesday!! Boy do we have a treat for you today over at Freshly Made Sketches! Our amazing Guest Designer for August, Kim Singdahlsen, is the sketch hostess. Can you believe this is the first sketch she has created? Yeah, me neither. It is fabulous! I have really enjoyed all her work this month and this is the icing on the cake.

I kept my card super clean this week with the focus on the new stamp set For All Things. I think this set is beautiful and I see so many ways to use it. My colors for this are Soft Suede (stamped off), Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry and Early Espresso. Other than cutting out the leaf, this card is pretty straight-forward. I added on a new Gold Basic Metal Button tied with Linen Thread for a little extra and stamped everything on Naturals Ivory Card Stock. I love the little flecks in that paper that help to fill the white space a bit.

The design team has so many fantastic interpretations of this sketch and I know it will be wildly popular this week because of the possibilities! I hope you can join in on the fun! Don’t forget to drop by and say hi to Kim too!

I have been working on my projects for my Stamps on the Fly but I will have a new card ready for you Friday. The first Fancy Friday hop….a new monthly hop with my 2013 Artisan Design Team friends. We miss hopping together so this will be fun! First up….a color challenge for us (and you can join in too)! Until then, I hope your week is amazing!

Don’t forget….signs up are open now for Stamps on the Fly Bright & Beautiful Edition

Click HERE to purchase these wonderful Stampin’ Up products!

Stamp: For All Things; Paper: Naturals Ivory, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso; Ink: Soft Suede, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Early Espresso; Accessories: Gold Basic Metal Button, Linen Thread, Dimensionals

Cherry Cobbler Flowers

August 25, 2014 Jentimko 2 Comments

I showed you a Christmas card from my Blendabilities “on the Fly” class in my last post and today another of our cards. This one is a variation of a card I recently posted but was colored instead with the main focus on one color — Cherry Cobbler.

I demonstrated to my class the virtues of using the “light to dark” and “dark to light” techniques of using Blendabilities. The flower from I Like You was stamped in Momento Black Ink to start. I then started with the largest flower. I added ink from the lightest Cherry Cobbler Blendabilites marker using the paint brush end on the whole flower. Make sure you err to the side of not going all the way to the edge of the image to account for bleed. You can always fill it back in later. Then I added the darkest color to the petal lines already draw on the image. Using the medium marker I started blending with a circular motion and took that about halfway up the petal. Then I went back to my light marker and continued blending. I worked on only a few petals at a time. On the medium sized flower, I started instead with the darkest marker. I decided to use the dark color at the outside of the flower this time to help provide contrast. I added the dark ink around the edges of the petals. Then I moved to the medium marker and started blending, leaving a small section toward the center uncolored. Finally the light marker blending through the petal again. If you find the petal does not have enough contrast, use the Color Lifter and remove a little bit of the ink. You can come back over with the light color again for blending if needed. My little flowers were colored with the lightest marker and the leaves were colored in the light to dark way. I had fun showing how much variation you can get simply using one set of markers!

I’ll be back on Wednesday with the latest from Freshly Made Sketches! Until then, I hope you have a wonderful start to your week!

Don’t forget….signs up are open now for Stamps on the Fly Bright & Beautiful Edition

Click HERE to purchase these wonderful Stampin’ Up products!

Stamp: I Like You (hostess); Paper: Very Vanilla, Basic Black; Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive and Daffodil Delight Blendabilities; Accessories: Basic Pearls, Piercing Mat, Piercing Tool, Dimensionals, Multipurpose Glue

Seasonal Branches

August 23, 2014 Jentimko 3 Comments

You have probably heard the sound throughout the crafting world. Maybe even at your own house! Yes, the squeals of happiness when seeing the new Holiday Catalog!! My customers have started receiving theirs and they feel like I do….WOW!

Today I get to show you what happens when you combine the new stamp set Beauty of the Season with Blendabilities. This is one of the cards we will be making in my Blendabilities “on the Fly” class today and it focuses on coloring accessories.

You know by now that I love a card with clean lines. What does “clean” mean to me? Well, usually lots of white space (or unembellished space). That does not always mean simple nor without distressing. For me, clean means the ability to focus on a special detail. Sometimes that is coloring (like on another card I’ll show you Monday) or in today’s case, the focus on the pretty pearl berries. The other card elements are there to add a specialness but not distract you from the focal point. So that is how I design most of the time. And I love teaching you how to design as much as how to stamp!

For this card, I stamped the small branch from Beauty of the Season twice with just a little crossing at the branches’ ends. A Stamp-a-ma-jig is helpful to get this just right (and is one of my go-to tools). Before I worked on the rest of the card, I colored some Basic Pearls with the middle marker from my Cherry Cobbler Blendabilities and set aside. They don’t take long to dry but I have no patience to wait so doing it now is good. Then I stamped the sentiment (all stamping in Early Espresso). Using my Stampin’ Distress Tool, I distressed the edges of my Very Vanilla and Cherry Cobbler panels and then sponged some Crumb Cake ink on the edges of the Vanilla panel. I attached the two together. Then the fun. I started attaching the different sized Pearls (small and medium) where the berries are on the image. So easy but so much wow! Finally, I doubled up some Linen Thread and tied a bow. I attached the bow to my Early Espresso Button with Tombow Multipurpose Glue and then attached the button with a Glue Dot. The decorated panel is put on the base with Dimensionals. And there you have it. Clean but with a very special feel! I can’t wait to share this with my class later today and I hope you’ll give it a try too.

I’ll be back Monday with another of the projects from this class! Until then, I hope you have a great weekend and get a little stamping time!

Don’t forget….signs up are open now for Stamps on the Fly Bright & Beautiful Edition

Click HERE to purchase these wonderful Stampin’ Up products!

Stamp: Beauty of the Season; Paper: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler; Ink: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler Blendabilities; Accessories: Basic Pearls, Neutrals Buttons, Linen Thread, Glue Dots, Dimensionals, Multipurpose Glue

Freshly Made Sketches #150

August 20, 2014 Jentimko 11 Comments

Well, it looks like I missed an amazing week last week at Freshly Made Sketches but I am back with this wonderful sketch from the awesome Linda Callahan. I love Linda’s sense of style and she always has a little twist of humor that brings a smile!

So I have to confess that I can’t stop creating with this stamp set. I had all the items for this card already out on my table from making the projects for my new Stamps on the Fly and put them to use again. I used the Silver Foil at the bottom of my Whisper White base. Then I inked up the middle and small stars from Bright & Beautiful with Versamark then embossed with Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder. Pretty, huh?? I did the same with the “Joy” sentiment on the base. I added on some of the Frosted Sequins (from the Holiday Catalog too). It still needed a little something, so I colored some Basic Rhinestones with the darkest Coastal Cabana Blendabilities marker and added those on too.

I know you are going to enjoy all the variations the team has for you this week. I hope you’ll be able to join us too!

I have been getting one of my boys back to school this week. The oldest started middle school on Monday. Sigh….. How did that happen?! But he loves all his teachers and has a smile coming home every day. Happy mom! My youngest starts back next Monday and then, hopefully, I will really have some stamping time. Until then, you can see these two sweet boys in my trailer below.

If you missed it (apparently it may have been difficult to see for my email subscribers), I have a movie trailer created with my boys to show you a bit of a peek into month one of my new Stamps on the Fly program.

Click here: YouTube Bright & Beautiful Movie Trailer

I hope your week is going well. I look forward to getting back to a “normal” pattern of posting soon. If you missed it, I also have 7 new projects over at Splitcoaststampers for the Dirty Dozen.

Ok…back on Saturday with a project I’ll be teaching at my class this weekend. Until then, have a great week!

Click HERE to purchase these wonderful Stampin’ Up products!

Stamp: Bright & Beautiful; Paper: Whisper White, Silver Fancy Foil; Ink: Versamark, Coastal Cabana Blendabilities; Accessories: Big Shot, Stars Framelits Dies, Heat Tool, Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder, Frosted Sequins, Basic Rhinestones

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