Bunches of Love Card!

The challenge over at Digital Tuesday this week was to create something using shades of gray and only one other color (white was allowed). I chose to use red and this cute little mouse digi that I got for free! I'm sorry I don't remember where it came from. I colored him in with pencils and then used glossy accents on his hearts and nose! I used Creative Memories DP and triple matted the image using 2 shades of gray and red. I looped ribbons into tags and stuck them behind the image. I used my alpha beads to spell out love. Don't forget to check out my BLOG CANDY up for grabs until February 14th!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Digital Tuesday - Shades of Gray & 1 other color

So Saturday - Valentine

Creative Inspirations - Valentine/Love

40:31 Challenge - Valentine

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Happy Valentine's Day Card!

Well today's the day for Digital Tuesday Challenge! I haven't played along with them in a few weeks so it feels good to get back into the swing of things! The challenge this week is the following sketch: Here's my take on the sketch! The image is from Dustin Pike (who else?! lol) and I colored it using pencils. I used textured purple paper for the background and then various shades of pink. The purple polka dotted ribbon and rhinestones are from my stash and the "Happy Valentine's Day" stamp was something I picked up in M's $ bin! I cut the hearts out on my Cricut using George and Basic Shapes (my neglected cartridge!) and cut them twice; once using the shadow feature and white paper and once using the regular cut and pick paper. I layered them and used Cotton Candy stickles to outline them. I also used Cotton Candy stickles on the image (heart, belly and toes!)

Don't forget to check out my BLOG CANDY and check further down for various blog hops and candy alerts!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Digital Tuesday - Sketch #95

Kaboodle Doodles - Bling it Up!

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Neglected Cartridge
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Heart Theme & Ribbon
SEI Challenge - Love
Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenge - Anything Goes

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Pink and Green Frosty Card!

Only 3 more days until Christmas!! Is all your shopping done and wrapped? My shopping is done and everything is wrapped! I had a hard time wrapping this year; my hips just didn't like standing in one place. Thankfully my Mom was very helpful and did a lot for me. Thanks Mom!! Well, this is my very first "wobbly" card I've made. I saw a great tutorial on it at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge a week or so ago and thought I'd give it a try. You can see the video here! This week at ABC Christmas Challenge the challenge is "Zero Time" because there is zero time left for Christmas card making and mailing. We could choose any of the previous challenges to do over or do if we didn't have a chance to do them originally. I decided to do F is for Frosty and G is for Glitz for a combined challenge. I made this cute card using some Glitzy paper I had from last Christmas' crafting journeys! All three papers are glittery (see below for better pictures). The Frosty image is called heartline and is from Dustin Pike. I made the image wobble as shown in the video below. So easy and so fun! I added glossy accents to his hat and Stickles just about everywhere! Cotton Candy stickles on the hearts and Frosted Lace stickles on Frosty's body. I used two stamps from Hero Arts; "Make the Season Bright" is on the outside and then "Merry Christmas" is on the inside.

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
ABC Christmas Challenge - Zero (G is for Glitz and F is for Frosty)

Digital Tuesday - Celebrate (the Season)
PaperTake Weekly - Anything Goes

Kaboodle Doodle - Clean & Simple

Pixie Cottage - Celebrate (the Season)

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Baby, It's Cold Outside Card!

This week's challenge over at Dustin Pike's Doodle Dragon Studios was to create something using a recipe: A DDS image, embossing, metal and bling. I love this cute little snowman holding the birdhouse image and after coloring him in with pencils, I backed him with red/white snowflake paper. I decided to use the blue cardstock to offset the red. I stitched zigzag around the edges, not so straight, but there nonetheless! I stickled around the snowman with Frosted Lace stickles and added some red bling to the white circle. I embossed white cardstock with the Sizzix Texture Boutique and the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder to make it look like falling snow. I added some metal snowflake brads and blue ribbon.

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Doodle Dragon Studios - Recipe Challenge

Digital Tuesday Challenge - Baby, It's Cold Outside w/ digi

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~Hugs, JennRo~

I've Been Framed Christmas Card!

Good evening! I'm still not used to this time change. It feels like it should be so much later in the day! Anyway, I've created a few things for your viewing pleasure today. The first was inspired by Digital Tuesdays Challenge called "I've been Framed". This challenge blog always requires a digital image and whatever the weekly challenge may be. I chose to use this cutie patootie image from the wonderful Dustin Pike. This card was so super easy to do and the challenge over at Polka Doodles this week happens to be "Quick and Easy Christmas".

Wanna know how easy?

Ok, so I cut the circle frame using the Cricut and the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge at 5inches. I adhered it to a 5x5 red card, colored my image and adhered it and the sentiment tag to the card. Done! SO EASY!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Digital Tuesday Challenge - I've been framed!

Polka Doodle - Quick and Easy

Just Cute Bears - BW and 1 other color

PaperPlay - Circles

Doodle Dragon Studios - Anything Goes

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Happy 4th of July Centerpiece!

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY TO MY AMERICAN FRIENDS!! I hope you all had fun and safe celebrations this weekend! Perhaps you had a picnic, caught some fireworks or spent some quality time with family, regardless I hope it was great! We had a small barbecue at our house to celebrate both Independence Day and MY Birthday! ;) I wish it lasted a little longer but boy was I exhausted afterward!

In celebration of Independence Day I made the following centerpiece to put on the outside table. I used Dustin Pike's "Uncle Sam Dudley" image and cut the stars using the Cricut and the George cartridge. I used the Cricut DS to design and cut the "Happy 4th" sentiment using the Alphalicious cartridge. I added floral foam to the bottom of a plain silver pail and then added white shredded paper. I added the skewers to the stars, sentiment and image and stuck them into floral foam. I added the red stars ribbon I had in my stash to the outside of the pail and the Red, White and Blue ribbon to the image.

Isn't he cute??!! I love Dustin Pike's images!

I faux stitched around the sentiment star and the "4".

July 4th is my favorite part of the summer as it usually involves spending a lot of time with family and friends. It is my favorite summer celebration and I don't think "summer" without thinking of 4th of July celebrations!


--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Doodle Dragon Studios - Patriotic
Digital Tuesday - Summertime
Polka Doodles - Decorative Item
Kaboodle Doodle - Summer
Sentimental Sunday - Celebrations


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~Hugs, JennRo~

Christmas in June!

Yes, that's right! Christmas in June!! :) The challenge this week over at Digital Tuesday's blog is to use a Christmas digi and this week's challenge is sponsored by (drum roll please...) DOODLE DRAGON STUDIOS!!!! You know I love my Dustin Pike images!!! Fingers crossed the random org. picks my project!! :)

So I combined this with the PaperTake challenge this week which was the following sketch:

I chose one of my favorite images from Dustin Pike (this was not a requirement, I just seemed right since he's sponsoring the challenge!) and colored it with pencils. I used Glossy Accents on Dudley the Dragon and on Santa's nose and boots. Once that was dry, I flocked the trim on Santa's suit with a thick, linen white flocking powder.

I used red cardstock to mat the image and then combined it with green cardstock and shiny snowflake DP. I added some mini roses and rounded my corners to finish the card.

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Digital Tuesday Challenge - Christmas with Digi Stamp

PaperTake Challenge - Sketch

Crafty Creations - Shine (Dragon, Santa and Shiny Paper)

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Summer Bliss Teddy Card!

I love this little Teddy Digi Stamp from Dustin Pike. I know, I know I LOVE Dustin Pike's images and I probably say that about every single one but this one is especially cute! I created an easel card using the blue and yellow color combo. I stitched the bottom panel using the zig zag stitch and used a cute sun dimensional sticker to hold up the easel. I colored the image with pencils and outlined it with a fine tip black marker. The sentiment is a stamp I scooped up in the $ bin at AC Moore! :) I {heart} the $ bins! :) I added rhinestones to the swirly at the bottom of the sentiment.

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Digital Tuesday Challenge - Easel Card

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Trendy Codi Birthday Card!

I created this next project to go along with Digital Tuesday Challenge's "Trendy" theme this week. I used this cute...errr...Trendy (smile!) PollyCraft "Codi" digi image. I actually cut her pants from the same paper I used on the bottom part of the card! I decided to make this card "trendy" in multiple ways. I used a "trendy" image and also tried to use "trendy" cardmaking techniques!

The trendy cardmaking techniques I used are: machine sewing on cardstock, flowers, rhinestone brad, Tim Holtz Memo Pin, Tim Holtz metal Clip with metal butterfly charm, tag (sentiment)Paper Distressing (top panel) and Distress inking (top panel). Also Easel cards seem to be pretty trendy lately too!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--

Digital Tuesday Challenge - "Trendy"

Pixie Cottage - Metal

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~Hugs, JennRo~