Quilled Flower Card!

Hi all! I did something I have never done before. I ventured into the world of "Quilling". According to dictionary.com "to quill is to arrange [paper] in cylindrical ridges". It was interesting to say the least and I don't know how people create gorgeous pictures entirely by quilling. Amazing to me! I chose to make a flower for the Quixotic Challenge Blog. The challenge this week was to "Let Your Garden Grow" by making your own flowers. I thought this would be the best opportunity to try something new! I stitched around the light blue background using the sewing machine and added the "Thanks A Bunch" alpha beads by hand sewing them to the beige paper and then popped the paper up from the blue background.
(Side View)

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Quixotic Paperie Challenge - "Let Your Garden Grow"
Totally Gorjuss - "Round and Round"

PaperTake Weekly - "Say it With Flowers"



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~Hugs, JennRo~

Cricut Pirate Card!

This card was So much fun to create!!!! I used my Cricut and the Paper Dolls Dress Up cartridge to create the cutest pirate!! The challenge over at Cricut Cardz was to create a card using 3 circle cuts from any Cricut Cartridge. I used George and Basic Shapes to create my 3 circles. I used Creative Memories oval patterns to create the red oval that frames my little pirate. I used the sewing machine to stitch around the yellow cardstock and faux stitched around the red oval. The flag and treasure chest are cuts from the PDDU cart (under pirate girl) and the pirate ship and gold coins are from a pirate sticker pack from Sandylion. I wrapped natural twine around the yellow cardstock and tied a metal button with a bow. I added some black mini brads to the corners. I also used a black netted ribbon on the white background to give the card some texture. I then began to assemble the card. I used pop dots to pop the red oval from the yellow cardstock and also used pop dots to raise my little pirate.

(Side View)

(Close-up of the lil guy!)

(Close-up of the circles)

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

Cricut Cardz - 3 cricut circles

Totally Gorjuss - Round and Round

Don't forget about my BLOG CANDY going on until Friday the 21st!

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Peggy Loves Vintage Summer Creation!

I created this Summer creation for the BBTB2 Peggy Loves Vintage Challenge this week. If you haven't already, hop on over to the BBTB2 site as Peggy is giving away a few images to create your challenge entry with!!! The Challenge was to use one of the free images from PLV and to use at least on Cricut cut. I used the woman sunbathing image and printed it twice. I cut the umbrella and starfish from one of the images and popped them up on the other image with pop dots. I used some cool background paper from a "Tahiti" Paper Pack. It looked vintage to me and the words are "surf, wave", etc. I used the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge to create the palm trees. I used the regular base palm tree and cut it once with the light brown paper. Then I cut again in green using the layers feature. I used the same process with the base-shift palm trees. I popped up the green palms using pop dots (of course!). I used an Aloha sticker I had in my stash that I thought was perfect. I finished the card off with a side ribbon and bow using natural thin twine.

(side/dimensional view)

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

BBTB2 - Peggy Loves Vintage Summer Creation

Don't forget about my BLOG CANDY running until Friday!! Hurry on over to that post to enter to win!!

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~Hugs, JennRo~

A Few Things To Share...

Good Evening everyone! I just wanted to share a few of the projects I finished yesterday.

The first project was a Cricut Cartridge Exploration for me as I've never used Tags, Bags, Boxes and More before. I received around Easter and haven't really gotten to "play" with it yet. I made this little box that would be great as gift card holder. I used some YUMMY Little Yellow Bicycle Spring paper and pale pink satin ribbon.
Second, I have a cute Thank You card with a PollyCraft Digi Stamp. I colored the image with pencils and added Glossy Accents to a few places (shoes, heart and part of her hat). I decided to do a black card base so the yellow would pop up off the page without actually popping (nope, no pop dots used!) I topped it off with white twine, both a yellow and black button and some rhinestones!

This next project is a Thank You card I am creating for a client. It is a simple Thank You card using whimsy Butterfly lilac paper and violet satin ribbon.

One last thing...REMINDER I have BLOG CANDY up for grabs until Friday!!

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Fibromyalgia Awareness Bracelets!

FIBROMYALGIA AWARENESS BRACELETS

These bracelets are available a the National Fibromyalgia Research Association for $1.75 each. The sales of these bracelets goes directly to researching Fibromyalgia and hopefully finding a CURE!! Please help raise awareness and help find a cure!

~Hugs, JennRo~

Grand Opening of my Etsy Shop!!

WELCOME to the GRAND OPENING of my Etsy Shop!! SO exciting! This was one of my goals when I first started blogging! I still have quite a bit of listing to do but there are some of my projects listed in three catagories Cards, Jewelry and Scrapbooks! Take a looksy! There are still some things I need to do but it's pretty much up and running! Wahoo!!

Thanks for looking and please leave a comment so I know you were here!
~Hugs, JennRo~

Cupcake Birthday Card!

I am loving the pink/green color combo lately and here it comes again! I played along with 2S4Y this week and we were to follow Kazan's sketch:

And here's my take!

I scalloped the lime and pink gingham papers and then used the sewing machine to stitch around the block of scalloped papers. In hindsight I wish I had used black thread but hindsight is 20/20 I suppose. I added a pale pink satin ribbon and bow with a "happy birthday" charm I made myself using a variety of pink beads. I colored The Cutting Cafe cupcake image in with pencils and then cut out the heart "candies" form another cupcake image and attached them with pop dots. Before cutting them out I applied Glossy Accents to all the hearts to make them "candy coated". :) I faux stitched around the lime oval. Then it was time to assemble the card. I adhered the scalloped paper block and then adhered the bright pink square (corner rounded) and pop dotted the green oval. I also pop dotted the cupcake for added dimension. Luster baubles in "Ice" finished off the card!

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

2S4Y - Sketch #52

Another reminder about my BLOG CANDY!!!
Thanks for looking and please leave a comment so I know you were here!
~Hugs, JennRo~