Today’s 75th Wedding Anniversary card took its inspiration from the TIME OUT Challenge image. Instead of frames, I used several doilies to frame the silver 75 chipboard numbers that I positioned on a satin white paper, bringing in the metallics in the photo. The layered doilies were attached on top of a piece of Ephemera … Read more
We're still celebrating The Spirit of Christmas Past at Jingle Belles … creating with vintage products and/or in a vintage style. Since I liked my card last week, I stayed with similar products. I started with the piece of Tim Holtz Vintage Ephemera, a vintage wildlife stamp & vintage S&H Green Stamps. I … Read more
Today's card is a masculine birthday card built around this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch. I knew I wanted to use an image of a vintage card and a map, so those were the other two elements I stated with. I cut out where the recipient lives on the map and used that for … Read more
This week at Jingle Belles we're celebrating the Spirit of Christmas Past … which means creating a card with a vintage design. That could mean incorporating actual vintage elements, using new products that have a vintage style, or using stamps or images that convey a vintage vibe – whatever says vintage to you. And to … Read more
It's still Fa-La-La-La-La at Jingle Belles – making a holiday card that incorporates music, a musical instrument, or a holiday song title or lyrics. I found a piece of sheet music for a Christmas carol that was perfectly sized for a card front. I topped the music with piece from a vintage Christmas … Read more
My thank you card stash is depleted, so I used the Simon Hurley Create Bursts to mass produce some card fronts. I used a combination of blue inks to stamp the bursts on white cardstock. I added a few vintage postage stamps in blue and finished with a CZ Design Thanks die cut … Read more
The newest challenge at the Simon Says Monday Challenge is Hip Hop! I found this fun little Hip Hop Ephemera in my Easter drawer, and I combined it with strips from four different Gelliarts prints. I'm going diagonal Tic Tac Toe for The Paper Players Challenge with Lavender, Animal & Ribbon.
This week at Jingle Belles we're asking you to make a card that contains at least one see-through element. It can be a glass embellishment, an acrylic transparency, some vellum, acetate or "ghost" shapes, clear stickers, Lucite buttons, shrink plastic… whatever you like. If you can see through it (AND figure out how to attach it to … Read more
I've been thinking a lot about collage lately. I'm taking a free Collage Joy Taster Class, which has inspired me to make new collage papers. Today in the online class, we finally start assembling some collages. Here's a collage I made with the intent of it being a card. I started with an … Read more