Gina K Sketch Challenge #2

This is for the second challenge that was posted on the Gina K forum on SCS last night (read posts below for more detail).

I'm going to give this card to our secretary at work. She's always grumbling about things - but she has a great sense of humor and will take this in the spirit it was meant to be given. All images are from THIS set...a Langley Boy Designs set designed for Gina K.



I put stickles (glitter glue) on all the dots on the panties so it has a bit of shine in real life. On the inside I stamped another phrase from the set that says "Just deal with it!"

Enjoy!

Jane

Gina K Sketch Challenge #1

Last night Gina K had her Release Party to celebrate her new stamps. As part of the party, she had a couple sketch challenges. I decided I would just HAVE to play along (especially since the winner receives a free stamp set...and who couldn't use a FREE set?) :-)

The crab stamp is one of my favorite Gina K stamps. The saying I printed on the computer. The wavy edge on the right side of the card is cut with a coluzzle. The front of the card is actually about 1 inch short and the black you see on the right is on the inside of the card. The oval is punched with a Marvy Giga Scalloped punch and then I used a mini hole punch and punched within each of the scalloped areas and then the whole thing is popped up on dimensionals. I love how it came out!



Let me know what YOU think!

Jane

I love Michael's $1 stamps!

These new stamps from Michael's are some of their cutest yet! Especially the spring ones! So...run to your nearest Michael's! I've made several cards and I'm sure after seeing them that you won't want to be without the cute chicks and bunnys!

You saw one of the stamps in yesterday's criss cross card. Well, here he is again for your viewing pleasure!



This layout was inspired by fellow SBS4'er (Sisterhood of Blogging Sisters 4) Diana. You can see her sketch HERE.

After stamping with my well organized friend on Friday I felt the need to organize yesterday...so spent the better part of the day cleaning off my tables. I have two tables and was down to about a foot of space left that I could actually use. So...that was yesterday's chore.

Today I'm going to work on a couple sketch challenges for Gina K's site. She had her new stamp release party last night and she has some awesome new stamp sets. You can check them all out HERE. I love the animal butt's one (called Just So Hippy)...and the old folks one (that'd be great for my OLDer brothers)...oh, and the Dr. Feelgood one! I wouldn't use the Anna-Mae's Valentine set because it isn't my style...but check it out. This is drawn by Gina K's teenage daughter! I think she has MAJOR talent...especially for someone so young.

Have a wonderful LONNNNGGG Sunday everyone!

Jane

I laughed till I cried!

Yesterday, I met up with my to stamp. I had brought my new $1 stamps from Michael's to play with. She was going to make a criss-cross card so we pulled up the tutorial on SplitcoastStampers. I decided I'd make one too. So we sit down and get to work. My $1 stamp has a bunny and says Some Bunny Special. So I stamp the bunny at the top and put the saying portion on the bottom of the insert. I wanted to put U R on the "envelope" so it'd say "U R (pull it open) Some Bunny Special". So I stamp the U and try to find an "R" that looks ok with it. I think "duh". I could add a tab to the top of the insert panel and put the "R" or "are" on the tab. I'm thinking I'm SO smart and loving how it's turning out. See here?



Looks great, eh?

Well, then I slid the insert into the criss-cross card and my friend looks at it and says, "Umm...Jane...NOW look at what it says."



Instead of "U are somebunny special"...it now appears to say "Are U...somebunny special"? OMG, we had so much fun laughing about it. Totally wasn't meant to be funny...but add a question mark behind the "somebunny special" and I can think of a few people to send this to! ;-) LOL.

For the tutorial to make a criss cross card you can go HERE.

Have a great weekend!

Jane

Happy Friday!

Have you ever had someone in your life who jokes about things so much that when they are serious you don't take them seriously? My kids are like that with my dh (then they come to me asking me "Mom, are we REALLY having monkey brains for dinner?" LOL.) Well, my boss is also one who jokes about everything. Remember me saying that he was telling everyone I made the nugget boxes? Well, yesterday I was talking to one of my female coworkers and she said, "You didn't really make those boxes did you?". I told her I had. Then she felt bad because my boss had told her and she'd brushed him off and thought he was joking. I had to laugh because it sounds like what happens in my house often with my kids and my dh.

Tonight I'm stopping and stamping with a friend. So hopefully will have more fun stuff to share tomorrow. In the meantime I'll share a couple more calendar pages. I'm STILL working on these. At this rate they'll be done by NEXT Christmas! LOL.

Here is July:



Stamp by CTMH and I just used the brown inkpad and a sponge to age it a bit.

Here is August:



Stamp is by Memory Box.

Enjoy and have a great Friday!

Jane

Have to Keep it Short and Simple today...

I'm running late (hitting the snooze alarm 3 times will do that to you! ;-)) That would go back to my posting earlier this week that said "Not a morning person doesn't being to cover it!" LOL. I'm a night owl. And as such I stay up way too late and then 5:30 comes around in the morning and I REALLY don't want to get out of that bed. Sigh.

Anyways, I did want to say how well received my nugget boxes were from yesterday. My boss loved his (he seems to get a kick out of my creativity more than the two gals I work with). He asked me where I bought the box and when I told him I made it he was amazed. I could hear him telling people all day long that I MADE that box. So funny. Then I came home and I had an email from the owner of Clear Dollar Stamps telling me how much she loved my boxes and could she post them on her website! Of course I said "yes". I feel like a celebrity!

On my way home last night I stopped and bought a full set of the prismacolor pencils with the gift card I got for Christmas. Used a 50% off coupon so was able to get the set of 48 for $30. Yay!

Anyways - here's my artwork for today. It was a Limited Supply Challenge from SCS. You could use ONLY white cardstock but could use 2-3 patterned papers, no specialty tools, no brads or other embellishments...the only embellishment you could use was one piece of ribbon. This is what I came up with.



The Bella image is one I received as part of a PIF (pay it forward) on Splitcoaststampers. I love the Bellas but don't own any of them. So far I have resisted the urge! LOL.

Have a great day!

Jane

Nugget Boxes...oh my!

This is what I spent my day doing yesterday.



I had tried making these boxes one other time without much success. But yesterday's venture worked out much better. Not sure exactly why...maybe the pattern was better? I got the pattern from HERE on SplitCoastStampers. I made two sizes...the 1x6 long (THANKS) and the 10 short (THANK YOU).

Here is the THANKS open so you can see all of it:



Here is the THANK YOU open:



And here are both sizes closed:



I had originally planned on all of them being 10's...but ran out of nuggets (as is...this is 2 bags of Hershey's Nuggets!) So I shortened the last box to "Thanks" instead of Thank You. They will live.

On the 10's boxes I used my coluzzle and cut out an opening on the top and then covered it with acetate so you can see inside. On the 6 box I stamped a strip for the top and then added "bling" to the centers of the snowflakes.

The main stamp set is THIS one from Clear Dollar Stamps. For the letters to spell out the words I used my Karen Foster Snap Stamps.

Hmm...so what do you think? I love how they turned out!

Jane