Rock-A-By Baby Lullabye

This is my second post for today. I made this special little card for a friend who just had a new baby boy. I always think of the Rock-a-Bye Baby song when I use this image. As you've probably noticed it's my go to image for newborn cards. I just love it. It's by MelJen's called "Cuddle Cloud Baby". All papers are from DCWV Summer Pack. Embellishments are from that baby pack I got from Colorbok for $1.00. Still makin cards from it too! Woohoo. I'm entering this one into the Charisma Cardz Challenge this week.

***I just looked and apparently they've already closed the challenge, but that's okay. I had fun with it anyway!

Have a great afternoon!
Jen

Another Bookmark!

I made another bookmark for my niece! This one is a corner bookmark. I've never even seen these before. I followed the tutorial at Splitcoast Stampers here. All that Scraps is having a challenge for it this week so if you have stamps from their store you can play along. I don't but I really liked it and MelJen's is having a stripes challenge so I just incorporated the two. I'm using "Sunflower Friend" image from there. The ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon and the papers are from DCWV's Summer pack. Let me know if you make one I'd love to check it out!

Hugs - Jen

"Top Tip Tuesday"

There's a new blog in town called "Top Tip Tuesday". They have a wonderful tip on how to make doily flowers this week. Each week they will share a new tip and have prizes too. Here's the rules:

To be in with a chance to win one of these fabulous prizes all you have to do is:

Create a new blog post on your blog with your Top Tip
Put a direct link to that post using InLinkz below
Make sure there is a link on your post to www.toptiptuesday.blogspot.com

So my Top Tip is adding sparkle to your digi images. Print out your image and as soon as it comes out of the printer add your embossing powder and some glitter and do a quick emboss. You have to work fast because printer ink does dry quickly. I usually get my stuff out and ready to go before I hit print. It's just a little something extra to really make those digi images "Pop".

So now it's your turn. Head over to Top Tip Tuesday and enter your tip. There's some great prizes up for grabs this week!

Happy Day!
Jen

Reading is Fun!

Here's my post for today. My niece's birthday is coming up and she LOVES to read. She also writes her own stories. Quite talented she is! So I'm putting together a collection of bookmarks for her to go along with her gift. This one is a Karen's Doodles image "Puppy with her bone". I colored her with prismas. Everthing else was from my latest kit from My Creative Scrapbook. Thanks for looking. I've entered this into the following challenges:



Karens Doodles - Make a bookmark
Paper Romance - Include a furry friend
Bella Studio - Color combe Red-White-Blue

Have a happy Labor Day tomorrow!
Jen

With Sympathy

For tonight's card I decided to try out a technique called Eboss Resist. I noticed that several bloggers were talking about it this week and wanted to check it out. Gina K has a wonderful tutorial over at StampTV. Her tutorials are very detailed and they all follow the same basic outline so you always know what to expect.

So for my card I used the clear butterfly stamp set from Martha Stewart. Then I embossed it and colored it with Distress Inks, Broken China, Antique Linen and Vintage Photo. I really wanted this card to be clean and simple and let the sentiment and butterfly picture do all the talking. I added some ribbon from my scrap bucket. Then I stamped the sentiment, found at Our Daily Bread on the Get Well set, onto the tag.

Thank you so much for looking. Hopefully I'll see ya tomorrow!
Hugs - Jen

Challenges entered:
Lollipop Crafts - Sympathy
Critter Sketch - Think Fall
Wildflower Wednesday - fall
Sentimental Sundays - Clean and Simple
Stampin for the Weekend - Shabby or Vintage

Dixie Daisy Rocks It!

Kenny K has a new Rock Squad image group that was just released. They are having a blog hop here with tons of cool candy up for grabs. You should go check it out. The challenge this week is Music to welcome the new images. They even have Tommy "Leen", Stevie "Thunder", Tracy "Chapstamp", and Tori "Famous". They're really good! The DT really did a great job showcasing them.

So I used my "Dixie Daisy" and rocked her up a bit. I had this grunge pack I got awhile back and decided it would be perfect for this challenge. I followed the sketch at The Sweet Stop, it was a pretty easy and fun one. I used my I-Rock to add some sparkle to the flourishes I stamped. I really should have cuttlebugged it first, but didn't think of it till now. The ribbon is from my scraps, but the rest is from that pack.

Hope you enjoy what's left of "hump" day.
Hugs - Jen

Birthday Wishes for Mattie

Our dear friends little girl, Mattie, turns one today. It's even more special because she was born on my hubby's birthday. I made this cute little card for her. The cute little fairy is from Paper Makeup Stamps. I got her in my Celestial Kit. I followed the sketch at Sketch Saturday and used paper from my scrap bin again. I added a doily to back my image. Used my cuttlebug on the plain white cardstock and added a cute little Making Memories bow and a prima flower. I hope you enjoy it. The picture really doesn't do it justice, I'm disappointed in that.

Have a fantastic day!
Jen

Challenges entered:

Paper Makeup Stamps - Birthday Card
Sketch Saturday - Sketch
Flutterbye Wednesday - Birthday Card
Cuttlebug Challenge - Use pink