Fall 2016 Design Team for Jessica Lynn Original

Hello crafty friends! I wanted to officially announce that I'm on the Fall 2016 Design Team for Jessica Lynn Original!!! I'm really excited about working with Jessica and the wonderful design team she has selected. Here are the links to the rest of the design team:

• Lisa Reynolds Bzibziak – Blog: http://bzscrapper66.blogspot.com/
• Sharon Rogers – Blog: http://sharonshowcase.blogspot.com/
• Jeanette Cloyd – http://creativeplayischeaperthantherapy.blogspot.com/
• Maria Russell – https://www.mariarusselldesigns.com/ 

We also have two members that will be sharing the season together!

• Erica A – http://www.instagram.com/erica_cacacraft
• Angeline Choo – http://scrappyscrappy.blogspot.com/

You can find the Jessica Lynn Original online store HERE. Tomorrow is a digital image launch and you'll find over ten new images available at the store. The design team has been busy coming up with daily inspiration featuring the new images. Check out our blogs daily from July 1st - 4th for all our creative inspiration for this fun digital launch. That's it and I hope you will stop by again tomorrow!

Nurse Bunny Thanks Card

Last October I started having trouble with my gallbladder. It seems I had developed gallstones and occasionally they would get lodged in the bile duct and it was really painful. After trying natural remedies with no success in eliminating the gallstones the choice was surgery. I'm not a fan of surgery but the pain was unbearable, so last week I had an outpatient surgery to remove my gallbladder. My follow-up appointment is today and I'm dropping this Nurse Bunny Thanks Card off at the nurse's desk at the hospital. They may not remember me but I figure the gesture will be appreciated.

To create this card I used the current sketch from Stella Says Sketch #410 at the Catch The Bug Challenge. The image is called Nurse Bunny by Bugaboo Digi Stamps and it was colored with Copic markers. Using a stitched circle die by My Favorite Things the image was die cut and then matted to  a scalloped  circle die cut by Spellbinders. All patterned paper is from the Cedar Lane collection by Pink Paislee. The Thanks sentiment, twine and sequins are all from Stampin' Up! and that sums it up. Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your day!

This Nurse Bunny Thanks Card is entered into the following challenges:

• Catch The Bug: Stella Says Sketch #410
• 4 Crafty Chicks: Anything Goes
• Crafty Gals: Anything Goes
• Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes
• Crafty Sentiments Designs: Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown Celebrates 300th Challenge

Hello! I hope you stopped by today ready to celebrate! This week at Tuesday Throwdown we are celebrating our 300th Challenge. Team A is providing your weekly inspiration with a Fairies and Fantasy theme and Team B (which includes me) is having a blog hop. We would love for you to play along and support this wonderful milestone. It seems more and more challenges close every week, but Tuesday Throwdown is still going strong. If you've never played along before then you might as well start now! Several of us are giving away some blog candy, so stop by and check out their giveaway details. You have until mid-day on Monday, July 4th to link your creations, click here to check out all the challenge details.

My blog candy giveaway includes a 6 x 6 paper pad called Little Azalea by Darice and Maraschino twine from The Twinery. To win you will need to follow my blog and leave me a comment. The winner will be drawn at random and announced next Tuesday, July 5th.

To create my card I started by selecting a coloured image called Snowdrop Daisy from Dis Digi Stamps. The image was die cut using a stitched square die by Lil' Inkers. Then I selected my papers to coordinate. The Thinking of You sentiment stamp is from the Wetlands stamp set by Stampin' Up! and was punched using an oval and matted to a Pool Party scalloped oval. Three sequins were the final touch and this card was done. I'm entering my card at Make My Monday Challenge to use Fairies. Now...

It's time to hop!

  Tuesday Throwdown 

                                 Andrea Whisman (YOU ARE HERE)

Asha Martin

Berni Cuttino

Bridget Collins

CraftyGirl (Judy Rogers)

Davi Reid

Debi Brile

Emily Lauritzen

Jacqueline Muller
 Kim Sherrod

Sarah Marney

Terri Winske

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your day!

Birthday Blog Hop for Asha

Hello, and welcome to weekly challenge at Tuesday Throwdown and our SURPRISE Birthday Blog Hop for the lovely Asha! We are collaborating with the MHKDesigns blog this week for a fun blog hop for Asha's birthday. Our theme this week at Tuesday Throwdown is "Distressing."  You will notice my card is on the mild side of distressed.  I roughed up the edges and did a little inking but that's about it. There are many crafters who make  beautiful distressed creations but for some reason I have a hard time messing up that paper. We hope you will join us this week and play along in our challenge. You have until mid-day on Monday, June 27th to link your creation. 

Now onto the blog hop, you should have arrived here from the blog of Shawna Standish.  If not, start at the MHKDesigns blog to complete the hop and for more chances to WIN!  We are celebrating a very special lady today, and we're doing so by creating beachy birthday cards to wish her many happy returns!

My Birthday Card is more tropical than beachy. The digital Butterfly Wisdom set is from MHKDesigns. I printed the set onto Very Vanilla and Mint Macaroon cardstock and fussy-cut the one butterfly to add a pop of color into the butterfly collage. All other supplies are by Stampin' Up!

Thank you so much for joining in our hop to say "Happy Birthday" to a dear friend!  Your next stop on the hop is Bridget Collins blog! 

Hop list:

MHKDesigns Blog

Asha Martins 

Bernie Cuttino 

Donna Thielker

Jerrie Mead

Jessica Kaiser

Judith Smith

Judy VanZandt

Julie Odil 

Lilian Forsyth

Michele Henderson

Mynn Kitchen

NanaConnie

Rocky Crafter                      

Sathya Sankaran

Shawna Standish

>Andrea Whisman< You're Here!

Bridget Collins 

CraftyGirl 

Davi Reid 

Debi Brile

Emily Lauritzen

Jacqueline Meuller 

Rachelle Olaridge 

Sarah Marney 

Tracey Mowbray 

Tuesday Throwdown

Chevron Cup Coffee Card

There are already over 180 card entries at the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and it's only day 2. This Chevron Cup Coffee Card is my second entry. I've used a stamp set by Your Next Stamp called Coffee Break. It was one of the stamps sets I found during the last hop that made my list. The layout is from Tuesday Morning Sketches #356 and all patterned paper are from the Sunshowers collection by Heidi Grace Designs. Instead of coloring the image I decided to paper piece it to add the chevron to the cup. The image was stamped three times, once on the white backround cardstock, second onto the chevron paper and third onto Crumb Cake cardstock. I did use Copic markers to color the nose and ear. The polka dot area was stamped using the Kinda Eclectic stamp set and Lost Lagoon ink by Stampin' Up! Three rhinestone flower stickers by Jolee's were added for the final touch. That's it!

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your day! 

Brentwood Owl Coffee Card for Blog Hop

Hello! Today is the start of the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and if you've never joined in... it's a lot of fun! It's a great place to find new products plus there are numerous sponsors with great giveaways. My card features a new Brentwood Owl digital image by Jessica Lynn Original and for a limited time you can download it for free (click here). So, download the image now and play along with the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

To create my card, the image was die cut using a stitched square die by Lil' Inkers and then I colored it with Copic markers. Trying to keep the colors in some summer hues, I used Bermuda Bay cardstock and plaid paper by Lawn Fawn. A strip of green paper was stamped using the Timeless Textures stamp set by Stampin' Up! and adhered to the plaid paper. Some Bermuda Bay twine was added along with three sequins. I'm also entering this card into the Alphabet Challenge to use "H" for Hand Colored Image.  Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see your creation in the blog hop. 

Father's Day Card with Bicycle

It's been a crazy humid day here in Oklahoma, which made for a good excuse to stay indoors My niece is visiting for a couple of days and she requested to use my supplies to make her dad a Father's Day Card. He likes to ride bicycles and rides in competitions, so it only made sense to make a card using a bike. However, this required a trip to the craft store because the only bike stamps in my stash are girly. We didn't have much luck at the store in the stamp department and luckily found some 3-D stickers that worked perfectly. She used watercolor paper and watercolored the background to look like a sky and road. The road was stamped using the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set by Stampin' Up! and Staz On black ink. Two small die cut clouds were cut using an Impression Obsession die. The Father's Day sentiment is by Hero Arts and the stickers were added. It turned out great!

 My niece Hailey, who is twelve, would like to enter her card into the following challenges:

• The Male Room: Father's Day
• Through The Craft Room Door: Anything Goes
• Tuesday Throwdown: Watercolor
• Crafty Cardmakers: For a Special Man