Monday, August 31

HOLIDAY CATALOG GOES LIVE SEPTEMBER 1

HEY BLOGGIES,

YIPPEE,THAT SPECIAL DATE HAS ARRIVED. THE HOLIDAY CATALOG GOES LIVE FOR YOU TO ORDER FROM NOW!!  WOO HOO



There are so many pretty pretty things for you to order.  AND I have added a category to my PINTEREST site called:  2015 Holiday CATALOG  so you can get ideas of what is trending amongst us demonstrators.  Click on the right column here on my blog on MY PINS with the cute little mouse and the pin cushion, then choose the 2015 Holiday catalog.

With my hubby unemployed, I have not been able to do the big orders like I usually do, so I have pinned many other demos samples and samples from convention as well for you to see.

Thanks THANKS as always for choosing me as your demo and ordering from me. Without you I could NOT continue to be a demonstrator because of the unemployment situation.  I sincerely THANK YOU.

MY HOSTESS CODE FOR SEPTEMBER ORDERS IS:   PKTJ3NBB

As always, if you have any questions, let me know.


SEASON TO SEASON WREATH KIT

I would LOVE to get with you a a couple of friends to make YOUR very own Season to Season Wreaths!!  I will bring the stamp set and the inks.  The rest of the materials are in each person's KIT.

Contact me now to get on my calendar for your FRIENDS AND I SEASON TO SEASON WREATH PARTY.


Saturday, August 29

MY BIG SHOT & DIE CUT FALL WREATH

HEY BLOGGIES,

I have another 'FLASH BACK" POST  to share with you today.  With a new leaf set out in our Holiday Catalog  AND thinlet dies, I thought I would share the one I made two years ago and is on my door starting this weekend:

http://txjennywren.blogspot.com/2013/10/fall-paper-wreath-look-on-page-185-of.html

I also wanted to share a photo to entice you to see this previous post above.

 I chose to use mostly solid cardstock here and then I used my woodgrain embossing folder to create the texture, pattern.


Here is the wreath my friend, Karen P. made at our wreath class.  She used patterned papers in the darker browns and oranges with a touch of green.  She even created a banner to attach with painted clothes pins.  Very nice Karen.

Thanks for stopping by.  If you have any questions, let me know.

Friday, August 28

JEWEL THE DOG AND OUR LITTLE FROGS

HEY BLOGGIES,

I have a story for you.  Jewel is my little Pomeranian who is LOVING it out here in the country.  She has a very good nose and LOVES to smell what has been in our yard overnight. She barks when she comes across some wild smell and then chases along the smell trail to show us where it went.

She loves to chase bunnies out of our yard when she spots them.  But the thing she enjoys finding are...FROGS.  She is my FROGGIE DOGGIE.  hee hee

We have these little brown frogs that are the color of dirt.  They are the size of tree frogs, but they are dark brown.  I have no idea what kind they are, but we have a lot of them, especially after a rain.  Jewel loves them.  If she sees one move in the grass, she wags her tail and then sniffs around and follows them as they try to hop away from her.

Sometimes she wants to move the frog out of the grass so she can see it better.  She picks it up in her mouth and moves it and of course when she puts it down, it is dead.  She doesn't understand why it won't hop anymore and she pushes it with her nose to try to get it to hop again.  Poor froggie.  Luckily she doesn't feel the need to move them too often.

Anyways, I thought about my froggie doggie and her little brown buddies when I made this card.  However, I did go with the normal greens for these frogs:

I saw a design similar to this on Pinterest and knew I had to make a birthday card with these little guys.  Aren't they absolutely adorable??  L.O.V.E.  them!! The stamp set is YOU'RE SUBLIME.


Inside I used my little letters dies and wrote:  TOADALLY.

I think it is a fun and funny birthday card.  Hope you do too.

My sketch is what we are using this week at SKETCH FRENZY FRIDAY.  Here it is:
You can make your four objects as small or as large as you want.  Have fun and let's see what you create.

Thursday, August 27

THROW BACK THURSDAY CARD

HEY BLOGGIES,

I was going through a box of  "stuff" from my move and came across some cards I made that I loved so much I didn't want to give them away. I thought I would share with you in case you did not see them when I posted them a few years back.

 In the new Holiday Catalog there is a wonderful stamp set called Acorny Thank you.  And there is a matching Acorn Builder Punch.  There is also a wonderful leaf stamp set called Lighthearted Leaves.  I chose this card I did a couple years ago because it is very similar to those two sets I am talking about that YOU can purchase starting September 1st from our Holiday Catalog.

 Most fall cards do NOT have blue on them, but I love how clear and blue the sky can be on a crisp fall day, don't you??   I created the wood grain tag from some specialty designer paper and some early espresso ink rubbed over it.  You can find a nice woodgrain paper in our Holiday Catalog called Into the Woods designer paper.

I used the chalk marker to put the highlighting on the acorns.  And my leaves were cut from plain cardstock and then put through the embossing folder Woodgrain to create the marks on them.

Hope you enjoyed my Throw Back Thursday Card.  Use this idea for a card to create when you get YOUR NEW PRODUCT from the Holiday Catalog.

Mark your calendar for SEPTEMBER 1 as the first day you can order from the new catalog.

If you need a catalog, please let me know.

Thanks for stopping by.

Friday, August 21

SEA STREET HELLO CARD

HEY BLOGGIES,

I made a little "pun" with some different sentiments to go along with the popular saying, "Well, Hello There!!"  But since I used the designer paper with a nice big whale, I created the sentiment:  "Whale...Hello My Friend"

Here is the sketch I worked with from SKETCH FRENZY FRIDAY created by KIM:



And here is my card:


I used the retired DSP Maritime that is really most of my card.  I used a word here and there to create my sentiment from several different sets and embossed with white embossing powder.  The line of marine flags can either be cut from the DSP or you can use the stamp from SEA STREET to create it.


I used the circle framelits to cut out the whale from the DSP, and then used the next largest one to create the thin background strip behind it.


I also entered this card in THE PAPER PLAYERS SIMPLE challenge of the Beach.

Hope you have enjoyed my simple and fun card.  Won't you leave me a comment or some "blog loving"?

Come back again soon to visit.

Sunday, August 16

SMILE -- MORE WATERCOLOR POWDERS AND SPRITZING

HEY BLOGGIES,

I am back again as I promised with another card using watercolor powders and a water mister/spritzer.    We determined we L.O.V.E the previous brand of powders better than these Brusho powders we used  today.  Yesterday we used COLOR BURST by Ken Oliver Crafts. and they were so much more vibrant.





As the previous posting, first Tammy ironed on the waxed paper die cut balloons onto the white watercolor paper.  Then she spritzed the whole card with water and shook on the color powders.  The action of the powder granules hitting the water is  A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.

 I added a small layer of coastal cabana card stock that shows slightly and then attached it to a whisper white card base. I die cut the HAPPY BIRTHDAY out of whisper white and attached to the card. I die cut some of the insides of the balloons and adhered before adding two layers of crystal effects over it to give some dimension.

I added a few moonstone drops and VOILA - an amazingly beautiful card.



p.s. The birthday card  was given to a good friend who had her 80th birthday this past week (I told her it wasn't 80, but FOUR SCORE YEARS)  hee hee.  She LOVED the card.




Thanks for stopping by.  IF you have any questions, let me know.  Come visit again, won't you?

Friday, August 14

WATER COLORING AND SPRITZING POWDERS WITH WATER

HEY BLOGGIES,

An interesting title on my blog today, eh?  My friend has some new toys so she showed me some new techniques (new to me).  We did some water coloring but not the usual way.  She had powdered watercolor pigment.  She wet the water color paper with a spritzer and then sprinkled the pigments onto the wet paper and gave it another spritz.  It was amazing how vibrant the colors came out.  Want to see?  Here is the first card made with this technique.

Aren't the colors fab??  Oh, one more technique I forgot to tell you about.  You know how you can put a piece of waxed paper between the die and your card stock?  Well, she took the die cut waxed paper and ironed it onto the watercolor paper BEFORE she wet it and added the powders.  Then after the colors were dry, she used her heat gun to gently lift the waxed paper off.  Voila - a waxed resist.  Cool, huh?

I trimmed the watercolor piece and then added a thin white layer behind that only shows from the top and bottom of the top fold card.  Don't the colors just make you want to dive into this deep pool of cool, beautiful water?

I added a few clear moonstones as the final touch.

Come back tomorrow and I will show you another card with the same techniques....I am on a ROLL.

Entered this card at SKETCH FRENZY FRIDAY and CASE THIS SKETCH and CASOLOGY.

Thanks for stopping by!!