Sending HAPPY little thoughts from soon to be wintery Alaska! Snow or “termination dust” has already hit the mountain tops nearby. This makes for fun inspiration to GET CRACKING ON CHRISTMAS!
My card features an adorable Kris Lauren image by Colorado Craft Company! It is the cutest wintery penguin with matching die available and a sentiment Happy Feet. An all occasion Savvy Sentiment is heat embossed on a vellum band with snowflake detail from Colorado Craft Company’s Nordic Snowflakes and Chillin with my Gnome’s. A Lawn Fawn Snow Flurries background stencil is the background for my little wintery scene.
Happy Feet
Watch Jenn Shurkus LIVE on YouTube Thursday, September 15 at 8p ET where she will be sharing how she made her card! Catching Jenn LIVE is always entertaining and her cards are always colorful and so creative!
Be sure to tag Jenn @jennshurkus and hashtag #getcrackingonchristmas when sharing your holiday cards to join in the fun! It’s wonderful to come into the Christmas/Holiday season with several different cards and designs ready.
Nothing makes a day quite like Anita Jeram RELEASE day from COLORADO CRAFT COMPANY! And today Colorado Craft Company is releasing (5) Anita Jeram stamp sets and dies, two Lovely Legs stamp sets and one Savvy Sentiments mini set.
Such cute sentiments with the Laundry Day set including Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff! Wishing you better days ahead and one of my favorites, I Miss You More Than Any Missing Sock! I chose the “It looks like you’re having one of those days” for my card, here.
Laundry Day
This next card from the Anita Jeram, “Bon Appetit!” set is perfect as a Thank you card or a card to let a friend know it’s time for some time together! I think it would be sweet delivered with some muffins or cookies, too!
Bon Appetit!
And lastly this card from one of the Lovely Legs sets, “Poured Out Easter.” The set features several sentiments along with two images. The sentiment “Jesus is heaven’s alabaster jar BROKEN and POURED OUT for you! by Anne Graham Lotz is my favorite.
Poured Out Easter
Here are the adorable Anita Jeram sets with matching dies available.
Family LoveLaundry DayBon Appetit!Furever FriendsCard Back Bunny
And then the LOVELY LEGS sets. Easter (Resurrection Day) is April 17, 2022. Such a pretty God honoring set features a sentiment by Anne Graham Lotz
Poured Out Easter
And just in time to celebrate GRADUATIONS!
Hats Off to You!
One of my other favorite collections is Savvy Sentiments. Always appropriate as a stand alone sentiment or a focal point or as a backdrop with other images.
Happy Little Thoughts
There will be a BLOG HOP this release and wait until you see what everyone has created! So many talented designers sharing their creativity and the JOY that comes from their INSPIRATION. Be inspired and be sure to tag #Coloradocraftcompany or join the Colorado Craft Company Group on Facebook and share your creations!
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WoW! Such versatility in these sets and so exciting to share them with you today! There are (8) eight lovely new sets in todays release! The Savvy Sentiments sets are so classic and fun with different font styles that work with whimsical, classic and graphic looks! Have a peek at all of them.
So many choices but, chose the “General Greetings” set from the Savvy Sentiments collection!
This set has six (6) all occasion sentiments from Happy Birthday, Forever Friends, Happy Anniversary, Thank you, Precious Baby, to Always & Forever. A sentiment for every occasion!
This was a fairly quick & easy card using a Lawn Fawn stitched die to create the circle opening. Cutting a 4.25 x 4.25″ of Ballet Slipper card stock, placing it in my Misti along with my card, I positioned the Precious Baby sentiment to it fit where I wanted it. Removing the outer card, I embossed my sentiment using Versamark embossing ink and white heat embossed my greeting. Adding a little accent with the coordinating circle sentiment of “too cute” I stamped, fussy cut and mounted it on a circle die cut of pink card stock. I grabbed the cute little bunny from one of Anita Jeram’s images “Bunnies & Robin” from Colorado Craft Company. The bunny was colored using Copic Markers and a glittery tail. (Who doesn’t like a glittery tail?) Teehee. I love dimensionals and used them to “pop up” the bunny and accent greeting.
Another from Colorado Craft Company’s new release is from the “Lovely Legs” collection. Summertime Birthday is celebrating tan legs and SUMMER! The main image is a pool side scene and (8) sentiments. I had fun creating this one!
Summertime Birthday
After stamping my focal image on Neenah cardstock, I masked the image and ink blended the background with Lawn Fawn inks in blues and yellow. My main image was colored with Copic Markers and highlighted with colored pencils. The beach ball is “Paper Pieced” using Lawn Fawn’s Watercolor Wishes 6×6 Petite Paper Pack in Lucky Penny, Shooting Star and Wishing Well. My sentiment is stamped on a Lawn Fawn Stitched Circle and lifted up using dimensional foam squares. Finished my card by mounting it on Lawn Fawn’s Paper Bag Card Stock.
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So exciting to take part in this FABULOUS Blog Hop with all the AMAZING designers from around the World! There are so many cute stamp sets in this RELEASE it’s impossible to choose a favorite!
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Colorado Craft Company’s April release features more adorable images by Anita Jeram, best known illustrator for the children’s classic “Guess How Much I Love You,” by Sam MacBratney. These images, just in time for Spring include designs for graduations, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and all occasion celebrating art, friends and dreams coming true.
Choosing one of the Father’s Day sets, “FOR DAD” (#AJ472) https://www.coloradocraftcompany.com/product-page/aj472-anita-jeram-for-dad for the first card sharing today. The set features two card sized images with the sweetest little mice critters. Also included are 7 different sentiments that make the perfect match for your greeting!
BEST DAD EVER!
Using Tim Holtz Distress Cracked Leather Cardstock for Mouse Dad’s chair was super fun and easy using distress ink blending. I did go a bit crazy and made that chair up in several different “leather” colors! After stamping the base image and making my leather chair 🙂 I also fussy cut out the little mouse baby and “inlaid” him into the chair. Copic Markers made the coloring quick and easy. Hoarded in one of my craft drawers was tissue paper from Father’s Day past that was a newsprint with a stock market pattern. After stamping the image on the tissue paper, fussy cutting it out, I glued it to the main image.
I would totally buy this chair in gray leather! Hahaha!
The image is popped up with dimensionals, layered onto a rectangular die cut that had been backed with fun foam and all mounted on a 4.25 x 5.5″ 110# card stock that was covered with the decorative plaid paper. The sentiment was white embossed on black card stock.
And, because I had DAD cards on the brain, and barbecue and really because I wanted to color those adorable CHEF pants on the Foxy daddy, I made another with “DAD’S COOKING.” https://www.coloradocraftcompany.com/product-page/aj475-anita-jeram-dad-s-cookings Simple watercoloring and a little colored pencil enhancing made this card quick and easy. Framed with another plaid decorative paper, mounted on 4.25 x 5.5″ card and VOILA!
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Let’s Get Cracking on Christmas! Thanks to Jenn Shurkus for this fun blog hop that helps get us Cracking on getting our cards and projects ready for Christmas all year long. Play along and be sure to use the hash tag #Getcrackingonchristmas when posting to Instagram. Jenn does a LIVE each month to showcase how she made her card and that will be on Facebook at 8pm EST.
This month I chose this beautiful image from Colorado Craft Company from their Big and Bold collection called Nordic Ornament. Its such a warm, cozy image that takes me back to my Scandinavian heritage.
Colorado Craft Company – Nordic Ornament #BB362
This set includes the main focal image, (7) sentiments, and (2) ornament topper images. In my card I chose to use the ornament image as the background after white embossing on white card stock and then ink blending. Super fast technique for a clean and simple card.
To add a bit of sparkle I used my Quickie Glue Pen and my T square ruler to add lines of glue that I sprinkled glitter on. I skipped over the embossed areas, making lines of glue between them.
For a finishing touch I white embossed a portion of the main image on Peacock blue paper which I then fussy cut and placed as an accent on my sentiment. This card finished up at 5.5″ square. And, because I had to keep messing with it, I added some cute little snowflake sequins from Little Things by Lucy.
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It’s time for GET CRACKING ON CHRISTMAS with projects featured from COLORADO CRAFT COMPANY! Such distinct images and designs from the Big and Bold, “Holly & Berries” and Whimsy World, “Let it Snow.”
Holly & Berries in Barnwood
Each month Jenn Shurkus sponsors the “Get Cracking on Christmas,” series that helps us prepare Christmas and Holiday designs ahead of the busy season. Jenn even has a giveaway when you follow along, link your project and comment on her blog post or tag her on instagram using the hashtag #Getcrackingonchristmas .
What is Christmas without Holly! I fell hard into my watercolors when I inked up the BIG and BOLD, Holly & Berries stamp! This gorgeous image is sure to be an easy focal point for your Holiday card, dinner placard or in a frame like I used here.
Watercoloring the Holly image was so relaxing. Using Ranger, Archival Ink to ink my image on Moulin du Roy watercolor paper, I watercolored my image using Daniel Smith watercolors. Stamping several images of the berry part of the stamp, I watercolored, fussy cut them out and layered with one of the many sentiments in the set. Highlighting the berries with some Tim Holtz, Rock Candy, dry glitter. At this point, this is ART! So I framed it!
Using the Whimsy World, “Let it Snow” set I created two wintery, Christmas cards.
Who doesn’t love a snow globe scene! The sweetest little evergreen trees pair perfectly with the deer and the snow stamps. The set includes several sentiments, Merry and Bright used here and others. Merry Everything! sentiment is from the Holly & Berries set.
And, because I just loved this “Let it Snow” set another card using an eraser.
Let it Snow!
I wanted big snowflakes, so I used an eraser on the tip of a pencil to make my random flakes with Hero Unicorn white pigment ink. Then, while I was getting artsy, I used my Tim Holtz Distress Glaze in Vintage Photo to make my snow globe base all shiny, glossy. A random piece of sparkle paper made my snowdrift. I love the font on the “let it snow” sentiment! A piece of twine finishes off the card.
A big THANK YOU to COLORADO CRAFT COMPANY for being so generous and sending along these two beautiful Holiday sets!
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