It has been a crazy busy week for me but I am so excited because today marks the official release day of www.jessicalynnoriginal.com’s Boston terrier stamp set. I have no words to describe how adorable this whole set is. Jessica even included some images to decorate his hat and use it for different holidays. My favorite out of all the images is the big dog image with the hat. I think he’s so adorable! I highlighted his monocle using glossy accents, and fuzzy-cut the shamrock to give him a classy hat accessory. It’s a funny card!
Here are the 3 card samples that I created using the stamp set.
If you’d like to see the other cards that were created by the other DT members, please head on over to Jessica’s blog: http://jessicalynnoriginalstamps.blogspot.com/ I hope I have given you some amazing ideas and have a great weekend!
I am thrilled to finally be able to post photos of this new stamp set by Jessica Lynn Original called Rock Lobster. I love Brentwood, but don’t you just love that little smiley fish? It’s so adorable! Jessica is such a talented artist and a wonderful person; I am so proud to be a member of her design team.
Below you will find a photo of the stamp set. I think this will be a great addition to your collection. Just like the rest of Jessica’s stamps, this is made of high quality photo polymer material. You don’t have to be a skilled stamper to use this set.
Since today is Halloween, I wanted to create a Halloween card. I have always believed that you can use any stamp set for any occasion, with just a little imagination. I always liked stretching my stamps and dies. Since Brentwood is already dressed up as a lobster for Halloween, I figured he needed some confetti to go along and celebrate my favorite holiday! I also used my We Are Memory Keepers Fuse tool for the first time to create a flat shaker. Note to self: next time, do not touch the fuse tool with your fingers to check it it’s hot enough! Ouch!
The next card is one of my all time favorites! I think everything just worked and blended together beautifully. I love the colors on this card. I used my Avery Elle Wonky Stitched rectangle die to create the frame for my shaker card. I used a combination of blue, iridescent and white sequins and seed beads for my shaker elements. A video tutorial will be posted soon on my YouTube channel so please stay tuned for that.
I hope you like what I’ve created. Please don’t forget to go to www.jessicalynnoriginal.com to grab this stamp set. Happy Halloween!
I am just so excited for today’s blog hop as we are collaborating with CardMaker Magazine plus we can use whatever favorite stamps we like from JLO Stamps! There will be a FREE DIGITAL STAMP for all – anyone can visit www.jessicalynnoriginal.com and download that digital stamp.
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Are you ready to see the cards? The first one that you see here is a Halloween-themed card. This stamp is called Ghost of Christmas Past. I must admit that I overly-embellished this card. A common occurrence when I have my creativity mojo going. Sometimes I get really carried away. This card must have taken me 4 hours to make. It was a lot of work, but totally worth it. My husband keeps commenting that my cards are so detailed and embellished that they will be too expensive to sell. I don’t really sell my cards. I mostly give it to friends. I love that when they get my cards, they like it so much that they put it in a frame and display it at their home offices! That is a huge compliment for me! I feel that if I don’t take my time or put a lot of effort into making my cards, what’s the point of even making one?
With the exception of the pumpkins, everything has been handmade/die cut by yours truly!
The second card is one of my favorites. It’s so simple but adorable at the same time. I used two stamp sets for this card. The owl is one of my favorites from JLO Stamps. She is called “Ruby With a Martini” and the cute bat is from “Ghost of Christmas Past”. Halloween is my favorite holiday and I make a lot of Halloween cards and scrapbook layouts.
The third card is a Valentine-themed card. I love the simplicity of this one. I love Jessica’s sentiments on this stamp set as well. I think she has the most amazing handwriting I’ve ever seen.
Last but not the least, is a birthday card! Today is MY birthday so of course I have to make a birthday card somehow. I combined two digital stamps on this card, and used some of my confetti stamps to create the confetti background. I also used my magnolia doohickey balloon dies to cut out the cute little balloons that you see below. I wanted this card to be happy, girly and adorable.
Which one is your favorite? Mine is still the Halloween Witch card just because she looks so stylish and I love Halloween! We are all little witches in our own sort of way, aren’t we?!
If you got lost along the way, this is the order of the hop:
Are you aware of how amazing digi stamps are? This is the weekend for you to find out. Digis are quick, resizable and take up no space in your craft room. You can print as many images as you want to add to your handmade cards, scrapbooks, project life, pocket letters, etc.
For this weekend only, all digital stamps at JessicaLynnOriginal.com are on sale for $1.00. If you have wanted to try digis, this is the perfect time to do it. Please follow along the hop to see some of the amazing work our design team has put together to show you how versatile these stamps truly are.
If you’ve come from Jeanette’s Blog, you’re in the right place!
The first two cards you see are made for a new baby boy and a baby girl. I have used the baby giraffe digi stamp to create these two simple cards.
The second card is one of my favorite digi stamps from JLO. It’s Brentwood as Mad Hatter. Of course I had to create an Alice In Wonderland themed card. I spent quite a few hours die-cutting the pieces to create a cute scene for this card. I know this is a bit much for some but I love spending a lot of time making my cards. To me, they’re little pieces of artwork!
Last but not the least, is my favorite out of all the cards I made today! It’s a Halloween-themed card and yes, it’s a fun shaker card. I used Brentwood Owl and dressed him/her as a warlock/witch. I dry-embossed the “moon” and included die-cut bats, orange sequins and seed beads for my shaker element. I love making shaker cards. Do you like this one too?
The next person is Sharon Rogers. She is an amazing carmaker/designer from Australia. Please check out her amazing designs: http://sharonshowcase.blogspot.com
One of the reasons why I love jet lag is the fact that when I am wide-awake at 3:00 a.m., I can make some really strong coffee, go to my craft room and work on my cards in peace. Everything is just so peaceful at dawn. It really helps my creativity. The only downside is I am already fading by 4:00 p.m.
The card below turned out to be so stinkin’ cute! To be honest, I didn’t picture this card to look like it does now because I changed my mind quite a few times while I was creating it. I wanted to fuzzy-cut the image but I was worried about the Antennae. I decided in the end to cut it out and replaced it with a die-cut piece using a butterfly die. I almost gave up at one point, but decided to keep going until I was happy with the results.
Gray card stock – cut at 8 ½ by 5 ½ scored at 4/14
Pink Card stock – cut at 5 ¼ by 4, also used some to diecut the flowers
Beige Card Stock (for the Deco Label in the front of the card)
Green Card Stock – to diecut the grass die
Honeycomb Die
Deco Labels Die
Spellbinders Banner Die
Magnolia Doohickey Grass and flower die and butterfly die from Le Jardin Collection Vol. 4
Copic Markers – W0, W1, W3, W7
Copic Markers – E77
Copic Marker – B00
Copic Marker – R11, toned down with Copic Blending Ink 00
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
Glossy Accents
Scotch Foam Adhesive
Ranger Multi-medium matte adhesive
I hope you like this card. Please note that Jessica was kind enough to offer a 10% discount for all of my YouTube subscribers, Instagram followers and Blog followers. If you are interested to purchase her amazing stamps, please go to http://www.jessicalynnoriginal.com and use code: save10. This code is valid until September 1, 2015.
It is launch day and I have made a few cards featuring the newly-released stamp set by Jasmine Becket-Griffith/Jessica Lynn Original called Sanura Egyptian Cat Princess. Whew! That’s a mouthful!
Let me just say, I am in-love with this stamp set. Simply because I’ve always been interested about Egypt and its past since I was a little girl. I remember watching the movie Cleopatra when I was a child and I thought that if I were given the chance, I would visit Egypt and see the Pyramids. Fast-forward to 2002, my family and I traveled to Cairo and Luxor. We rode the camels and saw the Pyramids, went to the museum and got to see the mummies, shopped at the Khan Al-Khalili Grand Bazaar and got some great Papyrus artwork and experienced Cairo’s traffic and crazy night-driving. We then traveled to Luxor and visited the Valley of the Kings. What a great experience! We had such a great time that we decided to go back in 2006, and headed to Sharm El-Sheikh. I can write a book about my travel experiences but this post is not about that; it’s about the beautiful Sanura Egyptian Cat Princess Stamp Set.
This is an amazing set to add to your collection if you love beautiful stamps. This set will be perfect to use for your cards, as well as scrapbook layouts. Please visit www.jessicalynnoriginal.com to check it out.
Today’s card features this versatile stamp set called True Love. This stamp set is perfect for a Just-Because card, Wedding, Valentine’s Day or Anniversary. This stamp set is great alone, or used with the other cute Brentwood Owl stamps or just about any other stamps you can pair it with. The possibilities are endless!
If you came here from Jeanette’s blog, then you’re in the right place.
I used the digital version of this True Love stamp set. I didn’t receive my stamps in time before this blog hop, because I live overseas (at least 10 months out of the year!). I am a novice when it comes to digital stamps so I couldn’t get the size right! I had to call my friend in Canada to help me figure it out. Her advice was to just use what I have printed so far and make it work. Such a great advice! I decided to just use my imagination and have fun. I really did! In fact, I had so much fun I got carried away!
Supply List:
True Love Stamp Set (I used the Banner image and resized it so I can fit Ruby inside)
Ruby and a Martini Stamp Set (I cut-out the martini glass)
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Copic Markers to color the banner, Ruby and the ladybug
Sahara Sand Card Stock
Sahara Sand Stamp Pad
Wood Stamp for the background
Grass Die
Flower Punches
Bow Punch
Stylus to give the flowers some dimension
Glossy Accents to make Ruby’s eyes pop
Rhinestones and Pearl
Adhesive (also used foam adhesive to pop Ruby up)
This first card below is super detailed. I used my punches and other dies to create a scene for Ruby, the Owl. I stamped my sahara sand card base with the woodgrain stamp using sahara sand ink for a tone-on-tone look. I stamped Ruby using my Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored her using my Copics. I also used glossy accents to make her eyes pop. The photo didn’t do justice on how beautiful the colors really are. I then colored the banner image also using my Copics, but the ink smudged a little on the pink flower images. It must have been because of my inkjet printer or because I didn’t have any Copic-friendly card stock. This was challenging! To fix this problem, I decided to add punched flowers to create more dimension. I think it turned out so beautiful!
The second card is very simple, but creates a huge impact in my opinion. I just love the sentiments that Jessica has included in this stamp set. I wanted to highlight it in a way that it stands out! Sometimes less is more!
I gathered all of my card stock and cut the pieces using the dies to create my scene for the sentiment. Once I had everything laid out, I dry-embossed my card base using the Brick wall TIEF. I positioned the sentiment on the die-cut window piece and purposely covered the word “love” in the beginning of the sentiment, so I can use the LOVE die-cut piece that I highlighted with Diamond Stickles to make it pop.
I adhered the picket fence, and then proceeded to adhere the window, followed by the planter and the flowers. I thought it needed some sort of greenery so I decided to die-cut the leaf flourish and adhered it to the card. What do guys think? Do you like the first or the second card?
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Today I am featuring two cards that I created using the new Stamp Set by http://www.jessicalynnoriginal.com called the “UFO Brentwood Owl”. I am super excited to share these cards with you today because I absolutely love the images that Jessica created for this set. If you would like to win this stamp set, please head on over and leave a comment on Jessica’s Blog post (http://jessicalynnoriginalstamps.blogspot.com). Jessica will choose a random winner and she will announce it on her Blog, so please stay tuned for that.
To start, this stamp set reminds me of my love for the 90’s TV show, “Roswell”. My children and I were addicted to Roswell, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer – two famous TV shows at the time when my children were still young. Since we live overseas, I always pre-recorded the shows so that after homework and dinner, the kids and I will have some quality time together watching the show. We even listened to the Roswell soundtrack in my car while I drove them to school.
The first card below is a side-step card. I always love creating interactive cards, and I thought that Brentwood needed to have more space so that I can highlight each of the stamp images in their own way, without it getting “lost”. I think I was able to capture this sense by making a farm-scene at night with the moon shining in the background.
I first colored Brentwood and the UFO images with my Copics. Then I put glossy accents on Brentwood’s helmet to achieve the look of glass, and make it look more realistic. While waiting for the glossy accents to dry, I then stamped the other images using some of the stamps I already have in my stash and preceded to die-cut the pieces. Once I had everything laid out, it was really easy to put the card together. I added stickles to the moon and the UFO beam to make it stand out a little.
The second card below is very patriotic. With the 4th of July coming up, I think this is a perfect project to make in time for our Independence Day. My original idea was to create a scene where Brentwood was holding the USA flag landing on the moon, but one of our design team members already made a card using a similar design. I was in Germany and Lithuania for a week and only came back yesterday, so I was a bit late creating these cards. However, I still wanted to create a scene in space, so I decided to create a shaker card. Brentwood is holding the USA flag, but with the UFO, stars confetti, blue and red seed beads as the shaker material. I also added glossy accents to Brentwood’s helmet but unfortunately it didn’t show through the photo. I had so much fun creating this card. What do you guys think? I will post a tutorial on my YouTube channel for these two cards.
Maria Russell Designs 