I made a card using the JessicaLynnOriginal "Sydney" image... she's so cute! I love her. Of course, I love a lot of the JessicaLynnOriginal stamps/images. If you haven't been to her online store lately, you should check it out... HERE.
I just recently learned that Gerda Steiner Designs has a monthly challenge featuring one of their images. And the participants all get the next month's challenge simply for participating. This month's image is an adorable bunny with a carrot. He made me think of Easter, so I made a card complete with Easter designer paper.
The sponsor - All Dressed Up - provided images for the design team's use as well as a prize for a lucky participant. THANK YOU!
Be sure to participate for a chance to win the prize!
Sue is the hostess of the Baker's Dozen cardmaking group this month. She sent us a fun set of goodies to play with (THANK YOU, Sue!) - embossed paper, designer paper, ribbon, pearls, and punched flowers... and encouraged us to add our own sentiments/images if we wanted to do so. I loved her comment - "just have fun!!" So I did.
I love making cards with JessicaLynnOriginal stamps - so today I have a card to show you that I made with one of her wonderful digital stamps: Stompy Elephant.
Stompy sure is a handsome fellow, isn't he?
On Fridays I reflect on my week and post some of the highlights (and sometimes low points, too) here on my blog.
This week has been busy - in good ways.
We had our mid-year meeting of our association of 26 churches on Monday. It was the first one since my husband became the Director of Missions and I thought it went very well. Our state Executive Director was the guest speaker and he motivated us well.
I've also worked on the writing assignment that I had looming - our national women's missions organization commissioned me to write four blog posts that will appear on their blog in July. I am excited to say that I've completed all four articles. YAY!
I've made 23 cards this week. WOW! I don't usually make that many cards in a week.
I've added some things to my stamping inventory on Evernote, still in my quest to get everything uploaded there.
And perhaps one of the most exciting things for me (since I absolutely love to organize) is that I started organizing all of my dies.
It began with an ebay purchase... I bought 500 outdated magnet calendars HERE.
That box was sure heavy!!!
I think he said it weighed 40 pounds.
I am still undecided on how I'll organize them in the crate. I know I will label the categories to make them easier to find. And of course I'll have a Dies Notebook in Evernote. But I don't know if I want to organize them strictly by company in the crate, or if I want to categorize them... things like "Borders" - "Nestabilities" - "Words" - etc.
Truthfully, I'm leaning toward categories and then in alphabetical order by company within each category, but I am not completely convinced yet. If you'd like, give me your thoughts. It might help me decide.
March is quickly coming to an end so I decided it was way past time to make my card for this month's "From the Heart" challenge. Each month that a person participates, she will receive the next month's image free... so I sure didn't want to miss out on that. Besides, this month's image set (Digging Dog) is just too cute.
There are so many sentiments to choose from!
It's an absolutely adorable set!!!
Each month I receive a mysterious envelope in the mail. It's from one of the Mystery Image gals (a different one each month) - who sends an image to all of us to use in making a card. Then we mail the card to a specified member of the group. Imke keeps us so well organized. And we have fun!
This month Joanna was the hostess - THANK YOU Joanna for great images (and bonus die cuts) to use this month.
Do you ever try to make a card... and can't seem to get it to look right? I had one of those experiences lately, so I thought I'd show you my trial/error journey to happiness.
This card was actually made for a swap group I'm in that also requires matching envelopes, so I stamped a bit of the image on my envelope, too... and added a touch of ink to the edge.
Goodness! I sure own a lot of Embossing Folders................... I don't even want to tell you how many! And I very VERY rarely use one. So... when I found out the new challenge at One Stitch at a Time is "Anything Goes with Embossing" I knew it was going to be a great opportunity to dust off an embossing folder and have some fun.
Nothing is more fun than Christmas, right?
Image: StitchyBear Digi Outlet "Christmas Lights"
It's just one of the many things to love about the JessicaLynnOriginal stamp set that is being launched today - if you love Bulldogs, you're going to love this set!
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