A Whole Lotta Flowers

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! I am celebrating this coming week on Tuesday with my whole family, and am looking forward to it! 

Today's creation uses some lovely papers by Graphic 45 and beautiful flowers from Wild Orchid and Prima. 

I love this little fairy with her sparkly wings. You can read all about this creation HERE.

Be sure to check out my giant garage sale a few posts down!

Challenges:

• C.R.A.F.T. - Anything Goes
• Creative Knockouts - Anything Goes
• MilkCoffee Challenge - Make It Sparkle

 

Thanks With Sizzix

One of the new sets just released at The {Stamps} of Life is called Thanks With Sizzix. I love the different fonts and ways to say thank you. I made a set of four little 4.25" cards - all easily mass-produced for thank you notes after Christmas! Take a look!

The first card above uses a heart cut from the tictactoe die cut set released last month. A little twine, some pearls, and an embossed background make for a sweet card.

The second uses the end of a pencil eraser, a stylus, and some pretty gems to make a border for your greeting.

A vertical trio of hearts and a simple font pack a punch for this simple design using Stephanie's Licorice ink.

And finally, this one layer CAS design uses Stephanie's Guava ink
and the heart stamp from November's Club set, tictactoe2play.

Fast and easy and fun to make!

Game Time with Stephanie Barnard and The {Stamps} of Life!

A new month brings a new Club set from The {Stamps} of Life! Love this fun tictactoe2play set and the matching dies!

 
For this card, I embossed the background using a Sizzix embossing folder, and cut the playing grid and X's and O out of white cardstock. I stamped the designs in Strawberry Ink. A little twine and a button and it's ready to send!

 




 
Banana and Strawberry Sprays! made the background for this birthday card. I stamped the stars with watermark ink and then embossed them. The sentiment was curved on the ink block and stamped with Guava ink. I happened to have some rhinestone stars that fit perfectly around the cut out (matching dies!) stars.

Playing grid dies, X's and stamped with Guava

Playing grid, heart and rectangle dies and Guava ink

Check out how to become a Club Member here and see Stephanie's video on this set, with mine and MANY more examples!

New Stamps at The Stamps of Life!

Who doesn't love a snowman??
The October Club set at The {Stamps} of Life has been out for a little over a week now, and there is a gallery full of fun inspiration from the TSOL DT members and TSOL customers HERE.

Today I want to share several creations I made using the new snowman2build set - the Club set for October. It comes with some fabulous dies too, which I really need to get as well.

If you don't have the Sprinkles! chunky glitter, you really have to try it out. I don't like glitter everywhere, but this stuff I use a LOT! It's fun and stays put :)

Sad to say, the wishes were a bit too warm, and my snowman melted!

I am just dandy keeping all the snow on my cards, instead of in my yard, thank you!

Come check out how to be a Club Member here. It's super fun and a great way to build your stamp/die collection.

Be sure to check out my huge stamp sale here and on my Facebook page: Joy in a JAR.

  Challenges entered: 

Country View Crafts' Challenge - Sparkle and Shine  

One Crazy Stamper - Halloween/Christmas 

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes

Crafty Bloggers Network - Christmas