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Have Yourself a Very Vintage Christmas

We're still celebrating Christmas Past at Jingle Belles ... creating vintage cards sponsored by Lauren's Etsy Store, Just Enough Stuff.

 

 

This week I created with actual vintage elements.  I die cut my tag from a vintage holiday card that I found at an estate sale.  I used this week's Atlantic Heart's Sketch for my layout.

 

 

I paired my vintage tag with vintage sheet music from my vintage hymnal collection together with some vintage S&H Green Stamps.

 

 

And remember, one lucky participant will win a vintage collection of items from Lauren's Etsy Store.

 

Thursday Link Love

Another week of skipping through blogland:

• Spicy Thai Spaghetti Salad
• cute Candy Corn Craft
• 10 foods that taste better as leftovers
• DIY Corner Cabinet
• Chocolate Tres Leches Cake
• Fractured Light Water Paintings
• Buffalo Cole Slaw
• Picture Hanging Hack
• couldn't resist ordering these Sassy Pants Stamps (because I am a Sassy Pants)
• Cinnamon Biscuits (our Hardee's have closed ... I really miss the original version of their cinnamon raisin biscuits)
• Pantry Organization Tips
• Double Chocolate Dump Cake

Have a tremendous Thursday!

Welcome to the Jungle

Our newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Welcome to the Jungle - create a card featuring any wild animal - can be anything from polar bear, koala, tiger, elephant all the way to iguanas and parrots.

 

 

I chose to feature a wonderful wild Rhinoceros from Carta Bella Zoo Adventure Journaling Cards.

 

 

 

The Rhino Grey card base is embossed with a Spellbinders Maze Embossing Folder.  Next I layered on a Gelliprint that pulled out the blue from the journaling card using this week's Sketch from Sunday Stamps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I finished with a sticker sentiment and some gray Tim Holtz Ideaology Halloween Droplets.

Sisters' Weekend 2023

I was so thrilled my sister and I were able to spend some time together in Kansas City this weekend (a big thank you to the stranger who took our photo & told us we sounded like sisters when we thanked her in unison).

 

 

We both like finding unexpected public art.

 

 

And we spent a lot of time playing games, including this new one Skyjo ... it was a fun combination of luck and strategy and perfect while we enjoyed breakfast at Messenger Coffee + Ibis Bakery.  

 

 

We did lots of shopping at Thrift Stores & Used Book Stores hunting for treasures.  We also ducked inside for some cool at the SeaLife Aquarium (certainly not the best aquarium we've visited, but we still enjoyed seeing all of the sea life).

 

 

The lighting was particularly poor to get many photos, but that didn't stop us from snapping one with the jelly fish.

 

 

One night we walked over to Cheesecake Factory to treat ourselves to some dessert.

 

 

Another wonderful time of spending time with my sister (and winning a game of Boggle).

 

Spirit of Christmas Past

This week at Jingle Belles we're celebrating the Spirit of Christmas Past ... which means creating a card with a vintage design.  It could mean incorporating actual vintage elements, using new products that have a vintage style, or using stamps or images that convey a vintage vibe - whatever says vintage to you.  

And to add a bit of extra incentive to your endeavors, this week we are sponsored by Lauren's fantastic Etsy Shop Just Enough Stuff, so there's a sweet little pack of vintage Christmassy things for one lucky card member who links-up a vintage holiday design.

I went with new products that have a vintage style most from Tim Holtz.

 

 

I stamped a vintage-like sentiment from Unity Stamp Company ... holiday.  faith. hope. love. that I thought had a vintage font that worked well with the reproduction of vintage designs.

 

 

I used a Sketch from Sketch~N~Scrap for my vintage elements with a coordinating layered Poinsettia sticker from Simple Vintage Rustic Christmas.

And one lucky participant will win this amazing prize package, so come show us your Christmas Past creations  

 

Thursday Link Love

Another week of skipping through blogland:

• Junebugging
• Soft Peanut Butter Cookies
• Good news about Simple Pleasures
• Giant Magic Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
• oh the flashbacks of the hours playing an Atari 2600+
• Blackberry Snickerdoodle Cobbler
• Behr's Color of the Year
• I do love a good Mystery Series
• Vietnamese Tomato Corn Salad
• Hot Glue Gun Wax Seals
• Sweet Potato Cake
• I do love Dahlias (one shown)

Have a tremendous Thursday!

I Mean Business

When I saw this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch, I knew it was time to go diving into the scrap bin. 

 

 

I decided to hunt for yellow papers to use for this week's Color Hues Challenge of Red and Yellow.

 

 

I used a red card base for my 1 1/4" punched yellow paper squares.  I was thrilled to finally find a home for that little scrap of Therm*o*Web flocked paper from four years ago (you never know when just the perfect project is going to come along).

 

 

I found paper with these yellow drinks, and decided to go with that as my focal image inspired by the Simon Says Stamp Monday Delicious Drinks Challenge.  I framed it in some red velvet paper and chose this fun snarky sentiment to finish the design.

Boogie Oogie Oogie

The newest challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is M is for Music.

 

 

I wanted to use one of the AALL & Create Miss Dees that I colored when I was at Beverly's home.  I printed out the lyrics that I thought highlighted her well (at least they made me laugh).

 

 

I had fun coloring in her shades of slate blue with Bev's Spectrum Noir Triblend markers (which makes me want to fill out my own marker set) and use the card layout from Sketch~N~Scrap to attach all of the pieces.

 

 

I finished with a few black sequins as embellishments.

You Make Life Beautiful

Since I had the other half of my watercolor powder background still on my studio table, I decided to make another card featuring a Penny Black Charisma Bouquet.

 

 

This time I paired it with a gelli-printed background I made using tiny bubble wrap (I liked the repeat of the circle theme from my water colored background) and a sticker sentiment from my stash.

 

I'm linking-up at the Penny Black Saturday Challenge where the theme is Anything Goes.

 

 

And with the vibrant colors of my design, I'm also linking-up at the Colorful Challenge at Time Out Challenges.

You Are Worth It

When I visited my friend Beverly, she showed me how to use her ScanNCut (since I have one still in the box that I need to find a stand for).  We used it to cut out the beautiful bouquets from Penny Black Charisma stamp set.  Then we had fun coloring while we watched a movie made from one of our favorite books The Glass Castle (enjoyable for sure, but as almost always, not as good as the book).  I gave the Spectrum Noir Tri-Blend Markers a try.

 

I used one of the bouquets for the Penny Black Saturday Anything Goes Challenge pairing it with a sentiment from Penny Black Words of Encouragement.

 

 

I used one of the backgrounds that Bev & I made with powdered watercolors to back my image using a sketch from CAS Colours & Sketch Challenges.  I added a bit more color at the bottom to help ground the vase.  I tried a white card base, but preferred the peach to pull out that color from both the background & the colored bloom.

 

 

I'm also linking-up at the Simon Says Stamp Clean & Simple Challenge.