The Constant Scrapper

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To all a good night card

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The story

I created this Christmas card to enter into the October “Merry Everything” challenge at Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero. I will also be sending it in to the HeroFest Holiday Cheer Card Drive to be donated to the Bay Area Rescue Mission in support of the homeless.

Product/technique notes

For this card, I stamped the images and sentiment from the “Holiday Silhouette” set from Indadinkado and ink blended the night sky using Distress Oxide inks in tumbled glass, faded jeans, and chipped sapphire.

Christmas blessings robin card

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Christmas blessings robin card by Janice

The story

I created this non-traditional Christmas card to enter into the October “Merry Everything” challenge at Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero. I will also be sending it in to the HeroFest Holiday Cheer Card Drive to be donated to the Bay Area Rescue Mission in support of the homeless.

Product/technique notes

I stamped and die cut the main images with the Hero Arts “Color Layering Robin” set. I created the background element for the robin using Spellbinders oval and scalloped-oval dies and colored them with Distress Oxide inks. I mounted that all on a white background embossed with a Simon Says Stamp snowflake embossing folder.

Origami tidings of comfort & joy card

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The story

I created this Christmas card to enter into the October “Merry Everything” challenge at Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero. I will also be sending it in to the HeroFest Holiday Cheer Card Drive to be donated to the Bay Area Rescue Mission in support of the homeless.

Product/technique notes

I created this look with an emboss resist technique. I stamped and heat embossed the images from the Hero Arts “Origami Happy Holidays” set and then ink blended over them with three colors of Distress Oxide ink: evergreen bough, pine needles, and black soot. I fashioned the sentiment with a die and stamp from the Hero Arts “Joy Stamp & Cut” set.

Gratitude fall card

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Gratitude fall card by Janice

The story

I really enjoyed making this Thanksgiving card, which I’m entering in the Pinkfresh Studio October fall leaves challenge.

Product/technique notes

I stenciled and die cut the leaves with Pinkfresh Studio’s “Fall Foliage” set and Distress Oxide inks, stamped and fussy cut the pinecone from Jen Hadfield’s “Warm & Cozy” stamp set, stamped and ink blended the woodgrain background from Honey Bee Stamps and die cut it with a Pinkfresh Studio mini slimline die, and stamped and embossed the sentiment with a Making Memories set from 2009!

Bohemian paisley card

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Bohemian paisley card by Janice

The story

I’m entering this card in MFT color challenge 172.

MFT color challenge swatch

Product/technique notes

I stamped the paisley images, colored them with Tombow markers, and fussy cut them. For the background I created layers of color and pattern by 1) ink smooshing with the colors in Distress Oxide inks, 2) stamping an additional image from the paisley collection in gray, and 3) adding the aqua polka dots through a stencil.