Strawberry Jam Jar Shaped Card

Hello! Today I have a card using The Paper Nest Doll May new release image to share with everyone. This image is called “Strawberry Jam Emma”.

I have created a jar shaped card with this image. I designed the jar shape by myself using rectangle shapes and round corners. The card base was made from red paper covered with clear embossing enamel to make it glossy like glass jar. Sadly, the photo doesn’t do it justice. The patterned papers are from Maja Design. Doily is from Cheery Lynn Designs die cut. I decorated the jar lid with chiffon trim, and help rope.

I colored the image with distress ink.

I also decorated the card with red and white paper flowers, and glass strawberries.

The sentiments are from Lawn Fawn and Simon Says Stamp clear stamps. The scalloped rectangle die cut is from Sizzix Scalloped Square dies.

I would like to enter this card to these challenges.

• Cards Und More Challenge #184 – Cards for Women
• Creative Inspirations Challenge #274 – Blooms & Bows
• Deep Ocean Challenge #154 – Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles Challenge Week 18 – Anything Goes
• The Ribbon Girl May Card Challenge
• Scrapy Land Challenge #65 – Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp WednesdayChallenge – Going Dotty

I hope you like my card today. Thank you for stopping by and have a sweet day.

Thanks from the Heart Card & Until We Meet Again Art Journal Page

Hi everyone! Today I have 2 projects to share with you. I made both projects as farewell gifts to my colleague.

The first gift is “Thanks from the Heart” card. I wanted to make a card to say thank you to him since he helped me a lot in the past 3-4 year we had been working together. I think a bouquet is a perfect symbol for thankfulness. I folded a piece of paper and used Martha Stewart “Doily Lace” edge punch to make a cone shape for bouquet. I stamped thank words in different languages using Simon Says Stamp “From Us” clear stamp. Then, I filled in the cone with soft foam hearts to replace flowers in order to match with the theme. The sentiment was stamped with Lawn Fawn “Claire ABCs” clear stamp. Then, attached to card base, pattern paper, and tied the red ribbon to finish the card.

Another project is an art journal page. Everyone in the team was given a piece of paper to write memorial message to him. I think art journal style would fit this purpose. So I made my first art journal page as another gift for him.

Materials:

• Decoupage napkin
• Gesso
• Distress paint “Tarnished Brass”
• Distress ink “Vintage Photo”
• Hero Arts “Old Letter Writing” block stamp
• Inkadinkado “Big Butterfly” block stamp
• Inkadinkado “Floral Wood Cut” block stamp
• Tim Holtz Stamper Anonymous “Flutter” cling stamp
• Stampendous “Timeless Tags” clear stamp
• Making Memories “Great Escape” clear stamp
• WPlus9 “Folk Art Alphabet” die

I started by sticking decoupage napkin to the paper. The gluing process was not perfect however I really loved the wrinkles that napkin created. Then I applied gesso and blended the color with distress paint “tarnished Brass” and distress ink “Vintage Photo”. I used many stamps to create vintage look. These are the old stamps that I stored for years. Since I was not a fan of vintage style, I never made any projects from those stamps before. But I’m glad I had them on the shelf so I could use them to create vintage background on this art journal page.

Then, I made a tag and envelop using a piece of paper and colored with the same colors as the background but using more of Vintage Photo. I will write a memorial message on the tag later. The stamp on the envelop was Tim Holts “Flutter” cling stamp. I don’t have any vintage alphabet items to match this project and I need to get it done by the weekend. My friend was so generous to lend me her WPlus9 Folk Art Alphabet die so I could finish the project in time.

And I completed my first art journal page.

I entered my art journal page to these challenges:

• One Crazy Stamper June Challenge – Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – For the Love of Plants
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Friends or Superhero
• Whimsy Stamp Inspirational Challenge # 83 – Anything but asquare card

That’s all for today. Thanks for stopping by and see you later.