OCC Not Big on Pink

How was everyone's week? Mine was pretty good! We had our first assembly at school on Thursday, and the kiddos sang great :) They only had 2 music classes to learn 2 new songs, so I'm very happy with how they did!

I'm here with this week's challenge at Our Creative Corner. My buddy Sharon is challenging everyone make a card with blue as the dominant color, and only a hint of pink. You also need to incorporate texture (ribbon, floss, etc) and metal.

Challenges with many requirements always stump me! I don't often like to pile things onto my cards. I kind of cheated with the metal....I used a super thin piece of jewelry wire and strung it between my 2 strands of embroidery floss:

This card is mini- only 3.5" square. So it is getting linked up with CAS-ual Fridays for their mini card challenge. And I'm really getting challenge crazy with this one (sorry to do that to you, I don't usually do this)- I'm submitting it to Lily Pad Cards and the Moxie Fab World.

Oh- and one more curveball- I made another version of the card, and I don't know which I prefer! Here's the softer version:

Hope you choose to play along with us at Our Creative Corner!

FYI Guest Designer

I'm so happy that due to winning one of their challenges, I was asked to guest-design at For Your Inspiration! I love drawing inspiration from gorgeous photos, like the one below:

The water and colors are just so pretty! I used the bright blue, teal green, and brown to add stripes to my card, layered in the same order as the photo. The boat is up on foam tape, and (I hope you can see it) there is an embossed cloud on the left side of the white cardstock panel. You can really see the dimension in person. I did it by adhering 2 pieces of cardstock together and cutting out the cloud shape. Then I ran the cloud and cardstock through my die cutter as you would with an embossing plate.

Not sure what the "congratulations" is for....maybe "congrats on your new boat?" I really only used that sentiment because it was still on my crafting table from another project!

Hope you join the lovely ladies at FYI!

Some Birdy Loves You

One more card for today....

Today has been a great day for 2 reasons: First, I got my PTI order that I placed with a birthday gift card. Free crafting goodies are always awesome! The other reason will be explained later in this post....

I adore the image above, which is this week's Tuesday Trigger. The abundance of white, the bright colors in bold patterns, and the delicate nature of the photo. I tried to incorporate all of these in my card:

My sentiment is from My Thoughts Exactly. Cute, huh? The lovely Alyssa (the owner) sent the DT some papers from the Echo Park Springtime Collection a few weeks ago, and I have been having a great time using them! Makes me wish we weren't approaching autumn.

Now...onto the 2nd reason why today was a great day. And it requires a bit of explaining (sorry for the long post). Some of this you might remember me mentioning a while ago:

Randomly one day I made a font from my handwriting. Kind of sloppy handwriting too- it was more of an experiment to see if it would work. It did, and I linked it up to dafont.com - check it out here - to see if anyone would download it. Many people did! Then one day I got an email from some woman who I never heard of making a movie for a film company I never heard of, and she offered me $ to let her use my font in her movie. "Sure!"

That was over a year ago, I think. Today, Dave and I were checking to see what was on the instant streaming for Netflix, and there was the movie!! Lifted. So I figured my font would be used for the title only, but it was used for all of the opening credits too!! It was so bizarre to see, since it is my handwriting. As if I went up to the TV and scribbled it there myself!

Here's a pic I took of the TV so you can see the font in action:

Then we fast forwarded to the ending, just to see if it was used any more. It was not, but something else was there. After the long list of "special thanks," the very last name listed is "Jenny Rzasa."
I figure I'm credited as "Jenny" since that's what I named the font. Although I now go by Jen, I still have some high school and college friends who call me Jenny. By the way, I haven't watched the movie yet- I hope it's decent!

Thanks for sitting through all of that! I was just so excited I had to share. :)

Call Me!

Good morning...it's DT Wednesday for SP and Company stamps! There have been some great stamps released this month, you should check them out! I've been working with the Bold Houndstooth Background:

It's a nice big pattern, which I love. It's graphic without being too busy. Without further ado, here's my card:





I decided to make a playing card (for the Moxie fab World challenge)- I cut out a piece of white cardstock, rounded the corners, stamped the old-fashioned telephone, and added hand-cut felt hearts. I think it's pretty cute!

AND DON'T FORGET....the deadline is looming for the first challenge over at Young Crafters Unite. We have some fabulous entries from the young and young at heart. I hope you decide to join us!

SP and Co September Blog Hop- RELEASE DAY!

(for my OCC post, please scroll down!)

Welcome to the release day of the new SP and Co September stamps!

This month's color is pink. Join us as we share pink projects using brand new SP and Company stamps. Not only does the Design Team get to play with this color, but YOU do too! After you're done hopping around today, make sure you play along with this month's pink challenge (click here for details) for a chance to win some awesome SP and Company prizes! And don't forget that the random prize patrol is watching so leave a comment on every blog each day to be eligible for the prizes!!

Today I am using the Bold Houndstooth Background:

Although you can't tell from the card I made, this stamp is huge! I actually don't even have an acrylic block large enough for the whole length of the stamp, hehe.

I tried to mix up some different patterns on this card, so I paired the houndstooth with stripes and raindrops. The flag was quick and easy to make- I used a toothpick as the base (an idea I got from this week's create: cards challenge)

Everyone on the DT is posting today, so head back to the SP blog so you can check it out!

OCC Wonderful Windows

Good morning! I'm here with a new card for this week's challenge at Our Creative Corner! Holly, our wonderful hostess, wants to see window cards!

Using the color scheme from ColourQ (go to their blog to check it out!), I made an almost one-layer card with a scalloped window cutout. Sorry that I used these flowers again...I only own one set of floral stamps (these beauties are from WPlus9). I got some gift cards for my birthday, so I'll definitely be buying more floral outline stamps!

I started by stamping the outline in black on the outside of the card, then was hoping to match up the image on the inside. I was all ready to stamp the inner image, when I noticed that I had smudged black ink on the cardstock. D'oh! I ended up having to stamp on a separate piece of cardstock to adhere to the inside of the card, which is why I mentioned earlier that it is an almost one-layer card. I also colored the flowers so that you can see the purples and greens through the window. I finished by cutting a small slit in the fold to thread the ribbon through.
I hope you make a window card this week, and link it up at Our Creative Corner!

Lawnscaping Blog Hop

Happy Friday! Welcome to the first Lawnscaping blog hop! When I found out that they were having a hop, I knew I had to sign up. Hopefully you got here via Danielle's blog- if not, you can always go back to Lawnscaping to start from the beginning.

The theme of the blog hop is holiday cards! I wish I had some of the awesome new Halloween stamps from Lawn Fawn, but since I don't I turned to my trusty winter holiday sets.

I wanted to make a card that you could give to someone during the holidays that is not centered around Christmas. I have a few friends who do not celebrate Christmas, and I always seem to struggle with making cards for them. I love that by using a rainbow of colors the card can be for any holiday.


I colored the present with colored pencils, and accented it with white gel pen.

Make sure to leave comments at all of the blogs because there will be fantastic prizes given to random commenters!

The next stop is Samantha. Have fun, and don't forget to stop by Lawnscaping to find out more about the prizes!