Coffee & Cameras

 

My Besties pre-colored image

Rose Paperclips & Toothpick Banners from stash

Freshly Made Sketch #57

Be safe tonight if you're going out.

:) Janis

Have an Ice Day!

  Hello my friends!

I'm not real happy with this card, but I'm going to throw it up here on the blog anyway. 

Ingredients:

Ice Skate from Cricut library

Sentiment from Cardz TV Stamps

Sentiment die from My Creative Time

Martha Stewart Snowflake punch

Background papers from Hobby Lobby

Join in the fun and link up your projects this week at 

Crafting Happiness Challenges.

Baby It's Cold Outside!

:) Janis

Crafting Happiness Challenges #77 New Year or Any Celebration

 Hello my friends!
Crafting Happiness Challenges
This week - New Year or Any Celebration

Ingredients:

Cricut cartridge, Teddy Bear Parade

Carta Bella, Snow Much Fun pattern papers

Stitched Rounded dies - Amazon

Inking around the edges

Cardz TV Stamps, Very Merry stamp set

Pearls

Foam tape

Join in the fun and link up your projects this week at 

Crafting Happiness Challenges.

Enter my de-stash give away!

Details HERE

Happy New Year!

:) Janis

Sketch Week Continues! Card Creation # 6

Enter my de-stash give away!

Details HERE

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My Besties pre-colored image

Freshly Made Sketch #7

Thanks for visiting!

:) Janis

Sketch Week Continues! Card Creation #5

 

My Besties pre-colored image

Freshly Made Sketch #5

Enjoy the quiet of the weekend.

:) Janis

Sketch Week! Card Creation #4

 MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

My Besties precolored image

Mojo Monday Sketch #493

Have a very Merry Christmas!

:) Janis

Challenges:

A Perfect Time to Craft

Creations in Pink

Pattie's Creations

Color It Create It Show It Off

Classic Design

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas

Crafty Hazelnut's Pattern Paper

Scrapping 4 Fun

Sketch Week! Card Creations #3

 Merry Christmas Eve!!

My Besties pre-colored image

Mojo Monday Sketch #492

Merry Christmas!

:) Janis

Challenges:

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends

Crafty Gals Corner

Creative Knockouts

Crafty Hazelnut Christmas Ch

A Perfect Time to Craft

Paper Funday

Crafty Hazelnut Pattern Paper Ch

Classic Design Ch

Sketch Week! Card Creations #2

 Just a couple more days!

And then HO HO HO

My Besties pre-colored image

Mojo Monday Sketch #491

Enjoy your day and the rest of the week.

Merry Christmas!

:) Janis

Challenges:

Lil Red Wagon

Penny's

A Perfect Time To Craft

Crafty Hazelnut's Pattern Paper Challenges

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenges

Classic Design Challenge

Cards Galore

Besties Challenge

Color It Create It Show It Off

12 Months of Christmas

Creative Crafter Challenge

Sweet Happy New Year

 Hi, friends!

This year is about over, and a new one about to begin.

Ingredients:

Chalked background (so easy and fun)

My Besties pre-colored image

Cardz TV Mini Messages

Stitched dies

Gold Shimmer Ribbon (Amazon)

pattern papers and gems from a pocket letter swap I did (I love the colors!)

I chalked the background. I used to do this all the time, and just forgot about it until today when the white background was begging me to put some chalk on it.

I used pink, green, blue, and lavender. 

Thanks for visiting!

STAY WARM and safe this week if traveling.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

:) Janis

Challenges:

Sweet Stamps Chs

Creative Moments

Holly & Ivy

Through the Craft Room Door

Tuesday Throwdown

A Perfect Time to Craft

Crafty Hazelnut Pattern Paper

Crafty Hazelnut Christmas

Crafting Happiness Challenges #76 - Anything Goes

 Hello my friends!
Crafting Happiness Challenges
This week - Anything Goes

Sketch Week on my blog!

Ingredients:

Fancy Pants 6x6, Home for Christmas

Cricut Teddy Bear Parade cartridge

Freshly Made Sketches #463

I also used 52 Christmas Card Throwdown's April theme: Forest/Deer,

  . 

Join in the fun and link up your projects this week at 

Crafting Happiness Challenges.

Merry Christmas!

Hohoho

:) Janis

Challenges:

Fezziwigs Festive Frolics

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas

Merry Little Christmas

12 Months of Christmas

Jingle Belles Rock

Holly & Ivy

ABC Christmas (Y-your favorite things - mine is animals)

2 Critter Crafty Crazies

Crafty Animals

Dream Valley

Creative Crafters

Dear Santa

 Hi! Hope y'all are having a really good December!

This is a cute little cutting file created by Lori Whitlock. I will admit, I'm awful putting together new things without a tutorial. This file is new, and I didn't see a tutorial for it. I had so much extra cut out paper that I have no idea how this thing is suppose to go together. I just winged it and trashed the leftover cuts.

But it's still CUTE!

You can put something in the drawer and a tag, note, or gift card in the snowman envelope holder thingie.

Thanks for visiting with me today and for always leaving me encouraging comments. I love reading your comments! They always make me smile.

We will be working on the house this weekend. More painting, sawing, sanding... It's suppose to get in the 20's tonight. We don't have central air and heat there, just a few gas heaters in a few different rooms. I hope all of our blankets, layered clothing, and sweaters keep us warm, or I may just park out in from the gas heater and not move at all. It's amazing how stiff I am in the cold. Probably a lot to do with age and arthritis. :)

One of our daughters is eloping this weekend and spending their honeymoon at Disney. We are throwing them a big party when they get back. I'm very much looking forward to that event. 

Enjoy your weekend! Stay warm!

:) Janis

Challenges:

Christmas Cards All Year Round

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Ch

Merry Little Christmas Ch

Cardz TV

Scrapping for Fun

Crafty Hazelnut Pattern Paper

Crafty Creations

Cardz 4 Guyz

A Bit More Time to Craft

Classic Design Team Challenge

Crafts Galore Encore

Stinkin' Cute

Santa is Coming to Town

 

Ingredients:

Kraft card base

Cricut card file from library

This was so easy! 

Santa and his stack of gifts is all one base that you build the layers on. 

Merry Christmas!

:) Janis

Challenges:

Penny's Challenges

Crafty Creations

Createful Hearts

A Perfect Time to Craft

Crafty Hazelnut Christmas Chs

Hug in a Mug

 

Ingredients:

Miss Kate Cuttables pattern papers

Cardz TV Stamps, Hug in a Mug

Teddy Bear Parade, Cricut library

Stitched oval dies

Foam Tape

Paper Play Sketches #8

I'm playing along at 52 Christmas Cards Countdown. Their theme is to pick any of their previous challenges. 

 

I chose a challenge they had in October - Winter Sweaters. :) 

Thanks for visiting!

:) Janis

Challenges:

Creative Moments

Holly & Ivy

Through the Craft Room Door

A Perfect Time To Craft

Crafty Hazelnut Pattern Paper Challenge

Crafty Hazelnut Christmas 

Merry Little Christmas Challenge

The 12 Months of Christmas

Jingle Belles

Christmas 24

Crafting Happiness Challenges #75

 Hi, crafters!

Crafting Happiness Challenges
This week's theme:
Ch# 75 - Christmas Trees

Today I have a pocket letter to share with you made of Christmas Tree tags. The recipient can remove the tags and actually use them on gifts this season! :) 

Ingredients:

Pocket letter sleeve (baseball card size sleeve)

Jingle Bell

Christmas Tree charm on binding

Gold shimmer ribbon

Lots of gems and pearls

Lawn Fawn, landscape stitched die

Sequins

Foam tape to adhere trees

Simon Says Stamp, Happy Holidays sentiment stamp

Snowflake and tree cut with images from the Cricut library

Come play at Crafting Happiness Challenges this week!

Enjoy your day!

Merry Christmas!

:) Janis

Merry & Bright

 Hi! Can you believe I'm on a streak of daily projects. Woo Hoo!

Ingredients:

Teddy Bear Parade Cricut cartridge

Tag and background cut from Silhouette library

Miss Kate Cuttables snowing pattern paper

Sentiment stamp from stash

Sequins

Foam Dots

Ribbon

Freshly Made Sketches #465

HoHoHo!

:) Janis

Challenges:
Freshly Made Sketches #465

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends

Crafty Gals Corner

https://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/

http://throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.com/

http://paperfundaychallenges.blogspot.com/

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/

Gnome Snow Globe Card

 Hi, everyone!

I hope y'all are having a wonderful December so far.

This little booger took me a bit to create.

It wasn't hard, just a new fold style.

Lori Whitlock has wonderful tutorial videos.

(Thank you, Lori!)

View from looking down on this 3D Snow Globe card.

And it folds nicely for A2 envelopes!

The base can fold up or down

(down shown here).

Lori's video said down was preferred for

A2 envelope mailing.

Ingredients:

Lori Whitlock Gnome Snow Globe box card

Scrap pattern papers

Foam dots for snowflakes

Tada! I did it! I didn't think I'd be able to figure this out, but thanks to Lori Whitlocks tutorial video, I got it done!

Merry Christmas!

:) Janis

Challenges:

https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/

http://12monthsofchristmaslinkup.blogspot.com/

http://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/

http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com/

http://thehollyandivychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/

https://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/

http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/

http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/

http://craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com/

Try Stampin' On Tuesday Challenge #487

There is a new challenge starting today over at 

Try Stampin' On Tuesday. 

(You do not have to have any stamping on your project)

My Design Team project:

Digital Delights by Louby Loo pre-colored image
Miss Kate Cuttables pattern papers
Cardz TV Stamps for sentiment
Scalloped scallop border punch

And the sketch...

Thanks for visiting with me today.

Hugs! 

:) Janis

I Come BEARing Gifts

 Hi, crafters!

Ingredients:

Cricut, Teddy Bear Parade

MFT Polar Bear Pals

Patten paper

Stitched die for landscape snow drift

gems

foam tape to adhere image

Crafting Happiness Challenge this week is

MOSTLY RED

Come play along!

HO HO HO
:) Janis

Christmas Pocket Letter

Hi, everyone!

Today starts a new challenge over at...

LET'S CRAFT AND CREATE

The theme for this month's challenge is:

ANYTHING GOES + (OPTION)

SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN

My Design Team project:

Christmas Pocket Letter

Supplies:

Pocket Letter page

My Besties pocket fillers and images

washi tape

ribbons

gems

stamps and punches

buttons

I hope to see your project linked up at 

LET'S CRAFT AND CREATE 

for a chance to grab a top 3 spot 

or win this month's prize!

Hugs! 

:) Janis

Snow Much Fun

 Hi! Can you believe it? I'm posting a project 2 days in a row. It's been a while since I've been able to do that. But don't get used to it. Things are still busy over here. LOL

Ingredients:

Adorable image from Imagine That Digistamp
Raymond's Snowman
Stampin' Up old die for sentiment backing

SU dimensionals for image and sentiment

Ribbon from.. no idea

6x6 paper pad, Home for Christmas (Fancy Pants Designs)

SU Dapper Denim cardstock

Freshly Made Sketch #219

This project created especially for the Imagine That Progressive Challenge.

Merry Christmas!

:) Janis

Christmas Tags Pocket Letter

 This week I have a Christmas Tags Pocket letter to share with you!  This is for my TAG challenge over at Crafting Happiness Challenges.

Ingredients:

Pocket Letter Base

Tag Metal Die

Sheer Ribbon

My Besties images

Stamped messages

Decorative wooden buttons

Gold embellishments

Enjoy your day.

:) Janis

Challenges:

Tag Tuesday

Creative Moments

Holly and Ivy

http://sparklesforumchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/

https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/

http://craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com/

Merry Christmas!

 Who had a fabulous Thanksgiving?!

We stayed home (just the 3 of us) and created a Whole Foods, Plant Based meal. Last year we were vegan too, but I did cheat a little with turkey and ham. 

So.... so much has been going on. You've probably noticed I'm not posting daily like I have for years. Well, we have moved (temporarily) just so we can work on the house easier without living in it.

Our darling, Ginger, passed away on November 20th. She was 6 years old. My heart is broken. I was able to pick up her ashes a couple of days ago.

And... this has nothing to do with why I've been busy, but I'm so happy that I've lost over 40 pounds. 

Now... on to some crafty funness...

Adorable image from Imagine That Digistamp
Marleen's Christmas Stocking
Sizzix die for goody pocket
Jingle Bell (from Santa's sleigh that fell off last year and rollled down our roof into the snow)
Stitched dies from Amazon
Ribbon from stash
Krispy Kreme DOUGHNUTS card (from our grandson's fundraiser)
Who doesn't LOVE doughnuts?!

This project created especially for the Imagine That Progressive Challenge.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, everyone.
Hugs!
:) Janis

Try Stampin' On Tuesday Sketch 485

There is a new challenge starting today over at 

Try Stampin' On Tuesday. 

(You do not have to have any stamping on your project)

My Design Team project:

Digital Delights by Louby Loo image

Stitched dies
Cardz TV Stamps for sentiment
Echo Park, A Perfect Christmas 6x6 paper pad

And the sketch...

Thanks for visiting with me today.

Hugs! 

:) Janis

Thanksgiving Pocket Letter

 Hi, everyone!

Today begins a new challenge over at my blog
Crafting Happiness Challenges.

Ch# 23 Turkey and / or Pilgrims

I decided to make a pocket letter for this challenge. I sat down and made a few of these with using some of the same Cricut cuts and then adding a little bit of different flare and papers to each one. I'm just so burnt out on card making. I still make them, but it's time to move on to something else for a while.

Supplies:
Cricut cuts
Sheer Ribbon
Extra Thick Twine
Ribbon
Pattern Papers
Washi Tape
Pocket Letter Page

Thanks for visiting with me today.

I so enjoy reading all of the comments you leave me.
Would love to hear from you today.

Enjoy your day,
:) Janis