I Wheelie Want to Ride my Bicycle!

I miss riding my bike...

My best friends and I were riding regularly and we got off track with our busy lives. As soon as the time changes, I'm hitting the road again and I'm dragging them with me!

I made this a birthday card for the crazy chick in sunglasses ⬆! She's a year older and wiser and we need our bodies to stay in shape for all the crazy stuff we still want to do!

Club Scrap card stock and JFF Stamp images. You'll find the complete supplies list at the end of this post.

Inside is a spinner feature!

Jennifer McGuire recently published this Youtube tutorial and I couldn't resist making one for myself!

https://youtu.be/UyrDysniI44

Click HERE to check out the new JFF monthly challenge that starts today and join us for a chance to win a gift certificate to shop at JFF Stamps!

I'll look for you in the gallery!

SUPPLIES LIST:

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"Off the Cuff" Art Journal

I have done something I've never done before...winged it making a video tutorial!

https://youtu.be/7a32lk82HDw

I needed a new art journal and this idea blossomed after I saw Johanna Clough's journal video and Club Scrap's Card Keeper tutorial. My handmade journal is a combination of both bookbinding methods and I LOVE how it turned out!

I used card stock and embellishments from the new January 2019 Mumbai collection from Club Scrap and decorated the cover with JFF Rubber Stamps Stamptangle Tree image and Faded Art word art for a beautiful pairing! (I'll include links to all available products in the supplies list at the end of this post.)

Those resin jewels really made the tree come alive!

I am so pleased with how the elastic binding turned out. The signatures slipped in and out of them so easily AND they're pretty too.

Ten signatures with three sheets each gives me TONS of real estate for future art journaling techniques!

Be sure to check out my video if you want to whip one up for yourself. I finished this project in about an hour. If I can do it, so can you (especially since you've got the instructions and the supplies list)!

Thanks for stopping by!

SUPPLIES LIST:

Just For FunCraft Supplies, Rubber... [ JFF ] Just For FunCraft Supplies, Rubber... [ JFF ] Mumbai Page Kit [ CLB ] Mumbai Resin Jewels [ CLB ] 3x14 Acrylic Ruler [ CLB ] Bookbinding Glue 8 oz. [ CLB ] CS Watermark Ink Pad [ CLB ] Artlicious - Foam Paint Brush Value... [ AMZUS ] Pack of 100 1-Inch Foam Paint Brush... [ AMZUS ] Fiskars - Bone Folder [ SBC | AMZUS ] Couture Creations NON STICK CRAFT MAT... [ SSS ] RL Treats Non-Stick Sheet Teflon Mat... [ AMZUS ] Tonic Studios Guillotine Paper... [ AMZUS | ART | SSS ] We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile... [ AMZUS | SBC ] Tonic Studios - Tim Holtz - Stamp... [ SBC | AMZUS | ART | SSS ] Ranger Perfect Pearls JEWELS Kit... [ SSS ] EK tools Craft Tweezers, New Package [ AMZUS | SSS ] Bulk Buy: Tonic Studios Tim Holtz... [ AMZUS | SSS ] We R Memory Keepers CRAFT KNIFE Tool... [ SSS | SBC ] Crafter's Companion HEAT GUN MODEL... [ SSS ] Marvy Embossing Heat Tool Uchida 2500... [ AMZUS ] Ranger Embossing Powder, 0.56-Ounce... [ AMZUS | SSS | SBC ]

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Drawing a Blank? Use a Sketch!

Sometimes all it takes is a little spark of creativity and it's time to celebrate!

I had a stack of paper, a bin of stamps and I drew a blank. I took a Facebook break and this sketch challenge popped up in my feed.

It was just what I needed! I even stepped out of my comfort zone and handwrote the sentiment with a Perfect Medium pen and some white embossing powder.

I used the JFF Rubber Stamps small Stamptangle Star for my focal image, heat embossed with red glitter embossing powder and made some watercolor out of gold Perfect Pearls.

I finished off my card with a glittery brad, foil stars and card stock  from the Club Scrap July 2018 Firecracker kit.

The JFF Rubber Stamps monthly challenge is going on now and our theme for July is Red, White and Blue!

Make something festive and share it with us for a chance to win a gift certificate to shop in the JFF Rubber Stamps online store! I'll look for you at the Red, White and Blue linky party!

CHALLENGES ENTERED:

CAS-ual Fridays #203 Heat Embossing! 

Shopping Our Stash #361 Geometric Patterns

Club Scrap 07/18 Card Sketch Challenge

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Rolling with my Peeps

I love a good joke, especially the kind that evokes a good belly laugh. You know, the side splitting guffaw, tears running and you can't breathe laughter? I feel euphoric after a good laugh and always want more. My sister and I would try to make each other laugh all the time when we were kids, especially in church or other places where it was "inappropriate"! We would get the biggest kick out of making my straitlaced grandparents laugh. Memaw would have to tell Papaw to calm down! My kids knew from an early age, all they had to do was make us laugh and all would be right with our world. My husband says that he asked me out a second time because I laughed at his cheesy pickup line AND I had big boobs. *shrug* Laughter truly is good for the soul!

This is my kind of humor...



It reminds me of the videos of Gramma and Ginga!

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-fcv-aSRlk]

I recreated this cartoon on an Easter card. I don't like marshmallow peeps, yuck, but they are a kitschy celebration of spring. I won't eat them, but I'll make art with them!



The new challenge is up at Just for Fun Rubber Stamps and the theme is die cuts. I dusted off my Cuttlebug and cut the background panels using one of STAMPloration's crazy running stitch rectangle dies and trimmed the green panel with Lawn Fawn's stitched hillside borders.  I stamped the blue background panel with JFF Rubber Stamps seashore grass silhouette for depth. The marshmallow bunnies were stamped on Club Scrap® card stock (don't you love the patterned paper from the Delft collection?) and trimmed with detail scissors. I added some Diamond stickles for sparkle and a little bowtie that was an embellishment in Club Scrap® 's Trattoria kit. I added a three-part bow to make things a little more festive. (Watch this video to view the steps to create a perfect three-part bow for yourself!)

I created the speech bubbles in Photoshop Elements using digital elements from Club Scrap® 's Comics kit, printed them on white card stock and trimmed with detail scissors.



I like to add dimension with a little foam tape, so I popped up the Happy Easter speech bubble and dapper bunny with a few pieces.



I had a leftover bunny, so I gave him an Easter makeover. May I present...Sir Peepsalot!



My crochet skills came in handy! I chain stitched some gold wired string I had in my ribbon basket and added an over sized egg with some stickles to complete the necklace. My little Easter rapper needed some sunglasses, and the Tim Holtz Crazy Things stamp set had the perfect pair!

Link up on the Just For Fun Rubber Stamps blog with your die cut creation for a chance to win a gift certificate to shop at JFF Stamps! I'll look for you in the gallery!

Life is better when you're laughing! ♥

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Just the Right Shoes

I am a shoe buying addict. I'm selective about the style, but I'll buy all the colors that are available if the style complements my feet. SHHHH! I have bunions and when I find just the right shoes, I snatch them up! I've learned to choose comfort over style. The turning point for me was a hard lesson on my 40th birthday. My sisters took me to Las Vegas and had quite an agenda planned that required LOTS of walking.



I packed some cute heels to wear out and a brand new pair of Nike's for trekking around...I suppose I should have broken them in first. I ended up with blisters on my heels after the first day, so I bought these while we were out and about.



I wore them the first night out. Vanity=Bad mistake. Now I had blisters between my big toes and the bottoms of my feet were numb! In desperation, I bought these.



At least I could walk without limping, though I ended up with plantar fasciitis for a year! Funny what you notice when your feet hurt...nothing but your feet. All I could think about was taking the next step! On our last night out, as we walked the 20 minute walk from our hotel to Caesar's palace, I enviously watched a group of twenty somethings walking in front of us in their ridiculously high heels and spray tanned legs. BUT, the tables were turned at 3:00 AM! That same group of girls were trudging back across the street, barefoot with dirty black feet, with the pretty heels dangling from tired fingers. I was thankful for my blisters that prevented wearing style over comfort! I still appreciate a pretty pair of shoes when I'm shopping though. I'll "ooohh and aaahh" over them, maybe even try them on, but they aren't coming home with me. I'll stick with my favorite pair of Birkenstocks and a pedicure and I'm good to go!

This sweet little creation is just the right shoe. It's pretty and won't cause blisters!

[caption id="attachment_12262" align="alignnone" width="4833"] Club Scrap® card stock and gems from the December 2017 A Night at the Met Deluxe kit.[/caption]

I found this template from Everyday Parties  on Pinterest. I just printed it on copy paper and traced it onto card stock using a sheet of carbon tracing paper. I trimmed out the pieces, scored on the dotted lines, folded and glued it together. The hardest part was choosing card stock!



I dressed it up a bit with a glamorous "shoe clip". This dragonfly stamp image is part of the stamptangle line from Just For Fun Rubber Stamps. The detail is just gorgeous!



Today's post is my design team contribution for the January Color Challenge on the Just For Fun Rubber Stamps blog.



Make something festive and link up for a chance to win a gift certificate to shop in the JFF Stamps online store! I'll look for you in the gallery!



SUPPLIES USED:

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Club Scrap®  A Night at the Met Deluxe kit

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