End of Summer Soiree - August '19

End of Summer???

Not for this girl, as much as I love fall I am not ready to let go of the summer weather just yet, we waited too long for it! However it is the last day of the month and time for the August The 12 Kits of Occasions!

As this posts I am actually moving my daughter back up to Sudbury for her 5th and final year. She is doing a ConEd program which is a 5 year program working on both her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and her Bachelor of Education at the same time. So this year is called her Pro Year and she was only invited to complete this year if she kept honours standing. So mom's bragging pants on, I am so proud of my girl!

As for this months The 12 Kits of Occasions we had a lovely kit inspired by designer Michelle Leone! Such a unique colour combination and I was able to create 5 cards and still have some leftovers to CASE some of my teammates! However, I am only able to share 3 with you today. The other two I didn't have time to photograph with all the frenzy of packing!

Here are the cards that I created this month:

Please visit the 12 Kits of Occasions blog to see what the rest of the team has done with the same products!

I'll return Sunday with my remaining cards, hope you are having a fantastic Labor Day weekend!

Haunted Cozy Cottage

Hi there, I'm up on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today with a couple of cards showcasing the brand new Cozy Cottage Birdhouse die set and the Sweet Gingerbread add on.

Details of my instructions and how I made this card are on the Jillian Vance Design blog today.

I hope you pop over to see me!
Have a great day!

Tag You're It #94 - REMINDER

Hi there and Happy Friday!

This week just flew by, I find once we hit August the days seem to speed up.

There is still time to play along with Tag You're It Challenge #94. You have until Wednesday, August 28th at 9:00 am EST to link up.

Here is my tag for the reminder post today!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Designs with Large Sentiments

Hi there, I'm up on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today with a couple of cards showcasing the brand new Autumn Pumpkin and Elegant Christmas 6" x 8" stamp sets along with a handmade stencil using the Merry Mistletoe die set.

...another one for my Christmas card stash. I'm getting there slowly but surely!

To learn how I created these two cards head over to the Jillian Vance Design Blog to read all about it.  Thanks so much for stopping in today!

No One Like You + GIVEAWAY!

Happy Monday!

I have a card and a GIVEAWAY up on the Birch Press Design blog today!

My card features two stamp sets from the brand new release!

Head over the Birch Press Design blog today to find out have you have two chances for today's giveaway!

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #58 - Interactive

When I saw that Lawn Fanatics Challenge #58 was Interactive Cards I knew I wanted to make another card with the Magic Picture Changer die! 

This Sunday my parents will be celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary! Something no many people are fortunate to celebrate. My mom is particularly fond of sweet images on cards and the Lawn Fawn Happy Wedding stamp set is loaded with them. 

This card is ready to go with me on Sunday when the whole family is getting together to celebrate my parents for reaching this milestone.  This Sunday, August 18th, happens to be my wedding anniversary! My hubby and I are celebrating our 29th!  This is the card I made for my parents!

For my interactive card I stamped and coloured the tweet couple from Happy Wedding on to the top of the wedding card in the front magic slider frame. For the image my Magic Picture Changer was going to reveal I stamped two champagne glasses also from the Happy Wedding stamp set. After I stamped them I felt I needed some more colour so I created two masks for the champagne glasses on full back Post-it notes. I covered the images and ink blended some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink around them. I cut the two pieces of the picture changer and assembled the mechanism with my teflon bone folder and double sided tape. To learn how to assemble the magic picture changer check out this VIDEO. 

I cut the frame from the magic picture changer add on using Peacock cardstock. Then the sentiment was put together with the word 'cheers' from Let's Bokeh and then I built the remaining of the sentiment using Smitty's ABC's alphabet stamp set--both were white embossed. The frame was adhered with foam tape to my card base that was matted with paper from the Perfectly Plaid Rainbow 6" x 6" paper pack (retired).

If you haven't tried the Magic Picture Changer die yet you really should. I have made quite a few of these now and i can almost do it without a refresher from the video now--lol. 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Jillian Vance Design Merry Mistletoe - Day 1

Welcome to Day 1 of the new Jillian Vance Design Christmas Release!

Every day this week there something going on over on the Jillian Vance Design blog!
All the details about how you can Pre Order the new release or enter the Contests each day for your chance to win are down at the bottom of today's post! 

Today I am introducing the Merry Mistletoe die set as well as the Merry Kissmas stamp set and the Sweet Gingerbread add on die set. during our Tech Week. Every day this week one of the Set Designers (design team) will be introducing some of the new release products.

...a closer look at all the layers of this die set.

So how can you get your hands on the new release?

Pre-orders start on Tuesday August 13th and continue until the 18th, during the Pre-Order period shipping is FREE.  Orders will start shipping on Monday August 19th on a first in basis. You may order as many times as you like during that Pre-Order period and we will ship them together.  There is also a VIP package which is ALL of the new releases at a discounted price of 20% off MSRP and free shipping!!!

You have a chance each day of Tech Week to win something from the new release! Today you have a chance to win the Merry Mistletoe dies set and the Merry Kissmas stamp set through the Rafflecopter widget on the Jillian Vance Design blog!

Click HERE to head over to Jillian Vance Design to shop the new release and go to the blog for your chance to win!

Back to School

Happy Friday!

I have a post up on the Birch Press Design blog today using the Lingo Alphabet craft dies to make my own sentiment for my card. The options are endless for sentiments on your projects with this set! I hope you pop over to have a closer look at my card!

Daisy Shaker

I'm up of the Jillian Vance Design blog today with my Tuesday feature post. This week I am showing you another way to use the Delightful Daisy Create a Card Dies, this time to create a shaker!

Head over to see what I used and what I did to create this fun sparkly card!