Winter Wishes with Joy Clair

I've got a card up over at Joy Clair blog today, be sure to check the blog out for the details!

Thanks for stopping by, hope you are having a wonderful season! 

Monica

Jesus is the Reason with Joy Clair

Today I'm posting for Joy Clair and using Vintage Christmas Ornaments. I love this set!

Be sure to stop over at the blog here to see all the details of the card! 
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Monica

ATSM #321- Anything Goes

It's time for anything goes with Addicted to stamps and more! Here is my card for the challenge.

I saw sketch online and used that as my starting point for my card. I found some pattern paper that I thought would work well with Tea Time stamp set from Joy Clair I wanted to use. I started to leave the background plain, but felt that it needed a little something. So I used an embossing folder that reminded me of steam from a hot cup of tea or coffee. 

Thanks for stopping by hope you have a great day!

Monica

MLC dec- Christmas Truck

It's time for another Merry Little Christmas challenge and as always this months theme is Anything goes. Here is my card for this month. 

I was going through some boxes and ran across this stamp and thought it was a great time to use it again! Love this little truck with it's door wreath and tree in the back. I wanted to keep it pretty simple so I added some pattern paper and colored only the tree and wreath to coordinate. Adding a little sparkle with the ornaments.

Hope you decide to join us over at MLC challenge blog and share your Christmas projects, we love to see them! Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Monica

SID Dec sketch- 3 deer

Stick it Downs December Card sketch is so cute!

Loved the deer so I kept them for my card as well.

I stamped before die cutting them, then layered them on the main panel. I layered both the punched border piece and panel on to the card base to finish the card.

Hope you stop by the blog and join in one, two or all three of our December Sketches! Can't wait to see what you share with us over at the SID Blog! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Monica

Living water with Joy Clair

I'm sharing two projects over on the Joy Clair blog today using Living Water. My first project is this card....

My second project is a bible journal page with the same set.

To see all the details on the projects visit my post on the Joy Clair blog.Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment or follow me for blog updates! Have a great day!

Monica 

Supplies:

Joy Clair- Living Water

Perfect Pearls- Heirloom Gold, Forever Blue and Cappucinno

Lawn Fawn- Woodgrain backdrop

VersaFine Clair

Prismacolor Pencils

SID- nov sketch- Winter Wonderland

Today I have a card for the Nov sketch (scene above) for the Stick It Down challenge. Here is my card based on the sketch.

My son "bought" me the glitter in his class store so I made sure to use it on my card. Absolutely love the color he chose for me and all the sparkle!

Thanks for stopping by! Hope to see you play along with us over at Stick it Down!

Monica

A holly Jolly ornament with Joy Clair

Hello and here is quick peek at my card for Joy Clair today!

To see all the details on the projects visit my post on the Joy Clair blog. I want to let you know about the Joy Clair sale going on until the end of the month! Many stamps are half off, just follow this link here to check them out.  



Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment or follow me for blog updates! Have a great day!

Monica 

Christmas Showcase with Joy Clair

Today is a special post at the Joy Clair blog ... it's all about Christmas and we are all showcasing newer Christmas products from Joy Clair. For my card I used Penguin Tropical Christmas and Christmas Lights Background.

I started by stamping the lights on one layer and my tree with some lights on it on my main panel. I then stamped the palms and coconuts on a scrap piece before coloring them copics..

I then colored the tree on my main panel and used a pen to darken my light strings. Then stamped the penguin and his shorts. I did color the lights red although I don't show it in this picture. Once everything was colored I then fussy cut all the palms and coconuts from the scrap.

After I stamped my sentiment I began layering all the palm on my tree. I used liquid glue at the base and foam tape towards the top to create some dimension on the tree. For the coconuts I glued the first on flat while popping the last two on with foam tape.

After I adhered the light background to the cardbase I used some stickles to add some sparkle, once they were dry I added the rest of my layers. I didn't feel the background lights gave it enough Christmas Sparkle so added some red stickles to the lights on the front of my card and called it done!

Be sure to check out what my teammates have made for the event at the blog here. Thanks as always for stopping by and have a great day!

Monica

Supplies:

Joy Clair- Penguin Tropical Christmas and Christmas Lights Background

Copics

Ranger- Stickles

Recollections- Red, Black and white Cardstock

Merry Little Christmas #4

This card is for the Merry Little Christmas challenge blog. I mix and matched companies on todays card, I just love it when I use older products from my stash with newer.

I really wanted to use the new embossing folder from Stampin' Up, so I had grabbed a scrap just to see how it looked, then decided to use it on my card. I paired it with some Stitched snowflakes, plaid paper and an older die from Stampin' Up.

 

If you like Christmas cards my first post of the day here is also along the same theme, and I will have another Christmas card posted tomorrow if you would like to come back by for a visit! Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Monica

Supplies:

Stampin' UP

LawFawn

NOV JC challenge

 It's time for a new challenge over at Joy Clair blog! Love this months inspiration. I was drawn to the mug on the bottom right with the white on white look and the peppermints! I love to add a little candy cane to my hot cocoa so that is what I decided to base my card of off to fit the theme.



I picked some pattern papers that would fit the theme I was going for and used a sketch I found flipping through an old magazine that I have. I used an older Joy Clair set called Christmas Cocoa. I stamped my mug, snowflakes (with some masking) and marshmallows with Versamark and heat embossed it with Pearl embossing powder. I then stamped the candy cane with Rockin' Red and embossed with the same embossing powder.

I cut out the marshmallow and candy cane. I adhered all of my layers, adding the twine and attaching my cut elements to finish my card. 

I hope you stop by the Joy Clair blog to see what my teammates created based on the inspiration photo and to play along for your chance to win! Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment or follow me for blog updates! Have a great day!

Monica 

Supplies:

Joy Clair- Christmas Cocoa

VersaMark Ink

Catherine Pooler ink- Rockin Red

Hero Arts- Pearl embossing powder

Twine

Cardstock

Pattern Paper

New home with Joy Clair

Hello everyone, today I'm poppin' in with a card and planner spread using some new items from Joy Clair! First up is the card I made for my parents using Dwelling Place.

Next up is a planner layout where I used both the Dwelling Place and Light Bulb Moments.

To see all the details on the projects visit my post on the Joy Clair blog.Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment or follow me for blog updates! Have a great day!

Monica 

Supplies:

Joy Clair- Dwelling Place and Light Bulb Moment
MFT- Hybrid black ink
Copics
VersaClair Ink- Medieval Blue
Catherine Pooler Ink- Polished

ATSM #315- photo inspiration

Today I have a post for Addicted to Stamps and More and its time for our Photo Inspired Challenge.

I mostly chose the colors as a starting point for my inspired card. I like the look of yellow black and white together. I made a Halloween theme since I'm in the mood for it and its only a week away!

Here is a closer look at my glittered house and the dimension of the layered die cuts that I stacked slightly of center.

Don't forget to stop by the blog and play with this weeks Photo Inspired challenge, I can't wait to see what you share with us. Thanks as always for stopping by! Feel free to leave a comment and follow the blog for updates with new posts! 


Monica

Linking to the following:
SimonSaysStamp Monday- Halloween/ spooky
Die Cut Divas- Autumn/ Halloween
Dies R Us- #107 Anything Fall

Supplies:

Ranger- Fossilized Amber distress oxide

Recollections- Halloween die and stamp set as well as black cardstock

Stampin' Up- Ribbon

SID Oct. Sketch- Trick or treat

I'm popping in today with a card for Stick It Downs October sketch.

This sketch is perfect for me to break out some pattern paper. I used new stuff from Stampin' Up, I adore this collection they have the seasonal catalog for Halloween.

I added some of my scraps of paper from the front of the card to the inside to finish it up!

Don't forget to stop by the SID blog and play along with the sketches. If cards aren't your thing there are two scrapbooking sketches to play with as well! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Monica

Adding to the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge- Halloween/Spooky

Die Cut Divas- Autumn/Halloween

DiesRUs- #107 Anything Fall

Supplies:

Stampin Up- Cauldron Bubble Bundle, Toil and Trouble DSP and Cardstock, Gorgeous Grape and Gray Granite. I also used a circle for Stitched label Framelets

Eat more beef with Joy Clair

It's Collaboration week at Joy Clair and we are working with Therm-o-web!!! If you couldn't tell by the graphic! Here is a look at my foiled leaves!

Here is a peek at my card, but to see my full post and details visit the Joy Clair blog here.

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment or follow me for blog updates! Have a great day!

Monica

Challenges: 
Die Cut Diva's- Autumn/ halloween

Supplies:

Joy Clair- Turkey talk

Therm-o-web- Lime satin and Amber watercolor deco foil

Lawn Fawn- Large Stitched Leaves and Large Stitched Ovals

Copics

Fall-ing in love event with Joy Clair

Hello all and welcome to a special event with Joy Clair, Fall-ing in Love! We are all sharing projects to celebrate fall. I used the new sets Thankful and Blessed and Falling Leaves background. 

I started by making my background... which was maybe a not so succcessful attempt at an Alcohol ink background. ( I need more practice!) I so love the look the of the orange and yellow for a fall back ground. I decided to use some Thermoweb foil to dab onto the somewhat wet areas to get the foil to stick for green spots. After that I inked the Falling leaves background in my misti and stamped it on the background. 

Next I stamped and image from the Thankful and Blessed set onto some vellum. Since I used VersaFine I made sure to heat set the image so that I wouldn't smear it. My next step was to "color" in parts of the image using my stylus. For the flowers I colored the petals heavily to make them white. Then for the pumpkin I used a lighter hand to add some texture and shading.

Next I stamped the sentiment... it's not pretty in the picture but I left it in to show you what it looked like before I "fixed" it. I used the same ink for the sentiment as I had for the image, the major difference is I didn't heat set it. I honestly didn't think about it, I stamped it after I adhered the vellum to the background and left it alone while I went to work. Came home to this mess... DOH! 

I attempted fixing it by stamping over it with VersaMark (luckily the sentiment was still in the Misti!) and heat embossing with white powder. I covered most of the smudging creating a slight shadow effect behind the embossing. Layered my panel first with some white cardstock before adding it to an orange cardbase.

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment or follow me for blog updates! Have a great day!

Monica

Supplies:

Joy Clair- Falling Leaves and Thankful and Blessed

         

Thermoweb- Lime (Satin)

Ranger- Alcohol ink

ATSM #313- holiday

Here is my card for the Holiday challenge from Addicted to Stamps and more!

I used a new Christmas stamp and die from Stampin' Up. I loved the image of the house and can see it being colored fully or partially like I did. I wanted to keep it simple so added some red to the ribbons and colored the greenery. I used some stickles to the lights for a little sparkle.

Don't forget to stop by the blog and play with this weeks Holidays challenge, I can't wait to see what you share with us. Thanks as always for stopping by! Feel free to leave a comment and follow the blog for updates with new posts! 


Monica

It's world card making day with Joy Clair!

It's world card making day and we are celebrating all day. This morning I was part of a hop sharing our crafty spaces and mine was shown in it's messy glory! This post is part of a project blog hop and with some special guests as well as the current team. 

For the card I decided to mix some new and old stamps. I wanted to use the feathers from Dream Big so I started laying them on the card panel. I used all of the feathers from the set, but kept them all to one side. I used my Misti so I was able to layer the colors of yellow, orange and red so they faded into each other. I then layered the panel on colored cardstock. Stamped the birthday from Hello Sentiments, while the rest of the sentiment is from New Year New Me. Cut out the panel for my sentiment and layered it with black as well. 

To finish my card I added some sequins and dots of Nuvo Drops. 

Joy Clair Blog 

Jowilna Nolte

Martha Lucia Gomez 

Melissa Andrew

Donna Idlet

Elina Stromberg

Lindsay Adreon

Kassandra Tousignat

Jenny Fruchey

KyriakosPachadiroglou

Monica Maier

Nancy Nickel

Helen Gullett

Betz Golden

Ceal Pritchett

Annie Collins

Angie Cimbalo

Steph Ackerman

Roni Johnson 

Jessica Kaiser

Hope you are having a wonderfully creative day and enjoying all the blog hops and crafty posts! Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Monica

Supplies:

Joy Clair- New Year New Me, Hello Sentiments and Dream Big

Catherine Pooler- Shea Butter, Orange Twist, Rockin' Red

Nuvo Drops

Sequins 

cardstock- white, black and yellow