Traditional Grunge

Had a good day at school today - came home to do the Merry Monday Challenge - and I'm not quite sure what to think.  It makes me think of "Traditional meets Grunge" somehow.

The challenge was to use Chocolate Chip, Green (Old Olive) Gold and White.

I tried embossing the Christmas Tree onto the gold striped velum….be careful because the heat does affect the gold - and the ink doesn't stick to the gold.  However, because I put clear embossing powder onto the ink right away, the image showed up a bit.

Next I decided to add the wonderful gold washi tape - which lead to stamping some washi tape.  I decided to use the Christmas tickets because they were less traditional.  And finally, I threw on some pearls.  I actually tried to emboss them with gold embossing powder, but it just peeled off.  I like the clean look of the white pearls though - so……it is completely not my style - but I'm embracing it as a good try!  (And in the process of posting this, and looking at the card more often, it's grown one me!)

Ya can't get down when the sun is shining until 8:30 at night and the snow is melting!  WoooHooo!

Have a good one!

Joan

Holly Tidings

This week at Merry Monday we are to use holly on our creations.  The only holly I could find right now is this wee little one from "Happy Hour".  I ended up colouring the leaves in a bit because of stamping on the embossed background……and I'm annoyed with the one little smudge….especially since I was using markers to colour in the stamp!  

And hey - I've started another blog with just my doodles and "art work" on it.  I create something every day - whether it's just a card, or just a doodle or both - I have to create something….so if you are interested please pop on over.  I'm posting current work and also some previous projects from time to time.

The blog address is very close to this one…..   http://jjefferycreations.blogspot.ca  

Hope you Tuesday has been terrific!  Thanks for dropping by.

Flower Shop Trio and Christmas Stack

Today's card features one of the flowers from the Flower Shop set - I love all the designs and it's great having the matching punch!  I've used the Dynamic Duos colours - Daffodil Delight and Strawberry Slush.  I added the bit of Strawberry Slush ribbon to help perk things up a bit.  I've noticed I haven't been doing much distressing lately - Hmmm.

This is a pretty clean and simple card that would be easy to do for card classes.

I am holding my Christmas in August Stack on Thursday.  Here are the cards we're going to be doing...

I have some of the new Christmas stuff now - so the October and November stacks will include some more of the products from the Holiday Catalogue.

I'm off to continue getting ready for Thursday.  Hope you have a terrific Tuesday.  Thanks for dropping by...Joan

Fall Birthday Wishes

 We're having beautiful weather this weekend, but you can still feel the fall season moving into place with the crisp air in the early morning.  I just love that crisp fall air!  I also love shuffling my feet through the leaves once they've hit the ground.  Thankfully we aren't that far into the season yet.

Today's card is a combination of The Paper Players request for a Birthday card (it's amazing how many people I know who are born in September, so this is a very timely challenge!) and the sketch is from Stampin' 411.

Hope you are enjoying your long weekend - Thanks for visiting!
Joan