Hello, everyone!  I hope you are all having a great summer so far.  

I was so excited that my blog day fell on a Saturday this month.  I just LOVE working with sketches, so this project was a real treat for me.  One place I always look for sketch inspiration is Sketch This.  Janelle Lee has so many great sketches to choose from, it was hard to pick just one.

I chose an older sketch (Layout Sketch #25).

Now this sketch was created for a layout, but I wanted to show you all that they are perfect for making cards too.  I stayed pretty true to the sketch, but added my own little touches.  I just substituted a solid piece of patterned paper for the two photos, and added little border strip along the bottom of the panel.  Don’t be afraid to change it up though.  Sketches are a wonderful way to get your creativity started.

Products used- Enchanting:  Pleasant, Adorable, Wonderful, Sticker book;  Captivating:  Alphabet Stickers, Chipboard Alphabet; Office Lingo:  Outside the Box, Die Cut Shapes

Hope the sketch and my card help to get you motivated to play with your scrappy supplies.

Have a great weekend!

With summer finally here, my garden has an abundance of fresh produce to harvest!  To be honest, it is WAY more than my little family can eat.  So, I’ve been busy canning up lots of the fresh veggies and even giving some of my yummy pickles away to our neighbors.  But, you know me… I can’t just give away a plain old glass jar!  Of course, I HAVE to embellish them!

It’s so simple to do!  Just start by selecting a small swatch of fabric, finding a circular object to trace that is a few inches wider in diameter than the lid of your jar (I used a large spool of tape), and grab a fabric marker!

Trace your circle, and cut it out with some pinking shears.

Then, use a rubber band to secure the fabric onto the top of your jar.

Now you’re ready to start embellishing!  I used a length of lacy ribbon from the Sweet Cakes collection, wrapped it to cover the rubber band, and secured it with a dot of hot glue.

To top the jar off, I used a rub-on, some letter stickers, a flower and a brad to fancy it up.

The possibilities are endless!  You could use some Pink Paislee label stickers to print out labels for the front of your jar.  Or, you could even make some tags out of patterned paper to tie on with the canning date on them!

And, if you’re not into the whole canning thing, you can dress up a jar of store-bought jelly the next time you want to make up a gift basket for someone.  Just be sure to remove the label first… don’t worry, I won’t tell. *wink, wink*

Good evening everyone!  I have recently started stamping more and more on my projects.  Because of this I am constantly trying different, fun things to liven it up a bit!  One of my favorite things to do is to stamp on transparency paper and then stamp the same image onto plain paper and use the transparency on top.  It gives it a 3-D look!  (Transparency sheets are also an excellent way to pre-plan where you want to stamp – simply stamp the image on the transparency, cut it out and then place it around your project to see where it looks best!)

For this layout I used one of my favorite Pink Paislee stamp sets (I’m in love with that butterfly!):

So, what are you waiting for?  Grab that transparency paper and start playing!!