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The FSJ + Spellbinders Creative Design Team are excited to announce the winners of the $25.00 gift certificates. Congratulations!
Marty McGee’s winner – Betty Wright
Carrie Rhoade’s winner – Latoria Williams
Jill Hillard’s winner – Joanne Cornel
Lezlye Lauterbach’s winner – Kay Biggerstaff
A great big thank you to everyone who commented on this blog, my Instagram account and my Facebook account.
The winners will be contacted by FSJ + Spellbinders on how to apply your winnings to your order!
Welcome, to the FSJ Creative Design Team Blog Hop. Did you see the word Giveaway in the title of this post? Well. . . . .
Spellbinders+FSJ are going to give away a $25 gift certificate for each of the design team members participating in this blog hop! Yep, you read it correctly. That means 4 lucky winners will receive $25 to spend with Spellbinders+FSJ online store. All you have to do to enter the giveaway, is comment below on this post.
Would you like extra entries? Go to my Instagram post featuring this giveaway, @martyzstamps and follow the directions for extra entries. Visit my Facebook Page, martyzstamps, and comment on the post featuring this blog hop and make sure to share with your friends. Giveaway closes on Sunday, March 17th 11:59 pm CT.
For this month’s blog hop, the design team are sharing our favorite die or die set.
I had quite the dilemma and here is a picture of it.
I tried really hard to narrow down my favorite to one die or die set and I just couldn’t do it. So, I decided to make two projects using as many of my dies as I could.
The first project is a St. Patrick’s Day themed card.
I began with the Lotsa Dots and Journey Circle Dies. The small heart is part of a retired set, but any small heart can be used to create a four-leaf clover.
I die cut the Lotsa Dots and heart dies using Electric Lime cardstock. Kiwi Slice and Lemongrass cardstocks were used with the Journey Circle dies.
Once the Lotsa Dots mat was adhered to the Lemongrass base, I wrapped the Gold Thread three times around the card and tied it in a knot. The large circle is popped up with two medium foam squares on top of the knotted thread. I stamped the sentiment using Black Licorice ink from the All Year Long stamp set onto the small Lemongrass circle. Finally, the Electric Lime hearts were glued to the large circle and accented with a green Rainbow Drop.
The second project is a sweet floral card.
For the flower, I used the Clover Bloom die set using Bubble Gum and Black Licorice cardstocks.
For the leaves, I used the Mystic Fern and Summer Branch dies using Fresh Forest and Electric Lime cardstocks.
The last die I used is Persian Garden with Catalina Splash cardstock.
To create this card, I did a little something different. Instead of adhering the Persian Garden die cut directly to the Pool Play card base, I adhered it to a 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ piece of Pool Party cardstock. Next, I wrapped the Special Day Organza Ribbon around this mat tying it in a simple knot. I adhered the Persian Garden mat to the Pool Party base.
To create the flower, I cut two of each petal and curled the petals using my crease tool. I adhered two of the largest petals together, offsetting them so the petals were not exactly aligned. Next, I layered one medium petal and a smaller one on top of it. The fringed center piece was cut from Black Licorice giving the flower a nice contrast between the pink and black. A small Candy Drop was applied to the center
The leaves were layered onto the base and the flower glued on top of them.
Hop along to the other blogs. All you have to do is click on the FSJ banner to check out FSJ’s blog or click on a name to hop over to another blog. Leave your comments on each blog to increase your chances of winning the $25 GIVEAWAY!
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Hello! I have just created my first post to the Little Blue Button Blog. I am so excited to share with you the card I created using Steam Punk Jessica.
I colored Jessica using Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers. Once she was colored and cut out, I collected two Gel Press pieces of cardstock from my stash to use in making the card.
Next, I gathered other supplies for this creation.
I wanted to incorporate gears onto the Gel Press pieces of cardstock and used a FSJ stencil to apply Pumpkin Bread and Haystack inks to the stencil leaving a faint impression of gears.
Gold glitter washi tape from the discount aisle at Tuesday Morning was placed under the die cut border. The final touch was a sprinkling of FSJ Bronze silk.
To complete the card, I placed Jessica on a Haystack cardstock oval mat. The card is finally accented with Candy Drops. This card turned out so beautiful. I hope you like it.
If you would like to watch the video where I colored Jessica (click here).
Supplies:
Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers
Spellbinders + Fun Stampers Journey
If you checked out my previous post, you know a doughnut will make a kitty happy, but did you know a cup of cocoa will make a penguin happy? Oh, I forgot, only if it has marshmallows on top.
I created a no mat card for this happy penguin to meet Paper Craft Crew Card Challenge 328. See the challenge below:
This penguin and hot cocoa image is from one of my past Scrapping for Less kits, Stamping Bella’s Penguin with a Mug.
I colored the stamped image with Spectrum Noir alcohol markers and fussy cut the penguin and mug leaving a small white boarder. I folded a piece of Whip Cream cardstock in half, layered on two strips of Fun Stampers Journey’s Deco Layer Strips (black). The penguin and mug are popped up and the finishing touches are the Journey Sequins pink for a touch of bling.
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Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers
Spellbinders + FSJ
Two posts in one day? You are not hallucinating. Sit back and enjoy reading about the doughnut and Sassy Kat. I created a card project from this story for Freshly Made Sketches #377 card challenge (the sketch is below):
I know everyone has heard the phrase, “curiosity kills the cat,” but have you ever heard, “only a doughnut can make a kitty happy?” I hadn’t heard that phrase either until I read this story.
Little Sassy Kat was known to be a snoopy busy-body. There was no place in her house she had not explored except for the box under her owner’s bed. She didn’t know what could be in it, but it always smelled so good.
Every night after the house became still and quiet, she noticed, while pretending to nap on the bed, her owner would lie down on her belly and reach far under the bed pulling the box out very carefully. Once the box full of heavenly aromas was tight in her owner’s arms, she would walk softly into the very large walk-in closet, shut the door and the click of the lock would faintly sound.
Of course, the lock clicking to the closet door would cause Sassy Kat to lift her head, look around the room, rise up stretching every muscle before jumping from the bed onto the floor. She would wind her way around the room letting her tail hug every bed post spindle until she was at the closet door.
She pressed her body against the door and tried to push herself in, to no avail. She even tried to open the door by pushing her paw under the door and pulling the door towards her. That didn’t work either. After a while of unsuccessfully opening the door, she stretched out on the floor waiting for the door to open.
She was just about asleep when she heard little foot steps running down the hallway, into the room and a little voice crying for mommy. The closet door clicked open and her owner scooped the child into her arms and carried him back to bed.
What!!!!! The door was open; Sassy Kat couldn’t miss this opportunity. She quickly ran into the closet and saw the open box in the corner. She ran over and gently sniffed inside the box. It smelled so good! And, a round circle with a hole in it, covered in pink goo with dots smelled the best. She grabbed the tasty treat in her mouth and ran out of the closet into the bedroom.
She quickly ran beside the night stand and settled in for a midnight snack. Before she could get a good bite of the sugary goodness, she noticed two large feet in front of her. She looked up with big soulful eyes, asking for forgiveness as her owner reached down picked her up and said, no sweet treats for you Sassy Kat. It’s time for bed.
Hope you enjoyed the short story. Here is the card for the story and the challenge.
Supplies: Scrapping for Less Flavor of the Month January 2019 kit, Spectrum Noir alcohol markers, Spellbinders Fancy Edged Circle Dies and FSJ sequins.
Spectrum Noir alcohol markers purchased from Consumer Crafts
Hello, card challenge community and blog followers. It’s been a while since I have submitted a project for a card challenge and I think I might have three this week! Here is the first submission.
I created the Marcie with Coffee card project for the Fusion Card Challenge. I chose to follow the card sketch and not the photo. Here’s the card sketch.
I have a video showing the coloring and construction of the card on my FB page, martyzstamps. This was the first project of a marathon crafting session this past Sunday.
The FB Live video will let you know how many mistakes can be made creating a project even when you think you are prepared!! It was just a little too funny. Let me know, in the comments, your crafting mistakes and how you made everything look awesome with the fixes.
All cardstock and images are from Scrapping for Less Flavor of the Month January 2019 kit featuring Lala Land Crafts’ “Little Marcie with Coffee”. The twine and Rainbow drops are from FSJ + Spellbinders and Spectrum Noir alcohol markers were used to color Marcie.
Hope you love this card as much as I do!
Supplies:
Spectrum Noir Markers purchased from Consumer Crafts:
Here is my first Design Team post for Little Blue Button Stamps. “Sweet Tooth” is the new release digital stamp for March, and she is so adorable with her big mug of sugary goodness!
My first card is a blonde haired, blue-eyed sweet tooth girl. The burst of black and white stripes as a background make her really pop!
I had so much fun creating the first card, I decided to create a second card with a brunette green-eyed sweet tooth girl. Instead of an explosion of black and white stripes, I chose to let just a little bit of the stripes peek out from a black mat featuring a shaker element. She is just as adorable as the first girl.
Supplies: Digital stamp is Little Blue Button Stamp – Sweet Tooth. I used Spectrum Noir alcohol markers for coloring the images. All cardstock is Fun Stampers Journey. The cloud frame and silver glossy dots are from Pink and Main. The stitched rectangle die is from MFT Stamps and the scalloped circle die is Spellbinders.
Pink and Main
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