Wishing You Good Fortune

Hello all! Can't believe how time flies, this will be my last card I create for Just For Fun Rubber Stamps. It has been a fun year with JFF. Thank you JFF, for the great amount of stamps you sent to me to play with. The following card is the last card I made for JFF blog using their fortune cookie rubber stamp and the fish bowl image too. If you are interested in their stamps, they have a DT call going on right now. You might want to check it out and apply! :) I guarantee that you won't be disappointed. 

So here is the card, I wish you all at JFF and all my fellow followers blessed with good fortune for the years to come.

JFF Stamps:
- Fortune Cookie
- Fish Bowl
- Unmounted Sentiment 2 Sheet 

Thank you so much, I hope you like the card. Have the most wonderful day! :)

Happy Father's Day Cards

Hello all! Father's Day is next month so I want to share two Happy Father Cards with you here today! I hope my creations give you inspiration to create using JFF stamps, it was really fun making these cards.

First is this circular stampTangled heart card:

Second is this "Relax" Happy Father's Day Card, the background is created using one of the square stamps and water-colored.

Just For Fun Rubber Stamps:

- StampTangle Mini Heart 

- Happy Father's Day Sentiment

- Adirondack Chair

- 2-Sided Doodle Background, Frame/Small

I hope you like the cards, thank you for so much for checking out my post today! See you soon! -Alexia

Wishing You Cards

The weather is getting warmer on my side and it reminds me of beaches and tropical breezes! From where I came from, we have a lot of palm trees near where we lived (it's almost like we were surrounded by palm trees) - miss my childhood. I'm very happy when I received this stamp so I can't wait but to make this cute little card so I can feel home again. 

For this card I masked out part of the image on the stamp to get the way I wanted it. I colored the image using my Spectrum Noir alcohol ink markers. 

The second card is this little cute Happy Birthday card, the flower vase is die-cut from die-namites and the sentiments are from JFF!

Just For Fun Rubber Stamps:

- Sunset with Palms

- Wish you a day....

- Adirondack Chair

- Umounted Sentiment Sheet 2 

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I hope you enjoy my cards above, I hope to see you here soon! Thank you for visiting the blog today! - Alexia

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As a celebration of springs arrival we are kicking off our Spring Fling Special offer of 30% OFF all online retail orders at Just For Fun Rubber Stamps! 

The special will run from Saturday May 16 thru Memorial Day Monday May 25.

Join JFF at StampFest Summer

20th Anniversary Year

Convention June 27-28

Classes June 26-27

All information including tickets, classses, directions and all show information is online at http://www.stampfest.com/proddetail.asp?prod=SFORLREG

Sign up for a class today!

Celebrating the 20th year this June and happy to announce the NEW home for StampFest Summer.

The Lakeland Center (Sikes Hall)

701 W. Lime Street, Lakeland, FL 33815

The Lakeland Center is approximately 30 miles west of the old Orlando location right off I-4.

FREE PARKING!

(StampFest will be buying out the parking)

The Hyatt Place Hotel

(right next to The Lakeland Center)

StampFest rate of $99 including breakfast will be available a few days before and after the show dates for anyone who wants a few extra days.
For complete Hyatt info and reservation details click the link below.

Limited Rooms-Block Cut-off date 6-1-2015

(or until rooms are gone)

Hyatt Place Lakeland Center Information

Happy Mother's Day!

Mother's Day is around the corner, have you started making any cards yet for Mother's day yet? If you are not, not to worry I have this card to share with you today! Hopefully it gives you some inspiration to make one for your beloved mom this coming special day! 

I used one of the rose stamp, stamped it in different tones and colors. Outlined them with black markers and colored the white background in bright gold (although it looks a bit like yellow). The center square was masked out for sentiment later, the sentiment which is also JFF's stamp. It gives you kind of a dimensional feel although it's an one layer card. 

The embellishments are paper flowers, to add more dimensional look to the card.

Check out the brushed rose stamp below and the square frame, aren't they fantastic combination to create card?

Just For Fun Rubber Stamps Used:
- Brushed Rose
- 2 Sided Doodle Background/Frame, Lg.
- Happy Mother's Day Sentiment

I hope you like it! Happy Mother's Day and thank you for visiting my blog today!

You Are Amazing

Loving this new circle stamps from Just For Fun, it's so fun to create card background such as following. And not just the background, look at the Chevy's stamp it's so very cute too! If you are making card for him, this is perfect!

I stamped the background using different colors of dye inks and colored the Chevy with alcohol markers. Fun and easy to create! 

Just For Fun Rubber Stamps used:
- 2 Sided Doodle Background/Frame, Large.
- 2 Sided Doodle Background/Frame, Small
- '57 Chevy

I hope you like this card, don't forget to explore other new stamps available in store HERE!

Easter Blessings

Happy Wednesday everyone, I hope your day has been treating you good! Thank you for checking in, I will be sharing another Easter card with you today. The bunnies stamp is so cute on this card, I have to make couple of these to send out to my friends and family! Thank you JFF for making such beautiful stamps! 

Water colored background (again I know!), I just can't stop playing with the water colors lately. The background is then embossed. The bunnies on this card are not colored, to do this all you have to do is masking. Stamp same image on separate paper, cut it out and lay it on top of another stamped image then color the surrounding with dauber and ink. 

Just For Fun Stamp Used:

- Love U Bunnies

- Easter Blessings Sentiment

I hope you like the card and that it gives you some inspiration to make your own, thank you again for taking time to stop by! Have a fantastic day and Happy Easter to you and your family!

Happy Easter Basket

Hello all! It's Wednesday and it means it's my turn to share my card with you today. Easter is about a month away but I'm all in the mood to celebrate it already, perhaps because my son cannot stop asking me about Easter's egg hunt (he asks me like every other day since a month ago!). So here is the card of the day and of course, it has to be something about Easter eggs. hehe. 

The background is water colored and the stamped image is colored with Spectrum Noir alcohol markers. I adore the Easter basket stamp very much, it's so cute! 

Just For Fun Stamps Used:

- Traditional Easter Basket

- Happy Easter Sentiment - Sentiments 1 Unmounted Sheet

I hope you enjoy the card I share today, have a great day! -Alexia

You are a Whoot!

Happy Wednesday!! This is Alexia here and I'm just popping in to share a card that I created yesterday! I was going to make a card for Chinese lunar year of goat but I was so busy preparing everything else I didn't have time to make one. So yesterday I decided to make this card using the owl stamp instead. I love this silly looking owl, too cute! And again, perfect sentiment from JFF! 

To create this card, I first embossed a tree pattern using embossing folder from Darice and water colored it. Next will be stamping and coloring the owl, this part is fun! I used Copic this time instead of Spectrum Noirs alcohol markers, it appeared that I'm more used to using Spectrum, maybe because I have the entire collection so it's easier to match colors.

JFF Stamps Used:
- Flirty Owl 
- You're a whoot

I hope you like the card today, JFF has a lot of fun stamps and matching sentiments you might be able to find something you like! Thank you for taking your time to check out the blog today, I wish you have a great day! 

Valentine Shaker Card

Happy Wednesday! Thank you for taking time checking in the blog today, I'm happy to be here to share a card for Valentine with you! Valentine's day is next week, will you be celebrating it with your loved one? I created the following shaker card for this special occasion, love the sentiment from JFF!

I used a single stamp and stamped it as two separate messages, the one on top and the one on the bottom. To do this, simply ink your stamp and use a piece of tape to cover the part where you don't want it to be stamped on the card. Do the same to the other part of the message.

Just For Fun Stamp Used:

- True Love

Thank you again for visiting my blog, I hope you like the card that I share with you today. Happy Valentine!

It's a Cupcake Kind of Day!

Hello all my crafty friends! I'm happy to be here to share this birthday card with you today! Like I mentioned in my previous post, I have been playing with water-color lately so I did some experiments with this watercolor paper. This time I'm doing heat embossing with watercolor.

Here is the card of the day, yes I'm also fascinated with bright colors lately. ;) I heat-embossed the cupcakes images using JFF's Cupcake stamp in clear embossing powder then water-colored the cupcakes before filling up the background.

Products used:
- Just For Fun Stamps Cherry Confetti Cupcake
- Just For Fun Stamps ...Cupcake Kind of Day
- Strathmore Watercolor Paper
- Tim Holtz Distress Inks
- VersaMark Ink Pad
- CutCardStock Super Smooth Cougar White Card Stock

I absolutely love the sentiment although the stamped cupcakes in the background already says it all. JFF also has other cupcake stamps, check them out and you might just find your favorite! 

I want to thank you for taking your time to visit my blog today and I hope you like the card! Have a wonderful day!

Rise When You Fail Card

Hi all, I hope you are having a good day! This is Alexia and I'm here to share a water-colored and stamped with beautiful JFF Stamps with you! I have been playing with water color lately so here is another water-colored card. I purchased some Strathmore water-color paper recently and I love the result very much. I used the cold press water color paper on this one, the paper has this bumpy texture to it that makes your project looks even better. 

So here is the card, I used the jumping girl silhouette stamp for this card and the sentiment is also from JFF! Love the sentiment, it's motivating. 

I colored the background with Tim Holtz distress inks.

JFF Stamps Used:

- Jumping Girls Silhouette

- Emerson Quote

Thank you for visiting my post today, I hope you like the card and decide to give this water color paper a try (if you haven't already). Also, don't forget to get some JFF stamps, absolutely gorgeous designs for your projects!

Merry Christmas Mini Album

Hello all! Today I'm sharing one of two Holidays projects I created for Just For Fun Rubber Stamps for the cross promotion with Altered Pages. I love the products from both companies, they are such a perfect combination to create this mini album. Thank you Altered Pages for the products they sponsored to make this project!

This is the front of the mini album, to create the distressed look around the cover I used the Momento Dew Drop ink pad from Altered Pages. Mixed the ink with modeling paste and gentle apply on all edges of the mini album's cover. The star border is embossed in gold embossing powder to create the shiny look. 

 

Here are the pages inside the mini album:

Page 1 - Stamped ornament image from JFF on the pocket envelope from Altered Pages

Here is the nested page for the above

 Page 2 and 3 - Picture on the left page and note on Page 3. Stamped sentiment from JFF 'Tis the season' on the tag from AP. Love the collage print from AP too, great for embellishing mini album.

Here are the nested pages for the above, more rooms for pictures!

Page 4 and 5 - Picture on the left and right pages (the space for pictures is inside the nested pages shown after this image). Stamped poinsettias from JFF.

Here are the nested pages for pictures 

Page 6 and 7 - Open space for pictures

Page 8 and 9 - Decoration on the left page and space for picture on the right (lift the embossed page up to see the pages inside)

Here is how it looks like when the page above is lifted. A small area for putting down notes/details.

Open the notes/details page to discover the pages for pictures.

Page 10 and 11 - More area for notes and details on the left page - a hidden pull out tag and a hidden envelope where you can pull out from the top (see picture after this image).

Here is the second area for note or picture! The right page is a folder made with corrugated paper to serve as storage for pictures! Any extra pictures that can't fit go in here.

Close-up look for the folder

Page 12 and 13 - A picture on the back of the folder - why not?! hehe

Flip the page on the right and here are more nest pages inside, more rooms pictures!

Page 14 and 15 - Left page for picture and right is for notes! Hidden pull out tag with stamped Joy Stamp from JFF!

When the tag is inserted into the envelope (from AP)

Page 16 and 17 - More space for pictures and notes!

Page 18 - 19

Page 20 - 21 - A pocket for storing pictures or any sentimental items. Opening/Closing flaps are created using magnetic tapes.

This is how it looks like when the pocket is closed.

That's it! I hope you enjoy the mini album I share with you today. :) 

Products used for this project:

- JFF Large Poinsettia Stamp

- JFF StampTangle Peace Ornament Stamp

- JFF StampTangle Joy Ornament Stamp

- JFF Unmounted Sentiments Sheet 1 Stamps

- JFF Unmounted Sentiments Sheet 3 Stamp

- Altered Pages Collage Sheet (Blue Traveling Santa)

- Altered Pages Collage Sheet (Christmas Kitties)

- Altered Pages Collage Sheet (Angels)

- Altered Pages Glitz 6x6 Paper

- Altered Pages Momento Dew Drops (Nautical Blue)

- Altered Pages Bazill Basics Edges (Kraft)

- Altered Pages Domestic Postcard Tags

- Altered Pages Over-sized Tags

- Altered Pages Library Cards and Pockets

- Altered Pages Glassine Envelopes 5 1/2 x 5 1/2

Thank you for stopping by! 

- Alexia