New Dies!

Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great week! I'm ready for the weekend. My daughter has her first volleyball game, and she just learned to serve this week. It should be pretty good. ;)

Maya Road has new DIES they're releasing in October. The dies are blue (yep, blue). They look a little different, but they cut beautifully. I was able to cut thick felt with a dainty die--yeah! Most of the dies are script words in a fabulous font. There are going to be some pretty awesome holiday dies, too.

I'm up on the Maya Road blog today sharing a couple of cards with the new dies. Isn't the "wish" die-cut pretty? I haven't made a shaker card in a long time, so I made a shaped one with some older Webster's Pages papers on my Cameo.

I have another card on the Maya Road blog showing two more of the dies. I hope you'll check it out!

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great weekend!

Neat & Tangled Birthday Blog Hop

Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great week!

Neat & Tangled is celebrating its third birthday! Woo hoo! I'm so happy for Danielle--she is such a sweet and talented lady. :) I'm honored to be hopping along with Neat & Tangled for a special blog hop to celebrate! :) Each day this week, there has been a short hop, and today's hop includes:

Neat & Tangled blog

Jocelyn Olson <--That's me!

Teri Anderson

Virginia Lu

There is a mini release of two stamps and two dies. They are fab! Here's my first card:

Isn't the new Heart of Gold die wicked cool? I love it! My buddy Miriam designed the die and the corresponding Heart of Gold stamps. I die-cut the heart out of white-ish glitter cardstock and layered it over an extra background I made a few weeks ago.

I masked off part of the sentiment and heat embossed it in gold. Doesn't the heart look like a constellation? The die is very versatile.

Here's my second card:

The new little bear from the Happiest Birthday set is too cute! I Copic-colored and fussy cut him, and popped up the present to look like he's holding it. I layered him over a Studio Calico journaling card.

After staring at the card for a while, I decided it was missing something. Ever do that? I die-cut the stars from the new Seeing Stars die from linen vellum for another layer. I also added some of Lucy Abrams' fab Flamingo Shaker Mix--these are awesome! I may have added too much, but hey, that's how I roll....

As part of the hop, there is also a giveaway!

There are two gift certificates to the Neat and Tangled shop: 1) A $100 gift certificate; and 2) A $50 gift certificate. Winners will be chosen from comments the hop all week long. You can find each day's list on the Neat & Tangled blog.

Next on the hop is the incredibly talented Teri! I can't wait to see what she made.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!!

Guesting at My Favorite Things

Hi everyone! Happy Thursday! I have a sneak....

I am absolutely thrilled to be guesting over on the My Favorite Things blog today! :) I made a trio of gift wraps and a card using the new Lisa Johnson Designs stamps and dies. If you have a chance, please check it out HERE. Thank you!!

Have a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

100th Lawnscaping Challenge Celebration!

Hi everyone! I have a special post today...

It's the 100th challenge at the Lawnscaping Challenge blog! Everyone is so excited about this milestone, and each of the Design Team members have invited a special guest to play along. The theme is Birthday/Celebration!

I was invited to this party by my sweet friend, Samantha Mann. Samantha's designs are always super clever and fun (and often laugh-out-loud funny). I just love her work. :)

Be sure to head over to the Lawnscaping blog where you can see ALL of the Design Team projects as well as ALL of the special projects, too!

Here's my project for the celebration:

For this card, I went CAS with a whole lot of coloring. All of the stamps and dies are from Lawn Fawn. I stamped monsters from Monster Mash and Yeti, Set, Go and colored them with Copics. Since it's a celebration, I added hats and balloons from Hats Off to You and Year Four. For the sentiment, I used my favorite Milo's ABCs. 

I had to go with the 'ole Roy G. Biv for the layout. A few of the critters are popped up with foam tape. Here's a close-up to see the dimension:

I hope you'll join in the Lawnscaping celebration! You can link up your projects HERE. 

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

Supplies

Stamps: (monsters from Monster Mash; yeti from Yeti, Set, Go; sentiment from Milo's ABCs; hats from Monster Mash, Hats Off to You, Year Four; balloons from Year Four) Lawn Fawn

Dies: (monsters from Monster Mash; hats and balloons from Year Four)

Cardstock: (Rustic White) Papertrey Ink

Ink: (Black Licorice Hybrid) My Favorite Things

Copics

5, 4, 3, 2, 1... And a Winner!

Hi everyone! Happy weekend!

I make a lot of cards that I don't blog (or share on this blog). Case in point, I made this card back in August, had it photographed and ready to go, but I never shared it here. Do any of you do that, too?

I thought I would share this birthday card I made using a Scraptastic Club kit:

My son had a birthday party to go to, so I made the card for his friend's 5th birthday.

I die-cut the numbers on my Cameo and then hand-cut several of the Scraptastic August kit's Boys of Summer papers to layer in the negative space. The main kit is no longer available, but most of the papers I used were from the Crate Paper Boys Rule collection. 

I added a few embellishments in the rainbow order. All of the embellishments are from the Boys of Summer kit and Add-on except the Neat & Tangled sequin. Isn't that flair awesome?

Here's another close-up:

For the Online Card Class Clean & Simple 4 giveaway, the winner is:

Schnauzer Craft Creations

I'll e-mail you, or you can reach me at the Contact link above. Congrats!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!


Supplies
Cardstock: (White Linen) Ellen's Essentials
Papers: (Boys of Summer Main Kit and Add-on) Scraptastic Kit Club
Stickers: (Boys Rule) Crate Paper
Flair: (Boys of Summer Flair) Scraptastic Kit Club
Sequin: (Lime Satin) Neat & Tangled
Silhouette Cameo

Season's Givings Blog Hop

Hi everyone, and happy 2015! Welcome to the Season's Givings Blog Hop!

Latisha Yoast came up with a great idea to share our new/unused crafty supplies--to have a blog hop and give the supplies away to people hopping. I love this idea!

I'm so thankful for the blogging community. I know everyone is busy, and it means a lot to me that people take the time to stop by. I wanted to do the giveaways as a thank you!

Here is a card I made for the new year:

This month, Winnie & Walter is celebrating their first anniversary, and they're hosting a month-long birthday bash. Part of the celebration includes several challenges (they'll go live at 7am CT 1/1). I'm joining in the fun and playing along with Laura's challenge. If you get a chance, check them out (the prizes are huge!).

For my card, I used The Big, the Bold, and the Extras stamp set and matching cut files from Winnie & Walter.  I did some two- and three-step stamping for the flowers and layered them over some Maggie Holmes vellum flowers. The leaves were die-cut using the cutting files. I was very inspired by THIS gorgeous card.

Here's a close-up:

I'm also linking this card up to the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenge. There's still time to link up.

I've been fortunate enough to receive or win some extra supplies, and I'm thrilled to be passing them on! I have two giveaways for two winners. If you enter once, you're entered into both:

[Click on picture to enlarge.] Giveaway 1: Mama Elephant, Avery Elle, and Imaginisce stamps; Crate Paper embossing folder, 6x6 pad, two sets of stickers from the same collection; Pink Paislee washi; Studio Calico sequins; ColorBox Cat's Eye.

[Click on picture to enlarge.] Giveaway 2: Fancy Pants 12x12 papers, stickers, die-cuts, felt flowers, buttons, and clips; KI Memories stamps; Glitz Design washi; Studio Calico ink pad. 

Here's the scoop: 1) You can leave a comment for a chance to win. 2) For a second chance, you can "follow" my blog and leave another comment to let me know if you already follow or are a new follower. You can follow my blog by clicking Google's "Join this Site" on the sidebar and/or following by e-mail.

The giveaway will end at 6am ET on 1/7, and I'll announce winners here. Also, I'm happy to pay for international shipping.

The people/companies below are all offering different giveaways. To enter, all you have to do is go to their blogs, leave comments, and you'll be entered:

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Lawn Fawn

Spellbinders Paper Arts

Reverse Confetti

Clearsnap

Ice Resin

My Favorite Things

Technique Tuesday

Paper Smooches

Sweet & Sassy Stamps

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store

Avocado Arts

A Jillian Vance Design

Latina Crafter

Die-Versions

Unity Stamp Company

Splitcoaststampers

Verve Stamps

Latisha Yoast

AJ Otto

Vera Yates

Julia Stainton

Judy Hayes

Kim Watson

Yana Smakula

Chari Moss

Taheerah Atchia

Shemaine Smith

Emily Spahn

Kimberly Crawford

Lee Murphy

Lovely Linda

Laura Williams

Lori Tecler

Chaitali Narla

Darsie Bruno

Lydia Fiedler

Giovana Smith

Teri Anderson

Beth Pingry

Dina Kowal

Daniela Dobson

Lisa Adametz

Piali Biswas

Kelli Green

Keri Lee Sereika

Jocelyn Olson <-- You are here

Julee Tilman

Michelle Woerner

Lori McAree

Theresa Momber

Anita Autore

Melody Rupple

Sean Fetterman

Bunny Vance

Tricia Traxler

Lisa Arana

Lorena Cantó

Amy Tsuruta

Jodi Collins

Tenia Nelson

Kelly Klapstein

Jill Cornell

Emily Leiphart

Becky Williams

Margie Higuchi

Lee Ann Barrett

Lisa Hoel

Heather Campbell

Lisa Henke

Sheri Holt

Michele Kovack

Ashley Harris

Sharon Harnist

Lori Craig

Nicole Nowosad

Laurel Beard

Michele Boyer

Christiana Reuling

Laurie Schmidlin

Jennifer Priest

Stacey Schafer

Heidi Blankenship

Heather Pulvirenti

Anita Madden

Gloria Stengel

Sarah Gough

Rachel Kleinman

Natalie Dever

Lorine Mason

Loretta Lock

Meihsia Liu

Sarah Martina Parker

Angeline Choo

Christine Emberson

Karen Hightower

Sabrina Alery

Debbie Seyer

Dana Joy

Cat Tidwell

Deborah Saaranen

Ceal Pritchett

Lisa Lara

Colleen Schaan

Anabelle O'Malley

Megan Hoeppner

Monika Davis

Marisa Ritzen

Wanda Guess

Jenny Peterson

Annette Allen

Gracie Chavez

Christina Griffiths

Niki G.

Kristi Schurr

Jennifer Ingle

Karolyn Loncon

Camille Robinson

Lindsey M-P

Kathy Clement

Maria Levine

Savitri Wilder

Savannah O'Gwynn

Teresa Horner

Laurel Seabrook

Libby Hickson

Yvonne Van de Grijp

Leigh Penner

Lisa Lee

Tina McDonald

Nina Yang

Angel Johns

Thanks for visiting! I really appreciate it!! Have a wonderful 2015!

Next in the hop is the super talented Julee!


Supplies
Cardstock: (Rustic White) Papertrey Ink; (white) Avery Elle
Stamps: (flowers, leaves, sentiment from The Big, the Bold, and the Extras) Winnie & Walter
Die-cutting/embossing: (white leaves from The Big, the Bold, and the Extras Cut Files) Winnie & Walter; (Woodgrain Impression Plate) Papertrey Ink
Ink: (Versafine Smokey Grey) Tsukineko; (Birch) Fresh Ink; (Peridot Mixed Media Ink) ColorBox
Mists: (Opaque White, Dewey Mister Huey's) Studio Calico; (Solar Gold Radiant Rain) Luminarte
Embellishments: (vellum flowers from Open Book Floral Ephemera) Crate Paper; (Mint Color Theory star sequin) Studio Calico; (4mm Clear sequin) Pretty Pink Posh; (matte gold 10mm sequin) Teresa Collins

Cupcakes Are Healthy

Hi everyone! I hope you're having a good week. We're getting geared up for school to start--where did the summer go? *sigh*

I'm up on the Scraptastic Kit Club blog today sharing a couple of birthday cards. I used the August Boys of Summer and This Life Noted kits for these cards....they are fab kits!

First up is the masculine birthday card:

I stamped the sentiment from the Celebrations stamp set and added a bit of mists. Then, I layered the Crate Paper Boys Rule transparency, stickers, and papers in the Scraptastic Boys of Summer kit and Add-on kit.

I am in love with the Scraptastic wood veneers, and I had to use the little car. I wish I had a car like that. :)

Next up is the more feminine card:

The cupcake and sentiment come from the Celebrations stamp set. Isn't the sentiment hilarious? And so true, too. ;)

The cupcake is layered over two trimmed-down journaling cards from the August This Life Noted kit, and the panel is layered over more Boys Rule paper.

Hmmmm...now I'm thinking about cupcakes. Ha! What's your favorite kind of cupcake?

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

Shake It Up

Hi! Anyone else remember that Cars song? I'm totally dating myself. ;)

I hope you're having a great week! I'm still catching up from my vacation, but I wanted to share a project I had on the Glitz blog last week.

It's a hybrid shaker card using the Glitz Brightside papers and digital Brightside Element Pack. I have a step-by-step tutorial on the Glitz blog to show a different way to make a shaker card (other than foam adhesive).

Here's a close-up:

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!


Supplies

Glitz Design "Brightside" 6x6 paper pad

Glitz Design Digital "Brightside" element pack

Sequins: Neat & Tangled, Scraptastic Club, craft supply
Dies: (Circle STAX) My Favorite Things

Neat & Tangled and Pinkfresh Blog Hop

Hi everyone! Happy Monday!

          

  

The Neat & Tangled and Pinkfresh Studio teams are having a collaborative blog hop today and tomorrow. If you're hopping along, you should be coming from Amanda's blog.

I received some sweet Pinkfresh Studio supplies including washi tape, stamps, and puffy stickers. Here's my project using products from Pinkfresh with Neat & Tangled stamps:

Okay, I have to admit that I made this card about an hour after traveling for 16 hours with kids and staying up most of the night on a red-eye flight. I was a little brain-drained when I made this card, but I think the freestyle look works for a fun birthday card. ;)

I started by stenciling the stars with embossing paste and adding some splatter. Once they were dry, I used the Pinkfresh Blue and Yellow Ombre washi tape. I stamped the cake from the Neat & Tangled Gifts for You set on a piece of scrap paper and adhered it with the Light Gold washi tape.

Here's a close-up:

See the Punchinella peeking out as a layer? I also stamped and fussy cut one of the balloons in the Gifts for You set, and stitched a line to the sentiment.

For the sentiment, I used the Sparkle and Shine set. I added the Way to Home enamel arrow at the end of the line and scattered some Neat & Tangled sequins. Here's another close-up:

As part of the hop, there will be a $20 prize pack from Pinkfresh and a $20 prize pack from Neat & Tangled. Be sure to comment along the way to enter to win! Here's the full list of today's hop:

Pinkfresh Blog

Amanda De Jong 

Jocelyn Olson <--You are here!

April Joy Hill

Amy Tsuruta

Ashley Fowler

Kristen Foreman

Ashley Horton

Joni Andaya

Clare Prezzia

Taheerah Atchia

Thanks for stopping by! Next up is April Joy--prepare to be wowed! :)

Neat & Tangled June Blog Hop

Hi everyone! I hope you're having an awesome weekend!

Some of the Neat & Tangled designers and guests are having a blog hop to showcase the Photo Booth and Sunday School Songs sets. If you're hopping along, you should be coming from my friend Miriam's blog.

I made a card using the new Photo Booth stamps:

I was going to use the photo strips, but when I was playing around with the stamps, I realized the end boxes looked like Polaroids. So, I stamped then ends in the six colors and added little doo-dads to each box. The cute party hat and sentiments come from the Photo Booth set--this set has a great variety of sentiments.

When I was done with the boxes, I stitched them (with a few Neat and Tangled sequins) to some digital Paislee Press paper. Here's a close-up:




Since it's a hop, there are some prizes! :) Two winners will be chosen from all of the hop comments, and the winners will have their choice of Photo Booth or Sunday School Songs. The winners will be announced on the Neat & Tangled blog on Saturday, July 5th.

Here's the full order of the hop:

Danielle Walls (Neat and Tangled)

Julie Ebersole

Miriam Prantner

Jocelyn Olson <--You are here.

Anna Kossakovskaya

Heather Campbell

Laurie Willison

Virginia Lu

Savannah O'Gwynn

Your next stop is the fabulous Anna! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies

Cardstock: (white) PTI

Patterned paper: (digital stripe paper from From Where I Stand) Paislee Press; (pink ombre) Alison Kreft for Echo Park; (yellow from #Summer) American Crafts

Stamps: (Photo Booth) Neat & Tangled

Ink: (Versafine Onyx Black) Tsukineko; (Strawberry, Lake, Peach, Pink Lemonade, Grass) Fresh Ink; (yellow) Mama Elephant

Embellishments: (gold, Crystal Clear, Peach sequins) Neat & Tangled; (flair from June kit Best Day of My Life) Scraptastic Club; (ice cream Plus One Puffy Stickers; Dear Lizzy puffy heart) American Crafts)

Die: (bow) American Crafts

Confetti Pockets

Hi everyone! I hope you had a great week! I finally got the draft of a big grant done, and I'm playing catch-up. Phew!

Kim shared my project using the Pocket Dies on the Paper Smooches blog today. I wanted to share how I made the pockets, so let's get down to it. :)

Here is the final project:

 

*sigh* Aren't the peonies pretty? They're from my mother-in-law's garden, and in reality, they look about the color of the violet papers.

To make the project, I first gathered my supplies:

Paper Smooches Pocket Dies, Neat and Tangled Pixie Dust sequins, Project Life page protectors, Webster's Pages Sweet Routine papers, and Hemptique cord.

Next, I started on the pockets:

I die-cut each side one at a time....I wasn't getting great results cutting both sides of the pocket at one time, even with a shim.

I then taped up three of the sides with washi tape. This step is important for stitching! Don't ask me how I know that. ;)

I had to set my sewing machine tension very low and stitch slowly. I removed the washi tape along the way.


Next, I die-cut and stamped:

I picked a few paper colors and ran all of the dies through at once to save time. I didn't use the largest flower in the Pocket Dies. I also die-cut and stamped two sentiments with the new Blissful Banners stamps and matching Streamers dies. That set is super cool!

The final steps for the pocket:

I filled each pocket with die-cuts and a mix of sequins and then stitched it closed. As a tip, don't clump the flowers together for stitching. I did that and had to take out the stitching on one to loosen the flowers. They aren't really shakers, though.

I punched a hole at the top for the cord and tied the cord bow. Isn't it fun?

Here is one on a vase:

I made a quick matching card:

I attached the Streamers die-cut with foam tape onto one of the pockets, and layered some of the matching papers from the same Sweet Routine collection.

Here is a final shot:

Thanks for making it through this *long* post!

Have a great weekend!


Supplies
Cardstock: (white) PTI
Patterned paper: (Sweet Routine) Webster's Pages
Stamps: (Blissful Banners) Paper Smooches
Dies: (Pocket Dies, Streamers) Paper Smooches
Impression plate: (Woodgrain) PTI
Sequins: (Pixie Dust) Neat & Tangled
Cord: Hemptique

Celebrate

Hi everyone! Happy Thursday. :)

I wanted to share a card I made using the Scraptastic Club Daylight kit:

I die-cut the paper and vellum layers on my Cameo. All of the papers are from the May 2014 Daylight Kit and Add-On. The sequins are from the This Life Noted kit. To enclose the shaker, I die-cut two layers of Ellen Hutson Craft-a-Board...it was easy to adhere the layers. 

For the sentiment, I used some new Little B Block Out dies. The pictures look like the dies are strips, but they aren't...I was pleasantly surprised! Here is a close-up:

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!!

Supplies

Cardstock: (white, Linen Vellum) PTI; (Craft-A-Board) Ellen Hutson

Patterned paper: (from the May 2014 Daylight Kit and Add-on) Scraptastic Club

Dies: (Block Out) Little B; (Circle STAX) My Favorite Things

Sequins: (May 2014 This Life Noted kit) Scraptastic Club

Silhouette Cameo

Scraptastic May Release

**For my Paper Smooches May DT  Blog Hop post, please click HERE. 

Hi everyone!

It's time for the May release of the Scraptastic Club kits! The This Life Noted kit is already sold out (subscribers get first dibs), but if you like the PL-type kits, you can subscribe for next month. ;)

Here are the May kits. Click on them if you want to see the photos larger. :)

The May This Life Noted Kit:

The Daylight Main Kit:

The Daylight Kit Add-On:

The Story I Heard Main Kit:

The Story I Heard Add-On Kit:

The two stamp sets are The Story I Heard and Daylight:

           

If you want to try a month, you can buy a single kit. I am always shocked at how much product comes in the kits--seriously, they are a great deal in my opinion. :)


I'm sharing a card I made using two of the April Scraptastic Club kits:

I covered one of the patterned papers with an acetate overlay from the Let Me Go Kit and Let Me Go Add-On. I love how different the background looks with the overlay. :) I trimmed down one of the journaling cards and added some layers from the Let Me Go Kits and one of the Cut-Aparts. 

For the banner, I trimmed triangles from one of the patterned papers and another one of the Cut-Aparts. Here's a close-up:

If you want to see more of the Scraptastic Club Galleries or products go HERE. 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Supplies

Cardstock: (white) PTI

Kit: (Let Me Go Main Kit and Let Me Go Add-On) Scraptastic Club

Mist: (Dewey, Opaque White Mister Huey's) Studio Calico

Sequins: (Avery Elle)