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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Season's Givings Blog Hop

Hi everyone, and happy 2014! 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 home decor project I made for the new year:

In my guest post at Moxie Fab World, I shared some embroidery hoops, and I *finally* made one using a paper background. I loved using paper since I could watercolor on it. I have a photo tutorial, which I'll be sharing later this week.

I CASE'd some of my prior cards for this hoop (THIS, THIS, and THIS). I painted the outer frame of the hoop and then on the cardstock background, I watercolored with mists. I fussy cut the flowers from Webster's Pages' New Year New You. I used some Webster's Pages, Crate, and Cosmo Cricket papers and vellum for the die cut hearts, and I stitched through some of them. The sentiment was made in Photoshop. Here's a close-up:

I really need to adjust the tension on my sewing machine. ;)

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

Giveaway 1: I won a Simon Says Stamp Monthly Card Kit, but I had the stamps and papers. I added some Studio Calico Mistables and extra Papertrey Ink white cardstock.

Giveaway 2: There is a BasicGrey paper pack and some Crate Paper embellishments I won. I've added two stamp sets, Smooch Spritz, ribbon, washi, buttons, and wood veneers.

Giveaway 3: There is a Stampin' Up paper pack, Graphic 45 paper pad, chalk cardstock, two stamp sets, rub-ons, BasicGrey brads, Thicker, washi, tags, and ribbon.

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 1/6, and I'll announce winners later that night. 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:

Lawn Fawn

Reverse Confetti

My Favorite Things Stamps

CAS-ual Friday Stamps

Fresh Squeezed Stamps

Julee Tillman: Verve Stamps

Avocado Arts Stamps

A Jillian Vance Design

Amber Hight

Alice Wertz

Lori McAree

Angie Blom

Lori Tecler

Theresa Momber

Shanna Vineyard

AJ Otto

Jimmi Mayo

Iwona Palamountain

Kim Jackson

Linda Lucas

Sarah Gough

Darsie Bruno

Jocelyn Olson <--You are here

Thanks for visiting! I really appreciate it!! Have a wonderful 2014!

Next in the hop is my sweet friend Isha.

Friday, October 4, 2013

WCMD Blog Hop

Hi everyone! I'm on the road for work and doing observations in middle schools. Phew! Those teachers need a serious pay raise. I was exhausted just observing. ;)

Before I left, I got a message from Holly about a Paper Crafts Magazine's blog hop. Yeah!

Yep, it's a blog hop for last year's World Card Making Day winners. Here's the list of last year's winners (and the blog line-up):

Paper Crafts Connection

Agata Pfister

Amber Kroening

Angeline Yong Jeet Leen

Jocelyn Olson <--You are here

Pamela Ho

As part of the hop, we're supposed to make a card in the same category as our winning card. Mine was in the love category (you can see it HERE). I still smile ear-to-ear when I think of the e-mail from Holly telling me I was one of the winners. It was such an incredible feeling. :)

Here's my new love card:

Several months ago, I bought the You Are Loved digital journaling cards from Paislee Press. I loved them, but I never got around to using them (I'm not the only one who does that, right??). The chalkboard is longer than a standard journaling card. I resized one of the cards slightly smaller and duplicated the card....5 times to be exact. I layered the journaling cards under each other and used a bit of blurring and the clone stamp in Photoshop to remove any lines between the layers.

After I printed the panel, I layered this fab vellum from Cosmo Cricket and some twine. Here's a close-up:

We were also asked to give a tip or advice. Hmmm...I'm not sure that I have any earth-shattering advice for entering WCMD. I will say that while my card last year did have a sentiment that (clearly) fit in the love category, it was different than "I love you." Honestly, though, I don't have a secret formula for you--I wish! ha ha I hope you enter cards to this year's WCMD contest!

Paper Crafts has several events going on to celebrate the day. You can check out the WCMD page HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Next on the hop is fantastic Kerrianne.

Supplies
Cardstock: (White Linen) Ellen Huston; (Premium Matte Photo Paper) OfficeMax
Other paper: (vellum from Simple Surfaces) Cosmo Cricket
Digital element: (journaling card from You Are Loved) Paislee Press at The Lilypad
Twine: (yellow) Divine Twine

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Newton's Nook Designs--S'More Wishes

**It's my second post of the day. For my CASE Study post, please click HERE.

Hi everyone! Today is the last of the new releases of Newton's Nook Designs. The stamps go on sale at midnight! Woo hoo!

I think the Campfire Tails set may be my favorite of the new releases. It's a hoot! I made a pillow box and a tag with the stamps:

I used five different stamps from the set. First, I stamped the lantern onto the pillow box in WPlus9's white ink (love it--thank you for the ink suggestion, Amy!):

I thought it could use something else, so I added a few of the fireflies. I added some Cosmo Cricket patterned paper and assembled the box.

Next, I moved onto the tag. I stamped the sentiment, fire, and s'more from the Campfire Tails set, and then colored the images with my Inktense pencils (I can't say enough good things about these pencils!). Here's a close-up of the tag:

As part of the release, Newton's Nook is giving away this set to two lucky winners. You can comment to win on the NND blog and on each of the launch party participants' blogs. You will have until tonight (July 18th) at 9pm to comment for the drawing.

Below are the other participants in the NND launch party. Be sure to check out their blogs!

Jennifer Ingle

Emily Leiphart

Samantha Mann

Jocelyn Olson <--You are here.

Chari Moss

I'm entering this pillow box/tag into the Moxie Fab World Birthday Tags & Wraps challenge. There is still time to enter if you'd like to play along. :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies
Cardstock: (Rustic White) PTI
Patterned paper: (S'more Love) Cosmo Cricket
Clear stamps: (sentiment, s'more, fire from Campfire Tails set) Newton's Nook Designs--available 7/19
Ink: (White Pigment Ink) WPlus9; (Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko
Coloring: (Inktense 12 pack and Rainbow) Derwent; (Colorless blender) Copic
Die: (Tag Scallop die) Paper Smooches
Twine: PTI
Pillow box: Impress

Thursday, May 2, 2013

The Waving Skunk

Hi everyone! Thanks for all the nice comments and messages this week for my Diagnosis Design and Paper Smooches posts. Y'all are nice. :)

It's time for another CAS-ual Fridays Challenge, and this one is a doozy. It's the second birthday and the 100th challenge. To celebrate, this week incorporates the top CFC challenges of all time, and to play, you pick one row:

I don't know if there were too many options, but I could not come up with any ideas. I must have spent two hours going through my stamps and digital files, and I decided I didn't have anything to make a card (somewhere, my husband is laughing).

But, as soon as I saw this skunk image, I got the idea for this card:

I used the row birthday-embossing-black & white.

I started off by slightly recoloring the skunk in Photoshop (he looked a little too dingy for a black and white challenge). I resized him and created the sentiment below. After printing the panel, I printed a second skunk and fussy cut him.

I wanted to add something to make him look stinky (I was thinking of Pig Pen from Snoopy). Apparently, I don't have a stinky stamp, but I used the spark marks from the BombDiggity set. Here's a close-up:

I fiished the card by put the white panel on a black card base to look like the skunk tail. Hee hee

Since this week's CAS-ual Fridays Challenge is a big one, there are a whopping 10 prizes. The winner, the VIPs, and the Contenders will each win a prize. This week's challenge is being sponsored by Ellen Hutson

and CAS-ual Fridays Stamps:

You can enter the challenge HERE.

Thanks for playing along. Have a great day!

Supplies
Cardstock: (True Black) PTI
Other paper: (Premium Matte Photo Paper) OfficeMax
Clear stamp: (spark images from BombDiggity) There She Goes Stamps
Ink: (Tuxedo Black) Memento
Digital images: (skunk from Mr. Campy Elements) Cosmo Cricket
Font: (MTF You Are) Miss Tiina at Sugar Hill Co.

Friday, August 24, 2012

Paper Crafts Card Design Blog Hop

Today I'm participating in the Paper Crafts Magazine's blog hop for the Card Design Handbook. You should be coming from the super-talented Julia Stainton's blog. To start from the beginning, or if you get lost along the way, here's the order:

Paper Crafts Magazine

Chan Vuong

Kalyn Kepner

Julia Stainton

Jocelyn Olson <--You're here

Angeline Yong Jeet Leen

I am so incredibly excited and humbled to be among these talented ladies!

We're each covering a design principle from the new Card Design Handbook, and my principle is LINE. We're showing how using the principle enhances a card. So, here is my "good" card that doesn't incorporate line:

I picked the principle of line because it's probably the principle I violate the most (i.e., I often don't ground my people/objects when I make graphic cards). Yes, I'm a crafting rebel. It made such a difference to use a line to ground the guitar player:

For this hybrid card, I used some digital Cosmo Cricket for the guitar player and cassette tapes (a little altered). I made the sentiment in Photoshop, but I can't take credit for it--the phrase is on a border strip part of the same Cosmo Cricket set. It cracks me up.

If you don't have the Card Design Handbook yet, I can't say enough good things about it. The issue is packed with fab projects and great design tips...it's like the coolest textbook ever.

You can win a copy of the Card Design Handbook by commenting on each of the designers' blogs. To enter, please leave a comment on this post (through August 28th) for a chance to win.

Next on the hop is the incredible Angeline. Be sure to hop all the way to the Paper Crafts' blog--I hear there are some terrific prizes!

Thanks for looking!

Supplies
Cardstock: (turquoise) Bazzill
Other Paper: (premium matte photo paper) Office Max
Patterned Paper: (from It's a Boy's Life) Echo Park
Digital elements: (guitar player, cassette tapes from Boyfriend Candy Candy) Cosmo Cricket
Font: (MGOpen Moderna)