Fusion Coffee!

Hello!

Happy Monday!  I have a love/hate relationship with Monday's!  I always love a new start to a week and feeling organized and ready to tackle what's coming.  But then the alarm goes off early Monday morning and I no longer like Monday's!!!  We did have a beautiful day here though.  It was warm and the sun was shining and the snow is melting!  We are expecting above zero temperatures which will hopefully melt a little more of that white stuff! 

I had a few minutes on the weekend to get a couple of cards finished!  That doesn't happen to often so I take advantage when I can!  I saw the sketch at Fusion Card Challenge and decided that I wanted to tackle that massive circle!!!  

I couldn't wait to use Caffeinated Cups and Be a Barista Set from Reverse Confetti!  I do love coffee cups (but shockingly I don't like coffee!).  I don't really like how I did the swirl on the cup but it's a learning process!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Bermuda Bay
DSP: Cherry on Top (SU)
Stamps: Be a Barista, Caffeinated Cups
Ink: Stazon Black, Versamark
Other: Bermuda Bay Sequins, Caffeinated Cups Confetti Cuts, White Embossing Powder, Double Stitched Circle Dies (Lil' Inkers), Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by!
I hope you have a fabulous day!

Jen

Fusion Wishes

Hello!
Happy Sunday!  It's a gorgeous day here!  Bright, sunny and warm!  The pool is being heated today for one last dip today and tomorrow.  Probably be the nicest weekend of the fall.  The leaves are slowly turning and look radiant in this beautiful sunshine!  I think tomorrow we'll try some family pictures.  They will be impromptu and the clothes won't match perfectly but they'll hopefully reflect us as a family and how much we love each other!  It's also our 13th anniversary tomorrow.  Fitting maybe to take some pictures!!!

Today's card is for this week's Fusion Card Challenge.  I loved the picture and the sketch and I'll be honest, I think I bombed both!!!!

I totally forgot the bottom panel of the sketch and the little circle behind the feathers.  I'm losing it I tell you!  I think the problem was that this card originally started with a different embossing folder which was just half of the card (to create the bottom panel).  Then I changed my mind but forgot about the sketch.  Just shoot me now!  Both the butterflies and the sentiment were created with silver embossing powder.  Oh how I love silver and white!!!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Silver
Stamps: In a Big Way (Reverse Confetti), Papillon Potpourri
Ink: Versamark
Other: Bitty Butterfly Punch, Elegant Butterfly Punch, Silver Embossing Powder,  Softly Falling Textured Embossing Folder, Dimensionals, Stitched Squares (Lil' Inkers), Dimensionals

We look like children here!!!  Wow!!!  Oh how times have changed!

Thanks so much for stopping in today!  I hope you have a wonderful day!!!

Jen!

Majestic Monarchs

Hello!
I had a few minutes this weekend to play in my craft room!  The boys enjoyed one of the last flying days of the season on Saturday so I took advantage of hanging out with my paper, stamps and ink!

I'm still working on filling an order of nature inspired cards and what doesn't scream nature more than butterflies?!  I could make dozens of cards with butterflies!

I started with the Fusion card challenge sketch!  It fit my butterflies perfectly!  I decided to pair it with the colours from the Card Concept challenge (using the Clean and Simple style).  I don't really use Halloween cards so I knew that instead of halloween I could do monarchs!

Papillon Potpourri is one of my favourite stamp sets!  Those butterflies totally make me smile!  I used my Score Board to create the lines on the bottom of the front white panel!  I chose a sentiment from a PTI stamp set.  I tried colouring the butterflies to start with but ended up having to just stamp them on some Pumpkin Pie cardstock!  My colouring skills need some work!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie
Stamps: Papillon Potpourri, PTI (Sentiment)
Ink: Basic Black
Other: Elegant Butterfly Punch, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by!
I hope you have a fabulous day!

Jen!

Fusion Christmas

Hello!
I can't believe that I am able to actually post a card on a Sunday!  I know - shocking!  I made this card a long time ago and took a picture of it the same day then realized when I downloaded the picture that one of the jewels had fallen off of the snowflake!  Took me a while to get around to jewel correction!

We had a great weekend celebration Jacob's 6th birthday with his friends.  He had a blast.  There is a picture at the bottom of the page of him with his Triceratops ice cream cake.  It was a hit and the leftovers are pretty stellar as well!

So, I made this card for the Fusion card challenge!  I was pretty pumped when I first looked at the challenge and came up with this card.  Then I realized after a few Fusion blog posts that the colour of the car was pink not red (I guess I should have read the title of their challenge!).  So, my shiny pink is a beautiful, bright, shiny red!

Christmas is fast approaching and I love the Festive Flurry stamp set and coordinating dies.  You may see another card this week that also uses that set!  I love snowflakes though I like paper ones far more than real ones!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Silver, Red Glimmer

DSP: All is Calm Specialty DSP

Stamps: Festive Flurry, Festival of Trees (Sentiment)

Ink: Basic Black, Versamark

Other: Basic Rhinestones, Silver Embossing Powder, Festive Flurry Framelits, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping in today!  I hope you've had a great weekend!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Chevron Birthday

Hello!
Hope you had a great Monday!  I had a fun day!   The boys did such an amazing job at Run Club at school.  I was so impressed with how well Caleb ran.  Jacob unfortunately gets cramps in his side like I do so he wasn't too impressed.  They are excited to try again next week!  I can't complain!

I love, love, love both the sketch and the photo at the Fusion card challenge this week!  Who doesn't love chevrons?!

 I am trying not to use up all of this paper (from the Fresh Prints DSP Stack) but I love it so much!!!  I just think chevrons look even more fabulous in Costal Cabana!  I added some little red banners to the card.  I was trying to use the arrows but I just didn't have anything that worked so banners it was!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Real Red

DSP: Fresh Prints DSP Stack

Stamps: Birthday Bash Sentiments (Non-SU)

Ink: Basic Black

Other: Basic Rhinestones, Banner Punch, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by!

I hope you have a fabulous day!

Check back tomorrow night for another card!!!  I was on a roll!!!

Jen

Fusion Birthday

Hello!
Hope you had a great day!  I am feeling a bit better today!  Thankfully the aches and chills have left and don't seem to be coming back!  I still have yet to get into the craft room though!  Thankfully I have a few cards left from last week that I can post!

I tried out the Fusion Card Challenge this week!  I tried to combine both the photo and the sketch.  Not sure how well it turned out but it was a stretch for me to do a combo card!

I love grey and yellow together and loved the look of the woodgrain in the background!  I also love a good sketch challenge so I took the plunge!  I love the Chalk Talk stamp set and don't get to use it near enough!  I realize that the colours are backwards on my "chalked" tag but it's too late to change it!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Grey, Very Vanilla, Smokey Slate, So Saffron
Stamps: Chalk Talk, Petite Petals
Ink: Versamark
Other: White Embossing Powder, Silver Embossing Powder, Basic Rhinestones, Bakers Twine, Chalk Talk Framelits, Petite Petals Punch, Woodgrain Embossing Folder, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by today!
I hope you have a fabulous day!

Jen!