May Cards

Long time, no blog.  I wish I could say I've been living it up and have been too busy but sadly, I've just been too lazy.  

My first card was made for my friend, Jennifer's birthday. Here are the supplies: 

• Paper from The Paper Studio "Tie Dye Lime"
• Flowers from Dahlia Layered Burlap Flowers "Little Yellow Bicycle"
• 1 paper lunch sack
• I got the free printable maze from here: The Joy of Stamping.  

I bought the paper months before making the card.  I immediately thought of Jennifer when I saw this tie-dyed cloth paper.  I struggled with what I was going to use to decorate it with but decided "natural" was the theme I was going to go with.  Jennifer once showed me her Smash journal and inside I noticed a finger labyrinth.  So I was lucky enough to stumble upon the website with a free printable maze.  It also had the cute phrase "you're a-maze-ing".  I printed it on the lunch sack to keep with the natural theme.  

Jennifer and her nature card

Next up, Mother's Day!  

• 1 fuchsia colored sold paper.
• 1 turquoise colored solid paper
• The Paper Studio "Poteeka  Butterflies"
• Turquoise & White Silk Flowers by The Paper Studio "Spare Parts"
• Monogram 3-D Sticker Embellishment Letters (in M & O) from The Paper Studio "La Petites"

My mom and her Mother's Day card

And a birthday card for my friend, Wendy!  

• 1 piece of black solid paper
• Bright Pink & Black Silk Flowers by the Paper Studio "Spare Parts"
• Glittery leopard print paper from the Recollections "All Girl" paper pad
• Solid pink paper for birthday sentiment
• Stickles
• "Happy Birthday" stamp

I outlined the glittery paper in Stickles

Wendy and Rhoda with the card.

I made Wendy some Scotcheroos and monster cookies!  

And here's a graduation card for my friend, Stacy's daughter Justice

• The blue paper is by Bazzill "Mediterranean"  
• The red paper is by Bazzill "Ruby Slipper"
• Graduation gown and stars by Jolee's Boutique "Kindergarten Grad" (even though my grad was a high schooler!)
• The "Congrats" sticker was by Soft Spoken

And last but not least, an artist themed birthday card for Miss Miranda!  

• Paper is "Recollections "Multi Paint Splatter"
• Smock and paint stickers from Jolee's Boutique "Artist"
• Jolee's Boutique Stickers "Bright Colored Pencils"
• Solid paper in orange
• Solid paper in white
• "Happy Birthday" stamp

7 year old Miranda holding up her card!  

I hope you enjoyed all of my cards!  See ya soon!  

Love, 

Miss Jules

The soundtrack to most of this card making:

Another Hello Kitty Birthday Card

Hola!

I'm just dropping in quickly to share the Hello Kitty birthday card I made for my 4 year old niece, Gracie.  I made one for her 16 year old sister last November (Click here to see it!) and Gracie tried to steal it from her.  So she got her own card at her very own Hello Kitty birthday party.

I've had the Hello Kitty clear sticker set for awhile now.  I placed the clear sticker on white cardstock, then cut around it and finally placed some 3D pads under it.  I found a 12z12 Hello Kitty paper at Michaels and cut the parts of the paper with her face into squares.  And the dots are Stickles.  

The bows were a part of the clear Hello Kitty sticker set. 

Gracie

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day!  

Kitty kisses, 

Jules

Pleasant Nightmares!

I miss my blog.  I haven't had a lot of time to be crafty because I'm working so much overtime at my job and any free time I do have I'm too exhausted.  But now that the holidays are upon us, I AM going to make time for this blog, no matter what.  

Halloween is my FAVORITE holiday!  I love dressing up; it's the one time of year where you're allowed to be someone else.

My friends and I throw a Halloween bash every year.  It's called the Worst Witch party.  It all stemmed from my friend Jennifer and my love for the classic 80's movie The Worst Witch starring a young Fairuza Balk, Tim Curry and Mrs Garrett from the Facts of Life.  What started as an innocent introduction of the movie to her then 3 year old has snow balled into this awesome get together that we now know as "Worst Witch".

I made up some invites for this shindig.

I got the adorable witch hats from The Cutting Cafe.  And I used Copic markers and Stickles.

What you will need:

• Black cardstock base, folded at 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches
• 3 different colors of cardstock cut to 6 x 3 1/2 inches.  I used purple, orange and lime green.  
• Same 3 colors of cardstock cut to 5 1/2 x 3 inches.  
• Same 3 colors of cardstock cut to 3 1/4 x 3/4 inches.  This will be the "tag" your sentiment goes on.  I printed the words "Mirror, mirror on the wall.  Who's the worst witch of them all?" for my sentiment.  It is a line from the title song of the Worst Witch movie.  
• Halloween themed ribbon cut to 5 1/2 inches.    
• Distressing ink, any color you like. 
• markers
• Halloween stamps

    
Here are all the supplies cut.

And here are my sentiment tags.  I only used 2 colors and I wish I would have made up some purple tags too.  

You just layer all of the cardstock, glue the ribbon on the bottom of your top cardstock, glue your witch hats to the top cardstock and put your party information on the inside of the card.  I had printed up my party info and used the cut little digi stamps from the above link.  I forgot to take a picture of the inside, unfortunately.  They were really cute though.  

 I made one of my friends an Iowa Hawkeye version of the card.

I also made some cute eating utensil holders.   It's as easy as it looks.  You just wrap Halloween themed scrapbook paper around your napkin and plastic utensils. This can be done for any holiday or event.

Here are some of the decorations I put up this year.  

I got this cute bat copper sculpture from AJ's Copper Garden.  The only bat I like.  

My cute dining room.

The spider house!  

I made the witch legs out off pool noodles, slapped some tights on them and put some funky platform shoes on.  I got the idea from Pinterest, of course.

I made caramel apples.  I dipped them in nuts, Reese's Pieces and chopped up Butterfingers.  I mother said hers was delicious!

And then I wrapped them.  

I made up some swag buckets complete with a box of Boogers!  

There were lots of yummy dishes at the party but one of my favorites was this Snake Calzone from Kraft.  

Costumes are optional at Worst Witch.  I always opt for costume!

I went as a pink haired living dead girl. I jokingly said I was Jem, 30 years later.  One day I will dress up as Jem but only when I'm able to do it right. 

My niece Chandler.  Also, please note the cute little witch shoe candle holder.  

Aniyah (the mummy) and Stacy (the witch) or as I like to say, Goldie Hawn at the end of Death Becomes Her.

My mom

Miranda came as Sally

The evening consisted of yummy, ghoulish foods, games, dancing and a viewing of the Worst Witch.  I think everyone had a good time.  I can't wait to plan for next year!  

And lastly, I made this wonderful Halloween cake to take to work on Halloween.  

Look how beautiful the inside of it is!  

I took this to work and all but one little slice was gone.  The cake was so moist and sweet.  I'm definitely making it again.  I'll probably make a Christmas version.  

Here's where I got the recipe---> Cooking With Sugar

I can't believe it's all over! 

Thanks for reading!  I'll be blogging again soon.  Christmas is coming which means Christmas card making time!  

Anything can happen on Halloween, 
Jules

Hi-ya, Corn Poppy

It's getting to be that time of year again.  The temps are dropping, the fireplaces are coming on and my skin is begging for a regular moisturizing regimen.   The leaves changing, the pumpkin patches, Halloween decorating and celebrating, a sweater collection that would make Bill Cosby hard...I love the Fall!  

I'm going to try some new Halloween recipes and hope to do a blog series similar to my "12 Days Of Christmas" posts.  And another one of my goals is to compile some of my favorite soup recipes and put them in a scrap/cookbook.  Those are just a few things to look forward to in the next couple of months. 

But before we can get to the Fall, we must finish Summer.  And have I got a summery card for you all.  

This card went to my friend, Courtney.  It was a little late...oops!  It was a busy month for me.  But she is very understanding.  Courtney is another friend that I've had since 3rd grade and for anyone keeping count, that's 26 years!  It seems impossible that much time has passed.  

Okay, before you bust my chops, the sun is horrible!  I cut that out myself and it shows.  I may have to invest in a sun stamp.  

The cloud paper was a 12x12 double sided paper from Best Creation Inc in "California".  They have a bigger set of clouds with a bluer sky on the other side.  The sunglasses are a sticker from Echo Park Paper Co. in "Element Stickers".  The rainbow is another Doodlebug Design's Doodle-pop in "Rainbow".  The star was something a friend had left behind on our last craft day.  I used a no name ribbon with little suns on it. 

 I'm not sure if you can tell, but the Happy Birthday sentiment is fringed.  It's really easy.  You just stamp any print words on paper and cut slits in between each letter.  Then you feather the letters out.  

And I did use Stickles in "Frosted Lace' all over the clouds.  

I hope my card brought some sunshine to your day!

Sometimes the rainbow, baby, is better than the pot of gold, 

Jules

Corpse Bride Birthday Card For Josi

Happy Tuesday, all!  I hope you're beating the heat.

Josi turned 11 years old on July 18th.  She loves Tim Burton movies and even dressed up as the Corpse Bride a couple of Halloweens ago.  So naturally I thought of her when I saw the Tim Burton line from Simply Betty Stamps.  I've been holding on to this stamp for a very long time just waiting for Miss Josi's birthday.  I don't believe the stamp is available in rubber form anymore but the digi stamp, along with a whole bunch of other cool Burton stamps, are available at the above link.  I used Copic markers to color in.  As you can probably tell, I need to get more blue pens.  I don't do so hot coloring white people skin and I can't say I'm too impressed with my ability to do corpse skin either.  Practice, practice, practice...

The purple paper with the dark purple swirlies is from My Mind's Eye/"29th Street Market"/Carefree Adorable.  It is a double sided 12x12.  I used my Creative Memories oval cutter to cut the other side of the paper which is the light lavender paper under the stamp. I then centered the lavender paper and stamp over an iridescent eggplant colored card stock from Recollections.  

I found the "oh happy day" stamp at Michael's (in the dollar bin, always!).  I thought it was funny and was perfect for this card because it doesn't really fit.  I distressed it with 4 different Distress inks.  They are Worn Lipstick, Shabby Shutters, Spiced Marmalade and Dusty Concord.  I put it in the corner of the card and slapped some cutesie bling on the side.  

I have a rubber stamp pack that I bought at Michael's by Autumn Leaves Clear Stamps by Rhonna Farrer called "Flowers".  I used black ink and stamped them on all four corners of the card, overlapping all the layers of paper.  I then went over the stamps in Stickles "Cotton Candy".  

Yay, she got it in the mail and she liked it!

Happy Birthday, Josi!  And I meant what I said in your card.  I totally want to do a Tim Burton marathon with you.  Popcorn, candy, Mountain Dew and all!

Nice effin' model (honk honk), 

Jules

P.S.  The soundtrack to making this card.

  

Under My Umbrella-Ella-Ella

I just got back from a delicious dinner with my friend, Stacy.  We have been friends since the 3rd grade, all the way back when we were Garfield Wildcats!  

Me on my 10th birthday with Stacy behind me, almost 25 years ago.  

Stacy and I recently went to the Mall of America and while we were there, Stacy was looking at the Hello Kitty umbrellas at the Sanrio store.  So when I saw this digi stamp Birds Cards, I knew exactly what I was going to do with it.  

I cut and folded Color Mates card stock in "Deep Orange Dreams" into a card.  I had the red and white polka dot paper in one of those bulk pads of paper.  I printed the cute umbrella digi stamp.  They also offered a stamp with just the umbrella which I also printed off so that I could use it as a template to cut out this...

The Hello Kitty paper is from Sanrio and it's called "Red".  I used some 3D pads under the Hello Kitty umbrella so that it hovered off the paper.  

Copic pens used for the digi stamp: 

Outline-V09 (Violet)

Words-YG03 (Yellow Green)

Inside-RV11 (Pink)

Rain drops-B14 (Light Blue)  I also used Marvy Pigmented Caligraphy pen in Sky Blue

Handle-EK Success Writer Metallic Collections in "Silver" and American Crafts Precision pen in "Red"

And I used Distress Stickles in "Faded Jeans" on the rain drops. 

Birds Cards also had this sweet sentiment available in digi stamp.

After using the lemon card stock, I felt like the inside needed a little sumpin' sumpin' so I added the cutesie cupcake in the corner.  

Birthday girl with her card

Happy Birthday, Stacy aka Anastasia Beaverhausen!  And just remember, Australia, in our forties, it's going to happen!  

L.Y.L.A.S.,

Julie