INTRODUCTION TO JOY CLAIR CLEAR STAMPS

Joy Clair

 i am delighted and honored to have been chosen to join their design team and to work with their beautiful stamps.

their stamps are made here in the usa (georgia).

they are made of a high quality photopolymer, nice and thick, non yellowing, strong deep edges, they adhere so nice to the clear blocks and they take ink very well. 

their designs are unique and so very pretty and the fonts and sentiments are gorgeous.

joy clair has many plans for all of you to enjoy: challenges, videos, discounts and more. sign up to their newsletter and you won't miss any of it.

below is my first project to show off some of their great designs.

hope you enjoy it!

-A Halloween Frame-
by flowerdisco

hehe, let's start with a nice sneak peek.

i used my die cutter machine for the card base, layers and banner and worked

with 3 different stamp sets on this project:

i started stamping each "halloween" letter on a 1" piece of punched paper using different colors of pigment inks and then outlined each letter with a black permanent ink fine tip marker.

as you can see i distressed most of my cardstock too and later on you will see i "dry embossed" the black base.

as i mentioned before the polka dots banner was cut using my die cutter.
 i wrapped a fuzzy and thin green jute around it for an added detail.

the pumpkin and the boo word were stamped with a dye ink. i stamped the pumpkin first, did some fussy cutting around it and then stamped the boo word. i adhered it to the banner with some foam tape for dimension.

the skulls border to the right was stamped before i adhered the halloween letters keeping in mind their placement.


 the border has 4 joined skulls but i just had room for three of them.

 see the dry embossing on the black layer? it is a chevron shape but hard to see, sorry. i used a core-dination cardstock and after sanding it a nice orange color came through.

here is the finished halloween frame.
(i used a steel die to make a chipboard easel for the back to prop it up).

so what do you think of the stamps? really nice, huh?

you can click on the joy clair logo and it will take you the store where you can take a look at the rest of them.

and remember that only good vibes are welcome, the rest are deleted, lol.

see you next time and as always
-thanks for taking the time to visit-


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ANYTHING FALL

Hello to all my friends, followers and visitors.

As we all know: TIME FLIES. This is already my fourth week with 

"The Cuttlebug Spot" 

as one of Nilda's designers. Go ahead and click on the above link and have fun participating in the challenge. Nilda has some sponsors and you know that means giveaways :)

This week the challenge is 

"Anything Fall"

This is my take on it. 

A Shoe-House Fall Card

5.5 inches tall

This shoe-house is from  the

My Community 

Cricut Cartridge. 

Don't you love it already???? :)

You can find it on page #22.

I flipped it on my Gypsy so it will be looking to the right.

I used the Tiny Mosaics cuttlebug folder (one of my favorites) for the roof and the chimney. The chimney was added because I felt it needed something else in the top. As you can see it was a good addition, nothing fancy but it did make a difference. ;)

 The beautiful papers are from Prima. The orange cardstock from American Crafts.

 Remember you can click on the photos for a bigger view.

 The leaves to the left are from the Cindy Loo cartridge and the flower I made with a paper punch.

 Everything has been inked and blinged ;).

I added some glossy accents to the windows for a "glass like" shine.

The wheel barrel is from the Freshly Picked cartridge and the pumpkin from A Child's Year. I used the hide contour feature on the pumpkins.

 This is how the back of the card looks.

 and this is the inside.

 I added another pumpkin and more punched oak leaves to the inside.

 and here is that beautiful shoe house card again.

Awesome!

(many hours were invested in the making on this card)

lol...for real....I guess you gotta love what you do to really enjoy the process. 

 On another note,

 I want to acknowledge a person I met through Etsy. Her name is Krista and she used to be my customer when I first opened my shop. You all know I neglected my shop while taking care of blogging and I just started listing  again. When Krista saw my name on Etsy, she quickly contacted me to welcome me back. She now has her own shop and she just became my follower here. Krista was always a darling to me and as you can see a good friend too. 

This is one of the reasons I love the internet. I have made so many nice friends. 

You guys are a great example of it. 

I am very happy knowing Krista was real to me too.

Thanks Krista for the nice Welcome,you really warmed my heart.

Now, really quick........click HERE to go to "The Cuttlebug Spot" and see what the other designers have made for your enjoyment this week. Get inspired and have fun participating on this week's challenge 

"Anything Fall".

Love You!

and I see you again on Wednesday when I will be presenting the 

finale of Playing with Serenade.

 

WILD CARD WITH LISA/PUMPKIN

Hello everyone.

Today is another Tuesday and you know we have to continue with Wild Card Series.

It's Pumpkin Time, yeah! for real, lol.

You find the Pumpkin Card on page # 68 and it is # 37 in our project.

My Pumpkin Card

3.75 inches 

 This is a very small card as you can see. It's cut on a 12x12 mat.

The cardstock used is American Crafts and they are both the same color just the lightning again. the background paper is from (I believe) Debbie Mumm and is color purple.

 

Close-up

I used Stickles for the bling and cut the pumpkin two times: one on orange and the other one on green for the grass and stems.

Envelope and the square sentiment from my stash and I believe is from K&CO.

I liked how how the looks when opened.

Very easy to do.

Lisa's Pumpkin Card

Don't you love Lisa's take on the pumpkin? 

AND...

this is Lisa's Heart Card from last week.

Absolutely delightful!

Thanks for joining us again on the Wild Card Series and 

we hope we inspired you somehow.

Hugs to All!!!