A Jillian Vance Design - Be Fearless!

I'm up on the blog over at A Jillian Vance Design with this one!

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You Did It - A Jillian Vance Design!

I'm up on the blog over at A Jillian Vance Design with this cutie patootie Grad Card!  If you'd like all the details and links, you can hop on over there and join me!

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Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge July 2018 - Embossing

Welcome to the July 2018 Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge!  So sorry for our tardiness, but it's summer and we are on vacations!  This month the challenge is to use embossing on your project!  Any and all types of embossing are welcome.  Just use one or more embossing techniques and let us know what you did.  Details are on the Three Amigos Blog here!

I have a nephew that is graduating high school this year and I created a card for him.  I used a wood plank embossing folder from Close To My Heart on the black layer.

Then I added some die cut starts using some dies from my stash and LOVE this Congrats word die from My Favorite Things... such a fantastic font!  I cut it once from glitter paper and twice from cardstock and layered it.  I just love the look the extra layers give!

Here's the inside!  I rarely decorate the inside of my cards ... mostly I'm making them for future use and am not sure what sentiment I'll use or even if I'll be the one using it.  But I knew with this one.  I heat embossed the corners using an old CTMH set.. old old... in silver and then I added some dots using an Emboss It marker and sprinkled on some more embossing powder and heated it.  The sentiment is from the same set and it's one I'll hang onto for a long time.  Then I forgot I was going to photo the inside, so as you can see I've already signed it..lol!  But when I remembered, I stopped, photographed it, and added some more words... those are just for him!  (and full disclosure, I added the names of the whole family including the dogs...lol)

Can't wait to see what you create and what new techniques we pick up from you!  Head on over to Donna and Susan's places and then to the Three Amigos blog for all of the details and to find out who won from the June challenge.  We sure hope you play along with us!

Thanks for stopping and see you again soon!

More Stamplorations Things With Wings!

Just love Winged Things and love that Stamplorations is celebrating Things With Wings this month!  I'm playing along again with this card a friend asked me to make for her... it's a Graduation Card..lol!  My grad cards are never your typical and asked her if that was ok and she just gave me a general idea of what the recipient might like and gave me the freedom to create what I wanted... 

I've been wanting to do an ink blended rainbow background for a while and this was the perfect opportunity!  I started by choosing the Distress Oxide colors I thought would make a beautiful rainbow and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

When I was done blending, I used some translucent texture paste and the Old Rose stencil from Stamplorations to add a pretty textured/embossed look to it.  And finally when that was dry, some splatters of Gold Heidi Swapp Color Shine.

I just got this Congrats die from MFT at my local scrapbook store, Paper Collage.  I really didn't have anything much for grad cards and I thought this might come in handy... love the font!  I cut it four times and stacked them together for a dimensional look.  I like to use Range Multi Medium Matte for this and thanks to my friend Jean, I discovered adding it with a small paint brush works best.

Love these two floral sets from Stamplorations, Heartfelt Rose and In Bloom: Floral Bliss Trio and stamped them on watercolor paper with Versamark and embossed in gold.  Then, because I wanted the colors to go along with the background, I used the same distress inks I used for my background to watercolor them in by smooshing some ink on a piece of plastic and applying it with my waterbrush.

And these beautiful butterfly dies from Stamplorations...Flutter Zen 2... love how intricate they are!  When I cut them from something thick like this foil cardstock (this one I use tends to have kind of a rubbery/plastic-y backing), I do use my metal shim to get a nice clean cut.

I had an idea in my head and although it changed a little it's pretty much what I planned... I wasn't planning on having the floral go off the edge of my card like this and I'm not sure what envelope it's going to fit in...lol!  But, I sent a pic and it received much approval, so I'll figure that all out this weekend!

I am playing along with a few challenges over at Stamplorations!  It's all about Things with Wings this month and the challenges all have that theme.  I'm entering this card into the Monthly Theme and Sketch Challenge for May (no sketch this month, just the theme of Things With Wings), the Cutplorations May Challenge AND the Never Ending Anything Goes Challenge!  There are a couple more challenges over there that I'm going to try to play along with this month and you should check those out too!

I'm also playing along with the Twisted Thursday Challenge at The Outlawz with a Twist of Double Embossing!

And don't forget!  This starts next Friday!  Are you ready??

Challenge Me Monday #112

This week's Fantabulous Cricut Challenge was to create something for your Graduate.  My oldest graduated from college a couple weeks ago and we're celebrating this weekend.  My good friend and fellow consultant, Donna (check out her blog here), showed us this technique over the weekend with a flower card (that is beautiful...hopefully she's posted it on her blog).  I was trying to decide what to do for the card and this popped in my head... not as beautiful, but pretty cool.  The front of the card is cut along the bottom of the hat line which allows the sentiments and patterned paper to show along the bottom of the inside.  I used Art Philosophy to cut the Frame and the U R.  The stamp sets I used were You Did It and You Are.  Visit the Fantabulous Cricut Blog and see all the great posts to get inspired.