Jen Shears Designs

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

I'm super excited to be able to participate in ~Amy's~ amazing hop!

Hopefully I've got things linked properly :)

I went pretty CAS today.

I used some BasicGrey paper & spellbinder die for my window. PTI Warm Happiness Too was used, but the snowflake is from 2 feet deep.

May Arts 3/4" ivory canvas was stamped with delicata gold ink (also used on the snowflake) & tied off with 1/4" light blue sheer ribbon.

My favorite drink this time of year is a chai eggnog latte. SO delicious- have you tried one?

I don't have any coffee ribbon, but I do have lots of other types! How about I send one person a sample of several types? Don't forget to leave your contact info in your comment if you're a 'no-reply' blogger!

ETA: My little blog candy will be open through Dec. 14th- just like the hop!

ETA- WINNER!

Erin is the winner of my blog candy! I will be getting your ribbon out to you soon!

Thanks to everyone that left such sweet comments :)

Thank you to amy for all her amazing work!

Happy Hopping!


17Turtles	Veronica Zalis	Chris Franco

Add a Little Dazzle	Butterfly Reflections Ink	Color Cast Designs

Create a Smile	Hero Arts	Kraftin' Kimmie

Kreative Kymona	Latina Crafter	Neat & Tangled

Newton's Nook	Pickled Potpourri Designs	Poppystamps

Reverse Confetti	Stamp Academy	Stamp Simply Ribbon Store

STAMPlorations	SugarPea Designs	Sweet 'n Sassy

The Alley Way Stamps	Two Paper Divas	Verve Stamps

Whole Wild World	Your Next Stamp	Paper Smooches

17 Turtles: $15 Store Gift Card

A Muse Studio/Chris Franco: Cup of Good Cheer stamp set

Add a Little Dazzle: $25 Store Gift Card

Butterfly Reflections Ink: Prima Coffee Break

Color Cast Designs: Coffee Lovers kit

Create a Smile: Monster Party stamp set

Hero Arts: A Little & Today's Special stamps/Cup 'O Joe Shadow ink

Kraftin' Kimmie: $25 Store Gift Card

Kreative Kymona: Fancy Mug Giveaway

Latina Crafter: Cafe Wood Veneers + $25 Store Gift Card

Neat & Tangled: Warm Wishes stamp set

Newton's Nook: $15 Store Gift Card

Paper Smooches: $25 Store Gift Card

Pickled Potpourri: $7 Store Gift Card

Poppystamps: Tea Cup Stack Die

Reverse Confetti: $15 Store Gift Card

Stamp Academy: 2 classes

Stampin' Up/Veronica Zalis: $20 Store Gift Card

STAMPlorations: $10 Store Gift Card

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store: Coffee Cup Prize Pack

SugarPea Designs: $20 Store Gift Card

Sweet 'n Sassy: Pick Me Up Clear stamp & die set

The Alley Way Stamps: Tea Par-tea stamp set

Two Paper Divas: Your Warm My Heart stamp set

Your Next Stamp: $20

Verve Stamps: $25

Whole Wild World: Coffee before Talkee mug

●●Sponsorship prizes are eligible via random draw from linked hop participants only●●

Sunday, December 7, 2014

MIM #191: Glittered Frames

This week the MIM challenge was to make glittered frames.

I kind of like glitter.

A lot.

So here's what I came up with:

The stamping on the flowers was hard to capture- used gold delicata which looks fab with the MS gold glitter on the frame :)

Sentiment is from a wreath for all seasons.

The busy season is here! Yikes!

Hope you're all enjoying it- wish I could just slow it down a bit...

We saw Santa on Friday- I posted on instagram from my phone- I caught a really genuine laugh they were both having- we asked her what they were laughing about & she said she told him she wanted a pet rock- he cracked up.

what a nut.

Thanks for stopping by!

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

November 2014 PTI Blog Hop- take 2

Another quick card for the SNOW themed PTI hop!

This is so shimmery in person- and the snowflakes are outlined with prisma pencil- I love how they look!

Happy Hopping!

November 2014 PTI Blog Hop

The 25th already?

Glad I remembered last night so that I could make a snow-themed card for this month's hop!

I really love this set- I've inked it with Vintage Cream ink- hard to see, but I also stamped snowflakes on the back layer.

The window was created with a spellbinder's snowflake die! Lot's of mica snowflakes obscure the stamped ones!

Red 1/4" sheer May Arts packs a punch :)

Hoping to get to hop tonight in between prepping my little bit for the classroom feast in Hadley's class & getting prepped for Thanksgiving here!!

Excited to see all the snow inspired projects!

Monday, November 24, 2014

MIM #189: Impression Line Watercoloring

This week the challenge was to use a die to create an impression & watercolor within the impression.

I really like how it looks!

I used twinkling H20's to color my impression & silver delicata for the stamped portion.

I also used a Spellbinder's snowflake die to cut some vellum & May Arts 1/4" sheer white ribbon.

I'm kind of in denial that it's Thanksgiving week! This year feels like the fastest ever!

Thanks for stopping by!

Thursday, November 20, 2014

May Arts: Kids Crafts

Welcome to my kids craft post!

Hadley and I thought it would be fun to make birdseed ornaments for gifts this year. We found this post and used the recipe to make our own!

Cookie cutters work great but I have very few of those so we made most of ours in a muffin pan.

Straws were pushed into each ornament to hold a space to put our ribbon through.

After they had set up we used 5/8" red cotton stripe ribbon to hang our ornaments.

For reference, the recipe from the linked post made a full pan of 'muffins' as well as 2 cookie cutter ornaments.

Since we used a ribbon wider than our hole we used silver string/metallic ribbon as our threader.

Worked like a charm!

These were really fun to make & didn't take too long! I think we will make another batch up for more gifts!

There are even directions for making a box on the blog we found the recipe- so I used some Core'dinations to whip up a quick box, tying it with that same cotton/stripe ribbon. I added some holly leaves because they always make holiday gifts look festive!

A bit of the new kraft raffia for padding inside!

Lots of Kids Crafts inspiration to be found at the blogs below!

You know the Ribbon Lady loves a giveaway-stop by the May Arts blog for the details!!

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Thursday, November 13, 2014

May Arts + Core'dinations!

It's a fun week of May Arts & Core'dinations teaming up for a blog hop!

I've got a few projects to share:

I made this cute tag with Core'dinations whitewashed paper- it's dry embossed with a Cuttlebug snowflake folder.

May Arts 1.5" snowflake is topped with a satin cutout snowflake.

Beautiful light blue silk ribbon is accented with silver/white Baker's twine. Love how wintry this feels!

Another snowflake! This one uses the kraft Core'dinations paper and is embossed with a Dreamweaver stencil snowflake.

White adhesive scalloped border is a pretty accent. White 1.5" silk & 1/8" burgundy silk finish it off.

More kraft Core'dinations paper! This one is embossed with a Dreamweaver damask stencil.

I used the white adhesive fleur-de-lis scroll ribbon on top of the teal 1.5" silk. Spray ink was used to alter the color- I love that it ties in so well with the exposed kraft.

Kraft Core'dinations & Dreamweaver stencil.

I folded the 1.5" gold metallic ribbon in half to tie around the focal panel so that it wouldn't cover too much of the cool paper, but also have a tie with a lot of wow. Kraft raffia gives a surprise texture!