Jar of Cheer Card

Jar of Cheer Stampin' Up!

Quick post for tonight. I made this card earlier tonight when I got home from work. It was made for a fall color challenge. I am loving challenges lately to get the creativity flowing. Three of the colors in the challenge were Real Red, Crushed Curry, and Pear Pizzazz. I immediately thought of the candle stamp in the Jar of Cheer stamp set in the holiday catalog. The stamps are colored with a blender pen. On the tree I blended darker at the top and lighter on the bottom.

Christine's Tip: I die cut jars out of window sheets to go over my stamped jars. I adhered two glue dots at the top of the jar window sheets and hid the adhesive with the lids of the jars.

I linked the products I used to make this card below. This card would be easy to mass produce for holiday cards. Don't forget tomorrow is the last day to save on the Special Offers sale in my Online Store. Let me know if you have any questions.

Happy Stampin',
Christine

Supplies:
Stamps: Jar of Cheer
Ink: Basic Gray Archival, Real Red, Crushed Curry, Pear Pizzazz
Paper: Whisper White cardstock & Red Glimmer Paper
Other: Big Shot, Everyday Jar Framelits Dies, Softly Falling Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Window Sheets, Blender Pen, Mini Glue Dots, Stampin' Dimensionals

Happy Grandparents Day! Jar of Love card

Jar of Love Stampin' Up!

I find myself pretty fortunate at almost 40 to have a living grandparent. My grandmother is almost 99 and today I joined some family members to visit her at her place for Grandparents Day. The facility she lives in puts on a huge spread with food, music, face painting, etc. The best gift I can bring is a beautiful handmade card and a visit.

I chose to pull out my Jar of Love stamp set to make a vase of flowers card to bring her today. She loves flowers and usually has quite a few plants/fresh flowers in her apartment at all times. The inspiration in the colors of this card came from a funny item. Hubby & I were getting ice cream at a local place a few weeks ago and I snapped a photo of the cup from his frappe - the colors were green, purple, and yellow. I immediately thought of purple & yellow flowers with green stems! Do you take photos on your phone of items for inspiration too?

Christine's tip: The flower images are two stepped stamped. I found it easiest to stamp the darker/middle section first in full strength and then I stamped off with the larger flower image to get the softer color. This is of course easy to do since the stamp set comes in Photopolymer so you can see through it.

Let me know if you have any questions. I am loving all the stamp sets in the holiday catalog that coordinate with the Everyday Jars Framelits Dies. You can purchase the items I used on this card in my Online Store. I have linked the products below. Don't forget if you purchase the Jar of Love stamp set & Everyday Jars Framelits Dies as a bundle you save 10%.

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Supplies:
Stamps: Jar of Love
Ink: Sweet Sugarplum, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Smoky Slate
Paper: Sweet Sugarplum cardstock & Whisper White cardstock
Other: Big Shot, Everyday Jar Framelits Dies, Whisper White Baker's Twine, Stampin Dimensionals, Fast Fuse Adhesive, Multipurpose Liquid Glue

Happy Stampin',
Christine