Baby Boy Card

Hi everyone,
The weather have been so bad in central NJ that is making me more lazy, it's been dark and raining non stop.
My friend that came to visit asked me to do a card for a friend that is having a baby boy and of course I could not say no. It's always good when I have a chance  to show new people the art of hand made cards, maybe for us that are crafters seems natural but there is a huge amount of people that don't know this art.
It was funny to show her my mini albums  and see the other side of what people think, the really small albums she liked but she would comment: I liked but the pictures are so small...made me think hummmmm if I do this to be focused on the picture maybe my children in 20 years will say why mom did this albums so small we can barely see the pictures. Make kind of sense. I know some of you may say well you have to do what you like : that's true but when the album is for my son  or for someone else no tiny albums anymore.
Anyway, the card:
I used papers from Making Memories vintage findings as well the bingo card, the stamps are from Flourishes.

I have another girl I know having a boy, and I will help with the baby shower so expect some projects in near future.

Hope you have a great day!
Jana

Basket Acrylic Mini Album with Video Tutorial

This is a bonus project for Clear Scraps , on this project I've used the Acrylic Basket Grab Bag ,
And cricut designs  it's really great for a little girl.
Here you can see a video tutorial of my process.







I'm posting this mini to sell for a Special price !
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Thanks for stopping by and thanks for the comments I feel sorry blogger doesnt always provide the email addresses .
Jana

More tags

More tags I did today at Create Scrapbooks you can watch the show on this direct link here .
Also we create a forum so we can share and view others tag, the forum is pretty new but we intend to have a lot of challenges and files there. Register HERE.

I'm Watching tonight Food Revolution at ABC did you see the preview ? I loved it !

Hope you have a great weekend !
Jana

Fear of Using different mediums and video tutorial

I have  article at Clear Scraps blog today and a youtube video tutorial , I used Owl Key chain Mini Album. If you could leave me a comment there I would appreciate ;)

I have another mini album finished that I will post here this week, as soon the sun comes out and I can take pictures. The weather has been bad this week.

Today we 're going to start our Technique Tag Book today at Create Scrapbooks , if you didn't download the cover yet go to our blog and download the free pdf.
The show is today HERE at noon EST.

Some classes today and tomorrow

Today I will start a mixed media canvas live at Create Scrapbooks show page , 9p.m EST hope you can join me.

Tomorrow we'll start a Technique Tag Book, we will teach you many Stamping Techniques  plus we will have extra pdf for you with written instructions to put in the back of the tags.

You can get the Printable cover and notes for the show tomorrow here at Create Scrapbooks blog.

Tag Technique Book Friday 03/26 noon EST. Get FREE Printable HERE and Show here.

Thanks
Jana

Technique Tag Book...

If you want to learn how to do this tags , Create Scrapbooks will start a Techniques  Tag Book, we will provide a printable cover and you can watch us doing the techniques live and also we will provide the instructions in pdf to be printed on the back of the tags.
The first 2 are resist and masking , I hope you join Create Scrapbooks live  03/26 12p.m to start the book with us.

Also I will have a bonus show 03/25 Thursday, 9 p.m  I will start a Mixed Media Canvas live I hope you join me.

Thanks
Jana

You're one layout + SCAL freebie and jounaling cards freebie

Hi everyone, finally I got to do something, many things coming this week!
With this layout I have 2 freebies for you, but first the paper I used was perfect for Birthday
Bo Bunny Press - It's My Party Collection - 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - It's My Party Cut-Outs
Bo Bunny Press - It's My Party Collection - 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - It's My Party Presents

Really a great collection, not as easy to find.
I wanted me and Carlos to write wishes for Lucas, so I designed Journaling  for that, and you can download the pdf comes with 3 journaling cards, wishes from mommy, wishes from daddy and wishes for you. You can download it  HERE.

Also, I wanted to do some balloons, so I created a svg file that if you have SCAL , you can use to cut once you import the file to scal use break apart to make the 2 ballons separate. One of the ballons on SCAL I  added number 1 .
You can download the file HERE.

Our last Create Scrapbooks Show is now available to watch here.

I hope you enjoy, and let me see your projects if you ever use these files.
Have a great week !
Jana

Do you know who Renee Pearson is?

Well, she will be our guest tonight at Create Scrapbooks, the Photoshop guru !
I will do a short presentation also of Digital Scrapbook . So come and join us tonight at 9p.m Eastern.
If you have questions we are there to answer !
Jana

Gift Bag Topper + News for Cricut users

Hi everyone, I've been busy with some domestic stuff and receiving some guests from OK tomorrow so exciting to see some friends. Anyway, I did a mini album to give my friend and this is a bag to give the mini album, I did a bag topper you can see my old tutorial here with something similar.
The top flower was embossed with Distress Embossing Powder Jar-Dusty Concordand the stamp set I used was this one

Together with some chipboard and sticker for the sentiment.

I have some great news for Cricut users Create Scrapbooks has partnership with SCAL (Craft Edge) and we will be doing freebies and tutorials at Create Scrapbooks Blog,  what is SCAL?
 "Sure Cuts A Lot" is an easy to use software to cut your True Type fonts, SVG files, images, and various shapes on your Cricut^TM Machine. No special cartridges required. Works with your installed True Type fonts on your computer. Available for Windows and Macintosh." 


So if you're not a follower of the blog, you better be to know more and when we have special content there!


Thanks for stopping by

Card and some Ebook tips

Hi everyone , we had a nasty and scary weekend winds of up to 62 mph crazy, today going out I saw a lot of destruction, tomorrow I will take a picture of a ginormous tree that I saw today down in Princeton.
Simple card today, I'm doing several things at once and not news I 'm slow in all of them. My friend Risa gave me this stamped image I forgot from where she is from, I colored with Prisma Pencils and Gamsol. The Thank you Stamp is from Michaels.

I want to give a nice tip for you that want to learn some simple and basic tips and effects from Photoshop. This Ebook from Ella Publishing: Special Effects

The nice thing is affordable and you receive at your email as PDF I've been buying some and really like it.

Recently I got this one, it's really a deal for who likes sketches, like me ! What I really liked about it is that the author gives variation in 8 1/2 x11 formats, which is the format I prefer to scrap.
And tons of extra sketches. Really recommend this one:
Sketches book

Thanks for stopping by

A Layout without Pictures

I did this layout live at Create Scrapbooks Show today !
The recorded show is already available for you HERE.
We got some exciting news and sneek peeks so I hope you watch it !

Have a great weekend !
Jana

Mini Album + Create Scrapbooks tomorrow

I did this mini album for a friend from Ok that is coming to visit next week, it's going to be pretty exciting to see her and her husband.
So, she knows nothing about scrapbooking so I did a pretty simple album for her to put her pictures and tags along the way for her to write something about the pictures. Very simple embellishments so she doesn't get overwhelmed, recording is all about the pictures.

Tomorrow we have Create Scrapbooks in a new Day time, 12:00PM EST (noon).
Hope you can join us.You can also see previous shows in the same link here. I'll be doing a layout live without pictures.
Thanks

Fabric Layout

Hi Everyone ,
We had a great little party for Lucas, he had a great time but didnt want to eat his cake, he was too busy wanting to go cruise the room, he barely wanted to eat.  He didn't want to be confined at his high chair.

Well this is fabric layout, I've been inspired by Donna Downey new prima line, I love her style and I love fabric as well I just wish I had more time to play with my sewing machine and space really. If i had a table just for my sewing machine I would use a lot more I'm sure.
I used for the layout  base this canvas, and cut to 8 1/2 x 11.



I did some washed acrylic, then some foam stamping and used some punchanellas.
And some Prima Iron
Iron Ons Orange Stems (Prima)

Took the Fabric word dream and used glimmer mist. The crochet flowers I did  wrote in strips of paper and glimmer misted.


Thanks for stopping by

Free Word art , PSE playing + some news

 

Time  is something missing this week for me to create things. I guess I got a little disorganized and lazy this week and I'm preparing myself to Lucas Birthday Saturday, this week has been emotional to me I can't believe he's going to be 1. So I was playing with PSE and my  Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet.

I added this PNG for you free with shadow already if you want. You can download it HERE.

 

I have some great news I was chosen as Guest Designer for Clear Scraps for March and April.
They have cool clear albums, chipboard albums and mixed albums and some very cool 12 x12 clear pages. So I will be having tutorials soon and showing their amazing albums.
You can check their blog here.

Hybrid Card Video tutorial + Free Digital images

 

Here is the 2 images I've designed for you 

 

  

You can download thank you here and grow here.

Enjoy

Jana