And even more...

I'm still working on cards to hold gift cards. Each of my projects today has a pocket on the inside.

For my first card I used freebies (stamps and papers) from the special Christmas Cardmaking and Papercraft. The card is for my brother and he has a bird. I thought these cute little guys would be perfect. I colored them with Copics and added Stickles to their hats.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

1. Crafts 4 Eternity #64 - pea soup

2. Papertake Weekly - Anything goes

For my second card, I used

Santa and his Reindeer by The Stamping Boutique. Tracey's having a great sale on digital images right now, too! I colored the image with Copics and added LOTS of Stickles. I really wanted this card to shine. The papers are DCWV. I distressed the edges a little. I'm still working on that technique.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

1. Simon Says - Anything Goes

2. Crafts and Me #20 - anything goes

Happy Crafting!

Jennifer

Still More Christmas

Still more Christmas for me. I've been making lots of presents - perfect for The Latte Lounge Anything but a Card Challenge! The great thing is Rhonda is sponsoring an Anything Goes challenge, so you can double your entries!

We get formal pictures of Peanut done for her birthday every year. This year, she really wanted to hold the photographer's umbrel

la. I decided to gussy up the frame a little to enhance the photo. I used Tiny Tia from Some Odd Girl. I colored her to look like Peanut - she even picked the color for her dress and shoes! I added rose stickers and her name written in pink glitter (I've blurred this part out).

I'd like to enter the frame in

1. Some Odd Girl My Tiny Contest

2. Crafty Creations Challenge #98 - photo inspiration I think the soft pink and white in the photo inspiration is reflected in the photo of Peanut.

3. By the Cute and Girly - children

I also worked on a project for my mother-in-law. I've been loving these sweater printed notepads that I found in the Michael's dollar bin. For this notepad, I got the matching cards. I made a paper folder to mount them both in. For the notecards, I just cut the plastic that they came in in 1/2 and taped it to the folder. This made a great holder for the cards.

I decided to go Greeting Farm on this project. I have a belated THANK YOU - I won I {heart} sweaters from The Greeting Farm during a blog hop. Here's the whole project, showing the front, inside, and back.

For the front, I colored the image with Copics and followed the sketch from Club Anya. I used DCWV paper and embellishments from my stash.

For the back, I went Anya meets Some Odd Girl, with this month's Odd Girl Freebie. I used the sketch from Anyone for Anya and more DCWV papers. The sentiment is part of I {heart} Sweaters.

I'd like to enter this project in the following challenges (in addition to the two sketches listed above):

1. Some Odd Girl - at least two types of bling - I used sparkly papers, sparkly ribbon, a silver flower, pearls, and rhinestones.

2. Fuzzy Wuzzy - Christmas plus an animal

I'm sure there'll be much more crafting from me right up to the big day.

Happy Crafting!

Jennifer

More Christmas

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I'm still crafting for Christmas. I'm giving a lot of gift cards this year, and I need a card to put them in. Peanut make this one (I just cut the paper and tied the bow for her). She colored this Some Odd Girl image using Crayola markers. She wanted a bow and lots of sparkly things for decoration. She also spent quite a while putting a different color of glitter chalk on each corner.

Peanut (age 3) would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

1. Stitchy Bears Kids - anything Christmas

2. Kona Kids Crafters #13 - Holidays

3. Some Odd Girl - Bling times 2

I made this diagonal double pocket card for another gift card holder. The paper is Basic Grey. I colored The Stamping Boutique's The Fairies Frolic. I was playing around a little bit with distressing and added Tim Holtz dye to the edge and then clear glitter.
I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

1. Creative Cowgirls #3 - Christmas or winter - hope this counts, it's a Christmas present - Check out the blog hop with fabulous candy!!!

2. The Crafty Pad #102 - anything goes

3. CES Challenges #17 - anything goes

4. Allsorts Challenge #83 - anything goes

Happy Crafting!

Jennifer

Altered CD

Have you visited the new Outlaw Women Scrapbook Emporium Club Forum? You can earn points toward a discount coupon for the club's already discounted prices! I'm in charge of point counting, so make it fun for me and join in!

This is my first try at an altered CD. I was inspired by the Altered CD challenge at OWSE Forum. The challenge was to use pearls, and I used light green sticky 1/2 pearls in the flowers and at the top. I used paper from DCWV - I just traced the CD and cut it out twice. The chipboard was a freebie with Cardmaking and Papercraft. The sentiment is a freebie from Bizzy Becs. I'm going to give the ornament to friends as part of their Christmas present.

This is also a great project for the Anything but a Card Challenge I'm organizing at The Latte Lounge!

I'd like to enter the ornament in the following challenges:

1. Everybody Art #121 - homemade present

2. Stampavie #121 - Make a gift

3. wee memories #36 - colors of the season

Happy Crafting!

Jennifer

Christmas box

I'm still working like mad on Christmas presents. Miles to go before I sleep :) I wanted to make a drawer box for my sister's present. I used this tutorial, and just made two and taped them on top of each other. I decorated the top and each drawer bottom, so there's a little surprise when she opens each one.

The top is decorated using a Sugar Nellie image. My sister has a farm with horses, so this image is just perfect for her. I used this tutorial on coloring jeans with Copics. I'm really pleased with how her clothes turned out. Slowly, I'm getting better with the Copics. I used papers from DCWV, and added a silver snowflake brad and Stickles around the image.

I'd like to enter this part in the Sugar Nellie #49 challenge - sketch plus snowflakes.

The next drawer features an image from The Stamping

Bazaar. He's a freebie this month, so don't miss out! The papers are again from DCWV - same large paper pack. The sentiment is a freebie from Bizzy Becs. I added Stickles to the white parts of his hat and around the inside of the sentiment - a little hard to see. I used tiny green buttons on the drawn buttons on the image. This is one of my favorite embellishments.

I'll be putting candies in this drawer.

I'd like to enter this part in The Stamping Bazaar's Challenge #8 - sketch.

The last drawer uses this month's freebie from Digis with Attitude. I colored the image with Copics and added some darker Stickles to frame this image. I'm going to put a gift certificate in this drawer.

I'd like to enter this double drawer project in the following challenges:

1. Digis with Attitude #11 - anything Christmas

2. Bunny Zoe #7 - sparkle and shine

3. Copic Creations #41 - Sparkle!

4. Top Tip Tuesday #14 - Christmas inspired

5. Winter Wonderland - Wrap it Up

6. Stampin' for the Weekend #53 - Christmas

7. Saturday Challenge #114 - in the farmyard (the horse image on the top)

Hope you're getting done with your presents too.

Happy Crafting!

Jennifer

JLJ Designs sponsoring Glitterbabe Challenges

This week I'm sponsoring Glitterbabe's Challenge. The challenge is snow or snowflakes. The prize is 3 digis, a digi paper pack, and this little Christmas candy! I have a card for the challenge, stay with me.

This is a picture of Peanut in the snow in Chicago. I love how she's throwing the snow. You can't see in this picture, but her cheeks were so pink. She had six layers of clothes on!

Here's my card. I used Snow Bunny and the blue papers from Traditional Christmas paper pack, Snow Fun paper pack, and my part of the Stitchy Dec collab. I punched out snowflakes and added some decorative brads and velvet ribbon. The sentiment is from a DCWV paper pack.

This is the inside of the card. The white part is a pocket, so I can insert a gift card. I added another sentiment from DCWV.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

1. Friday Sketchers #132 - sketch

2. Simon Says Challenge - blue, white, and silver

3. The Pink Elephant #90 - Winter Wonderland

4. Cupcake Craft Challenge #121 - non traditional Christmas

5. Pollycraft #74 - White Christmas

6. ABC Christmas - Z is for Zero time left - I used I for ice with added snowflakes.

Happy Crafting!

Jennifer

Blog Candy Winner!!!

The winner of my blog candy is...

Rosalee M! Rosalee, please email me your address at jljdesigns@cox.net.

Happy Crafting!

Jennifer