My friend...

After making the card to send to Jaimie, I felt like making a just because card… no contest, no DT, no sketch challenge, no specific stamps… just because… and this is what I came up with!

I love the little Ginger Bell stamps from The Greeting Farm – she’s such a cute little thing! I had some scraps on my desk from Jaimie’s card so I used them up.

I stamped Ginger Bell twice – once on the background paper with the head flowing off the paper and once on scrap paper. The head was cut from the extra piece and popped up for dimension. I haven’t done a coloured card base in a while (did one on Jaimie’s card too) so it was a nice change! Card size is 4.25” x 4.25”.

Thanks for stopping by today! I can’t believe the first week of November is almost over… where has this year gone?!

Jenn

Stamps: Ginger Bell, Butterfly Wishes sentiment (The Greeting Farm)

Paper: Urban Rhapsody (K&Co), Chocolate & Colonial white cardstock (CTMH)

Ink: Archival Black (CTMH), Prismacolor pencils & OMS

Accessories: White ric rac ribbon (CTMH), sewing machine & black thread

Spread the LOVE Blog Hop!

By now if you've been following the progress of this hop you know the purpose behind "Spread the Love". If not below is a short paragraph of a very tragic story.

If you've just started here, please take the time at go to the first stop of this blog hop: Katharina Frei . If you've landed here via Anita Autore's blog, you're on the right track!

 

On October 4^th, 4 teenagers armed with knives broke into a home in a small town in New Hampshire. Alone and sleeping inside were a mother and her 11 year old daughter. These 4 boys broke into this home with the intent to rob and kill anyone inside. They stabbed the mom, Kimberly Cates, to death and left her daughter, Jaimie, for dead in their driveway.  It was a completely random act, their home was chosen only due to its secluded surroundings.

Our hope is that everyone hopping around today will stop for a moment and think about Jaimie and her father and what life must be like for them now. One moment in time has changed their lives forever. We are asking that everyone reading this message please take a moment to make a card and send it off to Jaimie. You can make something very simple or much more involved, but please share some words of hope and love and let her know that people do care and want the best for her. Please send your card to the address below:


Jaimie Cates
c/o Mont Vernon Fire Station
Main Street
Mont Vernon, NH 03057

Below is the card that I made to send to Jaimie.  Starving Artistamps is sponsoring this hop, so I saw it fitting to use one of my favourite DoodleFactory characters, Gus, for this card! Just a little reminder for Jaimie to keep smiling!

Also, there is a new blog up... Stamp Something... for Jaimie, where sponsoring companies will be contributing to card drive challenges!

And now it's time for the next stop on the HOP! On to my fellow Starving Artistamps Design Team sistah Lydia Fielder's blog! 

Thanks for stopping by today and for taking part in this wonderful event!

Jenn

Halloween Mummy!!

Warning – you may be offended by the sentiment used on this card… just throwing that out there!


My last Halloween card I share with you today! My SIL Sheena and I thought it would be funny to use one of last year’s DoodleFactory Halloween images with this sentiment from the Easter set from earlier this year… the mummy has risen from the grave and is coming to eat yur brainz!

I also used images from the DoodleFactory Into the Woods set for the background treatment. Little Mummy man is popped up with foam squares for dimension!

Well we didn’t get around to carving our pumpkins last night, but it’s all well and good because our plans for tonight were cancelled, there’s nothing important on TV so we’re going to take our time and carve them tonight!

So my new Thursday night obsession is the Vampire Diaries show… its AWESOME!! I’ve read both books already… (nothing like the tv series I may add, but still nice to know some background) and I absolutely LOVE the show. So absolutely NOTHING was done last night between 7-8pm. Have any of you seen the show? Any feedback? Who’s your favourite vamp… Stephen or Damon? Seeing as I love Paul Wesley anyways, I vote Stephen!

Thanks for stopping by today! Hopefully I’ll be poking in tomorrow with some carved pumpkin pics!

Jenn

Stamps: DoodleFactory Halloween, DoodleFactory Into the Woods, All about Easter sentiments; Starving Artistamps
Paper: Stripped DP; Bo Bunny, Cardstock; CTMH
Ink: Archival Black; CTMH, Prismacolor Pencils & OMS
Accessories: black ribbon, black brads (CTMH), Martha punch, sewing machine & white thread, foam squares

Mini Prismacolor workshop...

Hello again! This past week has completely flown by… guess that’s what happens when you don’t have a minute to spare! My lack of blogging has been due to a few workshops that needed the samples finished, my birthday festivities, the actual workshops taking place, and life! Can you believe I actually had to schedule with hubby our pumpkin carving tonight!? That’s if he can pull his behind off the couch and multi-task when the hockey game is on! LOL!! Anyways, today I’ve got three quick and easy cards that were put together for a mini Prismacolor workshop with my friend Janet! She’s new to Prismacolor pencils and wanted to learn a few beginner techniques. Papers are all from the CTMH Jingle paper pack.

We started off with this cute card using the newest Sprout from The Greeting Farm. I love their bold outline stamps – perfect for this medium! The focus of this card was how to do a basic solid colour, and how to colour and shadow a face.

Then we created two snowman cards, with two different techniques to make a white image POP! One shading the inside and one shading the outside.

I might have one more Halloween card to show you tomorrow – it’s currently up for debate because the sentiment may be offensive to some… so who knows… maybe I’ll just blur the sentiment out and show you the rest of the card! And then I’ve got some NEW DoodleFactory images to share! The new DoodleFactory Nativity set is up in the store and it’s TOO CUTE!! And don’t forget you can use my discount code “savetenJM” to get 10% off your order!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Jenn

DoodleFactory Blog Hop!!! Second last stop!

Welcome to the Starving Artistamps New Release Blog Hop!  We are so excited to be presenting you with the newest collection in our DoodleFactory line... 

DoodleFactory Final Frontier!

You are going to want to visit all the stops on our hop because someone is giving away a complete unmounted set of the new release for blog candy! We are keeping the blog candy open for one day only so your chances of winning are even better! (blog hop ends October 21st, 11am PST).  If you just CAN’T wait to get your hands on the new Final Frontier set don't worry! You can order it starting now and if you are our lucky winner we will let you substitute another set of equal value instead! 

If you have arrived here all by yourself and are just finding out about the blog hop please start at the beginning:

START HERE: http://starvingartistamps.blogspot.com/

Juliana Swanson http://stampinwinkyfingers.blogspot.com/  

Tracey Berkey http://stampomatic.blogspot.com

Donna Duquette http://www.deesstudio.blogspot.com/

Sandra MacLean http://paperfuntastics.blogspot.com/

Lori Tecler http://www.inkingaloud.blogspot.com/

Lydia Fiedler http://www.understandblue.blogspot.com/

Andrea Cloutier http://andreasscraps.com/

Dawn Mercedes http://www.dawnmercedes.blogspot.com/

Jenn McMillan  http://www.jennmcmillan.blogspot.com/

Irene Silva  http://doodlefactory.blogspot.com/

 

I have 5 cards to share today; two of them with a different take on the stamp set style!

My first card uses Spuddy! He’s on a moon walk taking in the sights! I used my yellow and baby blue stickles to accent the shooting stars and Spuddy’s space suit – nothing says space suit without a bit of BLING! LOL!

My second card probably looks familiar to you... yup - it's Vort! And this card is what gave me the idea for the Blog Hop button you've seen around! Gotta love Photoshop! This card reminds me of the aliens from the Simpsons cartoons - always looking down on earth to plan their next attack! I used my yellow stickles over little white brads to accent the dots on the arrow... they look kinda crooked though... sorry!

Oh cute little Zega… I love her!! And as soon as I saw her I knew she needed to be pink! For this card I stamped the space station image on the kraft paper rectangle and as well on white cardstock. I coloured the white portion and cut it out so that the colours were more vibrant against the background. Zega is then popped up, and wants to show us her lovely home!

And now for the non-space themed cards using the Final Frontier stamps! One of the sentiments that comes on the sheet is “Peace on Earth”… so I thought, why not make a Christmas card! I stamped the big earth image onto kraft paper and then shaded parts of the interior. Add the sentiment and a poinsettia and voila! Insta-Christmas card! 

And last but not least, is my favourite card of the bunch – a Valentines card! Dot needed some eyelashes to make her more feminine, so those were drawn in after she was stamped, and then I stamped Dash to be her companion. The heart is from the DoodleFactory Valentines remix set and the sentiment is from the Urban Sentiments #2 set. Don’t they make the cutest couple?!

Well I hope you liked my take on this fantastic new set! As you can see, the DoodleFactory stamps are extremely versatile and can be used for almost any holiday or theme!

Thanks for stopping by today! Your last stop on the hop is over to the DoodleFactory Queen Bee herself, Irene! Be sure to leave her LOTS of LOVE for her amazing creations! And make sure you commented on all the stops for your chance to WIN!!

Also, if you want to get your own set of the NEW Final Frontier stamp set or any other stamp set from Starving Artistamps, use my discount code "savetenJM" to get 10% off your order! It's always posted on my sidebar!

Jenn