Category Archives: Just for Fun Challenge

Hi everyone!  It’s time for our October Just For Fun challenge with the JiFFy girls!  We’re a little late but that’s ok.  We’ll catch up!

This month Alli selected paper from My Mind’s Eye Colorful Christmas Collection.  Once it was in the mail to each of us and before anyone knew what she had chosen, Julie selected Papertrey Ink’s Autumn Abundance.   I love the paper (so cute!) and I love the image but what a challenge this time!  I wasn’t sure how in the world I was going to make Christmas/winter paper work with a bouquet of mums.   So I ended up using the back sides of the two wintry patterns.

Thanks Just Doesn’t Seem Like Enough

I wanted to try to make my pitcher of flowers look like it’s sitting on a table with a cloth.  I used a craft knife to carefully cut around the bottom of the pitcher, slid my orange paper beneath, added the lace trim and matted the image.

Be sure to check out the other JiFFy girls to see what they did with the same paper and image! 

Lori Craig

Kim Hughes

Julie Campbell

Alli Miles

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a great day!  🙂

Stamps: Papertrey Ink “Autumn Abundance”  Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black   Cardstock: Papertrey Ink White   Patterned Paper:  My Mind’s Eye Colorful Christmas “Merry Dots” and “Falling Flakes”  Accessories: Copic markers (BG0000, BG01, YR02, YR04, YG63, YG67, C00, C1, C3), Making Memories lace trim, button, white string, dimensional boosters, sewing machine.  Finished size 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.

Hi everyone!  It’s time for another Just For Fun challenge with my JiFFy friends!  🙂

As a quick reminder of how our challenge works, one JiFFy girl selects and mails the paper to each of us, then another JiFFy girl selects and reveals the image before any of us (including the image picker) receives the paper.  So each month, none of us knows what we’ll be using until we have it.   Fun, right?

This month Julie chose this really cute dotted-on-one-side/floral-on-the-other Memory Box “Just Chillin” paper while Kim chose Memory Box’s Twizzle Tree.  And as an extra nice surprise, Ellen of Ellen Hutson LLC decided to treat each of us with the stamp.  How sweet is that?  Thank you so much, Ellen!  🙂

Thanks

I chose to use only the dotted side of the paper, adding some flower lace trim underlined by thin strips of the Crabapple cardstock.  I wanted just a pop of color so I added a lime green button over my bow.

Be sure to check out what the other JiFFy girls did with this same paper and image!  I can’t wait to see for myself!  I love this challenge.  🙂

    JULIE

    ALLI

    KIM

    LORI             

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a great day!

Stamps:  Memory Box “Twizzle Tree,” Cornish Heritage Farms “Silhouette Blooms II” (Kim Hughes Collection)   Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black   Cardstock: Prism Crabapple Dark, Super Smooth White   Patterned Paper:  Memory Box “Pink Floral” Just Chillin’ Girl   Accessories:  Copic markers (R0000, R20, R222), Making Memories gingham ribbon and floral trim, Basic Grey button, white string, dimensional boosters. Finished size 5” x 5”.

Yes, it’s time for another Just For Fun challenge with the Jiffy girls…Julie, Lori, Alli, Carole and myself.  And guess what?!   I’m happy to say we have a new Jiffy girl…our friend, Kim Hughes!  We’re super-excited to have her join us!     Welcome, Kim!!!  

This month Lori chose these two lovely Pink Paislee papers.  (Gorgeous!)  Once the paper was in the mail to the group (but before anyone received it), I chose this frazzled owl by Whimsy Stamps.  Little did I know that Carole has a big aversion to birds, specifically owls.  So, sorry Carole!  But just for the record, if I could have found a way to make this owl’s head turn 360 degrees, I would have done that…JUST FOR YOU!!!  😉

It’s been lovely BUT…

I very often feel like screaming…like when my daughter insists on wearing half of last year’s Halloween costume to school.  How about my kids’ incessant arguing, name-calling and tattling.  I’m pretty sure I screamed about the  education my children received from the graffitied walls of a Johnny Potty this weekend.    Yeah.  That was especially nice.   Or how about when I realized that I glued the trim on this card wrong side up.  Oh well.  It is what it is.

Be sure to check out what Julie, Carole, Alli, Lori and Kim have done with this same image and paper.  As always, I can’t WAIT to see!  🙂

Thanks so much for stopping by!!!  Have a great day! 

Stamps:  Whimsy Stamps Owl, sentiment by Inkadinkado (retired)   Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black   Cardstock:  Prism Suede Brown Dark, Natural Smooth   Patterned Paper:  Pink Paislee “Beloved” and “Graceful”   Accessories:  Copic markers (E31, E33, E35, E57, C1, C3, W1, Y38, YR23, E0000), Making Memories trim, Creative Memories circle cutter, American Crafts brads.

WOOHOO!  It’s time for our monthly challenge with the JiFFy girls… Lori, Carole, Alli and Julie!  And this month we have a special guest, Sharon Harnist!  🙂   Lori is visiting with Sharon and made her card there, so we thought it would be perfect for Sharon to play along too!  (Thanks for saying “yes,” Sharon!)

This month Lori chose this adorable image from Unity called Neighborhood of Simplicity which can be found in the Pixie Lane set.  For this month’s paper, I chose My Mind’s Eye Bloom & Grow Eye Candy (and then covered up most of it). 

The Road to a Friend’s House

I colored the image with Copics (and have had several questions as to which colors I’m using so I will *try* to remember to include that information from now on in the card supply list).  The entire front panel is raised on pop dots, as is the main image (from the Saffron panel up).

Be sure to check out what Lori, Carole, Alli, Julie and Sharon have done with the same image and paper! 🙂   (I love these challenges!)

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a great day!

Stamps:  Unity “Pixie Lane” ; sentiment by A Muse Artstamps   Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black   Cardstock:  Prism Desert Coral Dark, Natural Smooth; Stampin’ Up! So Saffron    Patterned Paper:  My Mind’s Eye Bloom & Grow “Eye Candy”   Accessories:  Copic markers (YG95, E08, BG49, YR23, E57, E47, B0000), Basic Grey button, linen thread, pop dots, sewing machine.  Card size 5” x 5”.