Bath Time

Good morning Jax Bean Stalks followers and friends!  How great it is to finally have my little one on Summer Break!!!  We are in full swing summer madness!!!  Swim lessons, baseball, Karate, water fight, water balloons, bike rides, walks, snails, frogs, and sun-kissed noses!!

Today I have a fun Zara bunny from Stampotique Originals  I just love this fun image of Zara in the bathtub.  "Bubble Bath".

Have a crafty day!

Faux Medal

What a great Wednesday!  Love this wonderful HOT weather!  Hope everyone is enjoying their week!

Today Stampotique Designers Challenge is having a Faux Medal challenge.  I made this little tag using the "Stacked Cups" stamp.  Love the way it turned out!!!  I used embossing powder and layered it.  Then heated it up and stamped!  Love this fun technique.

Thanks for visiting!

Clearly You Can See The Flower!

Hello!  Welcome to Jax Bean Stalks!  I am glad to say that my little man is on the mend after a 4 day bout with a cold and a terrible cough.  Poor little guy!  What a bad way to start out a fun summer.  Hopefully he will be well enough to go to swim lessons.  Crossing my fingers.
I have a bit of a different project for you today.  The theme of Stampotique's challenge this week is "Transparent Elements" by my fellow teamie Libby.  I have to say, I was "scared" to try an acrylic card base or even to dive into one of the many acrylic albums I have in my stash.  But then I remembered, I have all of my glass shapes that I have been altering into necklaces.  I hope you like it.  It was fun spraying the papers with Tsukineko Fireworks sparkle sprays and stamping "Dandelion Duo" in a the awesome thick Versa Chalk Ink by Tsukineko...I love the deep ocean color.  Hope you like my necklace.  I cannot wait to wear it!  

Hope to see you at the Stampotique Designers Challenge!  Would love to see what transparent elements you use in your craftiness!!!

Supplies:

Stamps: Dandelion Due-Stampotique Originals

Necklace and pendant parts: Sun and Moon Craft Kits...I am excited to say this company is located in COLORADO!!!!  They have great customer service and are super fast on shipping!  Great prices too!

Pretty Zara

Good morning Stampotique friends and followers.  Today I am featuring a card using the adorable Zara bunny called "Pretty Zara".  Hope you like it!

Hope your day is crafty!!!

Love Birds And A Couple Of Challenges!!!

Hi friends and followers.  I cannot believe that my little Bean only has 5 more in school days left.  I am so excited for him to be finished.  This has been a tough year for him and I both.  Having a teacher focus on discipline instead of teaching is just mind blowing to me.  Especially since it has effected Bean in a negative way.  Not that he is perfect (I think he is) but he is not the one that needed discipline   It was her constant negative approach to the kids that affected Bean.  Poor thing was always in fear of being her next target.  SO, we WELCOME 1st grade with open arms!  
This weeks challenge at Really Reasonable Ribbon just screams summer!  It is a Red, White and Blue challenge.  I just LOVE this color combo for so many different reasons.  Of course it reminds me of 4th of July.  It reminds me of freedom and I just love any color combo that includes RED!  
This card is also for the Stampotique Designers Challenge-Anything Goes Challenge hosted by my teamie Kim.  It is to celebrate our 100th challenge at Stampotique!
Visit both of these blogs for some awesome inspiration for all of my teamies on both teams!

I have used Really Reasonable Ribbon's May Ribbon Club.  I LOVE all the choices in this assortment.

The Stampotique stamps I have used are from Kira Nichols. "Some Budgie Loves You".

Thank you so much for stopping in today.  Hope to see you at both the Really Reasonable Ribbon Red, White and Blue challenge and the Stampotique Anything Goes Challenge.

Supplies:

Ribbon: Really Reasonable Ribbon-May Ribbon Club

Stamps: Stampotique-Some Budgie Loves You

Ink: Memento

Stampotique Designers Challenge-Turquoise and Pink Fairy

Hello friends and followers of Jax Bean Stalks.  So glad to have you join me today.  I have a fabulous Stampotique challenge brought to you by my teamie: Polly!  Thanks for such a fun color challenge Polly!!! I am so excited to show you the card I made for this challenge.  This is the 1st time I have used this adorable stamp.  She just seemed perfect for the theme.  You can find GLINDA here.

 

I used many fun sprays and inks courtesy of Imagine Crafts and Tsukineko.  Thank you!!!

 

My entire project was all held together with Helmar Glues.  You can see a full list of what I used below.  Please visit Helmar on Facebook and Twitter

 

 

 

Thank you so much for visiting today!  Please head on over to Stampotique to see the rest of my teamies amazing projects.

 

Supplies:

 

Paper: X-press It Blending Card

Designer paper: EP and MME

Glue: Helmar Craft Glue Helmar Gemstone Glue

Ink:

 IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento™ Dye Ink full-size inkpad in Tuxedo Black

 IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Versa magic™ Ocean Depth

IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Walnut Ink™  Cherry Blossom

IMAGINE Crafts® Fireworks!™ Craft Spray  Lilac Posie

IMAGINE Crafts® Goosebumbs™ Texture Spray

 

 

Stampotique Designers Challenge: Happy Birthday

Here is a fun Happy Birthday Challenge from Stampotique Designers Challenge.  Hope you like my "manly" card!!
I have used Flower Balloon and Happy Birthday.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stampotique Designers Challenge: Flowers

Hello!  Here is my Stampotique Designers Challenge project.  Our challenge is hosted by my teamie: GEZ!  Love this challenge idea!  LOVE all of the pretty flowers you can find at Stampotique!
Today I used Dandelion Duo and "The Earth Laughs in Flowers"

Thank you for visiting!

Happy Birthday Bunny

Good morning friends.  Hope everyone is having a great week.  I had a great class last night.  Two gals came that have never paper crafted.  They are both really enthusiastic.  So much fun helping then get started with all their new supplies!  

Well today I have a card I made with the Sketch Challenge happening this week at Stampotique Originals.  

The sketch is from my teamie Maria.

I have used two Stampotique Originals Stamps: Happy Birthday & Zara's Gift.

Love this little bunny!

Thank you so much for visiting!

Stampotique March Release Blog Hop

Today Stampotique and the design team would love to invite you to join us for a Blog Hop to introduce our new release.  Our design team (as well as a few of the stamp designers) have created some fabulous creations to show off these awesome new stamps, you are going to LOVE them.

Hop through the all the links and leave comments along the way for your chance to win some new stamps.  We will choose random commenters and announce on our next challenge the winners who will get some of thew new images.

If you want an additional chance to win some Stampotique goodies, join us for at the Stampotique Designer's Challenges.

For this card I used the New Zara stamp "Upward Bound" 7310O" and " Happy Birthday"

My papers are My Minds Eye "The Sweetest thing Honey"

Twinery Twine and Prima Flowers

Copics

The images I used for this tag are "Wildflower Verse 3071F" and  "Dandelion Duo 3068m"

My papers are My Minds Eye

The Dandelion's are stamped in Versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder

I then did a water coloring technique with my Copics

Pearls- Miriam's Crafting Supplies

Ribbon-3Girl Jam

If you are just happening upon this blog, you will want to start at Stampotique Designer's Challenge where you can find the master list.  From my blog you will want to hop on over to Jo Capper-Sandon blog.

Stampotique Designer's Challenge

Libby Hickson

Jane Wetzel

Valerie Wilson

Sam Read

Nellie van Leeuwen

Gez Butterworth

Polly Bennett

Kira Nichols

France Papillon

Maria Sabina Raita

Susan Davies

Roc Nicholas

Kim Howard

Jenn Cochran ====You are Here

Jo Capper-Sandon

Kaz Boughton

Sarinda Jones

Carol Fox

Magda Polakow

Astrid Stulemeijer

Thanks for hopping with us today, we can't wait to hear which stamps are your favorites from this release.

The whole March release collection can be viewed on the Stampotique website.

SDC#88-Text all about it

Hello.  I just love the bunnies from artist Maria Sabina Raita.  Today I am featuring Zara's Party.  All of the fun little bunnies can be found at Stampotique Originals.

This weeks challenge is by my teamie Libby.  She wants us to use "text" in our projects.  If you will notice my "Thank you" is the same font as found in news print text.  

Hope you will join us at Stampotique Originals Designers Challenge.

My card is also for Color Me Creative.  This weeks challenge is to make a girly card.  But I am featuring this card using the last challenge...texture.  

Winter Whites

Good morning!  Hope everyone had a fabulous Valentines Day!  I sure did!  My little man gave me beautiful roses.  He is my little lovie! Here is my creation for this weeks challenge at Stampotique Originals Designers Challenge. Valerie is challenge you to do Winter Whites.  Thanks for the great challenge teamie!

I have used several fun stamps for my tag:

Twinkle Toes

Diva

Decor#4

Art

Dew Drops, Puff Paint, Glitter and Ranger accents finished off my tag.

Love Sugar beads!  They make the roses look so pretty!

Hope you like my tag.  Please join us for our Designers challenge!

Colors of LOVE-SDC86

***Please scroll down for my Paper Pretties Post*** Good morning!  Today I am hosting the Challenge over on the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog. SDC86-Color Challege: Red, Pink and White! I have used 4 Stampotique Originals stamps to create my Valentine.  I just LOVE "heart boy"

My background is Danielle's Hearts.  LOVE is by Amy Wilson.  Happy Valentines Day is by Kristen Powers.

Hope you can join in our fun challenge!

Challenges I have entered:

Digi Stamps 4 Joy: Romance

Fab N Funky-Hearts

Fresh Brewed Designs-Hearts and Dots

Simon Says Stamp-Hearts

Perfect Sentiment Challenge-Red White and LOVE

Stampotique SDC#84 LOVE

Time for another Stampotique challenge.  So excited to share with you this fun LOVE themed card.....That almost didn't make it!!!  Well, I was at the end and gluing down my bow with a brand new bottle of "tack it over and over".  I should have been smarter than the glue.  I have had the bottle for a long time and it seemed thick.  When I squeezed it...the unthinkable happened   A BIG blob of glue right in the middle of my card.  I am talking about a blob the size of a silver dollar!  Can you tell?  I took a piece of card stock and scraped it the best I could.  I can't see it...I hope you can't either.

I have used the stamp by Kira Nicols called "Line Up".  I just love it!!!

Hope you have time to play in our challenge HERE.