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september projects...

-------------------------------------------------**September 2011 jbs Mercantile kit*-------

 

 

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Sandrine Roussel-benoit said:

and where do you buy your tags?!! i love them! i live in France................

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Hello Sandrine! I buy them from Staples-an office supply store. And I also buy the white ones from JoAnn's! Did you also ask me about butterflies??

Cloudscolorgarden.blogspot.com said:

Oh my goodness! yer cards are beautiful and the perfect inspiration to jump start some cards of mine, lovely and fun! what inks and stamps did u use? Thanks! Clouds :)

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Hey Cloud...I am so all over the place with stuff! Inks vary from Stazon-love the white & pink for stamping on transparencies...black too. Colored inks can be some of Jenni Bowlin's new ink line, Stampin Up inks, Tim Holtz, and a few others. The stamps I have been using on the tags are 7gypsies & Tim Holtz. And a few Jenni Bowlin & Martha Stewart. 

gift card & soft colored tags...

--------------------------------------------------Whisker Graphics project.

I made this card with a mini gift bag attached to it-at least this way the card & the gift are aklways together! No one has to ask who's gift is this at a party.

Whisker products-divine twine, bitty cheveron bag, and birdi sticker; other-MS punch

--------------------------------------------------***MM Slice Fabrique project...

This card was made for a MM Slice Fabrique Facebook post on Monday. The flower is fabric cut with Slice-the black flower was not. The tag was punched on the end with a new EK success punch. Stickers are MM Paper Reverie and some black lace, voila!

-------------------------------------------------***More stamped tags...this time I pulled out some colored inks for my tags. I used soft light colors...

 

 

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Denise Rutkiewicz Morgan said:

Love the fashion choices. I have a Q for you, how is Amira's Coach back pack holding up? My daughter had the first style of the sequin purse that came out a year or so ago. It started to fall apart at the seams. Coach replaced it with the new style sequin in gun metal. It seems to be holding up so far, but she does have quite the Coach collection so she doesn't have to carry the sequins bag daily she does mix it up. Glad to see so many posts this week too ;) Oh and did you feel the earthquake? I'm on the CT-MA border so I didn't feel a thing here.

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Hey Denise...I grabbed her bag at the outlet last Dec and so far it still looks great. Amira is not a gentle creature! She stuffed it with tons of hard covered texted books last year. When she came home she would just throw it done on the floor, like a normal teen. 

OMG, the quake!!! I had just finished 30 mins on the treadmill, and I sat at my desk drinking a smoothie while looking on Pinterest- lol. I started to feel the HOUSE sway & then stuff on my desk shaking. It took me a minute to jump up and call the girls. Kiela came screaming. That minute seemed forever-it just left us a bit shaken.

 

 

Jamia Bankhead said:

The girls are quite the FASHIONISTAS and I luv it and I am sure to do to. Just think of all the fun shopping trips to come for many many years. I have two sons and its completely different. One like to shop and one doesnt but that means different stores and different dept in the dept stores.

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Oh, Jamia...Kiela would probably be my shopping buddy. She loves putting together outfits with just the right jewelry. Mira could care less most of the time. Kiela asks to go to the mall for clothes, and Amira would go to hit the bookstore!

Heaven said:

Love her style, great choices. Great to see a recent picture of Mira, she's turning into a beautiful young lady =)

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Heaven, I had to show you she is still around!! She usually takes off when I have a camera in my hand!

 

Elle's Studio Aug 2011 Guest...

 

I am thrilled to be apart of the Aug gallery over at Elle's Studio as their guest! And since receiving some product to play with I have been seriously addicted. Here is what I came up with for the gallery and soon I will post a few other projects I did just because I couldn't stop playing...

 

 

{Out for Publication}

 

new jbs updates...

april jbs mercantile...

April is here-and so there are new projects in the gallery!!

 

 

I just love the new butterfly stamp I did on the tag...

 

I used the new banner stamps on transparencies....

 

 

Comment by:
Keandra Perkins-Willis

6 days ago

Ok, so I have to DELURK for a minute to tell you: I almost BROKE MY NECK running to Home Depot to get those urns!!! Don't worry: no kids were harmed in my pursuit of these yummies!!!! I have been looking for larger ones and never thought to check there (DUH!!!) I checked online first to see if they were available. Just a LITTLE sad that they were $14.99 each instead of $8.99 but I'm still lovin' them!!! How tall are yours? These are about 13"

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Keandra...LOL, I wanted that one tooooooo! So here is a photo I snapped last weekend while me & LaVaughn were in HD for the umpteenth time with both urns-which are now in my home!! Sad thing is I need a few more for the two orchids I just bought from Ikea that weekend. I am sure you did something fabulous with yours.

Comment by:
Laura

7 days ago

not sure if you're aware but your blog loads so painfully slow that it's really hard for some of us to leave comments. not sure what you might have on here but whatever it is, it's slowing the blog waaaay down. love your new updates, just hard to comment.

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Comment by:
Heaven

6 days ago

Love the album Keisha, simply stunning! Your blog loads slow for me too sometimes too.. I just wait it out lol :)

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Laura & Heaven...sorry you are having trouble with the blog loading. I find it to be slow on one of my pc's-I just thought it was my old computer. I'll try to get rid of some of the ads to see if that might help. I really have no idea why it loads slow-I have not done anything but change the theme(look of the blog)-through typepad. Sorry

shadow box...

I did this shadow box project for a MM blog assignment & as a gift for Caitlyne who is expecting very soon. The sweet booties were brought to her from Guatemala by the babies great grandmother and were so beautiful. I asked her if I could use them for this project and then she could have it for the babies room. 

I used MM Flutter pp & brads, straight pins, and Slice Paper Reverie card for the butterflies & letter E. There are straight pins keeping everything attached to the shadow box backing-no glue is needed!! I picked up the shadow box from Michael's for less than $10. 

 

Also, something big is going on...take a look at Kelly Purkey's blog.

 

Comment by:
Marianne Larsen

4 days ago

Keisha I'm completely in love with your style, it's absolutely gorgeous.I was wondering what kind of stamps you have used on your layout?

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Hello Marianne,

Thank you so much! I haven't used any stamps on the last few layouts. On the March 1 post-I did use Stampin Up Define Your life on a few of the journaling spots. Mostly I did a bit of misting with masks & cutouts for most of my recent layouts. Is there a certain layout you were wondering about?

jbs march updates...

More projects using the March 2011 kit, add-ons and project kit.

Enjoy the gallery!

 

 

This project has lots of new jbs products-like the STAMPS!

 

Comment by:
Doris

6 days ago

Hi Keisha, I know this is kind of old but the pictures that you posted for 2/7/11, I was wondering how did you make the kisses tag? Thanks.

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OK, Doris...

This is a super simple card-using MM's pre-made card

1. I cut half the tag off and taped it to the back of the rose diecut label.

2. Using pop-dots I added the gold foil kiss to the top of the rose diecut.

3. Then I taped those three things to that card.

4. I punched a few flowers and randomly glued them to the card.

5. Then add the rhinestones & done!

 

Happy Valentine's Day...

 I spent Sunday making this as LaVaughn painted the kitchen cabinets. I had such a hard time getting just the right photos of this banner, some were taken during the day & during the night. I used more of the MM Je t'Adore line and my Slice with the Paper Reverie card for the sweet butterflies.

products: MM hearts, gold glittered diecuts, gold foil love diecut, rose brad, love story sticker, diecut label, butterflies & green leaves-Slice Paper Reverie card.

just a little more love...

 

Played a bit more with MM Je t'Adore line...

layout products: lg heart, med heart, love sticker, diecut label; the background cardstock was misted with old masks.

card supplies: gold foil diecuts, stickers, cards, dotted paper card, glittered heart, labels; MS heart border punch

 

For the wing card I used my Slice with the Just Chillin card to make the wings.




(OUT FOR PUBLICATION)

 
 

studio calico jan kit-who's who...

Studio Calico Jan kit-who's who

 I keep popping back & forth from kits & other new stuff. I've been working on this for the past 2 days. I was inspired by the Pink Paisley paper and used some clear embossing powder on the vellum butterflies & the tags with my stamping.

 

 

Burnbright said:

I was really loving the hearts, flash cards, and sewing patterns yesterday. They took me back home to my childhood where we made all our valentines and sewed most of our clothes!

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Proteusa Dravulia said:

So amazing! And so pretty too :) Just love your pages they are always amazing!!

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Thanks for all the great comments...it was hard to do a new post after that one. The colors from the projects made me think of spring, as I see SNOW outside my window!!

Jamia Bankhead said:

My, My, My thats some pretty GORGEOUS stuff!! My favorite is the first one with those FABULOUS butterflys on it along with that vintagey looking floral paper. You Rock girl! Was at CHA this weekend and so was Akeila, saw her cuteness on a layout!

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Jamia...thanks!! I hope to make it to CHA one day soon-I bet it was fun!!

nicolebee said:

Question: What settings do you use when you take photos of your layouts? They are always so true to color and clear. I know that you have ample natural light.

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Nicole, it changes depending on the light I am getting. That day was cloudy so I added my speedlite to help.