Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day to all my stamping friends. Wishing you a wonderful day of chocolates and roses. Here is my rose to you.
The rose and leaves are colored with Copic Markers. The colors used for the rose are R17, R27 and R 59. For the leaves I used YG11, YG06, YG07 and E15 for the stem of the rose. I really like how the colors just blend together using the Copic markers. I have been doing a lot of practicing since last month, when I took the class to get Certified. Lots of information was given to us, now I need to practice, practice, and more practice. I have found that as you keep using these markers it gets easier.

Stamps: Just For Fun, Rose G2873 and Valentine Frame E2668
Accessories: Copic Markers, Martha Stewart border punch, Spellbinders Ribbon Tag, Tuexedo Black Memento Ink Pad, red ribbon

StampFest News

Only one week away. StampFest By the Bay 2010 will be held Feb 20th, 2010 at The Matheos Hall, 409 Old Coachman Rd, Clearwater, FL 33765. Hours are 9:00A.M to 5:00 P.M.

The following vendors will be there to greet you: Art Gone Wild, Inky Antics, Repeat Impressions, Darcie's Country Folk, Just For Fun, Rubber Cottage, Close to My Heart, Tessler Stamps/Stencil Company, Seaside Stampin; Ink, Stampers's Anonymous, Marco's Paper, Impression Obsession, The Stencil Collection, Me and Carrie Lou, Sparkle N' Sprinkle, Heartfelt Creations, Verses Rubber Stamps, Stamp On It, Stamp Camp, Purple Daisy Design, The Paper Cut, Sarasota Stamps and Heartfelt Impressions. Go to www.Stampfest.com if you need to sign up for any classes which will be held on Friday Feb 19th.

Just For Fun has a great make it and take it planned . I will post the pictures after the show. See you there

BLOG HOP

We welcome you to Just For Fun's® first "Blog Hop". This will be fun so sit back, relax and visit each design teams blog to see what they have done. Some will even have blog candy to give away.

sherrycheever blog

Splashes of Watercolor

Linda's works of Heart

Exploring Creativity

Terre's Scrap Therapy

Embellished Dreams

I have a Valentine "grunge heart" card. I stamped three dot heart B1944 and colored using Distress Ink fired brick, cut them out and layered them on top of each other and set aside. On white cardstock stamp valentine frame E2668 using black ink and trimmed with deckle scissors and colored using a stipple brush and cranberry ink . This was layered ontop of red cardstock which was trimmed on the two sides using Martha Stewarts heart border punch. Emboss a piece of white card stock with cuttlebug embossing folder D'vine swirl, tie a red satin ribbon around it and layer on a folded red card. Everything else will then be layered on top of this. To finish the card I punched out some branches using Martha Stewart's punch in red and white and placed them around the layered grunge hearts.

All stamps: Just For Fun® - B1944 dot heart, E2668 valentine frame

Ink pads : Distress Ink - fired brick, Archival - jet black, Adirondack - cranberry

Accessories: Martha Stewart Punches, grunge paper, satin ribbon

Grunge Flowers

Last Saturday I had a class and this is one of the projects I designed using Grunge Paper. They had so much fun and there were so many that wanted to take the class I get to teach it again this Saturday. Two fun classes back to back.

The leaf was die cut using grunge paper and the flowers were stamped on grunge paper and cut out, colored and layered using grunge board as the spacers. The background or hanger was cut using Labels One Nestabilities colored and stamped, cut two of them. The one corner I curled up to show a different look. I thought it turned out quite nice. The arrangement of flowers are then attached to the top. What is so unique using grunge paper you can curl the edges and make the flowers and leaves look dimensional.

I took pictures of what the gals did in class and would like to post the pictures in some type of collage format. Maybe someone has some information on how I can do this. I checked to see if I had a template in my photo program, but it doesn't

Stamps: Just For Fun: E3365 Flower, D3351 Flower, F3181 Assembled Alphabet, G3354 Flourish, RB7001 Background Block, A3171 News From Home.

Inks: Distress Ink; Spiced Marmalade, Broken China, Fired Brick. Adirondack; Butterscotch, Sail Boat Blue. Archival Jet Black

Accessories: Nestibilities Labels One, Snaps from Idea-ology

Model T Faux Post

Here is a great masculine faux post card. Men seem to be so hard to make cards for. Experiment using the faux post techinque and these wonderful antique cars, what man would not want to receive this card.

To learn the faux post technique go to Just For Fun's new blog at Just For Fun Blog and read the step by step tutorial, there are even pictures.

All Stamps are Just For Fun: G2479 faux post stamp, G2479T faux post template, A3246 old roaster, A3251 vintage 1926, A3253 model T, A3254 classic, A3171 new from home, D3133 branch bouquet

ink pads: Adirondack: butterscotch, cranberry, lettuce. Archival jet black

After Christmas SALE

Yeah, we all like to save some money. Just For Fun is having a Happy Holidays sale, 25% off anything on the web site until January 31, 2010. Be sure to go and visit and .... he he he... spend some money.

Just For Fun Rubber Stamps Rubber Stamps

There are also some great samples to view go to the Gallery.

New Member of Design Team

It is my pleasure to announce the newest member of Just For Fun's design team. (drum roll please) .......Terre Fry. Welcome Terre to the team, we are all looking forward to your wonderful creative ideas. Be sure to stop over at Terre's blog and see her beautiful artwork

Terre's Scrap Therapy