Owly Hoo - Preview Week - Day 2

I hope you have enjoyed the preview week so far.  I also forgot to mention that over at Getting Cricky blog, there is the fun Simply Sunday Challenge going on. The challenge is "Let it Snow - Use Embossing".  The design team has created some really great projects.  Head on over after this and join in the fun!

On to day two of the preview week. Today I created a card that is 100% inspired and scraplifted straight from Liz at Liz's Paper Loft.  I loved it so much I wanted to see if I could recreate it using only my Cricut Imagine and my K. Andrew Stamps.  Easy Peasy!!

I began with the card base using the Best Friends Imagine cartridge color and the flower polka dot patterned paper from the same cartridge along with the cute little birdie.  The border at the bottom was punched using an EK punch and the little stamp looking shapes were built into the Imagine.  I hope you like it.  Here is the stamp set that I used.  Be sure to click on it to head over the K. Andrew Designs and pick up a set for yourself.

Want to win a K. Andrew stamp set of your choice? At the end of the week I will be totaling up the number of times you do one of the following and entering your name into a drawing.  You can only comment on my blog once a day but there are other ways to enter.   Here are ways that you can enter to win:

1.  Be a follower of my blog, if you are not already

2.  Leave a new comment on each new post this week (Sunday through Thursday)

3.  Add my button to your blog, then comment to say you did

4.  Visit the Getting Cricky with K. Andrew Facebook page, "like" it and say that I sent you

5.  Follow me by email (enter your email address at the top right of this blog and comment that you did so I will know!

Each time you do this I will enter your name into a good old fashion random drawing.  I will pick 5 names and each person will get to choose a K. Andrew stamp set of your choice!  Woohoo!

Winners will be on Sunday, January 22 so check back to see if you are a winner!

And for MORE inspiration during Preview week, check out my participating design team sisters below to see their projects featuring the stamps sets listed by their names.

Thanks for stopping by and blessings to you!

Jana

Amy @ Love To Crop - Owly Hoo/Hoot Owl Image Set/Accessories

Faith @ Faithfule Creations - Food For Thought

Ildi @ The Craftin Mama - Winter Wishes

Lisa @ A Mermaid's Crafts - Owly Hoo/Hoot Owl Image/Accessories

Amanda @ Crick'tn Crafts - Food For Thought

Charlotte @ A Little Bit of Detail - Coffee & Tea/Image Set/Treats

Cheri @ DJ's Sundries - Coffee & Tea for You & Me/Image Set/Treats

Christel @ Scrappin Sista - Scripture Sayings

Debbie @ DD's Crafts - Crafty Friends

Erica @ My Cricut Craft Room -Fashionable Friends

Heather @ Heather's Crafty Blog Space -Crafty Friends

Jamie @ My Amusing Life -Fall-O-Ween

Jana @ Raining Grace -Owly Hoo/Hoot Owl Image Set/Accessories

Jennie @ Jenscrapstoo - Coffee & Tea for You & Me/Image Set/Treats

Jessie @ Sugarlips Sassy Surprises -Winged Things
Kristan @ Baby Cakes - Food For Thought
Larelyn @ Handmade From My Heart -Fashionable Friends

Letillia @ Diva of 5 -Scripture Sayings

Linda – Linda's Creativity -Positive Thoughts

Miranda @ Nana's Scrap Spot -Winter Wishes

Patti @ Patti-Lynn Creations -Pirate Tales and Fish Scales/Pirate Party

RhoLynda @ Blossoming Butterfly Creations -Winged Things

Sherry @ Up or Down They're Beautiful -Amazing You

Veronica @ Mommy's Crafty Creations -Pirate Tales/Pirate Party

Owly Hoo To You Week! (There will be prizes!)

Hello everyone!
It's about time I got back to crafting and this week is going to be F.U.N!  The design team at Getting Cricky will be having a U R So Sweet Valentine Blog Hop beginning Friday, January 20. THIS is preview week!  Participating DT members chose a set of K. Andrew Design Stamps and will be using that set to create a project everyday this week beginning TODAY!  We want to show you just how versatile the K. Andrew stamps really are.  So here we go...I chose the Owly Hoo Sentiments, art and accessories sets. There are actually 3 seperate stamps sets but coordinate together.  They are so cute with precious owls, many sentiments and cute stamps so you can play dress up with the owls!  For those Cricut owners out there, they are PERFECT for the Hoot -n- Holler, Give a Hoot, Create-a-Critter, and Campin Critters plus many others with owl images.  But as you will see as the week goes on, you don't need owls at all.  The sentiments can be used many other ways.  Be sure to leave a comment for a chance to win a prize at the end of the week!  I will be giving away, to 5 lucky winners a K. Andrew stamp set of your choice!!!!! Read all the way down to see how you can have many chances to win.
So here is the first project I created with these sets.

I thought I would kick off the preview week with a valentine project, although they all won't be valentines.  For all the colors and the background paper I used the Cricut Imagine cartridge Berries and Cream.  I just LOVE the colors and patterns cartridges for the Imagine.  The "Love" heart came from the Groovy Times cartridge and the hearts were built into the Imagine.  Of course, the owl and the other words were from the K. Andrew stamp sets below.  Just click on any of the images to be whisked away to her store.  There you will see her oh so wonderful new Valentine stamp sets which you will have a chance to win in the blog hop next weekend.

 

Want to win a K. Andrew stamp set of your choice? At the end of the week I will be totaling up the number of times you do one of the following and entering your name into a drawing.  You can only comment on my blog once a day but there are other ways to enter.   Here are ways that you can enter to win:
1.  Be a follower of my blog, if you are not already
2.  Leave a new comment on each new post this week (Sunday through Thursday)
3.  Add my button to your blog, then comment to say you did
4.  Visit the Getting Cricky with K. Andrew Facebook page, "like" it and say that I sent you
5.  Follow me by email (enter your email address at the top right of this blog and comment that you did so I will know!

Each time you do this I will enter your name into a good old fashion random drawing.  I will pick 5 names and each person will get to choose a K. Andrew stamp set of your choice!  Woohoo!
Winners will be on Sunday, January 22 so check back to see if you are a winner!

Be sure to click on the "K. Andrew Design Team" tab at the top and visit my other design team sisters and leave some love!  Some of them have prizes too!

Getting Cricky Blog Hop coming up and a FUN promotion week

Hey everyone!
I am so excited to tell you about a fun promotion week coming up at the Getting Cricky Blog with K. Andrew.  Many of the ladies on our design team will post a project every day for a whole week on their own blogs.  This will be January 15th - 19th.  We have all chosen one of K. Andrew's awesome stamps sets and we will use that one set everyday to show how versatile it can be.  I will be featuring her Owly Hoo sets.  I also plan on having my first ever .... (wait for it...)....BLOG CANDY!!!!

THEN...Friday, January 20th we will have the U R So Sweet Valentine Blog Hop....with prizes!!!!  You will have a chance to win the two newest sets of K. Andrew stamps that are valentine themed. So mark your calendars and join us.

Simply Sunday Challenge

Hello everyone!
Happy New Year to you and your family.  I hope that 2012 brings you great blessings and happiness.
Glad to be back at the crafting game again!  The holidays have been simply wonderful with lots of relaxing with family and fun fellowship with friends.  Today is the Simply Sunday Challenge over at Getting Cricky with K. Andrew.  She thought it would be fun to challenge everyone with creating a project with the theme of "It's a Celebration."  Create a project of any kind celebrating anything you want, a birthday, a new house, or a new year, as I did.
I kept my project pretty simple because I wanted to use one of Kristals image stamps and color it with my copics.  Coloring take a while as many of you know so I didn't want anything to take away too much from the stamps themselves.

 This adorable little owl came from the K. Andrew set Hoot Owl Image set.  You can see the set below.  It is filled with cute little owls and the party hat came from the accessory stamp set the coordinates with the Hoot Owl set.  The "Whoo's" is a stamp from the Owly Hoo Sentiments set which you can also see below.  It is so versatile.  You can mix and match the words to create your own sentiments. "Ready for a new year" was printed out on from my computer and the ? is from the Owly Hoo set also.

After I colored the owl I cut him out and popped him up with pop dots.  I will be using these same stamps for other projects for our blog hop coming up later this month.  Hop on over to Getting Cricky and see what the other design team members have created for the challenge and then create your own celebration project and link it to Getting Cricky. Check out the blog for the rules for linking up so that you can have a chance to win a set of K. Andrew stamps!
Below are the sets that I used.
Blessings and Happy New Year!
Jana

Merry Christmas Banner!

Well!  It is good to be back!  My laptop was stuck at work and my photos were stuck in my iPad so now I ma ready to show you what I made right after Thanksgiving.  I don't know about you, but crafting has been at the bottom of my to do list with all the shopping, choir performances, parties and let's not forget craziness at work!  Oh well, all part of the excitement I suppose.
For Thanksgiving I made a "Blessings" banner that hung in my dining room and my husband just loved it.  I was so excited he liked it because he normally has no opinion about such things.  So when he asked me to make one for Christmas I jumped on it.
This turned out  to be a not so good lesson in color theory and how not to use too much pattern, etc.
So I began by cutting a banner out of the red then a large star from a pretty pattern paper that contained all the colors I wanted to include. (See at this point, I thought I was doing real well choosing paper...)

If you look closely you will see a scalloped circle but from a great yellow/gold paper with music on it backed with a green shadow.  I LOVED this music paper and it was to be a sort of "feature" of this banner.  Well, then I cut the letters, using Cindy Loo out of the same red paper.  Turns out...too much red.  It all kind of blended together and when I first hung it up you couldn't read the letters AT ALL!!!  I was so bummed!!!!

 So my daughter suggested outlining all the letters with red stickles and I thought YES!!!  That will save them. So SHE painstakingly outlined each one with a perfect thin bead of Christmas red stickles.  She is awesome and only 14.

 I thought that was the solution but you still could not read the letters. There just was not enough contrast so I cut out the large white snowflakes from When It's Cold Outside and put them behind the letters and it helped immensely as you can see below.  I then tied each banner together with jute. I know it looks good from close up and I do really like them but ...

 As you can see below, still a problem from a distance.  SO...then lesson here would be to use a higher contrasting color for the letters, not the same paper as the background.  I will probably re-do this while I am off for Christmas break and I think I will make the letters a golden yellow or white, or maybe a green, hhhmmm, I think I am going to have to do some experimenting!

I hope you enjoyed it anyway and were maybe inspired to create your own Christmas banner.  Let me know if you do, I could use some pointers :)
I can't leave without mentioning that Kristal at Getting Cricky will be having a Snow Much Fun blog hop coming up on December 16th with great projects from our wonderful design team.  I hope you will join us.

Blessings,
Jana

Blog Button!

Hey everyone!
I feel like I have officially entered the craft blogger world.  I NOW HAVE A BLOG BUTTON!  I've been wanting one for a while but have been too cheap to have one made so I decided to open up Photoshop Elements and make one myself.  It was not easy since I haven't been in PE elements in a very long time.  I feel like I have to relearn it every time I open it.  My Getting Cricky DT sister Janis (Check out her blog HERE) provided me with a button code so I would love it if you would copy the code and put it on your blog if you have one.  Leave me a comment that you did it and I will be glad to add your button to my blog too!  That is one thing I love about the crafting blogosphere is that everyone here is willing to scratch each other's backs!  :D  Here is my button and the code.  I hope you like it!  I am proud of it, even though I am an absolute button making amateur!

<a href="http://janabailey.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src=" http://i1107.photobucket.com/albums/h400/janabailey1/blogbutton.jpg " border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a>

Diaper Cake Tutorial

Hey Crafty Friends!
I have a question for you.  Have you ever wanted to know how to make a diaper cake?  Sometimes they look a little complicated so I have avoided trying them out until now.  Heather, one of my Getting Cricky design team sisters has created an Oh so simple way to make a diaper cake.  You can dress it up how ever you want but her "base formula" if you will, is really easy peasy.  Check out the tutorial at Getting Cricky.

I also wanted to mention that I will have a fun home decor project posted tomorrow.  So check back again and I will show you what I have created!
Blessings and have a GREAT day!
Jana