Glue Dots Altered Art Projects and NEW Dots!

Hi everyone! (: Today I am sharing a couple of projects using some new Glue Dots products. They are so handy and I am so glad they came out with these.
Tissue Paper Flowers project:

For this Flower frame I used the 2" XXL Glue Dots. The background stamp is from Hero Arts Newpaper background and the twine is from The Twinery.

Project Instructions:

- Cut white cardstock to desired size for your frame.

- Stamp background with your choice of ink.

- Mist with Tattered Angels Snowflake mist.

- Adhere twine stem and leaves with Micro Glue Dots.

- Stamp sentiment on background.

- Cut a piece of tissue paper about 1ft long and fold in half.

- Scrunch

- Using the 2" XXL Glue Dot roll the folded tissue paper in a circle around the dot while folding it until you cover the whole dot.

-Adhere to your background.

- You can spritz your flowers with mist like I did to give them shine.

- Adhere a button to the center if desired.

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Wool Felt Flowers project:

For this project I used the 1" XL Glue Dots. The background stamp is the same I used for the project above, the felt is from Papertrey Ink, twine is from The Twinery, flower die and cloud die is from My Favorite Things and the sentiment is from Paper Smooches.

Project Instructions:

- Cut white cardstock to the shape for your frame and stamp with the background stamp.

- I spritzed the background with Studio Calico Mister Huey misters.

- Cut your choice of colored felt or you can use cardstock and die cut flowers and cloud.

- Adhere twine stem and leaves with Micro Glue Dots.

- Roll your flower until you get your desired look then adhere with the 1" XL Glue Dots.

-Adhere flowers to background. 

- Stamp sentiment to bg.

Enjoy! (:

Close up:

Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoyed the projects I shared with you today. If you decide to do one, be sure to share your link!

Hope you all have a very special and HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!! (: (: (:

Cards and Tags, oh my!

Hi everyone! Hope you are having a wonderful week!

Wanted to share some cards and tags I did over the weekend. I was really on a roll this weekend, cranking out some cards for the PC Magazine Stamp It call. Fingers crossed!

My first card and tag I did for the current contest over at Hero Arts: Love, Hugs and Kisses!

No sentiment card, I really liked it without one. On this card I used the Patterned Heart from HA. I LOVE this stamp! I stamped it with Distress Inks and finished it off with some twine from The Twinery.

For my tag, I used 3 stamps - Hero Arts Newspaper Background, Old Letter Writing Background, and Heart Winged Butterfly. I distress the background with Distress Ink Evergreen bough and colored the butterflies with copic markers. Finished this off with some twine from The Twinery.

And for this tag, I used some Unity Stamps. I just got the bees and love them! Finished it off with some twine from The Twinery. As you can tell, I love twine! This card is for the Ribbon Carousel challenge, non-traditional colors.

Thanks for peeking in today! Have a great week!

I will be at CHA from Sat-Wed, if you want updates from CHA join my twitter - the link is on the sidebar.

:) :) :) Jenny

Hero Arts Video Tutorial :)

Hi everyone! Happy Saturday! 
From my Hero Arts Catalog Hop post on Friday, I got allot of requests for a tutorial on the Hero Arts Large Flower Background stamp. So since I haven't done a video in a long time, I thought I would make one. But I couldn't find my FLIP camera so I had to use my phone. So the videos are a little jumpy but if you have any questions about any of the instructions I give, just send me an email :)
Here is the card I designed that I am using for this video tutorial:

This stamp is the Hero Arts Large Flower Background stamp. It's a GORGEOUS stamp!

Here is a close up of the flowers:

And a straight on view:

Sorry the video is narrow, I took it on my iPhone.

Here is PART 1 of my video tutorial:

And here is PART 2:

I am also entering this in the current HERO ARTS contest - LOVE & HUGS & KISSES. And the Moxie Fab World Challenge - The Cutting and Trimming challenge.
Hope you enjoyed this video tutorial, sorry I get nervous when doing a video LOL. 
CHA is getting SO close!! I hope to meet some of you there! I will be there Sun-Tues. If you're not going and would love updates from CHA, follow me on Twitter and Facebook, I will be doing lots and lots of FB & Tweeting. The links are on my sidebar ---->
If you have any questions about this tutorial, shoot me an email.Have a wonderful weekend! :) :) :)

Hero Arts 2012 Catalog Blog Hop - Day 5!

Hello, stampy friends! Welcome to the last stop on the week-long Hero Arts 2012 catalog blog hop with the Hero Hostesses! I hope you have enjoyed hopping with us all week long. You should've arrived here via Kryssi. If not, or if you happen to discover any broken links, you can always find the master link list for the hop HERE. Also, please be sure to report any broken links to Tami by clicking HERE. Thanks!

And don't forget..! Hero Arts will be awarding prizes from randomly drawn comments! For a chance to win, simply comment on any of the stops along the hop on any day, including each day’s starting post at the Hero Club Blog. The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning!
Now I want to share my cards with you today!My first card is with the SUPER SUPER CUTE Newspaper Owl! I LOVE OWLS and this little guy is SO cute! And for the background I used Newspaper Background all from Hero Arts!

Newspaper Owl

Newspaper Background

I stamped the newspaper background on Kraft cardstock using TH Distress ink. And for the owls I stamped them using different colors of Memento ink and finished them off with some Twinery twine in matching colors. I love the little owl peeking out hehe :)

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For my next card I used this beautiful background stamp from Hero Arts called Large Flower Background.

Large Flower Background

Don't you just LOVE this stamp? It's so beautiful and there are SO many beautiful uses for it!  I colored this stamp using Copic Markers. Did you see it used this week by Kathy, Sharon, Sarah and Barb - just gorgeous use of this stamp!

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Thanks so much for joining me today, and thanks to Hero Arts for inviting me to play along! I'm your last stop on the hop today, be sure to head back to the Hero Arts blog and check out the new catalog and if you missed the hop this week, check out Day 1-4 on the blog.
BE SURE AND DONT FORGET: Hero Arts will be awarding prizes from randomly drawn comments! For a chance to win, simply comment on any of the stops along the hop on any day, including each day’s starting post at the Hero Club Blog. The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning!
I am also entering my Large Flower card in the MOXIE FAB WORLD Cool Tools Week Challenge: Embossing and Debossing!
Have a great day! :) Hope you will visit again soon! :)Jenny Suchin

Lots of things to share with those who care :)

Morning everyone! Hope you are having a wonderful start to your day! :)

We are sharing more sneak peeks of my new stamp designs for Your Next Stamp and today I would like to share with you a card I did using some of these images.

Isnt she adorable? Reaching for the clouds!

I used some Echo Park 6x6 Dots and Stripes to paper piece the balloon and clouds. I just love EP papers.

This screams happiness and cheerfulness! I love bright colors.

I hope you will run over to Your Next Stamp blog HERE and see more previews from my fellow DT members.

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I would also like to share this card I did for the Papercrafts call but didn't have time to submit it. I try to do cards then I get caught up with things and before you know it the call has ended. LOL! Oh well.

A sweet little birthday card using my stamp set "Whoo's Birthday" designed for The Craft's Meow! I used 4 colors of twine from The Twinery for this card.  And copic markers to make the background and color the images.

Here's the whole set:

One of my favorites I have done for TCM, especially the owl whos upside down hehe.

Hope you love this set!! :)

See all the sets over at THE CRAFTS MEOW!

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Be sure to join me on Friday, I am joining up with HERO ARTS and my fellow HERO HOSTESSES for a Catalog Blog Hop! The party has already started so if you would like to check out all the beautiful designs by my sisters please visit the Hero Arts Blog HERE.
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MORE fun news, my stamp designs will be featured in IPPITY by UNITY! So excited! Be sure to check out the previews on the UNITY STAMP CO website HERE. Also you can see ALL my stamp designs for Unity on their website, be sure to look for the Unity Artista logo and check for my name. I have some Itty Bitty stamps, KOTM stamps and now Ippity stamps featured with Unity and the sweet Angela! 
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AND thank you for stopping by! I appreciate all of you and your kind words! Heres to a GREAT 2012!!! :) :) :) :)
-xo Jenny

Fabulous Flowers

Hi everyone!! Seems like time just flies. I have been so busy lately with everything I haven't had much time to create. Some great creative things happening lately and I wish I could share with you, I can't wait till I can! It's so exciting!! Im also working on some wee-designs for clients and trying to get my design files transferred to my Mac. Also buying the programs I need for my new Mac and saving up for AI for Mac eek! Plus school is almost out and we are going on vacation Memorial Day weekend, I cant wait! So lots to do for me, not a dull moment. I cant wait to spend the weekend relaxing on the beach, its going to be a nice refresher.

I did take a little time to make a couple of cards for the current Hero Arts contest - Fabulous Flowers and ATC's. If you haven't played in the Hero Arts contests before, I encourage you to play and join the Flickr Group. Such a great group of women over there, we are all a large extended family. Everyone is so lovely and there are so many activities always going on. And the contests are so much fun, and HA is so generous with their prizes. I adore HA!

First card I did using the Magical Flower from Hero Arts. To finish it off, I used some charcoal twine from The Twinery.

For this card I used a new stamp set I picked up today. Its called Sweet Threads Set by Hero Arts. And again I finished this card off with some honeydew twine from The Twinery. LOVE my twine! I did 2 versions of this card - which do you like better?

Thanks for letting me share these with you today.

PS: I have been neglecting my google reader, but promise to get around and visit today I hope.

PSS: I am working on some fabulous projects with my new Epic Six and Letterpress from Lifestyle Crafts!! I cant wait to share them with you and a video showing you all the great things about them. AND I will be giving them away too!! So be on the lookout for that coming soon!!

Thanks for peekin' in!! :) :) :)

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs, Jenny

My new room and a card!!

Hi everyone!! Im so excited I can share with you my new room! It was allot of work to tear down, move, clean, patch, paint, carpet, put Ikea stuff together, hang, put everything back, etc. Took 3 days but I am more than overjoyed with the results! 


Lemme show you the before:
(Click on any of the pictures for a larger size)

Look at that horrible carpet! Yuck! And those tables were 'ok' but not what I really wanted. And everything was semi-organized but really didn't have a place. I wanted the room to be functional. 

Heres the room emptied out:

This is only a small part of my stuff. The rest was in my closet and in the hallway. But you can see how much stuff I have and emptied out of the room.

Now for the next step after painting and carpet, putting the furnishings in:

My hard workers - my Husband (in the star wars shirt) and our family friend. They are hanging shelves after putting in the Ikea furnishings.

Now the best part, after putting everything back. Heres my new room:

To the left is my new Mac. On the floor is my baby Prince. And to the right is my stamp shelves and desk.

From the previous picture, turn your head left in the room and you come to the first Expedit Ikea cubbie. I still have allot of organizing to do. And Ikea didn't have the right containers I wanted so everything is in the open. I have to order containers and I plan on hanging paper lanterns from the ceiling. Can't wait!!

Swing around and left and you come to the next cubbies. Again more organization still happening and I can't wait to get the containers so everything doesn't show. I like things very CAS.

Swing left again and you come to the entrance as you are facing out from my desk. Isn't the Hawaiian shores paint gorgeous? I LOVE IT!! Hubby has to finish the carpet at the entry.

Swing left again (we are doing a 360 if you didn't figure that out already lol) and you can see a close up of my stamp shelves and rack. There are so many stamps on that rod that its bowing LOL. And you can see the gorgeous twine, copics, sewing machine, Hero Arts stamps and so much more. (And the cute little flower drawing you see in the left corner of the picture done by my daughter tonight for me, she loves the room)

Turn left just a hair and you see my paper storage and more stamps. 

Turn around left more and you see a close up of my cubbie and Mac.

I hope you enjoyed the tour of my new studio!! I LOVE IT!! I am in Heaven! It's my dream come true. I have always wanted a room like this with lots of storage and a bright and cheerful color. I love to feel happy when I am crafting and this room definitely makes me so happy!! 

And I was so excited to do my first card in my room! I couldn't wait!! So here is my first card in my new room:

I just LOVE the painted wall as a background for cards too!! For this card I used some Hero Arts stamps, some Echo Park Paper 'For the Record' and some twine.

Thanks for letting me share this excitement with you! Im so overly happy with the end results and its so nice to be done for the most part and be able to create in my new room!

Have a wonderful week!

:) :) :) Hugs, Jenny

Trigger Happy

Hi everyone! :) :) Happy Friday (almost for me) TGIF!!

I created another card for the  Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger challenge - A Polka Dotted Hullabaloo and for the current Hero Arts contest which ends tonight. These challenges worked great together again with the TT inspiration and the masculine challenge. 

Just wanted to play again before times up!

I love polka dots so I had to play again! But this time I played off the colors of the trigger.

For this card I used the Hero Arts set - Let's Chill and Oceans of Joy, two of my fav sets! And I love making sand with kraft cardstock, its so easy! I colored everything with Copics.

This is the Trigger:

Thanks for peekin' in again! :) :) :)

I love having you all visit!! If you leave a comment I will come visit you. I am trying to make time to get around more, I try and then time gets away from me. Plus I am packing up my studio for the remodel. So excited for that! Also we have friends coming over tomorrow night. Busy busy weekend! 

Off to work on some wee-designs!

Hope you have a great weekend! Enjoy it!

HUGS! :) :) :)

This, that and more!

Hi everyone! Hope your having a great week!! Just wanted to share some creations with you today. First is a card I did for the current Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger challenge - A Polka Dotted Hullabaloo. And this is also for the current Hero Arts contest. These challenges worked great together with the TT inspiration and the masculine challenge. 

On my card I used Hero Art stamps - Everyday Sayings & Circular Designs. I inked them up with some Hero Arts ink and Memento. 

For my next card, I created this for the Unity Stamp Co. Challenge - Birds.

For this card I used Unity Stamps from - So & So Loves and Could I be any Cuter? I colored the bird with my Copics and finished it off with some twine from The Twinery.

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Just a bit about what I have been up to, been so busy with web designs, DT work for my own and others and planning out the remodel of my studio. Im so excited, I cant wait! I have been wanting to do this for a long time and I will finally be getting the chance. I will take before and after to show what I did but its going to take time because I want it to be just what I have in my head for how I want it done. The hard part is tearing apart my studio and moving it, eek! I have so much stuff! First thing is first, we have to have the air conditioning on our house looked at. If that costs too much I will have to put the remodel on hold. Summers coming and we need to make sure its working good.

Thanks for peekin' in and letting me share my creations with you!

Have a great day!

:) :) :) Jenny

Watercoloring with Distress Inks - Part 2

Hi everyone!! Hope your week is going great!
I got allot of requests about a tutorial for this card:

On this card I used the beautiful Large Flower Pattern stamp from Hero Arts! Its a gorgeous stamp and a must have! There are so many creations you can make using this stamp and since so many of you requested to know how I did this card I want to share with you today another video tutorial. This is my second video, im starting to get the hang of it. If anyone knows any good video editing software, please let me know. The one that came with my Flip isn't the best. Just email me at weememoriesblog@gmail.com, thanks!

So in the beginning, I show what you need to make this but I will list it here as well:

Large Flower Pattern stamp from Hero Arts

Papertrey Ink White cardstock

Watercolor Paintbrush

Tim Holtz Distress Inks

Mini Mister from Ranger

Large Acrylic Block

Baby wipes

Other supplies used to create the finished card:

Burlap Twine

Papertrey Ink Kraft cardstock

Old Letter Writing stamp from Hero Arts

Thinking of You messages from Hero Arts

Antique Engravings from Hero Arts

Hope I explained everything so you can understand how I did this. It's very easy and fun! Please let me know if you create one like this, I would love to see!!


Thanks for watching!! Have a great day!
:) :) :) Jenny


P.S.: I will be back later with your Color Cubbie Winner and I will be having a HUGE giveaway and another video tutorial using the Lifestyle Crafts Letterpress!!