Jolanda Johnstone

Upcoming Challenges and Classes

Thursday, September 17th, 2020 These are the challenges for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. You can choose to do only one, two, or all three. Make it an even bigger challenge and combine all three. Sometimes I do and at other times I don’t. Creativity is all about having fun and playing with materials and toolsContinue reading “Upcoming Challenges and Classes”

Paper Pumpkin Play Date – Grown with Kindness

September 17, 2020 Out of the cupboard and out of the box came the FEBRUARY 2019 – GROWN WITH KINDNESS kit. This kit featured Succulents in photo realistic images and a great stamp set with lovely sentiments and a wonderful planted teacup image. Two of the original kit colors, Fresh Fig and Lemon Lime TwistContinue reading “Paper Pumpkin Play Date – Grown with Kindness”

Joy

September 16, 2020 Global Design Project – GDP258 – Wrapped in Christmas Trying my hand at another challenge. This one is new for me. I have followed the creativity of the Designers and participants of GDP for some time now and it was time to play along. Check out the Global Design Project blog forContinue reading “Joy”

Aged Oak Wisdom

Choose a card sample from the Catalog and Case!September 15th – Tuesday Case-ing #269 (Mini Catalog page 51) This card features “Rooted in Nature” and “By the Dock”. The original sample in the catalog is a tone-on-tone color combo using one of my favorite stamp sets “Life is Beautiful”. I wanted to retain the tone-on-toneContinue reading “Aged Oak Wisdom”

Round About Christmas

Tuesday, September 15, 2020 One of the challenges that I like to participate in, when I own the stamp set, is Stampin’ Through the Catalog. Today, the stamp set is FESTIVE POST. This stamp set is in the AUGUST – DECEMBER MINI CATALOG. A great little Holiday set that includes Hallowe’en, Christmas and Valentine’s. FestiveContinue reading “Round About Christmas”

Sunday Sketch – SS020

September 13th, 2020 “Tree Angle” A straight forward simple sketch. Instead of a 2¾” square, I chose the 2¾” swirled circle image from the “Painted Labels” Dies. After some deliberation, I decided to go with Silver. Silver Foil, Silver Embossing, Silver Designer Series Paper which lead me to a Holiday theme and the “Tree Angle”Continue reading “Sunday Sketch – SS020”

Saturday Keep Stamping – Center (Collage) Stamping

September 12th, 2020 This week my challenge is to create a collage by stamping in the center of a half sheet or full sheet of card stock. Then cut the sheet in two or four card fronts and create a series of cards. To keep it simple, I center stamped one full sheet with leafContinue reading “Saturday Keep Stamping – Center (Collage) Stamping”

Friday Simple Stamping – Encouragement

September 11th, 2020 This week the theme for Simple Stamping is Encouragement. According to the National Register of Calendar Days, tomorrow, September 12th is Encouragement Day. I am sure that someone in your life needs a little pep talk! Today, I am featuring “Loyal Leaves” stamp set. Encouragement sentiments have been selected from a fewContinue reading “Friday Simple Stamping – Encouragement”

Upcoming Challenges and Classes

Thursday, September 10th, 2020 Each week, I have been creating cards based on the Challenges that I have given you and myself. I want to keep you engaged and stamping. So, these are the challenges for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. You can choose to do only one, two, or all three. Make it an evenContinue reading “Upcoming Challenges and Classes”

Paper Pumpkin Play Date – A Gift of Fall

September 10, 2020 Today I played with the AUGUST 2019 – A GIFT OF FALL kit. A Fall themed kit. Using components found in this box, these were the cards I created. I am happy with the designs I created today. They are both warm and cozy. AUTUMN WREATH The “Wreath” element was cut fromContinue reading “Paper Pumpkin Play Date – A Gift of Fall”