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Monday, January 30, 2012

Mini-Valentines Cards

Ruby - Handcrafted Simply By Us

Hello, this week the Design Team will be focusing on Mini-Valentines Cards.

My cards measure 3x3 and the stamp set I used is Sending My Love.

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Thank You... :-D

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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Sealed with a Kiss Gift Bag!

Hi everyone!!! Whats up??? This is a special day for me because I leave for California! I cannot wait! So, for this week, the project was supposed to be a gift bag or box. I chose a gift bag. I really like this, and it was very quick and easy.

Recipe:

paper with lips on it (I'm sorry, I forgot what company)

Festive Berries Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Jet Black Archival Ink by Ranger

A Jillian Vance Design 'Sending My Love' Stamp Set

Postage Stamp Spellbinder Die (I don't know the exact name, in fact, it might be called that! haha)

AJVD Rinkle Ribbon in a light pink color

Crimson Archival Ink by Ranger

A Jillian Vance Design 'Tiny Dots' Stamp Set

As you can see, I inked on the background paper, and the bag in general. like the whole bag. LOL it took some time and I had inky fingers, but it was all worth it in the end!

God Bless,

Jillian

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Friday, January 27, 2012

A Gift of Love ~ Gift Bag

This was a fun challenge for the week! We were to create a gift bag or box! So since Jillian started out doing gift bags in her business before stamps, that is what I decided I wanted to do!

So check it out! Bunny Runs with Scissors ~ please visit my blog for the recipe!

I am now hooked on Pinterst ~ now that I know what I am doing! This flower idea came from there.

A {Little} Love and Bloom'n Trio Stamp sets.

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Products I used for my project today:

A Jillian Vance Design Sending My Love stamp set

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Sending A Sweet Treat

Hello!

Jennifer from Scrapping Under the Influence here. This week the design team has been making treat bags. Today, I made the box from the SVG Cuts Crush on You kit. I added a heart to the box before cutting to give it the little window. For complete details on my project, you can check out my blog, Scrapping Under the Influence.

Supplies used:

Echo Park Yours Truly Paper

Epiphany Crafts Button and Heart

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

I (heart) You

Hello everyone Elisa here from PerpetualStew Today I would like to share a gift bag with you. I used the "Sending My Love" Stamp set to add the perfect sentiment to my gift bag.

Products Used:

A Jillian Vance Design "Sending My Love" Stamp Set

Core'dinations Black Magic Cardstock

Watercolor Paper

Cricut Cartridge

Watercolor Pencils

Archival Ink

Vintage lace

Micro Mini Kraft Bag

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Gift of Love - Hershey Kisses Milk Carton Treat Box

Look at this absolutely adorable milk carton box filled with Hershey Hugs and Kisses! I used the "Sending My Love" A Jillian Vance Design stamp set....the sentiment is perfect and couldn't be more appropriate! I took the milk carton a step further by punching a peek hole in the middle and placing some plastic over top. For a supply list and more pictures, please visit my blog.

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A{little}Love & Sending My Love.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Gifts of Love - Heart Treat Bag

Ruby - Handcrafted Simply By Us

Hello, today I create a heart Valentine's treat bag using both AJVD Valentine's stamp sets.

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Winners! from the Valentine Grunge Blog Hop!

The winner of the the Linky Party Prize package is . . . .

Jan Garber,

Jan email us your mailing address and we will be sending you this fun prize package!

Pear Pins by A Jillian Vance Designs

Sending My Love by A Jillian Vance Desings

A {little} Love By A Jillian Vance

The winner of the the A {Little} Love stamp set is . . . . Tanya from ScrappyLand, USA

Email us at ajillianvancedesign@gmail.com, we will need you full mailing address!

Thanks to all who entered and Linked up with us!

Monday, January 16, 2012

Valentine's Grunge Blog Hop

Welcome to our Valentine Grunge Blog Hop and with a challenge for you. Thank you for joining me and my design team, the theme to our blog hop is Valentine Grunge. So we ask ourselves what is Grunge???? It's a style that is made to appear "old" or antiqued, not trying for perfection since imperfections adds to the charm. So please come and hop with us and check out what my
design team has come up with and WIN some blog CANDY!!!
So the challenge for you is to create a Valentine's Grunge card and link your project to our InLinkz below and receive a chance to win some blog candy. For all the details about winning some blog candy please read the requirements below. Okay now to my project. Thanks :)

So... for my card I will tell you right now- it took A LOT of inking and hard work to get it Grungy looking. LOL. So, lets get on with the recipe.
Recipe:
Heart cut with my Cricut Imagine machine
Spellbinder Scalloped Heart Die
Jillibean Soup White Corrugated sheet (for the Spellbinder heart)
Small Flower
Interference Red Perfect Pearls Mist by Ranger
Brown Cat's Eye ink by Colorbox
Victorian Velvet Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Gathered Twigs Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Heart Breaker sentiment from my Stamp Set A {Little} Love found HERE
Some cute paper :)
So, I hope you enjoyed my project! Scroll down for a chance to win some Blog Candy!

Your next stop is RUBY

Jillian http://princessandthepaper.blogspot.com/ (YOU ARE HERE)
Ruby http://handcraftedsimplybyus.blogspot.com/
Nadia http://www.nadiasbeautifulmess.blogspot.com/
Jennifer http://scrappingundertheinfluence.blogspot.com/
Bunny http://bunnyrunswithscissors.blogspot.com/

Elisa http://www.perpetualstew.blogspot.com/

Rhonda http://snapwhiz.blogspot.com/ {guest designer}
AJVD http://ajillianvancedesign.blogspot.com/

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And now for some BLOG CANDY.

Here is how to win some blog candy

There will be two prizes given out...

1st way to win some Blog Candy......

* Enter Challenge, leave a comment on this post, subscribe & become a follower to http://ajillianvancedesign.blogspot.com/.

You will have until Saturday January 21st @ midnight

to Link your project, and you can WIN Stamp Sets

"A {little} love" , "Sending my love" & Pear Pins.

Pear Pins by A Jillian Vance Designs

Sending My Love by A Jillian Vance Desings

2nd way to win some Blog Candy .......

* You must comment on every blog in this hop and subscribe & become a follower to http://ajillianvancedesign.blogspot.com. You will have until Saturday, January 21st @ midnight to have all of your comments in! VERY IMPORTANT, PLEASE LEAVE A WAY FOR US TO CONTACT YOU IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE WINNER'S!

and you can WIN Stamp set "A {little} love"

ALL WINNERS WILL BE POSTED ON SUNDAY JANUARY 22ND

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Weekend Wrap Up January 14th, 2012

Spotlight on Stamps!

For this weeks Stamp Spotlight we are featuring the Totally Titles! I hope you enjoyed all the darling altered journals and albums our Design Team created for you this week.

Totally Titles is a great addition to your stash and can be using in numerous ways for those special projects!

During the week they are featured, Totally Titles will be specially priced at $12 each!

Order them HERE! They have to be ordered from this page to get the special pricing! Also included in this Spotlight will be Black Pear Pins at Special Spotlight Pricing of $4.00 reg. $5.00. They come 50 pins per package! http://www.ajillianvancedesign.com/Spotlight-.html

Totally Titles

Black Pear Pins

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Friday, January 13, 2012

Disneyland ~ and CHA!!! Here we Come!

Bunny from Bunny Runs with Scissors

I created a Disney Memories Journal using "Totally Titles" stamp set.

A Wedding to Remember

Jillian and I were asked to donate a handmade item for the Silent Auction at CHA to benefit Charity Wings.org These two journals will be sold for charity at the member dinner at CHA!!!

Check our Charity Wings.org HERE

Visit my blog for a full recipe of this album and more detail pictures.

Travel Journal

Also shown is a altered journal for my nephew's family to take on their three week track from Ohio to Utah!

I used Type Star Font for this album's charm using their last name initial and pinned it on with a Pear Pin!

So I couldn't resist making my altered journal using Totally Titles stamp set found HERE and HERE on the Spotlight page!

The Spotlight page features our Stamp set of the week at a special price! This week it is Totally Titles and on sale for only $12 bucks!!! The sale price disappears on Sunday the 15th and we start the next spotlighted item that we will feature on our blog on Monday the 16th of January for the special price!

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Family Journal ~ Just Journaling

Hi guys! Well, its another Thursday, 1 day closer to Friday! YAY! Well, anyway- I did a few altered notebooks for this week, so I'm gonna put the recipe's for both of them.

A little about the altered notebooks: These can be used to put pictures, or explaining events or memories you want to keep. Kinda like a Scrapbook, but without doing a lot of decorated pages. So, kinda like a smashbook. I use mine to write songs and stories and what not. Just wanted to explain if you weren't sure :)

1st Altered Notebook: Family Journal 2012
So, I made this one for when I go to California at the end of this month for CHA (and Disney... and an Allstar Weekend concert!!!) So, I'm pretty excited! It was really fun to make this one.
Recipe:

Composition Book
Some Purple Gingham paper
Plain light purple paper
A Jillian Vance Design "Totally Titles" Stamp set (for the Family Journal part)
A Jillian Vance Design "Typestar" Stamp set (for the 2012)
white buttons
Purple Plum Divine Twine
purple ribbon
Spellbinders Die
White Cardstock
Ranger Archival Ink: Deep Purple

It was so much fun to make these! I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

2nd Altered Notebook: Just Journaling

This one is just kind of a random one. I love it though!

Composition Book
Some fun groovy paper from our stash
Brown cardstock
Brown with green stitch ribbon
some cute paper punches
A Jillian Vance Design "Totally Titles" stamp set (for the Just Journaling sentiment)
Spellbinders Dies (My exclusive Emerald Cut DIEmond die!)
Ranger Archival Ink in: Coffee

I hope you enjoyed these projects! Keep checking back every week, cause next week is the Valentine's Grunge blog hope! From January 16-21st, my design team and I are going to post a Grunge Valentine's project, and you can too! More information coming soon! But you will be able to link up with your project! (OH, and there WILL be blog candy ;)

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F A C E B O O K : https://www.facebook.com/ajillianvancedesign

T W I T T E R: https://twitter.com/#!/ajillianvance

P I N T E R E S T: http://pinterest.com/ajillianvance/

M Y B L O G: http://princessandthepaper.blogspot.com/

Y O U T U B E: http://www.youtube.com/user/ajillianvancedesign

D E S I G N T E A M B L O G: http://ajillianvancedesign.blogspot.com/

Thanks so much for checking out today's post!!!

God Bless,

Jillian

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Bloom'n Cute Jounal

Hello everyone Elisa here from PerpetualStew Today I would like to share with you a easy and fun little journal that I covered. I used the Totally Tiles Stamp set and created a fun flower with the Bloom'n Trio stamp set.

Products used:

A Jillian Vance Design Totally Tiles Stamp SetA Jillian Vance Design Bloom'n Trio Stamp Set

A Jillian Vance Design Black Pear Pin

October Afternoon Pattern Paper

Vintage clothing pattern making paper

Archival Ink

Versa Magic Ink

ColorBox Creamy Brown Ink

Seam Binding Ribbon

Charms

Here is a close up photo...

To create the flower. Stamp the flower image 6-10 times onto pattern making paper. Trim out each image. Stack all the images on top of each other and punch a small hole into the center. Place a brad through the center and secure it. Crinkle each layer of the flower up and over the top of the brad. Fluff it and add it to your project. Feel free to hop on over to my blog at Perpetual Stew for complete step by step instructions and more projects throughout the week with the Snowflake stamp sets.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Baby Girl Journal/Planner & Leftover Christmas Cards Journal

Hi Guys, this is Nadia from Nadias Beautiful Mess. With our Baby Girl on the way, I needed a journal where I could keep track of the baby's firsts, appointments, feeding/sleeping schedule...and lots of other important details, including random thoughts and journaling. I used AJVDTotally Titles stamp set for this journal. This stamp set has over 30 words to mix and match and this was also my first time creating an altered notebook, so much fun using this set and creating this book!

For a supply list, instructions and a video tutorial (coming soon on my blog) please visit www.nadiasbeautifulmess.blogspot.com

I also really wanted to share a brilliant idea with you all. If you, like me, hate to throw out your beautiful Christmas cards and precious family and friends photos, have I got the easiest solution for you! I created a beautiful bound book using free downloadable covers and personalized it by embossing the year using the AJVD Swirly Monograms stamp set!

Thanks for taking the time to check out my journals. Hope you enjoyed!

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