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FLAG AND 4TH OF JULY DESIGN TEAM BLOG HOP

Welcome to Flag & 4th of July Joy Clair Design Team Blog Hop. We are so glad you joined us to celebrate the independence month with two new stamp sets created specially for this occasion.

Our Design Teams, prepared colorful and different types of projects using the XXX and SSS stamp sets available in our Joy Clair Store. Perfect for summer season and to commemorate our Independence Day, 4th of July.  Of course, we also have prizes to share with you!!! Just be sure to leave comments during the hop so you can be entered to win one of two $25 Joy Clair Stamps Gift Cards.

Winners will be announced on the Joy Clair Blog at the end of the month with the Challenge winner. 

Now it is time to start the hop;

 Hop with us. Be sure to visit each of the designers on this blog hop!

Joy Clair Blog - YOU ARE HERE!!!

Lindsay Andreon

Martha Lucia Gomez

Lori Kobular

Donna Idlet

LeeAnn McKinney

Steph Ackerman

Kerry Urbatch

If you have not had a chance to join the "anything goes" challenge, please take a minute and join.   Joy Clair will be giving away one $25 gift card to the Joy Clair Store, randomly selected to give everyone a chance to win.

Please follow Joy Clair's facebook page, Color by Faith Bible Journaling facebook page, Instagram and Twitter, be the first to hear the news, sales and giveaways! They also have a Pinterest page and Youtube channel for your inspiration!

Anchor of Hope

Hello everyone,

I am here with Joy Clair. I am featuring  a stamp set called "Anchor of Hope".  This stamp set is part of the  Joy Clair's Color by Faith, Bible Journaling line.  I have created a card for your inspiration.  There are some really beautiful pages the design team has created in their bible.  Please be sure to stop over at the Joy Clair blog or the store for more ideas on using this stamp set. H

Joy Clair has a new Challenge this month. The theme is always anything goes and our Design Team uses a photo inspiration to create their project that you can use too. If you would like to join the challenge, you can find all the details here. As always, you will have a chance to win a $25 Gift Certificate to the Joy Clair Store.

Here is my card for inspiration. This months theme for the design team is "bling".  I hope you will stop by and play along in the challenge and stop over at the Joy Clair blog to see what "bling" the design team has used.

closer look of my card

How I put my card together:

1.  A2 card 4 1/4 x 5 1/2,
2.  I cut the top layer 3 7/8 x 5 1/2, and embossed this piece with an embossing folder,
3.  I die cut a tag out and used some distress ink on the tag to look like water,
4.  I stamped the image from the Joy Clair Anchor of Hope stamp set and colored them with copics, 
5.  I stamped the images I wanted to use and then stamped the sentiment from the Joy Clair Anchor of Hope stamp set, 
6.  I added some twine to make it look like the hook was floatingt,
7.  I finished off my card with some blue enamel dots.  

Please follow Joy Clair's facebook page, Color by Faith Bible Journaling Facebook page, Instagram and Twitter, be the first to hear the news, sales and giveaways! They also have a Pinterest page and YouTube channel for your inspiration!

 Thank you for stopping by, please come back again soon!

 

STAMP HIGHLIGHT: FLAWLESS FOR SUMMER

Welcome to our Stamp Highlight and this month we are featuring Flawless from the Color by Faith Collection!

This set is perfect for woman and girl projects. You can create any type of souvenirs, cards, party favors, scrapbook or journal pages, bible journaling or all that you can imagine using different stamping techniques. This set also has some special sentiments that you can use in your cards or journals. 

You can also use the stamps with the coordinating SVG file to cut out the images and sentiments quickly and easily in order to add depth and dimension to your projects. These images look amazing when stamped flat or popped up, or even a mix of the two. Both the stamp set and SVG files come together when you buy your stamp set. 

These bold images stamp beautifully with any type of ink, you can embossed it or simply coloring. You can take a peek at some projects made by our amazing Design Team. We hope these get your inspiration going. Here’s a closer look at some of the amazing Design Team projects, to find all the details just CLICK over the designer name:

Martha Lucia Gomez

Donna Idlet

Steph Ackerman

Helen Gullett

LeeAnn McKinney

Lori Kobular

Kerry Urbatch

Lindsay Andreon

Jessica Pascarella

We hope June Stamp Highlight has given you some inspiration and given you a fresh look for Summer. Please let us know what you love about this stamp set, we’d truly love to hear your thoughts in the comments.  

 

 

God's Focus Inspirational Card

Picture Perfect in God's Focus! what a great stamp set from Joy Clair... I love it!!! Hello crafty friends, Martha Lucia here to share with you a Color by Faith stamp set called God's Focus that I used to create a card. Take a look at my card and see how simple it is to make this:

To create this card, I selected watercolor paper and Cherry Cobbler card stock.

1. Cut the base of the card using Cherry Cobbler card stock. The size is 8-1/2"x5-1/2" with score in 4-1/4".
2. Cut a second layer of watercolor paper.
3. Using Distress Ink and a blending tool, create a color banner on the center of the layer. I used Mermaid Lagoon and Broken China Distress Ink.
4. Splatter the inked area with a few drops of water to create a texture and let the paper dry.
5. Cut the layer with a decorated frame. I used a big stitched postage frame.
6. Stamp with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink the frame image and the sentiment using the MiniMisti.
7. In a separate piece of very vanilla card stock, stamp the image of the camera and fussy cut with scissors or cut with the SVG file that came with the God's Focus Stamp set.
8. Paste the camera to the decorated layer using dimensionals.
9. Paste the decorated layer to the card base using snail adhesive.

Super quick and easy.  I love this stamp set for the sentiments included - they are so powerful and encouraging.

What do you think?  Please let me know below.

If you have not had a chance to join the "anything goes" challenge, please take a minute and join.   Joy Clair will be giving away one $25 gift card to the Joy Clair Store, randomly selected to give everyone a chance to win.

Please follow Joy Clair's facebook page, Color by Faith Bible Journaling facebook page, Instagram and Twitter, be the first to hear the news, sales and giveaways! They also have a Pinterest page and Youtube channel for your inspiration!

See you soon! And remember we are Picture Perfect in God's Focus.

Martha Lucia

 

Let's Celebrate by Steph

Hi everyone, Steph here today using the Let's Celebrate stamp set.  I've created 2 cards so you can see how versatile this stamp set it.  

My first card is for a special event - perhaps a graduation, a girl's day, a family event, or even a birthday, but as this stamp set includes a birthday stamp, I thought I'd keep my first card more general.

I stamped the images I wanted to use, then colored them with Copic Markers.  Once colored, I fussy cut the images.

 I created my card, then added "Celebrate" across the center.  I used die cuts onto which I popped the girl then placed  the packages in the corner.

 To finish, I added pearls to the left of the girl and in the right corner of the card.

For my next card, I wanted to create a birthday specific card.

I stamped the girl on a white panel, then stamped the balloons around her.  To add the balloon strings, I masked the girl before stamping them.

I used the confetti stamp and randomly stamped it around about the card.  Then I stamped the balloons on cardstock, fussy cut them and placed them on the card base for a 3 dimensional look.  The panel was inked with blue ink and matted with red cardstock.   Happy Birthday was stamped on a white panel, then matted with red and blue cardstock.

Finally, I colored the girl with colored pencils.

Thanks for stopping by.

Please follow Joy Clair's facebook page, Color by Faith Bible Journaling facebook page, Instagram and Twitter, be the first to hear the news, sales and giveaways! They also have a Pinterest page and Youtube channel for your inspiration!

Steph 

JUNE CHALLENGE - ANYTHING GOES!

Welcome to Joy Clair Monthly Challenge!

Our themes are always anything goes and our Design Team use a photo inspiration to present their creations, that you can use too!

NEW RULES!!!

Now play with us is very simple, you only need to create a project using Anything Goes as theme, post your project on your personal blog or online gallery and link to us. You can use any brand of stamps!!!

• MUST directly link to the Joy Clair blog in your post. (Or entry will not count)
• Projects must be NEW, no back linking, please.
• Number of entries is unlimited.
• Add a direct link to your project using the InLinkz below.

Lori Kobular

Donna Idlet

Steph Ackerman

LeeAnn McKinney

Jessica Pascarella

Lindsay Andreon

 

For more details  on how to create these projects, please head on over to designer blogs for that info.

You have until June 29, 2017 to create a new project and enter it into Inlinkz below. 

By entering you will have a chance to win a $25 Gift Certificate to the Joy Clair Store.

One lucky winner will be announced on June 30!!!

Good Luck!

An InLinkz Link-up

Joy Clair Spring Flowers and Wedding Bells

Greetings friends, LeeAnn here today with a project that is very near and dear to me. I used the Spring Time Flowers and Doodle Flowers sets on this fun project. 

Now a little backstory. I have three wonderful daughters, 2 awesome sons in law, and 2 amazing grandchildren. My two oldest daughters are married and the baby is getting married in August. Due to the fact that my older two lived many miles away when they married, I really did not get to participate as much as I would have liked. Leave the last, who only lives an hour away... I get to do all the fun stuff now. So far we have been to a bridal show with her future mother in law, went dress shopping along with my middle daughter, my grandbaby and one of my daughter's friends (and she said YES to her DRESS). Well, the best part of all was the privilege of making her invitations and rsvp cards. Which brings me back to my post. 

As my daughter and I were figuring out what she wanted her for the invitation, I was sending her photos of our new stamp sets. she said she wanted Daisies, so I said hang on, I quickly stamped the daisy and sent it over FB messenger. I said I have another idea... I stamped it, cut with the Scan n cut, stamped again and heat embossed it and added some yellow in the middle... eh, but not sold yet. I told her to give me a few minutes... I stamped, close cut so no framing, stamped again, heat embossed, added some Fabrika Cornflower drops in the middle, also stamped the Jar from the Doodle Flowers set on light blue cardstock, and then added cut vellum over the top to look like glass. SHE LOVED IT!!! Then the fun part of her wording started. 

 

What you see here is the final cut of my daughter's wedding invitation, of course, information has been blurred out. 

 

 I hope you have enjoyed this project and it has given you some inspiration. 

Please follow Joy Clair's facebook page, Color by Faith Bible Journaling facebook page, Instagram and Twitter, be the first to hear the news, sales and giveaways! They also have a Pinterest page and Youtube channel for your inspiration!

Thank you for stopping by and please come back again soon!

Fight The Good Fight

Hello Joy Clair Fans!  Lori here today and I have a card that I made with the Joy Clair God's Army stamp set that I want to share with you.

This stamp set is perfect for making cards for any friends or relatives that are in our Military along with the Religious cards and Bible Journaling you can do with this card.

For this card I started with Kraft paper as the base of my card.  I took a piece of white neenah paper and then I stamped the different camouflage stamps with the following distress inks ~ Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs, Tea Dye, Peeled Paint and Bundled Sage.  I layered the stamps on top of each other so that the colors would blend together.  I took the Tea Dye distress ink and inked the edges and then added this to the Kraft card.

Next I stamped the boots from the Joy Clair God's Army stamp set with brown ink onto some more white neenah paper and then colored in the boots with Copic marker E31.  I took my Die-Versions Whispers Stitched Nesting squares and cut out the boots.  I took some of the Antique Linen distress ink and inked the edges of the square and then added that to the card.  I took the Fight The Good Fight stamp and stamped it with some Black Versafine ink and then cut that out with the smaller Stitched Nesting Square, inked the edges with more of the Antique Lined distress ink and then placed that inside the square with the boots.

Here is the card all finished:

I hope I have inspired you to make something with your Joy Clair stamp sets!!

You can stay up to date on all the Joy Clair happenings by simply following us on the Joy Clair Facebook page, Color by Faith Bible Journaling Facebook page, Instagram and Twitter.  We also have a Pinterest page and a You Tube Channel for inspiration!

Be sure to check the Joy Clair Blog everyday for new projects made by the Design Team!

Thanks for stopping by!

Lori

STAMP HIGHLIGHT: DAD'S DAY

Hello there! Welcome to our Stamp Highlight and this month we are featuring Dad's Day Stamp Set.

Dad's Day features a complete collection of images. This set is perfect for stamping techniques like watercoloring and embossing. This set also has some special sentiments in an over sized modern font, and along with the large and fun images that you can use to create beautiful cards or scrapbook layouts in no time!

You can also use the stamps with the coordinating SVG file to cut out the images and sentiments quickly and easily in order to add depth and dimension to your projects. These images look amazing when stamped flat or popped up, or even a mix of the two. Both the stamp set and SVG files come together when you buy your stamp set. 

These bold images stamp beautifully with any type of ink, so when used as a background or focal point, the images will look amazing. You can take a peek at some projects made by our amazing Design Team. We hope these get your inspiration going. Here’s a closer look at some of the amazing Design Team projects, to find all the details just CLICK over the designer name:

Martha Lucia Gomez

Donna Idlet

Steph Ackerman

Lori Kobular

Lindsay Andreon

Helen Gullett

LeeAnn Mckinney

Jessica Pascarella

Kerry Urbatch

We hope this Stamp Highlight has given you some inspiration and given you a fresh look on this celebration. Please let us know what you love about this stamp set, we’d truly love to hear your thoughts in the comments.  

JOY CLAIR AND IMAGINE BLOG HOP DAY 2

Welcome to the Joy Clair & Imagine Blog Hop Day 2! Did you see our First Day of hop? Did you like it? Today we have a great selection of projects featuring more stamps and products from Imagine.

These designs team are full of talented ladies that will surely inspire you along the way. And of course amazing prizes to share with you!!!

Just be sure to leave comments during the hop so you can be entered to win one of two $25 Joy Clair Stamps Gift Cards and one of two $25 Gift Cards from Imagine!!! Joy Clair winners will be announced on the Joy Clair Blog at the end of the month and Imagine winners will be announced on the Imagine Blog.

 

Be sure to visit each of the designers on this Blog Hop!

MAY 18 – DAY 2

Joy Clair Blog - YOU ARE HERE!!!!

Imagine Blog

Martha Lucia Gomez 

Donna Idlet

Alison Heikkila

Lindsay Andreon

Roni Johnson

Steph Ackerman

Jessica Litman

Lori Kobular

Renee Zarate

If this is your first day of the hop, you can see our DAY 1 HERE