Java Jen Creations

Happy Thursday!  It's my turn to be a guest designer over at SHE'S A SASSY LADY  today so I am revisiting a project that I shared over a year ago. (Life has been a little crazy and busy so I pulled this one out of my archives!) :-) I'm sharing a memory file that I made for a friend's 16th birthday.  I love Heidi Swapp's memory files so I created one to help my friend remember her special day! Here is a picture of the completed file and then I'll go into more detail. I started with a plain, standard size file folder. Next, I covered it with paper and stamped the corners with some decorative stamps in my stash. I then began making some elements and embellishments for the cover and inside. I used several Cricut cartridges, including Fabulous Finds, Graphically Speaking, Art Philosophy and Tags, Bags, Boxes and More. I stamped them with stamps I had. Next, I made a mini book to go inside for putting pictures. I, again, used stamps from m...

Hello everyone!  This project is the one that Kim featured over at Olive Juice Studio this week!! It was so much fun to be able to share these invites with so many!!  Be sure to visit her site and become a follower because she has so many awesome projects and tidbits that you won't want to miss a thing!!  Her site is www.olivejuicestudio.com . Now on to the project! I am making baby shower invitations for our daughter's shower that will be in late September. She loves owls so we found this adorable one on Create a Critter!  I'm also showing you how to create multiples of images so that you can assemble lots of cards at once.  We started out thinking that we would only need about 30 of these invites but once we started preparing our guest list......ummmm........looks like we're gonna need about 100!  Oh well, good thing I have my Gypsy to make this easy!! Here we go! Here is a pic of the completed invites. We chose two different color schemes so they wou...

Hello everyone!!  Sorry it's been so long since my last post!  I have been crafting like crazy getting everything ready for our family reunion!  I do kids activities and I came up with some pretty great projects- (if I do say so myself!)  I can't wait for the kids to see them!!  The first project that I made is a reunion passport.  They will keep this little book with them throughout the week and get it stamped each time they "do" one of the events listed in their book.  There are things like "chapel", "meals", "olympics", etc.  By the end of the week, they will have their books all stamped up to show all that they have done!! Yay for the cricut cartridge Fabulous Finds!! That is where I got the cover and the pages for this awesome little album! I used kraft paper for the cover and ivory cardstock for inserts. I used several different stamp sets to add interest to album and I will post pictures of them too. Ok, the album cover and inserts...