Java Jen Creations

Since I'm known as Java Jen, I decided to create a coffee-themed scrapbook page. Here is what I've come up with.  I used Lyrical Letters for the coffee cup background and the title letters.  That is such a versatile cartridge with so many extras on it!

My Pink Stamper  is having another design team call so I made this scrapbook page that can be used for a birthday, an eventful year or really just about any occasion that you want to celebrate!  We had to use the colors brown, green, turquoise and orange and one other color of our choice in our project for this submission. I threw some purple in here since it was already on the printed paper! :-)  I thought that these prints from K and Co.'s Confetti stack brought these colors together nicely! RECIPE: BANNER: from the MOTHER'S DAY cartridge cut at @ 2.18"H LETTERS ON THE BANNER: from the ALL MIXED UP cartridge cut at 2.18"H TITLE LETTERS: from the ALL MIXED UP cartridge cut at 1.47"H PAPER: K & Co. Confetti stack (just love this stack!!) KRAFT PAPER TWINE Thanks for stopping by today and make sure that you visit  My Pink Stamper  for so much great inspiration, including tutorials and stamps and sooooooo much more!!

Well, it's that time of year again and I have the pleasure of doing some crafts with the kids at our family reunion! I absolutely LOVE it!! I thought it would be fun to create a little lanyard album for them to remember the fun times we had together!   We started with a piece of cardstock cut to 11.25"x3.25".  I pre-scored them, starting at the left, at each 2.25" mark, (2.25", 4.5", 6.75" and 9"). After scoring, I then did an accordion fold. I used my Creative Memories tag punch to make tags to go on the front of the album saying "OFFICIAL MEMBER of the BARGER FAMILY".   I brought all kinds of goodies from my stash for the kids to use like stickers, gems, gel pens etc.!  They had so much fun decorating them! Here are some pics of the finished products! Needless to say, the sticker gems were a hit! :-) To see another version of this album, check out my gallery on  Club Ruby Designers  . It's called a summer lanyard album.   ...

Happy Thursday, everyone! Today this project is featured over at  SHE'S A SASSY LADY  ! It's always a pleasure to share over there! If you haven't visited Sheila's blog, you must! So much great stuff going on there all the time! :-) I get weekly emails from a site called  PHOTOJOJO  that are filled with photography ideas, photography equipment deals and sometimes even photo display ideas.  The other day in this email, they had a tutorial for a photo flip-flap album and I absolutely loved it and had to try it for myself!  I tweaked it a little bit and streamlined the instructions a bit to, hopefully, make it a little easier to understand.  Here we go!! STEP 1:  Cut a plain piece of cardstock to a 9"x10" size.  Lay the cardstock on your score board so that it is 10" across.  Score at 1" and every inch all the way across so that there are 9 score lines, 1" apart. Once you accordion fold your score lines, it should look like the picture ...

Hello everyone!! Happy Saturday!! Today I am posting my take on Sheila's tri-fold card tutorial that she is sharing today over at  She's a Sassy Lady  .  She was so great and designed a tri-fold card for those who don't have the new Expression2. (There is a pre-loaded cartridge on the new E2 that has a tri-fold card feature on it.)  You can receive her Gypsy file for this card by visiting her blog and making any size donation to help the Alabama tornado victims. If you have never downloaded a file for your Gypsy, it is simply a file with all of the cuts already on the mats for you.  If you don't have the cartridges that she used in the original file, she also made one as a template so you can choose your own images from cartridges that you own! This is just so cool!! Be sure to head over to her blog and view her awesome videos that will show you how she made this file and to make a card of your own and link it to her post! Now, on to my card! This is the ba...

Hello everyone! I just have a quick post to share my entry for the challenge that Sheila over at  She's a Sassy Lady  , posts on Saturdays.  Today she challenged us to create a tag using the end cap feature on Plantin Schoolbook or Mickey Font.  I have had this coffee bean paper for some time and have been wanting to use it so I thought that this would be the perfect opportunity! By the way, I used Mickey Font because I like the whimsical look of the font!  If you would like to create a tag of your own, I encourage you to check out Sheila's post today because she has 2 very informative videos to make it very easy for you! Of course, I used my white pen to add some much needed stitching! :-) Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to make something beautiful today!

Hello everyone!! Hope you're all having a fantastic day! We are finally getting some rain here so maybe our grass will green up! Today I have a project featured over at  She's a Sassy Lady  ! If you have never been to her blog, you must check it out! There is a new, awesome project and tutorial everyday!! I created this layout using my Cricut Imagine, the Imagine More cartridge for the colors of my layers and the Baby Steps cartridge for the images.  A really wonderful feature about the Imagine is that I only need to put white paper on my mat and then choose the colors through my machine! So easy! This is a pic of the first cut showing the color I chose for this first layer and its position on the mat. The pic below is the first completed cut. The next few pics show the Imagine screens and the corresponding completed cuts. I took a picture of my Cutter Bee Tweezer bee tweezers because that is my go-to tool for adhering my die cut layers. These tweezers give me...