Jessica Witty
Hi. Have we met?
My name is Jessica.
And my middle name is Lazy.
I’m not like…intentionally lazy.
I mean…I have 3 kids.
Trust me. That doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for…lazy-ing.
But when it comes to card making, I have this inability to do lots of things that lots of other card makers seem to love.
Things like layering.
And embellishing.
And layering the embellishments.
{Did I mention the layering?}
It’s not that I don’t like those things.
Noooooo.
I love looking at layers on top of embellishments on top of layers.
Like this card…
I mean, Anabelle O’Malley can do layers and embellishments, my friends.
But I can’t.
I didn’t get that gene.
But that’s okay.
I love my little clean and simple DNA.
It serves me well.
It makes me happy.
So, what does a lazy clean and simple girl love?
Something that makes clean and simple even MORE simple.
{Remember the three kids? Yeah, I could pretty much always use more simple and less…not simple.}
That something is Simple Sentiments.
It’s sweet, people.
Just take your Paper Crafts magazine, flip all the way to the last page, and ta-da! There they are.
But it gets even better.
All of those cute little sentiments are available online.
Right HERE.
That means you can just print them out and ba da bing, ba da boom! They’re ready to use.
So I did.
See?
And look…I even attempted a single layer.
{Go me!}
I just printed the Bee Mine sentiment out on white cardstock and stuck it right down on top of my card.
To add a bit of depth, I stamped a bumble bee on some vellum, colored him in super quick with some markers, and then stuck him right on.
Ah…simple, right?
Just the way I like it.
To show you just how versatile these sentiments are, all six Go-to Gals (and two editors!) have created cards and added them to the new Simple Sentiments gallery. With eight designs in every issue, my crafty friends and I will continue to bring you cards featuring these fabulous sentiments.
I’d love to see you try your hand at the Simple Sentiments from the new January/February 2011 issue! I can totally see these Valentine-y sentiments on some wrapped treats or tags wrapped around some simple card sets or…my favorite…lots and lots of cards.
So show us what you got and upload a project today!
It’s super simple.
Promise.
Jessica Witty,
Paper Crafts Go-to Gal
P.S. Any of you looking forward to the 2011 CKC’s? Well, I’m happy to report that online registration has begun for CKC-Louisville! Here’s all the details:
CKC-Louisville
Kentucky Exposition Center, Louisville, KY
March 11-12, 2011
Online registration is open December 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM ET through Monday, February 28, 2011 at midnight ET. Click HERE to register today!