A favorite task I enjoy on Saturday evenings is to hop onto Splitcoast Stampers to peruse the week's Inspiration Challenge and look for something to spark my creativity. This week's challenge is the website,...
I am on a roll now making art for my walls and have one more design I wanted to finish. I have this really cheerful distress ink background that I was inspired to make when I was surfing this weeks Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers. I saw these Holtz tags colored from orange to lime green with holtz stamps. At first I was going to make something just like them but as with me I went...
I had made my aunt the cutest birthday card ever using a Whimsy Stamp called Wee Snippet (Ive linked the details on that project below). THEN I saw the Sale A Bration catalog and knew that I had to get the free Hey Chick! stamp set and use it instead of Wee Snippet for my aunt's birthday card. She raises chickens for their eggs and is really into that whole process and I just knew this had to...
The next phase of the January birthday card project was to make cards for my uncle and father-in-law. Because both are plumbers (FIL is retired) I knew I could make enough parts for two cards. I have collected plumbing pipe dies to use for both plumbing and steampunk projects. I bought Small and Medium Memory Box plumbing dies and haven't had a chance to use them yet. I decided to use medium...
The next project I worked on is a birthday card for my cousin.
Love this moose! I gave him two cardinal friends. I tore white cardstock snowy banks and used 3D Crystal effects to addf a line of glistening snow. I dry embossed a snowy background and used dimensionals to pop up the banks, the tree and the moose. The brown tree is a Memory Box die and the cardinals are Poppy Stamps dies....
My current project is to finish four family birthday cards for January. I am blessed with an abundance of men on my side of the family so three of the cards need to be masculine. Of course I chose to make my aunt's card first:) She is a gardener, horse owner and is outdoorsy. I've had the opportunity to make her these types of cards in years past so this year she gets something magical and...
For this second Newton project I cut an oval frame for him out of the rest of my red paper scrap.
I wanted to frame Newton on an oval this time. Oval dies are a funny lot. Each set has a different width which means I own many more oval sets as the other basic shapes due to the variation in width. For this card I chose to cut a wider oval with a x stitch edge that I have the matching x...
After completing the Newton project, I needed inspiration for my next project. I went to Splitcoast stampers and surfed through this week's Featured Stamper's gallery. She has so many fun projects. I found a perfect project for my inspiration. It has the card, which is a scene with three penguins and in the background were MARKERS! I felt like a coloring project and armed with my inspiration I...
I started this project for the Newton's Nook Inky Paws Challenge #38 Color challenge then I added the challenge Scrap Saturday HIMCR279. I have limited paper choices and I pulled out all of my 6x6 pads to look for a paper with turqouise in it. I bought a few clearance sets of Authentique paper and I found a lovely paper from a summer pack that includes the blue as well as red and green....
I went to my 12 hour crop intending to work on some projects. What I like most about going is the camraderie with fellow crafters. One gal gave me a 6 x 6 dry embossed sweater that is a new Stampin' Up Embossing folder. Her mother was there and she had brought the folder so I was able to make a white and grey as well. I am still pondering their future. I wanted to make a horizontal card which...