SSINKCS25: Schoolhouse Banners

Today’s card is featured over at Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration and features a fun card sketch challenge today.

I started with this great Mint Macaron DSP and started building a great new baby card. I had fun coloring the Hey There Buds card. Blushing Bride, Pink Pirouette, and Mint Macaron are the perfect combination. I finished this card off with a sentiment from Crazy About You. I finished the card and realized that the Hey There Buds stamp is retired. Ugh! I can't use retired cards for the SSINK blog. What to do? It's a cute card so I had to feature it on my blog, but I went back to the sketch to find current items to make my design team card...

I started this card with the beautiful polka dot DSP from the Schoolhouse pack. I layered the polka dot print over the opposite side featuring numbers. Beautiful combo! To finish out the card, I added a simple sentiment, some washi tape, and a punched banner. Very cute!

Stamps: Hello Life; Crazy About You; Hey There Buds
Inks: Mint Macaron; Blushing Bride; Pink Pirouette; Staz-on Black
Cardstock: 2015-2017 In Colors DSP; Crumb Cake; Schoolhouse DSP; Pacific Point
Accessories: Seasons of Cheer Washi Tape
Tools: Banner Punch

Using Positive and Negative Cuts

My demo friend and I figured out that we have have very similar styles, but don't have the same stamp sets. Why don't we swap some stamp sets occasionally? Perfect plan! This bast month I gave her the Baker's Box Thinlits and Homemade for You stamp set and she gave me Hello You Thinlits and Crazy About You stamp set. I had to make a few cards with her products... The Hello You Thinlits made the cutest cut out words. Even the negative pieces are amazingly versatile. So I made two two cards out of one piece of pool party cardstock. From there I layered some Schoolhouse DSP and a pretty stamped flower. Simple but striking cards.

Stamps: Crazy About You
Inks: Tangerine Tango
Cardstock: Schoolhouse DSP; Tangerine Tango; Pool Party; Whisper White
Accessories: Candy Dots
Tools: Hello You Thinlits; Medallion Punch

Kissed Flowers

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the kissing technique. Have you ever tired the kissing technique before? It's so simple and really makes stamps more versatile. Take a more solid stamp, ink it up, "kiss" it to a pattern stamp, and stamp your piece of cardstock. The I Think You're Great stamp set has two great patterned stamps to choose from.

I kissed my flower stamps to the flower patterned stamp from I Think You're Great. From there I built an all purple card. Can you tell that purple is my favorite color? I used four of the five purple hues from Stampin' Up. I just didn't get around to incorporating Blackberry Bliss. After stampin the flowers, I added a die cut and stamped sentiment and my favorite embellishments: candy dots.

Stamps: Crazy About You; I Think You're Great
Inks: Wisteria Wonder; Perfect Plum; Rich Razzleberry; Elegant Eggplant
Cardstock: Wisteria Wonder; Perfect Plum
Accessories: Candy Dots
Tools: Flower Medallion Punch; Hello You Thinlits

Butterflies Peeking Through

A good friend of mine is a fellow demonstrator. We have the same style in cards, but often buy different stamp sets and products. What if we occasionally borrowed each other's sets? Sounds like a perfect plan! For August and part of September, I gave her my Homemade for You stamp set and Baker's Box thinlits while she gave me her Crazy About You stamp set and Hello You thinlits. While I had them, I had to make a few cards. The card below was taken from a sketch inspiration. I love how the pattern paper is tempered by the piece of white. But we also get the visual interest of the die cut "hello." Very cute card!

Stamps: Crazy About You
Inks: Pacific Point; Calypso Coral
Cardstock: Calypso Coral; Pretty Petals DSP; Whisper White
Accessories: Candy Dots
Tools: Hello You Thinlits; Medallion Punch