I love participating in new catalog swaps. This time, I swapped with my lineage demos and the SSINK Design Team. Here are all the pretties:
Cheryl Hamilton @ Create with Cheryl
Darcy Johnson @ Dj's Stampin' Place
Jennifer Gregorsky @ Jenny G Paper Crafts
Diana Eichfeld @ Stampin' Fun with DianaChristine Szekeres
Jennifer Blomquist @ Northwest Stamper
Susan Schultz
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a fall themed card. Since I played with the vampire, skeleton, and mummy images on another card, I thought I would dedicate this card to the cute scarecrow. I made my own patterned paper by repeatedly stamping the scarecrow in Soft Suede. From there, I stamped a separate scarecrow and had fun coloring him in with makers. I finished the card with a die cut sentiment and some washi tape.
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the technique below.
The love the simplicity of faux tiled cards. For mine, I pulled a piece of Affectionately Yours DSP to play off of. From there, I pulled some ink colors (Night of Navy, Cucumber Crush, and Daffodil Delight) and a stamp set that would go (Kinda Eclectic). For this card, I scored every 1", but you can pick a different scoring amount. After scoring, I stamped and hoped some of the tiled effect would show. You can see it the best on the middle navy butterfly. After stamping, I finished my card with a strip of washi tape and a die cut sentiment.
September's stamp club ordered arrived! I can finish out my October cards and get started on my Christmas cards. I snagged:
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using my favorite Holiday Catalog accessory. I was immediately drawn to the Petals and Paisleys Suite in the catalog. I'm not a huge ribbon fan, but I had to buy the coordinating Ribbon Trio Pack featuring Mint Macaron, Rich Razzleberry, and Delightful Dijon spools.
I've been using these spools of ribbon for a ton of projects and I'm still not sick of them! For this card, I decided to featuring a small strip of Mint Macaron ribbon to "hold" my die cuts in place. I love the pattern mixing and colors of this card!
Working on some Halloween themed cards today. You can spy a just finished one at the bottom of the photo.
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a tree card. The Sheltering Tree stamp set has so many different uses! For this card, I decided to leave my tree bare and make it a Halloween tree. A bit of washi (with silver foil) adds a bit of fun and dimension to the background. And of course I had to add a pumpkin somewhere. Here the pumpkin becomes my sun.
Watching: J and finished Turn S2 last night and it was amazing! We finally get an appearance by Alexander Hamilton. Benedict Arnold's treachery is revealed. Captain Simcoe gets a bit of comeuppance. And we see the eventually meeting of Andre and Talmudge. It was so good! Now we're wondering if they are going to make a third season. If they do, I imagine we would be focusing on the run-up to Yorktown. I'd be okay with that.
Reading: Voyager by Diana Gabaldon. I finally dove into the third in the Outlander series. About 300 pages in and I'm liking it more than Dragonfly in Amber.
Listening: Loving the Nina Simone Pandora channel lately.
Making: Finishing up a load of freezer meals just ahead of having this baby!
Feeling: I'm 39 weeks tomorrow and feeling it. Tired and super sore all the time.
Planning: Quentin arrives in less than week and I'm trying to tie up the little loose ends before he comes.
Loving: After a cool down, the temperatures were back in the high 80s this past weekend and few days. Not excited about the heat, but it has allowed Arthur and I to visit the pool a few more times before the baby comes. As an added bonus, swimming relieves some of the pressure I'm feeling.
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the inspiration picture:
I decided to play off of the fun bright colors featured in the picture. I pulled out some bright DSP from the Festive Birthday pack and started matching it up. From there, I grabbed the coordinating ink colors to compliment the paper. These candles from the Build a Birthday stamp set were a perfect choice! The stark white background felt a little too plain so I added some circles from the Playful Backgrounds set. I finished off my card with simple sentiment.
I popped into Michael's for snail, but of course, I can never just buy snail. I grabbed some white and black cardstock because they were 5 for $10. On a more fun note, I snagged a pair of paper pads and elastic closures for my Happy Planner. All planners and accessories were 40% off.
For my Stampin' Up order, I got all the Holiday Catalog paper for my paper shares! Here's all the pretties laid out. A few of my stamp club ladies picked up their share packets on Thursday for club. I even have some left of each pack for myself to play with.
