Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a quick and easy card. I whipped out this fun and colorful card for my All Occasions Card Buffet last month. I love the fun circles and colors. All told, this card took me less than 10 minutes to complete.
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using one of the DSP packs on special. For the month of October, buy three packs of qualifying paper packs and get one free! I love when SU runs this once a year deal. It's great to build up your pattern paper stack and save a bit of money. The list of qualifying paper packs are a mix of annual and Holiday catalog offerings:
141663 Floral Boutique Designer Series Paper
141645 Moroccan Designer Series Paper
141660 Fruit Stand Designer Series Paper
141654 Blooms & Bliss Designer Series Paper
141630 Festive Birthday Designer Series Paper
141640 By the Shore Designer Series Paper
141986 Presents & Pinecones Designer Series Paper
141981 Candy Cane Lane Designer Series Paper
For my card, I focused on the Blooms and Bliss DSP. I love the pinks and purples for half the pack and the blues and greens for the other half of the pack. Along with using the beautiful patterned paper, I also tried out a new-to-me technique: aluminum foil embossing! It was so easy and makes a nice addition to the card.
Watching: J and I have been watching all the movies while home with the new baby. This past week we've watched Ghostbusters, Independence Day 2, and Captain America Civil War.
Reading: In the newborn haze and I can't deal with heavy books. So I turned to fluffy romances read on my iPad.
Listening: Q is a big talker already. He loves making little noises while awake.
Making: Q is constantly eating. Hence, making tons of bottles.
Feeling: One week out from a c-section and I'm feeling sore, but improving. Every day I feel like I'm gaining more movement and energy.
Planning: Sending J and the toddler to the grocery store to stock up, but need to make the meal plan and grocery list.
Loving: Oh my! I forgot how much I love newborn snuggles. Q loves to burrow into my side and sleep during the day. I can't do it all the time, but I do love a few minutes of snuggles.
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the colors below.
Turns out that I ran out of Tip Top Taupe Cardstock and din't realize it! Darn! Oh well, plan B. Use a similar color. In this case, I subbed Soft Suede. It's darker than Tip Top Taupe, but in the same color family. I ended up CASEing a gorgeous card from Brian King. It was too pretty to pass up! I changed up the sentiment and the colors and added just a bit of sponging around the edges.
A recap of last month's goals:
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!
