Inspired Stamps: Thinking Of you Trio of Cards

Happy Thursday, my blog friends! This week the design team was asked to make a trio of cards with a thinking of you theme. I was inspired by bricks when making these cards. I cut out strips of 6x6 paper from the latest Amy Tangerine paper pad at one inch wide and cut them at 1.5 inches. This will give you four "bricks" per one inch strip of paper. A whole piece will give you 24 "bricks", that's a lot of paper brick laying! I only cut about three strips from each of my four different patterned papers to make these three cards. Really simple and fun to make! I used the following Inspired Stamp sets: Thinking of You, Spring Sketches, and Butterflies and Blooms. I colored in the butterflies from Spring Sketches and the heart from Butterflies and Blooms with Copics, and made a butterfly contrail by drawing dots with a Memento ink Tuxedo Black marker and tracing over it in Copics. And as always (haha, srsly love this stuff), I added some burlap twine to the last card and two pearls.

Giveaway!

To be eligible for my giveaway, all you have to do is become a follower and comment here and let me know that you did! However, if you want more entries, complete any of these tasks and leave a comment here on this post letting me know which one you did. The more tasks you complete, the more comments you can post, and the more entries you get!

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I'll announce the winner on Saturday, March 30 by 10:00PM EST using random.org. It also happens to be National Take a Walk in the Park Day. So, I felt that would be fitting for this Spring inspired post. :) You have till then to enter. Please come back and check to see if you've won by April 5th. If it's not claimed by then, I will draw another winner.


Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today!
 Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Challenge Entries: 

• Ribbon Carousel Blog's Spring is in the air challenge.
•  Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Anything goes

Inspired Stamps: Spring 2013 New Release

Happy Friday, blog friends! I'm coming to you today to showcase one of the new Spring releases from Inspired Stamps called Spring Sketches! Be sure to check the blog to see all the other new releases my fellow design team members will be showcasing today. This stamp set as well as the other new releases will be live in the Inspired Stamps store today!

I made two cards, one using the Ecclesiastes 3:11 scripture included in this set and two of the flowers. For the pink rose, for purposes of symmetry, I layered it on top of the same flower stamp that the blue flower was from, but trimmed it down some. On the card with the butterfly, I chose to shadow stamp it to make it a frontal view of the whole butterfly instead of a side view. A great versatile stamp indeed! The side view is great too, especially if you don't have as much room in your card design! I love theses sketch stamps, they stamp beautifully and look almost as if you had drawn them yourself.

Here's the full stamp set, isn't it gorgeous?

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today!
 Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Challenge Entries: 

• Ribbon Carousel Blog's Spring is in the air challenge.
• Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge Blog: By the numbers challenge. When crafting with my mom as a young girl in late the 80's (eeek), my mom always said embellishments needed to be in odd numbers or else hey didn't look as good.  I tend to agree, so for the jewels on my flower card I did groups of three, and for my butterfly card I used seven jewels semi-clustered in odd numbers .
• Simon Says Stamp And Show's A Bit of Green Challenge.

Ginger Snap Scraps DT: Buttons & Bows

Good Tuesday, bloggers! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! Today I have this card made from goodies from the Ginger Snap Scraps store. I used some Lawn Fawn, a lil Bazzill, a touch of Distress ink, the back of a My Mind's Eye wooden button from the Lost & Found collection, and some Copic action. All the items I used are below in the thumb nail links. Just click the thumb nail to take you to the items used. Be sure to check out the Ginger Snap Scraps' blog and see the other designs from the design team!

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Thanks so much for stopping by!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby


Entering this card into the Lawn Fawn Color Splash Challenge!

ETA: This card was featured on Fawny Flickr Friday for June 29, 2012 and won a spot in the Top Mow it Alls for Lawnscaping Challenges Color Splash #36 challenge!!

Inspired Stamps, Easter.

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Happy Thursday, fellow bloggers! This week the Inspired Stamps DT made Easter cards or Scripture cards. For my card this week I used His Cross for the Scripture and Fruitful Flourishes for the swirly embellishments. First I stamped out the Scripture and flourishes. Then I cut and embossed the cardstock using a Nestabilities die and my Cuttle bug. I edged all the papers with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo and my foam tool and adhered them to the white card base, with the die cut being adhered with thin foam adhesives. Lastly I added some self stick pearls.

I also wanted to share with you the Christian Art Journaling blog the owner of Inspired Stamps, Antoinette is doing for the entire month of March. Even if you're not a fan of journaling, it's a great blog to learn new and innovative techniques you can use with a bevy of different paper craft projects.



Thank you so much for stopping by!


Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby