Inspired Stamps: Strength

This week the design team is creating projects with scripture. My card was made using the Inspired Stamps stamp set, Strength, Distress Inks, red cardstock, Kraft paper, Studio Calico Mr. Huey's stencil with chevrons, and some Mister Huey's white and shimmer mists. A very CAS card with a strong inspiring message.



Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today!

I also wanted to apologize for the quality of the photo this week, my light box's light went out, so I had to do this one rouge against the wall in poor lighting. I ordered a new light and next week we'll be back in business!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge: CFC59 Round and Round.

Happy Friday, bloggers!! I made this card for two different things today. I sat down to make a card for Laurel Beard's Heroes card drive, but needed some guides first. I love a good challenge, they really inspire to me to make some of my best work. So I popped over to the CAS-ual Friday's blog to see what their challenge was this week. It was circles! Yay, circles! The first thing I did was get out my nestabilities circle dies and look at them for a few minutes and then I had a plan, Stan! I had a a scrap piece of Indie Chic paper with half circles on it, perfect! Then I went to my big ole jar of loose embellishments and pulled out the Studio Calico wood veneer people and circle rhinestones. Only then did I have a complete plan, Stan-ley!

 I hope you like my card, thanks so much for stopping by! For more info about the Hero's card drive please click the banner below!



Supply List:

Ink Blending Tool

Indie Chic Saffron Paper Pad

Bazzill Kraft

Distress Inks

Copic X-Press Blending Paper

*Studio Calico POTTY PEOPLE Wood Veneer Shapes 331002

MME Favorite stamps

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Inky fingers and circles for all!
-Gaby

Ginger Snap Scraps DT: Bring on the Bling!

So as you can see, I used a lot of bling. Because this week is Bling It On with the Ginger Snap Scrap's Design Team! I made a shaker card for my dear friend I've known since I was 14, Joy. She loves the color yellow, so I tried to incorporate as much as I could into the color palette. All you need to make a shaker card is a Nestablities die from Spellbinders and a manual die cutting machine like Cuttlebug. To make the shaker recessed into the card you can use foam or scrap cardboard like I did. There's heaps of videos out there on YouTube if you'd like to give it a whirl. All the items I used are listed below in the thumbnails. The beads for the shaker material are from my local craft store. The Unicorn, star stamps, and banner's sentiment is from the Lawn Fawn Critters Ever After stamp set and I wrote the happy birthday bit below.



Hope you like it and thanks so much for taking the time to stop by my blog today!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Copic X-Press Blending Paper	Copics	Lawn Fawn Critters Ever After	Bazzill Ocean Breeze	Bazzill Kraft	Lawn Fawn 6x6 Paper Pad	Spellbinders Nestabilities
Stickles	Studio Calico

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Update:
It made it to Alabama without getting unched and Joy loved it! She Instagramed it on Facebook. :)


Entered into Simon Says Stamp and Show: Anything Goes Challenge!

Ginger Snap Scraps' Memorial Day Blog Hop: Day Two!

Welcome to day two of Ginger Snap Scraps' Memorial Day blog hop!! Today is the same theme: red, white, and blue, but everyone has a new project to show you! Be sure to stop by the Ginger Snap Scraps'blog to see all the amazing work the design team has made!

If you're hopping along, you should have arrived here from the blog of the wonderful and talented Connie!

For my project today I played a little with altered art. I took gold acrylic paint and my fingers to paint the background. I wanted to use my fingers to get some texture into the paint. I stamped out the newsprint buildings and painted them with distress ink pads and a water brush. Then mounted them on X-Press Blending white cardstock. I then mounted them in layers and different dimensions with foam adhesives onto the cardstock I had painted. Then I lightly misted the buildings and background with Glimmer Mist and smudged the mist that landed on the gold with a paper towel into the grooves. While the mist was drying I painted the Studio Calico wood stars with white acrylic paint and red & blue Copics. I adhered the stars down with glossy accents to make sure they were securely in place. For the final touch I stamped a flag with a Tim Holtz stamp and distressed it lightly with Vintage Photo distress ink. I found a rouge star that I must have overlooked and decided to add it to the flag for a final touch.

Now for some blog candy!!!
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Your next stop on the hop is the blog of the lovely and talented Janea!

If you're just starting the hop here or you've gotten lost along the way, the entire line up is here:
Ginger Snap Scraps - http://ginger-snap-scraps.blogspot.com/
Ann - http://annsnovemberrose.blogspot.com
Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com
Barb - http://bugbites411.blogspot.com
Connie - http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com
You're here -----> Gabrielle - http://gabyspapery.blogspot.com
Janea - http://recollectionalley.blogspot.com
Jessica - http://chick-n-scrap.blogspot.com
Kate - http://scrapperscreativecorner.blogspot.com
Maria - http://JoyfulStamper.blogspot.com
Missy - http://tangledwebsoftangwen.blogspot.com
Patty - http://creativediva98.blogspot.com Sarah - http://sarahvaitstamps.blogspot.com

Thank you so much for hoping along to my blog today and I hope you enjoyed Ginger Snap Scraps' first ever blog hop!

Red, white, and blue (gold too) fingers for all!
-Gaby

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Entering this to Simon Says Stamp and Show's Show a Summer Holiday challenge.

Mixing different letter stickers/thickers on a layout.

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Two Peas is having an event called, 14 Days of Tricks and Treats. Each day they come up with a different "trick" to use in paper crafting and award a treat to one of the Peas who comment on the daily posts. For day 11 they asked you to mix up your title by using different stickers and thickers rather than just using one type. On this layout I used some Amy Tangerine thickers, October afternoon rocket age letter stickers, and some Sassafras letter stickers from a past Studio Calico kit. This is a great technique to use when you're running low on letters from different sets.
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For the overall layout, I just cut a bunch of random papers, journaled and stamped on two tags, and attached some Studio Calico chipboard butterflies. The super cute orange heart and camera sticker by the title is from Amy Tangerine for American Crafts. After everything was adhered I masked off the pictures and misted the whole page with Perfect Pearls mist.

Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out my blog post!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

A whole lot of happy in a little brown box

Every month Studio Calico ships out kits for their club. They've been asking us to share pictures of our Studio Calico box, how we unpack them, or what's inside once they start shipping them out. They hand out a $5 off coupon to a randomly selected winner. I'm not going to lie, there's been plenty of pictures of cats in their boxes. However I'm sure none were packed with sheer terror!!! You may need some eagle handling gloves to get this lil kitty out of my Studio Calico box! :)

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

And in case you were wondering ...Pluto does enjoy a lil glitter on his knives ...I mean claws.