My card for this week's Splitcoast Stampers Inspiration Challenge was inspired by this Planes, Trains & Automobiles Rug from Rosenberry Rooms.
I started with a tan background and grey frame and added Basic Grey dimensional stickers.
I finished with a sentiment flag from Paper Smooches Perpetual Bliss.
I hope you find Inspiration.
I was thrilled to be chosen as the April Guest Designer for Crafty Steals. I love a good bargain on my craft supplies, so this is one site I check out every day.
I had a blast designing with the fabulous Crate Paper Random Collection Kit. You can get all of these goodies for $14.99 (50% off). I also used some beautiful Jenni Bowlin vellum butterflies (six packages of 5 each for a mere $11.99).
The first card uses both products together with the April Sketch For You to Try. I combined three fun papers, a border sticker, and punched embellishments (the scalloped doily frames). I removed the green center from the folded paper rosette embellishment sticker and replaced it with a grey sticker to coordinate with my design. The sentiment stamp is from Hero Arts Live & Laugh.
The next card Is all Crate goodness ... I love the border stickers and very cool dimensional butterfly sticker. The layout is this month's Hero Arts Sketch together with a new sentiment from the Hero Arts Studio Calico Collection (tell me that song won't be stuck in your head all day). Since this will be a Mother's Day card, I think all of that flowery goodness is perfect for the Get Your Girly On Challenge at the Southern Girls Challenge.
I also received some very cool Pebbles Chalk Pencils to play with. I love the soft feel of chalk and ease of use of the pencils. I stamped the Chevron & sentiment in Versamark and then colored over them with four colors of chalk pencils (all at the same diagonal angle) ... inspired by these lovely Tulips at the Inspired by Challenge.
I added another pretty Jenni Bowlin Vellum butterfly to embellish another ot this month's Hero Arts Sketch layouts.
I also love the fun fabric & ribbon trims that were included with the Crate Collection Kit. This card features a large die cut flower together with yellow ribbon ruffle trip & another great sticker border.
And who doesn't love a bicycle. I added a border sticker *road* and a heart die cut in the middle of the wheel. I thought the sentiment from Paper Smooches Perpetual Bliss worked perfectly with the design.
I had such fun designing with these awesome products from Crafty Steals ... add them on Facebook and sign-up for e-mails so you don't miss any of the fabulous bargains.
I got some happy mail today including papers from My Mind's Eye Be Amazing Follow Your Heart Collection.
I used this month's My Mind's Eye Sketch together with a stamp sentiment stamp from My Mind's Eye Be Amazing Follow Your Heart. Since the design elements in the paper were vertical, I flipped the sketch.
I also used more hexagon's as embellishments by stamping Paper Smooches Geo-Graphic on MME paper & cardstock, which was perfect for the Hexagon theme at the Cards Blog this week.
I finally inked up my Paper Smooches stamps to play along with the current Sparks Challenge, which is to make a card inspired by this photo.
I started by pulling in the Orange color & woodgrain from the photo by doing lots of paper piecing for my Spiffy Scooter with Basic Grey Woodgrain papers from Basic Grey's Life of the Party Collection & brown cardstock (for the wheels & seat).
As I played around with my scene, I decided I needed someone to drive the Scooter ... so I added the fun little paper-pieced bat from Falling for You (although I'm guessing it's a bit hard to steer with those wings). I cut apart several of the sentiments from that set to get what I wanted (one of the pluses of unmounted stamps).
I finished with a several layers of Washi Tape for my road and a few puffs of smoke ... this card makes me smile (as does another Cardinal victory in the World Series Game).
Tonight I decided I wanted to make a card for Kim Hughes' Paper Smooches Spark Challenge ... just one problem. In the great studio reorganization of 2011 I managed to misplace not one ... not two ... but three unopened Paper Smooches Stamp Sets.
After a half an hour of searching with no success, I decided to give up (for now) and make a card using Kim's Cornish Heritage Farm set Little Boy.
I combined one of her sketches with one of her color combinations (navy, kraft, sky blue, and orange).
When I was looking at all of the characters in this set, I kept seeing them piled on top of each other, so that's what I did. I initially stamped them both on the sky blue background, and then in a flash of momentary weakness (do you see the detail on that little guy??), I decided my alien needed to be paper-pieced in orange. I added some orange gems to my monsta and called it good.
It will be a great boy card to have in my stash ... now off to go look for those missing stamps.
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