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This weeks SCS Inspiration Challenge comes from one of my favorite catalogs ... Signals. I chose this lovely Marushka Bamboo T-Shirt to inspire my sympathy card design.
I embossed Bamboo on Grey Cardstock and then rubbed on a combination of grey ink, white ink, and metallic rub-ons until I got the effect I wanted. The sympathy stamp is from a new-to-me company Deadbeat Designs.
I hope you find inspiration. I'm also joining in the Anything Goes Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.
Tonight I made a quick card using Authentique's Genuine paper for their November Color Challenge.
I added a few word stickers and a 3-D butterfly using the layout from this week's CAS{E} This Sketch.
LOve all of that wonderful texty goodness.
Another fun week of blogland discoveries:
Have a terrific Thursday.
Still having fun playing along with Core'dinations Hard Core Crop Challenges ... this is Rebecca Keppel's Challenge to make some Layered Gift Tags.
This first tag features two shades of Coredinations cardstock embossed with a holiday ornament embossing folder, sanded & inked using this week's Sketch from The Paper Players.
I layered on a glittery tree sticker that I decorated with pearl flourishes. I finished with a sentiment from SRM Stickers.
For this one I created a horizontal tag featuring Chocolate Box Core'dinations papers. I embossed some Merry Christmas Text & sanded to reveal the core.
I layered on some of Santa's felt reindeer and lots of bling together and another SRM Sticker Sentiment.
When I saw this week's Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger Frame By Frame, I remembered some 3-D frame stickers in my stash that I had purchased some time ago in the Michael's bargain bin. I had fun creating my own inspired frame by frame card.
I added a variety of papers, words & butterflies inspired by the elements in the inspiration photo's frames. Background paper is from My Mind's Eye Cowboy papers ... words are Authentique stickers.
I'm having more fun this afternoon with the Hard Core Crop Challenges at Core'dination (this card wins the prize for leaving my work table in the biggest state of disarray ... what a die cutting paper mess I now need to clean-up).
This challenge was from Leanne Pierce to create a holiday project using some Core Folded Origami Leaves (pattern is from Bloomize). I did my leaf folding using scraps of purple Core'dinations cardstock on my table (cut into 2" squares before folding) and then built my card around them. I found that using my Scor-It tool helped with some of the folds with the thicker Core'dinations cardstock.
I die cut some Tattered Blooms from a lighter purple Core'dinations Cardstock and embossed them with snowflakes (since I was going for a rather non-traditional holiday design). I added an SRM Noel Sticker to the center of the bloom and another SRM Fancy Sticker Sentiment - Christmas at the top.
I used this week's Basic Grey Sketch for my layout adding several Basic Grey Kioshi papers to my design, as well as Memory Box Elegant Scrollwork cut from more Core'dinations cardstock. I love the finished combination of colors, patterns and textures.
The talented Tami Mayberry is hosting a Challenge for the 2nd Annual Hard Core Crop at Core'dinations ... her challenge is to create a 10-Minute Holiday Card.
My card came together very quickly using the coordinating Holly stamp and embossing folder from Hero Arts & Sizzix. I used Tim Holtz Distress Core'dinations cardstock as my base and stamped the holly image in a slightly darker Moss Green ink. Next, I lined-up the stamping in the embossing folder and ran it through my Cuttlebug for texture.
A few swipes with a foam sanding block exposed the core (I get mine at the hardware store) ... and then the embossed panel was mounted on a kraft cardstock base and a wrap of Putty Seam Binding for a bow.
To keep things quick and easy I used a Sticker Sentiment from SRM Stickers Happy Holiday set (it adhered perfectly on the seam binding). Since I still had a minute or so to go, I used a red copic marker to quickly add some color accents to the berries ... tada!
I'm also joining the Not Too Shabby Challenge at the Drunken Stampers & the Dry Embossing Challenge at Hero Arts.
I thought the banner element in this week's Unscripted Sketch would be perfect for a birthday card.
I used paper and stickers from Authentique's Celebrate Collection.
This week's SCS Inspiration Challenge was suggested by Audrie (girlgeek101) ... the fun designs of GelaSkins. I chose this Tube Socks design (by the talented Julie Comstock of Cosmo Cricket) to inspire my card.
I used strips cut from a piece of 6x6 paper from We R Memory Keepers Baby Mine Collection ... positioning them with white cardstock space between each one.
At the bottom I stamped a sentiment from Kim Hughes A Welcome Hug (her older CHF set) and adding pink & green bling to frame it ... love how this one turned out.
I hope you find inspiration.
We're still having a Christmas Feast at Jingle Belles where we're celebrating holiday foods & drinks (I pretty much celebrate food & drinks every week) ... so I decided to go with Gingerbread this week. I have memories of decorating fun little gingerbread people with my Grandma (of course mine were often Gingerbread Ladies ... so I love that there are ladies in this Martha Stewart border sticker).
The sentiment & zig-zag stitching are both SRM Stickers. The layout is the November Sketch For You To Try. I punched the corrugated circle from a Coffee Sleeve (another food/beverage related element) that has been laying on my craft table for quite some time waiting for the perfect opportunity ... and today was it.
I'm also joining the Kraft Outlet Make It Monday Holiday Card Challenge.
