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When I saw this Missouri State Pride poster at the Dormify site this morning for today's SplitcoastStampers Inspiration Challenge, I knew I had to finally ink-up my Iowa Delight Stamps from the Memory Bound Store in Ankeny, Iowa.
I kept the card clean & simple using this week's CAS(e) this Sketch! (where Rock Star Nora is the guest designer) and University of Iowa Hawkeye colors.
The sketch inspired me to add the tiny punched heart near our home.
Today's focus in the studio is restocking birthday cards before I head out on vacation this week (warning ... likely lots of pictures & food from Washington DC).
This one was inspired by the Beautiful Butterflies at The Card Concept (I made another card last night, but managed to slice my finger open on the metal butterfly antennae of my embellishment and bleed all over card before I realized it ... yes, I have mad injury skills).
This time I tried a safer card with these 3-D postage stamp stickers I found in my stash.
I used the raspberry and blue from the inspiration picture with the Tim Holtz Collage Texture Fade Embossing Folder. The layout is this week's Freshly Made Sketch and sentiment is the very versatile Memory Box Big and Little Words in Catherine Pooler Peppermint Scrub ink.
Today I uploaded my 2000th image to my SplitcoastStampers Gallery ... I had no idea the path that stamping would take me when I uploaded my first card in 2007, but I am forever grateful for the journey.
It is also appropriate that my card is for the Inspiration Challenge, since that was my home since joining that community. My card is inspired by The Very, Very Many Varieties of Beer Poster from Dormify.
I made a Clean & Simple design using stamps from Marcella Hawley's Power Poppy O Hoppy Day Set ... as always my MISTI makes stamping like this a piece of cake (or pint of beer in this case).
I used a couple of Gold Brown Spectrum Noir Markers to turn my pint into a nice wheat beer. One of my husband's favorite things about the downtown condo where we live is our proximity to four local breweries within walking distance ... so this pint is for him.
This week at Jingle Belles we're all about PEACE ... we're creating cards that feature the Peace Symbol, the word Peace, or a scene that evokes peace for you.
I started with a peace symbol stencil was in a book of protest stencils that I recently purchased at the National Czech and Slovak Museum Exhibit of the Velvet Revolution.
I used three colors of Distress Oxide Ink and my magical stenciling brushes. I added some punched branches and a peace flower before stamping my Wordsworth Square Peace wood block stamp.
I'm also linking-up at the Holiday Challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.
And it's All About Occasions at the Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.
Another week of blogland discoveries:
Have a tremendous Thursday!
I first fell in love with Technique Junkies when I discovered their super-cool techniques. I thought it would be fun to go back and revisit a technique and see if I could make it new again. The Pastel Embossing Technique required a stamp positioner, so I knew it would be much easier to accomplish with my MISTI.
Head on over to the Technique Junkies Blog to see the three cards I created with these gorgeous embossed pastel panels.
On Wednesdays, Amy T posts a card she made using some of her woodblock stamp collection.
In the days of the MISTI, WoodBlock stamps have mostly gone to the wayside, but I too have a sizable collection I still use from time to time. We decided to collaborate and both make a card using this adorable A Muse Stamps Sentiment that we both had in our collection (here is the link to Amy's card).
I combined my sentiment with the WoodBlock Cup of Coffee from Hero Arts. I paper pieced the cup using two shades of brown paper and then stamped it a third time on the card base. I finished with brown sequins for the current Rainbow Challenge of Beautiful BROWN.
Always such fun creating with my friends across the miles.
The theme at the CAS on Friday Challenge is Die Cut Words ... the perfect opportunity to pull out one of my favorite Word Dies (discontinued Die-Versions).
I love using it with scraps of Gel Press prints on my craft table ... and then find a background color that makes it pop.
A card you should always have in your stash ... because when someone Rocks! you need to let them know.
I'm also joining the Anything Goes with Dies Challenge at Happy Little Stampers.
Growing-up, we had a huge Maple Tree in our back yard with a tire swing. I would spend hours looking at all of the different color variations when the leaves starting turning in the fall.
Our City was the home of the annual Maple Leaf Festival every October, so needless to say, I had the chance to examine lots of Maple Leaves throughout my life. They are my favorite leaf in the fall, because they turn the entire range of colors depending on the tree and the weather conditions (I once wrote a paper for my college technical writing class on how leaves change color).
The current challenge theme at Impression Obsession is Falling Leaves.
As I searched through my stamped, I found this gorgeous Never-Been-Inked Layering Maple Leaf Set by Dina Kowal ... for my card is used the solid and the two bottom layers in Pineapple, Orange Blossom & Vermillion inks.
I started with my paper bag light kraft paper on my table and used my MISTI to layer the leaves.
I wanted to use some of my new goodies from my recent Impression Obsession win, so I die cut the Plaid Tag from a Sunflower designer paper and coordinating gold cardstock.
Next I stamped three sentiments from my new There For You Set (isn't that a great set of sentiments) using the same three colors of inks from my leaf layering and attached them using foam tape for dimension.
This card will be going across the miles to my new Chemo Angel Patient ... I'm so grateful to be able to make cards that hopefully brighten a day and provide encouragement during a challenging time.
I'm also joining the Autumn Challenge at Fusion Card Challenge with a loose variation of the sketch and all of those falling leaves.
Nature is also the theme at the Dies R Us Challenge.
The them at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers this week is "L is for Liquor" ... quite a few choices in my stash, but I went with the Reinbeer from Your Next Stamp.
I stamped the Reinbeer in Brown ink on kraft cardstock & cut with the coordinating die. Then I used this week's CAS(e) this Sketch! to assemble my card. My vertical line is a scrap of sprayed and inked paper that was on my table.
I added some red ink to his nose, a little bling at the top of the tree ... and of course, the perfect sized googly eyes (a bit embarrassing to admit how many sizes of googly eyes I have in my collection) ... I love this little guy.
And since Christmas is one of the Biggest Celebrations, I'm also linking-up at the Your Next Stamp Celebration Challenge.
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I'm also joining the Nice & Clean Challenge at little red wagon.
Last night I enjoyed a gorgeous dinner on the Bridge of Lions that spans the Cedar River that connects our neighborhood to Czech Village ... you can see some of the photos here. It was the perfect evening for dinner outside.
