NBUS Football Birthday

The newest Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is NBUS (Never Before Used Stuff) from your stash that is at least one year old.

 

 

Ardyth is also leading us on a #shopyourcraftstashsummer2024 to give those unused items we have some love, so I'm joining there too.  I am envious of Ardyth who knows exactly how many items she needs to use.  I'm afraid to even think about counting how many unused items I have.

Darnell also has a monthly NBUS Challenge, so I'm linking-up there as well.

I decided to shop my Darkroom Door Stash of unused stamps for today's card.  Since Rachel died, it has made me sad to think about using these stamps, but I decided she would want to see her lovely designs out in the world, so that's what I did.

This Darkroom Door Football stamp is from at least as far back as March 2021 and the backing had never been removed.  I inked it with black ink and stamped it twice on white cardstock (the second one was to cut out the football after I finished my ink blending).

 

 

I used a combination of multiple blue distress inks on the sky and greens for the grass to add color, and colored pencil to add the red to the shoe (or boot as it is called).  I cut the football from the second stamped image and used a stylus to give the ball some dimension before attaching it with foam tape in the center and adhesive on the edges to keep the roundness of the ball when it was attached.

I used A Colorful Life Designs Cloud Edger and white pigment ink in the sky to add a bit of cloud dimension.  I also added some black sequins to finish the design together with an NBUS sentiment from a Simon Hurley set from the Crop & Create event in 2022.

We hope you'll Shop Your Stash for some NBUS, so you can join us in giving those neglected products some love.

Comments

[Deb Horst]

I love it!! I so miss the soccer mom days!! Maybe one day I will have grands who decide to play!! Way to go shopping your stash for that NBUS item!! Great inspiration for those who decide to play along with our new "never been used" challenge over at Shopping our Stash!! #SOS525

[Heather Heroldt]

This is really awesome, Stef - love this bold look! I loved reading the detail of how you put this together - Rachel would love it! Not sure this is a Christmas card, though, lol.
Thanks so much for playing at Retro Rubber!

[Darnell Knauss]

What a cool card, Stef! I think it is so striking and I agree that Rachel would want to see her designs out in the world!

Thank you for the acknowledgement and link to the my original NBUS Challenge. It's great that Ardyth has come up with her own version of NBUS, too, in order to encourage all of us to use what we buy! Hugs, Darnell