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I love the color combination of Navy & Yellow ... and combined it with Technique Junkies stamps. Remember you can get 15% off your Technique Junkies order with my discount code of TJ10Stephanie.
I started by stamping the Technique Junkies Retro Blooms in Navy Ink on Yellow Cardstock.
The layout is this week's Sunday Stamps Sketch.
I'm also joining the Just Us Girls Challenge to use a Background Stamp.
I used a sentiment from from one of my favorite Technique Junkies sets, Grand Greetings.
When I saw the current Freshly Made Sketch ... and surveyed my temporary stamping space (soon, very soon I should be able to start restoring my studio at our home), I decided it was time for some sticker play ... quick, easy and no messes were made (important when you're sharing space).
Who can resist some googly eyed puppies.
Or how about some birthday cake.
Or maybe some birthday presents with your birthday cake.
Great sketch.
The theme at Seize the Birthday is Make Us Laugh. I went with this retro goofy animal parade stamped in purple together with another vintage sentiment. I think the little guy with the *Y* in Happy is my favorite ... love how his birthday hat is too big and almost covering his eyes.
My friend's studio that I'm squatting in has a treasure trove of wood mounted stamps, so I've been having fun exploring her fun images like these (and remembering why I love stamping with my MISTI so much).
Little Red Wagon challenged us to create cards featuring non-pet animals ... while most of these fall into the pet category, the Raccoon and Squirrel would fit this description.
The Challenge theme at the Paper Craft Crew Challenges is #simplestamping ... make a card that someone who has never stamped could make with some assistance.
In my temporary stamping space, I sort of feel like this has been my new normal ... lots of simple stamping going on.
When I thought about this challenge theme, I remembered how I began ... often by combining stickers with simple stamping ... so that is what I did with my card set today. I found these adorable Kawaii Unicorn Stickers at Michael's and some grey card bases, and those were the beginning of my designs.
I combined the adorable images with stamped sentiments from PinkFresh Let's Do This using my MISTI.
I used the fun banner stamp on two of the cards to re-stock some birthday cards.
The holographic sparkle was a fun touch.
This card set was super-quick and super easy to do with a single stamp set and my MISTI.
Love how these turned out ... just because the stamping is simple doesn't mean they can't be adorable.
This morning's SplitcoastStampers Inspiration Challenge comes from the archives of the Victoria & Albert Museum.
I chose this gorgeous Belle Epoque floral fabric to inspire my design.
I thought it would be cool to die cut my AlteNew Doodled Lace Cover Die from Glitter Paper, not realizing that all of the lovely stitching detail would get lost in the glitter. So I die cut a second plate from the vibrant fuchsia hue from the fabric and layered them to mimic the outline effect of the floral pattern.
I pulled out the darker purple from the fabric design for my sentiment from AlteNew Label Love. I used my My Sweet Petunia Cut-Align to perfectly trim the borders.
I also took my gorgeous floral inspiration from the March AlteNew Inspiration Challenge ... I am so ready to see some green and the colors of blooms ... everything is still snow-covered and dingy in Iowa.
I actually learned something while making today's card ... did you know that Corn is a monoecious plant, meaning that it grows its male and female flowers on the same plant. The male flower of a corn plant is called the tassel, while the ear with its corn silk is the female flower.
So what better stamp for and Iowa girl to choose for the Impression Obsession Flowers for Friends Challenge ... than this lovely ear of Corn from Impression Obsession.
I stamped it in brown and then added layers of green together with the Impression Obsession Birthday Top Edgers Die Cuts.
They are also celebrating *flowers* at the Crafty Cardmakers, so I'm joining the fun there too.
One of the positives about creating at my temporary studio is that I get to use my friend's vast stamp, paper and sticker collection. I made some fun Iowa Cards using several sketch challenges.
The first one combines two stickers for this week's Freshly Made Sketch Challenge.
Next I used this week's CAS(E) this Sketch! for two more sports cards ... first, the Iowa Hawkeyes.
I stamped Herky in to make him more faded like the sketch design.
And of course, there is also Iowa State University Cyclones.
This week it's an Anything Goes Challenge at The Male Room (with an optional twist of no designer paper).
For the men in my family, a Beatles-themed card is always a safe bet. Growing up, the sound track of our lives were the Beatles. There were lots of other artists playing on the record player every day, but the Beatles were the ones who left the biggest impression.
I built the card around some fun Beatles Album Cover Stickers. I created my background using Paper Inspirations Sheet Music Background Stamp & the sentiment is from My Favorite Things Keep On Rockin'. The Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside was perfect for my wavy lines.
It's also Masculine *Anything Goes* Challenge at The Watercooler Wednesday Challenges.
The current inspiration at The Library Challenge is Spark Joy by Marie Kondo. A friend recently wrote me a note about how she has been applying the book's methodology in her life ... I had to laugh a little because I realized I've pretty much been the Marie Kondo of my family for years. I've taken multiple trips to help family members purge items and reclaim space. If my own space starts getting the least bit cluttered, get out of my way because things are going to the trash or to Goodwill.
I immediately saw the book cover as a card layout (although I realize I missed the white stripe down the side). I needed birthday cards, so I decide to create a CAS design featuring cupcake brads and confetti card bases (with my displaced studio, I've been using lots of boxes of pre-decorated card bases to start my designs).
Sentiments are from The Stamp Market Mini Messages and Paper Smooches Fun & Flirty.
While I was at it, I made a second card. I'm also joining the Anything Goes Challenge at Seize the Birthday.
It's been three weeks since we woke-up to find several inches of water in our entire first floor due to a broken pipe in the adjacent building trash room ... good news is that the movers are finally coming Wednesday to remove everything from the first floor (aka our living room, kitchen, bedroom & my entire studio) and then the repairs will begin.
So I will continue to create in my guest studio at my friend's house ... I am so grateful to have an alternate space, but I can tell you my creativity is certainly challenged. I have an idea where I want to use something ... then I realize I don't have it ... or if I do have it, I can't find it. Also, I have to squeeze lots of creating into a smaller time frame on the weekends, since it's just not practical to create a little each evening. I just keep reminding myself that this too shall pass.
Today's challenge was to create a CAS Monochromatic Pink card for both the Impression Obsession Pink Challenge and the CAS Monochromatic Challenge at The Paper Players. In this case my white space is an embellishment-free pink ombre card base.
I stamped the Impression Obsession You Are Seriously Wonderful sentiment and the birthday cake from the Impression Obsession Birthday Set ... both ink the same Catherine Pooler Be Mine ink. I attached my panel with foam tape. I'm so grateful for tools like my MISTI that make creating anywhere so much easier.
