Unity-Friday Friends with Flair

 Happy Friday!
For some reason this week seemed extra long.  It is always crazy busy at the end of a school year.  Only a few more weeks left and out for the summer.
Today for Unity FWF I played with coloring on Kraft cardstock.  I used color pencils on top image and I used watercolor technique with Distress markers on the trio of cards (below).  I used the Unity February Sentiment kit: Bunches of Love and had some much fun creating a set of cards using different coloring mediums.  I made matching envelopes by stamping just the flower portion of image on envelope using sand chalk ink.  It is subtle, yet beautiful.
I rounded the corners of the Kraft panel as well as the card base.
I love all the sentiments in this set, but only used 3 of the 9 included.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you will pull out some of your older supplies (like colored pencils) and use them on a project.  Have a great weekend and thanks so much for your lovely comments on my card last week.

Inspired Stamps Christmas month

 Hope you are enjoying a restful Labor Day.  Today the Inspired Stamps design team is creating with Christmas stamps.   I used one of my favorite stamp sets Winter Ruth.  This set comes with several sentiments and different objects for this darling girl to hold. You can find Winter Ruth and all the stamp sets used today in the Inspired Stamps Online Store.

I used an embossing diffuser to leave center area blank so I could stamp Winter Ruth while the outside was embossed with Sizzix snowflake embossing folder. I pulled out the Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol and colored in the image.  I added some details using white enamel for her fur collar, the snow on the ground and on the tree.  I added glitter to the embossed background to make it sparkle.  I added some Glossy accents and glitter to the Christmas ornament.  Stamped sentiment and made a banner, added some scalloped ruffles at the bottom and voila.  I hope you try this technique of embossing around your stamped image.  Please be sure to check out the other DT creations.  Click on the links below to go to their blogs, please be sure to leave them some love.  Now it is time for you to be inspired and get out your supplies and start making some Christmas cards.  Happy crafting!
Belinda
Deneen
Jamie
Kary
Patty
Shanta

Inspired Stamps-Thursday DT post

 Hello Everyone, Today at Inspired Stamps is doing Easter projects.  We were asked to do three cards.  I chose to use His Cross, Flower Buds and Perfect Sentiments, Inspired Stamps.  I used similar colors in each card but chose different designs.
I used different sized punches to for circles.  I stamped the flower buds on white circles and colored with Copic markers.  I used the sentiment from Perfect Sentiments to stamp Happy Easter.  I attached all the circles and embossed with Cuttlebug folder.

The purple background was embossed with same folder, but used the debossed side for the background and flower buds colored with Copics.
The white panel I used Bind and Stitch for stitching lines and His Cross for scripture and nail cross, then flower buds are on card base itself.  For this card I used Prismacolor pencils and attached the top panel after I tied a knot with yellow organza ribbon.

So here are my three versions of my Easter cards.  Let me know which is your favorite.  If you love these stamp sets visit the Inspired Stamps online store.  If you want to see more ideas visit the Inspired Stamps blog to see the other beautiful DT designs.  Have a great day.

Inspired Stamps- DT post

Hello and happy Thursday, it is rainy in my neck of the woods, if it is in yours as well then take this opportunity to check out all the spring cards by the Inspired Stamps DT.  Today I used Be Still Silhouettes for my card, I just love this set.  I decided to stamp it in a gray ink and then use my Prismacolor pencils to do a spotlight of the largest flower and then I added a butterfly. As spring has approached and things have started to bloom, if you were moving too fast in your day to day life you could have missed the beauty, so I thought this scripture was appropriate for a spring themed card. 

Thank you for visiting today and please be sure to check out the other DT blogs for their spring creations.  Have a very Happy Easter.

Inspired Stamps-February Favorites

Hello Everyone.  It is Thursday and time for a new Inspired Stamps post.  Check out the links under the DT, we have added a few new ladies to the DT while having to sadly say goodbye to a few.  Make sure to check out all of the DT blogs and leave them some love.  For the month of February we are going to be using some older stamps and stamp sets.  This week we are using HLO (His Little Ones).  I have chosen to use HLO: Girl Studying.  It reminds me of my dd.  I offstamped the scripture 2 Timothy 1:7 behind my girl.  I used pop dots to attach her for dimension.  This week I colored her with Prismacolor pencils and used gamsol to blend.  This gave her a very soft look that I love.  She is so sweet. 

HLO: Girl Studying and 2 Timothy 1:7, Inspired Stamps
Ink is close to cocoa, SU!, coordinations cardstock for matte
and embossed piece, dp is K and Company.

Please be sure to visit Antoinette's blog for posts, contests and possible prizes in the month of February.  The DT will be using Inspired Stamps favorites all month long, so come back to see more fabulous creations.  Let us know what you think and have a great week.

Inspired Stamps Fall Cards

Hello Everyone!  Happy Thursday.  Fall is in the air and that is what this weeks Inspired Stamps Blog post is all about.  Each DT member has created their own Fall themed card using different Inspired Stamps stamps. 
I chose to stamp it 3 ways. I love the colors of Fall, so I chose to use rust, mustard and olive to depict the leaves changing color.  I could not decide how I wanted to display my focal image (Whimsical Trees), so I tried several techniques.  The top card was made using glossy white cardstock and embossing the trees with clear embossing powder and then inking over the image with really rust, old olive and more mustard inks (resist embossing).  I used the ticket Sizzix die for large and small tickets.  The sentiment is from the Perfect Sentiments set. 

 The second card was made with watercolor paper  and watercolor crayons (same colors as listed above) to create the background.  I then heat embossed the trees with brown embossing powder.  I used the smaller trees in the Whimsical Trees set to stamp on the twill ribbon and colored with SU! markers in old olive and more mustard.

The scripture was and individual scripture verse, Inspired Stamps.

The third card was stamped in black onyx Versafine and colored with Prisma pencils.  It is very bright and cheery.  For the last two cards I used different Spellbinders dies to cut out focal image and matte as well as scallops.  It was a lot of fun to stamp it 3 ways and to get very different looking and feeling cards.  Please leave me a comment, I love to hear from you all. Also please use the links on the left hand side to visit my DT members blogs and look at their beautiful fall creations.  Have a Blessed day and thanks for stopping by and looking.  Please feel free to use the link to the Inspired Stamps store to see these stamps and many more, including last weeks new September releases.