Inspired Stamps DT Thursday

 Hello everyone.  Today the Inspired Stamps DT was asked to make" anything but a card with scripture".
I have wanted to make a coaster home decor item for a while and decided to make something for the Christmas season to go along with our 12 weeks of Christmas.  Tomorrow I am the guest designer for the 12 weeks of Christmas post and I will have a special card project with instructions, so please be sure to check back.

Today I used 3 different shaped coasters.  I look for these when they go on clearance since I know I will be covering them with my own designs, I don't worry about what is on them.
I used several Inspired Stamps sets for this project: 1.5 inch circle Christmas, Ask, Seek and Knock, Isaiah 9:6, Perfect Christmas Sentiments,Christmas verses and Typewriter text lowercase.
I covered the coasters with Christmas papers and stamped images and colored with Copic markers.   I added embellishments such as, white enamel paint for snow on tree, colored pearls, punched corregated stars, rosette snowflake, etc...

I hope you are inspired to make a home decor item that tells your visitors the true meaning of Christmas;  the gift of Jesus.
Have a great day and be sure to check with the Inspired Stamps Online store for all of these sets and the Inspired Stamps blog for all the wonderful creations by our DT and to follow the 12 weeks of Christmas posts.  Remember I will be back tomorrow with a special project for the 12 weeks of Christmas.  Thanks for stopping by.

Inspired Stamps-DT Thursday Mother's Day

 Good Morning.  I hope you are having a great Thursday.  Today at Inspired Stamps, the DT is thinking about Mothers and making Mother's Day cards.  I used Proverbs 31 set and flowers set.  I made three very different cards.
The first card in green and pink, I used Prov 31:28 on outside and inside I stamped "Happy Mother's Day".  The flowers and butterflies were made with punches or flower dies.  I added a bit of bling to the butterflies.

 On this second card I chose a different color combo, thinking personally of my own mom.  She loves red.  I did a bit of piercing stitching lines, added a bit of lace and used white ink on black cardbase (a bit of chalkboard look). Used Spellbinder die to stamp same verse as above.

I punched four squares from four coordinating colors.  I then stamped this large flower from the flowers set and stamped the "Happy Mother's Day" sentiment by inking each word and stamping separately to fit within punched circle.  I used pop dot to attach to flower center added a ribbon and voila a bright, beautiful and simple card.  This could be used for any occasion.
Thanks for stopping by and I would love to know what you think.  Do you have any special gift ideas planned for your mom, mother in law, or other special lady in your life?  Share your ideas with the rest of us.  Please make sure to check out these and other beautiful sets at the Inspired Stamps Online store and the other beautiful work by our DT at the Inspired Stamps blog.

Inspired Stamps- DT Thursday

 Hello Everyone, it is Inspired Stamps, Thursday DT post.  This week we were challenged to use the scripture of our choice to make a project.  I have been trying to come up with ways to give a small gesture to those around us to let them know that they are on our minds and in our prayers.  My family loves cinnamon rolls and we had tried the generic to see if they were the same as the name brand:  our conclusion was that they were not exactly the same quality, but they did have a different delivery method for the icing which we liked much better.  The icing is in a bag, that you cut off a tip to apply.  Within the outer tube the icing bag is placed in a smaller cardboard tube with one end capped with a metal lid (I used two metal lids to make this project.)  My husband placed the cardboard tube and lids (once cleaned ) on my craft desk and said "you can probably figure out a project for these".  They sat there for weeks, but then it came to me and here it is.

 I made a treat box.  I used a 2 inch piece of paper and stamped Phil 4:13 from Tags set repeatedly.  I inked the strip with distress inks (a purple and broken china).  I made a tag using punches and sentiments from Tag set.  I cut flowers in two purple hues of paper, inked and formed the flower for the lid and the tag.

 For the inside:  Who wouldn't like some chocolate treats?  I stamped sentiments from the Card Ministry Basics set and punched with a 1 inch circle punch and adhered to bottom of chocolate pieces.

Here is a view of the treats in the box, with some of the sentiments showing.  Don't you think this would encourage the recipient?  My pastor recently said that when we give someone a gift, it really isn't about the gift, but it is about the love that we are expressing by giving the gift.  That is so true, isn't it.  Isn't great to know that someone was thinking of you?  So it doesn't matter how much the gift costs (here just the cost of the chocolate, everything else was recycled or scraps of paper in my scrap pile :) ).  Hope you enjoyed my project and that it inspires you to do a RAK for someone this week.  You will make their day, if not their whole week.  Ask God to place that special someone on your heart today.  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by. Please don't forget to check out what the other DT members made this week by stopping by the Inspired Stamps Blog and check out the stamp sets and many others at the Inspired Stamps Store.   Go and check out some sneak peeks at the March release stamp sets.

Unity-Friends with Flair

Hello I wanted to play with Unity Friends with Flair again this week.  This card was made with a really cute set from Jillibean Soup called Dutch Mustard.  As you can see from the photo it has lots of cute images like flowers and butterflies and sentiments.  This set also comes with the frames around the images, I stamped them in different colored inks and used my Fiskars scallop punch to punch out the circles.  I added a small piece of dp and some ribbon to finish off the design.
You can't tell from my photo but the background white cardstock was embossed with Cuttlebug folder and circles were popped up with dimensional tape.  I also added glossy accents to the butterflies and the centers of the flowers.  Thanks for visiting today, have a great weekend.

Bridal Shower card

Hello everyone!  I just wanted to share a card I made for a bridal shower recently for a dear, sweet couple in my church.  I tried my hand at a little shabby chic.  I used a ivory card base that I stamped French script background, SU! and inked edges with walnut distress ink, I punched a lace border, Martha Stewart and inked as well.  On a piece of Kraft cardstock I first offstamped the grid background, Kaisercraft.  The flower image is from Best Friends, Inkadinkado and the sentiment is from Expressions, Inkadinkado in rich cocoa, Memento. I inked the edges and punched the notebook edge, EK Success.  I colored in the flower image with a white gel pen to make it pop.  I hope you like it.  Please let me know what you think.  I thought the sentiment was perfect for a new couple or any couple for that matter.  I hope you are all having a good week.  School is back in full swing here in my neck of the woods and we are trying to get back into the routine.