Anything But a Card

This week at Inspired Stamps we were challenged to create Anything But a Card using Inspired Stamps.  So since I have been frantically working on my son Jimmy's Sr. Scrapbook, I decided to create a scrapbook page.    This One page layout showcases the picture his recruiter took at Jimmy's swearing in.  I used my favorite scripture stamp His Plans For You and Military to create this layout.

Here is a close up of the Journal side of the layout, so you can see where I used my Inspired Stamps.. 

Materials Used:
Inspired Stamps: His Plans For You & Military
CTMH Used: Black Ink, Black Chalk Distressing Ink, White Daisy, black and Honey Cardstock
Army Paper From Reminisce
Army Foil Sticker K&Co.

Please make sure you check out the wonderful projects that the rest of the Team has created this week by following the links in the left side of my blog.


Until Next Week
Happy Scrappin'
Jenn

Happy 18th Birthday Jimmy!!!!!

18 years ago today, my Jimmy Dean came into this world. 

 This little 8lb 6 oz bundle of joy has grown into a 6'1" young man who takes the world head on.  As his graduation nears he is more anxious to get out in the world.  Me I just want to keep my Baby around for awhile longer.  

He has already joined the Army and is leaving on August 28th, so I plan on spending as much time with him this summer as possible.  He sure has grown up fast, and I want him to know that I am very proud of the young man he has become and all he has accomplished.

Happy 18th Birthday Jimmy Dean, I love you!!!!!!

Designers Choice this week at Inspired Stamps

This week at Inspired Stamps us Designers get to choose what we want to show case.  It didn't take me long to decide, I have been checking out lots of cards on Pinterest and my favorites lately have been the ones that are mostly white.  So that became my focus for my card.

I got out my Inspired Stamps and black and white paper and came up with this.

For this card I used my favorite Inspired Stamps set, His Plans for You.  

Materials used:   His Plans for You

CTMH Materials Used: AP Cricut Cartridge, White Daisy and Black Card Stock, Black ink, Create a Shade Pearl Paint, Liquid Glass to glue on Roses

Other materials: Black Nightfall Pearls from Queen & Co  

Sneak Peek Week

 It's Sneak Peek Week over at Inspired Stamps, so today I am showcasing artwork using the new Inspired Shapes stamp set.  Remember the Inspired Stamps Design Team will be giving you sneak peeks of the New Stamps sets that will be released this Friday at noon on the Inspired Stamps website.

When I first saw this set I immediately knew that my artwork would include me creating my own background paper using Random Stamping.  Above is just the beginning of my creating with this set.  My 2nd son is graduating in a few short weeks, and at the rate the Graduation parties are stacking up, I really need to get on the ball and create lots of graduation cards.  I had so much fun with this new stamp set that I was able to get seven done.

I combined the Inspired Shapes with His Plans for you and More Perfect Sentiments to create all the cards.

This is my Background paper for my first card, my son goes to a vocational school, so he has lots of friends who go to different schools, and have different school colors.  I decided that the rainbow colors would let me create a card and not have to worry if it was the right color for their school or not.



And here is the card I created.

Materials Used: 
Inspired Stamps-Inspired Shapes, His Plans For You
CTMH materials used: Black, Sunny Yellow, Orange, Holiday Red, Hydrangea, Star Spangled Blue, and Clover Meadow ink, Black, White Daisy, Orange Cardstock
Cricut Cartridge - Locker Talk

Another piece of Random Stamped background.

Followed by the two cards I created using this paper.

Materials Used:
Inspired Stamps-Inspired Shapes, His Plans For You
CTMH materials used: Black, Sunny Yellow, Orange, Holiday Red, Hydrangea, Star Spangled Blue, and Clover Meadow ink, Black, White Daisy, Holiday Red Cardstock
Cricut Cartridge - Locker Talk

Materials Used:
Inspired Stamps-Inspired Shapes, More Perfect Sentiments
CTMH materials used: Sunny Yellow, Orange, Holiday Red, Hydrangea, Star Spangled Blue, and Clover Meadow ink, Black, White Daisy, Holiday Red Cardstock, Versa Mark Ink, White Embosing Powder
Cricut Cartridge - Locker Talk

These next to are very simple and are in my son's school colors.

Materials Used:
Inspired Stamps-Inspired Shapes, His Plans For You, More Perfect Sentiments
CTMH materials used: Black, ink, Black, White Daisy, Cardstock
Versa Mark Ink
Cricut Cartridge - Locker Talk
Red Cardstock from The Paper Co, Silver Embossing powder from JoAnn's

Materials Used:
Inspired Stamps-Inspired Shapes, More Perfect Sentiments
CTMH materials used: Black, ink, Black, White Daisy Cardstock
Versa Mark Ink
Cricut Cartridge - Locker Talk
Red Cardstock from The Paper Co, White Embossing powder from JoAnn's

These next to began with my just playing around with the Rectangle in the set, and next thing I know I have what looks like a brick wall, which reminded me of the boys elementary school building.  Believe it or not these two are actually from the same piece of Random Stamped paper, for some reason the lighting is really off in the second picture.

Materials Used:
Inspired Stamps-Inspired Shapes, His Plans For You
CTMH materials used: Black, Chocolate ink, Black, Holiday Red, Desert Sand and Chocolate Cardstock
Cricut Cartridge - Locker Talk

Materials Used:
Inspired Stamps-Inspired Shapes, His Plans For You
CTMH materials used: Black, Holiday Red, Chocolate ink, Black, Desert Sand and Chocolate Cardstock
Cricut Cartridge - Locker Talk
Red Cardstock from The Paper Co.

Don't forget to keep checking the Inspired Stamps blog for more sneak peeks.  These stamp sets will be released for sale at noon on Friday.

Thanks for looking,
Until next time Happy Scrappin

Jenn