HLO-Thankful Boy.

This week the Inspired Stamps DT was asked to use a His Little Ones stamp in our artwork.

I have used HLO-Thankful Boy to create this cute little tag/bookmark.  I paper pieced this little one, then paired him with the $3.99 Scripture Psalms 139:23 and the Sheet Music from the Backgrounds set. 

Inspired Stamps Masculine Card

This week over at Inspired Stamps the Design Team was asked to create artwork using their favorite character stamp with a Scripture.  I used Inspired Stamps His Little Ones-Thankful Boy, and Inspired Stampers Favorite Collection #2 to create this Masculine card.  I love to paper piece and Inspired Stamps Characters make paper piecing very easy. 

Materials Used:
Inspired Stamps His Little Ones-Thankful Boy, Inspired Stampers Favorite Collection #2
CTMH: Sarsparilla Paper Pack, Desert Sand, Bamboo, Barn Red, Chocolate, Colonial White, Vanilla Cream cardstock, Desert Sand, Black Ink
Silver Cardstock by Pizazz, Diamond Plate Cuttlebug Folder, White Gel Pen

Easel Card With a Twist

Hi All

I have not fallen off the face of the planet.  I have been just so busy I totally forgot to post last week.  Sorry.

This week over at Inspired Stamps we were asked to do a easel card with a scripture focus.  I took this as a challenge and decided to find a variation of the easel card that would WOW everyone, (sort of an atonement for forgetting to post last week.)  In my search I came across the Card Making Magic site that had several variations of easel cards.  I used this site as inspiration for my card this week. to create a triple easel card with a twist, Card Making Magic site directions can be found here.  I tweaked my design to use a 8-1/2 x 6 sheet of cardstock, folded to create a 3"x8-1/2" card. 

Here is my card with the easel's set up.  I used Inspired Stampers Favorites Collection #2, and More Perfect Sentiments.  The center easel is a 3x3 with the 2 outside twisted easel's being 2-3/4x3.

Here is the card folded down so it can fit into an envelope.

Materials Used: Inspired Stamper's Favorites Collection #2, More Perfect Sentiments
CTMH materials used: Magnifique B&T, White Daisy, Ocean cardstock, Ocean, Pacifica, Black ink, Art Philosophy cricut Cart, Rhinestones, Prisma Glitter
Silver cardstock from Pizzaz.

Now as an added bonus I will show you the projects I had for last week's designer's choice artwork.  These were completed in plenty of time, they just never made it from the camera to the Internet until today. 

First I have a companion page for the Army scrapbook page I created a couple of week's ago.

This page features the adorable HLO-Soldier with Flag.  The page shows my son and 3 of his classmates who had joined the Army before they graduated.  Their recruiter had got each of the boys an Army tassel to wear during graduation and I had orders from him that I was to get a picture of the 4 of them wearing the tassels after the graduation ceremony. 

Materials Used: HLO-Soldier with Flag
CTMH Used: Black Ink, White Daisy, black and Olive, Vanilla Cream, Chocolate, Bamboo, Desert Sand Cardstock, Chocolate & Dark Green Markers, Red & Blue Colored Pencils
Army Paper From Reminisce,
Doodletype cricut cartridge

The other story behind this page is that our high school was honoring all the students who had earned "scholarships", when the boys went up during practice to let the school officials know about their scholarships, they were told that the school would not recognize the military boys just those going on to College.  Needless to say the boys were disappointed.  Well 2 mom's complained to the school.  That night during the ceremony after they had recognized the college kids, (who got a decent applause for their achievement's), they announced the 5 boys who had committed to the Military.  I was proud when the called my son's name, but I lost it when the boys got a standing ovation not only from the crowd but from their classmates also.   

Here are the two pages together

Then my other project for last week was the table favors/balloon anchors for Jimmy's graduation party.

These boxes were stamped using the Military Stamp set, along with the star from New Blessed Little Christmas.  The boxes have a baby picture on one side and a Sr. Picture on the other.

Materials Used: Military & New Blessed Little Christmas Stamp Sets
CTMH Black Ink, Natural Hemp
Gold & Black Paper the Paper Company
Doodletype Cricut Cartridge

Now Please go check out the rest of the teams easel cards their links are in the left side bar.

Thanks for looking

Until next time
Happy Scrappin'

Jenn

Red, White & Blue

This week the Inspired Stamps Design Team was asked to use Red, White and Blue in our artwork.  Here is my contribution, for this week.  I used His Little Ones-Soldier with Flag, and Military Stamps Sets to create this patriotic card.  The Soldier has been paper pieced.

Materials Used: Inspired Stamps His Little Ones Soldier with Flag, Military
CTMH Mateials, White Daisy, Moonstruck, Olive, Chocolate, Desert Sand, Vanilla Cream Cardstock,  Topiary & Star Spangled Blue Markers, Blending Pen, Black, Cocoa, Olive, ChocolateBlush Inks
B&T is from a DCVW paper stack, Red & Blue Colored Pencils.  white gel pen

Sorry this post is so short this week, Things have been crazier than usual around here. 

Gotta Run

Cya next week.
Until Then Happy Scrappin!!

Jenn

Sneak Peek Week at Inspired Stamps

This Friday at noon Inspired Stamps will be featuring their December New Releases.  The Design Team is featuring Sneak Peeks of the new stamp sets on their blogs all week.  I get to feature the His Little Ones: Winter Boy.  Isn't this guy just totally adorable he reminds me of when my son's wore their one piece snowsuits and would go outside bundled up to play in the snow.  I can see this guy on a winter layout or two. 

I so love all the His Little Ones (HLO) they are so adorable and they are great for paper piecing, and maybe one of these days I will get brave enough to color them. I used the HLO: Winter Boy to create this Easel Christmas Card, along with Blessed Little Christmas for the sentiment & star and Let It Snow for the snowflakes.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the Design Team's blogs this week as we showcase the December New Releases.

Materials Used: Inspired Stamps HLO: Winter Boy, Blessed Little Christmas, Let It Snow

Close To My Heart: Pacifica, Sky, White Daisy, Bamboo and Vanilla Cream Cardstock, Outdoor Denim, Pacifica, Sky, Key Lime, Indian Corn Blue, Desert Sand, Sunflower Ink and Black Inks, Outdoor Denim Marker, Art Philosophy CTMH Exclusive Cricut Cartridge

DCWV Glitter Cardstock and B&T,  Jelly Roll White Gel Pen

Snowball gems from stash

Circle Christmas Card for Inspired Stamps

This week for our Inspired Stamps Design Team Post we are to feature a Christmas card with His Little Ones, with a Scripture.  I created this circle card using His Little Ones: Christmas Boy, and a scripture from Vintage Christmas

Matrerials Used:  Inspired Stamps His Little Ones: Christmas Boy, Vintage Christmas
CTMH Materials Used: Believe Paper Pack, White Daisy, Sweet Leaf, Outdoor Denim, Holiday Red, Vanilla Cream, Chocolate Cardstock, Sweet Leaf, Sky, Chocolate, Black Inks, Star Spangled Blue Marker, Tulip Chalk, Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge
Misc Product used:  White & Silver Jelly Roll Gel Pens, Crystal Stickles, Silver Ribbon from stash.

November Contest at Inspired Stamps Blog - Christmas Cards Antoinette over at Inspired Stamps has joined forces with Cards that Care and is hostng a Christmas Card Contest! Depending on how many enter, we will have a number of $10 Gift Certificates to the Inspired Stamps Online Store to give away to the winners we select.

While you do not have to participate by sending your cards to Cards that Care, and any Christmas Card that is new can be entered, we encourage you to consider sending cards for this wonderful cause! The cards that are received will be sent to elderly in nursing homes at Christmas. While we all send Christmas cards and love to receive them, many time the elderly in the nursing homes do not get cards. Imagine the joy your card can bring to someone this Christmas!!


The rules for sending to Cards that Care are the same rules for our contest (pretty much a Christmas Card, with no pins!)

For More information on Contest Rules and Entry please check out the post November Contest: Christmas Cards on the Inspired Stamps Blog.

Inspired Stamps Sneak Peak

This Friday over at Inspired Stamps they will be releasing several new stamp sets.   So this week for our design team artwork we are all giving you a sneak peak of the new stamps sets.  So make sure you check the Inspired Stamps blog each day this week to get a sneak peak of the stamps sets that will be available to you at noon on Friday September 16. 

For my sneak Peak I am using the new His Little Ones - Thankful Girl and Fall Gratitude.  The little girl is absolutely adorable and the Fall Gratitude stamp set has several good Bible Thank You verses and will be really good for a batch or two of Thank You Cards.

Materials Used: Inspired Stamps- His Little Ones-Thankful Girl, Fall Gratitude

CTMH- Perfect Day Paper Pack, White Daisy, Vanilla Cream,

Chocolate, & Black Cardstock, Black & Desert Sand Ink

Also over on the Inspired Stamps Blog Antoinette announced the winners of the latest Inspired Stamps Giveaway.  Instead of the original 2 prizes She has given out 8prizes one from each Design Team member's blog.  The winner from my blog is Hannah Lewis who said "I like the little boy with the plaid paper. It makes the card very different and neat. You don't see a whole lot of cards that would be good for boys."

September 11, 2011 3:22 PM

Congratulations Hannah!!!!!



Inspired Stamps Artwork

This week for our Inspired Stamps design team artwork we were to use our favorite His Little One and combine it with a Scripture.  Here is what I came up with using His Little Ones - Boy Praying and one of my all time favorite verses Jeremiah 29:11 from the His Plans For You stampset.

Materials Used: Inspired Stamps His Little Ones - Boy Praying , His Plans For You
CTMH Supplies used: Cherry O Creative Basics, White Daisy, Crystal Blue, Buttercup, Desert Sand, Vanilla Cream Cardstock, Black Ink, White Gel Pen (for Eyes)

Inspired Stamps His Little One & Scripture Card

This week for the Inpsired Stamps Design Team we were to use a Scripture with a His Little Ones Stamp, this is my contribution.
I used His Little Ones: Soldier with Flag with His Plans for You to create this simple card.  (Sorry about the glare on the picture It seemed that no matter how I took the picture the silver cardstock created a glare).

Materials Used:  Inspired Stamps His Little Ones: Soldier with Flag and His Plans For You
CTMH materials used: Cranberry, Bamboo, Desert Sand, Chocolate, Parchament & White Daisy Cardstock, Star Dimensional Elements, Black, Chocolate, Cocoa, Pacifica Inks, Pacifica & Heavenly Blue Re-inkers, Chocolate, Holiday Red, & Star Spangled Blue Markers, Liquid Glass
Silver cardstock from Colorbok, Kraft Cardstock from The Paper Company
Cuttlebug Diamond Plate Folder, White & Silver Gel Pens

Inspired Stamps Designers Choice Card

For this weeks Inspired Stamps Design Team we got to choose our project.  So with that in mind I set out thinking what kind of card to make. First I went through my stash of unused card class material, and chose a criss-cross pocket card.   I then went through my basket of cards to see what I needed.  I realized I was low on baby cards and since my Dad's side of the family had 3 more babies due this year (we already had 2 boys in Feb & April), I figured I better get some cards ready for when they arrive.  Here is the card I came up with.

 I made this little boy card using another one of Inspired Stamps His Little Ones: Boy Praying, I am getting addicted to playing with these cute little guys.  I have several of them on my wish list and am thinking I just might have to get them all, as they are all adorable and great for use on cards.  I love paper piecing these together, and am thinking of experimenting with coloring these guys soon (I am still a little doubtful on my coloring abilities).  The sentiment is from More Perfect Sentiments again, I seem to be reaching for this stamp set the most lately.  The little stars on the boy's pj's are from the Made By Stamp Set.

This is the card with the insert pulled out.  I stamped the sentiment at the top of the card and plan on attaching a gift card on the lower half of the card.  Of course I made this a boy card and since none of the parents want to know what they are having I am not sure I will need this (and with my luck they will have all girls and I will have to make new ones.)

Here is a close up of the paper pieced Boy Praying.

Materials Used:
Inspired Stamps Stamp Sets: His Little Ones - Boy Praying, Made By, More Perfect Sentiments
CTMH products - Sophia paper pack, Dutch Blue, White Daisy, Sky and Chocolate cardstock,
CTMH Inks - Outdoor Denim, Black, Goldrush,   CTMH Marker - Dutch Blue, Black, CTMH Chalks
Other Products - Fiskars Large Seal of Approval, CM Large Star Punch, Stickles Sturdust, Ribbon from stash. Flesh colored paper from stash. White Jelly Roll Pen.

 Please visit the other Design Team Members sites, the links are at the top of the left hand sidebar.

Check back next week for a special contest, and a altered item I am in the process of making.

Thanks for looking,

Jenn

PS - I have a special prayer request, my son's fiance's 11 year old cousin was in a bad car accident (drunk driver) on Sunday and is in critical condition with a cracked skull and other injuries right now.  Her name is Nakasa, and her and her family could use alot f prayers right now.  Thanks 

Inspired Stamps Patriotic Card

Hope Everyone had a fabulous holiday weekend filled with fireworks and cookouts.  I know our weekend was great.

This weeks theme for the Inspired Stamps Design Team is Patriotic.  I created a card I plan on sending to my favorite active Marine, Tyler.  This week with the holiday weekend the Inspired Stamps Design Team day snuck up on me, so I didn't have as much time to play with it as I normally do.  So this card is relatively simple in design, (I ain't quite satisfied with it and I might just have to go back and redo it later, I am my worst critic).

For this card I used the His Little Ones - Soldier With Flag, I love this little guy, he is so cute and adorable, not to mention really fun to play with.  On my card I paper pieced the soldier, taking time to cut out each individual piece from colored cardstock, and then placed on the card using foam tape. For the background I used a homemade version of glimmer mist, one in a blue shade and another clear version.  I took chipboard stars and placed them on my background cardstock and then sprayed over them with the blue glimmer mist, and on the cranberry I repeated the above step and sprayed it with the clear glimmer mist.  This added a little sparkle to my background paper.  The "Hi" Sentiment is from More Perfect Sentiments.  The star is a chipboard piece inked blue then sprayed with the blue glimmer mist to give it the sparkle.  In Real life this card has a really pretty glimmer to it, but the picture doesn't do it justice. 



This is a close up of the soldier and glimmer background.

 For more Inspired Stamps inspiration please visit my fellow Design Team members blogs listed on in the left side bar of my blog.  Thanks and I hope you enjoyed my card, until next week May God Bless you all.

Jenn



Materials Used:  Inspired Stamps - His Little Ones: Soldier with Flag, and More Perfect Sentiments

CTMH products: White Daisy, Outdoor Denim, Cranberry, Vanilla Cream, Chocolate and Olive Cardstock, Cranberry, Black, Pacifica, Outdoor Denim, and Cocoa Inks, Pacific Re-inker, Pearl Paint, Holiday Red  and Star Spangled Blue CTMH Markers, Hunter Green Zig Writer marker, Clear Detail Embossing Powder on eyes & Flag, Star Chipboard Dimensional Element, a little red chalk for color in his cheeks