Inspired Stamps Designers Choice artwork

This week over that the Inspired Stamps Blog, it is a Designer's Choice Week, meaning we can create anything our hearts desire.  For my design I have created another 5x5 canvas, using the His Plan's For You Stamps Set.

I have fallen in love with creating these tiny canvas projects.  They are so easy to create and make great gifts.  This canvas was actuallyone of the many items I entered into our County Fair stamping competition.  This one was entered in the Embellished artwork catagory and it took second place.  It combines my favorite things,  One of my favorite and most used Inspired Stamps Set His Plan's For You Stamps Set, hand rolled flowers, Cricut die cuts, glitter and butterflies.

Close up of the Flowers

Close up of the butterfly.  To Create this butterfly, I used packaging tape to
gently lift off the negative image left on my cricut mat.  Once the entie image was off the mat
and stuck to my tape I sprinkled the whole thing with Prisma Glitter
and then covered the back with another piece of packaging tape.
I then taped this glitter butterfly onto a solid cardstock butterfly
and cut it out of the tape.



Materials used:  Inspired Stamps His Plans For You

CTMH Products used:  Roxie Paper pack, Black, Colonial White cardstock, CTMH Exclusive Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge, Mocha Opaques, Prisma Glitter, Black, Desert Sand, and Smoothie Inks, Smoothie Re-inker, Create a Shade Pearl Paint, Versa Mark Ink, Clear Detail Embosing Powder, Liquid Glass

JoAnn's- 5x5 Canvas

Other - Packaging Tape

For those who were looking for an update from my vacation, it is coming, things have been just a little crazy around here with 2 boys getting sick, one starting college, and one getting ready for his first homecoming dance, not to mention football and all the other normal fall activities.  All this means mom doesn't get any time to play.

I'm Back!!! with an Inspired Stamps Christmas Card

In Case you were wondering I didn't post anything for the Inspired Stamps Design Team last week because I was on vacation. But this week I am back again and slowly getting back into the swing of things.  Just in time to finish my contribution for this weeks design team artwork.  We are focusing on Christmas which is just 3 very short months away, and I need to start focusing on my Christmas Cards for the year, here is my first one of the season.

Simple Card Front

Inside of Card

I have seen lots of white on white cards lately and decided to try one using the Blessed Little Christmas stamp set from Inspired Stamps.   You can't tell from the picture but I have sprayed the snowflakes with homemade shimmer mist so that layer has a little bit of a shimmer to it in real life.

Materials Used: Inspired Stamps - Blessed Little Christmas
CTMH - White Daisy Cardstock, Outdoor Denim Ink, Blue Chalk, Star Spangled Blue Organdy Ribbon, Create a shade Pearl Paint
Cuttlebug - Snowflakes Embossing Folder
Spellbinders - Labels 1 Dies

I will be posting more about my vacation later, but it was a very exhausting week, and I am glad to be back.  Now I just need to get my scrapbook room put back together and start working on Jimmy's scrapbook.

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)

My Favorite Inspired Stamps

This week for our Inspired Stamps Design team post Antoinette has given us the impossible task of creating our design using our favorite Inspired Stamps set. 

Impossible you ask?? 

Well it is impossible when you you have a hard time choosing what stamps to use each week cause you love them all.  I love Inspired Stamps they are so wonderful to play with and the scriptures, along with His Little Ones, and the Sentiments are so easy to work with.

I chose to use His Plans for You  for my favorite.  Right now I am going through some rough times, (divorce, financial difficulties) through it all 2 of the verses on this set have been my go to verses in times of despair.  Proverbs 3:5-7 and Jeremiah 29:11. 

My project this week I chose to create an altered canvas showcasing Proverbs 3:5-7, this canvas will probably be hung in my kitchen where I can constantly be reminded of God's plan's for the boys and I.

Materials Used: Inspired Stamps His Plans for You 
CTMH Materials Used - Create a Shade Pearl Paint, Chocolate Re-inker, Colonial White and Black Cardstock, Magnifique and Mayberry B&T's, Clear Detail Embossing powder, Black Ink, Versa Mark Ink, Pacifica Re-Inker (to dye flower) Paper Flower, Crochet Flower, Rhinestone button, Sprakles and Bitty Sparkles. Art Philosophy CTMH Exclusive Cricut Cartridge, Black embroidery floss.
5x5 canvas from JoAnn's

Inspired Stamps Thanks Sunflower Card

I have been in a Thank You card mode here lately, as I am helping design and donate 500 Thank You notes for the trophy winners at our county fair to send out to the people who donated the trophies.  Here is one of my favorite designs I have come up with using More Perfect Sentiments, and Flowers stamp sets from Inspired Stamps. 

The Colors in this card was inspired by the cool fall like mornings we have been having lately.

Materials used:  Inspired Stamps More Perfect Sentiments & Flowers
CTMH: Black, White Daisy, Sunflower, Garden Green and Chocolate Cardstock,
Inks - Sunflower, Orange, Barn Red and Black
Cricut Cartridge - CTMH exclusive Art Philosophy

New Releases over at Inspired Stamps

Today starting at Noon (ET) over at Inspired Stamps Antoinette has some wonderful newly released stamps for sale.  If you have been following the Inspired Stamps blog all week you have been getting sneak peaks of the new stamps sets.  

The New Stamp Set I am showing off is "Blessed Little Christmas", this set has lots of potential and I wish my scrap room was not so tore up so I could have had more time to play.  Christmas time is my favorite time of year and creating these cards helped bring that feeling into the house in mid-August.

Here are close ups of each item

This one is my favorite, and more than likely will be my family Christmas card this year
 it seems like I have been leaning toward the non-traditional
blues for my Christmas cards

Same style as the first one, only using the traditional Christmas colors.

I am always needing gift Tags for my packages and using up
my scraps to create these cute little tags works well.

Materials Used:  Inspired Stamps "Blessed Little Christmas"
Blue card:
CTMH materials - Wonderland B&T, Twilight, Heavenly blue and White Daisy Cardstock, Twilight and Outdoor Denim inks, Prisma Glitter, White satin Ribbon from my stash, Christmas Cheer Cricut Cartridge


Red & Green Card - Mistletoe B&T, Evensong B&T, White Daisy Cardstock, Cranberry ink, Prisma Glitter, Cranberry Ribbon,  White Button from stash, Christmas Cheer Cricut Cartridge


Tags: Cranberry, Black & Sunflower inks, White Daisy and Cranberry Cardstock.