I pulled out some old wood mounted stamps to play around with. I must say that I've been spoiled by unmounted and clear stamps. I was all over the place stamping with the wood mounteds!
The image is from Stampendous and stamped with Palette sunflower ink. The sentiment is from Papertrey and stamped with SU garden green ink. It's pretty basic but I like the clean and simple lines.
I have another flower stamp I want to try out so be on the lookout for more of this style.
Have a great night!
The scourge of September has arrived - ragweed. (along with mold and grass and about a million other things I'm allergic to). September is one of my worst months for allergies so I'm not the most chipper (or creative) at the moment. But I finally got myself together and uploaded the card from last week's wedding.
Remember, the wedding invitation was basically white and grey/silver so that's the colors I went with on the card.
The wedding bells image is from Stampendous. I stamped it with embossing ink and then heat embossed the image with silver ep. The sentiment is from Papertrey and is stamped with Momento tuxedo black ink. The crystals are Swarovski and the shapes are made from nestibilities. A simple card considering the amount of time I spent fiddling with it!
I think I'm dubbing this the week of the wedding. I have a least one more wedding card to show you tomorrow and I'm playing around with other images I thought I'd originally use for this card.
I'm off to Conor's soccer practice (oh yeah, outside with all my allergens) so I need to skedaddle. Hope you have a great night!
I took a few days away from the stamping world after all the yuckiness that happened earlier in the week. For a while, I followed the debate but decided that hearing the pros and cons rehashed and argued about was more harmful than helpful. After not viewing any of it the last couple of days I feel MUCH better and plan to stay in my own little happy stamping world.
This week I did happen to finish the Splitcoast CAS challenge. The challenge was to take a card of your own and remake it, CAS style. I looked through my inventory and chose one that was getting low and I needed to make more of anyway and then I simplified it.
This is a super simple 5 minute card. The image is from Stampin Up. I used Garden Green, Summer Sun and More Mustard for the flower. The sentiment is from Stampendous and stamped in Garden Green.
And that's it. A bunch of cards were created in under an hour. I'm also still working on multiples of cards you've already seen for some orders. I'm hoping to maybe get some stamping time in this weekend. We are planning a bbq tomorrow but it's all family and Mo and I were cleaning machines today so tomorrow should be a breeze! I think I may have to get inky. Have a great day!
Did you ever start out on a card with its whole purpose being to use one specific item. I had gotten some neat purple and brown ribbon from the Martha Stewart section at Michael's and I was bound and determined to use this ribbon. Let me tell you, I went through a lot to find what I felt was a good match for this ribbon. You know how fashion people always tell you never to buy a top or pants without being the matching piece or you'll never find anything to wear with it...........well, I need to buy papers and cardstock that go with these embellishments as I buy them!
I finally found paper and cardstock that really seemed to work for me. The card is fairly basic (and really, do you expect anything elaborate from me by now?). The stamp is from Stampendous - the same clear set that I seem to be using for everything. The scallops are cut with the cheapy Fiskars scallop scissors. Put a few layers together with of course, the skinny ribbon and there you go.
So this week is going to be one big blur. I am always amazed at how quickly the schedule can fill up and how crazy you can become. I do have a few crafty obligations that I need to get done so I will be posting this week. Hope you'll come back and visit me again.
Yesterday ended up being such a great day - I think we should have Mother's Day more often. It was so nice having a family dinner with grandparents and uncles on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon.
Today's card uses two stamp companies that I haven't used in a while. Have you tried the stamps from Art Declassified yet? These stamps are red rubber stamps that come mounted on ez mount ready for acrylic blocks. Some of the sets come just the red rubber but they send the ez mount with the stamps so you just have to cut and mount them yourself. These are nicely etched, high quality stamps. They take to all kinds of ink really well and the images stamp fantastic.
For this card, I took the funky vine image and stamped it several times using rust chalk ink.
The sentiment is also stamped in rust and it's from a clear sentiment set from Stampendous. This was the first time I had used Stampendous clear stamps. I have used their red rubber mounted stamps over the years but not the clear. I was pleasantly surprised. Every time I use one of these stamps, I get a great image. They too take all types of ink well and are very easy to use.
This card was a fast, quick card that looks cool, to me at least. I would highly recommend the Stampendous clear stamps as well as the Art Declassified red rubber stamps. Both companies offer quality stamps that make the art of creating much easier.
