Woodgrain Background and Leaves

It's the last challenge of the month on the Crazy4challenges blog.

It's been fun playing with the team for the last two months!

Today's challenge is to make a wreath....for any season...

Here is the wreath I made.

All products are from The Stamps of Life and include:

Wreath2stamp

Woodgrain2stamp

leaf2stamp

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Be sure and check out the wreaths the team made too!

Kristine

Fall Greetings

Today I have a card I made for a TSOL sample for Stephanie to take to her shows.

I used the new wreath2stamp and the words4wreaths.

I even decorated the inside of my card!

I stamped and die cut two of the wreaths and layered over each other to thicken it up a little

I like the way it turned out!

I hope you were inspired today!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristine

Happy Thanksgiving

After the fun of yesterday's card I decided to make another card using the same ingredients!

This time I started with a step up card die.

I used the Turkey and pumpkins from the Turkeypudgie stamp set.

They were colored with Prisma pencils and blended with gamsol.

I just love the little extra that the leaf dies add!

And..I also used the Happy Thanksgiving die.

Tomorrow are more new releases from The Stamps of Life so be sure and come back to see what I made!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristine

Happy Fall

I've been seeing all the posts about pumpkin spice everything and how excited all my friends are that fall will soon be here.

So, before the month ran out I wanted to make another Holiday House.

The stamps of life are having a fun challenge this month using the 

House Fold It die.

Simply create a house card and decorate it for Halloween, Fall, or Christmas using stamps and dies from the stamps of life.

I used my House Fold-it die
My leaf dies
and stamps from the Pilgrimboy2stamp, pilgrimgirl2stamp,  and the Scarecrow Dies.

To join in on the fun...and a chance to win $25....

1. Create a seasonal House Fold-it (Halloween, Fall, or Christmas)

2. Post on Instagram and use the hashtag #thestampsoflife

Winner will be randomly chosen on 10/1.

Hope you enjoyed todays inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristine

Featured Stamper challenge

I made this card for Sunday's Featured Stamper challenge on SCS. This weeks featured stamper was Jen 70. Her work is amazing and I was excited to browse through her gallery. This is the card I chose to case.

Stamps: Small Script, With Gratitude, Autumn Leaves Flourishes

Paper: mustard, moss, Garden Green, vanilla

Ink: mustard, moss, garden green

Accessories: brads, ticket corner punch, dimensionals, ribbon, oval punches

Hope you had a great weekend!

Happy Monday!

A happy Monday calls for some happy cards, so I thought I would share a couple of fun, bright colored cards I made this weekend. I especially love the first one. Sometimes you don't know where you are headed but when you get there you have a card that just makes you smile when you look at it. This is one of those cards for me. I bought the ribbon at Michael's last week. The ribbon was originally $1.99. It was on clearance for $1 so I picked up 10 of them. When I got the the register, I found out that all the clearance items were 90% off so the ribbon cost me 10 cents each! How can you not smile at that? I wanted to use the ribbon so that made paper choices easy...pink and orange. I have had a big sheet of that striped peachy/orangy paper laying around for a while. I don't even know what ever possessed me to buy it but the orange stripes matched the orange card stock and I love how it looks. I used the flowers from Heartfelt thanks and added a little stickles because as my daughter likes to remind me...everything looks better with stickles. I have been on a real ticket corner punch kick lately. I just love what it does for a card but I've noticed that I am using it on all my cards so I am going to try to not use it for a while. I LOVE the clean lines and bright fun colors. I think I'll have to make some more of these to send out as RAK's!

This second card uses my Autumn Leaves clear stamps. Yes, you've seen these flowers before. I really like these stamps. I made this card for Beate's weekly sketch challenge. It's pretty simple but still fun. The card is red though it looks pink in the picture. The ribbons are from Michael's as are the square brads. There's that ticket corner punch again too!

I hope you have a great week!

Oodlebug Case

It's Sunday...so it must be Featured Stamper time on SCS. This weeks featured stamper is Charmaine from Oodlebug Alley. She is an amazing stamper. When she first posted the card I cased I knew I wanted to case it because I had the same stamp set. I changed the colors, did a little stamping on the background and a little more sewing but it's basically the same card.

Stamps: Autumn Leaves & Stampin' Up!

Paper: Moss, saffron, rust, white

Ink: Moss, Saffron, black

Accessories: ribbon, sewing machine, watercolor crayons

Fabulous Flourishes!

That was yesterday's Ways to Use it Challenge on SCS. I have had this great flourish set for a couple of months and was excited to get it out and play. I got this great acrylic set by Autumn Leaves at Target. They really are developing a nice scrapbook/stamping area. Not really a good thing since I always seem to throw something in my cart that I hadn't been planning on buying when I went there! I wasn't sure where I was going when I started this card. I just started stamping flourishes in different colors on white paper trying to seek some inspiration and this is where I ended up! The style is so NOT what I usually do but I really do like it's elegant look.

Stamps: Autumn Leaves, Wonderful Words by SU!

Paper: Rust, black, white

Ink: black, rust, hunter, grey, moss

Accessories: brads, gold cord, dimensionals

Challenge Catch Up

I started out Memorial Weekend thinking I'd have lots of time to stamp but I never had time until tonight. I finally got to get caught up on this weekends challenges. The Inspiration Challenge inspiration was a napkin. As soon as I saw it I had this card pictured in my mind but had to wait two days to actually make it. I used my new Autumn Leaves acrylic stamps for this card.


Stamps: Autumn Leaves, Hero Arts
Paper: mustard, black, rose, bashful blue, white
ink: mustard, black, rose, bashful blue
Accessories: black ribbon, word window punch, gold cord, black brads, ticket corner punch, dimensionals






The Featured Stamper this week was KED. Her gallery is AWESOME. I had never seen it and now I can't stop looking at it. Some really great cards. If you haven't seen KED's work go check out her gallery. I chose this card from her gallery to case. It gave me an excuse to use my GinaK lobster again (not that I really needed one). So, keeping true to the rules, I changed the paper, color and stamps but other that that I stayed pretty true to the origional card. I wish I was creative enough to come up with this great card on my own. But that is why I do the challenges...because it stretches me and forces me to try things I haven't done and in the end I know that's how you become a better stamper!

Stamps: GinaK, Stampin' Up!
Paper: mustard, bashful blue, vanilla, green galore, pumpkin, DP by DCWV
Ink: pumpkin,mustard, bashful blue, black, green galore, rollograph white
Accessories: primas, brads, cuttlebug embossing folder, dimensionals.

VSN Sneek Peek

The very first challenge tonight was paper quilling. I have never done paper quilling before and was quite intimidated. I cut 1/8" long strips of paper and twisted them around my paper piercer and then glued the end of the paper to make each of the pieces. I like how this turned out! I used the flourishes from Autumn Leaves to add some fun to the card. I just love this ribbon. It was still on my table from last nights card so I decided to use it.
Stamps: Autumn Leaves
Ink: Celery, rose
Paper: celery, rose, regal
Accessories: paper piercer, glue, ribbon, punch, dimensionals, CM oval cutter.

VSN Pre-Challenge #2

I made this card for the second "Pre-challenge" for this weekends VSN. The challenge was to create a card incorporating real flower seeds. I didn't have any flower seeds...I'm a stamper and gardening would cut into my stamping time way too much! So, I wasn't sure I was going to do this challenge. But last night, I was pouring sunflower seeds into the salad I was preparing and it dawned on me that those would work for the challenge. I just recently broke down and bought the Stampin' Up oval punches and have been wanting to try the flower cards I've seen all over SCS so I decided to try it for this card. The sunflower seeds are in the middle of the flower. This card is really fun! I hope you enjoy it!
Stamps: Autumn Leaves, Stampin' Up!
Paper: Garden green, Summer Sun, Cocoa, white, red
ink: Garden Green, cocoa, summer sun, black
Accessories: sunflower seeds, dimensional's, ribbon from Michael's, sponge

VSN Pre-Challenge

One more week till Virtual Stamp Night! I can hardly wait! I participated in my first one in March and I had a BLAST! May's VSN theme is May Flowers. I made this card for the pre-challenge. It's due by today...there I go procrastinating again.
The challenge was to create a card with a rainbow. I used the emboss resist technique and my spectrum pad and brayer. It's a very simple card to make but the colors are really "WOW" in person.
Stamps: SU's Simple SayingsII, Autumn Leaves
Paper: Glossy white, whisper white, lovely lilac
Ink: Celebration Spectrum, black, versamark
Accessories: paper piercer, sheer ribbon, embossing powder, heat gun