Just a quick post today to play along with this week's challenge over at Shopping Our Stash where the theme is "If the Shoe Fits". I just had to play along as I love shoes - although sadly getting old doesn't really seem to go with high heels - and I also love the stamp set A Girl and Her Shoes from the super talented Shery of STAMPlorations. And I really love Distress Inks too, so I inked up a really colourful background and splattered with water through the Oh My Stars! stencil, and then just for fun I splattered some more all over. I stamped the gorgeous shoes and coloured them using Copics to look exactly like my dream shoes. After fussy cutting, I covered them in Glossy Accents for that patent leather shine. Last, I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment from the stamp set.
Card: 300 gsm white card, Neenah Solar White card
Stamps: STAMPlorations A Girl and Her Shoes
Ink and colouring: Tsukineko Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Wilted Violet, Seedless Preserves, Dusty Concord, Worn Lipstick, Abandoned Coral, Festive Berries, Aged Mahogany, Copics, Signo White Gel pen
Other: Papermania Seafoam White embossing powder, Glossy Accents, ARTplorations Oh My Stars! stencil
Wait, what? How can we be in July when June only started yesterday? I am feeling we are being cheated of half the summer. Anyhow, the good news of course is that it's time for a new CAS challenge over at STAMPlorations. Did you enjoy our week long 3 year Birthday Bonanza? If you want to keep creating, just join us for our CAS challenge. This month our optional colour twist is orange. Note that we have changed the rules a tad - from now on the random drawn prize ($10 gift card to the STAMPlorations store or $15 if using STAMPlorations products on the card) is for participants who use the optional colour twist. But you are also free to link up any non-orange cards, all we ask is that you make it CAS!
I created a truly CAS one layer card. Minimum products and time required. I started by stamping the gorgeous shoes from Shery's fantabulous A Girl and Her Shoes set, leaving room for the sentiment. Then I stamped the sentiment in orange - thinking back it would probably have been easier to stamp the sentiment first, and then fill in with the shoes. Anyhow, I coloured one pair of the shoes with Copics. The orange is pretty much identical to the ink I used for the sentiment, don't you think? I finished by adding some orange Distress Stickles to the shoes and the sentiment. Quick, easy and a fabulous card for a fellow shoe lover!
I'm linking up with the following challenges:
Clean and Simple on Sunday - Black, white and one other colour
Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - CAS
Card: 300 gsm white smooth card
Stamps: STAMPlorations A Girl and Her Shoes, Art Marks
Ink and colouring: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up Pumpkin Pie, Copics
Other: Tim Holtz Distress Stickles Spiced Marmalade
Disclaimer: I have received some STAMPlorations products for free in exchange for creating cards for the challenge. All opinions however are completely my own. As you can see by browsing my blog, I have been using STAMPlorations products (which I bought myself) way before my time on the DT and I wouldn't recommend them unless I absolutely loved them myself.
Yesterday I have finally conquered the mess of the craft room! I feel like I should give myself a gold star. I can see my desk again. And even craft without just pushing stuff further to the side, as I have been doing for weeks if not months. And it wasn't just putting stuff in their places, it was the whole nine yards with dusting and even moving the sofa and vacuuming behind there. So what better way to celebrate the clean craft room than doing a bit of stamping? And of course put all the stuff back in their place after finishing. I feel very smug!
Today's card is inspired by the sketch over at Retro Sketches and the colours over at ColourQ. I decided to keep things really simple, just the super fun STAMPlorations A Girl and Her Shoes stamp set and a stencil from Stampin' Up. I'm also linking up with Unicorn Challenge where the theme is CAS and this is also my third entry in Darnell's NBUS challenge (NBUS stencil which has been in my drawer for ages and ages...).
Card: 300 gsm textured card, Neenah Solar white card
Stamps: STAMPlorations A Girl and Her Shoes
Ink: Stampin' Up Slate Grey, Tim Holtz Distress Inks Peacock Feathers, Blueprint Sketch and Mermaid Lagoon
Other: Stampin' Up stencil of unknown name
It's time for the mid-month inspiration post for the STAMPlorations CAS challenge. Our challenge, which goes on until the last day of the month is to create a CAS card with an optional colour twist of using red. You don't have to use STAMPlorations products to play along, but if you have them we would love to see them. And the best bit, every month a random winner will receive a $10 gift card to the STAMPlorations shop, ($15 gift card if using STAMPlorations products).
The amazing DT has again used gorgeous STAMPlorations products to inspire you to create for this challenge. Thank you for everyone who has linked up so far, we have loved seeing your creations. You still have plenty of time to take part, and don't forget you can link up to three creations per challenge!
For my card, I used one of my favourite stamp sets ever called A Girl and Her Shoes. I'm a shoe-o-holic and a stamp-o-holic, so thing's don't get much better than this stamp set. And with this month's colour twist combined with the "Keep calm and buy shoes" sentiment, I immediately saw before my eyes a bright red panel with the sentiment stamped in white, just as those original "Keep calm and carry on" posters. So that's what I created, with a few shoes in the background thrown in for good measure! I inked a piece of white card stock using Tim Holtz Festive Berries, and die cut with a stitched rectangle die. I then prepped the panel very well with my anti-static bag to make sure the embossing powder would only stick to the stamped bits. I find this makes heat embossing so much easier and neater, I can't recommend it enough. I stamped the sentiment and the small high heeled shoe from A Girl and Her Shoes in Versamark and heat embossed with white powder. Last, I stamped the gorgeous shoes from the same stamp set in grey ink onto white card, and adhered the red panel. Easy peasy and perfect to send to a fellow shoe-lover (and also perfect for sending as there are no bulky layers or embellishments, so no added postage!).
Don't forget to play along with us, you have a few more week's to play along, and don't forget to check in on the first Thursday of March to see what our next challenge is!
I'm linking up with the following challenges:
Color Throwdown - See colour swatch below
Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes
ABC Challenge - Anything starting with B (boots!)
Dream Factory - Pretty Woman (you know that scene in the beginning of the movie where Julia Roberts puts on those high black boots... just saying!)
Creative Moments - Anything Goes with Dry/Wet embossing
Card: White 250 gsm card, Hobbycraft 160 gsm card
Stamps: STAMPlorations A Girl and Her Shoes
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Festive Berries, Hickory Smoke, Tsukineko Versamark
Other: Papermania Seafoam White Embossing powder, Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle dies.
Disclaimer: I have received some STAMPlorations products for free in exchange for creating cards for the challenge. All opinions however are completely my own. As you can see by browsing my blog, I have been using STAMPlorations products (which I bought myself) way before my time on the DT and I wouldn't recommend them unless I absolutely loved them myself.
