Ladystamper

Now that I am done with school for a while, I decided to jump back into the bloggers challenge group. I like having an 'assignment' each week. It helps to spur on my creative juices. This weeks challenge is an inspiration piece. We were to use the colors or feel of the picture to make our project. I used the Nautical expedition DSP from Stampin' Up! for my background and aged it with the distressed kit. The ship is stamped with Soft Suede and then I used the aqua painter and just a bit of marina mist ink to add dimension to the ship. It was a step outside of the box for me....just what I needed! Be sure to check out the other players this week or play along yourself!

Every now and then I challenge myself to make a card or project with only the materials that are lying on my desk. That is what happened with this card. I had been working on the previous card with the bird and these are some of the left over pieces. The DSP is the other side of the pretty floral and the newsprint DSP was a left over piece from the bird card as well. The black rhinestones are from Halloween...I keep all my pearls and rhinestones on my desk in case of emergency....you never know when you will need to add some bling! I like how this card turned out. It has a patriotic, manly feel to me. Manly is not my strong suit so....yay me! Working on a mass amount of cards for my amazing downline today. Love those ladies!! happy stamping!

Okay so technically....she may not be a 'new' stamper, but this is the first time she has stamped with me so....she is new to me! My friend Marcy came to my stamp night on Friday and made this totally adorable card! I love the colors she put together....not colors I would have chosen, but they rock! This is a Valentine card for her son. It looks amazing in person. Very dimensional. On the inside, she put the negative of the punched hearts along the bottom border. super cute! I hope she keeps coming so I can steal more ideas from her!

My mom joined me at my stamp night on Friday. I'm so glad she is willing to come stamp with me...even tho she 'says' she is creatively challenged. Whatever. I will bring out that inner stamp artist! It is my goal! Anyway, she wanted to make a birthday card for my son who will be 17 next week. I think part of her problem is the overwhelming amount of 'stuff' that can be used to make a card. I helped her out by giving her a base to work with. I gave her the card base, DSP and red stars. She was able to use it to make this totally cute card. I think it turned out awesome! Good job mom!!