Hello friends!
Happy Memorial Day here in the USA! Being an Army wife myself, this day is very special. It's a time we remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their county. I just want to thank all of you who serve as military or who are family members who do...I am so grateful!!
Today, a few of our Design Team have made some wonderful cards in honor of them! Let's get started!
Deneen created this great card using our PSALM 91 PROTECTION Stamp set and His Little Ones: Soldier with Helmet:
Santa created this lovely card with His Little Ones: Patriotic girl with heart:
Belinda made this sweet card with Psalm 91 PROTECTION and His Little Ones: Soldier with Flag
And Chere made these great cards using Psalm 91 PROTECTION and His Little Ones: Soldier Boy:
Thanks for stopping by today! We will have more artwork up for you on Thursday!!
Hello friends!
We have 4 stamps that have yet to be seen in our etsy shop! Above is one of my favorites: HOPE TRANSFORMED and you will find it on the first page of our shop and also under our 4x6 Scripture category! Patty used this in her card shown here:
Chere made this..
Here is my Bible Art Journaling page using one of the Scriptures off of this great set (HYMN: CHURCH AND HOUSES, SKETCHY UPPERCASE ALPHABET, BIND AND STITCH stamp sets also used and can be found at our etsy shop)
NEXT up
are the final introductions of our military characters to the etsy shop:
First up is our tallest (comes on a 3x4"acetate sheet): MILITARY SOLDIER:
Kary made the first one and I made the last two:
2 New HIS LITTLE ONES round out our military character sets:
HIS LITTLE ONES: SOLDIER WITH HELMET is on a card I made next to His Little Ones: Soldier Boy that entered the etsy shop last week:
HIS LITTLE ONES: SOLDIER WITH FLAG is last I made into an ornament:
Hello friends and welcome to the Inspired Stamps blog for OWH's annual Memorial Day Bloghop!!
As a company, this is our 3rd year participating so I know people want to see the artwork, see the store specials, comment for a chance at our giveaway and move on! So I will just take a quick second to say, the reason this is so dear to my heart as the owner of Inspired Stamps, is because my husband has been a US Army soldier since we were married 25 years ago this year (making our family a military family for a very long time)! I so appreciate what OWH does in sending our soldiers cards that we all make to encourage them and help keep them in touch with their loved ones! What a wonderful service!!
I did a very QUICK tutorial (and several of our Design Team members have signed up for the blog hop too, so you'll see more Inspired Stamps as you continue hopping!) on how to color and cut out a character stamp to give it dimension!
Here is a quick coloring guide for 3 of our best-selling military stamp sets first:
Military Soldier (3"x4"), HLO:Soldier Boy (2"x3"), and HLO: Sailor (2"x3")
Here is what I did to make my card:
I started by stamping the Inspired Stamp: His Little Ones: Soldier Boy
twice. Then I colored using Copics and cut out the pieces I wanted to
'pop' in dimension:
Deciding what I wanted to be in back, I numbered to the side. So after I color the uncolored stamped image of HLO: Soldier Boy ALL IN BLACK (so it just shows a silhouette of his shape), I glued each piece on the other colored sided down, using popdots starting with 1 and going to 5. His pants were glued directly to the place where the pants are on the blacked out side. Then I used one pop dot to give some height to his jacket and one pop dot each to his shoes. Then two pop dots to put his head on; Then 3 popdots so his hat would stand out a little more from his head. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THIN POP DOTS or you'll see too much of the white popdots (I like to color mine black on the sides to help with this):
I also use a black marker around the edges of each piece to make it look better:
Here is the OWH card sketch I used followed by my card:
GIVEAWAY: We are giving away 10--$10 store credits to 10 randomly selected commenters from today's post. You have through Thursday, MAY 29th midnight EST to leave us a comment and be entered to win! Come back FRIDAY to see if your comment was chosen and claim your prize!!
**WE ARE HAVING A STORE-WIDE SALE IN OUR ONLINE STORE NOW THROUGH FRIDAY!! HEAD OVER AND CHECK OUT OUR CLEAR STAMPS**
Hello friends!
Here in the USA we celebrate Independence Day today! So here on the blog we are creating cards with STARS and/or STRIPES to inspire you!
Kary starts us off with this adorable card:
Chere's card:
Deneen's beautiful card:
Gaby's card:
Jenn's card:
Thanks so much ladies! These are all wonderful cards!
We'll be back soon with more inspiration!
Blessings,
Antoinette and the Thursday Design Team
Hello friends!
How is your attitude of Gratitude going? If you haven't joined us yet, we'd love to have you join us this week! Just make any type of artwork you like (a card, a doodled list, a painting, ANYTHING) that shows your GRATITUDE! We are using Scripture each week, but you are not required to use our stamps or the same Scripture to join us! The goal is to be more grateful! If you plan to join us for March, here are the weeks and the Scriptures we will be using:
March 3: James 1:2
March 10: Psalm 103:1
March 17: Romans 8:28
March 24: 1 Thess 5:18
March 31: Isaiah 30:15
We have just a handful of these sets combined into one discounted purchase left at our online store if you are interested: CLICK HERE to go to the store page they are on.
Be sure to post your Gratitude artwork by Saturday March 2nd midnight EST in order to be entered in our February Gratitude Giveaway! We'll announce the winner on next week's Gratitude post on Sunday!
This week our focus verse is:
and we will start off with Belinda's beautiful artwork (LOVE the coloring of the His Little Ones: Soldier Boy with Flag set! Flawless!!) She made a card this week and stamped on a FABRIC piece to get this ethereal stamped look:
Next up is Anita and her CAS artist trading card:
Here is DeNetra's mixed media piece:
Finally, I have my Scrapbook pages. Today I wanted to use the Simple Stories background from their Fall line, because I love the fall-like colors. But, I didn't want it to be a fall page, so I adjusted it with paint and embellishments:
Using the vanilla paint I got rid of the 'FALL' on this page.
I colored these pages in using Copic markers E000, E00 E01, E15, E97, YR15, R20 (for her cheeks) andYG17
Here is page 1 that I will fill in each day this week with what I am thankful for:
And here is page 2:
So how is your Grateful Artwork coming along? I hear from a number of you that you haven't made the time yet, but really want to. Grab a black marker and a pad of paper and just start LISTING every day before you go to bed WHAT you are grateful for! Then take a photo and link it to our blinky below! We randomly choose winners for our challenge, so it's not an art contest! We just want to encourage you to get those grateful thoughts down on paper!
WINNERS OF OUR TUTORIAL: VIDEO or PICTURE? posts are:
JULES from the blog comments and
Marcia B. Gissiner from the Facebook comments!
Thank you all for giving us input on this!
JULES and MARCIA B G, please look at the store (www.inspiredstamps.com) and pick out a stamp set you would like and then email us at inspiredstamps@gmail.com by Saturday midnight with your choice of stampset and a mailing address we can ship it to you. We will get it in the mail to you on Monday of next week! Thanks again for all the input everyone gave us!
Get your Gratitude Artwork into our mr linky post below OR post on our Facebook Wall to be entered in the challenge for the prize we will draw and announce next Sunday!!
We will have some GORGEOUS EASTER cards (and sets of cards) to inspire you with this week so be sure to come back over and see us!
Blessings,
Antoinette and the Sunday Scripture DT www.inspiredstamps.com (We are shipping currently within 1 business day of your order being placed!)
Hello friends, Today one of our Design Team members, Jenn, is getting her son ready for boot camp. She made this card in his honor. She says, "With today's image I wanted to create
the feeling of something missing, the soldier. So I embossed the HLO
using clear embossing powder on white glossy paper then inked my browns
and greens over it to create a camo paper."
How precious and heartfelt this soldier's mom's card creation is! Jenn, we will be praying for you and for Jimmy (your so well put 'something missing') as he goes off to boot camp! As an Army wife, I have a special place in my heart for you and your son during this very proud and bittersweet time!!
Hello friends!
Yes, a NEW COUPON for your shopping pleasure!! And before you head over to the ONLINE STORE shopping I have a LOT of winners from our Birthday weekend to announce so see if you won first:
2 winners of the $10 gift certificates were chosen and they are:
Carol Drumwright
and
Anita Randall
Congratulations ladies! Send me your email/ mailing address info and I'll get your store credit logged in!! inspiredstamps@gmail.com
Then we had 6 people winning a FREE Inspired Stamp set of their choice! The winners are:
Shelly Mendenhall,
The Crafty Dream,
Lindaplus3,
MaxineD who mentioned Kary, who sent her so KARY wins too!!
Tanya Johnson,
and
Ann Merkins
Congratulations ladies! Send me your mailing address and stampset of your choice by WEDNESDAY, NOV 23rd NOON Eastern Time or your winnings will go into our Big Giveaway at the end of our 12 Weeks of Christmas! I will mail out all winnings on Wednesday afternoon! inspiredstamps@gmail.com
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Now for some beautiful inspiration as we continue a week of Guest Designers. Today Sherry H has blessed us with some beautiful artwork on her blog, here is a peek of what she has over there for you to see, Don't you just love the choir she created in the first card? I love how subtle the church from the ME AND MY HOUSE set sits so cleverly in the background!!...
How wonderful! Thanks so much Sherry for blessing us with this beautiful inspiration today! Head over to Sherry's blog HERE.
Be the blessing!
~Antoinette www.inspiredstamps.com (new 40% off coupon! We ship most orders the day they are placed!)
