Comment to win! NEW STAMP RELEASE TODAY!!

Hello friends!

A HUGE new release of clear stamps today in the online store: www.inspiredstamps.com and we have lots of artwork here for you to see!   Our Sketchy Uppercase Alphabet is out and will be back at our May New Release!
We do have 2 new Sketchy Alphabet sets so let's start with those!
SKETCHY LOWERCASE ALPHABET with artwork by Deneen:

Sketchy Extras and Numbers with artwork by Kary:

Next up are a couple new HYMN sets:
HYMN: EARTH AND WEATHER set followed by artwork from me (Antoinette) and Chere:

 HYMN: BIRDS AND TREES followed by artwork from me (Antoinette) and Shanta:

 Before I introduce the last 6 stamps, I just want to tell you how absolutely thrilled I am at how well these HYMN GIRLS are loved by you!!!  I know you will love these new sets that round out the 12 Hymn Girls sets from January-December.  WE ARE CELEBRATING the entire year's worth with a LIMITED TIME SALE:  YOU CAN PURCHASE ALL 12 AT A DISCOUNTED PRICE WHEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AS A SET!  click here for this special's page on the online store!

We start off with HYMN GIRLS: JULY and artwork by me and Shanta (who also used BIND AND STITCH):

Hymn Girls: August has artwork by Chere:

Hymn Girls: September has artwork by Deneen:

Hymn Girls: October is one of my favorites, because we all feel this way at times.  When trials are difficult and we are standing firm, leaning into them as the storm pushes against us!  We endure!:

Hymn Girls: November is a favorite among our Design Team ladies!  Kary and Patty both made beautiful cards with her:

And HYMN GIRLS: DECEMBER is one I use a lot!  Artwork is by Belinda (who also made 'joy' out of our new SKETCHY LOWERCASE ALPHABET and me:

GIVEAWAY:
We are celebrating our 100,000 blog visits!!  All you need to do to be entered into one of 10-- $10 store credits we will give away is to leave a comment here!  If you'd like to increase your odds of winning, you can leave one comment on the DT blogs as well both for today and last week!  BE SURE TO RETURN NEXT THURSDAY when the winners are announced!!

Here are links to the DT blogs--just scroll down to their INSPIRED STAMPS post!!
Belinda
Chere
Deneen
Jamie
Kary
Patty
Shanta

Head on over to the online store and all these stamp sets are now ready for you to purchase and come home to you!! We will get all orders out Saturday that are placed by 10am Saturday.  All other orders will be mailed to you first thing Monday morning!!  Happy Shopping!!

www.inspiredstamps.com

Thanks so much for stopping by and your continued support of Inspired Stamps!
Blessings,
Antoinette and the very talented DT!!

Day 7: Making your OWN stencils from die cutting machines

 

Hello friends!                                                             
I am spending today and tomorrow working on backgrounds, so you will see these completed with the journaling on Sunday's post!

I used they dylusions spray ink on the background:

 

I have been stamping and cutting out letters using my Brother Scan-N-Cut with the new Sketchy alphabet that is coming out THURSDAY in our new release!  I LOVE being able to stamp a sheet of letters and have them cut out within a couple of minutes by this machine!  BUT if you have a different cutting machine, you can use the 'scraps' from the images you cut for your stencils in your art journaling pages!

 Used some white to tone it down; had to go over it later with a little gesso, it was too strong for my background.  Then I used white to spray through the numbers.  If you mind little bits of purple mixing in with the white ink as you do this, use a paper towel to wipe the stencil down after you use the purple (you can also dry it)

Cool!
NEXT, I used Inspired Stamps set: THANK YOU as my stamps:

 I chose the one solid leaves stamp with black waterproof ink to stamp all around my page:

 

 

 Next, I added flowers from the set and colored them with the dylusions spray ink using a water brush filled with the pink spray ink.  You'll see to the right I stamps on punched round flowers from patterned BAZZILL paper:

 

It is ready for my JOURNALING MY BIBLE STUDY part!  You will see it on Sunday!

How are you doing in YOUR art journal?  Leave us a comment!  We love to hear from you!
Blessings,
Antoinette
www.inspiredstamps.com  (shipping most orders SAME DAY as they are placed:  sale going on now!)