Hello friends!
Today we have some AMAZING Design Team card sets to share with you!! Above you'll see Deneen's set she lined up for you to see. Ladies, THESE ARE NOT DOILIES, but rather our LOVELY LACE stamp set found by clicking here used with Versamark and different colors of embossing powders!! What a beautiful creation of cards! And our other DT gals have more beautiful creations to share here too...
Deneen:
Hello friends!
Have you entered our WHATS YOUR FAVORITE BIBLE VERSE contest? If not head over to the blog or Facebook page for details in our last post!! Wednesday MIDNIGHT EST is the deadline to have your favorite verse in!
Today the Design Team was asked to create sets of cards using Inspired Stamps with the LOVE theme! Jamie starts us off above and here is the rest of her beautiful cards and the rest of the DTs creations!! Head over to their blogs to see more by clicking on their names on the left of this blog!
Jamie
Gaby used a 2x2 set to create her backgrounds (love this idea!):
Patty made these beauties:
Leesa made this great card that could be easily made into a set:
Thanks so much ladies! I am so inspired to go get my Valentines ready now!
Be sure to head over and see our 52 Weeks of Gratitude post from Sunday! We are really enjoying the links you all are providing so we can see your artwork!
We are ready to create INSPIRED
STAMPERS FAVORITE VERSES #3 and we need YOUR HELP! What is YOUR
favorite BIBLE VERSE (King James Version or New American Standard Version please). Be sure to check out the online store and make sure we do NOT CURRENTLY have that verse in a set : www.inspiredstamps.com (We have had a number that are the same, so please check out the store to see if the verse(s) you want to enter are already part of a stamp set)
Leave your favorite verse in a comment on this post (or our original post about this contest) and if we choose YOUR COMMENT
POST, we will send you this new set FREE when we get it made! ONE
suggested verse per household per day...you have until WEDNESDAY Jan
16th midnight to leave a comment here or on our facebook page!
(Be sure to join us Sunday for our Scripture Sunday Challenge: 52 Weeks of Gratitude! Click HERE if you haven't checked out this challenge yet!) We have our new FEBRUARY set of 2x2s on sale in a very LIMITED QUANTITY (check out the store at www.inspiredstamps.com)
We'll be back Tuesday for some LOVE focused cards!!
Blessings,
Antoinette
Hello friends,
We start off WEEK 2 of our 52 Weeks of Gratitude with our FEBRUARY set of the next month's verses we are going to use! There are a very limited amount of these sets available, so if you would like one, please head over soon to get one (www.inspiredstamps.com).
So how did your first week go? We had so much fun and INSPIRATION visiting those who linked us to your photo or blog posts last week!! If you didn't get started last week, why not join us starting THIS WEEK? It doesn't matter WHEN you begin focusing on gratitude in your life, just that you DO IT! If this is all new to you, please head over to our link with all the information, samples, and links to previous posts by CLICKING HERE.
This week we are using: Psalm 92:4, Next week(20Jan) is Psalm 47:1, and 27Jan is Psalm 28:7
Here are the SCRAPBOOK pages and the ART JOURNALING pages I started last week that I wanted to share all journaled in. Remember, the point of this is to get your gratitude down in some way or form: you can write out full paragraphs, list single words that tell what you are grateful for, or somewhere in between. THE RIGHT WAY IS THE WAY YOU WILL DO AND STICK TO!
Here's my way, shown twice: first in the SCRAPBOOK STYLE:
Now in the ART JOURNALING STYLE:
I love to play with lettering and while it SOUNDS like it wouldn't be fun...you gotta try it! It's seriously fun!
For THIS week's post we have Psalm 92:4 as our weekly Scripture:
Here's Belinda's very beautiful card (She is doing the CARDMAKING option for our 52 WEEK's challenge. She also used Inspired Stamps: CARD MINISTRY SET for the inside ):
What a GREAT card! Be sure to head over to her blog for more details about it!
DeNetra will be creating Art Journaling/Mixed Media pages for our 52 Weeks and here is her GORGEOUS masterpiece:
You can head over to her blog here to see this close up (We'll have to see if she would video tape herself making one of these so we can see the process!! So very beautiful!)
Here is my SCRAPBOOK page layout for this week. I wanted to stick with the blue theme, due to the winter, but had to add a little green to represent the grass that peaked out during our 2 days of 60 degree weather this weekend!! Back to snow today, but what a treat!!
I will share my journaling next week, as I did this week.
So how are YOU coming along with your Gratitude Journey? We'd love to hear from you so PLEASE LEAVE US A COMMENT to this post! Below is a MR LINKY where you can add YOUR link to your photo or blog so we can come take a look! Remember we are giving away a stampset of your choice to a few links we will randomly choose at the end of the month!! You do not have to purchase or use our stamps to win, either! (WHAT IF I CANT POST MY photo or I don't have a blog? How can I participate? GLAD YOU ASKED!! You can ALSO go to our FACEBOOK page and leave your photo on our Facebook page so we can see what YOU are doing!! You will be entered in the drawing THAT way too!!)
We have been SO BLESSED by the comments, the links to your artwork, and the many emails that you are sharing with us about YOUR gratitude journey and the difference it is making in your life! Our God is so good, isn't He?
Blessings,
Antoinette and the Inspired Stamps DT
www.inspiredstamps.com (we ship MOST orders SAME DAY they are placed...and are proud of the fast shipping you all love!!)
LINK YOUR GRATITUDE ARTWORK HERE (or post it on our FACEBOOK PAGE)
CONTEST: We are ready to create INSPIRED
STAMPERS FAVORITE VERSES #3 and we need YOUR HELP! What is YOUR
favorite BIBLE VERSE (King James Version or New American Standard Version please). Be sure to check out the online store and make sure we do NOT CURRENTLY have that verse in a set : www.inspiredstamps.com
Leave your favorite verse in a comment on this post and if we choose YOUR COMMENT
POST, we will send you this new set FREE when we get it made! ONE
suggested verse per household per day...you have until WEDNESDAY Jan
16th to leave a comment here or on our facebook page!
Hello Scripture Sunday Challenge Participants and all who have stopped by today!!
Today we BEGIN our 52 Weeks of Gratitude using ALL forms of art from simply making a list of all you are grateful for each week to scrapbooking, art journaling, and even card-making or painting! Whatever YOUR preferred form of expression....You are invited to join us!
If this is your first time here, please click on the LINK HERE to go to our information blog post about what we are doing! Here are the Inspired Stamps Scripture Stamps we are using in January (February's list will be up next weekend along with a special if you purchase them as a set). We have under 20 of each of the January stamp sets left in stock if you are interested in purchasing them, please head over to the online store soon:
January Scriptures ($3.99 at www.inspiredstamps.com) Jan 6: Psalm 118:24 Jan 13 Psalm 92:4 Jan 20 Psalm 47:1 (down to 8 left in stock for this set!) Jan 27 Psalm 28:7
I am making my pages to use during the week and will share the finished journaled in photos of each of my projects next week. I want to share Belinda's beautiful card for this week, as she is focusing on card-making this year to celebrate gratitude:
Visit Belinda's blog by clicking HERE:
Here is my Scrapbook Journal using our verse for this week and the following products:
Here is page ONE, which will have one day's GRATEFUL notes on it during. I will always leave room in case I want to add a photo or other item that will help me remember or describe the gratefulness for that day during the week.
This is page two and I will jot down what I'm grateful for in each box throughout the week (so this will cover the other 6 days; page one will focus on 1 day). I used Psalm 118:24 and for the lines I used Journaling Shapes for stamp sets.
Here is an art journaling page I also did this week as a sample for you to see an Art Journaling page. Art journaling can involve any medium, but differs from collage (which can be part of art journaling) and scrapbooking (papers can be part of art journaling) in that there is usually more paint/ink/techniques in an art journaling page than a scrapbook page or a strictly collaged piece (but, of course, not always). I used glimmer mists, stencils, white paint, white mixed medium paper as based and matted with card stock. I also use a Bic White Out pen for my white dots over the black (a great option and not expensive) and a black sharpie marker for the edges and pen work. Here are the 2 pages side by side:
The first page is done, but there's still room for me to journal around if I felt the need later this week :o) I used Art Journal Words and Faces stamp set for the word 'thankful' around the edges.
This page has glimmer mists and white paint, and I got that great light blue color from using a little bleach on the dark blue glimmer mist using a paper towel. Loved that! I drew squiggly lines that I will journal on this week. I wanted you to see a watercolor page I did before with this journal technique so you can see where this is headed:
I used pencil lines on this instead of the obvious black lines I'm doing on my Art Journaling pages above. The key to making this look good is to make EVERY letter start at the TOP line and end at the bottom line. Yes, even LOWER Case letters. If you haven't tried this, I highly recommend it. It always looks good when you are finished! And you can HIGHLIGHT some words by using a thicker marker (see REJOICE and TRIALS above in the sample I provided).
We have several of our Design Team that are joining us on their blogs with inspiration for you each week so be sure to click on the Design Team members names to the left of this blog post (Jamie and DeNetra are just 2)
Please leave us a comment and let us know what you think, if you are joining us, or just that you stopped by to see us today!!
CHALLENGE for week 1: Create your first week GRATEFUL artwork right along with us and LINK YOUR POST below on Mr Linky (not a general blog address, but a link to your actual post or photo if you are using a photo sharing album: like flickr). We will be choosing at least one winner this month, to get a stamp set of YOUR choice sent to you FREE from the Inspired Stamps online store (we'll even pay shipping!). We'd love for you to use our stamps, but it's not required to win!
Tuesday and Thursday we will have our Design Team here with some GORGEOUS CARD ARTWORK to share, so be sure to stop back by to see us!
Blessings and thanks so much for joining us today!
May you be ever aware of each day's blessings,
~Antoinette and the Design Team
Hello friends!
We want to give a BIG WELCOME to our newest (and one of our original) Design Team Members, Deneen Treble!! Deneen is a wonderful artist that is such a great member of our Inspired Stamps family and we are SO EXCITED to have her back on the DT for 2013!!
We had an unexpected number of our Tuesday DT unable to post artwork this week, that I have brought Patty's card over to this post so you would all be able to see it! Hope everyone is feeling better soon...I'm convinced to go get my flu shot today, too!!
Above is a close up of Kary's beautiful card using one of our $3.99 single Scriptures: Proverbs 3:5
(A reminder that all the DTs blogs are linked at the left hand side of this blog if you'd like to head over and see more of what they've done!!)
Kary:
Deneen used a $3.99 single scripture stamp called: Philippians 1:3:
Patty used a $3.99 single Scripture stamp Ephesians :
Chere's card:
Jamie's Card:
Thanks so much ladies...these are just beautiful!!
Our 52 Weeks of gratitude is underway....Come see what other bloggers are posting in our challenge and join us yourself! CLICK HERE
Have a blessed day and be sure to join us on SUNDAY for a brand new post and announcement of a SPECIAL!!
~Antoinette and the DT
