Caring Cards: masculine card using an ink swiper + Inspired Stamps

Hello friends,
Today's post for our 52 Weeks of Caring Cards is a masculine card I made for my nephew who has his birthday on the 7th so I wanted to make it nice, but very fast.

I used an ink swiper for the background using these supplies:

 Above is Inspired Stamps: BIRTHDAYS stamp set, Distress Ink, and the Ink Swipe
Below is one of our very first stamps we ever created years ago FIR TREES (still selling in the GodblessyourART etsy shop!)

Next I swiped the brown where I wanted the horizon line and then swiped the pink above that:

Next I stamped the tree in the center with CTMH New England Ivy, then stamped off the paper and back on without adding extra ink to get the 'forest' feel.  I  use a sticky note at the bottom so the trees in the forest don't stamp their trunks and look further away because of it:

Here is the final card, with Scripture and Happy Birthday from the BIRTHDAYS stamp set.  I used the side of my acrylic block to have some shooting green lines down the page (a great way to disguise a mistake where the block accidentally transfers ink when you stamp is to make it part of the design!):

Thanks for stopping by!
We have Scripture Memorization in a Grateful Journal I'm about to post over on the GodblessyourART blog.

Tomorrow is our uber talented Inspired Stamps Design Team post here.

Friday is NEW STAMPS FRIDAY and there are new stamps coming into the etsy shop at noon!  And I'm sharing a couple projects on the GodblessyourART blog in Bible Art Journaling, including the next pages from my handmade 16 page journal on Romans chapter 1-3!

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Have a blessed day!
Antoinette
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character Inspired Stamps in a scene cards

Hello friends!
Today a few of the DT have some beautiful character stamps in a scene cards to share.  Deneen will be showing you how to make her TENT CARD in Friday afternoon's 12 WEEKS OF CHRISTMAS TUTORIAL post.  Here's a few angles of her card, but you are really going to want to see all that she has put together tomorrow:

Chere also created a lovely card for you:

Shanta is the final DT member who has a card to share today and it's lovely too!!

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Thanks so much for your support of Inspired Stamps!
Blessings,
Antoinette

12 Weeks of Christmas Card Tutorials WEEK 10: GIFT CARD card

Hello friends!

We are busy busy busy this time of year as I'm sure you are too!  Today I have the 10th week post of our Christmas Card Tutorials with a really simple and really practical Card to make:  One that holds the gift cards all the teenagers (and some a little beyond the teenage years!) look for under the tree!  I have tons of nieces and nephews I don't live near that I always send a gift card to and this card style is easy enough for me to make them quickly and in production method!
I took a sheet of off-white cardstock and cut it to 5.5"x 9 inches.  I folded one end up an inch (and forgot to take a photo, but you'll see it clearly when I show the finished card photos) then folded the card base in half.  Here's the card itself using Inspired Stamps (HIS LITTLE ONES: WINTER GIRL, MATTHEW 1:21, and a sentiment from PERFECT CHRISTMAS SENTIMENTS) :

 Front of the card after it's folded in half and I rounded the bottom corners.  I used Bo Bunny paper (LOVE this winter paper) that you can find in the online store POWDER MOUNTAIN COLLECTION:

Below is a shot of the inside of the card.  You'll see the one inch strip at the base that was folded up and glued on the sides of the fold to make the pocket.  I used  a sentiment from Inspired Stamps' PERFECT CHRISTMAS SENTIMENTS on that 1" strip, background stamped a tree from FIR TREES and stamped JOHN 14:6 over that so the verse would pop:

 Here's a close up of the top:

 In the bottom I took 2 glue dots and a piece of ribbon and made a little loop so the gift card can be easily removed.  I always put a glue dot to hold the gift card in place so it doesn't fall all over the place in the mail:

I hope this gave you a quick idea on making some easy gift card holders this year!  The DT is back Thursday and then Friday another of our Christmas Card tutorials will be shared!  Hard to believe only 9 weeks until Christmas then!!

Blessings,
Antoinette

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Day 26: Christmas Cards (1 layer CARD!!) + NEW STAMPS COMING WEDNESDAY!!

Hello friends!

I love this ONE LAYER card that Deneen created to show you how lovely and easy just using one piece of white paper and a few stamps can be!!  Here is the inside of the card:

Be sure to stop by the online store and see all the Christmas Stamps on sale this weekend!

www.inspiredstamps.com

blessings,

Antoinette

Christmas Cards: Day 2 FIR TREES and PERFECT SENTIMENTS

Hello friends,
Today is day 2 of our 30 Days of Christmas Card SHOWCASE of Inspired Stamps!  Today's card I made using the FIR TREES and PERFECT SENTIMENTS stamp sets!  I masked off a section in the 'forest' so I could make the sentiment pop.  Here's the full card:

More cards tomorrow!!
Blessings,
Antoinette

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Day 28: Finishing your art journal: Mass STAMPING part 3

Hello friends!
I hope you take a few minutes to see what the Design Team made with their monochromatic cards in today's DT post!  So beautiful and inspiring!

Today as we finishup our 31 Days of March: Art Journaling Your Bible Study, we are getting our backgrounds finished up!  We had Day 26 where we went through whatever is left of our journal and used paint or dylusions spray ink on each page, in one two or three colors....full pages and little spritzes!  Day 27 we went back with stencils and water, white ink, or different colored inks and created dimension!  Today, we will take stamped images and create the final part of our BACKGROUNDS (Day 29 we add foreground stamped images or paper piecings to our pages!)

Here is the stamping I did on the pages I showed you in Day 27:

I used FIR TREES, BACKGROUND STAMPS, and BIND AND STITCH clear stamp sets from the online store for all of these I'm sharing.

It just adds one more layer to our backgrounds!

Finish up your month by adding your Scripture and Journaling to your remaining pages and you'll have 31 Days of Art journaling all finished up!!  We hope you have enjoyed our 31 Days of March: Art Journaling your Bible Study with us!!  Be sure to head over to www.Godblessyourart.blogspot.com to see 31 Days of Christian Art Journaling I did a couple of years ago if you want more inspiration!
Blessings,
Antoinette                                shipping most orders out SAME DAY you place them!

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BEAUTIFUL Chrsitmas cards!

Hello friends!
Today the Design Team has some beautiful cards to share with you using Inspired Stamps!!  Above, Deneen starts us off with her GORGEOUS coloring of His Little Ones: Angel!
Here's her full card:

Kary used the SNOWMEN stamp set(running low of these in the online store so grab one while you can!)  :

Chere:

Jamie:

BEAUTIFUL  job ladies!  One more week then our DT will take a 2 week break to spend with their families over Christmas!
Blessings,
Antoinette
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BEAUTIFUL winter cards!!

Hello friends!
It has been unbelievably cold here in the midwest this week so the focus on Winter Cards for today feels just about right!  Chere, Deneen, and Kary have created such beautiful inspiration for you, I won't keep you any longer except to encourage you to go to our latest post on the 52 Weeks of Gratitude HERE when you are finished looking through these gorgeous creations!

Chere's card using our FIR TREES and BE STILL SILHOUETTE Inspired Stamps sets:

Kary used our SNOWMEN set (love how she colored this to look like the snowmen have ear wraps on instead of hats!  CLEVER!!:

Deneen used the SNOWMEN set and put the heads in circles (so creative) and used our TAGS set for the inside:

Ladies these are really GORGEOUS and I thank you SO MUCH for your dedication to creating BEAUTIFUL artwork each week to share with us!!

Have a great day!
~Blessings,
Antoinette
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More Tag Ideas: Design Team Thursday

Hello Friends,
Friday starts our 12 WEEKS OF CHRISTMAS TUTORIALS and Fabi will be sharing a tutorial on how to make a Notebook Holder that you will not want to miss!! 

Our winner of the HOW TO TUTORIAL SUGGESTION is...
Anne-Marie Wiley, who shared that she would like to see gift card holders that can be reused as ornaments and I LOVE THIS IDEA!!  We decided to make a few different styles of this and will be sharing Anne-Marie's tutorial NEXT WEDNESDAY, as we needed a little more time to get these completed and photographed!!  Congratulations, Anne-Marie!!  You will receive not only the project we make BUT ALSO the stamps we use for them!!

Are you ready for some GORGEOUS TAGS??  We started this post off with one of the Tags that DeNetra created and here are the rest of the DTs creations:
Kary:

Jamie:

Chere:

Fabi:

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!  We also want to give a special thank you to all of our International Shoppers!!  We have had orders from 3 new countries this week and are super excited that our stamps are heading to new countries!!

Have a blessed day and don't forget to come over on FRIDAY to see what Fabi has planned in her TUTORIAL!!
~Antoinette

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CHRISTMAS STAMPS: Design Team Tuesday with Inspired Stamps!

Hello Friends!
Today is a showcase of some beautiful Christmas Cards from the Inspired Stamps Tuesday Design Team!  Above, Leesa, has just created a GORGEOUS card that anyone would be blessed to receive this Christmas time!!  Let's take a look at what the rest of our Tuesday team has created to inspire you in your Christmas card-making:
Patty used the Whimsical Tree set:

Belinda:

Gaby:

Jenn:

Aren't they wonderful?  We'll have MORE Christmas inspiration for you on Thursday's Christmas Card posting by the Design Team!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Be sure to stop by the online store: www.inspiredstamps.com 

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Until next time,

Blessings,

Antoinette