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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Week #8 of Inspired Christmas Creations: RANDOM STAMPED PATTERNED PAPER TUTORIAL & giveaway!!

Hello friends!
I am posting this Saturday so I'm giving you an EXTRA day to get your comments in here and/or on facebook to be entered in our $15 gift certificate to our online store www.inspiredstamps.com. Just post a comment to this post by Tuesday noon ET and you'll be automatically entered!! Remember: If you refer someone here to share our giveaway with them and they win and mentioned that you sent them in their post, you'll BOTH win!! We APPRECIATE your referrals!!

Thanks so much to all the wonderful Guest Designers last week!! Our birthday month was made so much more Inspired by your beautiful creations!! Occasionally we look to our customers to Guest Design for us so make sure you share what YOU create with Inspired Stamps on our Facebook page or here on our contests so we can see what you've done!!

TODAY I am sharing a Random Stamped Tutorial on creating your own beautiful wrapping papers and patterned papers for card-making and scrapbooking. You will need inks; a large, medium, and small stamp; and plain paper (we used the brown packaging paper that comes on the large rolls which is intended to use to ship packages...I love Kraft paper and it's a thicker version!!). I also used Spica markers from Copic and a stipple brush.

Step one: I chose a large, medium, and small stamp from the ME AND MY HOUSE Inspired Stamps set:

Remember to work in a TRIANGLE fashion when 'random' stamping: You will also want to get some images that stamp 'off' the paper:

I always start with the LARGE image. Below I cut out 2 different size triangles so you could see better what I mean when I say to remember triangles. You want to be stamping to make a triangle each time you place the stamp down:

After you have all the LARGE stamps down, stamp with your MEDIUM sized stamp, again thinking TRIANGLE:

You will have MORE of the smaller stamps than you do of the larger one.

I like to use white pigment ink on Kraft and these solid small churches fit perfectly as the SMALL stamp. continue stamping until it looks good to you:

Don't worry about smudges (see the one I did for you by the church; you can use a white pen at the end to make a 'snowflake' to cover it---someone once said 'A mistake is an opportunity to embellish'...I live by it!!)

Here it is with the Spica blue colored in the church and snow was added with the Signo pen.

Here's a close up so you get a better idea bout the Spica colors...love them! Wait to add the Signo White until your blue has a chance to dry or you'll get the blue snow like I did above.

If you have too much 'blank space' you can either add another image or my favorite is to stipple brush some color on:

Here's the finished piece and here it is wrapped on a present with a bow I got from Hobby Lobby:

Here's another one I did for you with FRUITFUL FLOURISHES and HIS LITTLE ONES: PRAYING GIRL:

I LOVE the Fruitful Flourishes set...swirls and phrases really add a lot to random stamping!!

Here this is wrapped up:

Leave your comment below to be entered into the giveaway! I'll have my next post Tuesday to announce the winner, as we start SNEAK PEEK WEEK of our next NEW RELEASES TUESDAY....our release date is on Friday, December 2nd at noon!!

Thanks so much for visiting us today!
Be the Blessing,
~Antoinette
www.inspiredstamps.com (40% off coupon good through Thursday; shipping the same day as most orders are placed!!)

Monday, November 21, 2011

Guest Designer: Sherry H plus WINNERS ANNOUNCED + new coupon!!

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!)

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Lots of Christmas Cards from the Inspired Stamps Design Team!!

Christmas is COMING and what better way to get ready than with some GORGEOUS Christmas Inspired Stamps projects?!? Above are two of the tags that Deneen made which has inspired us to set up a Christmas Tag Bloghop coming in November...Get your Inspired Stamps now and get busy, there's going to be a Month Long Challenge for Christmas Artwork here on the blog in NOVEMBER that will have several BIG PRIZE giveaways!! (hint hint)

Here are the Design Team's MERRY Artwork to give you some more ideas! Starting off with 2 more of Deneen's Christmas Tags using the 1.5 inch Christmas Circle Stamp set:

Chere used the Whimsical Tree Set and a colorless blender pen for the coloring of her trees:

Belinda's lovely card looks like it's sitting in a Christmas Tree:

Kim's artsy style gave her card such a wonderful feel:

Jamie did such a FABULOUS job with the Nativity Set:

Amber used the ME AND MY HOUSE set to make this LOVELY card:

Kary used the same stampset along with the 1inch SNOWMEN to create this STUNNING scene on her card:

Jenn reminds us that a verse and some beautifully embossed white paper can be JUST PERFECT:

Thanks so much for stopping by today!! If you plan to be entered in our Inspired Stamps September Operation Write Home Challenge, you need to get your entries in before midnight Friday!! Click HERE to see the challenge or click on the tab above this post!

Be sure to come back SATURDAY as the Inspired Stamps Blog is participating in the Operation Write Home Christmas Blog Hop!! There WILL be GIVEAWAYS for those who comment...Until then...

Be the Blessing!
~Antoinette
www.inspiredstamps.com (We ship same day that most orders are placed!! US shipping is $4.95 or FREE shipping over $50 ! Canada is $4.95 for 1st class shipping on most orders and International is $13.95 for priority shipping on as much as you can fit in a box!!)