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 www.inspiredstamps.com We ship SAME DAY most orders are placed!!
Hello friends!
It it below zero here in the midwest and what a perfect week to have cards showcasing WINTER!! Above is a close up of Jamie's card. Gaby also made a great winter card for us this week! Jenn has a set of LOVE cards from last week after getting over the flu that I wanted to share! See you Thursday for MORE great DT creations!!
Jamie:
Gaby:
Jenn:
Thanks so much, ladies for sharing your beautiful artwork with us!!
until Thursday...
Blessings,
Antoinette www.inspiredstamps.com shipping most orders SAME DAY as they are placed!!
Hello friends!
Today I have a very easy and very textured producing technique to share with you that I know you will love to incorporate whether you art journal, paint, scrapbook, or make cards! We are in week 3 of our 52 weeks of Gratitude Challenge and are so happy to get to see what YOU are making! Don't forget to link your blog or photo to our MR LINKY at the end of this post OR you can put your photos of your gratitude artwork up on our Facebook page! If you have not viewed our 52 Weeks of Gratitude before, please head over to the main post which will tell you what all this is about and link you to ALL our artwork posts: CLICK HERE
Here is my last week's Gratitude SCRAPBOOK layout with the week's worth of gratitude filled in:
I use lots of old hymnal pages in my Scripture Art so found this one to be really great for my gratitude on this page!
This week's verse is Inspired Stamps Psalm 47:1:
Here's Anita's ARTIST TRADING CARD:
Belinda's CARD:
DeNetra's MIXED MEDIA:
and my ART JOURNAL with photos of my step by step process:
First I just put down white, pink, and purple acrylic paint blobs
Next I put the clean paper over the paint blobs and squished them together
I opened the pages up and turned the top one around and placed it back on the paint blob sheet to mix the colors more.
Here is what it looked like then. Notice all the white left.
I put blue acrylic paint around the edges of the paper and spritzed water on it letting it run down the page to cover up much of the white and also go over the pink and purple which were DRIED when I did this (or they will run too...very cool look also, but wanted a different look today)
Do you see the veins of the paint from the squooshing I did at the beginning now more obvious because of the blue paint watered down and catching on them? This is the most exciting part for me! Don't be afraid to play and see what happens. Worse case you hate it and you put more paint over it and begin something else!
Ok, so I was at this point and needed to pull all those colors together so I grabbed my pink shimmer!!
These are my FAVORITE pearly paints and I order them online (Hobby Lobby used to carry them, but I don't find them there anymore). I put some of this over both pages to pull all the color together and used a paper towel to wipe some areas so the purple would show through more. See all the shine? See all the texture from our paint squooshing??? OH, I love love love it!!
Next, is my favorite part, the STAMPING!! I used the large rustic heart from the GUARD YOUR HEART Inspired Stamp set and the ELEGANT DOTTY ALPHABET set here with StazOn ink. (Make sure you clean your stamps immediately after using StazOn as the ink is permanent and will stay on your stamps if you don't and potentially make them unstampable in the future).
PanPastels are amazing. I used this one to color my heart in.
Next comes my Charcoal pencil around the right side of the letters and the heart to give them depth:
Then comes the white pen where I colored in the white of the letters and made dots (look at that texture! Yum!):
This photo does a better job of showing you just how WHITE that is in real life. And since I know everyone NEEDS a great white pen I have included the packaging AND the pen below so you know what you are looking for. Got this one for about $2 at Michaels and I love it!
So what does the finished page look like? Here you go...
I will share my journaling next week, as always!!
If you are wanting to get the stamps for next month (February) we have under 14 sets left in the online store at a discounted rate. CLICK HERE to go to that page directly
We would LOVE to see what YOU are making for your GRATITUDE ART!! You don't need to use our stamps (of course we love it when you do!) or even the same verse to participate! Just link your photo or page with Mr Linky below OR upload your photo to our Facebook Page!! WE WILL BE CHOOSING several winners randomly each month to win a STAMP SET of their Choice FREE!! The more of our weeks you enter, the better your chances of winning! Please let your friends know about our challenge!!
We will be back Tuesday with some beautiful Design Team creations! See you then!
Blessings,
Antoinette www.inspiredstamps.com (we ship MOST orders SAME DAY they are placed!)
Leave your artwork by following the instructions below:
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
