Pinspired Challenge #17

Check out this pretty pin from Pinspired Challenges:

I was inspired by the colors and the quilt blocks, here's my quick card:

Stamped sentiment: Unity Stamp Co.
Patterned Paper: Pink Paislee
White cardstock: PaperSource

Happy Birthday!

The Pinspired Challenge blog has inspired me again. Here's the pin this week:

That's a lot of color, so to tone it down to fit my own style better, I stamped on white cardstock, and kept the design simple. I wouldn't normally pair up orange and this bright pink, but it totally works, that's the great thing about challenges like this! I added some gold trim to bling the card up a little bit.

The CFC101 challenge at CAS-ual Fridays this week is to stamp on designer paper, so I'm also entering this card there, since I stamped and then fussy cut the images.  Thanks for stopping by today!

 Patterned papers: Kaisercraft, Echo Park
Stamps: Unity Stamp Co.
Ink: Memento  

Pinspired Challenge #8

Check out the pretty inspiration photo for Pinspired Challenge #8:

I love that minty green color, so took a look at what I've got in my stash and decided to make this mini card, it's 3"x3":

The blocks of color in the patterned paper reminded me of the cake layers in the picture. Yummy colors, don't you think? 

Patterned paper: October Afternoon
Cardstock base: Bazzill
Heart: Heidi Swapp
Inks: Memento and Colorbox
Love Sentiment: Sweet Stamp Shop
Rhinestones: Creative Charms

Pinspired tag

Here's the Pinspired Challenge #3 inspiration photo:

 When I saw that this week's Sponsor is Sweet Stamp Shop, I just knew I had to play along.  It just so happens that I have a SSS stamp set with these cute candy jars on it, just like in the inspiration photo!  I made this gift tag by fussy cutting the stamped images. I even popped up the center image with foam squares. A little washi tape to kind of ground the images, a brad for some bling and vintage seam binding finish it off.

Patterned paper & brad: My Mind's Eye Lost & Found 2
Washi tape: My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Thing
Vintage seam binding: May Arts
Stamps: Sweet Stamp Shop
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Baby It's Cold Outside

Pinspired Challenge #2 is to use this image for inspiration for a project:

I originally planned to incorporate some stars and hearts, in addition to the snowflakes, but my first design was just too busy. I settled on the snowflakes instead. I stamped a Hero Arts snowflakes stamp with Memento Bahama Blue ink onto Bazzill white cardstock. I let the ink dry a little, and then sprinkled some silver embossing powder over the snowflakes. I brushed a little of the powder away, to make sure you could still see the blue underneath. Then heated it up and added a sentiment from Sweet Stamp Shop to finish it off.

The overall card layout is based on a card by Julie Ebersole as part of the Clean and Simple Card Making 2 online class I'm currently taking. Her card used a dogwood image, seems to work well for snowflakes too!  I had lots of fun making this card, hope you've enjoyed seeing it!

Pretty Painting

I saw this sketch at Paper Secrets and thought it would work really well for 2 photos I have of my daughter painting.

With an artsy subject like this and the paint colors in the pictures I had to pair them with some Amy Tangerine 'Sketchbook' papers and embellishments. I love how it turned out, and it was so fun to use all these bright colors together! I used ledger paper for the background of the layout, so I'm going to enter this in the current Paper Girls challenge as well.

While I had my supplies out, I made this card. I really should do this more often. This time I decided to color in one of the 'Sketchbook' doodles and make it the focus of the card.

When deciding on colors and papers, I went with the gorgeous colors and cute polka dots found in this inspiration photo for the Pinspired Challenge #1.

Thanks for looking at my projects today!