CLEARLY INSPIRED

Make a WISH

This is the layout my club members are going to make this Saturday night. I love this paper! It is from the Good Times Level 2 pack from CTMH. I got the layouts from the Reflections Scrapbook Program that CTMH sells. I used the layouts on pages 44 & 45. I love this program, because it has so many one page layouts that you can combine with each other to make great double page layouts.

I used chipboard letters for the WISH and stamped them with a polka dot in chocolate, sweet leaf, twilight and buttercup.

Check out the flower on this page. I love using my punches and this is definitely easier than it looks. I got this from Donna at SCS. Here is her tutorial. Fun to make! The tags that were left from making the flower, I used on the side of the layout for more embellishments.

Layout recipe: All products CTMH unless noted. Paper - Good Times Level 2 paper; Ink - white daisy pigment, sweet leaf, chocolate, buttercup, twilight; Stamp Set - Say It In Style; Accessories - Punchs from SU - small & regular tag, star punch, scallop square punch, 1" punch (EK Success), white gel pen (SU), white eyelets (unknown), white daisy sassy strands, chocolate bigger brad, chipboard letters, chocolate grosgrain ribbon.

See you Saturday night, Stampers!

Happy Stamping!

Shining Star

About a week ago, I was playing around with this Shining Star set from CTMH. I wanted to emboss the biggest star with all the detail in the image. At first, I embossed it with clear embossing powder on white and then I remembered how much I love black embossed images on black paper. These have been sitting on my desk every since and didn't make cards out of them until today. I wanted to keep them simple like the one layer cards I made here & here.

The first one was made by sponging watermelon ink over the clear embossed star and out just a little to give it a glow. Then I traced around the star with watermelon marker. I topped it off with the sentiment a little pink bling and pink ribbon.

This one was even easier. I traced around the black embossed star with white gel pen. Then I stamped the sentiment in white pigment ink added white pearls and white ribbon. Viola! Done!

Don't ya love the detail on this star?

How do you like the pics? I have been playing around with Photoshop a little and thought I would make my pics a little better.

Card recipes: All products CTMH unless noted. Paper - white cardstock (Walmart), black cardstock; Stamp set - Shining Star; Ink - Versamark, white daisy pigment ink; Accessories - embossing powders (clear & black), pink crystals & white pearls (Mark Richards), white daisy & bubblegum organdy ribbon, white gel pen (SU)

Happy Stamping!

Yummy!

This is the other card I made at the card party I attended last week. Isn't it yummy! Not only the cupcake is delicious, but the colors are too. I added the pink bling when I got home. I couldn't resist.

I didn't have time to create today, because I was busy with my online photography class. I am on my second week. We are learning about apetures this week. These pictures were taken in aperture mode on my camera, which is AV. Check out how lucky I got catching the bee lifting off the flower. You can barely see him in the first picture. I hurried between settings to catch him on the flower again. Viola! He decided to take off and I caught him. YAY!

Notice how the background is blurry in the second photo. Soooo cool!

Happy Stamping!

Owl Always Love You

We have a really fun challenge for you today -- it's a product challenge, sponsored by MyGrafico. To play along, create ANYTHING using one of the MyGrafico images -- they have a ton to choose from, but if you're trying to cut costs, here's a link to some free images.

Post your project in the Paper Craft Planet photo gallery, and use the tag "PCPgrafico". (Here is a tutorial on adding pictures to the gallery, if you need it.) MyGrafico has generously offered a $10 gift certificate to the store to one of our lucky challenge players.

Here is my card:

I wanted you to see how I cut my image away from the paper with an xacto knife, so the owl was sitting up on the branch. Isn't he cute?

Here is another view.

The Supernovas used Forest Friends digi stamp set for our cards. I picked the owl image. I love owls and I knew I wanted to add the sentiment "Owl Always Love You" for my DH. I printed the owl on Neenah Paper and colored it with my copics.

Just a note about working with digital stamps:

You do NOT have to have a photo editing software. You can just open and print these jpg images.

If you have a photo editing program, the images come in both jpg and png files. You can resize the images and combine them into scenes with just a click of the mouse.

Digital images last forever and require very little storage space!

There are several great tutorial videos over on Paper Craft Planet that will show you how to use digital images, if you have any questions.

Here is what the rest of the Super Novas came up with:

Now, it's your turn! Take the challenge and let's see what you make!

Happy Stamping!

With Sympathy

Last week, I went to another stamping party. I am a sucker for stamping parties! We made two cards and this is my favorite of the two. I like the other one, which I will show you later this week. We played with new colors from SU and the stamp set Lovely As A Tree. We were showed how to use our brayer again to make a background. Wow! I love those colors! Of course, mine is not as good as the demo. When I go to these parties, it seems like I don't remember how to stamp. LOL!

Isn't this card sooo pretty? I love trees! I decided to make mine a sympathy card, because I am out of these types of cards. You can see how the front of the card is cut out just right for the sentiment to show through from the inside of the card. This is sooo cool!

I am working on a project for Paper Craft for tomorrow, so I will be back tomorrow to show you what the Design Team has been creating.

Happy Stamping!

Christmas Color Challenge

This is the last Christmas card challenge I have finished. I am sure I am behind again...LOL! This card is for Debbie's Color Combo Challenge #17. I don't have the exact Stampin' Up colors that she listed, but these CTMH colors are very close. The colors she listed were Sage Shadow, Apricot Appeal and Chocolate Chip. When I remembered this snowflake pattern paper from CTMH's Aspen pack, I knew I was in business. The colors I used from CTMH are Twilight, Taffy and Chocolate Chip. Pretty close, eh?

Card recipe: All products CTMH unless noted. Paper - Aspen pattern paper, chocolate cs, taffy cs, white daisy cs, twilight cs; Ink - chocolate, twilight; Stamp set - Bundled Up; Christmas Scripts; Accessories - chocolate ric rac, white pearls (Paper Studio), small oval punch (SU), snowflake embossing folder (Cuttlebug), pop dots (SU)

Happy Stamping!

Christmas Sketch Challenge #19

Back to my Christmas card challenges. Just two more left. This one is for Sketch Challenge #18. If you click on the link you will see the sketch I had to follow. I turned the sketch on its side, because my image is portrait. I really like the cranberry pattern paper I used with the Basics Evensong Collection paper. This paper is from Route 66 and goes well with holiday patterns. In addition, I made this card 6 x 6, because of the size of my main image. This one will have to go into a gift bag, since the post office is so particular these days.

Card recipe: All products CTMH unless noted. Paper - Basics Evensong Collection; cranberry cs, white daisy cs, new england ivy cs; Stamps - Holiday Joy; Ink - cranberry, new england ivy; Accessories - new england ivy designer ribbon, new england ivy bigger brads, red bling (Paper Studio), scallop circle punch (SU), 1 3/8" circle punch (SU), white gel pen (SU), pop dots (SU)

Happy Stamping!

Bombshell Stamps

OK, we have a really fun challenge for you today -- it's an inspiration challenge, sponsored by Bombshell Stamps. To play along, simply pick something that you think is "the bomb" and make something!

Post your project in the Paper Craft Planet photo gallery, and use the tag "pcpbomb". (Here is a tutorial on adding pictures to the gallery, if you need it.) Shannon, at Bombshell Stamps has generously offered TWO stamps sets as a prize -- Pinstriping and Speed Shop.

For this card, I was inspired by the CTMH paper pack It's A Guy Thing. I knew I wanted to use the word pattern paper. I used my prismas and gamsol to color this classic.

Of course, I don't think of classic cars without thinking of bright yellow. That was my inspiration for this one. This set just screams for metal hinges and brads. I used my copics to color this bad boy. Love it!

This particular stamp is from the King of the Road stamp set. It is a great classic car set. Perfect for any masculine card or for anyone who loves cars (even the ladies out there).

Here is what the rest of the Super Novas came up with:

Now, it's your turn! Take the challenge and let's see what you make!

This challenge ends Wednesday, July 22, 2009.

Happy Stamping!

Merry Wishes

Continuing with my Christmas card challenges, I have an eyelet challenge to show you today. This is for Debbie's Eyelet Challenge #21. I remember when eyelets came out and I loved using them. I don't seem to use them much anymore. I am a "brad" girl. I showed my club this card on Saturday night and Patti commented that I had more brads than eyelets. See the cute little mini brads on each one of the reindeer, except Rudolph. He needed a big red brad. I love this image. I told her I know, but I did use some eyelets on the background paper. Hee Hee! I tried right?

I colored my image with CTMH pencils and pop dotted my image on cranberry cs.

See these little cuties up close! Love it!

Card recipe: Paper - Basics Evensong Collection (CTMH), Evensong Level 2 paper (CTMH), cranberry cs, white daisy cs and new england ivy cs (CTMH); Stamp sets - Holiday Line Up (SU), Lots of Thoughts (SU); Ink - cranberry (CTMH), black (Memento); Accessories - mini brads (CTMH), cranberrry bigger brad (CTMH), red eyeles (unknown); scallop square punch (SU)

Tomorrow I will interrupt my Christmas Challenges with a special project for Paper Craft Planet. Check back and see what the Design Team has been doing.

Happy Stamping!

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