Featured Stamper #941 - Santa Flamingo

Congratulations to this week's Featured Stamper, Patti! I chose this card as my inspiration:

Berry Branches by Patti S. Brown at Splitcoaststampers

I focused on Patti's:
-single-layer design
-Paint background behind main image

I changed:
-image from berries to flamingo
-digital splash behind image
-colors
-sentiment

Watercolor Chickadee Winter Bird

Watercolor Chicadee Winter Bird...inspired by this week's Featured Stamper at Splitcoast.  Used everything from my stash.  

Loving You Forever

I used Featured Stamper 927 from Splitcoast for inspiration for this card - and recreated the card digitally.  

Featured Stamper Challenge Inspired by suepms

Featured Stamper is inspiration for card makers - you can bet I try to participate every week.  It's fun to visit the gallery of each week's new recipient - and other papercrafters making and sharing!

I hope you've had the chance to check out the phenomenal gallery of this week's Featured Stamper.  I'm usually trying to get a sneak peak each Saturday evening.  This challenge is so inspiring.

This card by this week's Featured Stamper (suepms) appears in her gallery from June...just a happy design.  My plan was two-fold in completing this challenge - make a pretty birthday card a friend requested and complete the challenge.

Like Sue, I added a strip of cardstock to set off the sentiment, placing it at an angle.  My sentiment is larger as I just pulled something out of my stash.  I finished it off with a flower because my sentiment is not centered in the circle.  The flower, from Fred She Said, is one of my favorites to keep handy....always seems to work.

Now the ball is in your court.  Find a card in Sue's gallery and create a card inspired by it.  I'd love to see what you create, so be sure to use the keyword FS863 when sharing!

A Featured Stamper Thank You

One for the Featured Stamper Challenge - a Thank-You theme using the We Are Three Pastel Linen collection combined with a flower from the Pure Prairie Bouquet from Power Poppy.  The Pastel Linen collections comes with some great colors.  Super clean - I imagine I'll be using these papers a lot.

Birthday Bouquet for Featured Stamper

I love playing at Splitcoast Stampers in the Featured Stamper Challenge because there are so many inspirational cards each week....and since I've had no mojo lately, it's always easy to find a simple card to CASE when I need one.  For this card, I used the gorgeous Birthday Bouquet paper from We Are 3. 

I added beautiful branches from Design Bundles and a digital sentiment.

Hope to see you playing with the Featured Stamper someday...each challenge is posted on Sunday...no prizes, but plenty of fun - so what are you waiting for?

A Quickie for Featured Stamper

I've been a busy gal - doing what?  I'm not sure - but it seems that a 24-hour day just is not enough.  So for a few cards I needed, I went to Splitcoast Stampers Featured Stamper for quick and easy cards...and I'm able to knock out a challenge at the same time.  For this CASE, I chose a digital splash and a digital sentiment for a quick birthday card.  The splash behind the sentiment is from Design Bundles.

Of course, I was in a hurry and forgot to note the creator of the sentiment.

Elegant Autumn

Here's a quickie I did to sneak an entry into the Featured Stamper challenge.   Of course, it's autumn themed inspired by the cool air we have today and, again, I used digital elements from The Hungry JPEG instead of stamps.  I used the free Autumn Watercolor Flower Bouquet Builder for my elements.  The matted paper is from Creative Memories.

New Monday Greetings Challenge at The Outlawz

Here's one for The Outlawz Monday Greetings - Sweet Greetings - using the adorable Tea Cake with Strawberries by Power Poppy.  I made a card inspired by this week's Featured Stamper at Splitcoast - with a frame from Monica's Creative Room Laced Frame collection...adorned with extra strawberries 'cause what better way to send Sweet Greetings?

The cake and strawberries are colored digitally.  Sweet Greetings to you!

Fun in the Trees with We Are 3

The Splitcoast Stampers Featured Stamper is always a fun and supportive group spotlighting one cardmaker each Sunday - I play there as often as possible (I am Featured Stamper #476 out of 812) 

This time the Featured Stamper is sgc - here's her card.  It's been so long since I've cased a Feature Stamper, I decided to pick a quick card.  I came across the Trees paper collection when scanning for a good background from We Are 3.  I thought this would be perfect for a tree.  The sentiment is computer generated -printed and popped.  I kept with the basic layout and framed the card with black and white as sgc did.  I did pop my owl to make him stand out more from the many branches.  Voila!

Cupcake Birdie from 2 Cute Ink

I'm showcasing the adorable Cupcake Birdie.  Isn't she the sweetest?  Inspired by this week's Featured Stamper at Splitcoast, I layered the card and "distressed" the edges digitally.  She's digitally colored, and I love her to bits.

Cute Butterflies

I love taking a Featured Stamper card (Splitcoast) and see how I can CASE it with tools I have other than what they used.  So today I chose a card using a butterfly die that I do not own.  I picked a butterfly SVG (Butterfly Pocket - SVG Cuts) and used some functions on my Eclips to replicate the same design.  Kind of a challenge - especially since I changed the size and shape of the card - but aren't my butterflies cute?  I had a sheet of the pretty Mosaic Background (We Are 3) in my stash and used that for my butterfly design.

Fern for Splitcoast Stampers

There's a new Featured Stamper at Splitcoast.  Here is my card inspired by her fern card.

I made a congratulatory card using adorable ferns from Creative Fabrica available here and here.  We both decided ferns don't have to be green.  I had the Congrats sentiment in my stash.

Flamingo and Sparkles for Featured Stamper

I used design paper from Creative Memories, a sentiment from We Are 3, and a flamingo from my stash.  Gotta say, it's been a while since I've added sparkle to anything, and I'm missing it big time!

The Splitcoast Stampers Featured Stamper Challenge

Okay, then!  My paper block seems to have faded and I've been crafting up a storm.   There's all kinds of events coming up - and I've got the time to play!  Yay!  Here's a simple card I made using THAT folder and Backgrounds Happen.  I chose the design inspired by Splitcoast Stampers Featured Stamper.  The lovely flower is Fantasy Flower Cards.  I just used the flower.

My card design is a little different with the embossing folder I used.  I moved the flower so that it would fit into the larger section of the embossed design.  

Gotta say I really love how this turned out.

Featured Stamper

I'm a bit late for the latest Featured Stamper Challenge.  I created a simple one-layer card with two images - So Fontsy's Birthday Balloons and We Are 3's Itty Bitty Birthday.  I added some adhesive gems for embellishment. 

So join the party and be sure to visit the Featured Stamper Challenge for inspiration.  Can't wait to see what you create.  Visit often for more inspiration.  What are you waiting for?

Happy Birthday!

I wanted to make a simple card for my hubby for his birthday - two weeks early - and was inspired by this week's Featured Stamper at Splitcoast Stampers. 

It's a single-layer card created digitally.

The Birthday Surprise?  Tickets to a Red Wings game.

New Featured Stamper Challenge at Splitcoast

I chose the sweet Cactuses Again and Again to embellish this card.  Aren't they just precious?  The papers are from the fabulous Paper Studio paper pack The Shoppe on the Square paper pack from Hobby Lobby.  

Cactuses Again and Again are pre-colored.  They are cut with my Eclips and popped atop the card layers.

I hope you can come join the Featured Stamper Challenge.

New Paper Collection at We Are 3

It's Saturday, and that means another Featured Stamper at Splitcoast Stampers.   I kept the card quite simple because of the striking paper I am using - but added a fun and fancy border to my sentiment. 

This digital paper collection is so much fun!  Moody Night is a collection of ink blending.  I love the Bokeh effect and the fabulous colors in these papers.  I actually get shivers when I look at them - they are so beautiful.

New Releases at We Are 3

There are new releases at We Are 3 this week and they are really wonderful.  Today I'm using one of the new sentiments from the Magical Birthday set.  These sentiments are "fairy" wonderful, so I wanted to use a fairy image - but wanted a clean and simple card.  My paper choices are also from We Are 3 - Enchanted and Shirley's Roses.   

The fairy image from Lavinia Stamps is placed on top of a circle from the Enchanted collections.  I adore how this came out.