Featured Stamper at Splitcoast Stampers

 I ws sure my New Year's resolution to use my stash wouldn't last more than a day - but here it is eight days in, and I made a card using items just from my stash!  Note to self - REMEMBER to hit your stash first!

Birthday Card

 Birthday card for my younger grandson, a lover of all things Sprunki - inspired by this week's Featured Stamper at Splitcoast Stampers.

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 Card

This card was scraplifted from this week's Featured Stamper at Splitcoast - SybilMcC. The paper is Paper Studio.  The flamingos are Waterfcolor Flamingos from Creative Fabrica.

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 Flamingo Birthday

This gorgeous gal is a pre-colored image for my friend's birthday....she always gets a flamingo card....long story.  LOL!  Meet Floral Flamingo.   She was a freebie from Love SVG.  I used scraps for the rest of the card, hence the collection of colors.  LOL!  I used a We Are 3 sentiment from the Birthday Wishes collection.

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?

Splitcoast Stampers Featured Stamper #825

I'm not the most creative, but as soon as I saw this week's Featured Stamper card, I knew I'd be using paper I could turn into candy-cane stripes and using items from my stash.  I love the sentiment rotated to print in between the stripes.  What also made it so perfect for this challenge is that I got to use yet another border from Monica's Creative Room - so I had all that I needed in my computer and stash. 

The sentiment was a bit of a challenge and, I have to admit, I nearly walked away from it several times - but I kept at it and in the end, it turned out great.  The sentiment is a We Are 3 sentiment - Both of Us. 

I hope you find this inspiring and come join the Featured Stamper Challenge.

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.

New Featured Stamper at Splitcoast

I'm joining in the Featured Stamper Challenge with this fun CASE of the Featured Stampers card called Cool Birthday by Gram Jean.  Although I do love all kinds of cards, I really get a kick out of simple ones....so I had a ball with this one.  I couldn't resist the paper.   

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.