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 Textures Hello

One with We Are 3's updated Textures - using a Gothic Window from Monica's Creative room, embellished with flowers from the Blue Blossom Oval Sheet from Fred She Said.  Super simple - but very happy with the outcome.

The Paper Ala Mode Masculine Challenge

I've been wanting to create a simple card with just a digital watercolor splash of color in the background behind a fun image.  I love how this turned out....and could be a fast technique for a quick card. 

It's Saturday and that means a fabulous new challenge from Paper Ala Mode.  You know I love me some vintage vehicles, so I was thrilled to work with the The Old Truck.  The fun image came from Fred She Said.  The sentiment is from Miss Kate Cuttables, and the watercolor splashes are from Font Bundles.

The actual card design was inspired by Notable Ink.  You can see masculine inspiration for many of Fred She Said images in the Paper Ala Mode Challenge.  Hope to see you there.

Purple and White for Paper Ala Mode

It's a new challenge at Paper Ala Mode as we're using Purple and White.  Our design team members have created with an amazing assortment of images from Fred She Said.  What better way to get this month started! 

I'm happy to be showcasing I Love You This Much available at Fred She Said.  This cute image was fun to color...and looked wonderful when I saved it and closed it....only to print looking like she just got out of the mud pile!  But as a grandma, I thought if a muddy little granddaughter came running up with her arms open like this...I wouldn't see the dirt at all.

I colored her entirely digitally, including the mud that captures her fun spirit (what was originally a bit of shadow).

Click HERE to check out the fabulous inspiration by the design team and participating members of The Outlawz.