SPARKS Challenge: Thanks

Hi friends!

I am playing along with this week's SPARKS Challenge.  Our theme this week is Anything Goes and here is what I came up with!

I wanted to create the look of an old-fashioned thank you note on my card, so I die cut a piece of cream cardstock with the Borders 2 notebook die, then I stamped "thanks" and the adorable heart from Scripty Sayings on the cream paper.  

I stamped and embossed the feather from Just a Note and die cut one of the vases from Crystal Clear 3 to act as my ink pot.  Before adering the panel to a cardstock based covered in pattern paper, I curled the edge of the panel around a pencil to add a bit more dimension.  

You have until 11:59 PT on Saturday, February 22nd to link up ANY Paper Smooches project to the Paper Smooches SPARKS blog for a chance to win a $30.00 gift certificate to the Paper Smooches store. Woot woot!  

Be sure to check out the amazing inspiration from the other members of the SPARKS design team playing along with this week's challenge: 

Rachel

Taheerah

Trisha

Savannah

I can't wait to see what you create! Thanks for stopping by! :)

  

FSS: Party Animals

Hello Friends!  

Happy Saturday!  I am on the Fresh Squeezed Stamps blog today with a fun and fast birthday card idea to share that you can whip up as you are headed out the door.

I stamped the balloon giraffe from Life of the Party in a few different colors of ink on a panel of white cardstock and added a sentiment from Inside Scoop: Birthday.  I love the font used on this sentiment- it's so modern and fun.  The sentiments included with Inside Scoop were designed to go on the inside of the birthday card, but I thought this one worked nicely on the outside too!

As a finishing touch, I rounded the bottom left corner of the stamped panel, affixed a handful of enamel dots and adhered the finished panel to an aqua cardstock base. I think these bright and cheerful balloon party animals would be the life of any celebration!

                      

That's all for me today.  Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Katie

SPARKS Challenge: Love

Hey hey friends,

It's time for another Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge and this week is a Picture Perfect challenge.

 I was inspired by the colors in the inspiration photo as well as the heart theme to create this card.  I die cut the Love word die in gold and lots of hearts in shades of pink and gold.  I haven't been using a lot of patterned paper recently, but I liked how this silver paper (from Target's dollar spot) featured a lot of triangles in a grid pattern.  

Here is this week's inspiration photo:

You have until 11:59 PT on Saturday, February 15th to link up your take on this photo inspiration to the Paper Smooches SPARKS blog for a chance to win a $30.00 gift certificate to the Paper Smooches store. Woot woot!  

Be sure to check out the amazing inspiration from the other members of the SPARKS design team playing along with this week's challenge: 

Rachel

Taheerah

Trisha

Savannah

I can't wait to see what you create! Thanks for stopping by! :)

FSS: Orange You Sweet

Howdy friends!

Spring Cleaning week continues at Fresh Squeezed Stamps, and today, I have a fresh take on one what I consider to be a FSS flagship set, Sublime Citrus.

I masked off a rectangle with some post- it notes and stamped the round citrus slice in warm shades of yellows and oranges with a bit of pink thrown in for good measure. I removed the post-it notes and inked up the sentiment and stamped it just below the citrus rectangle.  Super simple and great for mailing or even whipping up a few to give to a friend as a gift.  

Be sure to stop by the Fresh Squeezed Stamps blog today for more inspiration from the design team using Sublime Citrus and more, plus a chance to win this fun set!

Thanks for stopping by!

Katie

FSS: Over the Moon for You

Hello friends!

It's the February release and Spring Cleaning Week at Fresh Squeezed Stamps. Yesterday we previewed Close Your Ears: Deer and today we are dusting off some previously released sets and showing them a little stampy love.

My card uses the amazingly versatile set, Weather Through.  I have used this set on a few different cards previously (here and here), but I realized that I had not inked the moon and star images.  I am remedying that today!

I stamped and heat embossed the moon and star with white embossing powder onto a blue die-cut panel.  Next, I die-cut some clouds and a banner from a couple shade of yellow cardstock.  I stamped the sentiment in navy ink on one of the yellow clouds.  As a finishing touch, adhered a few white sequins. 

Be sure to stop by the Fresh Squeezed Stamps blog today to check out even more inspiration from the design team!  

Thanks for stopping by!

Katie

Introducing Close Your Ears: Deer

Hello friends, 

It's release time at Fresh Squeezed Stamps and today, we are showing off a super fun and trendy new set called Close Your Ears: Deer.  This set features a stylish deer head silhouette coupled with a couple sentiments that the deer may prefer not to hear.  

For my card, I matted and adhered some patterned paper at an angle onto a white card base.  Next, I die cut a rectangle and stamped the deer head.  I die cut a speech bubble from patterned paper and stamped the sentiment, "oh shoot" in black ink.  I adhered the speech bubble to the card with foam tape and added a couple wooded chevrons as accents. 

Be sure to stop by the Fresh Squeezed Stamps blog for more creative uses of Close Your Ears: Deer from the Design Team!

That's all for me today!  Thanks for stopping by!

Katie

FSS- Love you this much!

Hello and Happy Saturday!

I am on the Fresh Squeezed Stamps blog today with a double-header, two sweet cards for the little loves in your life! I am still thinking about Valentine's Day and this time I wanted to create a card that would work for the kids.  I hit upon a design that will work well for both boys and girls by just swapping out some colors and patterns.

Since I have daughters, I started first with the girly palette.

I was inspired by the I Love You This Much sentiment from Love Signs and in thinking about things that are vast, (to represent a large amount of love), I hit upon the idea of the ocean and combined a few of my favorite FSS stamps to make this scene.  

First I stamped the sentiment from Love Signs and the whale from Breath of Fresh Flair on a white cardstock.  I masked the whale and used the scalloped border stamp from Background Check to create the water and waves.   Lastly, I stamped and masked the cloud and sun from Weather Through.  I rounded the corners and adhered the stamped panel to a pink cardstock base that I covered with some fun polka dot patterned paper. 

By swapping out some ink colors and the patterned paper, here's the same card in a more boy-friendly color scheme.   I think this one will go to my nephews.  

That's all for me today!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Katie