GOOD MORNING my sweet friends & welcome to another "Inspiration Wednesday!" For today, my inspiration came from this class HERE "Stretch Your Stamps 2". You still have PLENTY of time to sign up! I am SO INTRIGUED w/this class because it shows that you can get so much MORE out of your stamps! For my first card, I used one of the techniques that Miss Laura Sterckx showed in her video in class yesterday! This is a technique that I've wanted to try for some time now & I am HAPPY that I FINALLY did! It is called an "Ombre" background! For this technique, I heat embossed using clear embossing powder my new Grainy Wood background stamp! Next I started from the bottom up, using my mini round Tim Holtz tool & started inking my card starting w/Tumbled Glass ink! Next I mixed in Broken China ink & started to blend the ink until it gave me the effect I was looking for! Next I used my Fun Speech Bubbles to stamp the sentiment onto the die cut vellum. Last I made a bow w/hemp twine & added sequins to finish her off! ;)
Next up, is another technique that I learned from Miss Jennifer McGuire's video from class yesterday! I have used perfect pearls before, but NEVER used it the "correct" way! lol…. I did what Miss Jennifer did & used Versamark ink & stamped my Fun Letter Background onto a piece of black card stock! Next I used purple & a white pearl color powder & pounced it onto my background until I was satisfied w/it! Next I just misted into the air some water & waved my card through it so it can seal itself in! Next I used my heat gun to finish it off! I used my butterfly die & made a window & adhered "smile" from my Happy Thoughts set over the butterfly! Then I layered it onto a white card base, then added the little hearts from my 4x4 Journal Die & More. Last, I used clear wink of stella on the word die & the hearts & added clear glossy accents to them to finish this card off!
Okay, last….. but CERTAINLY not least! I dislike WASTING good scraps! ;) So I decided to make an additional card using the actual butterfly that I cut out of the card above this one! I kept this card REAL simple! I had some white card stock scraps so this is a smaller card! I added the butterfly & the "thanks" word die from my Stitched Message Bubble dies! Then I added a strip of purple card stock & stamped the stripes on it before I adhered it down using my Geo Borders stamp set! Lastly, I added the sequins & I "THINK" this is my FAVORITE card out of all of these today~! ;)
MCT Products used:
~ Happy Thoughts (will be back in stock in 2 weeks)
Now onto my AMAZING design team! Don't forget to click on each name to see what everyone's inspiration was for there projects today! :)
WOW!!! Didn't my team just KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF AGAIN??? I hope you enjoyed what you saw here today AND I hope we inspired all of "YOU" to be creative today! ;)
Have a FABULOUS day my sweet friends & I will see you back here very soon! :) xoxo
P.S. I will have the winner on my blog from the hop tomorrow! ;)
