Happy New Year with Inspired Stamps

Welcome to the January 2014 Inspired Stamps Release!  It's a fabulous release and a great start for the new year!

Today, I'm showcasing the new His Word stamp set - Antoinette has done a great job with this updated set.  It's a very versatile and useful set to have.

The set comes with the image of flowers in a vase, and I love that I can easily colour the flowers to match my card. The sentiment is also from the same stamp set.

Keeping this post really short so you can view all the wonderful samples the Design team has prepared for this release on the Inspired Stamps blog.  All the new releases will be available on the Inspired Stamps webstore Friday noon! :)

Thank you for visiting me.

Happy New Year!
Kary

Inspired Stamps - August Sneak Peek Day 3

Welcome to Day 3 of Inspired Stamps Sneak Peek for the August release!  Today, Jamie and I will be showcasing Two new sets - Elegant Dotty Alphabet and Luke 2:14.  These two new sets are Awesome, and I love, love them!

On this mini card (4x4"), I've used both the sets.  Luke 2:14 is a mini set and it's perfect for making Christmas cards, tags and notecards.  Love the sweet little image.  I also used the Elegant Dotty Alphabet on the background, spelling out the word PEACE, in red and green.

I have a second card to share, using the Alphabet set.  On this card, I used the set for the background.  I arranged the alphabets on a large block and inked it up using different Memento inks and stamped it on a piece of grey cardstock.  You can also use the Alphabet creatively by masking off the first letter on a sentiment, like what I did here:

I masked off the letter "S" and stamped the sentiment on a piece of white cardstock.  Then I inked up the Dotty Alphabet "S" and stamped it.

I hope you are excited about this release as I am!  There are so many Amazing sets which you will love.

Thank you for visiting me.
Have a fabulous day!
Kary

Inspired Stamps - Flip Card

I have a fun card to share for today's Inspired Stamps project.  I've seen quite a number of flip cards recently and dies which make the work easy to create these fun interactive cards.  I don't have the dies, but I managed to figure it out (after 2 failed attempts! LOL!).  I wish I had taken a video of how to make them, but I hope with the photos you'll have a good idea.

Note the Z fold of the base cardstock.

My card measures 5 x 5.5" when closed.  I used the Inspired Stamps set His Word, and stamped the Bible image on a piece of white cardstock cut using the same die as the centre panel.  The image was coloured with Copic Markers - Bible (E21, E11, E13, E15), Pencils (E000, C1, Y35, Y38), Pencil holder (G20, G21, G24), Notebook (R20, R22, R30).  The pink outline piece was cut with two sizes of the same die - I just lay both dies on the pink cardstock and pass them through the Big Shot.

The centre panel moves when the card is standing upright.

When you pull the left and right edges of the card, the centre panel flips to the other side which has the lamp and the verse from Psalms 119.

The lamp was coloured with the following markers - Candle (R20, R22, R30), Flame (Y35, Y38), Holder (RV13, RV14, RV17).   Here's how the card looks when it is opened flat:

For those of you who might be keen to try this, here's a sketch of how I cut the centre panel and folded the card.  The dotted lines are score lines and the bold lines are the cut lines.  You can use any shaped die to cut the centre panel, and the trick is to cut part of the die leaving a 1" section un-cut.

I hope you like this idea, and if you make one be sure to let me know - I'd love to see it.

Please head over to the Inspired Stamps Blog to see the rest of the projects the Design Team is sharing today.

Thank you for visiting me.
Kary


Products used : Inspired Stamps "His Word", Memento Espresso Truffle, Copic Markers, Sizzix Framelits Labels Fancy die, MFT Solid Bracket border die-namics, Sakura White gel pen, Hero Arts layering paper Carnation, Pink Paislee Nantucket 6x6 pad.

Inspired Stamps - Scripture Sentiment

I'm finally back from a two week vacation and it feels like I've been away from stamping for so long ;-)  Today's Inspired Stamps inspiration is to use a favourite Scripture sentiment on a card/project.  I have chosen the Scripture sentiment with a verse from Psalm 119:11 from the set "His Word" - I love this set.

Here's the card:

I wanted to add a little interest to the Scripture sentiment and I hope you like how it turned out.  I diecut a piece of white cardstock and stamped the sentiment in the centre with brown ink.  With the help of a stamp positioner, I worked out exactly the placement of sentiment on the red house die-cut and stamped the sentiment using white pigment ink.  Then I adhered it using pop dots onto the sentiment piece.  I just love the little heart in the centre of the red house die-cut.

Don't forget this week is a great time to be shopping at Inspired Stamps store as there is a voucher you can use to get 40% off one stamp set. 

And, for more awesome inspiration, be sure to visit the blogs of the rest of the Design Team and the Inspired Stamps blog.

Have a lovely day!

Kary