Inspired Stamps - Blessed is the Man

Welcome to another week with Inspired Stamps!  This week, the theme is Father's Day or Masculine projects.  I'm sharing a Father's Day card, using these Inspired Stamps sets - His Little Ones: Thankful Boy and Men of Favor (Sentiments).  I went for a Clean and Simple card as I think fathers tend to prefer simplicity.

The Thankful Boy is coloured with Copic markers - Skin E50, E01, E11; Hair - E50, E31, E33, E35; Shoes - E11, E13, E15.  Then I did some paper piecing for his outfit and added a little shading on his shirt with C00, C1, C3 and his sleeves and collar with W00, W1, W3.  I also added some Copic Opaque White on his eyes.  The image and Scripture piece was cut, and sponged with some distress ink.

For the sentiment, I used the verse from Jeremiah - I love how meaningful this piece of Scripture is.  With some stitching around the edges and I popped it on a strip of patterned paper cut with a scalloped die.

I would also like to highlight that Inspired Stamps is participating in the Operation Write Home's annual Memorial Day Blog Hop.  Inspired Stamps will be giving away several of their Soldier-focused Stamp sets to those who join and comment in the blog hop.

Be sure to keep this in mind that there will be a week long of Memorial Day special - 25% off total purchases from Thursday May 24th to Thursday May 31st.  This is a fabulous time to purchase the stamps on your wishlist.
  
Be sure to check out the Inspired Stamps blog, for more Awesome inspiration the Design Team is sharing today.

I'm also submitting this to the Simon Says Stamp Father's Day challenge.

Thanks for visiting me, and have a Blessed day!
Kary


Products used: Inspired Stamps His Little Ones: Thankful Boy and Men of Favor, White cardstock, Hero Arts Layering paper Poppy, Copic Markers, Memento Rich Cocoa, Distress Ink Antique Linen, My Mind's Eye Mischievious 6x6, Spellbinders Reverse Wonky Rectangles, Cheery Lynn Designs Scalloped Circle Mega Doily.

Aim HIGH Kid!

Hello Friends!  Welcome to the May Waltzing Mouse Blog Party!  This month's theme is Felt or Cozy Fabrics and I am so looking forward to see Everyone's fabulous projects!

For my card, I opted to use felt and stamps from my current favourite WMS set Half-Pint Heroines, with a lot of fussy cutting ;)  I would love to ride in a Hot Air Balloon someday - it would be so awesome and fun!  Till then, I'd have to rely on my imagination... to create the scene for this card  :)

First, I stamped all the images (hot air balloon, clouds, bird and the girl) on white cardstock using Memento Rich Cocoa except the clouds, where I used Memento Summer Sky.  I also die cut the little house and trees using white cardstock. Then I coloured all the images with Copic Markers, here are the markers I used - Hot air Balloon - R43, R35, R46; Basket - E31, E33, E35, YR20, YR21, YR23; Clouds - BG10 & B0000; Bird - E33, E31, E01; Girl's face - E50, E01, E11; Hair - E11, E13, E15, House - R01, R02, R14; and the Trees - YG21, YG23, YG25, E13.  Next, I stamped the balloon again on patterned paper and paper pieced the panels as shown.

For the landscape, I used two colours of felt, and die-cut them with Wonky Scallop border. I adhered the felt to the cardstock and arranged all the elements as shown.  I added some Baker's twine to connect the hot air balloon to the basket. The sentiment was stamped using the new Memento Teal Zeal (love this colour!) and I popped it up on a strip of the same blue paper.

Would you believe that the inspiration for this card came from the WMS Sketch by Lynn this week?  It was certainly with some added imagination on my part, LOL!

Here's another look at the card;

Thank you so much for stopping by.  Be sure to check out the Fabulous projects on Claire's blog from all the WMS fans participating today.

Have fun!
Kary

Products used: Waltzing Mouse Stamps Half-Pint Heroines, Memento Rich Cocoa, Summer Sky & Teal Zeal, Copic Markers, Green felt (2 colours), Neenah Solar White Cardstock, Gina K Cranberry Tart cardstock, Patterned papers from Echo Park's Summer Days 6x6 pad, MFT Wonky Scallop border Die-namics, Memory Box Modern Landscape die, The Twinery Baker's twine - Lemon Drop.

Make A Wish

I totally ADORE Pure Innocence stamps from My Favorite Things - something about the little PI girl that speaks to my heart.  So, last night I decided I should participate in the MFT Wednesday Stamp Club sketch.

And, here's my card:

I think I kept pretty much to the sketch and tried a colour combo that I've not used before, i.e. browns and shades of teal.  I paper pieced the little girl's dress and did a little faux stitching around the card. Added a little distressing around the stamped image with Distress Ink and then spritzed some water to add a bit of interest on the background. I had the horizontal strips on pop dots so that I could tie the ribbon with baker's twine on the bottom strip panel.

I hope you like the card. Have fun today!

Stamps : My Favorite Things PI Birthday Princess, You Take the Cake (sentiment)

Paper : October Afternoon, GKD PLC Cardstock

Ink : Copics, Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Ink Tumbled Glass (spritzed with water)

Other : Spellbinders Rectangle die, Sakura white gel pen, Ribbon & Baker's Twine

Words of Life

Earlier this week, I had a wonderful time at lunch with two talented "crafty" friends.  We had so much fun chatting about everything and truly just enjoying each other's company.  I really treasure moments as such. 

I also had a lovely suprise when Christine gave me a beautiful book entitled "Words of Life" which had been given to her on her birthday some years ago.  She knows how much I love quotes and I was so delighted and honoured that she entrusted the book to me for keeps.  There are 1100 inspirational quotes organised by topics.  Here are some of my favourite ones on "Friendship":

Those are our best friends in whose presence we are able to be our best selves.

- Charles H Brent   

Today a man discovered gold and fame;

Another flew the stormy seas;

Another saw an unnamed world aflame;

One found the germ of a disease.

But what high fates my paths attend:

For I - today I found a friend.

- Helen Baker Parker

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

- unknown

So, here's my card inspired by the quotes:

Have a beautiful day!! Thank you for visiting me and I really treasure all your comments.

Stamps : GKD Fine Furnishings Additions

Papers : Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety, MM Ledger paper, Hero Arts Latte cardstock

Ink : Memento Tuxedo Black

Others : Spellbinders Labels 8, Labels 9, Double ended tags, paper flowers, Zva Creative crystal brad, jute twine, Sakura white gel pen 

Happy Monday!!

After a long break from cardmaking, it's great to find time to piece this card together.  I love this stamp set from Melanie Muenchinger - Mugs & Kisses.  It's very fun to play with and paper piecing is great with it.

Here's my card:

It's quite a simple card using several new supplies - the black paper lace trim (a lovely gift from Christine), patterned papers from October Afternoon Modern Homemaker plus the Spellbinders Double-ended Tag die which I've been wanting for a long while.

I hope the New Year is going great and here's wishing you a wonderful & creative week!  I'll be back tomorrow with pictures of my recent trip.

Stamps : GKD Mugs & Kisses
Papers : October Afternoon Modern Homemaker, Hero Arts Latte cardbase
Copics : R39 & R0000 (for the little heart), R01 (tea label), E55 & E13 (tea), E30 (saucer)
Inks : Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Ink Spun Sugar
Others : Spellbinders Labels 16 & Double-end Tags, PTI Baker's Twine, Black paper lace, White gel pen, Pearls