Stampin' Up! Autumn Leaves ~ Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop

 

Hello and welcome to my blog!  I'm so happy to be joining the Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop today.  I love being a part of these fun hops with other stampers sharing what we love and create!  Links to all the other blog posts for this hop are near the end of this post - be sure to check them out!  Hopefully you will be as inspired as I always am seeing what everyone else creates for this month's challenge. 

This month's challenge was a new Tic-Tac-Toe board!  These used to intimidate me more than other challenges, but not so anymore. Now I find a fun choose-your-own adventure type of challenge where I can pick whichever row sparks my creativity!  For this one, it was a tossup between the top row and the middle column.  I really wanted to use my alphabet dies, so ultimately decided on top row. 

Fall ~ Autumn Leaves Stamps & Dies

Clear ~ Window Sheets

A-B-C ~ Mini Alphabet Dies and Alphabet A La Mode Dies

I found that Stampin' Seal was best for adhering the cardstock to the Window Sheet. However, for the letters I used the Adhesive Sheets for 'HAPPY' and Foam Adhesive Sheets for 'FALL'.  The trick to using these sheets is that you have to remember to place them on the back of your cardstock BEFORE die cutting. 

For the inside I had a bit of a silent debate on where to put the stamped leaf.  In the end, I decided to keep it in the top portion that was attached to the card.  I didn't want to risk it showing through the white cardstock AT ALL.  I did stamp off before stamping the two-step leaf stamp. 

As I said before, my card was inspired by the top row of the Tic-Tac-Toe challenge, but it was also inspired by a fun card I saw on Pinterest a while back. (I think by Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Meg Loven) This is such a fun way to use Window Sheets, I had to try it!

Thank you for visiting my blog today!  Be sure to hop along to the other posts by clicking the 'Next Blog' box at the end of each post.  (You can also click one of the names listed)

Happy Stamping!

Angie McKenzie   ●  Mo Rootes

   Diane Evans  ●  Judith Patterson

Karen Henderson  ●  Jan Musselman

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Stampin' Up! Greetings of the Season ~ Sketch Saturday

Hello & welcome!  Today's card was created for Sketch Saturday's Challenge 759.  This is the first day of the challenge and you have two weeks to play along.  The optional twist for this chard challenge is to feature a sentiment.

 You may have already noticed that my card doesn't look exactly like the sketch.  That is because my mind wandered a bit while I was stamping, and I ended up stamping on the wrong side of the die cut piece.  I considered starting over when I realized what I had done, but decided it was fine to just switch everything up a bit! 

After stamping my sentiment with Versamark and Heat Embossing with White Embossing Powder, the sentiment just wasn't standing out enough.  SO, I used a Small Blending Brush and added a light layer of Pretty Peacock ink around the sentiment.  Once I had the ink the way I wanted, I used a microfiber cloth to wipe the extra ink from the sentiment itself.  

I love this layout and am looking forward to making more cards with it in the future!  Maybe next time I'll pay attention and stamp on the correct side. 😉

For more inspiration and to play along, visit Sketch Saturday's original post for this sketch HERE. 

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