Showing posts with label challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label challenge. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Inspired By #6 {Every Mile a Memory}

Take a look at this photo! This is the inspiration photo this week at a fairly new challenge blog called Inspired By. I wish my garage was this organized and colorful!!




I loved the little scooter in the photo, but did not have a stamp with one. This is what I came up with instead.


Laurel Seabrook is the owner of this new challenge blog and a very talented artist. You can find her other blog in the right hand column on my home page. Please visit her challenge blog and play along!

All product used is Close To My Heart!

Friday, May 28, 2010

Seeing Spots!

Over on the Heart 2 Heart Blog this week the challenge focuses on stamping your own background. I love random stamping and using background & texture stamps to achieve this technique. I wanted to play with the new Hit the Spot stamp set some more because I feel that it is the perfect stamp set for creating background papers. It has several circle sizes to create a different look on many projects.

This first card uses a row of medium sized circles, solid and outline images. They are a little tricky to line up, but it's o.k. even if it's a little off. Along with the spots I used the Hot Diggity critters on all the cards. I added some little brads to the owls eyes to make them pop a bit. I also used the same brads in the button with a photo anchor that swivels to release the opening of the card.




For this card I began by punching circles of cardstock that were slightly larger than the spot on the stamp set. I laid them down on white daisy cardstock and then sprayed a mixture of alcohol and re-inker over the entire surface with a spritz bottle. I removed the circles and was left with a negative image of white circles. I then stamped the larger dot using the rock and roll technique directly in the center of each white circle. I used some leaves that looked like sea kelp and added tiny bubbles with stardust glitter glue in the center. I finished the card with bold ribbon, some bigger brads and a wiggly eyed fish!




This final card showcases some of the smaller spots on the stamp set. They simply add texture to the sky and grass.