Another great week ahead! The stamp set for this week's What Will You Stamp challenge is Endless Birthday Wishes. I decided to create a watercolor background with a crisp line using masking paper. I die cut a square from the masking paper and adhered to the watercolor paper and then colored in with Melon Mambo watercolor. I love the look
Hop on over to the What Will You Stamp blog and see more inspiration and play along if you have this set!
Pink Profusion Crab Apple blossoms - photo by Charlet
The Cherry Blossoms have peaked in Washington DC. Chris happens to be there today for a work meeting and hopefully he will text me a few pictures of the Cherry blossoms! I love it when trees are in bloom. I really miss the pink profusion crab apple trees we had in our yard in Utah, those blooms were AMAZING! Anyway... how about a card inspired by all of that? Today's card features the Sheltering Tree stamp set. This stamp set is also the weekly challenge set over at the What Will You Stamp blog. Create a card if you have this set and PLAY ALONG with our challenge! So much fun.
Hop over to WWYS to see all of the great samples created for this week's Sheltering Tree challenge!
Want More?! - Check out some of these other Beautiful samples featuring Sheltering tree. These sample ideas and more can be found in the Stampin' Up! Catalog. Way more than just a catalog!
These inspiring Sheltering Tree samples can be seen in the Stampin' Up! catalog.
Alternates ... I finally pulled out my February Paper Pumpkin kit and played around creating a few alternate projects. First, can I just say this kit is awesome! I really love the Hello Sunshine stamp set and can see myself using it often. Second, this kit is packed with tons of supplies. I ended up making 5 projects and barely scratched the surface. I have so much stuff leftover.
Hello Sunshine alternate projects by Charlet Mallett
This detail view is great as it really shows off the gold line flower embellishment.
I needed a birthday tag for a gift I was wrapping. Somehow my gift contents matched the colors in this kit exactly so I decided to tie up the contents with a simple striped ribbon and attach the tag. The presentation is so matchy, matchy and I love it. I pulled in the Metro Type alphabet stamp set to add a little customization to the tag with a J, and dotted the J with the flower from the kit stamp set. I attached the tag with a gold glittered clothespin. Fun stuff.
#GDP026 - Paper Pumpkin Feb 2016 Hello Sunshine Alternate
Always impressed by the folks over at the Global Design Project I created this alternate card inspired by the super cute sketch from this week's Global Design Project challenge.
Hello Sunshine - February 2016 Paper Pumpkin Kit
The challenge set for this week is Botanical Blooms. For me, It's all about the Botanicals. I paired Botanical Blooms and the Botanicals for You stamp sets to create this card for this week's What Will You Stamp challenge.
My card this week shows a marker and spritz inking technique. I added ink with a marker to the Just For You stamp; Cajun Craze on top and Delightful Dijon on the bottom. Then I spritzed the back of the stamp with the stamping Spritzer and immediately stamped onto whisper white card stock to achieve this ink bleed effect. This is a fun technique to play around with as you never really get the same effect twice.
