Sock Monkeys: Post on Inspired By Family

Hope you all are enjoying the last weeks before school starts! If you get a chance, I'd love for you to stop by Inspired By Family and check out my article on making multiple cards with one stamp. I picked up this sock monkey stamp set at a garage sale and had fun playing with it.

Initially I was inspired by CAS-ual Friday's challenge to make square cards.

Then after making the cards I saw the Make It Monday challenge to use stitching on a card. I redid one of the cards and stitched the pom-pom on his hat:

Thanks for looking!

-Kelly

7th Birthday Card for Boy/Girl Twins

Here are a few more cards inspired by the super-cool typewriter from the Tuesday Trigger.

I know, there are no typewriters to be found on these cards. The inspiration is from the colored keys. I was thinking, "what part of an image do I have that is always, without a second thought, colored black so I can substitute colors?" Numbers on a traditional pocket watch!  

I carefully inked each number with an ink pad, except I was able to use a stamp marker for the yellow numbers. Then die cut a thick acrylic circle (from Cricut Cartridge packaging) to put on top of the clock face. I wanted something with a shine, and initially used dimensional glaze. Yuck!! It turned the colored numbers into a soupy mess. I'm embarrassed to even show a picture of that.

This card is for our dear niece, so I put a gem brad in the middle, and used the fancy watch hands. Notice they are pointing to 7:00 ... she's turning 7. Of course you could do this for any age, up to 12 years old.

This card is for our handsome nephew. Also turning 7 years old. Instead of messing around with the numbers which are supposed to be black, I took what is supposed to be white, and added color to that. 

The normally white watch face has ink sponged around in a circle like the tie dye technique that was featured at PTI Stamp-A-Faire. Since this is for our nephew, I didn't want to use the fancy watch hands, so I drew plain, straight ones. A screw brad holds everything down in the middle.

Thanks for looking!

-Kelly

Supplies used:stamps:  Pink Paisley Soiree, AC chevron, old wood block watch 

dies:  PTI fillable frames
other: acrylic, screw brad, gem brad

The Creative Type

Holy smokes, this is such a cool typewriter in the Tuesday Trigger challenge at the Moxie Fab World! I saw a 1930's typewriter on etsy like this and apparently the keys are colored to help with finger placement. I'd rather think that they made it like this just for fun!

The photo inspired me to play around with the theme of "creativity" and the kind of out-of-the-box thinking someone had to make the keys in a color other than black. In my head I had a picture of a blank typewriter page with flourishes and doodles coming out from behind it to symbolize the endless possibilities that await that page, or really any project, right before you start.

It turned out pretty close to what I pictured. Ideally I'd like to have the quote centered under the typewriter on the white cardstock, but I ran out of real estate. That's OK. Three rhinestones are on the keyboard, radiating more creative energy.

 

 

 There are several inspirational quotes that I love, and I couldn't pick just one, so I figured a set would be fun to make. It was fun to play around with the different doodle stamps. You could make 20 of these and they'd all be unique.

Thanks for looking!

-Kelly

Supplies used: 
stamps: Heidi Grace
ink: PTI Pure Poppy, Hawaiian Shores, Color Box Yellow Ochre
other: rhinestones

What is it?

What the heck, right?!?

 I recently found this stamp at the bottom of a box. I thought it was a frog when I bought it a decade ago rummaging through a pile of unmounted rubber stamps, but after stamping it for the first time I'm fairly sure it's an ostrich. Yes?

 

 This ostrich was IN OUR CAR while at a drive-thru wildlife park in Texas. Looks pretty similar.

 Regardless, it's ugly, and a little disturbing. I fell in love with the cat Mandi stamped in a quirky blue for the Less is More challenge to use

Blue & Green

and thought I would try something a little quirky too. Maybe not the best card to give Grandma, but perfect for a dear girlfriend who gets your humor.

[Diane, if you happen to see this, you know what's going to be in your mailbox in January]


Thanks for looking!
-Kelly

Supplies used:

stamps:  unknown, Martha Stewart backgrounds, Michael's swak, American Crafts chevron

Watercolors

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Dawn McVey has a great tutorial on watercoloring with your ink pads. I wanted to play, but don't have great, open stamp image to play with. So I picked a scrap piece of embossed circles paper on my desk and tried it out.

I liked how it turned out, so I adhered the scrap to a base, stamped a sentiment, and called it a night. I love quick projects!

Thanks for looking!

-Kelly

Supplies used:stamps:  PTI Think Big Sentiments
impression plates: PTI circles

What Goes Up and Never Comes Down?

I loved making paper airplanes as a kid (and decorating them!) and as I was thinking about the CAS-ual Fridays challenge to feature things you'd see in the sky, I thought it would be fun to make a paper airplane again. Only a mini one this time. Add a riddled sentiment and you've got a birthday card for just about anyone.

 

The roof's edge is cut longer so when it's resting it takes the shape of a roof.

Then when you open it, you get the answer to the riddle. Hahaha. The answer is suspended with thread so it hangs vertically as you open the roof. I made wide fringe for the roof tiles, snipped the corners for a little dimension, and used the woodgrain impression plate.

Thanks for looking!
-Kelly

Supplies used:

stamps:  PTI Movers and Shakers: Sentiments, Martha Stewart Backgrounds

impression plates: PTI Woodgrain

other: thread, baker's twine

Love Birds

 Aww, love birds. Just what you need for an anniversary card!

This came about from a couple challenges:

 

 

 

I masked the vertical sentiment ("anniversary" is under the word "happy" on the actual stamp) to be horizontal so they would show through the pair of love birds.

Thanks for looking!

Supplies used:

stamps:  PTI fillable frames
dies:  Memory Box bird
other: heart punch