Late to the Party...May Stamps!

Wow, I just realized I never posted about the fabulous May stamps! I'll do a better job in June.

Anyway, we started the month with the wonderful Banners4All set.

I did two cards with this set:

hybrid card - Little Big Man digital kit by Eva Kipler
Nestabilities circle and scalloped circle
spiral paper clip
ribbon
3-d foam adhesive
Fiskars scallop edge punch
CTMH inks

hat pom pom and happy birthday to you word circle are from the HappyBday2You set

Hybrid card - Bumbleblooms digital kit by Julie Billingsley
Prima flowers
rhinestones
black DMC embroidery floss
square brads
3-D foam adhesive

Then I did a freebie desktop for May and a digital scrapbook page using the digital brushes.

Banners4All, thanks2you, abc4you, hello2you, late4bday digi brushes

Digital scrapbook page using Banners4all brushes. Traci Reed - Wish on a Rainbow Julie Billingsley - Find Your Wings Font is CK Anecdote

And finally I did a little Christmas tag:



On the 7th, the special release stamps were revealed to club members (Are you a club member? You should be! You get special pricing on all stamp sets, you get to see (and order!) the special release stamps every month before they're available to the general public, AND you get other little perks as well!). These sets included GetWell2You, funky4lowerabc (matches the upper case from last month), and Stars4You.






And the cards I created with them:

getwell2You stamps
Cuttlebug swiss dot embossing folder
CTMH inks
Prima flowers
ribbon
3-D foam adhesive
Nestabilities label die
rhinestone

hybrid card using getwell2you (how cute is that little butterfly?!) and Christy Lyle's A Place To Call Home Digi kit.
Prima flowers

hybrid card using funky4lowabc, All4Moms circle, and Melissa Bennett's Alphabet Soup digital kit.

Ink & ribbon is CTMH. Circles are Nestabilities.

hybrid card using Dani Mogstad's Americana (retired) and the Stars4You stamps.

Circles are Nestabilities. Ink is CTMH.

I used the Stars4you digital brushes on another digital scrapbook page and I LOVE how it turned out. I added a red stroke (edit > stroke in Photoshop CS) to the July and a white stroke to the 4th. It gives a look that would be very, very difficult to replicate with ink and paper, which is one reason I LOVE the digital brushes that are available with every set!

Digital scrapbook page - kit is Boom Boom Clap by Libby Weifenbach
July 4 - digi brushes from stars4You

I still have a few more to share, they just need to be photographed. Stay tuned for more stampy/digi-scrap goodness!

Two Challenges, One Card

So The {Stamps} of Life is sponsoring this week's Card Positioning Systems sketch, AND it's time for the bimonthly challenge for the DT girls at The {Stamps}of Life!

Please feel free to play along with us!

If you are playing along with The {Stamps} of Life stamps or digital images please upload to the gallery on the site –>
HERE <— with the keyword TSOLD11. Please link to one of our blogs so we can see your stuff! Our challenge this week is “Feeling Punchy!” (TSOLD11) - Use die cuts or punches on your card. Our players this week:

Beverly Sizemore
Deb Felts
Jeanne Streiff
Jen Gallacher
Laura Williams
Vicki Garrett

I have seen quite a few easel cards around lately and decided to give it a go. I LOVE it and see myself making quite a few more of these in the future!

Stamps: Hip2Be, getwell2you (butterfly), tinyand2cute (hello)
Paper: a very old Creating Keepsakes 8x8 spiral bound kit
Ink: CTMH
Other: CPS Sketch 168, scalloped square punches, scalloped oval punch, Fiskars border punch, ribbon

Tempting Textures Challenge!

It's time for the bimonthly challenge for the DT girls at The {Stamps}of Life!

Please feel free to play along with us!

If you are playing along with The {Stamps} of Life stamps or digital images please upload to the gallery on the site –>
HERE <— with the keyword TSOLD10. Please link to one of our blogs so we can see your stuff! Our challenge this week is “Tempting Textures!” (TSOLD10) - Add texture to your card. Our players this week:

Deb Felts
Jeanne Streiff

Stephanie Barnard
Vicki Garrett


Here is my card:


Stamps: getwell2You (Brand new, released today!!)
Paper: cardstock, some random pink piece of scrap I found in my stash
Ink: CTMH
Other: CPS Sketch 165, Prima flowers, ribbon, rhinestone, Cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder, Nestabilities label die, 3-D foam adhesive