Inspiration in Action IA120

Are any of you like me and really struggle at times with colors to use? I sure do. In fact, it is probably the hardest thing for me. Once I do have my colors figured out coming up with the rest isn't quite so bad.

I don't know what it is, but I have been having a hard time working on cards and liking them when I am done lately. We have had a lot going on here at home. It has been good things though. My daughter, son-in-law, and grandson have been visiting us. It has been very nice getting to spend time with them. We are not sure when we will get to see them again once they do go back home. I try to spend as much time with them as I can. I am sure you can all relate with that.

Anyways, back to the card. I thought I would try one of the many challenges you can do. I got mine from here. I thought this was a cute design to work with. Below is my interpretation of her sketch. These are a lot of fun to do. If you ever have a hard time coming up with a sketch or even a color combo there are a ton of places you can get inspiration from. I hope you will try it sometime.

These are the Stampin' Up! supplies I used to make this card.
Cardstock: not quite navy, kraft, and very vanilla
DSP: Bella Bleu
Ink: not quite navy
Tools: color spritzer, modern label punch, word window punch, boho blossoms punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, 5-petal flower punch, 1/16" hole punch, Shimmer paint, and large flower punch
Accessories: earth elements brad (not quite navy)

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I have quite a few cards I need to get done in the near future. I decided to use Gretchen Barron's sketch to give me a great start for this card. Go to her blog and try her sketch for yourself. They are a lot of fun.
For this card I used the crazy for cupcakes and teeny tiny wishes stamp set. The DSP is autumn meadows from the holiday mini catalog. I also used really rust, more mustard, taken with teal, and very vanilla cardstock. For ink I used really rust and chocolate chip. To color in the cupcake I used Stampin' markers close to cocoa, tempting turquoise, taken with teal, really rust, and more mustard. I also adding dazzling diamonds glitter to make the frosting look more inviting.

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Autumn Harvest Anniversary Card

I wanted to do Gretchen Barron's weekend sketch challenge #103 this week. You can find her sketch by clicking here. I needed to make my husband an anniversary card. It will be 25 years on the 29th. Yep, I still love him. He has been very good to me.

It took me quite a bit of time to make this one. I love how it turned out in the end. I hope it looks manly. I think what makes me question it is putting the holes in the scallops. Men can have some frills too though, right?

I am also going to add this into the StampinUpLNStampers challenge for this week too. We are supposed to make a card using chalks. I broke out my stampin pastels and colored in my images and then used blender pens to enhance the chalks. I am very pleased. In fact, I can't wait to show my husband, but I have to wait a few days. :-(

These are the supplies I used to make this card. Everything is SU!. DSP: Autumn Meadows; Cardstock: really rust, more mustard, taken with teal, natural ivory, and chocolate chip; Ink: chocolate chip and really rust; Tools: big shot, circles #2, circles scallop #2, modern label punch, word window punch, 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" circle punches, crop-o-dile, paper piercer, and straight edge scallop punch; Accessories: 5/8" very vanilla grosgrain ribbon and dazzling diamonds.

I am sure Gretchen would love to have more participants in her sketch challenge. I hope that my card gives you the inspiration to do it. If so, make sure you sign up under the Mr. Linky on her blog this way other bloggers can see your card too.

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Inspiration in Action 101

Sorry that I haven't posted any sooner. I am trying to find a job outside of my home. I have not worked in 19 years. Of course, I would love to just continue to stay at home, but we could really use an extra income right now. So please pray I can find something soon.

I decided to try Gretchen Barron's sketch. You can find it here. I really liked the sketch she came up with. I am also going to use it for the StampinUpLNStampers challenge #36 too. Like I had said before, I am going to try to do some kind of a sketch at least once a week. It is good for me to do. It keeps me motivated and I can always use cards that are finished and ready to be sent for some occasion.


I wanted to use the lovely flowers DSP for this project. I used the card stock that coordinates with it (rich razzleberry, crushed curry, old olive, and melon mambo). I used the #2 scallop circles die and the flower layers die in my Big Shot. The punches used on here are the 5 petal flower, 1/16" circle, and the scallop edge punches. I did a little bit of paper piercing too. For accessories I used 1/4" old olive grosgrain ribbon, ice circle (yellow) rhinestone, and earth elements (old olive) brads. I finished up with the white gel pen, crystal effects, and dazzling diamonds.

So what do you think? You can leave a comment below. Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope you will want to keep coming back for inspiration.

Have a great day and.......
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