Stencil and Stamp

After a horribly long day at work and busy evening I realized I had not made one single thing for Winterstamp and refused to go to bed until I did so! The stencil and stamp challenge caught my attention. I don't have any stencils, but I created one by punching four hearts on a strip of paper . I stamped over my template with French Script (Hero Arts). I then added red distress ink directly over the punched hearts.
I now had a positive and negative stencil to make a card.
For the card below I backed my template with a strip of Cuttlebug embossed black cardstock. I had swiped white ink across the raised part which gave it a nice effect. The sentiment on this card is from Studio G. Background paper is by Creative Imaginations. This card below is the result of my stencil. I added a sentiment by Hero Arts. I also stamped the French Script with white ink onto black cardstock in order to make my background paper.

More Winterstamp Challenges

Here's another fun challenge -- well, actually, two -- that I participated in at Two Peas Winterstamp. This card combines the Make It Move and Stretch a Stamp challenge.
The inside of the card below will show you the actual size of my giraffe. You can see how I "stretched" the stamp to make the image longer. I created a window by punching four squares with a 1x1 punch and then adding a little ledge. I made a slit in the card behind the bottom left window so the giraffe can "move" up and down. This is what the inside of the card says:

Other stamps used: Northwoods (flower pot); Inkadinkado (stitched border).

Vintage Valentine

I created this vintage valentine for one of the challenges at Winterstamp this weekend. I used Basic Grey paper, staming my hanging flowers (Studio G) in the background. I addded an image from Crafty Individuals, some dolllar store ribbon and flowers. The ribbon slide was created with my Cuttlebug. I then stamped a heart from Rhonna Farrer and the sentiment from StampinUp on that. Yes, I know that lace heart is gorgeous. My friend Sarah gave that to me from her trip to Germany.

Winterstamp

I made a bunch of cards at Winterstamp over at Two Peas yesterday. I'll show them during the week. But I want to show you this one first because I had such fun making it. Sandy's challenge was to use one of your stamps in an unusual way to create a spring card. I chose to make an Easter card. Here is the stamp I chose to use:

And here is the Easter card I created with it:

The palm tree stamp is by Inkadinkado. The woman's profile is by Art Impressions. I just drew the base of the hat in by hand with a blender pen and the Brilliance ink I used for the palm tree. The sentiment I printed off the computer.