ATSI188 Speedy Feathers

Hi everyone, Happy Friday!  Today we have a fun challenge from As You See It, these ALWAYS challenge me...speed stamping!  Make your card in ten minutes or less, once you get all your supplies together!

This is hard for me because while I start out with an idea, I might change it at some point in the middle of the process, which might involve new dies, new stamps, you get the idea!  So it took me a couple tries to get my time down to about 8 minutes and 45 seconds!  So here we go:

I don't think I have used these feathers from Four Feathers maybe but two or three times, but I thought they would make a big bold statement on my very simple card.  I had the Real Red card base already on my desk; cut out the stitched frame, stamped the feathers, added a sentiment and two enamel dots and it was done! 

So let me show you my first attempt at 10-minute stamping; I saw a technique on A Stamp Above's blog (although I cannot find the exact post right now, I'll search for it!) where Kelly stamped on a window sheet with Stazon ink and colored the back with Blends, then backed her image with glimmer paper...so pretty!  So that was my first attempt, and it went well until I got to the sentiment; I didn't like what I had picked out, so I ran over my time.  But I'll share my final project with you anyway:

I used some Lovely Lipstick DSP, a sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings, and the image is from Many Blessings:

When I had that one finished, I took my leftover pieces and made one more card!

This one uses the sketch from Hand Stamped Sentiments:

I cut out a candy cane with an Impressions Obsessions die and backed it with another piece of glimmer paper, and used the Lovely Lipstick leftovers and same sentiment as the second card:

And the unused original sentiment from the second card went on the inside!!

I have been trying to create two cards each time I sit down to stamp, and I was happy this day to create three!  So I hope you'll play along with our timed stamping challenge!  You CAN make a card in ten minutes or less--give it a try and share it with us at As You See It!

Bus stop Halloween....Ninja Turtle, Princess Ana and the Karate Kid!

Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Four Feathers (ret), Many Blessings, Itty Bitty Greetings
Card stock & Papers	Real Red, Whisper White, Window Sheets, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer, Lovely Lipstick DSP
Ink	Lovely Lipstick
Accessories	Enamel Star (ret), DImensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Circles Framelits, Bitty Banners Framelits (ret), Stitched Rectangle Dies (Avery Elle), Candy Cane Die (Impression Obsession)

SPDMIX18 Feathery Thanks

Hey peeps!  Guess what?  NO pumpkins today!  I did use the Sugar Pea Designs sketch, but I did not use the inspiration photo!  

I love blue hues, but I am having trouble finding papers that I like!  This particular plaid is from Lawn Fawn, and it is from their Perfectly Plaid Winter line.  I pulled out the retired Four Feathers and stamped them in Basic Black, Lost Lagoon and Baja Breeze:

And the true reason for making this whole card is that I had this shabby seam binding bow sitting on my desk, unused from another project, and I just had to USE it!  I added some black embroidery floss to complement the black on my card;

Then I stamped a sentiment from SU's Basket of Wishes on the plaid.  Since this is going to my minister and his wife for Pastor Appreciation Month, I am not concerned about the bulkiness the bow may make!

Thought I would share another Scotland picture with you....this was in Edinburgh, a little statue of Greyfriar's Bobby.   SO cute; you can read about it here.  Although I don't believe in luck, I did touch his little nose for fun:

and you can see here just how "well-loved" that little nose is!

Enjoy your day, and thanks for coming by!