Have a Ball!

Gourmet Rubber Stamps is releasing two brand new sets today! This one is called "Have a Ball!"  With an orange basketball, I couldn't resist going for a bold orange, black, gray and white, high-contrast card!  Orange and black were our high school colors!

I used a Cuttlebug folder to emboss the numbers, then brayered Memento London Fog ink over them.  The basketball stamp was inked with (Clearsnap Cat's Eye Jelly Bean Queue) Marigold and then around the edges with Orange and stamped on white card stock.  I used a die template made with copy paper to perfectly align a circle die over the stamped image before running it through the machine.

Visit the GRS blog and my design team mates to see more great cards made with this set and with our other new set, "Magical Birthday!"

• Gourmet Rubber Stamps
• Guest designer Jeanne Streiff
• Jeni Allen
• Jennifer Ingle
• Kelli Palmer
• Kendra Wietstock
• Stephanie Lee
• Taylor Usry
• Melissa Cash

Clearsnap + TSOL!

The Stamps of Life and Clearsnap are having a blog hop featuring The Stamps of Life stamps and Clearsnap inks and other fun products. Be sure you comment on all the stops along the hop because prizes will be randomly chosen among the comments!

The Stamps of Life will be giving away a prize to 3 lucky people – one stamp set (of the winner’s choice) per winner.

Clearsnap will be giving away an assortment of Stephanie Barnard Colorbox Premium Dye inks.

My card is made with joy2Christmas, a circle flip-it die, circles, scalloped circles, and stars, Stephanie's Artichoke and Licorice Clearsnap Colorbox inks, Echo Park designer paper, and lots of little pearls.  For some reason these greens and reds really freaked my camera out.  IRL they match much more closely!

Here are the stops in today's hop:

• Clearsnap
• The Stamps of Life
• Jeanne Streiff
• Sabrina Alery
• Judy Rozema
• Megan Aaron
• Deb Felts  *you are here
• Diana Gonzalez
• Vicki Garrett
• Denise Hahn
• Kim Pargeter
• Suzanne Austin
• Joana Studer
• Tami Sanders
• Emily Niehaus
• Jennifer Priest
• Kim Howard

OCL Inspiration Challenge

Our Craft Lounge's challenge for the week is a gorgeous inspiration photo!  It's dreamy and romantic which made me think of our long ago trip to France, so I grabbed my Clearsnap Donna Salazar Mix'd Media Inx and OCL's Vintage Traveler...and I love how it turned out!

I sponged Honey, Peridot, and Chiffon inx onto a 7 Gypsies tabbed manilla ATC card, then misted it with Cashmere Smooch Spritz and allowed it to thoroughly dry before stamping the Eiffel Tower image with Truffle.  There are several other images in Vintage Traveler that I stamped off before stamping them onto the edges of the card.

For my card base, I scored and cut a tri-shutter card, accenting some of the panels with beautiful BoBunny Gabrielle designer paper matted with kraft card stock.  The scored and cut edges of the card base are inked with Chiffon, the designer paper with Honey, and then everything was misted with Smooch Spritz before adhering the focal image.  A soft bow of May Arts silk ribbon embellished with a pretty Prima blossom and Jenni Bowlin rhinestone pin balances the colors.

Notes:
OCL's Vintage Traveler
Bazill, Gina K card stock
BoBunny Gabrielle 6 x 6 designer paper
Clearsnap Donna Salazar Mix'd Media Inx
Cashmere Smooch Spritz
May Arts silk ribbon
Prima Espirit Champagne Rose flower 
Jenni Bowlin rhinestone stick pin