Clearly Inspired Challenge #21--Take 2

I have so enjoyed using the digital stamps Clear Dollar Stamps made to Help Katie.  Using them reminds me to pray for Katie and her family.  So. . .here is take 2, using a sentiment from CDS.  I ususally make several similar cards once I decide on a plan.  In case my lay-out looks a little weird, this is the outside of one card, next to the inside of another. 

 

Clearly Inspired Challenge #21 (CIC21)

    I have had an idea for a bubble gum machine in my head for a while, mainly, because I wanted to recycle some little plastic doohickies that my very expensive medicine came in.  If it cost that much the containers must be too valuable to just throw away!!  So this digital stamp from Clear Dollar Stamps couldn't have come at a better time!  I used the plastic from my containers for the machine's globe and the stamp for the rest.  I filled it with punched out hearts.  Personally, I love it, but I still have a hundred or so containers, so I'll have to come up with another project!
     I am also loving these dies from Clear Dollar Stamps.  I find they are the perfect size for so many sentiments I want to add.  The sentiment on this card is also from CDS, part of the Help for Katie set.

JustRite Friday Challenge 046: Technique - Scoring!

How could I pass this one by?  I can't craft without my Scor-Pal!  My project here was for a reception for my daughter and new son-in-law.  Because of health issues, I was unable to attend their wedding in Las Vegas.  We had a small family reception this past weekend.  Of course, my JustRite fonts were a great tool, too!  I stamped, then embossed the bride's and groom's names before cutting the tags with a Spellbinders die.

I love that I can make boxes of any size so simply with a Scor-Pal.  My kids got me a mini cupcake maker for Christmas so I had to make a prototype for that size, too!

Clearly Inspired Challenge #20 (CIC20)

I've had a difficult time keeping up over the holidays, let alone finding play-time.  However, when I needed both a thank you note and a birthday card, I knew I could put the cute little snowman digital stamp from Clear Dollar Stamps to good use and take on the "3-shades-of-blue" challenge from Clearly iStamp.  I used an embossing folder to make a window in my card from the plastic container that held a new set of Spellbinders dies.  Through the window you can see the snowman that I highlighted with Stickles. 

 

This is actually the outside of one card and the inside of another, but the only difference was the words I wrote in the balloon.  Didn't think that was enough to do two separate entries in the challenge, but it did make it easier to photograph! The snowman's vest matches the "curtain swag" over the window.  The "wall" is Core'dination paper, a blue on blue.  The mat behind the snowman is a darker blue.  The snowflakes are actually a metalic blue, but that's hard to see.  Hope you like him! 

Clearly Inspired Challenge 19, Take 2

     I decided I wanted to do another take on this "sticky situation," a little neater, but still sticky.  I can really see the analogy with our lives.  Sometimes, our mistakes, tough things in our lives, are not all that obvious, but they still keep us out of the will of God or from resting in the peace He has for us.  We can look "almost" okay.  God can see past that.  He can still fix it.  He's still the answer, if we let him be. 

     Clear Dollar Stamps has some amazing sentiments.  I want to play with them all!  And I am certainly enjoying their new die.  Now I need stamps to go with them!  I will be buying my own birthday present soon. Just to save DH the hassle.  LOL!

Clearly Inspired Challenges #19

This month's challenge from Clearly iStamp is food related, appropriate as we begin a season known for over-eating and other indulgences.  My stamped image is a sentiment, which I whole-heartedly believe, from Clear Dollar Stamps.  I illustrated that with a lollipop I made from Twistel paper yarn that I received in a generous RAK from a fellow Fiskateer.  Doesn't it look messy and sticky, just like life sometimes?

Stamping Scrapping Challenge: Yellow & Black

Made this for a bumble-loving friend before I knew about this challenge.  I might have done a few things differently, if I'd known I was going to be entering it.  You know, the old hindsight-is-20/20 thing.  Anyway, I did use the right products.  The tree is from Spellbinders Nesting Pines, the border punch is Martha Stewart's snowflake border (Love how you can use the fiddly-bits that fall out!) and it's all held together with scor-tape!  Thanks for looking!