No Time To Stamp?

Keyword ssnotime56 -There is no time limit. You can play this challenge and upload yourproject at Splitcoastand/or your Blog, anytime at all! You (and that means anyone and everyone, blogger or not!)can play as many times as you like!!! The point is to keep it simple, quick and have fun!!! Please link back here.

For todays challenge I’VE BEEN HIJACKED!!!! I’ve lost control and have been overtaken!!! Not so sure I like that!!! To see today’s challenge — CLICK HERE.

OK, now that you’ve gone over and read the challenge, you can check out all the samples here, and once your card is made, please link back here as usual.

Check out Darlene Pavlick’s sample here.

Check out Julie Koerberssample here.

Check out Dee Jacksons samplehere.

Check out Jennifer Bucks sample here.

Check out Janine Orchards sample here.

Check out Tammy Hershbergerssample here.

Check out Becky Oehlerssample here.

You can see all Gallery Submissions here.

Even though these girls have taken over, I still think they areFABULOUS!!! Thank you girls!!! Much appreciated!!!

Heres myproject for todays challenge:

Now, what did I do here to try to stay in line with today’s challenge? Well, here’s a list:

1. I tried to make this simple by using and getting my impact from pretty Designer Paper.

2. I accented with black to give it some POP.

3. I used wide sheer ribbon, black being a favorite of mine.

4. I relied on a large flower and a bird punch for the focal image, making the flower center a monogram for the birthday girl.

5. This is a clean card, no sponging, no glitter, but I did use black rhinestones to balance it all out. The black being so heavy against the Pink Pirouette, I needed to make sure the black was in balance.

6. And for a starting point — I went to the challenges. This qualifies for 3. Today’s Stamp Simply 56, of course, this week’s Ways to Use It to use a monogram, and last Saturday’s Sketch For You To Try done by Jen Del Muro. I love playing challenges. It gives you a starting point to get your creative juices flowing.

7. Granted, this card does have more *pieces* than I have been using of late, but I really liked this sketch, so I ran with it. It is still a very simple card — mostly cutting and layering paper!!! Not much stamping at all, and sometimes that’s fun, too!!

To make my monogram, I used the Curlz Deluxe Kitand mounted my letters on the stamper without a border. Omitting the border ring allows me to get my monogram small enough so that I can use my SU punches on it, which is another quick idea, plus at that size it is small enough to fit into the center of my flower. The actual monogram was punched with the 1 1/4 inch punch and the black border was punched with the 1 3/8 inch punch — perfect for my flower center! It looked a tad bit plain, so I added the rhinestones. What a quick way to personalize a special birthday card for a friend!!!

Stamps: Glamour Girls by Crafty Secrets; Curlz Deluxe Kitby JustRite.

Paper: PTI White. SU Black, Pink Pirouette, Bella Rose Designer Paper.

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black.

Accessories: SU Pretties Kit, 1 and 1 3/8 inch Punches, Dimensionals; Martha Stewart Bird Punch; May Arts Sheer Ribbon; Kaiser Rhinestones.

Ok, so if you clicked on the links above and read through all of this, you know that this week’s challenge is to useME as your inspiration as the final wrap-up to our featured stamper series here.You are welcome toview my blog entries, or for a quicker overview, you could just scan the thumbnails in my SCS gallery — to do so just click here.

Thank you so much for stopping in!!! And I WILL try to take back control for next week — LOL!!! Let’s see if I can!!! Hope you can play the challenge with us sometime, anytime works!!! And hope you have a beautiful fall weekend ahead of you!!! In our neck of the woods we can’t rely on too many more nice weekends, so we are just grateful for each and every pleasant day we get!!! See you soon!!!