Showing posts with label inspiration crew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration crew. Show all posts

Friday, June 20, 2014

Summertime and Independence Day!


Hello friends!  As you can see, the Inspiration Crew is at it again and this time we are having a little Independence Day blog hop!  There's no reason, really, we're just a group of crafty blog friends making projects we like using supplies we like!  If you're here from Annette's blog, you're in the right spot.  If not, head to Donna's blog to get started!

I've been such a bad blogger lately, I thank each and every one of you for sticking by me!  I promise there will be new and more regular posts in the future - it really has taken me this long since Amelia was born to get back into my crafty groove.  :)

For this project, I pulled out a great set of Independence Day-themed stamps from Waltzingmouse and decided to make a little banner using fun, sparkly Twinery twine.  I decided to braid a strand of platinum, blue, and red shimmer together to make the little rope the banner is hanging on.  Yep, finished it at 6am today after Amelia went back to sleep.  Glad one of us could...
Here are a couple of close ups of the smaller banners - I started with white cardstock and stamped all of the images on top.

The fun star was made with two different "kite" shapes in the stamp set that you can cobble together to make this great star!  I cut each of these out separately and adhered them together and popped them off of the banner.

One last thing before I go - I have a giveaway of 60 yards of assorted Twinery twine (15 each of Honeydew, Charcoal, Caribbean, and Blossom stripe)!  All you have to do is leave a comment - anything you want to say or if you're at a loss for words, tell me what things you like to do during the summer!

Off you go to Ceal's blog for more inspiration and here are the rest of todays participants -



Saturday, April 26, 2014

LOVE

Welcome to the Mother's Day Inspiration Blog Hop!  If you're here from Libby's blog, you're in the right spot.  If not, head over to Donna's blog to get started!  Be sure to check out all the blogs listed below for tons of crafty Mother's Day Inspiration.
While my project isn't a traditional Mother's Day card, it is a card inspired by and for my mom!  I've had so much fun chatting with her lately about raising kids and am finding out that Amelia is very much like I was at her age.  My mom read a funny bit from her baby journal from when I was 7 months old and it said "likes to stand in the crib and scream at night."  Oops… sorry, mom!  :)  Anyway, my mom loves to sew and quilt and I thought this was perfectly inspired by her!

I started off with a piece of ledger patterned paper which I stamped with a stitched heart stamp.  I then took several different checked and polka-dot patterned background stamps to create the red squares and punched them out with a scallop punch.  I layered some Scrabble piece chipboard letters on top of the little "quilt" squares and then stamped the "always" sentiment underneath.  I think she will love it!

Off you go to Ceal's blog!  Have a great day and thank you so much for visiting! 

Jennifer Cuthbertson (you're here!)

 
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