I love stamps. I love
Basically, there's a lot to love about stamping.
But Heather's OLW132 challenge reminds me of one of my most favoritest things to do with stamps...be inspired by the stuff around me.
Her challenge is to be inspired by packaging.
Now, I know a lot of you don't love inspiration challenges. I get emails occasionally from people who say they are too hard. These stampers are intimidated by inspiration challenges because they don't know how closely their card should resemble the inspiration piece. They don't know what they can change to make the inspiration piece work with their supplies. They worry about breaking the rules.
These people worry entirely too much.
If you're worried about doing Heather's challenge, STOP RIGHT NOW. Don't worry. Be happy. Play with your stamps. See what happens.
You can turn this:
into this:
Or this:
into this:
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| For when I run out of time this December and need 50 more cards quick! |
You might even take the ugliest packaging you can find (a compressed air canister!) and make something pretty from it.
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| Card trimmed to cut off a mistake...because mistakes are just opportunities to do something cool! |
You just never know what will happen when you let yourself go and play with inspiration.
Give it a try.
Go on.
You can do it.
Yes, you can.
supplies
stamps: Papertrey Square Prints, Signature Greetings, Holly Jolly, Text Style, Botanical Silhouettes
ink: Memento
paper: Papertrey
accessories: rhinestones, silver embossing powder, embossing ink, heat gun
Pure awesomeness. Amazing work.
ReplyDeleteWonderful insight Susan, I love these!! Gay x
ReplyDeleteBeautifully written and illustrated with your gorgeous one layer wonders! Love everything about this post, Susan!
ReplyDeleteHear Hear!!! And your makes are fabulous too
ReplyDeleteKathyk
LOVE the first one - those colours make me smile for sure! I was getting stumped because all the packaging is so NOT CAS, but now I've got some ideas.
ReplyDeleteAll these are such cool cards, Susan. Love them all.
ReplyDeleteeach one is great!!
ReplyDeleteI love the glue stick inspiration card; how very clever. When I was looking for inspiration last night my husband pulled out the steel cut oats bag and suggested that. I said it wasn't pretty enough. I guess I should go back and look at the oats bag in a new light!
ReplyDeleteThank you once again for your clever, happy, pretty cards.
Heather
Thanks for the ideas & the advice to just give it a try. ;-)
ReplyDeletewoo.hoo!!
ReplyDeleteLOVE your cards.
you are a clever, clever girl!
these cards are excellent.
thanks for the inspiration, and the permission to have fun!
marty ferraro
Well - Just blow me away! Love your examples. You really know how to inspire us.
ReplyDeleteThank you Susan for your inspiration! Cathy
ReplyDeleteThanks Susan. I admit I'm someone who is intimidated by inspiration challenges. You've given me a new perspective!
ReplyDeleteWow! And thankyou, because I struggle with this too...
ReplyDelete:-) I love stamping, too! I love your cards. I especially love the "smile" card. Wonderful!
ReplyDeletelove, love , love them all. I think maybe now I "get" it. Thank you
ReplyDeleteWonderful :)
ReplyDeleteGreat post and cards. I think sometimes we worry too much about our cards and forget it is a captured moment in time and to be fluid. love the examples. Hoping I can get inky again soon!
ReplyDeleteI love each of these awesome cards-the "Thinking of You" is my favorite. I'm one of those who worries too much, so thanks for the additional inspiration today. I think this is your best blog post ever!
ReplyDeleteVery creative! I especially LOVE the first one!
ReplyDeleteI love that you love everything about stamping/cardmaking. And I love how you've taken ordinary items and made them into something extraordinary! I've been looking at my body wash label and you've really given me the courage to use that inspiration. Hey! Wait! YOU ARE inspiration! Bev
ReplyDeleteI am in awe of your cards! You've taken mundane objects and created spectacular CAS cards. I'm going to try to think out of the box more. Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteI love each and every one~
ReplyDeleteI love today's post. What you said made me smile and laugh a little and then we get three amazing cards!!!!!!
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Really some of the best examples I've ever seen of translating a "non-paper crafting piece" such as packaging into a paper crafted piece like a card. So cool. :-)
OMG. I love everything about this post Susan! I can relate to so many of the things you talked about. I have conquered my fear of inspiration challenges though. Now they're a lot of fun!
ReplyDeleteIt was so much fun to see what inspired these cards!
Hi Susan, I have not commented in months. I am still reading. I'm still out here lurking. Just so crazy busy at work and home; that just reading blogs is a challenge. Commenting is almost impossible. BUT, today's post is outstanding. And I just had to tell you that.
ReplyDeleteOMG is right! I saw that challenge and thought how hard it would be, and then you post these amazing cards. Love them all. TFS!
ReplyDeleteGreat post, Susan! These are all fantastic examples. I'm partial to the first one. Love the colors.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Once again pinning a couple of these to my card making inspiration board.
ReplyDeleteThank you ... I've been looking for nice packaging to inspire me ... now I'll look at ordinary stuff in a new light! These are just stunning! Anita :)
ReplyDeleteMy problem isn't the inspiration part; I'm sometimes overly observant to the point of overload. My problem is finding the time to actually put some of that inspiration on paper. It's one of the reasons I love reading blogs. You've done that part for me. Maybe if I spent less time reading blogs I'd have more time to create. What a concept.
ReplyDeleteAwesome. Love your inspiration.
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