You're a Star Sketch {PP206}

Hey there, friends!  It's another week at The Paper Players and amazing Ann has a wonderful sketch for us to play with:

As soon as I saw this sketch, the idea for a shooting star came to mind.  I had just received the fun set Pictogram Punches and knew what my sentiment would be:

I think this will be a great card to give our daughter in a few weeks when she starts 5th grade (gasp)!  It would make a great birthday or congratulations card too.  My color inspiration came from the Flashback DSP: Crushed Curry, Real Red, Pool Party, Smoky Slate and Basic Black.  The stamp set Be the Star with it's coordinating Star Framelits makes a fabulous layered star.  The Pictogram Punches sentiment was heat embossed in black on Silver Foil paper--isn't that a fun look?  The other two banners were stamped with images from Gorgeous Grunge and the flag ends were made with the Hexagon punch.  All pretty simple, really!

I just love the piercing template that coordinates with the stars and am amazed at how much dimension just a little bit of piercing adds to the inside.  This sentiment, from Fabulous Four, is a great one and has already seen alot of activity in my studio.  You really need it.  Seriously.

You also need to pop over to my friends at The Paper Players to see all the eye candy they have this week.  I hope you'll make time to play along with Ann's great sketch this week before our challenge closes on Friday, August 1st at Noon (PST).  Thanks for stopping by!

The Paper Players Design Team

Ann Schach

Anne Marie Hile

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

Andrea Whisman

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

Mike Funke

Yapha Mason

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Kinda Eclectic Display Stamper Project: Box of Kindness

Hi friends! Today I have another Display Stamper project for you featuring the Kinda Eclectic stamp set. 

I had just made a series of embossed circles with the sunburst image, as you saw in this card, when I saw my fringe scissors laying on my desk.  I thought hmm...I wonder what it would look like if I cut between the "rays" of the sunburst to make a paper fringe pom-pom?  Well, that led to another layer and another one and suddenly I had this cool box topper.  Of course I didn't actually use the fringe scissors--I used our paper snips--but they gave me the idea of the fringe. 

I poked a hole in all three layers and threaded some Hello Honey satin ribbon on the box and through the top.  Some stamping on the box, a quick little tag and I was done!  Here's a close up of the pom-pom.  What do you think?  I had fun with this one--just trying different ways to use this stamp set.  

2013-2014 Convention Display Stampers

 Ilina Crouse

Anja Backman
Jennifer Blomquist
Jeanna Bohanon
Amy Bollman

Cathy Caines
Erica Cerwin
Chelsey Christenson
Becky Cowley
Lynda Day
Shari Fritz
Lyssa Griffin Zwolanek
Mary Haugen
Krista Jensen
Jane Lee
Nance Lempinen-Leedy
Charlet Mallett
Sarah Naber
Allison Okamitsu
Amy O'Neill
Breelin Renwick
Sarah Sagert
Cindy Schuster
Jennifer Timko
Ashley Van Camp
Kimberly Van Diepen
Mercedes Weber
Alanna Wharf

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Kinda Eclectic: Display Board Sample Convention 2014

Wow, what an amazing experience I had last week at SU's annual event Inspire, Create, Share 2014 (AKA Convention)!  The excitement of over 4,000 people together all keyed up about new products and techniques was exhilarating....and more than a little exhausting!  It was so much fun to finally meet blogging friends in person and make new friends along the way.  I haven't even begun to sort through my photos but in the meantime I am so excited to finally share my samples for the Convention display boards with you.

Since Kinda Eclectic was one of the stamp sets Convention attendees received, the display board stampers got our hands on it early to make our samples.  I think this set is very versatile and I wanted to show some different ways to use it.  

For this look, I embossed the sun/starburst image in white on Crushed Curry, Tangerine Tango and Blushing Bride cardstock and ran it through the Big Shot with the Starburst Framelits.  The image is purposely offset in the framelit.  I backed each one with a Silver Foil starburst and framed the whole thing with a die from the On Film Framelits.  I thought the bold lines of the starburst coordinated well with this geometric pattern from the Flower Shop DSP.  I love how the starburst look a bit like spokes on an Asian umbrella or maybe even a lily pad.  This is probably one of my favorite samples I made and I hope you like it too!  Stay tuned, I have twenty-three more samples to show you!!

 

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