SIP #112 Travel Challenge with Gina K Designs My Anchor Stamp Set

Hi Friends!  Happy Tuesday!  Hope your week is off to an awesome start.  Stamp, Ink, Paper has a super fun challenge this week based on a Travel theme!  I hope you'll have a chance to head over and check it out!

I challenged myself this week to make a travel themed card with a current stamp set.  This was a difficult challenge for me because I have a retired stamp set called Traveler that is my go to set for projects like this.  Thankfully I remembered the awesome Gina K Designs Kit that I purchased.  It included an awesome stamp set called "My Anchor".  It has some great sentiments and lovely old truck stamp.  I LOVE old trucks!

This was such an easy card to create.  I started with an 11" x 4 1/4" Basic Black Cardstock base, scored at 5 1/2".  Next I layered a piece of Very Vanilla Cardstock that measured 4" x 5 1/4".  My Patterned Paper was some retired DSP from my stash.  I used a 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" piece of the Black Street Map Paper to layer over the Very Vanilla Cardstock layer.  I cut a piece of 2 1/8 " x 3 7/8" piece of Very Vanilla to matt the Crumbcake and Black curvey design paper that measured 2 x 3 7/8".  That left a small border on the top and bottom.   I added three loops of Natural Twine and tied into a bow on the left side of these horizonal layers and adhered them with Foam Tape.  The truck and sentiment from the My Anchor set were stamped on a scrap of Very Vanilla cardstock with Versafine Black Onyx Ink.  I used SU Layering Circle Framelits Dies to cut the stamped piece into a circle.  I layered it on a scrap of Crumb Cake Cardstock that was cut in a scallop and a larger circle of Basic Black cardstock.   

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

PCC240 Sketch Challenge - Gina K Designs My Anchor Mini Kit

Hello and Happy Hump Day!  It been a super rainy week so far but thankfully no bad storms around here... just a lot of rain.  What better thing to do on a rainy night than craft, right?? Since today is Wednesday that means it's time for another Paper Craft Crew Challenge.  I love this week's sketch.. there are so many possibilities!

Even though I used this same Gina K Designs My Anchor Mini Kit yesterday, I still had the desire to ink up more of the stamps in it.  I decided to go with the truck stamp this time because it really looks like such an old classic!  I think I'll get a lot of use out of this one!

All of the Patterned Paper is from the kit as well.  After I stamped the truck image with the Gina K Designs "In the Navy" ink cube, I added some splatters in various tans and browns and then dabbed it with a little water. The water made my truck image bleed a little but I felt like since it was supposed to look old that it added to the look.   This is definietly a grungy look but I really love it and I think it goes well with the Grow old along with me sentiment.  There includes a "The best is yet to be" sentiment for the inside of the card as well.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

SIP #95 Sketch Challenge with Gina K Designs My Anchor Mini Kit

Hello and Happy Tuesday.  I hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend!  I was off work on Friday and took a couple of half days off of work prior to Friday so I felt really rested over the weekend!  The hardest part was heading back to work on Monday!  I had a lot to catch up on so it's been a busy start to my week!  Since it is Tuesday, it's time for another Stamp, Ink, Paper challenge!  

Isn't this sketch just awesome!  Such an awesome and simple card layout!  I decided to use the Gina K Designs My Anchor Mini Kit that I recently purchased.  Here's a fact that you may or may not know about me.  I love, love, love anything Nautical.  I loved both the images and the sentiments from this kit and knew that they would work well with other stamps that I already have in my stash.

Pretty much every stamp in this set would have worked with this layout.  I could have made cards so quickly with this CAS design.  

I hope you'll head over to Stamp, Ink, Paper and link up a card for this fun sketch challenge!  

Have a blessed day!  Tina