Friday, February 4, 2011

Clear Dollar Stamps Spring Violets

It's the first Friday of the month again and that means it's time for our Clear Dollar Stamps Clearly Inspired Challenge!

This months Clearly Inspired challenge is a sketch.

Here's a picture of the sketch for you.  

When I saw the Spring Violets digital stamp set with matching digital papers & this sketch I could picture the card I wanted to make in my mind.  I love it when that happens!  I also love being inspired by our Clear Dollar Stamps digital images that are released the 15th of each month! 

I made my card using the Spring Violets stamp set.  I re-sized the pre-colored digital violets image to fit my selected Spellbinders oval die, placed it on the page in my Publisher program, selected the sentiment, re-sized it to fit in my Spellbinders tag die and pasted it onto the same page and then selected the yellow gingham paper that's in the set and copied and pasted it onto my page.  I clicked print for my HP OfficeJet printer and had a sheet of goodies to start my card with.  I also printed a sheet with the 6 X 6 Violets patterned paper that comes with this set.  

I cut everything out, matted everything with Stampin' Up! Eggplant Envy and attached it to my card front. The ric rac is a die from Papertrey Ink and I added three purple rhinestones and purple gingham ribbon to my little tag to finish my card.  

I really enjoyed putting this card together and thought using this wonderful Spring Violets digital stamp set  would be a great way to make lots of cards for the Operation Write Home Spring Thaw Card Drive.  I put a little info about that below for you!

Challenge graphic

It's time for a card drive! Your package of cards can be any quantity....but should be half spring holiday cards (Easter, spring, Mother's Day, and we're including Father's Day so we can get a jump on those!) and half general cards - that means birthday, thinking of you, missing you, love, thanks....all the themes on our desired list here, as well as blank (no sentiment) cards. 

To be in your shippers hands no later than February 28th!

It's time for you to go check out the Clearly Inspired Challenge now because there's a surprise (freebie) for you there you aren't going to want to miss!

Supply List:

Stamps/Images:  Clear Dollar Stamps Spring Violets Digital Stamps set
Cardstock/Papers:  Clear Dollar Stamps digital patterned papers, Stampin’ Up! Eggplant Envy, Neenah Solar White
Inks/Markers:  HP OfficeJet 6000
Accents/Tools:  Spellbinders oval, scalloped oval, tag dies, Papertrey Ink ric rac die, gingham ribbon, rhinestones
Techniques:  digital stamping

Tags:  spring violets february 2011 jan hunnicutt flowers gingham digital papers pre colored digital images


Challenges:
Clearly Inspired - Sketch challenge
Magical Monday's - Flowers 
Totally Stampalicious - Hello 
Stamptacular Sunday - Whateva 
Daring Cardmakers - February Flowers 
Sew Many Cards - Anything Goes 
Stamp Something - February Digi Day 
Stamping With The Dragon - Anything Goes 
The Town Scrapper - Use dies

21 comments:

Cassie said...

Hey Jan, you totally nailed it with this card. It's just gorgeous, and the perfect example of what can be done with those papers and that image :D

Jo said...

I love the violet paper - a gorgeous card :)

jo x

Carolynne said...

What a lovely fresh spring card, and such gorgeous colours. Thank you for joining us at Stamp with the Dragon

xx

Stacy Morgan said...

Fresh and springy! Great card for the CIC and Totally Stampalicious Monday challenge! :0)

Lynda said...

Beautiful card - those papers are just lovely and that's a very sweet violet image. Thanks for joining in with Daring Cardmakers.

Lynda xxx

Love crafts forever said...

It is so beautiful. Thank you for playing at Stampin With The Dragon.
Hugs Nataliya

Dragons Lair Designs said...

Love the card thank you for joining us here at the Stampin with the Dragon Challenge Blog.

Hugs Janette
Stamping Dragon Designs

Linda Anderson said...

This is a beautiful card Jan!!! Isn't it fun when a plan comes together...and quickly!!!!! Stunning!

Linda

Unknown said...

This is a great card Jan! :)

Lisa Lara said...

Such a beautiful card Jan. You made it work for so many challenges? Wow. Great job. I love the ric rac.

Kathy and Lucky said...

Beautiful card, so warm and spring like, love it!

Skraptacular Designs said...

Thank you so much for participating in our "Whateva!" challenge this week at Stamptacular! Your submission is absolutely wonderful and so inspirational!

Also, in case you're interested, we're in the middle of a DT Call and would love for you to apply! You can find detailed information on what is required and how to apply on our Challenge Blog...http://stamptacularsundaychallenge.blogspot.com!

Thanks again for joining us this week at Stamptacular! I hope you'll join us again soon for some more challenge fun!

Hugs,
Priscilla

Shell said...

Such a beautiful card, Jan. I love the colors you used. So cheerful!

Shelly Schmidt said...

I love this great card- love the DSP too- off to check out the CDS sketch challenge.

Bonnie Weiss said...

Now that's a HAPPY card!

Anonymous said...

I love your card. The colors are great and your coloring is awesome. Thanks for playing with us at Stamping With The Dragon.
Hugs,
Beth

Carrie said...

Beautiful. I love how you paper pieced the pot with the same paper and such eye catching colors.

Kelly said...

Lovely, thanks for joining us at Sew Many Challenges this week

Christi said...

Great card Jan! You did a fantastic job showcasing all that can be created with digis!
Great job!!

Deanette said...

Very pretty card Jan, so spring like! Thanks for joining us at Sew Many Cards this week!

Lorraine A said...

beautiful card Jan :-) I love the spring colours and design ,,, lovely :-)

thanks for joining us on the Stamp Something Challenge :-)
luv
Lols x x x