NO STAMPING ALLOWED at Sparkles Monthly

Hello friends!  It’s been a bit since my last posting!  I’m still crafting, but I’m also enjoying the outdoors lately too!  I’m just not making the time I need to post on my blog here!  However, being on a design team helps to keep me focused on posting and hopefully it’s something that will bring motivation because I need it!  So I will try and get some more posts in!

Today starts a new challenge over at the Sparkles Monthly Challenge and the theme is “No Stamping Allowed!This may seem a bit challenging, but I look forward to seeing what people come up with for it!  Be sure to check out the blog to see what the design team has come up with for inspiration!  Here’s what I’ve made for the challenge this month:

I was trying to channel something that would work and realized that I had these fun strip dies from Taylored Expressions and I wanted to play with some new colors, so I ran with that on the middle of my card front by alternating the strip colors.

I also die cut a frond three times and glued them together for thickness and sturdiness.  I attached it over the colored strip panel and then added a sentiment that was already toner printed so that I could foil over it with silver Deco Foil.  I also had a die that cut it out which was popped up with foam strips and added to the bottom of the die cut frond.  Lastly, I’ve just added some silver glitter drops randomly over the card front.

Hope you’ve enjoyed my non-stamped card today and will think about joining in the challenge with us this month!  Thanks so much for stopping in! Have a great week!

Challenges:

  1. Craft Rocket – Use Dies
  2. NBUS – #51 June – new colors and dies
  3. Creative Fingers – Anything Goes
  4. A Place to Start – Anything Goes and/or twist: flower + one other thing
  5. Penny’s Paper-Crafty – Anything Goes using paper
  6. The Crafty Addicts – Anything Goes
  7. CAS on Friday – Leaves