Circles Circles Circles

I love the look of geometric shapes in a card and there is nothing more fun than creating your own patterned paper with some fun designs. Hi everyone, Erika Taylor here today to share with you a fun project using the Circle Dots stamps from I Brake for Stamps.

To create this card, I used some cream and white card stock, Glimmer Mists and Clear embossing powder. First I spray the background paper with Lemon Grass and Trunk Bay Glimmer Mist. Then I stamped the Circle Dots image in a few different colors of ink. I continued this technique again using Clear embossing powder and Lemon Grass, Trunk Bay and Bell Bottom Jeans Glimmer Mist. Finally a few die cut circles and VOILA!!! a very geometric card using one wonderful Circle Dots Stamp. Easy Peasy!!!

Adding a little Red for contrast and this "sweet" card is finished. Try creating your own patterned paper using simple stamp designs, Glimmer Mists and embossing powder for a real unique design. Thanks so much for stopping by today. Don't forget you can use our Design Team Codes to get a 10% discount on your purchase. Use SAVE10ERIKA today!!!

 Hope you are all having a fantastic weekend.

Toodles
Erika Taylor

Napoli and Tags

Hi everyone. I'm so stinkin excited to be a part of this fantastic team and I hope that our journey together will inspire you. Erika Taylor here today with my first ever post as an I Brake for Stamps Design Team member.  I've absolutely loved stamps for quite some time. I think it started in Kindergarten when you'd get a little smiley face stamp on the corner of your completed assignments. Oh how I loved that little smiley face hehe.

Today I'm sharing with you two projects that I've created. The first is an artistic tag. For this tag I used Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist and Distress Crackle Paint to create the backgrounds on both the tag and the Basically Bare Chipboard Hearts. After the paint was dry, I stamped the beautiful Floral Silhouette Bouquet onto the hearts using Versamark, then embossed them with a pretty Pewter embossing powder. The image is very soft, but adds to the tag perfectly.

Next, I created a card using one of my favorite types of stamps available at I Brake For Stamps. If you haven't picked up any of the collage stamps, You've just gotta!!! the images are striking and the option to double stamp and fussy cut to create dimension is amazing.

First off, I took a white piece of card stock and sprayed it with Pink Polka Dot and Teal High Heel Chalkboard Glimmer Mist. Once completely dry, I stamped the Napoli Collage stamp using Versafine in black, Then I re stamped the image onto a scrap piece of white card stock and embossed with a glitter embossing powder. I fussy cut the butterfly, and added it to the front of the card using Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots. The color combination of pink, teal and black is truly beautiful. To add a little more dimension to the image, I highlighted the sentiment and some of the fruit with a white pen.

So what do you think of my first projects? I hope that I've given you some inspiration today and you create create create!!! Don't forget to use your design team codes to get a discount on stamps. You will find these on all of the design teams blogs. My blog can be found HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I really look forward to creating using the wonderful images available at I Brake for Stamps.

Until next time
Toodles

Erika Taylor

Bingo!

{Jane Bosi} Happy almost middle of October! I love October for so many reasons--Halloween is just one of them! I made this card a few days ago using Girl On Pumpkin and a few other goodies from IBFS!

The background panel features the Cuttlebug Smoosh techninque and the Tim Holtz Bingo embossing folder. I'm not 100% on the connection between halloween and bingo, but I think it works!! LOL!

How are you using that folder??? Get inky and give us a show!
TTFN--Jane