Can you believe that it’s Friday already! I spoke with a good friend this morning who was so excited that her counter tops where being installed in her stamp room. She had a fabulous room before she began the remodel, but now she is adding cabinets, granite counter top and more storage space. I was so jealous listening to her talk and swoon over her new room! Every time I get new stamps, inks or anything, I’m on a day long reorganization to make it all fit. Hmmmmm some day, some day! Don’t get me wrong, I love my stamp room, but I have seriously outgrown it. Here are my options – get rid of things I don’t use everyday (can’t do that) or move to the middle of the basement and make a game room/mud room out of my current stamp room – might work, but then if I want to work late into the night, I will be down in the basement between the bedrooms. Not a good thing when one is a very light sleeper! Decisions, decisions!
Anyhoo, enough of my dilemmas. Lets talk stamping! I’m still trying to get in as many of the daily challenges on Splitcoast that is possible. Today is the Limited Supply Challenge, and Jen never fails to surprise on what she is going to do next. Today she is having another of her Follow the List challenges. As she said, a real challenge and yes it was! One stamped image that could be colored, an optional sentiment or an image to ground the main image; any shade of white paper and 2-3 patterned paper – NO other colored cardstock; No specialty tools, just coloring tools; One piece of ribbon – NO other embellishments. Here’s my card, with some creative embellishing.
The main image was colored with Copic Markers and to ground the image, I added some shading with the markers. The designer paper I used for the background was cut in layers and then faux stitched. I made a tag for the sentiment and attached it to the ribbon (which by the way is purple and white even though it looks black and white in the photo). The edges of the tag, the actual card and the layer of white the designer paper is attached to, were all sponged with Adirondack Eggplant ink.
Stamps: 82-18 Washing Machine and 82-24 Those Days Text from Rubbernecker Stamp Company
Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Memory Box Echo
Ink: Adirondack Pitch Black and Eggplant (Rubbernecker)
Accessories: Copic Markers, Tsukineko Sponge Dauber, Faber-Castell Black Artist Pen, Ribbon
Hehehe — Love this card.
For some reason (and I am not a big fan of toilet humor…) I can also see this sentiment with that toilet image from Gina K.
What can I say, it just popped into my mind.
Flexibility of stamps is always a good thing, I think.
When I am trying to keep a card “light” for postage, I will often skip layers and sponge. I think it works pretty well.
Great job on the detils! I love your scribbles and doodles.
Cute!
Aw Sherry, you so deserve a great stampin’ place. “The grass is always greener.” Next time you get to thinking about your stampin’ room and changing things around think of me. We don’t even have a basement in most homes here. 😀
Love it – what a fun image! The colors you used are great. So about your stamp room – I know it’s hard to imagine doing – but I HIGHLY recommend purging the stuff you never use! I did a couple of stamp/scrapbook supply garage sales this fall and pocketed about $1400 (!) on stuff I’d been “collecting” for 7+ yrs!!! It was such an awesome feeling both to purge the clutter AND to have that wad of cash to set aside for future guilt-free purchases. 🙂 For the first sale I gathered some of my stamping buddies together & we had a huge group sale – advertised on craigslist – and people came to shop by the carloads. 🙂
Yes, I’ve had one of those days! It took me a minute to figure out what was going on here but then it made me laugh. Tee hee–hear that? Me laughing.
I just cleaned up my stamp room and it looks so inviting now. It’s a smallish bedroom. My next home project is to remodel the stamp room. Nothing so fancy as granite counter tops. I’m sure I could make that space work for me if the shelving and storage were more suited to my needs. I just purged again today–two stamp sets–woohoo. Good luck, Sherry. Are you a noisy stamper?
This is too cute!! Love the image and sentiment!
That is such a cute card!! Good luck with your organization!! I know I need help as much as anyone. I need to take Libby’s advise there. 😉
Love this Sherry- the DP colors are “purrfect” for this card!
Love your humor! This card kind of reminds me of this one I just made…
http://janescreativeprocess.blogspot.com/2008/01/are-you-frog-or-fly.html
Do you have suggestions (other than RubberNecker) for humorous stamps?
Jane