I've been busy creating for a stamp class Tuesday night and planning for a March event. But once in awhile, it's fun to have someone tell me what to make. When I'm needing a little break and to revive my creativity, I like to participate in a challenge. I knew I wanted to use my new Perfect Mix stamp set, and this Global Design Project #GDP074 was right up my alley. 
Do you know what CASE means in the crafting world? It means Copy and Share Everything. If you give credit where credit is due, it's a perfectly acceptable thing to do when your mojo isn't flowing or when you're searching Pinterest for inspiration and you find a card that is just perfect the way it is and you want to make one just like it. Well that's what happened this week at my house. For my stamp-a-stack, I wanted to use retiring stamp sets one last time. So I flipped through my pile of stamps and pulled out a few I wanted to work with. I found this card that features Mosaic Madness through Pinterest and copied it just as it was. I didn't put any rhinestones on it, but put them out for my stampers that like bling. 
I love this little fox in the brand new hostess stamp set, Life's Adventure - available tomorrow at noon. And I love the new Blendabilites markers even more. I've never been much of a colorer, but that may change with my new markers. They are alcohol ink and come in packs of 3 markers - light, medium and dark of the same color. They work so well that the "coloring lines" that made me not like coloring are gone. These markers are in the new catalog but will not be available for customer purchase until late June or early July. You will also notice new thick baker's twine in the current in-color, Costal Cabana. .JPG)
Love this Vivid Vases stamp! My favorite way to use it is to paper piece. I colored the flowers with a blender pen and then stamped the vases on scrap paper. I made about 15 for a swap with other demonstrators and no two are alike. 
This card is a CASE of a card swap I received at convention from Kathy Johnson. That's one of the many great things about swapping - I had to use different stamp sets and embossing folder but was able to use the great color combination and layout she created. I figure this is the last month for flowery cards as we are heading into fall leaves and holidays so I thought I would squeeze this one in. Do you know how I made the leaves? It's the wing from the Bird Builder punch!
This was one of the projects we did at the St. Louis Regional Stampin' Up! event I attended a few weeks ago. We punched the circles to make a template and the spritzed the cardstock with a mixture of reinker and alcohol to create the polka dots. 
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