CAS Ikat

Happy Monday All!  It's March Break here in my little corner of North America and I REALLY enjoyed having my husband and son home today from school!  I always look forward to this week in the course of the school year!  It's always a much needed break in the course of a long winter.  We often go down to South Carolina for the week to warm up and have some fun at the beach but this year we're in the middle of a big renovation project so we're sticking close to home.  I've been spending most of my time cleaning up drywall dust and reorganizing my cupboards so stamping is happening in small spurts.

A few days ago I started a project using this week's CAS - Colours and Sketches colours but just couldn't figure out how to make it work.  Then, this evening, I saw the Techno Stamper Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge and everything fell into place.....yay!  I love when that happens : )

Aren't these FABULOUS colours?!!!  Seriously, I've had the ink pads sitting out on my desk for about 3 days....calling to me....

I stamped this Eye-Catching Ikat pattern and used my Banners Framelits to cut it out 2 or 3 days ago but, as I mentioned above, I just couldn't figure out how I wanted to use it.  Here's the sketch that helped me out tonight....

Here is the resulting card....

And look!  I used Designer Series Paper again!  Woohoo!  This is the "Sweet Sorbet" DSP from the current Sale-a-bration brochure!  Only 3 more weeks to Sale-a-brate by the way : )  I had fun using my photopolymer stamps for this card too.  They are SO great!  I especially love that they don't fall off the acrylic blocks.

Here are the rest of the details:

Stamps:  Eye-Catching Ikat photopolymer stamps, Another Thank You photopolymer stamps, Wanderlust photopolymer stamps

Paper and Ink:  Perfect Plum, Elegant Eggplant, Summer Starfruit, Whisper White (White Craft Ink).

Other:  Chevron TIEF, Banners Framelits, Summer Starfruit Baker's Twine (Sale-a-bration Sweet Sorbet Accessories Pack ).

Happy Stamping!

I Love Eye-catching IKAT

I've really been enjoying Stampin' Up's new line of photopolymer stamps!  Recently I began playing around with the "Eye-catching Ikat" photopolymer set and have really had a lot of fun!  I will be doing a series of quick posts to showcase the "Eye-catching Ikat" set and to give you all the reasons I love photopolymer stamps!

First, here's my first card:

I chose a colour combination that ColourQ put out this week.

So pretty!  And here's the first reason I LOVE photopolymer stamp sets:

They are TOTALLY see-through!!!!  

That fact makes putting together a card like this SUPER simple!  No "Stamp-a-ma-jig" needed.  Simply stamp your first image, re-ink the stamp, re-position and look straight through the stamp and press it down!   You've got to try them!

Stay tuned for more "Eye-catching Ikat" cards and reasons I love photopolymer stamps.

Happy Stamping!

Product Details:

Stamp sets: Eye-catching Ikat, Another Thank You Photopolymer stamp sets

Card stock and Ink pads:  Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Primrose Petals, Blushing Bride, Pink Pirouette