sneak peek : day five

Well, well, today is the final day of Karen Foster Design’s sneak peek week. It has been a very good week thus far, short of the sprained back/pelvic area I endured on Wednesday evening while helping the cute K-girl learn to ride her bicycle.  I have seen some AWESOME products and projected shared by fellow designers.  Did you take a peek at all of them, too?

Today – for the first time ever – we have an entire day of sneak peeks devoted to stamping! Five new sports themed clear stamp sets will be released at CHA Winter: Football, Soccer, Baseball, Basketball, and Game Day. They join the Birthday, Holiday, Baby, and Cancer Survivor sets that were previously released. Today the team will be sharing scrapbook layouts, cards, and paper crafted projects using all of these sets.

I worked with the Cancer Survivor set and was able to feature my sweet friend, Michele, in them. She is a survivor, a friend and a hero.  You'll see how I twisted the use of this stamp set to fit those themes.

First up, the stamp set.  See the two ribbon stamps?!  They could be use for numerous causes other than cancer survivor.  Look at this list of awareness ribbons and let your creative mind run wild.  Each of the causes listed would work with this stamp set. 

Now, a card made using the heart stamp from the set.  I simply stamped the heart tone-on-tone onto cardstock, cut them out and inked them.  I pieced them altogether to become a lovely sunflower.  I even used the same heart stamp with green ink for the leaves.  

 Next up, a simple layout using the same stamp set for a military layout.   Yes, military.  I told you the set was versatile!    I stamped the words repetitively to act as the background for the photo, then stamped the ribbon in yellow [support our troops]. 

 See that cute brad in the middle of the ribbon?   That was made by simply cutting the loop off of a loopy brad and using a rhinestone from the swirl burst brad.

 And, a bonus for you --- no stamping.  Just thought I'd share another layout of my friend, Mich, using the Cancer Survivor collection.   "Journaling card" below the photos was cut from and the roses were rolled using patterned paper.  So many ways to stretch your supplies! 

Hopefully you have heard by now about our fantastic giveaways!

 

If not, you can read more about that here.  To enter your name in the drawing all you need to do is leave a comment on this blog post. You don’t need to comment on every blog post to win, but you can increase your chances of winning by leaving comments on each of the Design Team member’s blogs every day this week. Enter up to once per day per blog! As always, Karen Foster Design welcomes international entries.

Winners will be announced here on Monday, January 24, 2011.  


You can see the products to be released at CHA here!

Don’t forget to leave a comment on this post to be entered in the giveaway contest. Then visit the rest of the Design Team blogs for lots more inspiration and for additional chances to win.

Alice Golden

Carole Janson

Tania Willis

Maryfrances Fabbri

Carolyn Lontin 

Jolene Johnston 

Jing-Jing Nickel