Let's Ink It Up - First Challenge Ever!!!!!

Hello! I'm very excited to show you the first ever challenge over at Let's Ink It Up! This is a blog challenge dedicated to using your rubber stamps! So we'd like you to get inky with us!

Our first challenge is one most people like, it is Anything Goes with a Twist......the twist is there must be the color yellow somewhere on your project! I hope you all come along and play with us, who know you could win something from our lovely sponsor Scrapbook Boutique!

Scrapbook Boutique is giving one lucky winner a $20 voucher to their store! Awesome!

For my project I took a little inspiration from Michelle Zindorf and did a brayering project. I inked and embossed the grass, then inked and embossed the bear. Then I brayered some yellow onto the top of the panel, followed by some orange and red right at the tippy top! I flipped it over and sponged some green at the bottom with the grass and some black around the edges. The bear is from Stampin' Up set Wildlife Reserve.

I entered this card into the following challenges:

Stampin' for the Weekend - anything goes

Paper Cutz - anything goes

ResQ Challenge - what rejuvenates you? (being outside does, but I'm sure the rush of adrenalin when you face that bear would do the trick! :)

So I hope we see all of you at the new challenge blog Let's Ink It Up!

Nature Side Step Card

Sorry about the long delay between posts! We were without power from Thursday night until about 1 pm Sunday. We finally have power and now I'm checking to make sure the challenges that I had these cards planned for are still active! LOL!

Ok here goes! I got the template for this Side Step Card from the Addicted to Stamping blog. Here is the link. I thought that I would make the base of the card out of some dp. I found that to be a little flimsy, so I reinforced the bottom at the front and the back with a strip of brown cardstock. I decided to use some nature images to go with the dp design. The images are all from a Stampin' Up set called Wildlife Reserve. I backed the biggest of these with the same brown cardstock and adhered to the card with double faced tape. The two small ones I cut out and popped up on the bottom front with the sentiment from Stampscapes.

This fits the challenge from Crafty Creations to cut out and pop up! This also fits the challenge #25 over at Kaboodle Doodle Blog to make fancy folds.