Heartfelt Inkspiration

Wow, it’s the fifth Challenge of the Day here! As long as I can, I’ll be offering challenges on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I hope you’ll play along!

C.O.D. #5: CASE the catalog

You probably know that to CASE means to Copy And Share Everything, or essentially duplicate someone else’s work. But it can also mean Copy And Selectively Edit, starting with an image and substituting items as needed.

It’s so easy for me to overlook the catalog samples. Even with sticky tags on the pages, I sometimes wonder which image was appealing, or why!

So, based on your supplies, re-create one of the samples from either the Stampin’ Up! 2019-2020 Annual Catalog or the January-June 2020 Mini Catalog and replicate it with the product you have.

Rules: The only rule is to use Stampin’ Up! products exclusively. Create your project, photograph it, then include it in a comment in the C.O.D. #5 post at the Heartfelt Inkspiration Facebook page. Be sure to cite the page number of the image you’re CASEing. Your deadline is the end of the day. I’ll aim to post my entry by then, also.

The fourth Challenge of the Day is simple, but it doesn’t have to be!

C.O.D. #4: Use a sponge

Rules: The only rule is to use Stampin’ Up! products exclusively. Create your project, photograph it, then include it in a comment in the C.O.D. #4 post at the Heartfelt Inkspiration Facebook page. Your deadline is the end of the day. I’ll aim to post my entry by then, also.

“Use a sponge” is a pretty broad challenge, right? Some ideas: sponge an ombré background, sponge over a mask (a stencil), or use a sponge brayer to color ribbon. I’m actually using more than one of those ideas. What will you do?

Our third Challenge of the Day is a classic!

C.O.D. #3: Create a project using a sketch challenge

Rules: The only rule is to use Stampin’ Up! products exclusively. Create your project, photograph it, then include it in a comment in the C.O.D. #3 post at the Heartfelt Inkspiration Facebook page. Your deadline is the end of the day. I’ll post my entry tomorrow.

I’ve talked before about using sketches for inspiration, and the folks at Freshly Made Sketches provide plenty! Here’s their sketch challenge for this week:

If you check out their post here, you’ll see that they have a contest. Feel free to submit your entry there, but at least check out the projects that other people have made. What a variety of interpretations! As you can see, you don’t have to take the sketch literally!

Welcome to the second installment of the Challenge Of the Day (C.O.D.)!

C.O.D. #2 = Create a project using a color you really don’t care for

Rules: The only rule is to use Stampin’ Up! products exclusively. Create your project, photograph it, then include it in a comment in the C.O.D. #2 post at the Heartfelt Inkspiration Facebook page. Your deadline is the end of the day. I’ll post my entry on Thursday.

So now, a confession: I don’t love every Stampin’ Up! color. As a demonstrator, I usually buy the In Colors for each new annual catalog. (There are five In Colors each year that stay for two catalog years.) I may hesitate, but I usually talk myself into buying at least the cardstock assortment so at least I can see what the colors are like IRL. Clue: Here’s what the 2018-2020 In Colors look like:

Lovely Lipstick 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146970]

Grapefruit Grove 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146972]

Pineapple Punch 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146971]

Call Me Clover 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146969]

Blueberry Bushel 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146968]

Can you guess which color I’ll be using for this C.O.D.? I can hardly wait to see how you work with a color you “hate”!