Wow, I can’t believe we are to Wednesday already! I hope you are enjoying this week where we are going ‘beyond paper’ and exploring all the different mediums we have available to us to stamp on and into. Today we have a card as well as a second beautiful project with accompanying video by our guest designer. So, let’s start your morning off with some fresh ideas to get you inspired!

First, I did this colorful card by stamping on foam and on some cream grosgrain ribbon. The foam was stamped with a dye ink to change the overall (bright yellow) color of the foam so it matched well with the rest of my card. I found the dye ink I used dried quickly without smudging. For the grosgrain ribbon I laid the ribbon out flat on my stamping surface and then stamped with a houndstooth patterned stamp. I used a brown dye ink for this and it dried immediately also.

Card by Leslie Lightfoot.

Supplies:

• Houndstooth Background
• Scallop Flourish
• Clear Design Card Messages
• Memories Artprint Brown Ink
• Blush Notecards with Envelopes
• Assorted Clear Circles
• Other: Ribbon, corner rounder, patterned paper, sticker, antique buttons, foam flower, swiss dot embossing folder & Cuttlebug.

Next we have this gorgeous bird card created by the very talented Kristina Werner. Kristina is a well known designer in the stamping and scrapbooking industry and she will teach you more about stamping on clear buttons in the video below. This card is so fresh and spring-like! It would be appropriate for so many different occasions. Consider having cards like this on hand for when you are in a pinch - Kristina has left the sentiment off so it can be used for so many things.

Card and Video by Kristina Werner.

Pssssst — Kristina is having a giveaway over on her blog for the Clear Design Tree, Bird and Messages set that she used on the card! Click on over HERE to enter!

Supplies:

• Woodgrain Circle stamp
• Trees, Birds, & Messages
• Pool Notecards & Envelopes
• Card buttons: Clear
• Other: patterned paper, ribbon, Fiskars corner rounder punch

I hope you are all busily working on your challenge projects for this weeks “beyond paper” challenge. For more details on how to enter our challenge, check out all the details here. Be sure to check back tomorrow to see all the fantastic winning entries from last week’s fun challenge. You are all amazing!

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