First Non-Rubber Stamping Card!

Hey Everyone! Here are cards I made for this new transition to my blog sites. I made these paper-craft (non-rubber stamping) cards last night. This is a FABULOUS way to reduce your scraps of cardstocks that you have piling up in your folders or drawers. The measurement of the tree is outlined on the sketch below!

To decorate the tree, I just used stickers from Stickopotamus. If you don't have ornament stickers, you can also punch out circles and squares using paper punches to create ornaments. I'll create a card next time using punches. I did do a little rubber stamping on the cards because I didn't have a sentiment sticker that fit into my design so I rubber stamped the sentiments.

If you haven't read my post regarding changes on my blog sites, click here. It'll explain what I'll be doing on this blog site as well as Stampin Inspirations. If you are a rubber stamper, visit Stampin Inspirations . . .I posted a few rubber stamped cards this morning! Check it out.

Card Details:

Paper: (1st card) DCWV Textured Cardstock, SU Cardstocks: Real Red, Old Olive(2nd card) DCWV Textured Cardstock, SU Cardstocks in Old Olive, Bashful BlueAccessories: Stickopotamus Stickers - Christmas Tree, Trim it Up Gold Mettalic Cord, JoAnn BradsSentiment stamp: Inkidinkado

Whoohoo! New Domain is Up and Running - Compiled Sketches

Hey Everyone! My domain is finally up and running! Whoohoo! What does it mean? Well, all my tutorials are now on the new domain. All I need to to do is link ALL of my tutorials on both blog sites to the new domain. I will have to do this slowly because well, it'll take quite some time to go through all of my posts and see which ones have links to tutorials. It'll be a daunting task and I'll be so glad when I'm done.

Did you know that it took a total of 48 hours straight to upload all of the contents of my tutorials and compiled sketches? Gosh, my computer was working overtime. I couldn't really comment on anyone's blog sites for 2 days because it would slow the upload of the pictures on to the website. The pictures from my compiled sketches is what took forever to upload. I think my computer had to upload over 2oo pictures. My computer worked hard. . .luckily I have a fast computer.

Anyway, just as a starter. . .if you have any of my compiled sketches on your favorites, please change the links to the new URLs. Click on each month and save the URL on to your favorites and remove the old links. The old URLs no longer work.

January/February Sketches
March Sketches
April Sketches
May Sketches
June/July Sketches

I still need to compile August and September. I'll try to finish it by Sunday!

My Tutorials Are Currently Disabled

***Update***

This post will remain at the top until I can update all of my tutorials with the new domain. My new domain will be active in 3 days and my tutorials will be accessible again!! Yay!! Please scroll down for new posts.

Hi Everyone! Currently all my tutorials are disabled because I need to change the domain of the website that contains all my tutorials so if you have any of my tutorials on your favorites or links, I apologize but none of them will no longer link to my tutorials. I'll let y'all know when I'm able to activate a new domain and will change the links to the current domain.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

Changes to my blog sites

Hey Everyone! Here's the deal. . .there's going to be a few changes to my blog sites. Stampin Inspirations blog site's focus no longer will be "just" Stampin Up images, it will be all stamping products creations meaning, I will post cards that are made from different companies as well as Stampin Up.

Card Inspired will change to "scrappy creations" but I will continue to keep the name "Card Inspired". What does this mean for Card Inspired. . .well scrappy inspirations will be cards and projects made with paper products such as scrapbooking embellishments, designer paper, stickers, die-cuts, etc and Stampin Inspirations will be devoted to rubber stamping.

Both Card Inspired and Stampin Inspirations will continue to have daily sketches as always but the product focus will be different. If you love rubber stamping and subscribe for the daily feeds, I recommend that you subscribe to Stampin Inspirations. If you also love creations made with any type of paper products, I recommend you subscribe to both.

I've always kept Stampin Inspirations focused on only Stampin Up images but I think this change will be the best for me creatively. I was going to start a new blog for "scrappy creations" but I felt having three blog site is too much work.

Anyway, I hope you continue to visit my blog sites and stick around as subscribers. This change will be a positive one because I've been wanting to expand myself creatively and I think by doing this I'll be motivated to do so. The changes won't be immediate. . .I'll transition within a week or so.

Flash Back Wednesday - Christmas Card

Good Afternoon Everyone! This card is a card I made last Christmas and I wanted to bring it to the present. Why? Well, I like the layout so I decided to post it rather than creating another card. I actually didn't make a sketch of this card when I posted this card last year.

Someone asked me where I get my sketches. Well, I get it from me. Ha! I actually make the sketches after I make the card. I don't follow my own sketches. I usually create a layout by fitting the images and elements like a puzzle. I usually place the sentiment last because some sentiments just don't fit nicely into the puzzle.

When I create a card, I'll stamp an image and from there, the design evolve. It's all about the image. The rest of the stuff are fitted in. . .again, like a puzzle. When I'm done and I've taken a picture of the card, I then create a sketch and post it for all of you to use if you care to.

Until later folks!!

Random Card - Project Reduce Scraps

Whoa! Holy cow that's bright. . .yeah, I hear yah!! LOL! I'm just trying to use up my scrap pile and well, I have a whole lot of orange cardstock to use up. Did you see my cardstock scrap pile? If not, scroll down and you'll see that I have a lot of scraps to use up.

Despite it's brightness, I like the card because I feel "happy" when I look at the card. I mean you can't help but feel happy with all the bright colors.

The front of the card is actually a pocket with the tag inserted.

This is the card with the tag removed. It's pretty plain without the tag but it was fun to create a pocket in the front of the card.

Card Details:

Stamps: TAC, Studio GPaper: SU Only Orange, DCWV Glitter Stack

Ink: Prismacolor Markers, SU Pumpkin Pie

Accessories: 1" circle punch, SU designer label punch, JoAnn brads, 1 1/4" and 3/8" square punch (photo corner), Making Memories Ric Rac Ribbon, SU Ticket Corner Punch

My Cardstock Scrap Pile - It's Bad!!

Hey Everyone!! The picture to the right is my "cardstock" scrap pile. Let's hear it. . .(gasp) Horrid!! I told you so. . . betcha didn't believe that it was this bad. Keep in mind, the picture does not include my scrap designer papers or embellishment piles. That's a whole other story. . .

"How the heck did you managed to accumulate so much scraps?", you ask. It's called "I'm too lazy to go through the scrap pile so I cut up new cardstock all the time syndrome". I've had this sickness for about 3 years now so the pile is 3 years worth of accumulation.

I initially had placed the scraps in folders but they kept getting bigger and started to overflow so I started to put them in large zip lock backs and it worked much better because it contained the little scraps better than the file folders. I'm slowly but surely working my way through this and my goal is to completely or somewhat eliminate this pile by the end of the year. Wish me luck folks.


I was feeling sorry for myself yesterday because of my tutorial website issue. I really invested a lot of time on those tutorials and the thought that I had to start over REALLY made me feel bad.

But, on a bright note. . .I was able to establish a new domain and I just got a confirmation that it's now active. It'll take a few days to change all the links to reflect the new domain. I changed the domain to "cardinspired" and I own the name for a whole year! Yay!



It's actually a blessing in disguise because it'll be a great opportunity to clean up my sidebar and reduce the amount of links to the "category". Originally, I created the website to promote Stampin' Up because I'm a demonstrator but because I didn't read their "policy" manual thoroughly when I started the website, I didn't realize that I couldn't promote it as a "Stampin Up" product website. Whatever. . .okay, this manual is like endless amount of pages of restrictions. When I finally realized that I could not use the name "Stampin Up" in my domain, I already invested a lot of time on tutorials to close down the website.

I know. . .it's my fault for not reading the manual COMPLETELY but I think SU benefits from my tutorials to some degree. I'm sure someone was inspired to buy a stamp set or product from them when they saw what they could do with their product. Yah know what I mean. Not that my tutorials are "that" inspiring but I'm sure one or two people were a little inspired.

The truth is SU wants their demonstrators to use their website which they charge demonstrators $11.95 to use but you are limited to using only Stampin Up products when using the paid website. Okay. . .my view is that if I'm going to pay $11.95 a month, I want to create my website in any fashion I want as long as I promote their products in some form. SU already restricts how you sell and where you can sell your cards, how to use their stamps, how to promote their products. . .it's endless restrictions. Anyway. . so, I get a letter from Stampin Up asking me to remove my website so I complied but this time, the website will no longer focus on Stampin Up. . .it'll be a website with any and every company that I come across. Yay! It's much easier anyway to promote other products. I'm still going to keep my Stampin Inspirations blog site because heck, I'm still a demonstrator and I've invested a lot of time on that site so there's no point in "chopping my nose off to spite my face". I'm not dissing Stampin Up. . .I actually love their products, I just don't like the restrictions.

I feel happier now because I feel less restricted on what I can do with that website. It's like I've been handed "creative freedom". It's so liberating. I will need time to work on the website and change it a bit to reflect the new focus but in the meantime, I will link the existing tutorials to my blogs.




Card Details:


Stamp sets: TAC, Fiskar Sentiments
Ink: Prismacolor Markers, SU Real Red
Paper: SU Real Red, Black
Accessories: Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Grosgrain Dot Ribbon, Marvy Corner Punch, JoAnn Brads







Just another card using the same stamp set. I colored the image using Prismacolor Markers then applied Crystal Effects to give it a shiny 3D effect.

Card Details:

Stamp Set: TAC , Fiskar Sentiments

Ink: Prismacolor Markers

Paper: Provocraft Holiday Stack, Dark Blue (unknown), SU Old Olive

Accessories: American Craft Element Ribbons, SU Crystal Effects, SU Crafters Tool Kit (paper piercer)

Random Cards - Project Reduce Scraps

Good Evening Everyone! Just a few cards I made yesterday for the World Cardmaking Day. I didn't participate in any challenges that I had initially planned to do. My only goal was to continue reducing my scrap pile. I really, really want to reduce it.

Beth asked that I take a picture of my pile. I'll post it tomorrow and you'll see why I need to reduce my scrap pile.

Nothing much to this card. . .I know, you're saying "whoa, that's bright". LOL! I know it is. . .but I needed to rid of the striped paper. I also want to get rid of my "orange" cardstock. Honestly, I'm not sure I like this card because it's too bright. I do like the layout and the 3D flower but the colors I'm not too fond of.

Card Details:





Stamps: TAC
Ink: Prismacolor Markers
Paper: DCWV Textured Cardstock, DCWV Glitter Stack, SU Pink Passion, Only Orange
Accessories: SU Ticket Corner Punch, SU Spritzer Tool, Grosgrain Ribbon, Making Memories Button










Another card made using TAC stamps. I colored the image, cut it out and remounted it using foam tape. I added Stickles glitter to the flowers but it's not obvious in the picture.


Anyway. . .hope everyone had a wonderful World Cardmaking Day yesterday!!

Card Details:

Stamps: TAC, Studio G

Ink: Prismacolor Markers

Paper: SU Chocolate Chip, Light Blue (unknown), Autumn Leaves Designer Paper

Accessories: SU Crafter's Tool Kit, American Craft Elements Ribbon, Making Memories Eyelets, Stickles Glitter, SU Ticket Corner Punch