Can you believe that it’s Friday already! I spoke with a good friend this morning who was so excited that her counter tops where being installed in her stamp room. She had a fabulous room before she began the remodel, but now she is adding cabinets, granite counter top and more storage space. I was so jealous listening to her talk and swoon over her new room! Every time I get new stamps, inks or anything, I’m on a day long reorganization to make it all fit. Hmmmmm some day, some day! Don’t get me wrong, I love my stamp room, but I have seriously outgrown it. Here are my options – get rid of things I don’t use everyday (can’t do that) or move to the middle of the basement and make a game room/mud room out of my current stamp room – might work, but then if I want to work late into the night, I will be down in the basement between the bedrooms. Not a good thing when one is a very light sleeper! Decisions, decisions!

Anyhoo, enough of my dilemmas. Lets talk stamping! I’m still trying to get in as many of the daily challenges on Splitcoast that is possible. Today is the Limited Supply Challenge, and Jen never fails to surprise on what she is going to do next. Today she is having another of her Follow the List challenges. As she said, a real challenge and yes it was! One stamped image that could be colored, an optional sentiment or an image to ground the main image; any shade of white paper and 2-3 patterned paper – NO other colored cardstock; No specialty tools, just coloring tools; One piece of ribbon – NO other embellishments. Here’s my card, with some creative embellishing.

The main image was colored with Copic Markers and to ground the image, I added some shading with the markers. The designer paper I used for the background was cut in layers and then faux stitched. I made a tag for the sentiment and attached it to the ribbon (which by the way is purple and white even though it looks black and white in the photo). The edges of the tag, the actual card and the layer of white the designer paper is attached to, were all sponged with Adirondack Eggplant ink.

Stamps: 82-18 Washing Machine and 82-24 Those Days Text from Rubbernecker Stamp Company

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Memory Box Echo

Ink: Adirondack Pitch Black and Eggplant (Rubbernecker)

Accessories: Copic Markers, Tsukineko Sponge Dauber, Faber-Castell Black Artist Pen, Ribbon