Stamp Something Challenge

Good morning! TGIF! You know what Friday means! This weeks Stamp Something Challenge is sponsored by Queen Kat Designs. They have a great sketch for us. I love sketches!

I couldn't get a good picture of this card. The background is stamped in Real Red with the polka dots from Itty Bitty Backgrounds, but it won't show up. All of the penguins hats are paper pieced with the prints paper from last year. Whoops...I just noticed that I forgot to color in the penguins noses. I also meant to put some stickles on their hats, but I got distracted and then forgot. I guess it's just one of those days .

-Stamps-Inkadinkado Christmas Characters, SU Itty Bitty Backgrounds and Many Merry Messages.
-Paper-Real Red, White and Old Olive cardstock; Real Red, Pretty in Pink and Soft Sky Prints DSP
-Ink-Palette Black, Old Olive and Real Red
-Accessories-Sewing machnine, Pewter brads

Make sure you check out the Stamp Something Challenge blog to see what the rest of the team came up with!

Another acetate card =)

Good afternoon! Here is another acetate card I made last night. I am lovin acetate cards! I think I've finally got the picture taking thing down. I know a lot my pictures don't have true colors, or they are too dark so I've been trying to figure something out. Anyway, the first part of my problem is the colors on my screen weren't right. I remembered that Dawn McVey always has amazing looking pictures, so I found a card on her blog that used all SU colors so I could compare my paper to it and adjust my screen around that. Worked pretty well. Hubby has an nivida video card, and it gives you a lot of options for adjusting your monitor color. Then I decided I needed a new way to take pictures. Outside never works for me for whatever reason. I've been taking them in a chair, but they just don't look very good and normally I have to do a good bit of editing to make them even look halfway presentable.
So here's what I did. That light you see is part of one of those Japanese paper lanterns. I took the paper cover part off, since it didn't match my stamp room and it blocks too much light. It looks pretty bad this way, but it gives me a lot more much needed light. Anyway, so it hangs right next to the top of a bookshelf that sits on my stamp table. I just set my card up on top of the bookshelf and pulled the light away from it a little bit to reduce the glare. It worked like a charm! The colors probably still aren't perfect, but I think it's an improvement at least. All I had to do to the picture was lighten it a tiny little bit to make the white brighter. I had no idea how much difference a little bit of close light makes! I think I may make something a little more permanent to put up there.

-Stamps-Inkadinkado Christmas Characters
-Paper-Old Olive, Real Red and Whisper White cardstock; Dashing DSP
-Ink-Palette Black, Old Olive-Markers-Real Red, Creamy Carmel and Old Olive
-Accessories-Acetate, Retired Silver ribbon