Repeating Elements :: Brenda Weaver

Hey there! It's Brenda here with you today!

I've got a cute and simple card to share today, but I wanted to use this card to show you a simple rule of great design you can use yourself when deciding what kinds of elements to use together in your projects.

Check out the cute snail!

Notice he's got those fun little circles on his back? I took my cue from those circles when deciding how I wanted the end result of my card to look. I not only added some card stock circles for some extra color and movement, but the circle idea is further carried over with the addition of the brad and buttons in the lower left. 

 Look carefully for patterns and shapes in your main image/element to carry through to the other design elements in your project. Repeating elements, such as circles, throughout your design will ensure you end up with a cohesive and polished looking design.

I hope you enjoyed this mini lesson in design today:). You may already be familiar with this concept, but sometimes us seasoned crafters tend to take some of the basics for granted. They bear repeating every once in a while, don't you think?

Thanks so much for joining me here today!

Brenda

Lovely Notecards....

Hi, everyone! Steph here! Sorry so late! I scheduled the post, but forgot to post it.... silly me! Anyway, are you having a wonderful FRIDAY! I'm here today to show you some quick and simple notecards that I made! I love to have little postcard style notes on hand to slip into packages I send out or into my son's backpack for his teachers or soccer coaches. I always need more so I thought I'd whip some up with some of my favorite Market Street Stamps background stamps! Here they are all lined up......

To make these lovelies, I simply cut an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of cardstock into 4 pieces (each 4 1/4 x 5 1/2). Then I scored each end of the cardstock- one end 1" from the end and the other end 1/2" from the end. I pulled out my favorite background stamps, lined them up with the score lines, and stamped the backgrounds on the cards! The sentiment "Hello there" is from Slow Movin'. Love that sentiment!

Here are all the notecards individually! Hope you enjoy them!

Zebra Print with VersaMagic Turquoise Gem

Vintage Wallpaper with VersaMagic Pixie Dust

Vintage Music with VersaMagic Aquatic Splash and Pumice Stone Distress Ink

Bit of Burlap with Pumice Stone Distress Ink

Perfectly Perfect Grid with Raspberry Fizz Ink

I hope you make some great little notecards, too!

DON'T FORGET!

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• Market Street Stamps on Facebook
• Market Streets Stamps on Twitter
• Market Street Stamps Flickr group
• Market Street Stamps SCS gallery (keyword: marketstreetstamps)}

Hello There

Today I have a soft, spring-like card to share with you. I was inspired by FTL-134 and the Clean & Simple Cards color challenge on SCS.

I thought these soft colors screamed spring, so I immediately reached for my So Happy set from Market Street. I did a bit of masking to stamp only the top of the tulip here, in a grid-like fashion.

To add some interest to my card, I stamped the tulips again on scrap cardstock. Then cut that center petal out and mounted in on dimensionals for each flower.

The sentiment is from Market Street's Slow Movin' set. I highlighted that with two teeny tiny pearls.

Hope you like it!

Hello There

Well...HELLO THERE!


This quick and easy card is made AWESOME thanks to that cute little sentiment from Market Street Stamps.

The sentiment is one of four cute sentiments that comes from the Slow Movin' set {plus that cute little snail, of course}.


And have you seen the supply section at the Market Street Stamps store? There is a selection of Tsukineko's VersaMagic Dew Drop ink pads!
{And keep an eye on that section because there could be more to come!}

I used the Jumbo Java ink for this card.



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Supplies:
Stamps: Market Street Stamps {Hello There from the Slow Movin' set}
Ink: Tsukineko {Jumbo Java}
Cardstock: Jillibean Soup {Kraft}
Patterned Paper: Jillibean Soup {Shell Macaroni and Blended Beans from the Pasta Fagioli collection}
Other: Tim Holtz {Tiny Attacher and Tiny Staples};

Slow Movin'

Hey it's Samantha and I must confess, I absolutely love this brand new Market Street Stamps Slow Movin' stamp set. This set is just so cute, sweet, and just overall puts a smile on my face. When I first saw this stamp set, I knew exactly what I was going to do with it. I just had to make mushrooms out of the snail shell. Now this happy little snail has a cute place to roam around. There are many sentiments on this set that will go perfectly with the snail! Any card made with this stamp set will be sure to make anyone happy!

February Release - Sneak Peek 3: Slow Movin' and your last chance to win!

Hello everyone! It's our last sneak peek day today and I couldn't be more excited! So far we have shown you peeks of "Vintage Wallpaper", "Blast Off" and today, "Slow Movin'"{this post}, our final set in the February release! If you haven't yet, be sure to hop back to those posts and leave a comment for a chance to win that set!

This generously sized snail comes with a few different sentiments that would be perfect for brightening someone's day or just to say hello.  (My card - Angelica's - is 5.25" x 5.25 just to give you a feel on the scale.)

"Slow Movin'" is approximately 4.25" x 4" and includes 4 sentiments and one image (the snail). It will be fully revealed tomorrow with the other sets in this release and available for purchase on Friday @ 12:01 a.m. CST. 

I'd like to take an opportunity, also, to thank our February guest designer, Tina Hale, for coming aboard this month and lending us her creative eye. Tina is a regular poster on Splitcoast Stampers and an avid blogger. Each time I go to her blog, I'm there for quite awhile, admiring all the inspiration she provides on a weekly basis. Head on over to Wooded Views, and check out more of her gorgeous work! 

For the entire month of March, Market Street is pleased to welcome Nikki Foraker! Nikki's a full time designer for Peachy Keen Stamps, My Creative Time, The Scrapping Cottage and Pink Cricut. You can find TONS of crafty projects on her blog that she posts to daily - The Scrappin' Navy Wife.

So who's ready to see some peeks??? Here they are! Don't forget to pop by all our Designers Blogs this week and leave a little love - we love reading your comments and following your blogs, too!

DoBea

Angelica

Tina

Be sure to stop back tomorrow for the full reveal of all our February releases! 
They will be available for purchase Friday, February 25th - 12:01 a.m. with a special 10% off for an entire week!