A Little Love

Today is the day I am posting my card for our Challenge Your Stash group on SCS.  This is our 78th month of de-stash and we are starting our 5th year of our challenges.  

The premise is to create a card or something else that uses only items that are in your own stamp room--nothing new is to be purchased.  The hostess each month posts their challenge to the group. Each person in the group creates their card with their own image, their own papers, their own embellishments with their own supplies--using up items from their own stash!  The card can be for any occasion and each person is encouraged to send the card on its way to someone so it can be admired.  It is a way for us to step out of the box a bit and create something that follows a challenge--isn't that what a challenge is supposed to be.  And--no money is spent as all items are to be already available in each of own stamping spaces.

Lisa posted our January challenge--Create a friendship card and use a flower or heart on your card.

I picked a new Gina K Designs stamp, die and stencil combo called A Little Love Bundle. I first inked the three step stencils with my Taylored Expressions Blender Brushes and TE ink cubes.  It is fun to take off each subsequent stencil to see the sweet patterns.  I then die cut some of the images with the coordinating dies.  I then die cut the word Love and the shadow from white and Magenta Madness.  The small sentiment is from the same set and I stamped in black ink and used a banner die from a Gina K Master Layouts.  The background is a We R Memory Keepers Geometric Embossing Folder.   I added all of the die cuts on the background and added Gina K Angel Aura Rhinestones for the final touch!

Here is the inside of my card:

If you check some of the blogs on my sidebar, you may find others who have posted their cards in the next few days. There may be more posted in the thread on SCS, so you might want to check out the link here.  We also have a keyword for the SCS Gallery--it is CYSJAN.  You might see many cards there if you do a search.  They probably will be posted today or maybe yesterday or in the next few days.

I hope you enjoyed my card and I know I am excited to check out what my other hoarders, I mean stash reducers have made!  Thanks for stopping by today!  For February, Danielle is up for our challenge.  Be sure to check back to see what we create then!

Image/Sentiment:  Gina K Designs A Little Love Stamp, Die and Stencil Bundle

Cardstock:  The Paper Cut Cougar Opaque 110# White; Stampin' Up Pear Pizzazz, Magenta Madness, Basic Black

Ink:  Taylored Expressions Ink Cubes

Accessories:  Gina K Angel Aura Rhinestones, Master Layouts; We R Memory Keepers Geometric Embossing Folder