It's raining playing cards!

LOL - I feel like Alice in Wonderland with all of these fabulous playing cards entries that are flowing in! I have 3 of them to share today, and more to come tomorrow!! This has been one of my favourite challenges so far - so many different ideas!

First for today we have this ATC that was sent in by Lesley Dupont from Canada:


Lesley's ATC has a door in the centre that folds out to reveal the king:


Lesley cut a piece of blue cardstock and stamped it with bubble wrap using Tim Holtz distress ink in Tea Dye and inked around the edges. Leslie then carefully positioned the top layer over the playing card and drew a small window to view just the face of the king.

From Lesley:

"I carefully cut a door making sure I just had the middle section of the playing card showing when the door was open. I used a piece of drywall tape and placed it over the window, then cut a door size piece of paper and cut out another window and placed and glued it over the entire door inside the card".

"Next I took an Inkadinkado flourish stamp and stamped in black on Shrink Plastic, making four stamps in black, and I drew 3 spades and coloured them in with Sharpie permanent black marker. I cut all the pieces out carefully then shrunk them with my heat gun".

"Then I positioned all the pieces on and glued them carefully and let dry. I then inked the edges just a bit with black ink just to give it a little more oomph".

Great job Lesley!

Next we have this great scrapbooking page that was sent in by Annette Hanigan:

From Annette:

"I knew the kids had an icecream container of playing cards that didn't have full decks so I went rummaging through and found the one to use on the layout. It just so happens that my name starts with "A" duh!! and it had "Australian Made" in tiny little print on the card. And well I am Australian made, lol so that sparked a little more confidence in being out of my comfort zone and making something with my playing card".

And we're glad you did Annette! That's what Inkurable is all about - getting out of your comfort zone and getting inky with it! :)

Annette created her background by stamping a Kimberly Poloson Nature's Flora - Tapestry stamp in black, then squishing some red and white paint over it using a credit card.

Annette also stamped the bottom layer of white under the "a" with the same stamp.

Great work Annette!

Last but not least for today is this lovely card by 10 year old Natasha Rumble from New Zealand:


Natasha created her background using a "diamond in the rough" Cuttlebug embossing folder on red cardstock.

Natasha used 3 Air NZ mini cards, a three leaf clover punch, and some red ribbon to embellish her card. Natasha stamped a Hero Arts "hat with big bow" stamp onto white cardstock and accentuated the hat with a red diamonte. The Good Luck sentiment was also stamped.

Great work Natasha!

This challenge has seen entries from a whopping 9 different countries so far! How awesome is that! I think that's the record! Woohoo! I know there are plenty more of you international stampers out there, so don't be afraid to send through an entry! :)

I'll be back tomorrow with more!

~Sarah~