May Edition | Woodblock Wednesday + Guest Designer

Edited to Add Winner:

I used random.org to pick the winner:

Erin Thiem

Yay Congrats! I’ll send you an email! Please note the next Woodblock Wednesday is: Wednesday, June 24.

I’m back with another edition of Woodblock Wednesday! Although there’s no official sponsor, I wanted give away a prize. One lucky random project with a US mailing address will win a $10 Gift Code to winner’s choice:

• Jessica Lynn Original
• Bossy Joscie
• Foiled Fox

If the winner is international, they will receive a $10 Gift Card to Bossy Joscie.

Link up for a chance to win! Challenge closes on Monday, June 1st at 5 am pacific.

• newly created project
• use a woodblock stamp as the focal point
• Please use the hashtags: #Woodblockwednesday #woodblockstamps

I’m so happy to introduce my guest for this month, Becca Yahrling

Last month she won the Small USPS Flat Rate Priority Mail Box with some Christmas/Winter Impress Rubber Stamps/Josephine Kimberling designs. It makes my crafty heart happy that she used two stamps from the prize pack! Make sure you hop over to her Flickr or IG and leave her some Woodblock Wednesday love!

Here’s how I was inspired today:

My project features the following woodblock stamps:

• Diamond Background | JRL Design
• Source of Inspiration | Inkadinkado
• Hello Flags | Hero Arts
• Greetings from Washington | Impress Stamps

I inked up the Diamond Background with Catherine Pooler’s Cashmere ink and stamped it onto a Spellbinders ColorWheel Alabaster panel.

That silhouette image was a major challenge. The interior image would not stamp cleanly. I was determined to use it for today’s card so I must have stamped it out six times! I ended up making a mask and filling it in as best I could. The floral that surrounds the image was hit and miss so I had to fill those in with black sharpie and then I used a pink and gold paint pen and made polka dots. I ended up added more polkas with the black sharpie too. I’ve always thought that the ‘inspire’ was in weird place so I covered it up with the sentiment.

I finished the card off with the Hero Arts Hello Flags and some fussy cutting. Days like this, I feel like I’m going back in time with the silhouette image and the iconic Hello Flags.

I can’t wait to see how you’re inspired! Link up your:

• newly created project
• use a woodblock stamp as the focal point
• Please use the hashtags: #woodblockwednesday #woodblockstamps