Gears & Textures Thinking Of You!

Welcome to our Create With Stamping Friends Inspiration Monday challenges. This week’s inspiration challenge is this rainbow of colors image:

My thoughts were to create a card using the colors and I knew I wanted to change the hearts to gears:

I also added some 2025-2027 In Color Flat Pearls mixed in with the gears:


Stampin’ Up! Products Used:
- Stamps: Gears & Textures, Friendly Foliage
- Inks: Strawberry Slush, Azure Afternoon, Timid Tiger, Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight, Lemon Lime Twist, Fresh Freesia
- Cardstock: Azure Afternoon, Strawberry Slush, Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight, Basic White
- Designer Paper: Lovely & Beautiful
- Tools & Accessories: Gears & Textures Dies, 2025-2027 In Color Flat Pearls, Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals, Stampin’ Dimensionals
Card Recipe:
- Card Base: Azure Afternoon Cardstock 8-1/2 x 5-1/2. Score and fold at 4-1/4.
- Layer 2: Lovely & Beautiful Designer Paper 5-1/4 x 4. Glue to card base.
- Layer 3: Basic White Cardstock 4-1/4 x 3. Follow these steps-
- Stamp the long chain image starting at the top with the following ink colors:
- Strawberry Slush Ink
- Azure Afternoon Ink
- Timid Tiger Ink
- Granny Apple Green Ink
- Daffodil Delight Ink
- Stamp the sentiment below the row of chains with Fresh Freesia Ink
- Stamp the dotted image over the chains several times with Lemon Lime Twist Ink.
- Glue to card base with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- Stamp the long chain image starting at the top with the following ink colors:
- Gears: Cut several gears using the 3 smallest dies with Strawberry Slush, Granny Apple Green, Azure Afternoon and Daffodil Delight Cardstocks. Glue the largest one flat and the 3 others with Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals cut in half.
- Bling: Add 2025-2027 In Color Flat Pearls around the gears and one on the gears.
Make sure you visit Create With Stamping Friends to see what Connie created for our team this week and see our newest tutorial Collection too:



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