Debby Hughes’ Creative Uses
Hi readers! Happy Sunday! I think you’ll be surprised at the supplies list for this card. I sure was! Debby Hughes is back with her very fun and popular Creative Uses post! I think you’ll find today’s inspiration to be out of this world!
Read on…. enjoy!
Hello, Debby here with my monthly look at stretching your supplies. I think more than any time of year, getting the most out of your holiday supplies is key. We buy sets for a certain occasion or season and shouldn’t put them away afterwards but look how they can be used all year round.
I took the surf board from the Warm Christmas Wishes die set and turned it in to a rocket. Firstly I gathered all the shapes I needed – the surf board as the main body of the rocket, parts of the Circle Loops dies as rocket wings, Tattered Poppy leaves as flames, a window from the sports balls set and I also used another circle from this set for the Earth. Having cut all the pieces from Neenah Solar White card I then colored them with Copics. I accented the die cuts with Rock Candy Distress Glitter on the Earth and flames and covered the rest of the rocket in Glossy Accents then put them to dry while I worked on the background panel
Taking a piece of Neenah Solar White I blended in Distress Inks (Spun Sugar, Seedless Preserves, Broken China, Stormy Sky & Black Soot) then sprinkled the panel with water and dabbed off with a tissue to remove some of the color. I also splattered the background with a solution of Perfect Pearls. With the galactic sky starting to take shape I turned to a technique I’ve not used for a while but love – swiping embossing paste through the Falling Stars stencil and then, while still wet, sprinkling on silver embossing powder before heat setting. This gives fabulous texture and dimension to the stars :D
To finish off the card I mounted the die cuts on the panel with foam adhesive and in turn the panel on a top folding card base. The sentiment from More Sketchy Banner Greetings is stamped in Lipstick Red, trimmed in to a banner and again foam mounted. The last touch were a few sequins. I always love to add sequins, but they are also great to cover up a mark in glossy accents if you failed to leave it dry long enough and touched your finger to it ;)
I hope you take a look at your autumn and holiday supplies to see uses for them other than those intended :D
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Thanks for reading today, and thanks to the amazing Debby for being our guest today!
So amazing. Wish I had your imagination. Thanks so much.
So much fun!
OMG, who’d have thunk! Love your clever use of all of these parts and pieces…. Hugs
Love this and it reminds me of a card I made for one of my great-nephews with a rocket on too.
This is a fantastic card and so clever. Part of the fun of card making is improvising and creating something with what I have. Thanks Debby for reminding me to check out my holiday stamps for more ideas!
Great card! Love it!
What a great idea to stretch your stamps.
Looks like a great project
Debby’s creativity is out of this world, LOVE this wonderful card!!!
Well done! So creative!
What a fabulous card!
Very creative indeed!
Clever how you repurposed things.
Creative card! Great tips!
Debby knocks me out with her ability to envision rockets out of surfboards and leaves.
Wow! The texture and the color is divine! This card will definitely bring a smile to some little person!
This is so creative. I would never have thought of this. It’s fantastic.
Wow she is one creative lady!!! Great card:)
SUPER!
Such an amazing and stunning card! I am terrible at the stretching my stamps idea, hope to give that a try one of these days!
That Debby is so very clever. Cute card and super job of stretching stamps for year-round use!
Fantastic card and so creative!
Wow! What an awesome card! I love your ideas for using your dies. So creative. TFS your work with us today.
I love when you can take one thing and make it into something else.
I do that a lot with punches. Hadn’t thought about doing the same with
my stamps.
thanks for the inspiration.
So cool! I love the space background! I just ordered a rocket ship stamp set, can’t wait for it to get here so I can try this background technique!
Its Wonderful and very Creative !
Cute card!
Grandsons would love the card! Very creative♥
Love this rocket shooting into the beautiful sky.
What a creative idea! Great inspiration Debby. I need to start thinking outside the box. Adorable!
Debby, your card is wonderful. Oh, I so love Distressed backgrounds, they are always so pretty.
How fun! I love the creative uses.
SUPER AMAZING!! I LOVE the FUN Design! THANKS so much for sharing and have a Fabulous Week!! =)
What a creative idea. Debbie’s cards are ALWAYS delightful!!!
Fantastic card! Thanks, Debby!!
Out of this world! (could not resist) Wonderful with just the right amt of sparkle.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
What a beautiful card and such great ideas. I just adore Debbies cards. So creative.
So very clever. And….what a marvelous card as the result. The card is gorgeous. I know my grandsons would love it. Thanks for the project ideas and the inspiration to think outside of the box to use our supplies in multiple ways.
This is really fun, Debby. Great way to stretch the use of this stamp set!
Super cute and creative.
Awesome ink blending on that gorgeous outer space background, love this card!
Brilliant outside-the-box thinking! What a fun card and it’s gorgeously colored.
Wow!!! This is one fabulous card!! Talk about thinking outside the box. Love that awesome night sky galaxy background and the creative use of the supplies!!!
<3 J
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Fabulous card! Love the background.
Fantastic card!! Love all the different textures!!
I love Debby’s posts like this because it has encouraged me to look at my stamps, dies, tools and everything in a different way and given the amount of pennies we spend to get our awesome stash making it stretch more and giving us value for money is always welcome! A really gorgeous card to boot – what more can we ask for?! Many thanks for sharing Karen xx
What an awesome card!!! Love it!
great work using the Falling Star stencil !
Great card, Debby! Love all the stars and your creativity is amazing! Love it!!! :)
Debby, your creativity in stretching supplies is just AMAZING! Love the boy card – we need to see more of those, I think!