Creative Inklings

Craft Show Time

It's been a few years since I've done any kind of craft show, so I bit the bullet and signed up for one this year in December. I've this particular show before, so I think it will be worth my while. SO this week I've been busy taking stock of old stuff, and getting to work on some new items. I have so many ideas, sometimes it's hard to stay focused. Monday I was working on tags. I have about 10 different designs, and although I didn't do a great job of photographing them, I think they turned out pretty well. I'm including a little picture tutorial today of how to mask a design. For supplies, I used standard packing tags from Staples in a few different sizes, stamps from Stampin' Up!, Pink Paislie and Studio Calico, scrap paper, QuicKutz dies, ribbon, buttons, glitter and other little bits. Here's what I have so far:

And a few close-ups:

 

 

To create the above tag, I needed to do some masking. Here's how I did it:

First stamp the image to be masked on a post-it note:

Cut out the image, and set aside. Next stamp the same image on the tag:

Cover your image with the mask (I had already done this several times!):

Now stamp your backround image over top of the mask:

Remove the mask, and complete the tag:

Have a great week! Thanks for stopping by.

Mother's Day Card

I'm so busy this week, so I don't have as many projects to share. My hands are totally full of paint and ink, as I have tons of things in the works, so hopefully I will have those things finished soo. This is a simple and elegant vintage-style card I made for my mom for Mother's day. I am off to pop it in the mail now, in hopes that she gets it by Friday - so I apologize for the short post!

Paper Flower Card

I've been wanting to try one of these cute pleated flowers for a while. Finally pulled out my score pal and did it. These are pretty easy, but a little tricky to get them to lay flat. I paired with paper flower with the dear image from the new Forest Friends stamp set, and the dear friend  stamp that's from the last page of the SU catalgoue (there are several stamps on that p[age which can be purchased individually!). I really like the retro feel of this card. It's another one for the class on Sunday. All the supplies used in this card are by Stampin' Up!, and to order them, please just send me an email!

Supplies:
Stamps: Forest Friends (mini catalogue), Glad Friends
Patterned Paper: Sweet Always Designer Series Paper
Cardstock: Kraft, Chocolate Chip, whisper white
Ink: Chocolate chip craft ink
Accessories: chocolate chip corduroy button, linen thread, regal rose grosgrain ribbon, eyelet boarder punch, 1 3/4" circle punch

Some SU cards

I got an order of some new things from the Stampin' Up! catalogue this week, so here's a couple of cards I made with my new things.

Supplies:
Dear Friend card:

Cardstock:Very vanilla, kraft, pink pirouette
Patterned Paper: hand drawn bundle (hostess set)
Stamp Sets: Glad Friends, Forest Friends, Trendy Trees
Ink: pixie pink, more mustard, certainly celery, chocolate chip
Accessories: top note die, cuttlebug folder, amuse ribbon

Thank You Card:

Cardstock: Very vanilla, kraft, chocolate chip, pink passion
Patterned Paper: hand drawn bundle (hostess set)
Stamp Sets: Oval All, Branch Out
Ink:gable green, pixie pink, pink passion, chocolate chip, apricot appeal
Accessories: taffeta ribbon, library clip, oval punch

Featured Stamp Set - Home for Christmas

It's been a while since I've done a "featured stamp set" post. The set for today is called Home for Christmas, and it is available in the Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalogue. It's a set of just three stamps, with a gorgeous vintage feel. The set can be watercoloured, or left plan - looks great both ways. I have five samples today showing different ways to use this set. To order Home for Christmas, or any other Stampin' Up! products, please just email me!

Christmas Cards Samples

O.k., so not a very interesting title for this post, but it's been a long day..... For those of you who are already QuicKutz fans, you may know the value of their gift sets that they put out. There's one coming soon, and although I haven't seen it, I bet it's gonna be good. Last year I bought the Merry and Bright gift set, and the value was incredible! Two cookie cutter alphabets, plus shapes. I  get a ton of use out this set, and pulled it out this week when I was putting together some Christmas cards. I think the more whimsical font, that I used on these cards, is the "Merry" font, but I really don't know. I love how the font works for these cards. I often pair QuicKutz and stamping by combining a QuicKutz shape, with a stamped sentiment. For these two cards I did the opposite. My 'tis the season card features a stamped image by Stamping Bella, Christmatni. I watercoloured it with peerless watercolours, and used glassy accents. The other card features Mr. Twigster, a fun little set from the Stampin' Up! holiday mini catalogue. I hope you enjoy these samples - they were fun to make!

Amuse Mini Card Set

I had to do another set of cards using my curly label punch - love it soooo much! I also adore my amuse Christmas stamps that I got a few months ago, and haven't have much time to play with yet. For this card set, I chose 5 colours of AMuse polkadot cardstock as the base for the 3 by 3 cards. The images are stamped on very vanilla cardstock, coloured with Copics, and punched out with the curly label punch. The images are double matted in coordinating colours, and the label is popped up on dimentionals. All images and sentiments are by Amuse Art Stamps.

A new CUTE project!

Finally, I had some time (and the energy) to do some crafting last night. I really, really needed some creative time.I had spent of the day yesterday at the second hand sale at Scrapbooks by Design, where I scored some deals on some super cute embellishments, and an incredible deal on a brand new Sillhouette! Now I have to install parallels, and figure out how it works....

Anyway, back to my project. The bases for this project were the new curly label punch by Stampin' Up!, and a set of adorable chipboard buttons by Elsie - Noel. After playing around for a bit, I finally came up this basic and simple design. A piece of cardstock cut to 2 3/4" by 7", folded in half. Use the scalop edge punch by stampin' UP! to scallop one of the bottom edges.  All my colours were based on the colours in the buttons. I used a combination of Stampin' Up! cardstock in various colours, and Amuse polkadot cardstock in various colous. Each button was threaded with a coordinating ribbon, or linen thread. The ribbons are from Amuse, Stampin' Up! and Stamping Bella. The sentiments are by Amuse, and are stamped in Vivid black ink. I made the box after I finished the lot to hold them all in. I LOVE how these came out - I think they will be for Etsy soon...

 

 

Halloween Pillow Boxes

Last year around this time I did some cute halloween projects, using clear pillow boxes and stampin' Up! halloween paer and punches. I've had some requests to show it again, and the info on where I got the boxes. Here's my original post with all the details!

It's been a while...

I'm sorry I haven't posted much lately. We are in the process of getting our house ready to put on the market - and it's a HUGE job! I haven't had too much time for stamping and scrapping lately, but I have a few things to show you. The first is another Christmas card using the new Amuse christmas images. It's a very simple design, coloured with Copics. The other two cards are simple make and takes from my open house a couple of weeks ago. I'm expecting my new stuff tomorrow, hopefully I'll have something to post on Monday!