Inspiring Inkin'

Lots of cards to share with you from some very special people……
This first one is from a wonderfully talented ALMOST 9 year old!  She is the daughter of one of my team of Inspiring Inkees and is clearly following in her Mum’s footsteps!  The card uses Forest Friends stamp set, some ribbon and the scallop [...]

As a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator each month I receive a mini magazine called Impressions and it has lots of hints and tips about building our businesses  and some great ideas for demonstrations.  This month one of the ideas was to use the Tag punch to create flowers, a very simple technique but very effective.  
To make [...]

This was one of the projects on my Stamping but not on cards class.  It is made from Vellum, the great thing about Stampin’ Up!’s Vellum cardstock is it’s really strong but flexible so I have lots more projects coming up using it.

Now because pur classic ink is dye based it dries really quickly on [...]

Happy Easter, I hope you are enjoying your weekend, it’s been really rainy here so plenty of time for crafting, which is great since I have several deadlines looming………..My parents are visiting with us this weekend and as always are busy helping out, Mum is doing a grand job helping me with my crafting projects [...]

Lots of my lovely team have promoted during March so I’ve had a busy time making cards for them all.  Hopefully they have received them by now.  For these cards I have used Playful Petals which is rapidly becoming one of my favourite sets from the new mini catalogue.
I have taken a base Whisper white [...]

At the team training last week I set a challenge with limited resources for my team, sort of homework…….!  They had a bag of   card stock and ribbon, and were allowed to add only one colour of   card stock and stamps and ink, nothing else.  They had a week to complete it and it wasn’t [...]

To all those wonderful mothers out there but especially to mine!!!!
Here is Mum’s card, I hope she likes it.  It’s made with 2 new stamp sets from the mini catalogue and some new Designer series paper called Tea party.

I’ve taken an A4 piece of card stock in Almost Amethyst and folded it in half to [...]

Lots of votes for the Chocolate Lime card last week so here is another one just for you………

Using the same set Tart and Tangy as the previous card I’ve stamped the citrus image, to make a Lime in Green Galore, a Lemon in Summer Sun and an Orange in Pumpkin Pie.  I heat embossed them [...]