Inspiring Inkin'

It was one of my friends birthdays last week, she doesn’t like lots of fussy things so a very simple card was in order, blues and browns her favourite colours. The butterfly is stamped on vellum cardstock using versamark ink and heat embossed in gold. Stamps : Occasional Greetings, Touch of Nature Inks: Chocolate Chip, [...]

This was my hostess gift to Elaine to say thank you for hosting us on Saturday and my make and take. I have a new favourite colour combination Sage Shadow and Chocolate Chip so have designed my project around that, a very simple notebook.  Of course I needed to take the hostess a little gift, [...]

Three cards to share with you today, 2 from my lovely team of Inspiring Inkees Jane and Marilyn and one from a new customer who I met last week, Marcia. Thank you so much for sending me cards. This is from Jane, it’s a Whisper White card blank with 2 Ballet Blue layers the bottom [...]

Some more cards using the Fresh Cut stamp set today, it has seen so much ink recently, but it is so versatile! This is a really simple one using an Old Olive standard card blank I have stamped the main image in Chocolate Chip ink, onto Whisper White and blended the Stampin’ pastels over the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]