Inspiration from La-Vie for Challenge 17: Thanks

Have you heard about the challenge at the Get Inky! Challenge blog? It's all about giving thanks. To inspire you to join in on the challenge, I created a Thank you card using two Get Inky! Stamp sets - Sew Sweet Cupcakes and Love Bugs (found on Etsy).

Thanks for stopping by! For more information and a supply list please visit my blog. I hope to see your entry in the challenge!

La-Vie

A Simple Thank You

Sometimes the most cherished 'thank yous' are the simplest ones! I love to have a stash of thank you cards on hand for those little moments when someone goes out of their way to help you. As a crafter, I like to say 'thank you' the best way I know how... with a card!

I created this card with the theme of our current challenge in mind - fall colors! The circles were cut with a 1" hole punch from Echo Park's new Reflections Fall paper collection. The 'Thank You' sentiment is from Get Inky's "Sew Sweet Cupcake" stamp set. 

Although the card is really simple it would be great to have a stash of these around during the fall months, or even sold in a set at a craft show!

Have a great rest of your week, and thanks for stopping by!

Ashley

Get, Inky! Challenge #13 Inspiration - Jessi

Hello, Get Inky! friends! Have you seen our current Get, Inky! Challenge? It is a fun one! It's all about the Birds, the Bees, flowers, trees, etc!

Here is my card that I created using the Joyful Jars, Sew Sweet Cupcakes and Buzzing Bees stamp sets:

We hope you will stop on over to the Get, Inky! Challenge blog to enter your latest creation!

Feel free to stop by my blog, Kissin' Krafts, to see more Get, Inky! Stamps creations.

Have a great day!

Jessi

Supplies:
Get, Inky! Stamps - Joyful Jars, Sew Sweet Cupcakes, and Buzzing Bees

DT Member Beth ~ Challenge # 12 Cake, Cake, Cupcakes

Hi, Beth here from The Crafty Scrap Yard!

Today's card is inspired for our "Cake cake, cupcake challenge!  For this challenge I decided to make a 3-d cupcake favor box with a cherry on top! 

This little cupcake favor box would be perfect for any party treats you would like to send home.  It was fun to make & cute as can be.  =)

My design:

More details about my card can be found on my blog here.

I used Sew Sweet Cupcakes stamp set for my sentiment.  You can find out more about our current challenge, posted on our Get Inky! Challenge Blog.  

I hope you stop back soon again to visit soon. ♥♥(ˆ◡ˆ)♥♥

~Beth DT

Inspiration for the "Cakes, Cakes, and Cupcakes" Challenge #12

Hi, Get Inky! friends.  Julie here from Muddy Paws & Inky Fingers with some cupcake inspiration for you.

There's a cupcake challenge going on (Cakes, Cakes, and Cupcakes) at the Get Inky! Challenge blog, and Get Inky! Stamps sells some adorable cupcake stamps in their Etsy shop, so this should be a fun, easy one to participate in.

Last week, I left a little sneak of what I was making today on the "What'cha Workin' on Wednesday" post.  Laura Turcotte guessed it right!

 

I made a cupcake holder for the challenge, using my Silhouette and some Close to My Heart papers.  I stamped a cute cupcake image several times using Close To My Heart Saddle ink, fussy cut it, layered it up, used some Stickles on it to make it look like frosting, stamped and fussy cut a bow, and stamped a sentiment. All the stamped images are from the Get Inky! Sew Sweet Cupcake set. And, there's room inside the box for one delicious cupcake. 

Here's a close up of the stamped images.  Yummy!

 



 Let's see your cake and cupcake creations.  Get inky! friends and enter the challenge!

Ribbon here, Ribbon there!

Hello, friends, Julie here from Muddy Paws & Inky Fingers with some ribbon inspiration for you this hump day (that would be Wednesday, if you're not a camel, LOL). I love that commercial, BTW!  I laugh every time I see it. "Mike, Mike, what day is it?".  OK, enough of that! Back to the ribbon theme! Have you checked out the current challenge on the Get Inky! Challenge blog? Well, if you haven't, you've probably guessed, the theme is ribbon!

Here's a card I made with a ribbon theme:

 

 

I used the Get Inky! Stamps "Sew Sweet Cupcake" set to make this card, including the fantastic sentiment. The cupcake and stamped ribbon were colored with Copic markers.  Please visit my blog for more details on how I made this cheery birthday card, with ribbon here and ribbon there!

Then, use some ribbon, a Get Inky! stamp, and enter the current ribbon challenge!

But, this post isn't done yet -- there's a new feature starting today, another post called "Whatcha Workin' On Wednesdays".  Today, it happens to be written by me.  So, you'll see a sneak peek of a project I'm making.  Look for that post here.

But wait, there's STILL more!  The entire Get Inky! Stamps design team -- the whole talented bunch is hopping, starting Friday, Aug 9.  We will be featuring the new Halloween stamp, and it is a SUPER fun one!

 

 

 



Let's Celebrate!

Hello, Get Inky! friends.  Julie here from Muddy Paws & Inky Fingers, hoping you are having a terrific Friday! We're having a Christmas in July and birthday challenge on the Get Inky! Challenge blog.  I thought you might need a little inspiration. 

I love shaped cards.  I used my Silhouette to make this one:

 

I used the Get Inky! Stamps "Sew Sweet Cupcake" stamp set.  It is a very big stamp set -- 6x8!  With lots of sentiments and such. And, I love the fonts on this "birthday wishes" -- so elegant!

 

Please stop by my blog for more details on this card, and don't forget to link up to the Get Inky! Challenge blog with your Christmas or birthday creation for your chance at some great prizes.



Star Spangled Cupcake

Happy Friday! Ashley here today to share with you a quick patriotic card I made using Get Inky! stamps for our current red, white, and blue challenge:

I paper pieced the cupcake from the Sew Sweet Cupcakes stamp set to make this 4x4 card. 

The cupcake is even on an Action Wobble!

For my details be sure to visit my blog, and don't forget to check out our current challenge!

DT Member Beth ~ Challenge # 6 Boys/Men Challenge

Hi, Beth here from The Crafty Scrap Yard!

Today's card is inspired from our challenge "Boys/Men Challenge!!   Masculine cards can be difficult to create for many & they can be for me too!  But once you start on them they get easier.  

This card does not reflect my Father in anyway other than the "Miss you" sentiment!  He lives back in the Midwest but we talk often and we see each other throughout the year.  I found the svg and it fit the challenge and reflects the Southwest where I live.  I then began picking out paper & piecing together colors that complimented each other.   I really like how it turned out and could see this card used for multiple occasions throughout the year.

More details about my card can be found on my blog here.

My design:

For my card I used the Sew Sweet Cupcakes stamp set which you can find here.  You can find out about our current challenge posted on our Get Inky! Challenge Blog.  

I hope you stop back soon again to visit soon. ♥♥(ˆ◡ˆ)♥♥

~Beth DT

Are YOU a Glitter Fan?

Hello, Get Inky! Stamps fans, it's Julie from Muddy Paws & Inky Fingers with today's glittery inspiration.  And it's Wednesday -- I can see the weekend from here!  Woot!

I don't know about you, but I am not a huge glitter fan.  It's way too messy for me.  I once made a glittery project out on my deck on a cold day in October, and I STILL found glitter from one end of my house to the other.  There seems to be no way to avoid it.  Especially with 3 dogs (that make 12 paws) tracking it around with them. So, I tend to use glitter alternatives, like glitter glue.  So, even though the current theme is glitter.  I cheated just a little bit.  See what you think!

I used a Get Inky! digi stamp on the sailboat and paper pieced it.  That was a new digi technique for me, but was very easy to do.  Then, after I fussy cut each piece, I used a corresponding color of glitter glue, a spritz of water, and a paint brush, and painted on my glitter glue.  Here's a close up so you can hopefully see the sparkle a little better.

Can you see how each piece of the sailboat -- even the flag -- has it's own glittery wonderfulness to it?  It's a great technique if you don't like to get messy.

The "Birthday Wishes" sentiments is from the Get Inky! Stamps Sew Sweet Cupcakes stamp set. 

For more about this card, please visit my blog and tell me what you think of my glitter technique.  Did I cheat?  Don't forget to link up to the current glitter challenge.

And the Get Inky! Stamps design team is having their first (FIRST) 1st ever blog hop June1-3 for National REPEAT r-e-p-e-a-t repeat day!  Please join us for all the fun starting here!

Design Team Member Beth ~ Challenge #3 Flowers

Hi, Beth here from The Crafty Scrap Yard!

Today's card is all about flowers! The flowers on this card remind of the Black-Eyed Susan's & Sunflowers I would always see when I was living in the Midwest.

Do you need to send a "thank you"; with this card you can send both flowers & your thanks in one!   ツ  
    

My design:

For my card I used the Sew Sweet Cupcakes  stamp set which you can find here.  You can find out about our current challenge posted on our Get Inky! Challenge Blog.  

I hope you stop back soon again to visit soon. ♥♥(ˆ◡ˆ)♥♥

~Beth DT

I'm sharing a card -- help me share my excitement!

Greetings, Get Inky fans!  My name is Julie Odil and I'm pleased to be a new designer for the Get Inky! stamps team.  Today is my first post and I'm super excited to be here!

Here's a picture of my girl, Molly and I.  Molly is a 12 year old Golden Retriever.  I have 3 Goldens in my house.  One of them, Sophie, goes to work with me everyday.  She and I both work full-time in the local nursing home.  I work as the activity director.  She works at spreading joy and collecting treats. If you follow my blog, Muddy Paws and Inky Fingers (and I hope you do!), you'll hear tales of my dogs.  I occasionally talk of my husband of 29 years, too!

I love, love, love to stamp, so being on this design team is sooooo much fun for me.  If I can find a way to stamp on a project, I do.  And the Get Inky! Stamps have so many possibilities.  This is going to be great! 

I made a card for you today using stamps from two sets -- "Sew Sweet Cupcakes" and "Buzzing Bees".  They are both available here in the store. For more details about the card, please visit my blog.

There's still time to link up to the current challenge and win your choic of 3 free digis, but you'll want to get going because the challenge ends at midnight tonight.  Hurry! It's worth! There's great digi stamps in the store to choose from!

I look forward to many more happy stamping moments with Get Inky! Stamps.

CAS with Get, Inky! Stamps

Hello, Get, Inky! fans! It's Jessi here from Kissin' Krafts. Today I am super excited to share a card I made using the Sew Sweet Cupcakes and Buzzing Bees stamp sets.

As you may know, the current challenge over on the Get, Inky! Challenge blog is Flowers. So I created this very simple card that would be perfect for birthdays or even for Mother's Day!

To create the stems of the flowers, I used the cupcake wrapper ribbon stamp (from the Sew Sweet Cupcakes) and taped off one side during the inking process. When I was ready to stamp, I simple removed the tape and stamped the image.

I really  love the flowers the stamps create when you use the back of the flower stamps in the Sew Sweet Cupcakes stamp set. Once I stamp the flower backing, I used the dot stamp to create the center of the flowers. Last, I used the outline flower stamp to highlight the flowers a little more.  

The simple sentiment is from the Buzzing Bees stamp set. To add dimension to the card, I added the sentiment on foam dots, to make it pop off the card.

Thank you for stopping by today! Hope you all will hop on over to the Get, Inky! Challenge blog and share your flower creation!

What to see/learn more about Get, Inky! Stamps? Stop by our website HERE.

Supplies:

Get, Inky! Stamps - Sew Sweet Cupcakes and Buzzing Bees stamp sets

Don't Worry BEE happy!

Hi! My name is La-Vie Borde-Perry and this is officially my first post as a design team member for Get Inky! Stamps by Blue Moon Creation! I'm so excited! I've been learning a lot and having fun already!!!

Here's my life in a nutshell: I'm a wife, mother of 2 and entrepreneur. 

I began scrapbooking in 2005 when my daughter was born 10 weeks premature. I was struck by an urgent need to document her life. My father, a professional painter and artist, always took many pictures and created albums with detailed info on the picture backs. I never knew I had the 'artist gene' until I started scrapbooking and journaling. My crafts are my heart and soul displayed for all to see. They are works of art that evoke emotion; sometimes laughter, other times tears. I consider myself to be an all-around crafter that will try any type of craft at least once. 

My style is clean and simple. My favorite techniques are stamping (physical and digital), masking, using Tim Holtz Distress Ink to create backgrounds, dry and heat embossing, coloring with Copic, Tim Holtz Distress or watercolor markers, mosaic layouts, paper piecing with die cuts, using flowers, ribbon, bling or glitter to add that wow factor. In my layouts, the pictures are the star, however I love to set the scene in order for those pictures to shine.  

Friends urged me to turn my passion into a home-based business in 2011. Thus, C'est La-Vie Designs Unlimited, LLC was born. I love to create custom, unique crafts for clients. One of my top three crafty goals for 2013 was to join a progressive design team to showcase my talents while meeting many new crafty friends. I'm so glad to serve on the Get Inky! Stamps Design Team by Blue Moon Creation. Let the inspiration begin!

There's still time to join in on the current Get Inky! Stamps challenge Fabulous Floral Fun - use flowers in your project. I really let my creativity fly on this one to inspire and entice you! Get Inky! Stamps offers flowers in both physical and digital form but I wanted to show you how to get more out of the stamps by creating my own flower. The stamps I used were the bow in the Joyful Jar Drinks set, the curved ribbon in the Sew Sweet Cupcakes set and the bee and sentiment from the Buzzing Bees set. For more information on this card and a detailed tutorial with pictures please visit my blog.

To purchase Get Inky! Stamps and create your own masterpiece, please stop by the website.

La-Vie