Smooch, Im Irish...

Hi it's Ann from the Design Team with a fun card just in time for Saint Patrick's Day.  I may not be of Irish   heritage but I sure love any reason to celebrate and wear Green!  I hope my card makes you smile.  If you go over to my blog: Annmakes, I will share the details with you of how I made this Lucky card!

You can share your St. Patty's day inspirations with us over at our challenge blog: here.
Thanks for stopping by and have fun!

New Challenge! Use Green!!

Good Morning!

The current challenge over at Blue Moon Creation Crafting Station (aka Get Inky) is all about GREEN! We want to see you use green!

Well, for my project this week, I used "Hip to be square" stamp set by Get Inky! stamps by Blue Moon Creation for this project. I just used the big square stamp as a background!

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Thoughtful Thursday . . .

Hi, all my inky friends and family!!!

How is everyone doing today . . .or this week?  Honestly, it seems like I am burning the end of both candles, as they say.  But not to worry, I am still able to get my crafting in . . . NOTHING gets in the way of my getting INKY!!!  lol

As I working on a card earlier this week, I was also pondering what I would do for this week's "Thoughtful Thursday" post . . . you know, so sort of "tip".  Well, I as I was cutting my specialty paper, I realized that would be a good post.  I mean, how many of you have "special" paper that you just don't want to use because you only have so much or a special paper that you are trying to save or stretch as much as possible?  I know, I do . . . in fact, a couple months ago, I received some wonderful paper from The Paper Temptress to do a project and it was so wonderful, I wanted to stretch it as much as possible. Those who follow me on UpintheNightwithKat.blogspot.com, know I do use a lot of layering in may cards . . . but I don't actually use as much paper as you might think.

When making my cards, I always just make the card front that I can add to a card base at a later date.  For two reasons - (1) it saves space when storing my cards and (2) it helps when I am tring to stretch my "special" paper.  When I mat or start layering, I cut the middle out of the paper (if I am able) in order to save paper to use for another project.  And then if I feel it is going to "sag" in the middle, I use Helmar's Scrap Dot 3D adhesive to help . . . it is like a gel, so I add it to the very back and then when I place my paper "stack" to my card and it evens everything out.  Here's some pics to show you how I do this:

First, make marks on the front or back side of your paper . . . to come up with how much to leave, I take the amount I want left on each side and add 1/2" and then mark each corner like this:

Then I take my paper trimmer and line up a dot with the little "pointer" on my blade and make a cut to the next dot.  Like this:

Then repeat on each of the other three sides.  To help, I sometimes make a line above the first cut to help me line up.  Like this:

Once I am all done, I have the following:

Now I have a "mat" to go for my card, plus some paper to use for another project.  Here's a card I did (and showed you a month or so ago) using this technique but I using both red and black mica/metallic paper from The Paper Temptress along with "Sew Sweet Cupcake" stamp set from Get Inky!:

On another note, remember there is a challenge still going on over at Blue Moon Creation Crafting Station (aka Get Inky!) that you can try this and enter a project.

Till next time . . . let's GET INKY!!!!

Kathy

Watcha Workin' on Wednesday!

Hi! Susan R here!

Well, before we know it we will have a new challenge at Get Inky!

(And it is either GREEN or St Patrick's Day)

So I have been working on my DT card...

Firstly I thought I would go green...

I thought I would take a green card base and a couple of different greens in cardstock

 and use some circular nesting dies.

I then used some stamps from Get Inky! Stamps to make a banner and stamp on the inner circle.

'Shoot for the moon' was stamped and then covered with a mask before stamping the moon.

I also thought about the stars - and did some dry embossing on some metal foil.

But then I had another idea - this time for St Patty's Day...

there's always gold at the end of the rainbow!

I took another Get Inky! stamp and some papers the colours of the rainbow

and then did some paperpiecing..

Anyway I am hoping that this will give you some inspiration,

but I am afraid you are going to have to wait a while to see my final DT card

but you can see some more of my ideas on my blog Calling All Crafters!

Happy Crafting!

Buttons Galore ~ Challenge Inspiration from Sue B.

Happy day all!

Sue B. here bringing some buttony fun for our Buttons, Buttons Everywhere Challenge over at the Get Inky Stamps Challenge Blog. I am so happy to be back sharing my projects consistently with the rest of the team. As you know the challenge is to dig out buttons from all over! Remember your hidden button stash? Now is the time to pull them out and to show us your your crafty entries with your favorite buttons. Well that is just what I did!! Here is my card:

 Here are the supplies I used:

- Blue Moon Creations Joyful Jar Drinks Stamp Set
- Stampin' Up flower buttons
- Recollection Twine
- CTMH exclusive Inks Black stamp Pad
- Stella Wink Glitter Pens: Golden Yellow & Clear
- Paper from my scrap pile

I hope that you will join us for the button fun over at the Buttons, Buttons Everywhere Challenge. Thanks for stopping by and we hope to see you soon. Until next time....

Monday's Mojo Mention

Mimi has created this beautiful unicorn card for this week's button challenge.

 I love all the beautiful details on her card along with her great coloring. Everywhere you look there is interesting textures, fabric, paper, ribbon or buttons.   

 

Thanks, Mimi for giving us some MOJO to get us started on our Monday morning!

To view more of Mimi's creations, please visit her blog, Crafty Animals at 

http://craftyanimal.blogspot.ca/

Thank you, for joining us today! 

Don't forget to enter your button designs over at our current challenge @http://getinkychallenge.blogspot.com

DT Judy's Button Challenge Card

Hi!   Judy here. Get Ink Stamp Challenge this week using buttons. Create a card or craft project and use a button(s) on it.  This is one of my favorite embellishments. They come in large range of color, easy to find and inexpensive to purchase. 

I love this checkers background paper I found in my stash.  The image I used is from Get Inky Stamps and is called  Short Penguin.   For my button i used a regular coat button threaded with white ribbon and layered it on a black banner and a red die cut that is part of the Gold Majesty Circles dies. I think it looks like a medallion on the card. 

The penguin was colored with Copic Markers and then ribbon and bling were added to the card to complete it. 

Thank you for stopping by. Hop over to the Blue Moon Creations Crafting Station to see what the other design team members have created to inspire you. There is still time to join in the challenge. We would love to see your creations. 

Judy