Heart's Delight Cards: My Inky Friends

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Friday, January 25, 2019

My Inky Friends Challenge #14

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Here we are with another fun sketch challenge, inspired by the card on the left side of page 3 in the Occasions catalog! It is a lovely layout, so be sure to click on the banner above to see what the other Design Team members did with it. I noticed a lot of Spring colors! I do believe Winter is starting to wear out its welcome, LOL.

Spring is definitely making an appearance on my card, too. I absolutely love the Floral Romance Specialty DSP that is part of the Wonderful Romance suite. Some of that gorgeous vellum print was used under the stamped (Wonderful Romance cling stamps), colored (Stampin' Blends), and die cut leaves (Wonderful Floral Framelits dies). So quick and easy to add a little something extra to the card!

Heart's Delight Cards, Wonderful Romance, Botanical Butterfly, MIFDC14, Occasions 2019, Stampin' Up!

I also used some of the Sale-a-Bration Botanical Butterfly DSP. The black & white images can be colored a variety of ways (Stampin' Blends used here), and then punched out with the Butterfly Duet Punch.....which is on back order now because it's so popular. It figures, right?

And also making an appearance is a bit of ribbon from the All My Love Suite. This girl just can't say no to ribbon!

If you'd like to play along with this sketch challenge, click the banner at the top of the page or follow the link below. The guidelines are simple!

1. For a sketch challenge, follow the general design of the sketch, although it can be flipped or rotated. For a color challenge, Stampin' Up! colors are listed. You can use compatible colors and add neutrals as needed.

2. Create something new that has not been posted before.
3. Post your creation on your blog or online gallery, and please provide a link back to our challenge. Provide a direct link to your project or post to the Linky on the challenge page.
4. Feel free to combine up to three challenges, as long as you include a link to the Inky Friends post.
5. Most important of all - have fun!

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Friday, January 11, 2019

My Inky Friends Time to Sale-a-Brate Blog Hop

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It's our favorite time of year - SALE-A-BRATION, and My Inky Friends have cooked up a fun hop showcasing some of the great items you can earn for FREE with a qualifying order. Holly over at The Rubber Redneck was before me, so you may have landed here from her page. If you follow the links at the bottom, you can take the whole tour!

Heart's Delight Cards, Lovely Lattice, Sale-A-Bration 2019, Stampin' Up!

I chose Lovely Lattice because, well....flowers! And coloring! As soon as I saw this stamp set, it zipped to the top of my SAB "must have" list.

I wanted to show off the image on the clean gingham background, but I sure didn't want to fussy cut the whole thing! Using my Stampin' Trimmer, I cut just up to the image, which left about half - the EASY half - to fussy cut, 'cuz I'm smart like that, LOL!

After it was colored and cut, I put Mr. Big to work with the Subtle embossing folder to give the image a bit of texture. Once it was mounted on the gingham background, I slipped the greeting from Well Said under and adhered it all to the card base. (I figured since flu season is upon us, I'm probably going to need a get well card soon.)

Some Gingham Gala sequins were added for a bit of sparkle. It sure is easy to use those adhesive-backed embellishments! When the card was complete, the envelope flap was dressed up with the single flower stamp that's part of the set.

That's all from me today. I had other ideas, but Mom is visiting, so I didn't have time to make them a reality. Up next is Staci Miserlian, who is featuring Precious Parcel.

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Friday, January 12, 2018

My Inky Friends Time to Sale-A-Brate

Hello, stamping friends! My Inky Friends are so excited to be showing this year's wonderful selection of Sale-A-Bration items from Stampin' Up! - seriously, I think this is the best SAB ever! I guess because this marks their 30th year, they pulled out all the stops!

If you started at the beginning and are hopping in order, you just landed here from Shelley's Miss Mad Stamper blog where she featured Party Pandas. SO stinkin' cute! If you are starting here, just follow the link at the bottom to go on to the next stop, and so on until you see them all!

I chose the Amazing You stamp set, and the coordinating Celebrate You Thinlits. I like to recognize my stamping team members' achievements, and this set just perfectly fits the occasion! Up first is a card for the member who was tops in sales last month. The 'celebrate' and 'you' were stamped, and the 'amazing' was die cut from the Thinlits. The black filigree die cut is from Petals & More in the Occasions catalog.

Since we're showing off items on the SAB brochure, I chose the Bubbles & Fizz DSP that is another freebie available with a qualifying purchase. Love the stars! Some more bling was added with the Gold Glitter Flakes (also in the Occasions catalog).

Up next is a little gift for my top seller for the last quarter. Sometimes it's the same person, but this time it wasn't! More of the Bubbles & Fizz DSP was used to make a bag that would accommodate a pack of Metallic Enamel Shapes. (These self-adhesive shapes are so convenient, and they can be colored with Stampin' Blends to match any project!)

Stampin' Blends were used to color the flower, which was stamped three times and fussy cut, with dimensionals between each layer. I added a couple of long-tail banners that match the card, and some glitz with the gold and black mini sequin trim.

That's all I have to share today. Thanks so much for stopping by! Up next is Sara at Lily's Ink Pad; she's highlighting the Celebrate You Thinlits, which is one of the two premium choices.

http://www.lilyinkpad.com/2018/01/my-inky-friends-time-to-sale-brate-blog.html

https://missmadstamper.blogspot.com/2018/01/inky-friends-time-to-sale-brate-party.html

Friday, December 29, 2017

My Inky Friends Design Challenge #1

https://myinkyfriends.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-first-ever-inky-friends-design.html

Welcome to the FIRST My Inky Friends Design Challenge! We are so excited to announce new monthly challenges, and we hope we can get you crafty folks to play along with us! The challenges will be on the fourth Friday of every month - it could be a sketch or a color challenge, but it will always be inspired by something in a current Stampin' Up! catalog! Our first challenge is a sketch, which was inspired by the card on page 61 of the annual catalog. Here is my take on the sketch:

If you've never participated in a challenge before, it's really pretty fun and easy. You make a project that follows the theme, and post it on your blog or someplace like Splitcoast Stampers, then use the link widget found on the MIF challenge post to link to your project, so we can see your creation!

This challenge runs through Jan. 12th, then the design team will vote for their favorites, and the winners will be announced. There will even be a badge for winners to proudly display on their blog!

To see what the Design Team made, check the guidelines, or add your creation to the challenge, just click the challenge graphic at the top, or click HERE! If you upload to an online gallery, please use the keyword MIFDC1.

For this card, I heat embossed the flower from Beautiful Day on watercolor paper, then used Brusho Crystals and an Aqua Painter to color it. The black & white DSP is from the Tutti-Frutti DSP stack. And if you look really closely, you can see the Scattered Sequins Dynamic embossing folder was used on the card base for some added texture.That fun greeting is from Birthday Wit - inside the card it says "You're Welcome."

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