Sunflower Calendar Winner!!

The winner of the Sunflower Journal and Calendar Organizer is....

Mary Holshouser!!

Mary HolshouserOctober 20, 2016 at 10:25 AM

I would be thrilled to win this prize.
I keep an open monthly calendar on the
end of my dining room table. As I pass
by it many times a day I can see where/when
I need to be in the next few days. this
clipboard would look so much more elegant
than my plain calendar (one of those giveaways
from some company) and I could keep some
important items there as well - change them
up as new things come in.
the hop was great. Amazing things that
people can use to make other amazing things.
thanks

CONGRATULATIONS!!

(please e-mail me your snail mail addy)

It's Christmas Thyme & Give Away

If you haven't guessed that's the Holiday kit from Club Scrap....Christmas Thyme and I LOVE it!  The stamps for this kit are simply beautiful and the colors are so pretty together.  For my little part of this Christmas grand tour I decided to take an old project - Up, Up & Away - Art on a String and put my Ink Stained spin on it....

O.k....I know, it does look like an unassuming box.

A pretty box but still...

Did you notice it had a lid??

Go ahead...

lift off the lid....

And the front panel falls down to reveal a fun little accordion scrapbook!!!

Both sides of the album have been decorated, just waiting for Christmas pictures!!

Now how's that for a fun little surprise???

The inside of the box and box lid are decorated as well :)

As luck would have it, I have a 2nd Up, Up and Away Project kit which contains the book board, Up, Up and Away papers, and embellishments and written instructions to complete the original project (shown below).

and I even have a link to several alternative ideas for this project - I Love Club Scrap Projects.

So many fun ideas to create this project or you might figure out something totally new like I did!  If you'd like a chance to win this extra Up, Up and Away Project kit simply post a comment to be entered to win.  You have until December 3rd to enter to win.  Good Luck Friends!

Your next stop on the hop is

Anne Marie

and if you get lost along the way,

the complete list can be found here:

Club Scrap Christmas Thyme!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Sending wishes for a Peaceful Thanksgiving

with family and friends

I am so grateful for you all!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

 Thankful for all of you Ink Stained friends

living outside of the United States as well!!!

Have a great day!

Wintery Fun Cards

My cards that were recently published in Rubber Stamp Madness are being featured on Imagine's blog today!!

For more info, please see....

Cold Enough For Ya & Home Again

Fairy Tales... Club Scrap Artist Team Challenge

Each month the kind folks at Club Scrap challenges the Artist Team with a variety of themes.  This month they challenged us to use one or more images from the stamp sets Enchanted Forest or Girlfriends paired with one of my favorite embellishments the Sparkle Stickers from the Sunflower kit!

Well did I ever have fun! Why?  Well, I thought it would be fun to pair this challenge with the November Technique Challenge from the CS Blog as well!  What is the technique???  Smooshing colors - paints, inks, oil pastels, etc. onto cardstock using your acrylic block.  I LOVE this technique...you can achieve such pretty random patterns and it's different every single time!

Here's what I came up with....

My first card was made by pouncing ink onto my stamping block then spritzing with Shimmer Mist.  I stamped 2 different images onto the oval and stamped the magic wand on the card base using silver metallic ink.

This card background was made by spritzing Fireworks! shimmer spray onto my stamping block and stamping onto the cardstock.  I love how the "shimmer" in the spray created marbled lines through out the color.  It's hard to capture with a camera but you can see a bit about what I'm talking about in the blue area.  It's really pretty IRL.

My final card was made by applying Violet Crush, Parisian Pink, China Blue and Silver Extreme Glitter acrylic paint onto a stamping block.  Again I spritzed with Shimmer Spritz gave the paint a swirl then stamped it onto my cardstock.  You wouldn't think so but the texture left by the combination of the paint and silver glitter paint is amazing.  It doesn't show up in the photo but the white stamped frame has a piece of acetate that the sentiment is stamped on and raised off the surface of the actual card...almost like a shaker card without the shakie stuff.  The Sparkle Stickers are VERY dimensional so I need to raise the frame/sentiment off the card so it didn't interfere with the gems.

I hope you've enjoyed your visit here at Ink Stains.  

The next stop on the hop is...

Pam at Appealing Paper Crafts

If you get lost along the way the complete list can be found here:

Club Scrap November Artist Challenge

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

ClubScrap.com - Stamps, Sparkle Stickers, Cardstock

Imagine - Memento Dye Inks, Shimmer Spritz, Fireworks! Spray, VersaFine, StazOn Ink, Silver Delicata

Acrylic Paint, Acetate, Twine

Curtain Call - At Home

Been at home yesterday and today instead of at work...we're having a new furnace installed.  It's a good thing because of course we want to be warm but it's expensive and there's never a good time for unexpected expenses right?

So I saw a fun challenge in my e-mail box last night that inspired me to play with a new stamp set.  Curtain Call is having a challenge called "At Home".

Here is my creation!  Don't ya just love that little house stamp? It's from Club Scraps Christmas kit - Christmas Thyme.  Such a fun kit...  This house is so cute and so much fun to color, I really enjoyed making this card.  I was inspired by the theme at home of course but I also really liked the color combo of greens, yellows and blue from the challenge.

This is a close up of the house...don't know if you can tell from the photo but I stamped the wreath and flower box foliage a second time and pop-dotted it off the background.  Looks so neat IRL.

Supplies:

ClubScrap.com - Papers, Stamps, Tag, Ribbon

Imagine - Memento Markers, VersaFine Onxy Black Ink; Delicata Dark Brown Shimmer; Sponge Dauber

Glitter

Monoprint Turkey Feathers

One of my favorite techniques is monoprinting.  If you're like me though you might not have the time to drag out all of the supplies and a big printing plate which is why I LOVE the Mini Gelli Plates!  I used the small hexagon Gelli Plate to create some fun "turkey feathers" for my holiday place settings. Instead of paints I used Memento Luxe inks - they have a wonderful opaque finish but dry quickly and since they are ink pads there is no messy clean up that you have with paints.

For complete details on how I created the feathers and silverware holder/place cards check out....

Place Card & Silverware Holder All-in-One

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All in all it took me about half an hour to print (with ink) enough paper to cut out about 50 feathers.  Really not long at all when you think about how long it takes to print with paints because of all the dry time in between the various print layers.  I know some people worry about staining the Gelli Plate when using inks but I didn't have any staining with the Memento Luxe Inks.  I stamped the original print plus one or two ghost prints each time I inked the plate.  If there was any ink left I simply wiped it away with a damp towel.  Quick and easy!

Pretty in Pink - Card Concept #61

Today after work I was able to get a bit of stamping in - yeah!!  I had an e-mail in my inbox about the current challenge at the Card Concept...Pretty in Pink.  Inkspiration strikes and I made this card....

I made the background by spritzing Shimmer mist onto a piece of glossy cardstock. I then sprinkled a tiny bit of Fuchsia Color Burst Powder.  Hit it with the heat tool and let it do it's thing.  The combo of the Shimmer Mist, heat and glossy cardstock created some interesting circles and patterns as it dried. Unexpected but very cool.   The flamingo (from the current Club Scrap Kit - Paradise) was stamped and embossed onto the background.  I then stamped on the leaves which were colored using Memento Dual Tip Markers.

The Card Concept

#61 - Pretty In Pink

I was very inspired by the theme Pretty in Pink since it matched the flamingo and it's accompanying sentiment so well. I was also excited to be able to try out the Fuchsia Color Burst for the first time...it matched perfectly much to my pleasure!  I used my own version of clean and layered....  it's pretty clean for me and has a few layers in the die-cuts.

Supplies:

ClubScrap.com - Cardstock, Rubber Stamps

MFT - Oval & Scallop Stitched Oval Frame

Imagine - Shimmer Mist, VersaMark, VersaFine - Black, Black EP, Memento Dual Tip Markers

Color Burst - Fuchsia

How many days till Christmas???

Well this little birdy has the answer!

I want to share my little bird advent calendar with you today....

I made this entire thing from scratch!  I am so proud of it, I love how it turned out...now I just need some grandkids to share it with ;)  LOL!!  I created the "pallet" from scraps of lumber my dad had in his scrap barrel.  I painted the tree onto it using Fireworks! sprays and decorated each bird differently using a variety of Imagine products.  Imagine offers the little wood birds along with loads of other fun shapes.  All were inked in some fashion, either directly from the ink pads or using a spray ink.  Then the fun begins...some are stamped, some are stenciled, while others were decorated using one or more of Imagine's texture products (Pico Embellisher, irRESISTible Texture Sprays, etc).  The possibilities are endless.  I was having so much fun decorating them that I actually decorated them differently on each side.

For a complete supply list and detailed instructions, please see:

Imagine Crafts - Bird Advent Calendar

Up for a Harvest/Give Thanks Challenge??

Well that's the theme this month on the JFF Stamps Blog and here's what I created...

Both are made using some of the new autumn themed Stamptangle images...

If you'd like to enter please do so!

Everyone is welcome to enter and 

the winner is chosen at random and you don't need to use a JFF stamp.

Just For Fun Rubber Stamps

November Card Challenge...Give Thanks