Friday Favorites: Black Friday Edition

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It's Friday Favorites and many of the designers have some awesome inspiration for you today! We love sharing our favorite products with you to help inspire you to create with some of your own favorites or fall in love with what we love! For more details on each of the cards, be sure to click on each of the designer's blog name to find out more! 

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Kim Ryden ~ Stamping with Kim

Favorite: Banner Blessing Photopolymer Stamp Set

 Heidi Boos ~ Stuck on Stampin'

Favorite: White Christmas Stamp Set

Diana Eichfeld ~ Stampin' Fun with Diana

Favorite Stamp Set:  Big News

 

 

 Breelin Renwick ~ Craft-somnia Momma
Favorite Stamp Set:  Bright and Beautiful

Darcy Johnson ~ Dj's Stampin' Place

Favorite: Perfect Banner Clear Mount Bundle

Thanks so much for stopping by! We hope that you have some time this weekend to do a little stamping! We would love for you to share with us over at our SSINKspiration Facebook page. Visit HERE to join in the fun!

Thankful for YOU!!

Interested in joining our Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration design team? We are in the process of searching for 5-6 new designers to join the team for the January - June 2015 term. For all the details and to apply, please visit HERE. 

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Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving!  We are so thankful that you are here every day faithfully reading our blog!  We hope that we INKspire you every day but today we especially wanted to say THANK YOU to YOU!

Please enjoy these Thank You cards and don't forget to visit each Designer's blog to give them some love today!

Cynthia Richards ~ Ink a Doodle Creations

Kim Ryden ~ Stamping with Kim

Breelin Renwick ~ Craft-somnia Momma

Shellie Grindy ~ Craft Smashup

Darcy Johnson ~ Dj's Stampin' Place

Thank you for stopping by today!  We will see you back here tomorrow with some of our Friday Favorites!!  

December Daily

December Daily is a fun way to capture and document the 25 days leading up to Christmas.  This is such a busy time of year and Stampin' Up! has the prefect way to preserve all of your memories during this fun and festivie time.

A few of our design team members are sharing their December Daily books to help INKspire you!

Kim Ryden ~ Stamping with Kim

Darcy Johnson ~ Dj's Stampin' Place

Thanks for stopping by today!  Don't forget, we are still looking for some new Design Team members.  Click HERE for all of the details!

Happy Stamping!

Stampin' with Diana

Good morning!  It's Diana from Stampin' Fun with Diana.  Today I'm sharing a super fun and easy technique that you'll love!!!  This is call the rice paper technique and adds some great texture to your card.

For this technique you start by taking a piece of Whisper White cardstock and you stamp all over it (in this case I used Everything Eleanor and Lost Lagoon ink. Next I take a piece of tissue paper (this technique is perfect this time of year since we have lots of tissue in our gift bags and packages) and I scrunch it up. I take one of our glue sticks and add glue all over the front of the cardstock before attaching the tissue paper. It's OK if the tissue is isn't straight, in fact it adds to the effect if it's not and you just rub the cardstock until the tissue paper is fully attached and all the air bubbles are removed. Then all you have to do is trim off the extra tissue paper (doesn't this look cool??) Now you can just use this like a regular piece of paper for your project.

This is a close up of the finished paper

I decided to use my rice paper piece for the gratitude card I made for the 30-Day gratitude challenge I'm currently participating in. The cardbase is Blackberry Bliss and I added a piece of Lost Lagoon cardstock that's embossed with the Big Shot and Polka Dot Embossing Folder. My rice paper piece s matted with Basic Gray cardstock and then I added some Blackberry Bliss 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon.

The greeting is from the Blooming with Kindness stamp set and was cut Big Shot and Ovals Collection Framelits before sponging around the edge with Basic Gray ink and attaching the greeting with dimensionals. For a little extra I stamped one of the flowers from the Everything Eleanor stamp set in Blackberry Bliss and cut it out with my Paper Snips. I added a few small pearls to the center of the flower for some bling and a dimensional was used to attach the flower to the cardfront.
out with the

Isn't this a fun technique? It works great with so many different images and helps soften it. You've got to give it a try.

Happy Crafting!

Diana

Don't forget to check out tomorrow's post about December Daily!

Masculine Monday

Interested in joining our Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration design team? We are in the process of searching for 5-6 new designers to join the team for the January - June 2015 term. For all the details and to apply, please visit HERE.

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It's Masculine Monday! We hope that you get inspired today by some of our designers as they showcase cards perfect for the men in our lives! Be sure to head on over to their blogs by clicking on the link below each picture for a quick hello and remember to pin it if you love it!

Happy Stamping!


Breelin Renwick ~ Craft-somnia Momma

Kim Ryden ~ Stamping with Kim

Diana Eichfeld ~ Stampin' Fun with Diana

Jennifer Blomquist - Northwest Stamper

Design Team Search

We are on the search for 5-6 more designers to join our team for the January - June 2015 term!  We would like to invite all of you to apply.  Here are a few of the details...

*You must be a current Stampin' Up! demonstrator and be willing to create with only Stampin' Up! products for all of your SSINKspiration posts.

*You will be asked to create a minimum of 3 projects per month.  You will get to sign up for the days that you wish to post.

To apply, please create a card, scrapbook page or 3D item using only Stampin' Up! products, blog about and add your link below.  You will have until Wednesday, December 3rd to complete this task.  We look forward to seeing your submissions!

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comments section of this post.  THANKS!

An InLinkz Link-up

Quick & Easy Cards

Today the team is sharing some Quick & Easy Cards with you. Now let's see a show of hands, who is ever busy with family, job, or just life in general? You want to stamp and share a card with others and just don't have the time to make an elaborate card. 

If this describes you then our quick & easy cards are just what you need. I know I have felt that way and stamping should never be stressful. Don't forget to pin the cards so you have them to reference in the future. 

Kim Ryden ~ Stamping with Kim

Pam Steckman ~ Stampin' in the Sun (3 other Quick & Easy cards posted on my blog)

Donna Smit ~ Organized Chaos

Jennifer Blomquist ~ Northwest Stamper

 Diana Eichfeld ~ Stampin' Fun with Diana

Heidi Boos ~ Stuck on Stampin'

 

Tonya Ball~ Stampin' With Tonya

Thanks for stopping by today!  We will see you back here on Monday with more INKspiration!

Paper Loop Wreath and Tutorial w/ Cynthia

Good morning, Cynthia here from Ink a Doodle Creations.  Today I am sharing a fun little Christmas wreath I made to hang on my craft room door.  I had plans to make a different styled wreath but after getting inkspired by Breelin's post the other week with her cute little trees, I just had to do a spin off and create a wreath.

With just a few supplies you will be well on your way to creating your own.

Pick your pack of DSP and cut strips 1" x 4".

I used my finger and gave each strip a run down to help curl the paper to a natural loop shape.  Then I used my hot glue gun and sealed each end together.  This is the most time consuming part of the whole project.

After you have glued a bunch you can start by hot gluing each loop about 1/2" in all away around the wreath.

First section complete, now to start the second section.

Once again I started about 1/2" down but making sure to stagger each one in between the outside section loops.  Go all the way around until this section is done.

Now I didn't want to inside or the outside of my wreath to show the icky green foam part.  I cut #3 1-1/4" x 12" strips and #2 other shorter strips to wrap in the inside of and outside of wreath.  My wreath is about a 9" wreath.  Depending on the side you use, your strips may need to be wider than mine.

Second section is complete and I'm ready to glue the strips to the inside of my wreath.  When gluing make sure the glue does not go quite all the way to the edge at the top.  You want a short gap.

Repeat with the gluing of the loops to form the last section.  This time when you start, tuck about 1/4" of the end under the flap of the inside wreath ring.  It will hide the edge yuckiness (is that even a word)?!  LOL!

Once you complete the last section, you can decorate and finish off the wreath as you wish.  I wanted just a simple wreath to really show off the DSP, so I wrapped and attached a bow to hang from the center. 

Right now its hanging from my antique Boone cabinet in my dining room.  Its really looks awesome against the oak wood, it may have to stay there for a while!!

Supplies Used

DSP ~ nordic noel

Ribbon ~ cherry cobbler 1" sheer linen ribbon

Misc. personal trimmer, hot glue gun

I hope you have enjoyed my wreath with tutorial and it will inkspire you to go create your own!

Gift Card Holders



It's the gift giving time of year and sometimes it's hard to find that perfect gift for that certain special someone in your life.  Thank goodness for the genius who came up with the idea of gift cards, right?!?!   And we've got some genius ideas on how to wrap those gift cards up in some super cute gift card holders!

 

Be sure to click on the link to each project for any special details each design team member may have to share with you.  And don't forget to leave us all some love too...we love to hear from you!

Cynthia Richards ~ Ink a Doodle Creations

Donna Smit ~ Organized Chaos

Diana Eichfeld ~ Stampin' Fun with Diana

Pam Steckman ~ Stampin' in the Sun

Darcy Johnson ~ Dj's Stampin' Place

(tutorial)

 

Breelin Renwick ~ Craft-somnia Momma

 

We sure hope we've INKspired you to CREATE some gift card holders for your special someone's!