May Scrapbook Sketch

It's the 3rd Monday of the month which means Scrapbook Sketch time!! We hope that you will take some time to check out each of the designer's scrapbook pages (click on the link below each picture to visit their blog for more info). We'd love to have you create along with us! We will have the link open for two weeks (ends Monday, June 1st at noon), so you have lots of time to create! Stampin' Up! products are encouraged, but not required. Just play along and have fun!

Jenn Campbell's May Scrapbook Sketch

 Here is Jenn Campbell's take on the sketch...

Diana Eichfeld ~ Stampin' Fun with Diana

 

Cynthia Richards ~ Ink a Doodle Creations

 

Darcy Johnson ~ Dj's Stampin' Place 

 

Kathy Peck ~ Katrina P's Creative Corner

Teacher Appreciation Ideas

Hello and welcome! It is hard to believe that school will be coming to an end for the year soon. The year has flown by and before the kids get out for the summer it is nice to be able to send the teachers a token of your appreciation and the design team has once again provided some great ideas for you. I hope you take a moment to check out their projects not just here but on their blogs where they have more information about how they make each project. I hope you have a great day and that you are INKspired to stamp something today. 

Cynthia Richards ~ Ink a Doodle Creations

Melissa Cochran ~ Crazy Paper Freak

 Erica Bass ~ Stamping Starlette

A is for Apple...

...and E is for e-cutter!

 

Hi!  Bree here from Craft-somnia Momma.  Today I'm here to share with you a fun little creation I made using My Digital Studio and my e-cutter.

 

How many of you have entered the amazing world of e-cutters?  I purchased one shortly after the last year's Stampin' Up! Convention, but have only just recently started really using it, and I LOVE it!!!  Pair up with My Digital Studio (MDS), your creative possibilities are endless!

 

Last week was Teacher Appreciation week and I wanted to make something fun for my boys teachers, in the shape of an apple, of course! 

 

I created this fun little box by merging the apple stamp from the A is for Apple stamp brush set in MDS into my e-cutter software.  After a few quick clicks, the apple was re-sized and sent to be cut.   Below are a few pictures of how easily this box was to put together:

Two apple shapes were cut out, one as the top and one as the bottom.  I cut the stem off of the bottom piece of the box.  Two strips of paper, measuring 1-1/4" x 12", were cut, to create the inside of the box.  I scored each piece at 1/4" lengthwise (black line).

From the short side of the score mark, I cut from the edge of the paper to the score line every 1-1/2 - 2" to create a circle for the inside of the box.

Adhere first strip, formed into a circle, to the bottom side of the box using Sticky Strip or Tombow glue.  Place the second strip inside the first circle and adhere the top side of the box.

 

The outside of the box was embellished using stamps from the A is for Apple Stamp and The Very Bestest stamp brush sets, some gold stars and sequins and a leaf from the Autumn Accent Bigz Die.

 

Thanks for dropping by today!  I hope I have INKspired you to CREATE with your e-cutter today!

 



Quick and Easy Cards

Hello SSInk friends!  We are back today to share some Quick and Easy Cards with you.  Some of our fabulous design team members have created some fun cards that can be easily duplicated in a short amount of time and sent out to that special someone!

Jennifer Campbell

 

Donna Smit ~ Organized Chaos

Pam Steckman ~ Stampin' in the Sun

Shellie Grindy- Craft Smashup

Heidi Boos ~ Stuck on Stampin'

Kim Ryden ~ Stamping with Kim

Thanks for dropping by again today! We hope we've INKspired you to CREATE!

Craft Room Tour - Stuck on Stampin'

Hi all...it's Heidi from Stuck on Stampin' and I am so excited to share with you today at SSINK! For my individual post I wanted to do something a little different, so instead of showing you a card, project, or tutorial I thought I would share with you my craft room ~ better known as my work zone!!

Now before you read on...please understand that the room I am about to share with you has been cleaned/organized literally a couple of days before I took these pictures so this is why you will see everything looking "just so". I haven't even had the chance to go in there to play yet! I had just taken a bulky piece of furniture out and added a few other smaller pieces in and decided it needed a major re-organization while I was at it (for the umpteenth time). Everything now has its place...again!

My craft room is constantly changing, but the biggest change came when I did my craft room makeover in January 2013. I promise you that it looks messy at times, too (there's evidence of that at the end of the post)!! But for now...here are the "pretty" pictures!

Let's get started!!

{Please leave a comment if you have any questions about something you see!}

This is what you see standing in the doorway of my craft room. I actually just added this extra table on Saturday (I took my poor son's Lego table away from him...LOL!) I really needed some extra space to work at and this just fit the bill perfectly. Now I have an "L-shaped" table where I can work on one part and have my laptop and other mess on another.

You'll notice on this small desk is a jar with washi tape and my embellishment holder. I want to keep this part of my workspace as uncluttered as possible. This is where I'll be doing most of the work.

If you take a step back out of the doorway...this is the complete view of my room (minus the corner to your right). It's literally a 10x10 space that I consider my "crafting oasis". I like most everything with clean lines and as much as I can, I like to put random things away and out of view, so I have a closet covered with a curtain where a lot of "non-SU" (hardly used) products are hiding.

This is my original workspace and although it worked, I am really looking forward to working on the "L-shape" so I can have more room to spread things out if I need to. If you have any questions about anything you see, ask away!

Here is the underneath of my desk. I still have lots of cubbies to hold things.The filing cabinet to the far right holds all of my 8-1/2 x 11 paper in hanging file folders. It's the best way to keep my paper organized. I just tuck the scraps of each color in the front of each hanging file.

Left side of desk...

Middle of desk...

{The ribbon holders are from Ribbon Roll Control. I love them!}

Right side of desk...

{The little tiered trays hold "unfinished" cards and supplies.}

Right above my main desk is this shelf I purchased from Michaels Craft Store a long while ago. It is more for looking pretty than functionality (most of the buttons in the jars are retired), but it does house some of the punches that don't fit on my Ikea bars

The racks that are holding all my clear mount stamps and Framelits are IKEA DVD racks (unfortunately they no longer sell them). I found the 12x12 paper rack at a store that was going out of business.

Love this hutch! Found it in the "as is" section at Ikea three or so years ago. You'll also see I have another DVD rack that holds some of my dies. I should have taken a few more up close pictures of some of the things on this hutch, but just let me know if you see anything you have a question about.

What's inside the bottom part of the hutch...

 I used to have a big bulky desk in this corner, but it just wasn't being used and would become a place for me to pile stuff on top of. We ended up moving the desk into my daughter's room and I took the shelf she had in there. This works perfectly for my Silhouette Machine to go on top and the little organizing drawers tuck just right into each cubby hole. 

Now...I really don't want to do this part, but in my effort to show you the VAST improvement of this room, I have created a collage of pictures I took the morning I decided to clean and re-organize. You'll see the extra desk I removed from the room and the card table I was using as my "second space" to work at...or shall I say dump stuff on top of.

Thanks for visiting SSINK today and letting me give you a little tour of my craft room!

May Card Sketch

Join in the fun this week with May's Card Sketch! The designers have some great INKspiration for you. We hope you'll play along, so get out your favorite stamps, paper, ink, and embellishments and let your creativity go wild! Link up your creation to share with all of us here at SSINK! The linky will be open for 2 weeks (closes at noon on Monday, May 26th).

As always...pin it if you love it!

Melissa Cochran ~ Crazy Paper Freak

Jennifer Campbell- Happy2Scrap4Life

Diana Eichfeld~ Stampin' Fun with Diana

Breelin Renwick ~ Craft-somnia Momma

Donna Smit ~ Organized Chaos

Kathy Peck ~ Katrina P's Creative Corner

 Jennifer Blomquist - Northwest Stamper

Tonya Ball~ Stampin' With Tonya

Cynthia Richards ~ Ink a Doodle Creations

Some Think New!

Hi everyone, this is Kathy from Katrina P's Creative Corner and I decided to do my post on the new Stampin Up Blendabilities.  I had a little contest on my blog where I took a picture of the backside of what I was going to use for this post to see if anyone could guess what it was.  All I can say is be still my beating heart - I LOVE these new Blendabilities.  I had the best time coloring and blending these coffee cups.

Here is what I made.

 

Here are the coffee cups I used in my contest.  

 

I really felt like a whole other side to my creativity was coming out when I was using these Blendabilities.  I loved watching the colors really come to life after they dried.  The results are amazing.  Plus the great thing is Stampin Up has so many wonderful stamp sets that will work perfectly with these.   

I used the following colors on these coffee cups.

• Coastal Cabana
• Daffodil Delight
• Old Olive
• Pumpkin Pie
• Rich Razzleberry

The Blendabilities will be available for customer order on June 2nd.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Kathy