Blog Candy Giveaway

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http://pinkblingcrafter.blogspot.com/2011/07/blog-anniversary-giveaway.html

Whimsical Wednesday #16 Fun w/ Folds

 Good morning bloggers!  This cute little mini slider card is for this weeks fun challenge over at http://whimsicalwednesdays.blogspot.com/. You need to head over and get all the details.  I went to my BFF, Heather's house last Friday and this is what we made together, a mini slider card.  We made a large one some time ago, but this one only measures 4" x 2-1/2".  Its so cute and small!  I got to choose my favorite SU! colors together for this one: Pool Party, Whisper White and Choc. Chip. 

Other SU! items used:  crimper, Delicate Dolies stamp set and the new Doily Triple and the Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer punches.

When you put your hands on each side where the flower is, you pull apart and both ends slide out.  It really is an amazing little card to make, easy too!

Paper Players Clean & Simple 56

I just now got this Countryside SU! stamp set and have been waiting to use it.  With this weeks http://thepaperplayers.blogspot.com/ sketch, I new it was what I had to use.  My son chose the color of blue for the pickup.  He's only 11 and loves looking at all the things I creat, he's so funny, cause he always says to me, "you need to make me one of those" everytime I show him something!!  I stamped the little apple several times and water colored them red and scattered them around the card.  I even pop dotted the one that is in the corner of the truck.  The truck has also been watercolored using my SU! pencils.  It makes such a nice soft touch.

SU! items used:  soft suede, cherry cobbler, not quite navy and very vanilla.  I used the crumb cake seam binding ribbon (love this stuff-it makes such a wonderful bow) and the designer label punch for the sentiment and the scalloped border/corner punch for the blue mat.

Stamping 411 Sketch 213 & PPC-CC 66

This card is for http://www.stamping411.blogspot.com/ and http://www.ppc-challenges.blogspot.com/.  I really enjoy both of these weekly challenges, so when I could combined the sketch from one and the colors from the other, it worked out perfect for me.

STU! items used:  5 petal punch, designer label punch and the boho blossoms punch. colors of:  night of navy, whisper white and crumb cake.  I also used a piece from the paisley prints DSP pack.  I used the swiss dots embossing folder for the blue top and added a little pearl bling in the center of the flower.

Stampin' Up! Demonstrator!!

I am so happy to announce that I have joined the Stampin' Up! family today!  I have been thinking of doing this for some time now and when Stampin' Up! advertised their July sign on offer for only $99, I new it was my time.  It's not to late for you to do the same.  If you love Stampin' Up! as much as I do with all the their great products and you would like to help support your hobby or make it a full time business, then now is the time to sign up, before this wonderful offer expires on July 31.  Hop on over to my Stampin' Up site and join me in making this a great Stampin' Up! celebration for the both of us!!
http://www.inkadoodlecreations.stampinup.net/.  If you would like to place an order with me and earn some FREE products from the new catalog, click on the catalog to the right and it will take you to my Stampin' Up! site.  Any orders place with me during the whole month of August, will earn a special FREE item!!

Creative Sketches Iris Folding plus Sketch

I want to say "Thank You" to everyone who participated in last weeks http://www.creative-sketches.com/ blog challenge.  I love seeing everyones creations.  Up this week we have a sketch with a technique.  Even though I did not follow the sketch at all (sorry I had an idea and just went with it:( try your best to follow the sketch.  The technique for July is "Iris Folding" .  This is such much fun!  It can be done very simply or very detailed.  I went with simple cause I wanted to make it easy for a beginner at this.


I used the large tree from the nestibilities set and punched in out thru the center of white layer.  I then folded strips of metallic gree, cream/gold and red christmas wrapping paper (I always buy loads every year!) I attached my strips to the backside of tree and taped them on.  I layered the finished back with a layer of gold paper.  Tied a ribbon at the top and you have my Christmas Tree card. 
I did not waste any materials either. I took the white tree that was punched out and used it on the inside of card with a Christmas sentiment stamped on it. Now lets see what you come up with!?!?!

Whimsical Wednesday #14 Interactive Fun

 Good morning bloggers!  Now that soccer is over and I have gotten all my pictures printed I thought it would be fun to do my sons soccer photos for this weeks http://whimsicalwednesdays.blogspot.com/ interactive scrapbook challenge.  I decided to create a waterfall interactive piece for some of the smaller pictures so it would be easier to fit all of them onto my scrapbook pages.  I take alot of photos and tipically need to do a two page spread.  I used the SU! Goal stamp set to create the soccer balls accents, punched out with the scalloped circle punch.  I used colors of SU! black, wild wasabi and white.

 You can see the waterfall accent at the top right corner before any pulling is done.  There are four pictures that make my waterfall up. 

Here it is in the pulling.  I used the tag punch and added some misc. soccer ribbon that I had picked up at Michaels a while back for the pull tab.  I hope everyone enjoys my soccer waterfall pages.  I had a blast making it and putting it together.  Did I mention that it was my first time creating a watefall piece!!

Fabulous Florets Anniversary

I will have to say sorry for such a bad picture.  I made these two cards for my mother-in-law to give to some of her friends and I took a quick shot with my phone camera because I wanted to share them with you.  First card was a 60th Anniversary card.  I used the SU! Fabulous Florets stamp set and I oh so love this set.  I also used the MS branch punch for an extra style of leaves.  I stamped the small flower and colored the inside green then layered it on top of the large flower.  I also embossed the white layer with the vintage wallpaper folder from SU!  I used colors of whisper white and garden green.

The second card is for a wedding that she is going to in August.  I used the swiss dots emboss folder and colors of pool party (a wonderful new In Color!) and whisper white.  The seam binding ribbon is a MS color that patched just perfect to the pool party paper color.  I punched out two birds from the SU! bird punch and embossed the bird wings with the dots folder and added a small layer of flowers to the girl bird.

Inspiration in Action Case Contest

Ok, well I was lucky enough to come across this wonderful blog by Gretchen and what do I find but an Inspiration in Action Case Contest!  You need to head over to her blog and check out the rules and details.   http://gretchenbarron.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/07/new-catalog-case-contest.html.  Below is the item that I chose to case from the new SU! Idea Book and Catalog (I am soooo loving this book, I take it to bed with me every night---no joke!!)  I am in the mode right now for wanting to make items other than cards, so I was happy to come across this little box on pg. 21.  I changed mine by making it Halloween themed-next to Christmas, this is my favorite holiday!) 

I used my SU! Wicked Cool stamp set, and SU! colors of: black (embossed with the spiderweb folder by SU!), then inked with whisper white to make it stand out, cajun craze, perfect plum and whisper white.  I used some metallic black embossing powder around the edge of the "spooky" tag and the tag hanging from the handle.  Let me know what you think and if you we can have Christmas in July---then why not Halloween in July!!!

Creative Sketches Sketch Challenge

Welcome back to another exciting week at http://www.creative-sketches.com/.  This week starts a new month off with a Sketch.  Following the sketch below and let us see what you come up with.  As always, I can't wait to see your creations.  Head on over to the Creative-Sketches and add your link.  This sketch will go on for two weeks, so you have plenty of time. 

Below is what I had in mind.

I love my SU! Circle Circus set.  I also love my boho blossom punch, it can be used in so many ways.  I wanted to add just a little something small to each circle so I punched out the small flower from the stamp, inked around each with my black marker and added diamond bling to the center of each.  I used my SU! scalloped border punch for the middle layer as well as each of the four background layers on the front.  I used colors of black, whisper white, pacific point, punpkin pie and regal rose.

Tuesday Morning Sketches #100

Wow, everywhere I turn (click today) I see blogs celebrating big numbers!  Another one of my favorite blogs is celebrating their #100 challenge this week.  Hop on over to http://www.tuesdaymorningsketches.blogspot.com/ and check it out.  I hated that I waited until the last minute to get in my creation but I have been trying to prepare for my weeks vacation and try to get my bags and bags packed for 2 kids is no easy task!!

I wanted to use my new SU! On the Grow stamp set and I love it of course!  I used SU! colors of wild wasabi, whisper white, so saffron and cool water (one of the new in colors).  I also used white 3/8" ribbon (I just love this ribbon, it ties such a nice little bow)  Hope you enjoy, let me know what you think!!

PPA100

There are so many challenge blogs out there for everyone to join in the fun with, but I have very quickly realized that Pals Paper Arts is one of my favorites.  I enjoy so much heading over to check out what the design team members have in store for us.  This challenge site is full of such wonderful tallent!  So in celebration of http://www.palspaperarts.com/ celebrating their 100th challenge, I wanted to show everyone what my favorite technique is. 

Although I have several favorites I think mine would have to be dry embossing.  You can create such a simple card layout, but when you add dry embossing to it, it adds so much to the creation.  Weither you are creating a card or a scrapbook page, dry embossing can be loads of fun and add such a wonderful look to your project.  I chose to use the elegant lines embossing folder from SU! (which is the white background) and I used the butterflies from the beautiful wings embosslits die.  I did one set in each of purely pomg., marine mist and more mustard.  I also added a little diamond bling to each butterfly.  Hope you enjoy my technique and creation enough to allow me to win.  I so could use all the wonderful blog candy to stock my craftroom shelves!!