Lots of Inky Stamping to Catch Up On!

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Hello friends!  I hope that you’re enjoying your August so far!  Recently, we’ve been experiencing much cooler temperatures than we normally have this time of year, so it’s been great to go out for a few walks.

I’m ALMOST caught up with things that I haven’t posted, with the exception of a few birthday cards that I’ll share later.  For today, I’d like to share some projects that I’ve made at an event I attended back in April along with a class from Inky Stamper.

But first, here are a few projects I’ve made for their recent challenges:

This is a tag I’ve made for the Inky Stamper Inkspiration FB Group July challenge.  The challenge was to make a tag and I thought I’d try out a fun idea of making a pocket for my tag that held another tag inside so that you could put a message and a gift card.

I’ve used some Limeade Dots/Stripe 12×12 Doodlebug paper to cut it out with and used a border die to help with the pocket decoration.  I cut another tag to place inside the pocket for a special message and to include a gift card.  At the top of the inside tag, I’ve made little “charms” with images from the Inky Stamper Margarita stamp set.  I’ve also stamped the background of the inside tag.  I don’t usually color with pencils, but this time I decided to pull them out.

To get the sentiment to fit around the pocket border, I had to curve the stamp a bit to make it work with the tag.  

Here’s another project I’ve made using Inky Stamper products for both the August Inky Stamper Inkspirations FB Group as well as the Craft Roulette episode #226.  (If you play along with Craft Roulette, Inky Stamper is a sponsor for this month.)

So the Inky Stamper Inkspiration FB Group challenge for August was to use a white pencil.  This happens to be a favorite to use for Chelsea with her images and it does make for a nice quick highlight.  So the images were just stamped on colored cardstock and I used the white pencil to highlight them with.

I decided to combine this with last week’s Craft Roulette Episode #226 with the parameters of – Project: “See-through” (I made a see-through shaker card) Colors: “Jungle” (I used greens and browns for my jungle) Element: “Teacher(s)” (The sentiment says it all!) Random: “Tangle” (There are a tangle of leaves inside shaker element.)

For all of the images, I’ve used the Inky Stamper Monkey stamp set.  The inside of the shaker was stenciled with a Tropical Leaves stencil from Taylored Expressions with green inks.  The circle was cut out with a retired MFT die.  I found some fun monkey shaker elements to put inside.

Back in April there was an Inky Stamper Inky Escape event that I attended and here are some projects that I made from the Make-n-Takes that were provided as well as some of the projects that I was working on using the new release that came out during the event:

(If you are on my website, click each photo to enlarge it and read the captions)

The tag was made my Chelsea that was attached to my “swag bag” and the box was a make-n-take project. There was a moon pie included with project, but when I came home, I added 4 Ghirardelli chocolate squares to show how many fit inside.
This card uses the same stamp set as the tag above. The background is a scratch ‘N’ sniff made with Kool-Aid.
This was a light up card using the Pear Blossom EZ Light.
Cute make ‘N” take with a magnet on the back of the baby roo that fits inside the mama pouch slit!
This was an extra make ‘N’ take using some ALL & Create Washi Tape! Cool!

There is actually another Inky Escape coming up in October that I’m attending and I’m sure it will be fun with Halloween and Christmas theme combined!

While I was there, I worked on some more of my own projects using some of the new sets:

I decided to take and use one 6×6 paper pack from my stash and it seemed to go really well with the outer space theme and I love the purple colors from this set.  I’ve used the following Inky Stamper stamps sets:  Astronaut, Big Words, & Alien.

Click on the photos below to see a close up look at each card:

Before the Inky Escape Event, there was also an on-line class from Inky Stamper that I took part in and that’s because I thought the projects were super cute!  Here are the projects that were completed for this class:

These were both created with the Inky Stamper Hedgehog stamp set. The Journal Book ,  the Doodlebug DIY Snow globe and Doodlebug dimensional stickers/shaker balls were all provided with the class.  I decided to add a few extra elements with mine.  The tiny hedgehog on top of the snow globe was included in our box, but not apart of the projects…but I thought it would be fun to add it!

Speaking of Doodlebug, while I was at the Inky Escape Event, Chelsea had a few things on sale and I snagged a kit and special ordered the Doodlebug Frame with it.  So when I got back home and the frame came in, I wanted to do my project right away:

I have this displayed in my stamp room and I love the rainbow of colors in it with the different crafty tools in smile faces!  The size is 8in. x 8in. with a glass on the front.  Although it’s not really that visible in the photo, it is actually quite dimensional.

I think it goes well with the black frame that matches my black frame with the crafty squares swap group I was in.  (You can see that post here.)

Whew!😳 I’ve been really busy this year, but I don’t think you would’ve known this without my posting about it!  I’m glad that I’ve gotten caught up with things that I’ve done and hopefully I won’t be doing posts like this in the future!  It just seems like so much all at once!

Anyway, there we go and now I need to finish and send out a few birthday cards coming up, so I will catch up with that later as well!  For now, thanks so much for stopping in and keeping tracks of my sporadic postings!  I will be back to share a DT post for a challenge coming!

Have a happy crafty day my friends!

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22 thoughts on “Lots of Inky Stamping to Catch Up On!”

  4. You really have been busy and what a wonderful array of crafty items you’ve created! The tag, cards, snow globe and journal are all amazing but that framed project takes the prize for me! You’ve been beating the heat by using lots of cute and fun images and that pretty washi tape made a fantastic card too! Nice work on everything – you deserve a nice reward for all of this hard work you’ve been doing! Enjoy your week ahead!

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  5. Hi, Vicki! First of all, thank you so much for continuing to visit me, so much appreciated especially now that my life’s so disrupted. And your sweet comments have been like a healing salve. I’m slowly getting back to visiting and I’m also going to blog on Sundays for awhile, doing the same as you getting my prior makes shares with the present ones. I’m loving all the makes you’ve shared here. Such a wonderful assortment of eye candy, well done! I am gonna guess you don’t live too terribly far from Inky Stamper, how awesome that you have a physical place to have fun at. We had one in my neighbood’s strip center for a few years that I enjoyed but it closed, boo. Hope you aren’t getting too hot up there. I’ve been sleeping in the daytime and staying up at night to avoid our heat and it’s pretty sad when it finally hits 89F at 3 am and feels so cool, hahaha. I’m living for it right now, lol. XOX

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  9. Wonderful, fun, and gorgeous selection of cards Vicki..love them all, fabulous colouring and designs, love the fun flamingo, and the shakers..awesome..

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  10. That raccoon with the margarita makes me smile. I bet they would have one if they could they are such little scamps. I once went camping and one tried to get into our tent, even though we had no food in it. Just being nosy I guess. And I love these look backs. You have been busy. Your framed crafty print is great too. It will look super in your stamp room I am sure. And be full of inspiration too. 🙂 Hope you’re having a super week. hugs-Erika

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  11. Adorable tag. Your monkey business card is so cute. What a fun shaker card. Great selection of items from the Stamper Inky Escape event. I love the out of this world cards. Really great colors and imagery. Your projects from the Inky Stamper class are amazing. What a cute image.

    The doodlebug images are so cute and they work so well in the black framing.

    You have been busy!!!!

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  13. As always, coming to your blog makes me smile! I love your cheerful, colorful, cute creations, dear friend! Sorry I’ve been AWOL again. The big ‘c’ is consuming our days. Hopefully things will be better a few months from now once treatments are finished. Thanks for your patience! I certainly haven’t forgotten you!!!

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  14. Vicki, you always surprise me with the amount of cards you present. I wonder how you manage to create so many cards, but most of all, where do you get so many ideas for such wonderful cards. You are very creative and very hardworking.

    hugs,

    BożenA

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