Tag: Journal Book

Lots of Inky Stamping to Catch Up On!

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!

December AJ Page-Keep Dancing + book and review

Hello friends!  Hope you had a great Christmas and were able to make some wonderful memories!  I can’t believe that we are ready to close out another year!  The time just goes way too fast and there’s so much more to look forward to!  I think the theme for my upcoming year is in this title post – KEEP DANCING!!!🕺

The last Saturday of the month (AND THE YEAR!) brings us to the monthly Art Journal Page collaboration with my crafty friend, Carol (from Crafty-Stamper)! We get creative trying to use up our never-ending stash piles along with a prompt for each month.  I know she always has great inspiration to share, so please check out her blog too! Here’s my AJ page with the “SMASH OUR STASH” December prompt of “Previous Prompt”:

Since this is the time of the year that we have a “look back”, I thought it would be fun to take one of this year’s previous prompts and come up with a new AJ page.  I chose April’s prompt of “SHINNY/SPARKLY”, and you can catch that page in the photos below or see my previous blog post HERE.

There’s nothing quite shinny or sparkly than New Year’s Eve!  I always think of the ball dropping on Times Square in New York, but it also had me thinking of a disco ball that is very sparkly.  Found this image online and printed it out.  Cut it out with a circle die and then added a bit of colored shading with my markers in grey.  I took a sponge to add glue to the entire ball and then covered it with chunky glitter.   I added some sparkle images and filled them with silver glitter and then die cut the numbers and glued them over top of the ball.

For the background:  It’s just a 6″x9″ black cardstock pre-punched at the top and then splattered with silver watercolor.  I added some music notes and die cut stars.  For the bottom, I used some woodgrain texture paper and cut strips to make a wood floor for the Riley the Moose disco dancer.  A silver metallic paint pen was used for the ball string at the top and the wording around the top of the ball.

I stamped, colored and hand cut the moose and popped him up over a die cut shadow for under his feet.  I typed a quote on the computer and printed it out over silver cardstock.  While it was still wet, I sprinkled clear EP over top and cut rounded corners for the page.  Lastly, I just popped up the glittered ball with foam tape and added some silver rhinestones at the bottom.

  • I thought it would be fun to do a review of all of the monthly pages that were created this year.  I put the months in order below.  (If you are on my website, just click on the photos to enlarge them.)
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November

I pre-punch the holes at the short side of the pages each month and then at the end of the year, I use my machine to bind them together to make a book.  I add covers and decorate them.  There is a post with last year’s book HERE.

For this year, I went with the vertical look and added a stretch cord to keep them together better.  I also tried out the napkin with the cover:

The napkin is at the bottom with the foil marble look.  My husband got some napkins for New Year’s, and I thought I’d try it out.  I added some chipboard, stamped and cut out numbers and added some wooden pieces.  I used the rose papers for the covers on the inside as well as the back of the chipboard covers.  It was put together with my Bind-It-All machine and coils.

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my Art Journal Journey throughout the year as I sure have enjoyed doing them!  I get to pull from my stash to use, but there is also so much more to use!  So this means that I will for sure be continuing with this journey and I hope you’ll join me too!

Thank you so much for stopping by to have a look back.  Wishing you peace, love and health for the upcoming 2024 year!  See you in the next year friends!!!🎉

Challenges:

  1. Art Journal Journey – Above Us Only Sky (New Year’s Eve Ball Drop on Times Square with stars in the sky!!!)
  2. Crafting From the Heart – Anything Goes #8
  3. Creative Artiste – Anything Mixed Media Goes with option of Christmas
  4. Alphabet – ‘T’ is for Texture (texture on the top page with woodgrain floor, the chunky glitter disco ball.  Texture on the book with chipboard, wood pieces and paste.)