Sale-A-Brate good times, come on!! What are the odds of that song being in your head for the rest of the day!? Thank you for stopping by for the Creative Inking Blog Hop for January. Our theme for this month? You guessed it! All the amazingly wonderful goodness you can receive from Stampin...

Today I wanted to share this adorable gift card holder that is "handmade for the holidays"! I used my Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine to make the cups, using a set of thinlits dies that go ON SALE tomorrow for 30% off as part of our big Black Friday week Online Extravaganza sale! The dies I ...

Hello! Welcome to the November Creative Inking Blog Hop! Our theme for this month is Handmade Holiday. I love to give handmade cards to my friends and family for the holidays. I like to think of what that person likes or collects and I try to incorporate that into my gift making/giving. I t...

Welcome, Friends, to the October 2016 Creative Inking Bloghop! Our theme for this month is thankfulness. Every Thanksgiving, I try to send cards to friends and family to let them know how much they mean to my family and I and how thankful we are to have them in our lives. I wanted to try som...

Big Shot-what do you think of when you hear Big Shot? If you are a crafter, you might think of the amazing die cutting machine. When I was thinking of the Be A Big Shot theme guess what happened? Billy Joel's lyrics to You Had to be a Big Shot kept running through my mind. I love mason ...

Hello Friends! Welcome to the July installment of the Creative Inking Blog Hop! This month's theme is a fun one! Projects made using the beloved Big Shot! I'm not sure about you, but I can't make a card without mine! I am either using my Framelits or my embossing folders to give my proj...

Welcome to the May 2016 installment of our Creative Inking Blog Hop! Hope you are enjoying all the awesome talent and beautiful projects this month! Our theme is Saying Goodbye. It's hard to say goodbye when you love everything Stampin Up! creates, but the new catalog is the bomb! Lots and lo...

Welcome friends, to the April Creative Inking Blog Hop! Our theme this month is Springing into Flowers! My favorite card to make for someone, no matter the occasion, is a card with flowers incorporated in some way. I have been doing a technique that I call "messy water coloring." I use thr...

So have you heard about the movement to bring birthdays back-read all about it here lets-all-bring-birthdays-back Our blog hop will give you lots of ideas for making birthday cards! Sometimes all you need to make a card is a stamp, paper and ink. So grab the Watercolour Words stamp set, Whis...

Hello, Friends! Welcome to the March installment of our Creative Inking Blog Hop! This month is all about birthdays. I make more birthday cards than any other occasion it seems. I give out loads of kids cards because we have a huge extended family with lots of little ones. I wanted to do som...

Easter comes early this year-so time to make some gifts to give. I saw this gift bag in our Stampin' Up! demonstrator magazine-isn't it pretty? Those concept artists are amazing. Wouldn't this be pretty to fill with some Easter treats for a dear friend-these Petite Cafe Gift Bags are food safe...

Hello Friends! Thanks you so much for stopping by for the February Creative Inking Blog Hop! Our theme for this month is an Easter Bunny Hop! How fun! I had so many ideas in my head! I looked on Pinterest and found some really cute paper crafting ideas for a bunny. I decided to use the ...

Psst-want to see some sneak peeks from the new Occasions and Sale-A-Bration catalogues-then this blog hop is for you! Big in the Occasions catalogue-birthdays! So this card features new paper, new enamel dots, and a new stamp set. But it is the inside of the card that is the real show stopper...

Terrific techniques-how about two terrific tips? I love vellum-but you have to admit adhering it can be a real challenge-adhesives always show through. So it becomes like a game of hide and seek-did I hide it well enough-will they find my adhesive. So first the card So do you see where I...

Welcome friends! Thank you so much for visiting us for the November Creative Inking Blog Hop! Our theme for this month is Terrific Techniques! I decided to do the shaving cream technique. I used my largest acrylic block as my palette. I began by squirting a heavy layer of shaving cre...

Ready for some more Christmas Joy-hope you are having fun checking out all the amazing ideas on our blog hop today! I am Ready for....Christmas is my annual all day stamping event. The day includes four classes-one is always a home decor piece. This piece reminds me of the song White Christ...

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This month's blog hop showcases our favourite new accessory. Are you ready for my reveal....the 2015-2017 In-Colour Blossom Accents First up-a card we made at club this month. I love metallic thread too-it was also on my very first order from the new catalogue. It is a perfect compliment to ...

Welcome Stampers to the July edition of our Creative Inking Blog Hop! Our theme for this month is our favorite accessory from the new Stampin' Up! 2015-2016 catalog. This was no easy task. How could I possibly pick just one? There are so many to chose from! Well, after some thinking...

Welcome to month two of the new catalog! We are celebrating those helpful new accessories that take your card from boring to "wow"! It is impossible to share just one favorite - so here are three: Elegant Dots Embossing Folder, Lot's of Labels Framelit Dies, and the White Perfect Accents. ...

You may have just hopped here from Phyllis' Sheppard's blog or you may beginning here. Either way, welcome! This month's hop is all about our favorite new accessory. Choosing just one was tough...until I made this card! The new Greetings Thinlits have my attention in a BIG WAY! I love ...

New stamps in the house! Build a Birthday is such a versatile set. New to stamping-well with this stamp set, and some ink and paper, you can create a quick, easy and cute birthday card! Or stamp some extra candles, add some dimensionals and step your card up a notch. Not just candles-ch...

Welcome friends to the June 2015 Creative Inking Blog Hop! I'm so happy you stopped by. Isn't Amber talented? Love her work! Our theme for June was to pick our favorite stamp set from the 2015-2016 Stampin' Up! annual catalog. That was a tough one! I finally decided to use the stamp set nam...