Wedding Wishes & Coupon

Hello!! I hope your Fourth of July weekend was great!  I had the best weekend!! My friend Staci and her family came from Kansas City for a visit.   We had the best time and it was so hard to see them leave.  I would have loved for them to stay longer.  They have four kids, ages 10 down to 2 1/2 years and my kids are 8 & 3 so they all played very well together.  It was so much fun talking about old times and catching up on what is going on in each other's lives.  I truly miss them already!

Today, I wanted to share a wedding card with you that I made for a bridal shower I attended recently. 

For this card I used all three sizes of My Favorite Things Rolled Roses dies.  So fun!  I kept the design simple while hoping at the same time that would make it elegant.

I accented the framed panel with twine from The Twinery.  For this card a ribbon would have been too large and would have covered the damask images but the twine was just perfect.  (Tomorrow I will have another post on The Twinery's blog....it is big. bold. busy. LOL!)

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 And while I'm at it, I haven't posted about my Etsy shop for a while so I thought I'd do that real quick and also offer another coupon code (you will find the code at the bottom of this post).  I'm going to share some of my favorite rings that I have in my shop!  These can all be found at my Etsy Shop, Jen's Ink Spot.

  

  

  

Custom Rings: Also, did you know that I can make you a custom ring? If you have some favorite colors that you'd like made into a ring, let me know and I can put something together for you. Typically how I do that is if you tell me that you'd like an Aqua & Hawaiian Shores ring I will put together some buttons, take pictures of the buttons (without the wire added) and let you pick which group of buttons you like the most. Once the buttons are chosen, you also choose what color of wire you'd like and what size you need the ring to be and then I make it!  If that interests you, let me know!

And here is the information for the coupon code for my Etsy shop!

Coupon Code:  HotSummerDeal

Good now through July 15, 2011

Thanks for stopping by! I hope your 4th of July was fabulous!!

Supplies
Stamps:  PTI Damask Designs
Cardstock:  Rustic White, Aqua Mist, Raspberry Fizz
Ink: Dark Chocolate, Tea Dye
Other: Pink Sorbet Twinery Twine, MFT Rolled Roses Dies, Mat Stack Die PTI, Silver Pearls

Thanks

I really need to think up some creative titles for my posts!  Why is it that when I get to that "box" that wants a title for my posts I just go blank.  How boring is "Thanks" for a post title, especially when I use that one all the time, LOL!!

Today I wanted to share a card I made way back for Mother's Day.  This is the card that I made for my mom...sort of.  I actually forgot to take a picture of it, so I recreated it but added a "Thanks" tag on it instead of the "Mom" tag that the original had.

I love using the Giga Guidelines stamps!  They are just so versatile and can be used for SO many things!!  Also, LOVE the tiny tags set!  They are perfect for those times when I almost complete a card and wonder where in the world I am going to fit in the sentiment.  Do any of you create that way?  Just kind of go with it as it comes to you?  I can rarely plan my cards out in advance!  Right Laurie?

I wanted to show you a closeup of these little beady things.  I've seen these in the stores...for lots of money too!  No way am I going to spend that much money on them when I can make them myself...well, sort of make them myself.  I found these in the wedding aisle at Hobby Lobby one day.   Everything was 50% off and I was looking to see what I could find for cards.  I came across these.  You get 6 or so strands of them (this is only 1 strand) and they were $2.49 for the whole pack I think and then 50% off of that!  That's a bargain!  Each of the beads were white but I took a copic marker that matched the color theme I was using, in this case Raspberry Fizz, and colored the beads I wanted and left the others clear.  Can you imagine how many different colors you could make these in!  I also colored the little pearls on the card as well with my copics to match the beads.

Thank you for stopping by today!! I can't wait to catch back up with your blogs! I enjoy seeing what you have created so much!  Have a great day!

Supplies (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Giga Guidelines, Tiny Tags
Paper: White, Hawaiian Shores
Ink: Turquoise Gem VersaMagic, True Black
Other: Copics, Hobby Lobby Wedding Embellishment, Raspberry Fizz ribbon, Tiny Tags Die, Sizzix Embossing Folder, White Scrapper's Floss, White Rhinestones (colored with copics)

Sailing Around

Hello!! It is HOT, HOT, HOT here in Kansas!  It is NO fun being outside!  Yesterday just running a few errands was enough for me.  I think I'll enjoy the air conditioning all day today! LOL!!

I am going to share a card with you today that I started more than a month ago and got frustrated because I just couldn't figure out how to finish it so I set it aside.  Then, low and behold, as I was playing with my rainbows in the card I showed yesterday (I know, you couldn't guess could you, lol!) I had a lightning bulb moment and it FINALLY came together!  This was originally going to be for Passion for Papertrey's Recipe Challenge to use 3 colors, 2 buttons and 1 ribbon but it just looked empty to me so I went on and made something else.  This is how I finally finished the card this week:

I had everything on the card done and in place except for the sentiment and the rainbow and clouds.  It just seemed like the rainbow was MADE for the space left on the card!  And I really like how the glitter in the clouds adds a little oomph (is that a word?) to the card. 

Someone asked me yesterday how I made the perforations in the cloud.  Well, it is super, super easy! The die COMES that way!! Yes, I know, isn't that cool!!  I tried to find a link with a picture of the actual dies and couldn't, but in my card I did use both sizes of cloud dies and both have the perforated edge.

In this picture you can see the dimension on the card a little better.  The largest cloud is popped up with pop dots and the bottom 2 layers of waves are also popped up.  To make the waves I used my Quickutz scalloped border dies and used the negative left over from die cutting it and then cut those pieces down to the size I needed.

I'm also entering this card in the Off the Wall Craftiness challenge to use red, white and blue on a card.  This was the inspiration photo.

It sure says summer to me!!

I hope you have enjoyed this series of rainbow cards!  I'm sure you'll see more later but I'll give you a break tomorrow! LOL!!  Thanks, as always, for stopping by!

Supplies (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Bitty Baby Blessings
Paper: Spring Rain, Blueberry Sky, White, Pure Poppy, Basic Grey Offbeat, October Afternoon Cherry Hill, DCWV Glitter Paper
Ink: True Black
Other: Rainbows & Clouds Dies by Lil' Inker Designs, Sunshine IP, Quickutz Scallop Border Die, Button, twine, Fine Linen Buttons, Pop Dots

Wish Upon a Star

Hi!! I am taking a break from the rainbows...sort of!  LOL!! I tell you, I am seriously addicted to the Rainbows & Clouds die from Lil' Inker Designs!  I think that this is one of the most fun sets/tools that I've purchased for a long time and that says a lot!! The possibilities are endless!  So today I sat down to make a patriotic card of sorts and as I started to play with my rainbow die, I realized that it looked sort of like a star burst!  I loved that idea so much that I ran with it and this card is the result!

I used the rainbow for the star trail!  Does it work?  I stamped the star from PTI's Star Print set and used the matching punch to punch it out.  Then I used a star nestie to cut a small star for the center which I layered on top with a pop dot. 

I used a lot of dimension on this card but some of it is very, very subtle.  I cut out numerous clouds and layered several on top of each other.  I didn't want to pop them all up as high as the star so that I could keep the star as the "star of the show", lol, so to add just a bit of dimension, I layered them on top of each other.  Here's another view of the dimension below.

To get the sentiment to say "Wish Upon A Star", I used the "Wish" from PTI's Tiny Tags set, and the "upon a" from the Star Prints set and just masked off the "wish" that was included in that particular sentiment.  It fit perfectly on that cute little perforated cloud!  I also used tea dye inks around the outside of each of the clouds to give them a little of an aged look.  I also outlined each cloud with a spica glitter pen but I know that you can't see that detail in the photos.

The reddish paper that I used as a mat has been in my paper collection for years!  It is DCWV white core paper and I thought it fit with this aged looking card.  I cut it to the size I wanted and then used a paper sander to lightly sand the edges.  This made the white of the paper show through.

I hope you enjoyed this post!  I'll have one more for you tomorrow if I get it scheduled and then I'll promise to do something else for a post or two, lol!  I also have a Twinery post that will be featured on The Twinery blog coming up next week to share as well.

Supplies
Stamps: PTI Tiny Tags & Star Prints
Paper: Basic Grey Offbeat, October Afternoon Cherry Hill, PTI Rustic White & Spring Rain, DCWV
Ink: Charcoal & Moulin Rouge Palette, Tea Dye PTI
Other: Rainbows & Clouds Lil' Inker Designs Dies, Fiskars Star Punch, PTI Linen Impression Plate, Pop Dots, Spica Clear Glitter Pen, Star Nestability