3D Rainbow

I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend!! My son is begging to watch Star Wars III so I told him after I posted this, we would watch it!  LOL!  I grew up watching Star Wars and loving it so I guess that has gone full circle now that Mason enjoys it too.

I was playing with some new paper today and kept seeing rainbows again so I decided to pull out the Lil' Inkers Dies and try something different.  I have had an idea in my head since I first ordered these dies to make a 3D rainbow of sorts by cutting the die cuts and layering them so that each layer is higher then the one before.  This card was the first result of that experiment.

Can you see how the rainbow pops?  Each layer is just slightly overlapped.

I cut each section of rainbow into 11/16" rectangle pieces.  I found it was easiest to first adhere the rainbow to a piece of cardstock and then cut the white space away with scissors.  This gave the rainbow stability and kept each section together.  Then, I used a different thickness of dimensionals on each section.  The section at the bottom I adhered directly to the cloud patterned paper (thanks Deb for this fun, fun paper!!).  Each section after that was popped up to create the 3Dish staircase look.

For those of you who haven't seen what the Lil' Inker Rainbow & Cloud dies look like, here is a graphic of them.  You can also find more information here. 

For the tag, I had to use some of the Twinery's Pink Sorbet twine!  LOVE that twine!! The tag is from PTI's Tiny Tag set and I stamped it with a circle from the Boy Basics: Simple Circles set to get the stripes that mimic the rainbow.  The sentiment is from the Lil' Inker Designs Rainbows & Clouds stamp set.  That font is so cute!

I'm addicted to that glitter paper too!  I think it makes the cutest clouds!

I'm entering this in the Wee Memories challenge to make a summertime card!

Well, I better get to watching Star Wars!  Hope you all have a very wonderful weekend!  Thank you for stopping by!

Supplies
Stamps: Lil' Inker Designs Rainbows & Clouds, PTI Boy Basics: Simple Circles
Paper: Echo Park Summer Days, PTI 2008 Bitty Box Basics, Raspberry Fizz & Lemon Tart cardstock, DCWV Glitter Paper
Ink: True Black, Champagne VersaMark
Other: Lil' Inker Designs Rainbows & Clouds Dies, PTI Tiny Tags Dies, Twinery Berry Sorbet twine, Rhinestone, Pop Dots, Glue Dots

Buzzzzzing Around

Hello!  I have a post up on The Twinery's blog today and wanted to also share it with my readers.  If you are familiar with my work, you probably know that I love to show off the Twinery's twine and make it shine in clean and simple ways.  Well, today I decided to shake things up a little.  I have a big and bold and busy card to share with you today!

I started putting this card together by first assembling the bee.  I found an image of a clip art bee online and printed it out on cardstock.  Then, I cut out the body and used my ATG gun to apply adhesive to the front of the oval body.  Then, I began wrapping the twine around the body.  I wrapped a few strands of Charcoal Twine, and then a few strands of Lemondrop twine and repeated that process until the end of the body.  I wrapped the ends under the body.

For the wings, I used a circle punch and punched out two circles.  The first circle was punched from acetate and the 2nd circle was punched with vellum.  I ran the vellum circle through my die cutting machine and impressed a design on the circle.  I then cut the circles in half and attached each 1/2 to the back of the body.  For the head, I traced the clip art bee head onto my black cardstock, cut it out and attached it to the back of the bee.

For the clouds, I used the same process I did on the first card for the Twinery-Stamps of Life blog hop that you can find here.  Basically, I stitched twine from the Twinery around the edge of the clouds. I then frayed the edges of the muslin to give it that fuzzy look.

I added a small Maraschino twine bow to the sentiment panel.  I love the way that tiny bit of twine adds so much interest to the panel!

I hope you enjoyed this busy bee card!  If you haven't tried The Twinery's twine, I know you will LOVE it!!   I hope you have a great day!  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies

Stamps: Sentiment Sampler Paper Smooches

Cardstock: True Black, White, Hawaiian Shores, Beautiful Blooms patterned paper, vellum, acetate

Ink: True Black PTI

Other: Lemondrop, Charcoal & Maraschino twine from The Twinery, Cloud dies from PTI, Fiskars border punch, muslin, pop dots, black scrapper's floss

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)