Inky Impressions Stamps - Inky Inspirations Blog -Happy Birthday

Good Morning, Crafty Peeps!

This week I opted to make a simple birthday card for a little lady turning 5 years old.   I find kids cards particularly challenging, however, this sweet image made my creating extra easy and extra fun.

Birthday Lili - Digital Stamp

My chalk blue sky did not photograph so well, but it looks great IRL!

I really enjoy mixing stripes and dots.  The image was colored with Copics. 

Red Card Stock: Neenah #80 Linen CS - Red Pepper

Green Card Stock:  Bazzill Textured CS #80

Designer Papers:  My Mind's Eye:  Happy Day

Ribbon:  Really Reasonable Ribbon

I kept the inside simple, since I plan to enclose a little monetary gift.

  I repeated the ribbon border and added a little butterfly sticker.

Rubber Stamped Sentiment:  Just Rite Stamps

Thanks for stopping by!  As always I hope you have found a small glimmer of inspiration.  I am working on a new tutorial and hope to have it ready by next week!

Hugz,

Chana

Inky Impressions - February New Release Day

Hi, Crafty Peeps!

It is New Release Day at Inky Impressions Stamps.  

How's this for a cute image!

 My thoughts were that this was a card for a child, so I decided to use primary colors!

 I added the "Giggles" Sentiment to keep the card fun!

Did not really care for any of the block printed get well sentiment in my stash, so I went with the script.  My grandson has been writing and reading script (cursive) since pre-k so I assume most kids are learning that as opposed to manuscript these days!

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you will visit the Inky Impressions Challenge Blog and The Inky Impressions Inspiration Blog (I design for this one).

Hugz,

Chana

Love Is - Inky Impressions Rubber Stamps - Inspiration Blog

Hello, Crafty Peeps,

Today I have a very simple Valentine's Day card to share with you.  Continuing my theme from last Saturday's Inky Impressions post, working with Sentiments.  The sentiment I am using this week works perfectly as the focal for a card without images

Originally, I planned to use a masking technique to add glittered hearts to my card base.

  My supply order was delayed due to the nasty weather, so I had to find another solution.  This lovely heart paper came in a 400 piece Authentique Paper Kit as a gift for purchasing other Authentique products. The solid red layer is Neenah "Red Pepper" #80 Linen Cover.

I love the font used on this Inky Impressions Sentiment.
The image is 3"H x 2"W and centered on the page before printing.
The sentiment is printed on a piece of 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" Neenah Solar White #80 Linen Cover and die cut  using Spellbinders' Marvelous Squares.  The addition of this small heart (Spellbinders' Classic Heart)  adorned with a snippet from one of my pearl flourishes, completes the focal grouping.

I left the inside very plain, opting to use only one glittered heart.  This leaves lots of room for someone to write a long loving message to their special Valentine.

I don't celebrate Valentine's Day, but as Always, I hope you have found some inspiration here. 

Hugz,

Chana Malkah

Challenges Entered:

Crafter's Companion - Clean and Simple
Emergency Crafters - Pink or Red
Treasured Times Rubber Stamps Challenge - Anything Goes w/Layers
The Stamping Boutique - Clean and Simple - Valentines
The Cupboard Trilogy - Love
Tando Creative Challenges - Passion
Seemacrafts - Love/Valentine

Thanks Beery Much - Inky Inspirations

Hello, Crafty Peeps!

Well, we certainly had a few exciting days here in Altanta!  Lots of snow and ice!  Today it was like Spring outside.  We have a saying, "if you don't like the weather in Atlanta....wait a minute!"  Hope the weather is better wherever you live!   This post is for the Inky Impressions Inspiration Blog. 

Inky impressions Stamps has some of the most adorable images and quite a few great sentiments! Stop by the store and check them out!  I really love the Lili images.

I am using  "Lili With Berries"  and the "Thanks Berry Much" Sentiment

I really like the idea of making the sentiment the star of the show sometimes!  I am on a mission to use all my scraps, and I wanted to use this really cool piece of chevron card stock.    

Using solid coordinated card stock, and leaving my sentiment white,  I created a deconstructed bow tie.  This simple focal draws the eye away from the bold chevron design and identifies the sentiment as the point of interest.

I placed the image on the inside and pretty much left everything plain.  I love this image!  I was drinking a blueberry smoothie while coloring her, so naturally her basket ended up full of blueberries.

One of the other things I want to focus on this year is making cards that I can actually mail or that I can mail without paying an arm and a leg for postage.

 This designer paper is very bold.  Normally, it would compete with your image unless you covered it with another matting layer or layered images and lots of embellishments, which I did not want to do.

 Paper is a powerful design element.  I wanted to work with this paper's design rather than have it work against me.

Images don't always have to be on the outside of your project.  Trying using them on the inside.  I think the person who receives this card will be pleasantly surprised by the cute little image on the inside.

Thanks for stopping by!