Celebrate Today

The Inky Pinky household is heading into another busy birthday season. I’m going to  need a bunch of birthday cards. That’s lucky for you since you’ll get to see them all! LOL

To make a card that looks like mine, you’ll need the following supplies. Remember, if you need any of these supplies, just click on the name of the item and it will take you directly to my shop.

Supplies:

Apothecary Accents Labels framelits

Perfectly Penned stamp set

Designer Series Paper Patterns Stack – brights collection

Whisper White card stock

Old Olive card stock

White Gel Pen

Stazon Black ink

Essentials Paper Piercing Pack

Paper Piercer

2011 In Color Designer Printed Brad

Dimensionals

Big Shot

Snail Adhesive

Directions:

• Whisper White card base is standard size
• Use the labels that match the ones in the photo from the Apothecary Accents Label framelits.
• Use the smaller label and a piece of DSP from the Brights Collection, run through the Big Shot.
• Use the larger label and a piece of Old Olive card stock, and run through the Big Shot.
• With the Paper Piercing tool and the Essentials Paper Piercing pack, pierce around the Old Olive piece.
• Once all the piercing is done, use the white gel pen in each piercing to make dots.
• Looking at placement in photo, place and adhere Old Olive piece to the card base. Trim excess edge.
• Use piercer to create opening for brad and place brad in DSP label.
• Adhere DSP label to Old Olive piece with dimensional.
• Stamp sentiment using Stazon Ink and sentiment from Curly Cute.
• Trim sentiment piece.
• Cut a strip of Tangerine Tango DSP as a mat for the sentiment piece.
• Adhere Tangerine Tango and sentiment together.
• Attach Tangerine Tango piece to card with dimensional using photo as reference for placement.

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Technique Tuesday - creating a sponging stencil

I needed a couple of Sympathy cards last week. These are the hardest cards for me to make. I can come up with stuff for men easier than ideas for sympathy cards. I'm never sure if the image conveys my feelings. I finally figured out that simple is better. I go with simple clean images and a simple message. This card says "With Sympathy" inside. That's it. It works.

To make a card that looks like mine, you’ll need the following supplies. Remember, if you need any of these supplies, just click on the name of the item and it will take you directly to my shop.

Supplies:

Bordering on Romance stamp set

Whisper White card stock

Wisteria Wonder card stock

Wisteria Wonder ink

Stazon Ink

Wisteria Wonder marker

Lucky Limeade marker

Island Indigo marker

Calypso Coral marker

Apothecary Accents Framelits

Big Shot 

Pearls Basic Jewels

Sponge Dauber

Snail Adhesive

corner rounder

white ribbon

your choice of sentiments for the inside of the card

Directions:

• Wisteria Wonder card base is standard size.
• Whisper White mat is cat at 4 x 5 1/4.
• Round corners of Whisper White card stock.
• Select image from Bordering on Romance stamp set.
• Stamp in center of Whisper White card stock using Stazon ink.
• Using the Big Shot and the Apothecary labels framelits, choose the one that matched the image above. Cut the label using scrap paper. 
•  Use NEGATIVE part of the label cut out to create a stencil. Center the "stencil" on Whisper White card stock over the stamped image. Using a sponge dauber and Wisteria Wonder ink to sponge inside the stencil but NOT on top of the image.
• Be sure the sponged ink is dry before moving on.
• Color image.
• Add pearls to the inside of the 3 largest flowers.
• Adhere the mat to the card base
• Tie ribbon around card

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Butterfly Week - Saturday Scrapbooking

Wow the week sure did fly. I've had a great time coming up with projects for butterfly week. Now it's time for a scrapbook page.

This photo was taken at my daughter's wedding almost 2 years ago. From left to right - Diana's Godmother, Diana's Aunt (my sister) and me. My sister & I have been friends with Cari for almost as long as I can remember. It was an amazing night and being able to share it with such special people made it magical.

To make a page that looks like mine, you’ll need the following supplies. Remember, if you need any of these supplies, just click on the name of the item and it will take you directly to my shop.

Supplies:

12 x 12 Whisper White card stock

Basic Black card stock

Riding Hood Red card stock

Basic Black Jumbo Stampin' Around Ink Cartridge

Very Vintage Stampin' Around Wheel

Stampin' Around Jumbo Wheel Handle

Basic Black Ink

Sponge Dauber

Apothecary Label Framelits

Beautiful Butterflies die

Beautiful Wings embosslit

Perfect Polka-Dots embossing folder

Fancy Fan embossing folder

Big Shot

Snail Adhesive

Glue dots

Dimensionals

Basic Jewels Rhinestones

Using the Very Vintage jumbo wheel, handle and Basic Black ink cartridge, create the background on Whisper White. 

Cut mats: Basic Black 5 1/2 x 7 1/2

                Riding Hood Red 5 1/4 x 7 1/4

                (photo is 5 x 7)

Adhere photo to mats, adhere to center of page

Using the Beautiful Butterflies die, run a sheet of Basic Black and Riding Hood Red to cut butterflies.

Emboss the large Basic Black butterfly using the Fancy Fan embossing folder in the Big Shot.

Emboss the smaller Riding Hood Red butterfly using the Polka-Dots embossing folder in the Big Shot.

Adhere the Riding Hood Red butterfly to the Basic Black butterfly using a dimensional.

Adhere this large butterfly to the upper left hand corner of the photo area.

Use scraps of Basic Black card stock in the Beautiful Wings embosslit. You will need 2 sets of these butterflies.

Adhere 3 small butterflies in a grouping that looks good to you using glue dots.

Cut Riding Hood Red Apothecary Label to be used for journaling block.

Ink edges of label in Basic Black Ink.

Write journaling.

Adhere label to page.

Attach butterflies on either side of journaling label.

Using Basic Jewels Rhinestones, adhere small strip to the "body" of the large butterfly near the photo.

Put smaller rhinestone in the center of the rest of the butterflies.

Put small rhinestones in the center of some of the flowers in the background stamped image for added sparkle.

Let your creativity sparkle - make some thing today.