Passing the Purple Torch! (2nd post)

Hi Everyone!

This is my 2nd post for today~

For the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop ~ Day 5 click here

It is time for me to pass the Purple Amber Ink Torch

I have had a blast designing for Amber Ink this past month with amazing hosts and a super creative bunch of ladies.....

But now the Purple Torch is going to....

Shirl from Creations with Shirl



The other torches are being passed on as well....

PINK...

From Meredith Winston @ http://www.papercanteen.com/

to Jenn Borjeson @ http://www.stampinangeljenn.blogspot.com/

BRONZE...

From Kirsi Kirjavainen aka Pipertäjä @ http://pipertaja.blogspot.com/

to Kaija @ http://kaijan-arkea.blogspot.com/

BLUE...

From Leigh Penner @ http://www.leighpenner.blogspot.com/

to Ashley Newell @ http://www.hearthugsdesigns.blogspot.com/

ORANGE...

From Debra Miller @ http://creamcityangels.blogspot.com/

to Angela Kelley @ http://angelakelley.blogspot.com/

I am so very excited to see what this bunch of creative ladies have in store for us!!

Congrats to the new Torch Bearers!

Amber Ink~ November DT Recap

Morning Everyone!

My 12 days of Christmas project will be up in alittle bit

but

I am sad to say that this is recap day for me over at Amber Ink as I will be passing the

 Amber Ink Purple Torch

on to the next torch bearer tomorrow :(

I know you will all love seeing this talented crafter and all she does with Amber Ink! I am super excited...I know she will rock all her projects!!

I had a BLAST working with all of Amber's digi's and I LOVE all her beautiful ipaper!

I hope you like all my Amber Ink projects and that you come back tomorrow to see who will run with the Purple Amber Ink Torch!



Thanks~ Amber Ink Style

Good Morning!

It is time for my weekly post over at

Creativity Heals and the card team was asked to design CAS cards.

I also wanted to incorporate my Amber Ink post for this week as well.

This card was designed as a Thank You to that awesome team that I have had the privileged to work with! I LOVE Amber's beautiful line of ipapers and digi's and hope when you have a minute you will pop over and check it all out!!

My card today uses Fall~Time to Leaf ipaper that I printed on my computer. I then used it to cut out the leaves from the Create a Critter Cartridge at 2".

I stamped my sentiment from Paper Smooches~ Sentiment Sampler stamp set.

Loving this fun set!!!

I added some buttons from my stash and called it a card :)

Hoping you like it!!

I am also entering this over at:
The Paper Variety~ Photo Inspiration, Leaves

Now off to clean my house and begin cooking for tomorrow!

Amber Ink~ Black and White

Good Morning Everyone!!

Today us Amber Ink girls are joining in with Totally Papercrafts

for their Black and White Challenge.

Amber Ink is the sponsor for this weeks challenge...offering up a $15 gift certificate to the store so if you have liked my Amber Ink projects this past month and would love the chance to win to shop the store all you have to do is enter their challenge :)

Here is what I came up with

For my card I used Amber Ink~Crackle Dots Black on White Tiny ipaper

My sentiment is from EAD Designs

I used grosgrain ribbon in white, buttons from my stash

and

Twinery Twine in Charcoal

I was going for something simple and hope I accomplished it!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great Friday!



Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas~ Amber Inkling Style

Morning Everyone!!

Even though Thanksgiving is not here yet I have Christmas on the brain.

I said last year that I would not wait to the last minute to get my holiday cards done and what there is only 2 months till Christmas...

So with that said I plan on making and sharing Christmas cards from now on....well maybe not all Christmas but the bulk will be :)

I have another Amber Ink card to share

Now If you saw my last Christmas card using the Green Cheer ipaper you will recognize it in this card, I used my leftover scraps and came up with this.

Here are the details:

The frames are from Preserves and I used the swiss dots embossing folder on the white card stock layer.

Before embossing I stamped my sentiment using Fired Brick Distress Ink and a dollar bin sentiment stamp.

My trees are from the Designer Calendar cartridge cut at 2.75 and 2"

I attached these with foam squares for the extra dimension.

My card stock is scraps in white and black, PTI in Scarlet Jewel

and Green Cheer for the trees.

All month long over at Less is More, Amber Ink is sponsoring their challenges.

This weeks challenge is

One Layer Cards using Leaves

Now remember all the challenges over at Less is More are CAS challenges.

And they stand by that....they have to be CAS!

There are some amazing cards already entered but you still have time to head over and link up!!

That is all I have for you today...

I hope you like my card :)

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT day!!



Season's Greeting~ Amber Ink Holiday Cheer

Good Morning Everyone!

I just realized as I began to type up this blog post that today is 11/11/11.

How crazy is that :)

I have another Amber Ink card to share with you today.

I am beginning to make all my Christmas cards, I have a handful done but many more to do!

I have presents on the brain and this is what came out on paper.

I wanted my card to look like a wrapped gift.

How did I do?

All my plain card stock is from PTI and that pattern paper is Amber Ink ~ Green Holiday Cheer

I heat embossed the "seasons greeting" sentiment using crystal embossing power and like the way it turned out :)

The crinkle ribbon is from 3 Girl Jam in Holly Berry ~ BTW it is a perfect match to the Pure Poppy PTI card stock!!

I used a white tag from my stash...stamped the to and from using a SU stamp and attached it to the card using Twinery Twine in Peapod.

A very simple card...easily cased and great to make in bulk!

Well I hope you like this card!

Thanks for stopping by

and

have a GREAT day!!



A CAS Birthday featuring AmberInk

Good Morning!

I have a birthday card to share today featuring Amber Inklings

 ipaper~ School Girl Plaid

For my card I used an A2 size base in white card stock

I layered using PTI card stock in Pure Poppy

and another layer of white card stock

For the circles I used my 1.5" circle punch~ again Pure Poppy

and

my ipaper punched out using my 1" circle punch

My sentiment is from My Creative Time~ Many Greetings

 Amber Inklings is sponsoring "Less is More" for the entire month of November.

This is a new challenge blog for me!

I love creating CAS cards and my project fits the challenge perfectly!

So I am entering this over at

 Less is More~Red and Orange

I hope you like my card for today!

If you have yet to check out Amber Inklings...please hop over!

They have beautiful ipaper and adorable digis!

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Halloween!! Amber Inkling DT Day

Good Morning everyone!

Happy Halloween!

 I have my first Amber Inkling DT project to share with you all today!

A cute little candy holder that you can hang from the doorknob.....

I will give this cutie over to my best friends kiddo's for Halloween!

Filled with candy of course :)

We trick or treat over in their neighborhood every year and I know they will get a kick out of this!

For my project I used SVGcuts ~ Party on Elm Street for the treat cone

Amber Ink ipaper in Crackle Dot~Red on Black

and

Amber Ink digi BatKid Cutie which I colored with my copics.

The sentiment is also Amber Ink~ I'm Batty for You

I hope you enjoyed my project

Please check out Amber Ink for their GREAT line of ipaper, digi images and clear stamps

They have TONS of really awesome items!

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT Halloween!!

I am Holding the Purple Torch for Amber Inklings!! and a Giveaway Announcement

Morning everyone!

I have some awesome news to share

I will be carrying the Purple Torch for the next month over at Amber Inklings!!

I will be running and creating and sharing with an awesome group!

What is Amber Ink and Where did I get this torch you ask?

Well the very talented Esther over at For the Joy of Creating was last month's Purple torch bearer and she so kindly is passing it on to me so I can carry and create this month using Amber Ink's beautiful line of digi stamps, ipaper and clear stamps.

So before I go on please hop over to Esther's to see all her amazing work...you will not be disappointed!!

Want to know who is carrying the other torches?

I will be joined by these other very talented ladies who have also been handed the torch:

PINK:  Meredith Winston @ http://www.papercanteen.com/

 BRONZE: Kirsi Kirjavainen aka @ http://pipertaja.blogspot.com

BLUE:  Leigh Penner @ http://www.leighpenner.blogspot.com/

PURPLE:Jessica @http://chick-n-scrap.blogspot.com/

 ORANGE: Debra Miller @ http://creamcityangels.blogspot.com

Thank you so much Esther for entrusting me with the Purple Torch

and be on the lookout for my first project on Monday featuring

Amber Ink!!

 

 

Now for the giveaway announcement...

My blogging buddy Beckie over at Just B Creative Crazy

is doing a 125 follower giveaway

She is currently at 80 followers so please please please head over and give her

some love

Hey you never know you might be the lucky winner of her blog candy!!