Hi again,

Well it is an exciting day today, because I get to share with you, who the Inkspirations Challenges Guest Designer for July is!!!! This month we have the wonderful and most talented stamper from Arizona USA, Nancy Riley!!! I have admired Nancy’s work for some time, and it is such an honour to have her be our Guest Designer!

Here is Nancy’s Bio and photo

I have no doubt that Nancy will blow us away with her amazing creations each week!

Now who is ready for a new challenge? You i hope

This week we have an Inspiration Challenge for you all, so have fun with this. You have so much freedom, and option to interpret the image whichever way you please.

Here is the image:

My inspired creation for you:

For this card I have used Rose red cardstock for the base, and mounted a square of Pretty in pink cardstock, and some designer paper I pulled out of an old folder that matched perfectly! I added a strip of Rose red DSP which is from the Raspberry tart DSP pack from Stampin’Up. The image is from the Pun Fun stamp set along with the greeting. I have stamped both onto watercolour paper, and watercoloured them with my stamp pads, and Aquapainters. I embellished with Pretty in pink taffeta ribbon, and brads. I have distressed the edges with my cutter kit, and added some sponging for added effect. I hope you likes

Now be sure to check out the Design Teams creations, because they will be nothing short of amazing!

Cindy

Karen

Kirsty

Amy

Renee

Nancy - Guest designer

Want to play along? - here are some guidelines.

If you would like to play along, all you need to do is follow the directions:

1. Make your creation following the challenge ie, sketch, colour, or inspiration image.

2. Load your creation up onto your blog or a public viewing forum like Splitcoast Stampers, with a direct link back to the post on this website, so that others viewing the post will know where the challenge has come from, and it is courtesy to do so.

3. Then come back to this post so that you can add your name and link in the Mr. Linky!

You have until the Thursday the 9th July midnight to get your entries linked.

I will pick a winner and an honourable mention on Friday 10thJuly.

I hope you have fun with this one, and do try to give it a go! I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Hi everyone!

I hope you are keeping well! I have just picked the kids up from school, and they are now officially on holidays for 2 weeks! YAY! That means sleep-in’s, no lunch boxes, and no school drop-off and pick up I love the holidays, however the July ones are usually the hardest because it is right in the middle of winter, and keeping 4 kids amuzed other than sticking them in front of DVD’s can be a little tricky. I do have a few things planned, so i am sure they will whizz by in a blink of an eye!

SO this week, i had a fellow Design Team member help out with picking the winner and honourable mention this week! The wonderful Karen Thomas, has put her judges hat on this week, and picked the following for you all.

This weeks Winner goes to Susan Joyce, who has made not only one, but TWO fabulous cards……! Karen picked the following card, because it is AMAZING!

Not everyone loves this rooster stamp set, but WOW Sue has really done a fabulous job with him! Then the other card Sue made, i just have to show you as well, because this would have been my pick for the week…..

Doesn’t this boat look amazing? I just keep staring at the fabulous clouds sponged in the background, AND I love the jumbo eyelets and rope! Totally fabulous! Thank you Sue for your amazing creations this week!

Then for this weeks Honourable mention Karen picked this cute card by Kellie Winnell.

Lovely colouring and a super cute watering can! Thanks Kellie!

Thanks to Karen for her picks of the week! As you will see on the Slide show, it is pretty hard to pick a winner, as there are so many great entries! Thanks to everyone who played along!

Hey there,

I am still hanging in there. I am so thankful for strong pain killers, as they are helping. I can’t seem to get past the 4 hours without having more though! Hopefully with a few more days, my mouth will heal better. I am just desperate to feel normal again!

Now I managed to just sit down tonight, have a cuppa and chill out stamping and colouring a couple of cards for Amy Rysavy’s Sketches. You all know how much I love Amy’s sketches! This weeks sketch is this one:

Fabulous hey!

Here is the creation I made with it:

Oh these colours cheer me up. Whenever I am having a “no-mojo” type of day, I tend to turn to these colours and they get me going. So I have used Chocolate chip, and Pumpkin pie cardstock, with Whisper white, and the Sweet Always DSP paper pack from Stampin’Up. I used the Owl together now stamp set and coloured it in with my Copic markers (see below). I have added some Chocolate taffeta ribbon, paper piercing and Pretty in pink brads to finish it off.

The Copic coloured markers I used on this card:

I had also started working on a card last week for Amy’s Sketch last week, but never got around to finishing it off to upload in time. But i have now and thought I would share it with you:

Here was the sketch:

the card i made:

This is a different colour combo for me, but I think it worked out okay. I have used Pretty in pink for the base, and added some Brocade blue spotty DSP, and a strip of So saffron DSP from the Good morning Sunshine paper pack from Stampin’Up. The stamp I used was a Gorjuss girl from Sugar Nellie stamps, which I cut out with my circle cutter, and mounted onto Saffron cardstock. I dressed it up with some wide Brocade blue grosgrain ribbon, paper piercing and some flowers topped with buttons from the Button Bouquet set from Stampin’Up.

Here are the Copic markers I used to colour the image:

For her dress and stockings, and outlines…

For her face, and hair, and the chook….

Thanks to Amy for such fabulous sketches to work with! Right I am off to bed……again!

Take care!

 Hello my dear friends,

Thanks for all your encouraging comments and words of advice about the tooth situation. It was really good feedback, as I really wasn’t too sure what to do!

Well yesterday I had my appointment back at the dentist, and asked them to pull the tooth out. I was quite nervous, and didn’t know what to expect as i haven’t had to do this before. I have to say it was a really awful experience, and I am still in shock and trying to recover. The dentist was great, but I seemed to have a bit of a reaction to all the anesthetic because i was shaking so badly afterwards, and ended up in tears that I just couldn’t stop (much to my complete embarrassment!) I think I just went into complete shock afterwards. It is still quite painful, and I have to take pain killers every 4 hours but they definitely do help.  But the tooth is gone, and once it heals up I am sure it won’t give me any more trouble. I am really looking forward to feeling my old self again though!

Today I have seen all the Challenge entries for last weeks sketch, and wow it was really hard to pick a winner this week! In the end though I have picked the beautiful creations by Kylie Maher. I love how Kylie has stamped the flowers underneath and then used the Vellum overlay for her greeting…..very elegant!

Then for this weeks Honourable Mention, I have chosen this gorgeous creation from Sue. I love Sue’s choice of colours and the extra details with the ribbon, tag, and tearing! Fabulous job Sue!

Thanks to everyone who has played along and a very BIG THANK YOU to Kim Badelt for being out guest designer for June! I am sure you will agree Kim, did such a superb job at being on the DT and had us inspired each week.

Next week will be one of the Design Team girls turn to pick the Inkspirations winner, and Honourable mention. AND we get to introduce the new Guest Designer for July……I know you won’t be disappointed, as i am really excited about this new guest DT member!

Here are all the other entries for the Sketch Challenge…..