Pumpkin Treat Holders

Can you believe that Halloween will be here in just two more weeks?! Soon it will be Thanksgiving, and then Christmas! My 4-year-old son decided earlier this year that he wanted to be Captain America for Halloween. He was very excited when he saw a costume while shopping and asks every day about it and his new shield ... can't have Captain America without his shield!

My share today was inspired by Twila over at StampALittleLonger. I made a small change and made the pumpkin using the 2-3/8 Scallop Circle Punch (#118874). I also added a strip of paper to give it a box like effect. It will fit up to three Hershey nuggets. I stamped on whisper white cardstock the "EEK!" image from the Holiday Mini set, It's a Wrap Holidays ([W] #122770, [C] #122772) and then wrapped it around a nugget. Hershey has guidelines in place for the use of their candies in this way. Therefore, The wrap is not adhered to the candy and can slip right off.

I hope you enjoyed my share today! I've got a couple more in the works so please stop back by to check them out.

Inky hugs,
Inkabella

Knit Project - Using SU! Embellishments

I'm happy to share my first cross-post with my Everything But The Ink blog. I enjoy many different crafts and I got to use my Stampin' Up! embellishments in a non "paper craft" project.

My niece's birthday will be here in just a matter of weeks and I have been trying to decide what to make/get her. After some discussions with my sister-in-law, we decided that she would really love a painted pewter figurine. In addition to this, I decided to knit her a small pouch, which I would place the figurine in. 

This is the pouch I created.

I used worsted weight yarn in "Turqua" by Red Heart yarn. The button is a Stampin' Up! button in Baja Breeze. Unfortunantly it is a retired product. However, we have many great buttons that are current and a button in Pacific Point or Tempting Turquoise would have gone beautifully with it. I will need to add more buttons to my collection for my next project.

I hope you enjoyed my share!

Baby Shower Invite

My cousin is having another child and I was asked to create an invite for her shower.

There are several cute ideas out there for onsies, just google for a onsie pattern and you'll see what I mean. :)

I actually tried several ideas, even created another card prior to this one. But with the amount of work that went into it, I decided that it would be better for me to use it as card to my cousin after the birth of her child. I decided to go with a basic pattern and came up with this!

You can find the tutorial for this at http://splitcoaststampers.com, but if you look at my card I bet you could figure out how its made without the tutorial. :)

This card is also a bit of a hybrid. The paper is from the Patterns Designer Series (Item #117158) in Pear Pizzazz. The first card I made, I didn't want the other side of the pattern so so through, so I used My Digital Studio to print out a sheet of the paper on our white cardstock.

These invites are to be mailed, so I didn't want to add any extra weight. Otherwise I'd have embellished it a little more with some brads at the bottomt to look like snaps, etc.

Thanks for letting me share!

Royal Blog Tour - Blog Candy Winner

First, I want to thank everyone who visited my blog during the Royal Blog Tour. I hope you enjoyed the tour!

And the winner of the set of four paperclip-bookmarks I created for the RBT is...

Ola from Indiana!

Congrats Ola! I will be mailing your blog candy soon!

Now, many of you asked for directions and such and I will not disappoint. Please check back tomorrow and I will provide you receipes as well as links to tutorials and the demos who inspired me.

Again, thank you for your visit and for helping to make the Fall Royal Blog Tour such a huge success!

Fall Royal Blog Tour

Welcome to my Castle! I hope your journey so far as been fun and you've enjoyed the wonderful treats the other Princesses have shown you.

I have four projects I will be sharing with you, each using the set Merry Crittermas, which can be purchased from the Holiday Mini Catalog.


I thought long and hard about what kinds of things I wanted to make for you. I wanted them to be things that could be easy and quick to make. Thats when I thought, why not make small items that can be used as stocking stuffers, treats for co-workers, small gifts that your child can give to their teacher, etc.


The first project I have for you can fit all three of the categories. What I've made for you a small gift card which holds inside a lip balm!



This is versatile and the lip balm can be replaced with several things, such as lip gloss or a small pack of gum. Here is a view of the inside of the card:




The next project I created for you are these adorable triangle treat containers. Let your imagination have fun deciding what to place inside these.




The third project I came up with is a bookmark made out of a 4 inch silver paperclip. Super easy and fast to make.
Here is a close up view of each of the clips.




Do you like those bookmark-paperclips? Well then great because I'm giving them away as Blog Candy!! Just post a comment and be sure to leave me your email address to be entered into my giveaway. I will be randomly choosing a winner which I will annouce on this blog after the Tour! And I will ship overseas!





Please note, if you fail to leave your email address I cannot contact you if you win!



For those of you who feel uncomfortable with leaving an email address in a post, you can write your info like this: yourname at emailaccount dot com




I hope you've enjoyed your visit and the treats I've prepared for you. Please step back on the carriage and it will take you to the next castle on your trip. Safe Journey and please be sure to visit again!

MDS Mondays, #2

Hello Again

Its a new Monday and time for another MDS Monday's Sketch

To play along, just make a project using the provided sketch and upload it to your blog or online gallery. Then leave a link to your project using the widget at the bottom of this post.

If you upload it to an online gallery, could you please use the tag MDSM001 to make it easy to find?

I can't wait to see what you come up with!

To start, here is what I came up with! I made this card in My Digital Studio.

MDS Mondays

Hello again everyone, its another Monday!

In my previous "MDS Mondays" post, I stated the plan was to post a sketch every Monday. We'll, I think I was too optimistic about this taking off. I know that I've found my myself making more time, but well, this blog doesn't get much traffic (yet I hope :)) so I'm revising it to a new sketch every two weeks on Monday!



Once again, here is the sketch for MDS Monday #1.


To play along, just make a project using the provided sketch and upload it to your blog or online gallery. Then leave a link to your project using the widget at the bottom of this post.


If you upload it to an online gallery, could you please use the tag MDSM001 to make it easy to find?


I can't wait to see what you come up with!

And here is what I've come up with using this sketch!

The link for this MDS Monday has been closed.

New My Digital Studio Downloads!

I'm very excited to share that there are new downloads for My Digital Studio! These were released yesterday and are prefect for your Halloween and Thanksgiving projects!

Item Description Price
122174 Nite Owl Digital Kit $7.95
122175 Autumn Spice Digital Kit $9.95
122176 Deck the Halls Photocard Digital Kit $3.95
122177 Candy Cane Lane Photocard Digital Kit $3.95
123728 Celebrations Digital Kit $9.95
122166 Brad Add-On Pack $0.95

If you would like to view the complete list of My Digital Studio download offerings, from my Online Store > click on Shop Now > Digital Crafting > Newest Downloads.

MDS Mondays (#1)

I'm so excited to start MDS Mondays!

The plan is for me to provide you a sketch every week using My Digital Studio. Hopefully the sketch will inspire you. However, you are not restricted to using MDS to make your project - its up to you how you use it! You can create your project traditionally, or you can make it in MDS ... or using both ways create a hybrid!


Here it is! I decided to start with what is likely more of a scrapbook sketch.



To play along, just make a project using the provided sketch and upload it to your blog or online gallery. Then leave a link to your project using the widget at the bottom of this post.

If you upload it to an online gallery, could you please use the tag MDSM001 to make it easy to find?

I can't wait to see what you come up with!

And to hopefully get the inspiration going, here is my project!

The link for this MDS Monday has been closed.

Something New!

First, I must apologize for the month absence! It has been super busy for me, and I haven't been home very much. I've been working on some things (such as the Royal Blog Tour coming up!), but because I've not been home, my crafting time has severly suffered.

To that end, I've decided to try something new! I love My Digitial Studio and have been wanting to find a way to use it more. Therefore, I have decided that today beings MDS Mondays!!

Every Monday, I will share a sketch with you to use as you please. I'm setting up a Mister Linky account so that you can then share with me your great creation! I'm hoping that this will be a lot of fun and show the great versatility of My Digital Studio.

And to make it even more fun, you don't have to make your project in MDS, or you can make it a hybrid! Start your project in MDS, print it out and add finishing touches! My goal is to have some fun, get inspired and hopefully help inspire others!

All you'll have to do its create your project, post it to your blog, and then come back here to share the link to your post!

I'll be posting my first sketch shortly and I hope you'll participate.

The merge is nearly done

Previously I had a blog titled "Wonder Stamping". When I decided to give my business a name and register a domain, I decided to create a new blog-- Inkabella Designs.

I've just finished importing my posts from my previous blog, but now I need to go through them to insure the photos also imported. Please bear with me as I finish my conversion.

I did teach a very small class last night on how to make the quilted "rag bag" purses. We had a lot of fun and will be getting together again next weekend to work on another bag. I also taught how to make those cute fleece flower pins that have been showing up around the internet world a lot recently. I will post pictures tonight.

If you're in the Sacramento area and would like to get together for some stamping, I'm holding a workshop on Saturday, September 18th from 12:30 to 2:30 at the Round Table Pizza at 1307 Florin Road. The cost is $10 and we will be making 3 projects. I will share photos soon! They have an all you can eat buffet from 11:30 to 1:30 if you wish to show up a little early for lunch.

Hope to see you there! Happy Stamping! ♥

She's at it again!

Our list mom, Sherrill Graff, over at the Yahoo Group Late Night Stampers is at it again. She's offering another giveaway!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. Here is your chance to play along with our Late Night Stamper game.

my clue is : Beautiful Wings, Page 215

collect all 20 clues and turn your answers into to Sherrill Graff at istmpnv@aol.com

She will pick the winner to our $400 stampin up shopping spree soon, so hurry!

For more information, visit her blog at http://latenightstamper1.blogspot.com/

Enter today

Holiday Mini Share - Tags til Christmas

I was able to participate in a Christmas card swap and wanted to share with you all the card that I made.

I used the Tags til Christmas set from the new Holiday Mini (page 24). I used our Shimmer Paint in Platinum (Item #116807) and mixed it with some rubbing alcohol to make a shimmer paint spray. I then sprayed a sheet of whisper white cardstock. After it dried and the alcohol evaporated, I stamped the ornament image in Cherry Cobber. You can see some of the shimmer. I then used our Rhinestones (#119246) to add a little more sparkle.


Here is the list of items I used to make this card:

Stamp Set: Tags til Christmas
Ink: Cherry Cobbler (stamp pad), Old Olive (marker)
Card Stock: Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Confetti white, Whisper white
DSP: Brights--Patterns Designer Series Paper Stack
Assessories: Basic Rhinestones, Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder, Big Shot

I'm planning a Tags class coming up in the next couple weeks. If you would like to host a workshop and earn this set (or others) for free, contact me to set up a time thats best for you! I even offer one-on-one workshops if you want to just get together and stamp!


I hope you enjoyed this share! Please leave a comment and let me know what you think. I love hearing from you.

Happy Stamping! ♥ Raberta