Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!!

What a fun time of the year!  

My kids are so excited to dress up and go trick-or-treating!!

I have one last Halloween card I would like to share with you today!

Isn't the little ghost peeking out of the circle adorable!!  I just love the ghost from the Fright Night Friends set from My Thoughts Exactly!!  Along with the matching FREE Fright Night Friends SVG's!

The lovely Trendy Twine I used is from the Exclusive Spook-tacular set!! 

The bottom right "BOO!" is from the Halloween Subway Art set.  The other two "BOO!"'s are from the Fright Night Friends set!

I used an Action Wobble on the ghost!  Which makes the ghost so fun!!

The kids will love this card!

Have a SPOOKY Halloween!!

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Challenges:
2 Sisters: Halloween or Fall Colors
Crafty Calendar: All Things Spooky
Di's Digis Designs: Anything Halloween
My Time To Craft: Halloween
One Stop Craft Challenge: Halloween

Black Magic with SS

Hello crafty friends!

Make sure to join us on the Sweet Stamps blog, we'd love to see what you create with our challenge in mind! You have a chance at winning $20 to purchase some "sweet" things of your own!!


This week's Sweet Stamps Challenge is a:

Black Magic

Here are two different tutorials on Splicoast Stampers you can refer to, if you'd like.

Black Magic

Chalkboard Technique

Something different, I honestly have never tried before!!

I started by stamping the new Mums the Word Silhouette in white ink on black cardstock and then embossed with white EP!  I then carefully used q-tips to add chalk to the desired areas and carefully wiped the image to remove any excess chalk!

Pretty simple and fun to do!

SweetStamps.com Supplies Used:

Have a wonderful day!

Happy Halloween

Here's a digital layout of the kids pictures from last Halloween!

My adorable Dorothy and Scarecrow!

Have a nice day!

Boo Crew

I have a Halloween layout of the kiddos from 2010!  Slowly I am getting caught up!!

For Ava's first halloween she was a monkey and Sawyer was a handy man!

Pretty much the same, but just a few pictures switched around!

Can't wait for halloween this weekend!!  The kids just love dressing up!

Have a great day!

IBSIC #32

 Inspired By Stamping Inspiration Challenge #32

With the holidays around the corner, Joanna has chosen a beautiful holiday photo for us to find inspiration from!

I used the new December 25th Labels set to create this card:

I just love all the labels in this set!

Here's a look at the entire set:

They are perfect to use for cards or those handmade gifts!!  So many possibilites!

Close-up:

I also used some of the new Silver Glitter Tape!!

Here's the inspirational photo:

Join in, we'd love to see what you create!!

Have a wonderful day!!

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Challenges:
Cards by Lady Anne/Stamp Challenge: Must Stamp + Anything Goes
ABC Christmas Challenge: U for Up to You
Just Keep on Creating: Christmas

Halloween Goodies

I sure have been having a TON of fun creating Halloween goodies this year!

First up is a Halloween tag I created using Halloween Labels from Inspired By Stamping!

Such a fun little treat package!

I am also in love with the crinkle ribbon I used from 3 Girl Jam!!  

I used Harvest Orange on this project! 

Found some bone candy that works perfect with this tag!!

I also created some cute little hand sanitizer packages!

 How fun?!?!

For these I used Halloween Tags and Halloween Labels, both from Inspired By Stamping!

Close-ups of two of them:

 Vampire Blood!!

Moon Dust...

These flowers were originally white....but I used Creative Inspirations Paint  in Coal to dye them black and also give them some lovely shimmer!!

Have a wonderful day!!

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Challenges:
House That Stamps Built: Anything But a Card

Delightful Challenges: Halloween Treats

Sweet Stamping: Halloween

Come and Get It Challenges: Halloween
Dream Valley Challenges: Anything Goes
Fashionable Stamping: Halloween
The Craft Place: Halloween
The Squirrel and The Fox: Use Ribbon
Crafty Mess Challenge: Halloween
Di's Digi Design: Too Cute To Spook
Just Some Lines: Any Kind of Halloween Creation
One Stop Craft: Anything Goes
The Poodle Parlour: Anything Goes
Stempelsonnen Challenge: Halloween
The Sisterhood of Crafters: Halloween
My Mums Craft Shop: Spooky
Inky Impressions: Fall/Halloween

Pumpkin Patch 2010

Here's a digital layout I created using some pictures from our trip to the pumpkin patch in 2010.

Have a nice day!

Go Pack Go!

We took the kids to Packer Family Night in early August!

The kids had so much fun!

It was so neat to be able to get them both in the stadium for the first time!  Sawyer loved doing the wave!  And my little Ava....LOVED dancing on the bleachers and waving her banner!!

And the fireworks were amazing!!

Have a wonderful day!

IBS October Recap

Good morning !! 

I hope you had a chance to check out the Inspired By Stamping release yesterday!!  Some fun new stamp sets!  I sure enjoyed creating with them along with the lovely ribbons Joanna released this month!!

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For the card I am sharing today, I used a few of the new stamp sets!

The line, ornaments and stockings are from the new Holiday Ornaments set!!

The sentiment and lovely swirl label are from the lovely new Festive Frames set!!

And I finished the card off by using some of the new Scarlet Satin Ribbon!

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Make sure to check out each of the DT blogs, there is such lovely inspiration from all these lovely ladies using the new sets:

Joanna; Inspired By Stamping
Colleen Dietrich
Deb Hickman
Irit Shalom
Kendra Sand (me)
Liz Weber
Tammy Hobbs

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Have a nice day!




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Challenges:
ABC Christmas Challenge: U for Up to You
Christmas Stampin' All Year Long: Traditional Colors

IBS October Release

Good morning!! 

It's release day at Inspired By Stamping!!

We have some exciting new stamp sets being released today!!

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Vintage Postcard Add On I

December 25th Labels 

Holiday Ornaments

Holiday Expressions

Festive Frames

Such lovely sets for those holiday cards and projects!!

I'm in LOVE!!

There also is some new wonderful ribbon/tape and flowers being released:

Glitter Tape - Silver, Gold, Blue

White Seam Binding

Sage Seam Binding

Scarlet Satin Ribbon

Red and White Poinsettias

You are able to choose one of the next two stamp sets free with a $50 purchase this month:

Graceful Hydrangea

Vintage Frames

Details can be found here!

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Make sure to check out each of the DT blogs, there is such lovely inspiration from all these lovely ladies using the new sets:

Joanna; Inspired By Stamping
Colleen Dietrich
Deb Hickman
Irit Shalom
Kendra Sand (me)
Liz Weber
Tammy Hobbs

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Also, since this is the 1 year anniversary at IBS....Joanna is offering three amazing $100 gift certificates to some lucky customers!!!  Make sure to check her blog for more details!

Here are the ways you can enter:

Like our FB page and have a chance to win a $100 gift card!

Sign up for our new newsletter and have a chance to win $100 gift card!

A chance to win a $100 gift card for wearing our NEW IBS blinkie!  Leave your link to your blog here, so we can check it out!

FREE Shipping today and tomorrow with minimum $25 purchase!  No code needed!

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Have a wonderful day!

IBSIC

Another great 

 Inspired By Stamping Inspiration Challenge 

begins today!!

Time for a wonderful inspirational photo challenge!

These are the cute little bats I created:

These bats are just too fun to make!!

I created these for my son to give to his classmates!  He had fun helping me make them!  He loves the googly eyes, which he glued on each one for me!!

They were so fun and quick to make, perfect for making a bunch!  

An open view:

Under the sentiment is a HERSEY's candy bar!!

I used the Halloween Labels set for the "Happy Halloween" sentiment and the bat!

The inspirational photo:

Join in, we'd love to see what you create!!

Inspired By Stamping Products I Used:

Have a wonderful day!!

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Challenges:
2 Sisters: Anything Goes
Dream Valley Challenges: Halloween
Challenge Up Your Life: Autumn/Halloween
Allsorts: Too Cute To Spook!
Crafty Calendar: All Things Spooky!
Crazy 4 Challenges: A Halloween Sweet Treat
Eureka Stamps: Halloween and/or Spooky
There She Goes: Fall/Halloween
Hooked On Craft: Halloween
Love to Create: Trick or Treat or Something Sweet
The Pink Elephant: Treat Holders
Crafting For All Seasons: Spooky
Decorate to Celebrate: Halloween Party
Divas By Design: Spooky
Flutterby Wednesdays: Any Winged Creature
Inky Impressions: Anything But A Card

IBS October Sneak Peeks

Good morning !! 

Friday is the October release day at Inspired By Stamping!!

I'm so excited to share a few of the things I have created with the new stamps along with some new ribbon and flowers being offered by IBS!!

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I had such a great time creating this first one!!

New this month will be a Christmas Postcard Add On!!! Such a perfect set to go with the Vintage Postcards!!

The "Express", "Postage Stamp" and round "North Pole Postage" are all from the new Christmas Postcard Add On!

The Post Card stamp is from the previously released Vintage Postcards set!  I added a little shimmer to the swirls!!

The snowflakes I added around the Post Card stamp and the "Happy Holidays" sentiment are from the Elegant Christmas Sentiments set!!

The Scarlet Satin Ribbon is new this month as well!!  Perfect for those holiday cards!

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I've recently really got into making tags!  My goal is to create all my tags for my Christmas presents this year!!  

So I started off by creating this one:

Using the new Holiday Ornaments set!!  Such a lovely set!

I also added some new White Seam Binding ribbon!

And all the lovely stamped snowflakes are from the Elegant Christmas Sentiments set!

I finished the tag off, by adding a chipboard snowflake painted with some of my shimmery paints!

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Lastly, I have another card I created using the new Holiday Borders set!  A great set with some great ornaments and stockings!!

I also added some Vintage Crochet Trim and new Scarlet Satin Ribbon!!

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Make sure to check out each of the DT blogs, there is such lovely inspiration from all these lovely ladies using the new sets:

Joanna
Kendra (me)
Colleen
Liz

Make sure to check out Tammy, Deb H., Irit, Joanna's blogs tomorrow for some more sneak peeks for our October release!!

 Friday we will share pictures of the entire stamp sets being released!!


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Also, since this is the 1 year anniversary at IBS....Joanna is offering three amazing $100 gift certificates to some lucky customers!!!  Make sure to check her blog for more details!

Here are the ways you can enter:

Like our FB page and have a chance to win a $100 gift card!

Sign up for our new newsletter and have a chance to win $100 gift card!

A chance to win a $100 gift card for wearing our NEW IBS blinkie!  Leave your link to your blog here, so we can check it out!

Today and tomorrow make sure to leave some comments on the IBS blog for a chance at winning a $30 gift certificate!!

Also remember for every $50 you spend in the IBS store this month you recieve a free stamp set!  Either Graceful Hydrangeas or Vintage Frames!!  Details can be found here!

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Such some lovely sets for creating those holiday cards!!

Have a nice day!