Inkin with Val

Good Morning! It is such beautiful day here in Vernon, BC. I am so enjoying the sunshine. Saturdays are my cleaning day and I just dread being inside. I plan to hurry everything up a bit so that I can actually spend some time outside. This past week I had a small stamping "Customer Appreciation" evening. I say small because 5 stampers came to join me but boy did we have fun making these cute photo holders. This was my "surprise" craft for the evening. The other item that everyone made were "paper clip bookmarks" as shown in my newsletter and which I will share another day. Tart & Tangy (mini catalog has been extended to the end of June) Warm Words Summer Picnic Designer Series Paper (mini catalog) Real Red Cardstock Accessories: punch, brad, Certainly Celery Grosgrain and Bashful Blue Taffeta ribbon Jumbo Paper clips (Staples) We also placed an order and drew names for who got to have the free hostess set and who got to have the extra $$ to spend on ...

I have been playing today. After I put up the Blog Candy, I realized I had a baby set that had never touched ink. What is with that????? Ok, I really wanted this set when it was in the Spring mini last year. I coveted it...But resisted. Then in July when I was told I was going to be a Grandmother... well I HAD to get it. I had a reason to get it. Does it matter to me that it hit the retirement list? No, sad as I never did demo it, but I am happy I got it and now I am playing with it. So, here are the samplings for today. By the Way, I am loving all the comments and links that you are all sharing. I check each and every one out...

I have to attend a shower tonight so I got myself busy and made 2 cards for 2 brides to be. The first wedding is taking place this coming Friday, and the second on the 2nd weekend in April. I saw on someone else's blog recently, (i am sorry, I can't remember where as I read too many) a challenge to create a card with no cardstock layers. These are 2 that I came up with. The Wedding this Friday(also my anniversary), the colours are pink and black so I took those colours into consideration when I chose my inks. What do you think? Have you challenged yourself to stamp with only ink and a base Card? Give it a try and see what you can come up with. The second card using this challenge is not with any specific colour theme for the wedding, I didn't know what the colours are so I just used my imagination. Besides, this colour went well with the wrapping paper my daughter got and wrapped the gift in. Both these cards use the shape from "Sweet Shapes" for the base, and the...