A Festive Forest IPC 87

Welcome to a NEW Inky Paws Challenge.

We have some super fun colors for you to play with for the next two weeks.

When I saw the challenge colors, I knew immediately which Stamp Set I wanted to use.

Festive Forest!

Since, I already knew what colors I was going to be using,

I started this card out by picking the style of trees that I wanted.

Once my 2 trees were decided, I realized that I really wanted those trees to stand out.

I thought about embossing powder and chose two of the most metallic colors that I had.

One my trees were embossed, and die cut out, I turned my attention to the base of the card.

Using craft cardstock and the center of the Frames and Flag Die Set,

I created the center and base of the card.

I placed my challenge color trees on the top of the card using foam tape.

Finally, I stamped out and added my sentiment tree and gold and silver stars.

Festive Forest is a must for your crafty arsenal.

I love this Stamp Set. Every holiday season I pull it out and get so much inspiration.

Since it is trees, I've often used it during other parts of the year as well.

I hope this inspires you to create something sparkly and share

It with us using the link in the challenge picture above.

Thanks for stopping by!

Have an amazing Holiday Season!

Hugs

Diane

Three Tags and Santa Paws IPC 85

Welcome to the second half of the current Inky Paws Challenge.

We have some great colors for you to work with.

My inspiration for this challenge is not one, not two, BUT three tags!

The first box features the round tag from the Tags Times Two Die Set 

and just a portion of one of the stamped images

from the Santa Paws Newton Stamp Set.

 that I colored in.

A super easy one to do if you need a quick gift.

The second tag features the square tag from the Tags Times Two Die Set. 

The background of this tag starts with the Serene Stripes Stencil 

and texture paste that creates a nice backround for the tag.

The mouse, sentiments, and “presents” come from the Santa Paws Newton Stamp Set.

These images are simply colored in, die cut out and attached to the tag.

For a little bit of Flair, I outlined the bow on the top of the presents with gold pen.

The third box is my favorite.

I created a plain white box using a box punch.

Once I was done, I stamped the Newton Santa and mouse image from 

the Santa Paws Newton Stamp Set.

I colored that in using Distress Ink and accented this with glossy accent.

The tag on top was created by using trees from the Festive Forest Stamp Set 

and the North Pole image from the Santa Paws Newton Stamp Set.

I stamped, and die cut out two trees and glued those together.

To the top of this, I added the North Pole image that was colored in and die cut out.

I hope my tags inspire you to create some tags of your own and

share them with us at the Inky Paws Challenge.

I hope everybody has a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Thanks for stopping by
Links to the goodies below

Hugs

Diane

  

Christmas Stamp Remix with Summer Colors IPC 74

We are at the halfway point of the current Inky Paws Challenge

 In case you missed out first post, we have a fun set of colors for you to use.

 I love to stretch my stamps and mix stamp sets up.

 For this inspiration, I decided to challenge myself.

I grabbed two of my favorite holiday stamp sets Snow Globe Scenes and Festive Forest, 

along with the challenge colors and put a Twist on some holiday favorites.

I got to admit, I did not think that this crazy thought was going to work out. 

I sat and stared at the stamps for a good 15-20 minutes and then the idea came to me. 

The obvious choice to use the green in the challenge colors for trees. 

It was just all a matter of deciding on how to use the blue and yellow on the houses.

 After a test of the colors and a failed attempt, I chose to go with alternating colors

 on the houses and adding in brown and tan roofs and doors as accent colors.

Finishing this card, I decided to keep the rest simple.

 I use the inner rounded corners die from 

the Frame and Flag Die Set and made a card out of that.

The sentiment comes from the NEW and TOOOO CUTE !!

Newton Love’s Boxes Stamp Set.

Now it is your turn, use the challenge colors and your 

favorite stamp set and show us how you get your PAW’S INKY.

Thanks so much for taking the time and stopping by.

 As always links to the goodies are below.

Have a great week everybody!

Hugs

Diane

Happy Holidays IPC 59

Welcome everyone to a new Inky Paws Challenge.
We have some awesome Colors for this Challenge.

Being a HUGE fan of using non Holiday colors for the holiday.

 I am SO excited to share this card!

When I think holidays, I think of trees.

The "Festive Forest Stamp Set" was the natural choice for this card.  

How to use the colors, this is what stumped me for a while.  

Then a crazy thing happened, I was messing around with backgrounds 

and came up with this texture.

I was flicking white pigment ink on black card stock, I covered the ink up 

with clear embossing powder and heated it up to see what would happen. 

The results was this cool semi- white texture for the card. 

The rest came easy, using the coordinating colors for the trees.

 I also wanted a stand out sentiment. 

I went with the "Happy Holidays" from the

 "Sentiment of the Seasons Stamp Set" and gold embossing powder.

Of course, A tree is not be complete until there is a star on top.

Now it is your turn to get your Paws Inky. 

Link up your creations and let us see what you can do with these colors. 

As always, thank so much for taking some time and stopping by.

Links to the stamps and dies are below.

Have an amazing week!

Diane