PIP Challenge 2608

Sponsored by 

Gina K Designs

 

Hello and welcome.  Today begins a new challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies and this week we're sponsored by GinaK Designs.  I would like to take a moment to thank Gina for sponsoring this week's challenge.  My card this week features a retired set of Gina's called Birthday Hoot.  I bought it last year and hadn't used it yet.  I absolutely love it since the set makes the cutest cards and not just for birthday's.  It can be used for anniversaries, just because (don't ink the party hat), etc.

 

I started out by stamping the owl/balloons in memento tuxedo black ink on to copic© white card stock before coloring using my Ohuhu markers before drawing some tree branches then coloring.  Once my coloring was finished, I dusted off my dusty Stampin Up Watercolor Minis stamp set and created the "leaves" using various colors of Stampin Up ink then layering and adding some faux brads.  Taking the birthday greeting from my retired Sincere Salutations set, I stamped the greeting before stamping the inside "I hope your birthday is a hoot".  I then adhered my layered image panel to a dry embossed card before adding googlie eyes and some copper bling.  As an afterthought, I lightly stippled some Tim Holtz stormy sky distress ink to help fill in the sky.  I'm pretty pleased with how this turned out.

 

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #83 - Use Your NBUS (Owl set)

Neglected Stuff Feb 2026 - Use Your Unloved Stash (owl set)

Triple B Feb 2026 - Birds, Blooms, Butterflies (owl) 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to enter this week's challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies.

 

Stamps: GinaK Designs; Stampin Up

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Stampin Up Wild Wasabi, Certainly Celery, Garden Green, Old Olive; Tim Holtz Stormy Sky

Card Stock: Copic; Stampin Up

Accessories: Big Shot, Tim Holtz Bark Embossing Folder, Ohuhu Markers, Bling, Googlie Eyes, Glue, Faux Brads, Stipple Brush 

 

 

PIP Challenge 2428

 

Sponsored by

Gina K. Designs

Hello and welcome.  Today begins a new challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies and this week we're being sponsored by GinaK Designs.  I would like to thank them for their sponsorship this week.  For my card, I pulled out this beautiful Winter Flower Mini and "knock out" another Christmas card going with a clean and simple (CAS) layout.

I started out by stamping the leaves, and saying, on Copic white card stock using my MISTI, before stamping the poinsettia onto scrap Copic card stock.  I then stippled some Tim Holtz tattered rose on the image panel to help soften the white a bit.  Once that was all finished, I colored all of the images using Copic markers before fussy cutting the poinsettia out and gluing to the layered panel.  I then pulled out my snowflake sequins from Picket Fence Studios.  After gluing those down, and adding some faux brads, I pulled out my color spritzer and spritzed some rose romance marker over the whole card.  The final touch was adding some yellow ice stickles to the center of the poinsettia.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #64 - Use Your NBUS (stamp set)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2024 - Use Your Unloved Stash (stamp set) 

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #233 - Anything Goes

My Time To Craft #538 - Clean And Simple

Krafty Chicks #724 - Christmas 

Crafty Gals Corner #257 - Anything Goes Optional Christmas

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget join us this week at Pammie's Inky Pinkies.

Stamps: GinaK Designs

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tattered Rose

Card Stock: Copic; Stampin Up

Accessories: MISTI, Copic Markers, Ice Stickles, Small Hole Punch, Glue, Sequins, Color Spritzer, SU Rose Romance Marker

Summer Collaberation Rainbow or Floral

 

 

Hello and welcome. It's week 2 of the #summeraspired2023 collaboration hop over on Instagram where we're given two prompts for the week and we choose which one to use or combine them.  For my card today, I pulled out a GinaK Designs stamp set called Vintage Rose Mini (now retired) I had won last year and just hadn't used yet.

 

I started out by stamping my image in Memento tuxedo black ink onto scrap Hammermill white card stock before stamping the saying right underneath.  I then pulled out my Castle Arts pencils to color the rose bouquet using rainbow colors since I needed a pet sympathy card. Once my coloring was finish, I then color spritzed a long retired Stampin Up Only Orange marker then layered.  My only embellishment used were some small black brads before adhering the layered panel onto a white card. On the inside I stamped a Scrapbook.com sympathy sentiment with a paw print from a retired Papertrey Ink pet sympathy set stamped underneath.

 

I'm really happy with how it turned out.  I've been dealing with some bad migraines again.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #52 - Use Your NBUS (stamp set)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2023 - Use Your Unloved Stash (stamp set)

Word Art Wednesday Wks 603 to 604 - Anything Goes Uplifting (sympathy, pet sympathy) 

Try It On Tuesday July 11th - Use 3 Colors (I went with rainbow colors)

Triple B Challenge July 2023 - Birds, Blooms, Butterfliles (I went with blooms)

Simply Clean & Simple July - CAS Optional Roses Are Red Violets Are Blue (I went rainbow)

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great rest of your week.

Stamps: GinaK Designs

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Scraps

Accessories: Castle Arts Pencils, Brads, Color Spritzer, SU Only Orange Marker

Fight Like A Girl

Second post for me today.  At the moment, the migraine meds are working, just making me sleepy.  If you're looking for my CHF post, please scroll down one.

This week's CAS-ual Friday CFC73 is for the girls - celebrate the women in your life.  Well, I chose to make a clean and simple card in memory of my mother and grandmother who both lost their battles with breast cancer, plus I've already had a suspicious lump removed years ago, and since October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, how could I not go with a pink theme.

I started out by stamping the t-shirt from GinaK Designs Little Tees onto some scrap pink MAMBI Breast Cancer Awareness designer paper before cutting it out and stamping a solid pink ribbon from Paper Smooches Hope set in Stampin Up! regal rose dye ink directly onto the t-shirt.  After adhering my shirt over a border strip of scrap designer paper, I stamped the word HOPE from the Paper Smooches Hope set in regal rose ink before adding my saying just under it in memento black.  The only embellishment added was some soft pink twill ribbon tied into a knot.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.


Stamps: GinaK Little Tees, Paper Smooches Hope
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Regal Rose
Card Stock: Stampin Up! Pretty In Pink, MAMBI Breast Cancer Awareness Designer Paper Scraps
Accessories: Soft Pink Twill Ribbon

A Vintage Message - Wednesday Stamp Club

Hello and welcome.  This last weekend I had a couple of hours where I felt pretty good from the migraines and was able to get some stamping done, so I dusted off some of my MFT sets and got to work using the sets and the Die-namics. 

For last week's Wednesday Stamp Club over on Splitcoaststampers, I decided to finally ink up the Just My Type Stamp & Die-Namic Set that's been collecting dust around here and paired it up with some vintage GinaK digital background paper I've had sitting around.  Once my image was die cut, stamped and stippled in brown inks, I die cut the center border Scallop Die-Namic and stamped the images over it and the remaining borders before stippling caramel ink over those.  For my final touch, I used the Perfect Petal Trio Die-Namic to cut some flowers, scrunched them up to "age" them, and then stippled caramel ink all over those as well before layering.  Presto!!!  Easy peasy!!

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.


Stamps: MFT Just My Type Stamp & Die-Namic Set, Stampin Up! Petite Patterns
Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Creamy Caramel, Close To Cocoa Scrap, Basic Grey Scrap, Creamy Caramel Scrap, GinaK Digital Designer Paper
Ink: PTI Dark Chocolate, Stampin Up! Creamy Caramel
Accessories: Stipple Brush, Pop Dots, MFT Die-Namics, Vintage Brads, Big Shot

Missing Spring

Second post for me today.  If you're looking for my musical challenge card, please scroll down one post.
Hello again.  Today I'm sharing another card made with the GinaK Designs Bug Me Anytime set.  I love this set since it's so easy to use with bright, happy colors.  I used the dandelion stamp to create my card border using Stampin Up! green galore ink before using one of the leaves with Stampin Up! lovely lilac ink to create the middle border.  Once both of those were done, I stamped my images onto white card stock using memento tuxedo black ink and coloring with prismacolor markers.

Once my coloring was done, I stippled Stampin Up! bashful blue ink around the edges of the image layer.  After my entire card was assembled, I added some diamond ice stickles to highlight the flowers, butterfly, catterpiller, and mushroom before adding a small white pre-made bow with some glue dots.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great day.


Stamps: GinaK Designs Bug Me Anytime
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Green Galore, Lovely Lilac, Bashful Blue
Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Green Galore, Summer Sun, Lovely Lilac
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Glue Dots, Stipple Brush, Diamond Ice Stickles, Ribbon Bow, Stampin Up! Bold Brights Brads

Springtime Hi

Hello.  Thanks for stopping by again.  Today I'm sharing with you a spring card I made using one of my GinaK sets called Bug Me Anytime. 

I started out by stamping my card in Stampin Up! green galore using one of the tulips to make a border around the edges.  After that, I stamped my scene in memento tuxedo black ink onto white card stock; stamping some of the tulips onto scrap white paper for popping up later.  After coloring my images with prismacolor markers, I cut out the duplicate tulips and added them using pop up glue dots.  Once that was done, I stippled Stampin Up! bashful blue ink around the edges before adding some diamond ice stickles and a Martha Stewart pre-made bow.

I'm please with how the card turned out.  Thanks for stopping by today.



Stamps: GinaK Designs Bug Me Anytime
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Green Galore, Bashful Blue
Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Green Galore, Pixie Pink, Brilliant Blue
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brush, Stampin Up! Bold Brights Brads, Pop Up Glue Dots, Diamond Ice Stickles, Stipple Brush, Martha Stewart Bow

A Lighthouse By The Sea

Hello again.  I have another VSN card for you today using one of my favorite GinaK Designs sets - Guiding Light.  Since I love lighthouses, when this set came out a year ago, it was a no brainer to buy it.  Too bad it hasn't seen ink much in the last year because the set makes some really pretty cards.

For this VSN challenge, I stamped my lighthouse scene twice in memento tuxedo black onto white card stock before coloring with prismacolor markers.  After the coloring was done, I cut one lighthouse out to pop up later.  Once my layering was done, I popped up the second lighthouse using dimensionals, added some vintage brads and then just a bit of waterfall ice stickles for the background waves.

Turning my attention to the card, I then stamped the anchor chain in Tim Holtz tea stain ink onto a MFT kraft scalloped card from one of the monthly kits a year ago.  Once that was done, I then stippled Stampin Up! creamy caramel ink around the edges of the card before die cutting waves using Stampin Up! creamy caramel and soft sky card stocks with a MFT Die-Namic.  After my waves were die cut, I then lightly stippled creamy caramel ink over, and around the edges of them, to highlight a bit more against the kraft card.  The final touch was some ribbon I had bought from the Michael's dollar bin over a year ago and just hadn't used yet.  Don't you just love when something you bought a long time ago turns out fitting in perfectly?

Thanks for stopping by today.  Tomorrow I have another VSN card to share with you as well.


Stamps: GinaK Guilding Light
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Tea Stain
Card Stock: White, MFT Kraft Scalloped Card, Stampin Up! Soft Sky, Creamy Caramel
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brush, MFT Die-Namic, Dimensionals, Vintage Brads, Ribbon, Glue Dot

Happy Birthday Seth and Colin - Giving Thanks

Have you ever wondered how two little smiles can lighten your day? Or how the sound of a babies cry just seems to make the would seem a bit more precious somehow, even with all of the nastiness around us. For some people, those same smiles and cries bring tears instead of joy because they cannot carry a child, have lost a child before, or cannot even get pregnant to be blessed with a child.

So why write this post, with birthday card? Well, because of two little boys in Ethiopia, the wonderful orphanage taking care of them, and the mother that made the painful decision to give them up for a better life because she could not feed them or support them with the other children she had after their father died.

My niece & her husband are adopting these two beautiful boys as soon as the Ethiopian court signs off on their application; so I cannot publish their pictures or their Ethiopian names at this time. Even though, the boys first names with be American, they will also be keeping their Ethiopian names as their middle names. One of the Ethiopian names means "to replace" and is so appropriate because my niece has had two ectopic pregnancies and cannot have any babies of her own. Both of these children will be replacing the ones she has lost physically, even though in her heart she will always still remember those babies as well.

Both Seth and Colin celebrated a birthday recently, so my husband and I wanted to send them a birthday card and welcome them to the family even though they are not physically here yet. Colin, is the youngest and just turned 2years old, so I thought it appropriate to have a card that was younger looking and this was accomplished using stamps from CC Designs.

Seth, just turned 3 years old, so I thought having a card that had some "African" animals, or lions, would be appropriate for him. This was accomplished using GinaK stamps.

Now since both of these cards would be belated birthday cards, I didn't want anything "mushy" inside and decided to keep everything semi-cute for Seth as well.

A koala bear on the inside with a saying on a tri-fold card, with a snake on the other part of the tri-fold did the trick.

Both of these little guys have made me realize just how much God meant with the scripture "He gives to the broken hearted" and "He is the Father to the fatherless". He has been protecting both Seth & Colin for my niece and her husband all of this time, just waiting for them to be ready for their children, the children He has given to them, to come home to their arms.

Thanks be to God, for He is good!

Stamps: CC Designs, GinaK Designs

Cardstock: Stampin Up! Garden Green, More Mustard, White, Green Galore, Gable Green, Glorious Green

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! More Mustard, Garden Green, Soft Sky, Old Olive

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Watercolor Pencils, Brads, Dimensionals, Stipple Brush, Brads

Autumn Thanks

It's finally showing signs of fall here in Central California; no more 100 degree temperatures! That however, also means, elevator temperatures for the next few weeks. By that I mean 80degrees during the day and 40degree temperatures at night. You have to dress in layers and then peel them off during the day. However, that also makes the trees turn colors so the leaves can fall to the ground. It also means harvest time here in the Valley for the farmers.

With harvest comes Thanksgiving, one of my favorite times of the year next to Christmas. It's a time for us to thank God for the gifts He's given us during the year, for what He's going to do for the next year, and to thank friends/family for what they've done for us as well. It's also a time for us to let loved ones know how special they are to us. However, we shouldn't just limit ourselves to just the fall for thanking God or loved ones. Everyday should be a day to be thankful for something.

For this challenge, we were to make a card with a Thankful theme. I chose this GinaK set, one because I love the little squirrel, but also the barrel of apples reminds me of the harvest season. Without the farmers growing our food, how would eat? Have you ever thought of that? California is having a water shortage here in the Central Valley and lots of farms are no longer planting because farmers cannot get the water they need in the spring to keep the seedlings fresh, and then again in the summer when the temperatures are over 100degrees to keep their crops alive. Unfortunately, many farms have gone fallow over the last couple of years while the politicians fight over who gets what water or what fish gets the right to keep what water. So everyday you cook your food, everyday you go grocery shopping, be thankful for the food you have, for if all of the farms had this issue, we would have no food to eat and would have to import everything.

So, I am thankful to not only my God for who He is, but to the farmer as well for providing the food on my table.

Stamps: GinaK Whimsical Autumn

Cardstock: Stampin Up! Really Rust, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, White

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Really Rust, Pumpkin Pie

Accessories: Brads, Prismacolor Markers, Prima Flowers, Glue Dots, Platniumn Ice Stickles

Rocky Shores

Anyone who knows me, understands my love of lighthouses. When GinaK Designs came out with the Guiding Light set last month, I had to get it.

My step-dad's birthday is coming up on Monday, June 15th and I thought this set would be perfect for a him. I wanted to tryout a new technique I had discovered with using Koh-I-Noor pencils with the Prismacolor marker blender with the set too. Unfortunately, the picture didn't come out like I hoped it would because the colors are just vibrant against GinaK's digital papers.

The distressed edges of the main panel are popped up on dimensionals as well as is the rowboat with Stampin Up soft sky lightly stippled in the background to give a "foggy" appearance over the ocean waters.

Stamps: GinaK Guiding Light

Cardstock: Brocade Blue, White, GinaK Designs Digital Jersey Shores Paper

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up Soft Sky

Accessories: Stipple Brush, Koh-I-Noor Pencils, Prismacolor Marker Blender, Netting, Dimensionals, Brads, Distressing Tool.

Babies, storks and bugs!

It seems like I know what a lot of friends, and relatives, of mine were doing last summer since they're having babies right now. I've been in need of making several baby cards lately and have had to get a little creative with some of my stamps since I don't have a lot of baby stamps.

I had found some really cool paper at Joann's from Die Cuts With a View called Nanna's Kids so I paired it with the stork image from GinaK's How Sweet It Is set. Since one of my cards was made for twins, I stamped the stork three times and then colored the blanket in purple twice and popped one stork up on pop dots. To keep the card on the "feminine" side, I added some prima flowers and bling before adding the congrats from an old retired Stampin Up! set. For my boy stork card, made for my new great-nephew, I colored the stork blanket in blues and just kept the card simple.

The ladybug Die Cuts With a View paper was the inspiration for this baby card. I used Papertrey Ink's Little Lady set and masked off the wording from another Papertrey set to get the congratulations only. I thought having a momma ladybug and her baby would be a perfect baby card and very unique too.