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Welcome to yet another Blog hop of the Inkspired Artists. Not that I want to wish my life away………….I don’t have that many left, but boy the time just fly’s.

This week the Fabulous Teneale has given us layers and we all now who she loves layers.

Sketch 11

Lets see what I have come up with this week.  Hasn’t been a good couple of weeks for me, what with moving craft room around and doing some classes, I somehow managed to damage my thing my jig and have had to have needles relieve the pain…………….well I hope it will, not that its happening yet.  Walking like an old lady and not happy at all.

By Barbara Williams | INKspired Blog Hop 11 | Wedding Carc

This card is better in real life, then is shown here, I have clear embossed the black cardstock using the Something Lacy Background Stamp, does add a little shine to it.  I love the stamp set called For the New Two, had used in class this week as my ladies wanted to make wedding cards.

Maybe I should just show you want we did in class, I like it much better.

See it below, now if I could have got away with using this one I would have.  Its much nicer in the gold embossing.

 

Wedding Card

We are now off to see what the up and coming talented Kabrina has made, I am sure your in for a treat.

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INKspired Blog Hop 10

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Wow, can you believe yet another fortnight has rolled by, feels like it was only yesterday that we did our last hop.  If you have landed here, you have most likely come from the very talented Teneale Williams

Below is the sketch we were given to work with. Can I tell you, she is a hard act to follow and as she calls me Mumma Bear, well I can tell you Mumma Bear didn’t follow the sketch all that well and was sent to the corner until she got it write. lol

It was quite a difficult design and took me a little while to get my head around it.

Sketch 10

Come and see what you think.  I changed the star for an oval and the lace was the thin strip underneath the strip of which I scalloped instead of straight edges.

BlogHop 10 one

Once again I used my Blendabilities to colour the blossom out of the Indescribable Gift stamp set which is new in the new catalogue. Enjoy.

Moving forward, you are now off to visit the work of the new and up coming talented Janelle Taylor

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INKspired Blog Hop Sketch 9

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Welcome to the INKspired Blog Hop 9, the very first of this year. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. This year I spend the day with my baby sister and here family of 3 generations. For me this was Sister, Nieces nephew and their partners, great niece and her partner and Great Great Niece.

Here is this weeks challenge and if your come here from another blogger its most likely from Teneale Williams.

This is the Sketch we had to work with, I do hope you like what I am about to show you as my slant on this sketch.

Sketch 9

My choice of stamp set was from the new Occasions Catalogue, just released on the 6 January to 2 June 2015, I just love it.  There are so many gorgeous things to make in it.  I choose to use the beautiful stamp set on page 22 called “Sheltering Tree”  I can relate to this as I often feel like I am the tree that shelters everyone.  Anyway its a fun stamp set and I had a great time making it.

My ladies on Friday got to make this card…………..it bit sneaky really isn’t it, they make it before you got to see it.  It was interesting as they all changed the layout of their cards and we had 10 different versions of this image.

Sheltering Tree by Barbara Williams
Sheltering Tree by Barbara Williams

I used makers to colour the leaves, as this is a two step stamp set, we were able to stamp down the tree trunk first (must say, even the tree trunk is great on its own) we then coloured the leaves and stamped onto the tree.  Added a swing for a free spirit and then cut it into four to work within my sketch.  I used a strip along the bottom with the words “Friendship is a Sheltering tree” such a great stamp greeting to put on a card to that special friend.   .

 

Blog Hop 9 inside

I added the phase inside that said “thinking of you”, now how nice is that.  I do hope your enjoyed my card this week.

Now with great pleasure I am going to send you to Janelle Taylor, I just love Janelle’s work and when she comes to team training she always brings some great cards to show, so lets see what she has for you this week.

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Sale a Bration Cattie

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Occasions 2015 300 pix

Sale-a-bration

Who is excited to have their hands on the new Cattie and the Sale a Bration Cattie.  I am happy to send you a copy or you can click the picture and browse the catalogue on line. Lots of exciting new products, one of which I will be using for my Blog Hop on Sunday morning. Alternatively, did you know I run a lovely little friendly class on a Friday morning in Minchinbury and your more then welcome to contact me for details.

I am going to use the Stamp Set called Sheltering Tree, you will know why when you see it. Gorgeous is what it is.

INKspired Blog Hop Sketch 7

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If you have arrived from Teneale’s Blog on the INKspired blog hop or just stopped by to see my latest creation, welcome to you all!

Below is this weeks challenge, which I enjoyed doing.  In fact I had done using the Newborn King stamp set using my blendablities, I just love using them and did you know next month when Sale-a-bration starts you can redeem your rewards for Blendabilities, now that’s a first.

 

INKspired Sketch 7 | Sunday 14th December | #INK007

 Whilst it is only 11 days to Christmas I then decided to give you a sneak peak treat of what you could receive during Celebrations.  Cannot tell you the name of it, however I can tell you that it is triple stamping and I only had to use the one colour ink to create this gorgeous card.

Isn’t it de-vine?  don’t let triple stamping worry you, you can do it with the right instructions, so why don’t you book into one of my classes and I will have you triple stamping in no time at all.  Even a 5 year old can do it, well Ebony made me a birthday card using this set, and its amazing.  Want to see a picture of it?

By Barbara Williams | INKspired Sketch 7 #INK007 | Sneak peek Lotus Blossom

Please put it in your diary, Sale-A-Bration begins in early January and for anyone who doesn’t know what it is, its a time when Stampin’ Up! Reward their customer by giving them a special item that cannot be bought for free when they spend $90 at the one time.  Does that make sense?

 

Next up is the amazing Janelle Taylor, I am always so excited to see that she creates.

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Welcome again to the INKspired Sketch Blog Hop no 6, can you believe how quickly the weeks have rolled along.  If you have landed on this hop you have most likely came from the baby of our team, the fabulous Renee

 

 

I find it hard to believe that it is only 25 days to Christmas and how quickly they are rolling along.  With that in mind, I sincerely hope that you might find some inspiration in my card that I have made for the challenge.  Please see the challenge design below.  Enjoy

Sunday 30 November 2014

Here is my spin on the challenge that made using the Ornamental Pine stamp set, I do hope you like it and don’t forget to leave a comment, we love comments.

Ornamental Pine - INKspired Blog Hop 6

I choose this stamp set as its super easy to use, you can produce lots of different designs using it, making a very versatile set if you’re on a tight budget.  (aren’t we all)

Firstly I stamped the ornament Pine branch in Versa Mark the embossed using Smokey Slate embossing power as i wanted to have a softer look to the branches.  Thing that was achieved, don’t  you?

The paper I chose was from the Moonlight Designer Series Paper Stack down the side mounted onto Whisper White cardstock, then mounted onto Pool Party cardstock, finely trimmed to fit the front of my card.

The next part of the design was circle in the bottom right hand side with the addition of an accent to the left and to the right, is the right hand side was a star.  But hey it doesn’t have to be a star, could be whatever you want to do, what do you think?  Can you see how I incorporated my accent? Using the sentiment that comes with the set, I was able to emboss it with the Silver embossing power to give it a little pop.  you will notice that I carried of the Designer series paper here.

Hope you enjoyed this week’s card and get some inspiration to start creating some wonderful Christmas Cards.

Remember if you would like to purchase any of the items that I have used on my card, you can simply click on the picture of the item below and it will take you to my secure online store where you can order straight away .

 

Next blog to visit is Kabrina Piirlaid

 

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Here are the items I have used in my project.

 

Another Christmas Flurry

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By Barbara Williams | Festive Flurry Christmas Wishes

Been having great fun with the Festive Flurry stamp set from past year.  This is another card made in my class last week, the ladies love them.

Sorry that you cannot buy this set any more, however I am sure that there are may of you that have your own set and this might just inspire you.

The card stock is Pool Party and the inks are Pool Party and Smokey Slate. Beautiful combination.

Now if you really like this stamp set, you can purchase a digital image from my shop.  Just click on the image below and it will take you directly into my shop where you can purchase it.  So easy.

Ornamental Pine Special

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Ornamental pine

Christmas is just around the corner, who is excited?  I think this is the first year that I have been organised, the tree is up and I have even wrapped a couple of the presents for the little ones.

I have been busy creating some cards for my ladies in class, this was one that we did a couple of weeks ago.  Thought it appropriate to show you as the gorgeous star burst framelits are on special in the clearance rack this week.

Should wish to purchase any of them please contact me or go directly to my online shop by clicking the item your wanting to purchase.  It will be shipped directly to you.