Inspired Stamps New Release: Time!

Hello bloggers! This week the Inspired Stamps design team is sharing their new releases with you all! They'll be available in the online store tomorrow at noon EST. The stamp set I am using is called Time. I had so much fun with this amazing stamp set, it's so versatile and easy to use on so many cards and scrapbooking pages! It also layers really well! Definitely a new favorite of mine! I think it will work beautifully for Father's Day cards, too! I usually have a hard time making masculine Father's Day cards because I am more of the "whimsical pretty crafter", but this set will make it easier on me this year.  Definitely check out the whole set when it is released tomorrow! 


Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Lawnscaping: Make it Shine!

Alright everyone, last Lawnscaping challenge of the year! This should be the last Christmas card I make of the year too, but don't quote me on that!  The challenge is shine, this is when you pull out anything that glimmers, sparkles, or shines ....then you toss them all together ...kidding, sort of!  I wanted to make ornaments, so I used the gnome and added a Santa hat for an instant transformation into Mr. Claus.  Then I used the gingerbread guy (my favorite cookie, btw!) and colored them up with Copics and highlighted accents with stickles.  Set them aside to dry, and adhered them with glossy accents the next morning to fragment charms.  Then I heat embossed pine sprigs with a bunch of different embossing powders that I mixed together before applying.  Then, I distressed/resisted the embossed cardstock with distress ink, glimmer mist, and gold acrylic paint (watered down) over and over again till I got the right look.   I strung the "ornaments" up with my ever trusty burlap twine and attached it to a Kraft card base.  Then I made a flag for my beautiful Merry Christmas sentiment, and distressed it a wee bit more.  The final touch was adding the Tim Holtz tinsle I've had for two months that I couldn't quite figure out what to do with.  I think it added a great final touch of shine to my super shiny card!  I wish I were a better photographer, because half of the shine wouldn't pick up in the photos.  Hrrrmm, maybe that's a good thing?  ha!

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Thank you so very much for stopping by my blog today!
Inky and SUPER GLITTERY fingers for all!
-Gaby

Challenges Entered:

•  Simon Says Stamp and Show's Gift-spiration challenge.
•  Lawnscaping's Make It Shine Challenge.
•  Simon Says Stamp Challenges' Simon Says ......Merry Christmas!
•  Ribbon Carousel's RCC75 - Holiday Spirit

GSS Christmas in July Hop!

Welcome to our Christmas In July Blog Hop with the Ginger Snap Scraps Design Team!




This weekend we will be featuring projects all about Christmas! Can you believe how fast the year is going! We hope you enjoy all of the great work this Design Team has done and find some Christmas inspiration.

You should have arrived at my blog from Connie's Blog.

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Your next stop on the hop is Janea 

Now for some blog candy! We are giving away two $10 gift card to Ginger Snap Scraps!
Just leave a comment here and let us know that you did the following:

*Head over to Ginger Snap Scraps and follow the blog!


*Head over to Ginger Snap Scraps on Facebook and like them! 

*And if it's not too much of a bother, please follow my blog!  :)

The full list of the participants in the hop is below:

Ginger Snap Scraps - http://ginger-snap-scraps.blogspot.com

Ann - http://annsnovemberrose.blogspot.com

Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com

Barb - http://bugbites411.blogspot.com

Connie - http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com

Gabrielle - http://gabyspapery.blogspot.com

Janea - http://recollectionalley.blogspot.com

Jessica - http://chick-n-scrap.blogspot.com

Kate - http://scrapperscreativecorner.blogspot.com

Maria - http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com

Patty - http://creativediva98.blogspot.com

Sarah - http://sarahvaitstamps.blogspot.com

Be sure to come hop again tomorrow for day two of the hop with all new projects!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby
Entered in the Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Anything Goes!

Ginger Snap Scraps DT: Bring on the Bling!

So as you can see, I used a lot of bling. Because this week is Bling It On with the Ginger Snap Scrap's Design Team! I made a shaker card for my dear friend I've known since I was 14, Joy. She loves the color yellow, so I tried to incorporate as much as I could into the color palette. All you need to make a shaker card is a Nestablities die from Spellbinders and a manual die cutting machine like Cuttlebug. To make the shaker recessed into the card you can use foam or scrap cardboard like I did. There's heaps of videos out there on YouTube if you'd like to give it a whirl. All the items I used are listed below in the thumbnails. The beads for the shaker material are from my local craft store. The Unicorn, star stamps, and banner's sentiment is from the Lawn Fawn Critters Ever After stamp set and I wrote the happy birthday bit below.



Hope you like it and thanks so much for taking the time to stop by my blog today!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Copic X-Press Blending Paper	Copics	Lawn Fawn Critters Ever After	Bazzill Ocean Breeze	Bazzill Kraft	Lawn Fawn 6x6 Paper Pad	Spellbinders Nestabilities
Stickles	Studio Calico

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Update:
It made it to Alabama without getting unched and Joy loved it! She Instagramed it on Facebook. :)


Entered into Simon Says Stamp and Show: Anything Goes Challenge!