Based on a book blog hop

Welcome to the BASED ON A BOOK Blog hop!  Yup that's right, all of today's projects are based on any book of our choice.  Since this is the final stop I hope you have enjoyed yourself and maybe found a book or two to read along the way :)  If you just happened on my post please start at the beginning on  Ashley's blog.

My card today is based on the "House of Night" series by P.C. & Kristin Cast.  Now most of you may already know that I am into all of the supernatural stuff (if not just check out my "BOOKS I HAVE READ PAGE" (lots of good books in there if you're looking for one) so for me it wasn't a hard decision to figure out which book I was going to use.  My card is based on the very first book of the series, "Marked".  I had bought it from the recommendation of the store clerk and OMG I was hooked!!  I highly recommend it if you haven't read it

Now on to the prize of the hop.  It's not a lot but since this all about books the prize is.............

A BOOK OF YOUR CHOICE!!!

What do you need to do to win this?? Just leave a comment on ALL the blogs in the hop and then on the final stop (mine), let me know what book you've been wanting to read but just haven't had a chance to get it (I will be checking that you hopped through the whole line-up ;0)

Here is the complete line-up in case you get lost along the way or just happened across my post:

Ashley - http://proudusmcwife415.blogspot.com/
Shawnee- http://www.blessedonthebrightside.com/
Jamie - http://myamusinglife.blogspot.com/
Dena - http://missdjones.blogspot.com/
Shannon - http://www.purplelionpaper.com/blog
Lynda - http://memoriesintyme.blogspot.com/
Amy Jo - http://lv2scrapandfibrofacts.blogspot.com/
Ashley - http://especiallymade.blogspot.com/
Charity - http://adamsacres.com/
Suzi - http://www.mrsweyremaster.blogspot.com/
Michelle- http://www.craftychelle.blogspot.com/
Lluvia- http://sweetbirdmemories.blogspot.com/
Barbara http://barbarab3.blogspot.com/
Anita~~http://www.anitaandbugs.blogspot.com/
Alina - http://neverstopscrapping.blogspot.com/
Erica http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/
Lisa http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/
Tanya - http://little-scrapper.blogspot.com/

Artful Inkables Swap!!

Ready for another round of swapping cards with other Artful INKables fans? You have a chance to get some DT cards as well! Be sure to join this fantastic swap, hosted by none other than ME!!!  on SCS ON THIS THREAD.

What's your favorite AI stamp? Show it off in the swap! I know I'm going to have a hard time choosing which set to use!

Artful Inkables Sunday post

Happy Sunday everyone!  Today is Sunday which means it's time for an Artful Inkables creation.  I usually post on Friday's but from now on you will find me on Sunday's :)

Today's creations uses Berry Picking which is on clearance right now so if you like this set, grab it now before you can't!

As August comes to an end, we will be saying goodbye to some of our talented Design Team members...Cheryl, Marti, and Sammi :(  I will miss you all but will be stalking your blogs.

Think Ink #26

This week's Think Ink challenge was brought to you by none other than me :)   The challenge I choose was to create a non-standard card (gate fold, easel card, etc.) and you MUST use purple (my FAVORITE color ;) ).

For my creation I made an easel card and used Berry Picking, which is clearanced so if you like it hurry over to the store and grab it before it's gone!   I didn't want her picking berries so I took some lavender flowersoft and made the berry bush into a flower bush.

Think Ink #25

This week your challenge is brought to you by DT Member, Marti Wills, and she wants you to:

-->Make your own background paper or use a special background technique.

I used a couple sets to make my card.   The swirls for my background is from the Sew You set and the ice cream is from the  Spot on Summer.  

I added a little glitter for the cherry and there you have a very cute and quick card.  This set would be perfect to use if you had to  make a quick set of cards.  I really love both of these sets :)

Elegrant Card

When I saw the "Sew You" set from Artful Inkables, I was taken with how elegant the set is.   So tonight when I sat down to create my card, I wanted something that was going to be elegant and I knew exactly what papers I wanted to use (Silhouette from Close to my Heart).   The edges of the image is inked with vanilla cream ink from Close to my Heart.

Artful INKAbles July Blog Hop

Welcome to the Artful Inkables blog hop! If you haven't come here from Michelle's blog, then you will want to start at the Artful Inkables Blog so you don't miss anything along the way. You are going to love this release, we are releasing 2 fabulous stamp sets, you will not be disappointed! Be sure to follow us all the way to the end and make sure to leave a comment on everyone's blog, you never know which blog we'll be choosing a winner from! You will have until Friday, July 9th at midnight Eastern Standard Time to comment on all the design team blogs for a chance at the blog hop goodies! You will receive both of the brand new stamp sets plus a set of five new aquatic charms!
Today, I'm showing you a card made with a new set called Sew You.

The next stop on the hop is Cheryl

Thank you once again for joining us today for the Artful INKables July Release Blog Hop, be sure to head on over to the store to order these fabulous stamp sets right away!




I can't wait to see what everyone made on the hop

Artful INKables Holiday Sale

Just a quickie to let you know about a great sale at ARTFUL INKABLES! Get 25% off all of the Stamp Sets! Use code: 25PERC on July 3 and 4th at check out to SAVE this 4th of July weekend!! 

Artful INKables Eclipse Post

Keeping up with the Eclipse theme this week, I created this non-traditional colored Eclipse card....okay it's sorta girlie but I like it :)  Inside the card it states "The clouds I can handle, but I can't fight an Eclipse".

Artful INKables Eclipse Blog Hop

Welcome to our Customer and Design Team Twilight Artful INKables blog hop! Make sure you start at the Artful INKables Blog, so you don't miss a single thing!

To celebrate the release of ECLIPSE today, we're highlighting the Artful INKables Twilight inspired sets: Into the Moonlight, Fictionally Inspired and Epic Tales. Artful INKables also has a set of Vampire Romance Themed Charms available!

For the blog hop today I created this sketch book using the Into the Moonlight and Fictionally Inspired Sets.  I've had this book laying around for awhile now and didn't quite know what I wanted to do with it, until now.  Sometimes when I'm out and about and I can get an idea in my head I have to scramble around for a piece of paper, well this book is perfect for that!  It is loaded with heavy blank pieces of CS to sketch on so now I'll never run into that problem again (well unless I leave it at home LOL)

Wow does that wolf look dark :)  If this layout looks a little familiar, it's because it is.  Last week I created this long notebook using the exact same layout/images.  I liked it so much I had to do it again LOL

The next stop on the hop is Dawn Knight.  Hop on over to her blog to see what she has created for you today!

In case you get lost along the way, here’s the order of the hop (I have included the names and blog address for each person, please set the list up to link to all of the people included):

Kristin Soboloski http://artfulinkables.blogspot.com/
Laura Boyd http://craftylittlewoman.blogspot.com/
Michelle Barnett http://justpaintingaround.blogspot.com/
Alison Heikkile http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com
Sammi Betbeder http://www.stuffbysammi.blogspot.com/
Michele Lourenco http://enchantedstamper.blogspot.com
Kim Nath http://paperrocksscissors.blogspot.com/
Erica Johnson-Wanzer http://www.inkedupandreadytoplay.com/
Patti Nelson http://stampersize.blogspot.com/
Chelsea Van Wyk http:// www.scraptasticvoyage.blogspot.com
Tanya Johnson http://www.little-scrapper.blogspot.com/
Dawn Knight http://www.dawnsrubberroom.blogspot.com
Jennifer Olauson http://wannabecr8tive.blogspot.com
Joy Stagg http://daiseyfreak.blogspot.com/
Jackie Rakoski http://stampingsister.blogspot.com

Make sure to leave a comment on each blog along the way for your chance to win a $10 gift certificate to Artful INKables! Please leave your comments by Midnight, July 4th to be eligible to win!

Think INK challenge (Artful INKables)

This week's challenge over at Artful INKables was to create anything but a card and to use the colors red, white and blue.  When I sat down to create this I totally forgot about the color aspect of the challenge and created the set that I posted yesterday.  So I had to make something else and this is what I ended up with:

I've been wanting to use my bind-it-all and since it's been awhile, I apparently squeezed the rings together to tightly--ugh!!  So this is going to be Abby's little notebook now :)

Mini notebook w/pen

I sat down this week to work on the current Think Ink challenge and after I got done with my project, I realized I messed up.  So since I messed up I posting the project tonight :)

The book and pen were covered with paper from Close to my heart.  The flowers are from the Post it Note set sold at Artful INKables.

Sorry the picture looks a little blue, I have no idea why it looks like that.  Until tomorrow have a nice night :)

Artful INKables

Happy Friday everyone!  Today's post will be combining two challenges.  The first one is the current Twilight challenge that is going on over at the Artful INKables blog which is to create a project for whatever team you are (i.e Team Edward, Team Jacob, Team Bella, Team Alice and so on).  The second challenge is this weeks Think Ink challenge which to challenge ourselves.

So onto the project.  I have had these long notepads forever and never could figure out what to do with them or even dared to try to use them.  For me this week, my challenge for myself was to pull one of these out and to FINALLY make something with it and as you can see I'm a Team Jacob gal :)  Although I could swing to Team Edward very easily LOL

and here is a close up of it

Now if we're talking about Trueblood, I am 110% Team Eric ;)  I enjoy seeing his bunners each week (well practically each week) LOL

Artful INKables

Happy Friday everyone!!!

Today's card is for this week's Twlight Challenge which is to use the colors of the books (black, red, white).  I didn't want to use the typical Twilight images so I went with this beautiful flower envelope from Just a note.  As for the paper, I've had this sheet laying around and didn't have any idea what I was going to use it with and then I had that "aha" moment and this is what I ended up with.

Well off to make a wedding card for tomorrow, I will post pictures when I'm done.  I'm hoping to get a few cards made this weekend since we finally finished Season 2 of Trueblood :)

Gift card holder

or for those small gifts that other bags seem too big for.  I created this over the weekend and just barely got the chance to post it.  The stamp set used for this was Happy Endings from Artful INKables. I used my Cricut to make the bag with my Boxes, Tags and More cartridge and made the bag 5 1/2''.

Artful Inkables

This week's challenge over on the Artful Inkables blog is to create something with Pockets.  Kristin now has an awesome pocket themed set that would be perfect for this but if you don't have it there are still plenty of options available.

The set I used for my card is Aquatic Fantasy.  I placed glitter on her tail to give her some sparkle and added a few flowers.  The inside of the card is where I placed the "Pocket" so that you can place a gift card or as seen here some money.

Now let's see what you can do, get your card/project done and linked to the blog and you can win some awesome stamps from Artful Inkables.

Twilight Challenge Week #1 (Artful Inkables)

Today kicks off our Twilight Challenge Month! What can you win? How about a $25 Gift Certificate to the store, as well as being our featured Customer on the Blog ALL MONTH LONG!!

WEEK 1 CHALLENGE: Use any of the Book Covers for inspiration!

Here is my card for today's challenge.  I used the pawn image from the "Into the Moonlight set"

Challenges start today. We will have 4 challenges, one per week, each will be posted on a Thursday. You will have one week to complete your challenge piece. You will be required to participated in each challenge, each week, to be eligible to win. An overall winner will be chosen on July 1st. You have until Wednesday, June 9, midnight EST to enter this week's challenge.

To participate, you can use any of our fantastic Twilight Themed Stamp sets....


Epic Tales
Fictionally Inspired
Into the Moonlight
Vampire/Romance Themed Charms


or you can use ANY Artful INKables stamp set to create a Twilight themed card/project. You MUST use AI stamps as the main focus of your cards/projects.

Aquatic Fantasy 3x3 note card tote

Last week I created a very cute set of 3x3 note cards (you can see the post here).  Well this week I created this very cute matching tote for them using the Aquatic Fantasy Set from Artful INKables.  The layout of the tote is exactly like the cards and will hold around 6-8 cards inside.  I will post instructions on how to make this sometime this weekend.

Mini set of cards-Artful INKables

I thought for today's post I would use Aquatic Fantasy and create a mini set of cards.  This set has four matching 3x3 cards.  The card was created using the crab, one of the sentiments and the little mound scene from this set.  I kept the cards simple so that if they were placed in a holder (yup, there will be one of these on a later date ;) ), they wouldn't be so bulky.

Here's the set:

and here's a close-up of the card:

Hello you Twilight Fans!!

Artful INKables is going to be hosting an ECLIPSE BLOG HOP!!

 To celebrate the release of Eclipse on June 30th, we're having a Twilight themed Blog Hop for the DT and our beloved customers! We loved it so much for the New Moon release last year, we wanted to do it again!

You can use any of our fantastic Twilight Themed Stamp sets....

Epic Tales

Fictionally Inspired

Into the Moonlight

Vampire/Romance Themed Charms

or you can use ANY Artful INKables stamp set to create a Twilight themed card/project (you must use AI stamps as the main focus of your card/project).

o sign up for the hop, please email your name and blog address to Jackie at: babitoons@gmail.com

...when you sign up, Jackie will put your name down and we will get more information to you regarding specifics of the hop closer to June 30th. She will be sending you a confirmation email, so if you don't get it, leave us a post on the blog and let us know! You have until Thursday, June 24th to sign up, this gives us the weekend to make the final preparations and to send out the email and blog hop order.

One lucky participant of the hop will receive a set of the Twilight Themed Charms, and one lucky commentor will receive a $10 gift certificate code to AI !

If you're participating, grab the badge on the top of this post and post it on your blog! Feel free to link it back to this post so that others can join in!