Hey, stampers!  Thanks for joining me for another edition of Ink to Stamp.  I didn't go so far back this time.  I'm in a card swap group on Facebook called The Card Shack, and one of the swaps for this month was Sweet Treats.  I just knew I had this stamp set AND that I had to use it and the coordinating Designer Series paper.  On the 3 1/2" square piece of basic white, stamp and heat emboss the sentiment and then embossed the entire panel, including the sentiment, using the Timeworn Embossing Folder. Set it aside for now. Stamp and die cut the images on the scrap piece of basic white. I then stamped and colored the candy images in one of the jars... On the other, I used red, white and blue Nuvo drops to get a bubble gum look.  I then added a product called 3D Glaze to make both jars look like glass. Lastly, tied a couple of bows and added them to the jar.  Don't forget to stamp the "Treat" sentiment for the jar. Cut the DSP in half on the 4" sid...

It's time for another, Ink to Stamps creation. A couple of months ago, I cleared out my craft room and with the assistance of several of my crafty friends who love to organize, I cleared out the space, and I am totally rediscovering gems from yesteryear.  I believe this one was a Hostess set from 2012. I know I wasn't a Stampin' Up! demonstrator then, so I must have seen someone create something wonderful with it, wanted it, got it, and promptly put it on the shelf and did nothing with it...til now...silly wabbit!   So where did I begin? As I seem to be doing more lately, I turned to Splitcoast Stampers to generate thoughts and ideas.  I follow the Color Challenges, the Sketch Challenges, the Clean and Simple Challenges so that's where I started: the 4/5/2021 CAS, titled "Flower Power" (CAS632) and the 7/24/2021 Color Challenge (CC853), titled "An Evening Smelling Mint Roses" (Evening Evergreen, Mint Macaron and Rococo Rose). Take a look at what I cr...

  The last few years have been an endeavor in purchasing lots of awesome products from Stampin' Up! but never having the opportunity to put ink to Stamp to create with it.  In keeping with my quest to utilize my stamps, I'm starting a new series "Ink To Stamp".  In this series, I'll go through my retired stamps, dies, bundles, suites, etc, and create cards with them. The inaugural stamp set is the Music From the Heart.   Music has always held a special place in my heart (soul, really)...starting with concert choirs in elementary, middle, and high school to a concentration in performance voice in college (Clark University, Worcester, MA). So you can understand why, when I saw this set, it was a must-have for me.  Why it took me so long to put "Ink to Stamp" is beyond me.   I used a simple card layout that I saw from a Jackie Bolhuis YouTube video. I started with a 6"x 6" Designer Series Paper (DSP) (I used the now-retired Ombre Sale-A-Bration pa...